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I wish that the results of this new survey from Public Policy Polling, via Eric Kleefeld, were more surprising. Among Republicans... only 27% say Obama

When the Des Moine Register published a profile of former Minnesota Gov.

The Republican alternative budget, introduced this morning by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), is here. It has cost analyses and projections, unlike the widely panned

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President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) The National Organization for Women (NOW) , the largest organization of feminist activists in the U.S., has joined reproductive rights advocates in asking President Obama to not cave in to pressure from the Catholic leaders asking that he strike a recent decision that increases access to birth control for women. A couple months ago, a federal health agency announced it would require health insurance companies to cover contraception as preventive care — which would remove co-payments.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced it is awarding $28.8 million to 67 community health center programs across the country

But as a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday afternoon revealed, there’s little consensus in Congress over where and how to prosecute terror suspects, or the likely consequences of the various alternatives.

Presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has increased her share of likely Republican support to about 18 percent, according to a nationwide poll released today.

Former U.S. Sen.

Joe Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy who became a six-term congressman from Massachusetts, has passed on a run for his uncle’s Senate seat, even

Following a quick ascendance to the front of the race for the Republican presidential nomination last month, recent polls show U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann steadily losing support.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it has found radioactive iodine in rainwater water in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts at levels higher that those considered safe in drinking water. Jeff McMahon blogs for Forbes : “It is important to note that the corresponding MCL for iodine-131 was calculated based on long-term chronic exposures over the course of a lifetime – 70 years

As the fight over gay domestic partnerships rages on in New Mexico, TWI’s sister site, The New Mexico Independent, reports that the battle is drawing the

Daphne? Can you help me understand something? I thought from President Obama’s answer to Sam Stein’s question at his press conference last month that he was

The North Decoder blog unearths some fascinating writing from current Gov. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), then the president of the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and

Those reports about an $80 billion Senate jobs package? Wrong, a Senate Democratic aide told TWI. The staffer indicated this afternoon that Democrats are

Foreign policy sage Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has returned from a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and has a few thoughts he’d like to share on the House floor.

After meeting with immigration enforcement officials, the county of Arlington, Va., is giving up on its push to remove itself from Secure Communities, a program

The reports this morning that President Obama intends to nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter suggest that, while not

In an accident reminiscent of last year’s massive oil spill in Calhoun County, a natural gas hydrofracking operation in Pennsylvania suffered an explosion Tuesday evening and spewed huge quantities of chemicals into the surrounding area. Bradford County’s director of public safety said a Chesapeake well went out of control late Tuesday night. That means the well blew near the surface, spilling thousands and thousands of gallons of frack fluid over containment walls, through fields, personal property and farms, even where cattle continue to graze.