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In his most forceful comments on health care reform since he arrived at the White House, President Obama today made his case for including a government-backed

The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil

It appears that the the latest round of negotiations between American Crystal Sugar and roughly 1,300 locked-out union workers have not produced an agreement.

After a grueling back and forth between a handful of state legislators, the state of Florida will finally accept the home visiting grants allocated through the Affordable Care Act. During a Joint Legislative Budget Commission meeting today , a small group of state representatives and state senators debated the necessity and overall importance of the grants

Speaking at an Orlando fundraiser dinner for Texas-based Heroic Media, an anti-abortion group that relies heavily on controversial advertising campaigns, Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke mostly about the importance of promoting alternatives to abortion

Asked at the George Washington University forum about whether the Obama administration was effectively undermining the Iranian opposition by negotiating with

The Mortgage Bankers Association recently joined the chorus of those worried about the Federal Housing Administration’s growing role in the housing market, the

Housing advocates are approaching Obama’s foreclosure plan with cautious optimism -- and plenty of questions.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wants to know why the Justice Department’s David Kris thinks the military

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File this under problems that we really should have seen coming: conservatives, egged on by the likes of Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Michele Bachmann

Here at TWI we’ve been discussing how to cover the story of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s rise from relative obscurity to the national limelight as Sen. John

Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald, the Navy judge advocate general, has some problems with the Obama administration’s desire to place a voluntariness standard on

So much for the most-transparent-administration-ever stuff. Remember the Democrats on the House intelligence committee’s effort to open briefings on covert

Beer diplomacy sticks: Crowley and Gates share more suds. Why don’t Democrats like the Democrat-controlled Congress? Gibbs gets emotional describing

As more states, and even school districts, begin taking immigration matters into their own hands, the federal government has issued a warning that school districts are not allowed to ask for proof of immigration status when enrolling students. As long as students meet age and residency requirements, they must be admitted to public schools, said the feds. From The New York Times: Federal officials issued a memorandum to the nation’s school districts on Friday saying it was against the law for education officials to seek information that might reveal the immigration status of children applying for enrollment

Smart progressives like Christy Hardin Smith, Eric Martin, and Steve Benen are overthinking Richard Perle’s insistence that neoconservative foreign policy

Noting that the Progressive Policy Institute is holding a panel on the defense budget with Rep. John Spratt (D-N.C. S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget