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We interrupt hearing-bloggery for this message, just released from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, to the troops in Afghanistan -- and, presumably, those on the

The law may be on the side of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) in the case of employing an undocumented housekeeper, immigration lawyers told

When I last wrote about conservative attacks on potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, I noted that the one case she’s really been pilloried for is

Can a single ad tip an election? After a rocky primary victory, businessman Rick Scott (R) has been narrowly leading Florida CFO Alex Sink (D) in the state’s

ANCHORAGE -- Tuesday afternoon, the Mat-Su Frontiersman, in Wasilla, hosted me in their offices so I could dig through their print archives to get a sense of

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just sent out a statement responding to criticism for renewable energy advocates about the state aid bill that passed

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is circulating around Capitol Hill a proposal that would allow nuclear and coal with carbon capture and storage technology to count

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not pleased with the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s offshore drilling announcement today. Here’s Karen Harbert, president

Jason Hancock of The Iowa Independent, TWI’s sister site, is traveling through the state today with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), whose position as the senior

Elijah Zarlin, who worked for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 in fundraising, was arrested on Monday during the ongoing protests at the White House in opposition to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of America. He soon won’t be alone. More than 100 Obama staffers from the 2008 campaign plan to join the protests and risk arrest on Thursday

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who apologized last night after yelling you lie! during the president’s address to Congress, appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show

Dedicated readers know that since March I’ve been trying to determine how the Obama administration conceives of the actual endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan --

Although the mainstream media in the United States hasn’t picked up on it, at least one Mexican newspaper and some U.S. bloggers are reporting that swine flu

An important nugget from President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget: The White House aims to scrap $36.5 billion in subsidies to oil and gas producers by repealing

Following last night’s speedy passage of sweeping finance reforms in the Senate Banking Committee, much of the focus has been on the Republicans’ strategy to

The politicization of Justice Dept. hiring is not just an embarrassing Bush administration scandal-- it’s affected asylum seekers and immigrants. So says a new

This caught me flat-footed: Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, just sent out a statement expressing concern over a U.S.-Iraq

They were massively outspent in both states, said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and it always takes a few tries to win these things.

The Republican National Committee chairman’s statement: Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not. Let’s be honest -- Senator Specter

ANCHORAGE -- Tuesday I picked up a stack of cds that hold all of the meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and legislation from Gov. Sarah Palin’s time as mayor

The Hill warns rain on Nov. 2 might lead to a Republican takeover. Ken Buck says he disagrees strongly with the separation of church and state ... ...

For many years, credit rating agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s played a large but mostly hidden role in the financial system, giving marks of