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New numbers released today by the Center for American Progress show that industry groups, including many associated with the oil and coal industries, spent a

With a new administration, dozens of new members of Congress, billions of dollars in stimulus spending up for grabs, and multiple national crises, 2009 is

After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Russia have agreed on a wide-ranging series of mutual reductions in their massive nuclear arsenals. Arms control

Here’s an unlikely endorsement: former Independent Counsel Ken Starr -- who spent much of the 1990s investigating President Bill Clinton -- is backing Harold

The prospects for congressional approval of climate change legislation this year have dimmed but not disappeared. Yesterday the Senate voted against using the

Lt. Comm. William Speaks, a spokesman for Centcom, spoke with TWI today about Maj. Stefan F. Cook’s controversial request for conscientious objector

On a Thursday night Republican Governors Association conference call with conservative activists, moderated by Erick Erickson of RedState, Gov. Tim Pawlenty

In a phone interview with TWI following his speech to the Tea Party crowd this afternoon in Washington, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) laid out his philosophy for

The Democratic Party’s approval rating falls to 37 percent, near parity with the Republicans’ 33. Still, the Democrats managed to grab a six-point lead in

Abu Muqawama, reading a story from The Washington Post about the cost overruns of the Army’s/SAIC’s/Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, remarks: SAIC’s executive

Most Republicans blame the left for the prominence of birther theories. But it was John McCain’s re-election campaign that fired off the first attack ad on the birther conspiracy.

As Daphne pointed out, the insurance industry’s witness at yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine a law exempting health insurers from

In a 240-172 vote, the House passed yesterday a bill that would give Americans who live in rural areas loans to make their homes more energy efficient. House

So says The Washington Post, reporting this morning that, for the sake of passing banking reforms this year, the White House is willing to drop its insistence

The Montgomery Advertiser reports that Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law, which was set to go into effect on Sept. 1, was temporarily blocked until at

As dynamic as Sen. Barack Obama is seen in the popular imagination, what has gotten him here today -- 15 points ahead of Sen. John McCain in the latest Pew poll -- is his and his organization’s ability to methodically achieve one goal, and then another.

To hear the Bush administration promote its $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s ailing financial institutions, the impression created is one of dire

Schwarzenegger joins a growing list of Republicans voicing support for health care reform. Overdraft fees shoot up 35 percent in just two years. Wellpoint

One of the donut holes in last week’s testimony from Justice and Defense Department officials about the Obama administration’s planning for military commissions

A few more points worth noting about the new Military Commissions Act amendments passed by Congress yesterday: Just as the House bill circulating earlier did,