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First there was Talisman Energy’s “Joe Camel” moment with Terry the Fracking Dinosaur – a clumsy oil and gas industry attempt to win young hearts and minds over to hydraulic fracturing. Now come revelations of actual psychological operations aimed at breaking adult resistance to fracking.

That’s what Robert Gibbs suggested in his press conference today when asked about the House Armed Services Committee’s move to block the Defense Department from

A judge in Wisconsin has applied a temporary restraining order against the state’s new, now infamous law that curbs collective bargaining rights for public

With Congress not expected to pass a climate change bill this year, industry groups see EPA as their new target.

Today, the House approved the Small Business Jobs Act, a deficit-neutral act to help small businesses grow, access credit, and hire new workers, 237 to 187. The

Gov. Rick Scott (left) with Florida Senate President-Designate Don Gaetz, R-Destin (Pic via flgov.com) A federal judge will hear arguments for and against the state’s controversial new law requiring welfare applicants to be drug tested. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Luis Lebron over the constitutionality of the law. Lebron is a 35-year old Orlando resident, Navy veteran, full-time student and single father

In Maine, public interest groups in favor of the DISCLOSE Act are cranking up the pressure this morning on GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe: Watchdog

The U.S. Department of Justice investigation into former House Majority Leader Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas) might finally be over, but the fallout among other

Media Matters weighs in on the topic we wrote about Tuesday on TWI -- the fact that blaming low-income and minority borrowers for the housing crisis is picking

As a general deal, President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regime, I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards. But it might be hard to determine the difference.

A military commission judge has ruled that the types of abusive techniques U.S. interrogators used on a suspected 9-11 conspirator are irrelevant to determining

I have a story today on the ever-confusing opt-out process for Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that shares fingerprints collected by

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Nov. 18, 2009. Well-known Israel expert Sarah

The Washington, D.C. based National Organization for Marriage has proven it has no qualms about spending thousands in Iowa’s Senate District 18 to stir the pot on gay marriage. The group also appears to have no qualms about assigning its own talking points to Republican candidate Cindy Golding

Republicans are announcing that their much touted Contract With America, will be unveiled in Virginia on Thursday and they promise that it will present a

In an interview with TWI yesterday at the Capitol, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said she is confident that Kenneth Feinberg, who has been charged by the White

Massachusetts state representatives are vowing to push for tough immigration laws after an illegal immigrant suspected of killing two people was discovered to

As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s voter protection effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan declined today to comment on whether states had the right to determine their own marriage laws, citing the likelihood a case

The oil industry vows to fight President Obama’s budget proposal unveiled yesterday that would raise $32 billion by taxing oil companies that failed to pay

As more states consider copying Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law, at least one state’s GOP leaders decided against taking a stance on the measure. The