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Despite Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck’s promise to adopt a positive stance in his political ads (leaving groups like Crossroads GPS to do the dirty

Organizers for this year’s “Summer of Mercy 2.0″ have released the schedule for their nine-day event aimed at intimidating abortion provider Dr. LeRoy Carhart in Germantown, Md.

Over at TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent, Wendy Norris reports that Ann Coulter has once again come under fire ... but this time, from people who are

As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out

Today brings deficit-deal hangover poll data. Public Policy Polling surveyed voters this past weekend in Colorado and North Carolina and found that they overwhelmingly think the tragic bargain was a bad move for the country’s struggling economy and will fail to successfully address the deficit.

Greg Sargent asks whether the unanimously passed Hawaii statehood anniversary resolution in the House will reveal how absurd it is for Lou Dobbs to continue to

On Aug. 10, President Barack Obama signed the state aid bill providing $16.1 billion to states for Medicaid and $10 billion to prevent teacher layoffs into

Emily Cadei reports that Cedric Richmond, a Democratic state representative from New Orleans, will run against Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.). Richmond narrowly missed

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Florida was awarded $4.9 million in its latest round of Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting grant money

Tim Shorrock at Salon has a great piece of investigative reporting on, what he calls, the intelligence industrial complex. Shorrock chronicles how White House

With Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner by his side, President Barack Obama just announced the highly anticipated new executive pay limits for companies receiving

A new ABC News poll found 67 percent of Americans approve of President-elect Barack Obama’s handling of his transition thus far. That’s good news for Obama,

Is the Environmental Protection Agency showing some teeth under the new direction of Administrator Lisa Jackson and the Obama administration? TWI’s sister

I’m still trying to figure out how the Obama administration could believe that civil liberties groups gave it cover to issue an executive order authorizing

Remember Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn? He was the former Raytheon lobbyist who joined the Obama administration almost immediately after the president

It’s been unclear from the start exactly who Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) target constituency was as he frustrated progressives by significantly weakening

Two Pakistani Army generals confess a painful truth about the Bush administration’s years of giving billions to Pakistan: Between 2002 and 2008, while al-Qaida

The meeting to vote on whether to confirm Eric Holder as attorney general, which was supposed to be held this morning, has been postponed. Sen. Patrick Leahy

This man should be our president, former President Bill Clinton told a boisterous, late-night rally for Sen. Barack Obama in Florida on Wednesday. After

With Vietnam experience and foreign-policy expertise, the 2004 Democratic nominee would bring strong credentials to any possible Obama administration. His close ties to the Illinois senator, as well as his political skills, are assets. But will Biden stand for it?

The Obama administration is making plans to send about 25 detainees from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay to federal prisons, to be tried in civilian federal

A new study conducted by a Michigan State University undergraduate is shining light on a hitherto underexamined aspect of American government — how the U.S.