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After Matt Corley of ThinkProgress picked up my post about Jason Mattera’s tongue-in-cheek ghetto joke about Sonia Sotomayor, Mattera posted a response at

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Iowa’s grassroots political process was on display Thursday evening as precinct-level GOP representatives from Senate District 18 gathered at a local hotel to make a decision that will hold statewide ramifications.

Fine, that’s unfair, but this is a jarring paragraph from Barnes’s editorial on how Republicans can defeat Obamacare. Obama’s liberal reforms... would only

For my piece today I present a number of progressive agenda-items for a new counterterrorism policy. But naturally I couldn’t include everything that my

In a stunning break from everything it has stood for in its entire history as a measured voice for neoliberal economic policies, The Economist has endorsed Sen.

While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama -- particularly on Obama’s connection to

An interesting admission in Benjy Sarlin’s interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP’s brainy ranking member on the House Budget Committee who’s been

Wisconsin Family Action (WFA), a group affiliated with the Family Research Council and a leader in opposing LGBT rights in the state, is being accused by Democrats of sending out absentee ballot applications with an inaccurate deadline for the state’s Aug. 9 recall elections.

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Politico reports an outrageous twist to the already-absurd tale of the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), convicted this fall on seven counts of

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, James Surowiecki weighs in on something TWI wrote about recently: The need for a new -- and bolder -- foreclosure

“We’re dealing with local contractors on a daily basis and they’re not getting the work,” says Barry Kaufman of the Construction and General Laborers Union Local 689. “There are more out-of-state contractors in here than holes in cheese.

Tom Murse reports on a town hall meeting held by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) where the congressman chastised his own side. One thing I think is being misrepresented

In the wake of yesterday’s news that long-time conservative columnist Robert Novak is retiring pending treatment for brain cancer, most reports today are

Low inflation is good news, unless that low inflation reflects price deflation in every sector other than food and fuel. Then, it’s not so great.

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WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- The final Siena poll (pdf) of the NY-23 special election is out, and while it finds Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman leading