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After a week of unwanted attention that seemed to end with him signing on to Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) bill to demand birth certificates from future

Just when you thought it was a tough time to be a banker comes this heartwarming tale of a bank executive effectively squatting in a $12 million Malibu

On the campaign trail in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, TWI’s David Weigel took the time to record a conversation with the Center for American

A Dept. of Environmental Quality sampling device in Lansing has detected a small amount of radioactive iodine-131 in the air, a likely result of the Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan

John Gizzi talked to departing Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Ron Carey, who breaks from Norm Coleman’s position on the Senate result and argues that the

Consider this one unverified, but The Australian (h/t Small Wars Journal) is reporting that Capital-T Taliban leader Mullah Omar has reversed his position on

After months of insisting that single-payer health care receive at least a vote on the House floor, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has decided not to offer the

I’m not sure if Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has touched down in India yet, but she’s released a statement condemning last night’s bombing of an

A new poll (PDF) by Public Policy Polling shows voter opinion of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law Senate Bill 5 remains extremely unfavorable. According to

I’m hearing that Thomas J. Perez, the nominee to run the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, may get a cloture vote tomorrow. Perez has been

In the fight to safeguard the openness of the Internet, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) remains a vocal opponent the Federal Communications

Billed as a “counter to the leftwing Netroots Nation Convention” being hosted by Minneapolis in June, RightOnline has announced it’ll also be coming to Minnesota’s largest city this summer. The conference will feature Andrew Breitbart, a blogger whose selective editing of video has generated heated criticism, along with conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck protoge S.E. Cupp, and Minnesota blogger Ed Morrissey

Some perspective on the Labor Department’s latest unemployment figures, from the National Employment Law Project: With January’s unemployment figures, the

The Congressional Budget Office has conducted an analysis of President Obama’s budget proposal and now projects a $1.8 trillion deficit this year, up from a

Mark Kirk, the Republican senator-elect from Illinois, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 29 due to special circumstances regarding his seat, which used to

The National Organization for Marriage, a Washington, D.C.–based group that opposes rights for same-sex couples, has hired Christopher Plante to run its Minnesota operations in the run-up to a 2012 vote that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota’s constitution. Plante is the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage Rhode Island

Time’s Michael Crowley has published a good overview of the current independent expenditure landscape heading into midterm elections. It covers mostly trodden

Mike Allen has a dizzying scoop about the American Conservative Union: The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in

A proposal to shift the borders of New Mexico’s three congressional districts will be debated by the full state Senate now that two committees, Rules and Judiciary, have approved it. The Associated Press reports : Sen. Linda Lopez, an Albuquerque Democrat and rules committee chairwoman, said the proposal was designed to keep current congressional districts mostly intact and to honor the requests of New Mexico’s tribes and pueblos, which will remain scattered among all three districts.

President George Bush announced that General Motors and Chrysler will receive $13.4 billion in loan money from the Wall Street bailout fund, in a move to keep

The only one on the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning who says the defense budget should be on the table for President Obama’s spending freeze is a

In 2005, the year that a drug-resistant bacteria known as MRSA killed an estimated 19,000 Americans, Dr. Lance Peterson began an experiment in three