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Watchdog groups tend to cry foul when lobbyists solicit earmarks for their corporate clients from legislators. Lobbyists, in turn, often blame the groups for

A new anti-abortion-rights bill introduced in the Michigan House Thursday calls for criminalization of coercion to abort. In its current draft, House Bill

Aboard Straight Talk Air, an adviser to Sen. John McCain said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin alters the electoral map, and gave a glimpse into her role in the

I was just talking to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who’s leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, about his proposed Parental Rights Amendment—a

As the cable news networks parse every word of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson -- with more still to come today -- some are

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee on Monday announced the creation of a $20 million redistricting fund to assist 2010 races that will have the

The 2.1 million Americans hoping for a federal extension of unemployment insurance benefits are still waiting on Gov. Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia. The

NASHVILLE -- At 1 p.m., four representatives of Tennessee Tea Party groups gathered in a ballroom adjacent to the National Tea Party Convention with about 50

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill yesterday, including a somewhat controversial provision to extend family-based

It’s been going around the foreign-policy interwebs for weeks: Jim Jones, the national security adviser, has what Laura Rozen called a problematic tenure at

TWI politics reporter David Weigel was back on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about his reporting on the conservative uprising in the New

If confirmed as Secretary of Commerce, Gov. Bill Richardson would oversee the U.S. Commercial Service, the agency’s equivalent of the State Dept.’s foreign service.

Gabriel Winant’s interview with birther queen Orly Taitz is a fun read, and I notice that she used the forum of a you’ve got to be kidding me profile to

As reports of political violence in Iran intensified after Friday’s fiercely disputed election, the Obama administration insisted that it would not interfere with the struggle for power between regime-backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the thousands of demonstrators who contend the election was stolen.

A new post on the on the Constitutional Accountability Center’s climate change blog lays out what’s at stake for state climate change laws in two upcoming

Wall Street giving to Democrats is down this election cycle, and Republicans are having even worse luck tapping into bankers’ largess. But Rep. Eric Cantor

We still seem to be a ways off from the Sons of Afghanistan. At a forum sponsored by the Center for a New American Security, I asked Abdul Rahim Wardak, the

The American Independent News Network was accepted into the Association of Alternative Newsmedia as the group’s first web-only news outlet following a vote of

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. (Pic by jonworth, via Flickr) Congress yesterday approved three free trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, with supporters touting U.S.

Based on their media releases over the past 24 hours, we can determine that Concerned Women for America finds two things to be absolutely beyond the

In 2006, the Bush White House used taxpayer money to campaign for Republican candidates across the country, and George W.

Already circulating through the Twitterverse, thanks to @TehranBureau: this video, in which Iranian dissidents clearly chant that they don’t want an atom bomb