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Sarah Palin tries to put the toothpaste back in the tube following her birther comments yesterday. The full post today on her Facebook page: Voters have

Adam Serwer reads Andy McCarthy’s comment in my piece today about information of any kind being unacceptably jeopardized by the day to day interactions of

I know it’s not helpful to have knee-jerk reactions to Wall Street pay, given that compensation is often more complicated than portrayed, but there’s no

President-elect Barack Obama has said he will take a different approach to health, environment and energy agencies.

Colorado’s United States Senators,

An environmentalist closely involved in Senate energy bill negotiations told TWI that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s energy and oil spill response bill

Hoping for a big northeastern win Tuesday that would point to a Republican come-back, conservatives instead grapple with an inconclusive end.

A new poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found a majority of Americans prefer that the federal government invest in public health. According to an executive summary (.pdf) of the polling data: A majority (52 percent) of Americans prefer a bigger government providing more services in health, rather than a smaller government providing fewer services in health (37 percent). In addition, six in ten believe that if U.S

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Aug. 3, 2009. One of my friends in the small

My friend Eli Lake reports for The Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate

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Joseph Farah, who sparred over the birther conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column -- a promo for

Despite Republican accusations that Obama does not want to secure the border, stronger enforcement isn’t off the table for Democrats. Yesterday’s ruling

Records released this week from the California state attorney general’s office show that many charities are awful at collecting the money for-profit fundraisers

Last Thursday, nine protesters were arrested for refusing to leave the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Today, six more were hauled away, Roll Call

For years, Republicans have discussed seriously targeting Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.). Tonight, after nearly three decades of of service in Congress, a

<p>I used to wake up every morning and worry about Jim Traficant.</p> <p>Traficant was the congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, and

A libel and defamation suit lodged by social conservative historian David Barton is being called an “intimidation tactic” and an attack on free speech by

This July, Governor Susana Martinez, a descendant of illegal immigrants, implemented what she called a residency certification program — an effort to review the authenticity of foreign nationals’ drivers licenses. The state currently has about 85,000 licenses issued to foreign nationals. State district judge Sarah Singleton issued a preliminary injunction against the program back on September 22