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As I’ve been writing since last night, the tale of the CIA’s payments to Ahmed Wali Karzai seems less like a story about corruption than it does a story about

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it is immediately terminating its immigration enforcement agreements with the office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz.

State Sens. Evelyn Lynn, R-Daytona Beach, and Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville (Pic by Office of Senate President, via flsenate.gov) Two state lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — have come together to file legislation that would require pregnancy resource centers, or crisis pregnancy centers, to protect the private medical information of women who visit them. The Pregnancy Confidentiality Act was filed by state Rep

The New York Times’ Ron Lieber has an excellent column on the severe hangover left by the cocktail of cheap credit and spiraling college tuitions: the tens of

TWI alumnus Mike Lillis reports today that the agency in charge of mine safety said it still doesn’t know if methane monitors were tampered with before the

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- As I mentioned today in my story, some reporters have been frustrated by how calm, and downright shy, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug

Earlier today I talked with conservative pollster Rick Shaftan of Neighborhood Research, who has released a post-mortem memo and survey on the NY-23 special

Ken Feinberg will spend his first official day as administrator of the Gulf oil spill fund in Mississippi at three town halls meant to explain the new claims

RENO, Nev. -- The Democratic takeover of Washoe County, a longtime GOP stronghold in Nevada, has Republicans across the state reeling because it opens the door for Sen. Barack Obama to win the Silver State’s five electoral votes on Nov. 4.

Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep

J Street, the New Jew Revue that I wrote about last week, gets a good write-up in today’s New York Times: Underlying the formation of the group is a

TWI reader ajm8127 wrote in this afternoon with a thought on the insurance industry: For profit health care insurance providers are a conflict of

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- The sight of a troubling sign on the way to Sen. John McCain’s stop here at Cape Fear Community College didn’t presage an eventful rally --

Something that bears clarification from my J Street piece yesterday: when Daniel Levy refers to zealots who destroyed previous Jewish commonwealths, he was

The Democrats’ plans to overhaul the nation’s dysfunctional health care system took a giant step forward Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee passed a $829

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted Monday of all seven counts related to lying on his federal disclosure forms. The verdict threatens to topple the

Yet another high-profile Republican has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama -- and this time, it’s one of Sen. John McCain’s own advisers. Charles Fried, a