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The Senate on Tuesday night easily passed an amendment to credit card reform legislation that would allow concealed weapons in national parks. The vote was 67

Indiana Republican lawmakers stripped funding from Planned Parenthood last month and in doing so made contraception unaffordable for thousands of Medicaid patients.

A three judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and granted standing to a coalition of human rights groups suing the government over the 2008 FISA amendments. You can read the full ruling here

Three days after being released to the public, the new book by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) has made it into the top five on Amazon.com for bestselling

The news that former congressman and President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget director Rob Portman might run for Senate in Ohio is lighting up

Everyone’s favorite radical transnationalist, the Shiite cleric Harold Koh, will have his confirmation hearing to become State Department legal adviser

Obviously I watched Glenn Reynolds’ American Tea Party interview with Publius Pundit blogger Robert Mayer as soon as I could. I’ve been familiar with Publius

Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, is fighting for its legal right to declare bankruptcy as state lawmakers try to finalize a bill that would make doing so

That’s how much Scott Brown is reportedly still raising from online donors, a day after Jon Ward of the Daily Caller broke the news of the fundraising

The private security contractor diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen.

Happy New Year! It might be a good idea to begin 2009 thinking happy thoughts. Here is my contribution: There are now just 19 days left in the Bush

This poll goes some way toward explaining why, as I report today, ambitious Republican politicians are clambering on board with the idea of lawsuits to repeal

Michael Patrick Leahy caps off Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava’s really bad day Tuesday by talking to Oneida County, N.Y., GOP chairman George Joseph, who

Web Ecoist showcases 20 of the World’s Weirdest Endangered Species today with some fantastic photos of such exotic creatures as the Solenodon (not a

Recently, several anti-abortion rights groups have rallied against recent ordinances in Baltimore and New York that require so-called crisis pregnancy

According to new research from the Economic Policy Institute, about 2.8 million U.S. jobs were “eliminated or displaced” since 2001 because of the growing U.S.-China trade deficit

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It was once the case that the American and Afghan Presidents shared a certain bond. It was a cordial relationship, even warm, begun by contingency and

Occupy Wall Street and its many offshoots including Occupy Denver have gone beyond the curiosity stage. They’ve spawned similar demonstrations and occupations all over the world

Via Lindsay Beyerstein, John Stauber criticizes liberal groups for becoming de facto adjuncts of the Obama administration: CAP and the five million member

I’m pleased to announce that Megan Carpentier is joining the TWI team today -- and for the weeks to come -- as a guest blogger, covering the economy beat. Megan