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...At least that’s what I see happening in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Yesterday, state Treasurer Tim Cahill, who’s running an independent

Following up on Daphne’s piece about the hold-up on Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to head the Office of Legal Counsel, this Roll Call story by Jessica Brady got

From The Associated Press: Scott Brown says he has already told Senate Republican leaders they won’t always be able to count on his vote. I already told

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Seated near me in the courtroom today during Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing was a sight for sun-beaten eyes: Daphne Eviatar, the former TWI

So, how many people showed up at the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington? One signal of the confusion over crowd counts came from the stage. Speakers alternately

It must be opposite day. Republicans, many of whom have pledged to not even consider any plan that raises taxes, are clamoring to raise the payroll tax . Democrats, many of whom have said the country can’t be serious about cutting the deficit if taxes can’t be raised, are fighting tooth and nail to keep this year’s payroll tax reduction in place for at least one more year

In the midst of a heated Democratic Senate primary battle between appointed Sen. Michael Bennet and former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, the New York

The DCCC revealed its hand a few weeks ago. Now it’s the NRCC’s turn, reserving $22 million in ad time in 40 districts around the country and drawing up a

Carl Weimer -- executive director of The Pipeline Safety Trust, a nonprofit group that advocates for fuel transportation safety -- sends TWI a list of his

Patrick Ruffini is offended: The caption on Photo 4 of 23 contains a classless attack unworthy of a White House. http://twurl.nl/eswehi The caption in

It has long been clear that Secure Communities allows local law enforcement officials to check a detainee’s fingerprints with an FBI database to check his or her criminal background. But a press release issued by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network Wednesday also claims that Secure Communities is “a key component of a little-known FBI project to accumulate a massive store of personal biometric information on citizens and non-citizens alike.” # According to the release, documents obtained last year through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Cardozo Law School indicate that Secure Communities is “only the first of several biometric interoperability systems being brought online by the FBI ‘Next Generation Identification’ (NGI) project.” # The release adds that Next Generation Identification will expand the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to add iris scans, palm prints and facial recognition information for a wide range of people. # Secure Communities has been under intense scrutiny since Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents revealed that many undocumented immigrants held for deportation through this program had not committed any crime whatsoever. In the last few months, several state and local elected officials have announced they will opt out of fingerprint-sharing program

Oh, Washington Post editorial board. When Steve Coll left the paper, did he take all his voluminous historical memory about U.S. policy to Afghanistan between

TWI’s David Weigel is tweeting live from the Libel Lawfare Islamism conference (follow here), and he reports that Center for Security Policy President Frank

Today, the Senate overcame a key procedural hurdle to move forward on a much-needed $26.1 billion state aid bill. The provision provides $10 billion in funds

Glenn Beck closed the 37th annual CPAC with a passionate, personal, ideological-but-not-partisan speech about his career and America’s values. For 45 minutes he

<div class="mini gray">Photo credit: Lauren Burke, WDCPix</div> <p>When Mike Huckabee was sworn in as governor of Arkansas in 1996,

Sen. George Voinovich, the two-term Republican from Ohio, announces his retirement. Michelle Malkin proclaims victory. When I think of George Voinovich, I

Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are not allowing school voucher legislation to fall by the wayside, as news outlets are reporting a Senate committee will vote to