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Here’s the first important thing President Obama said Sunday on Meet The Press: I’m not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in

How’s the news of Sarah Palin’s upcoming speech at a Tea Party Express rally playing out with some of the Tea Party grassroots? About as well as you’d

The former Tennessee senator and presidential candidate lends his image to an ultra-serious TV ad. (Worth noting: the plain-spoken NY-23 Conservative Party

A new national poll contends that a vast majority of likely American voters support a plan by U.S. Rep.

Via Glenn Thrush at Politico, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is lashing out at recent reports revealing a bailout meeting she facilitated between Treasury

Politico reports an outrageous twist to the already-absurd tale of the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), convicted this fall on seven counts of

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, James Surowiecki weighs in on something TWI wrote about recently: The need for a new -- and bolder -- foreclosure

“We’re dealing with local contractors on a daily basis and they’re not getting the work,” says Barry Kaufman of the Construction and General Laborers Union Local 689. “There are more out-of-state contractors in here than holes in cheese.

After a marathon two-day markup session that vacillated wildly between partisan hostility and bipartisan comity, the education bill to overhaul No Child Left

Speaking at a labor issues conference in Washington, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform said that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) had just decided to vote

A new anti-abortion rights website has emerged, its aim focused on the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Speak Now: Girl Scouts is the product of

Sen. Barack Obama spoke out on the $85 billion the government has agreed to loan to AIG on Wednesday morning, blasting the news in unusually blistering terms as

When asked whether he knew what the appointment meant, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) responded, simply, “No.”

Two key Afghan officials, in Washington for discussions with the Obama administration about the future of the Afghanistan war, urged the U.S. against scaling back its ambitions in Afghanistan.

This week’s report that the S&P index has cut its outlook on America’s credit future from “stable” to “negative” was clouded by questions of the

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The Obama campaign just rolled out a new YouTube video with Natalie Portman rallying young Americans. But she’s not asking them to vote for Obama. Instead,

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