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On his new GBTV network, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck made a point of saying he doesn’t give endorsements, but then appeared to hand an endorsement to former U.S.

TWI politics reporter David Weigel was a guest on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross yesterday. In a nearly 40-minute, wide-ranging interview, Weigel discussed

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In my piece yesterday, I took a look at whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s record on issues important to the working class has matched her

It’s here — few people at the labor conference I’m at have seen it. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) comes out against every aspect of the bill. On the merits,

The defeated candidate in NY-23, who helped swing a safe Republican seat over to Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), is adding to the underserved genre of books by

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Representatives from the offices of Sen

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is not the only Democrat criticizing President George W. Bush’s announcement today that the Pentagon will withdraw only 8,000

It’s a day of nuclear-strength oppo hits on Dan Coats, the former Indiana senator who’s running for his old job against Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). The ugliest

The honeymoon period that most new presidents enjoy has probably been voided this time around. President Barack Obama will face a financial crisis that only threatens to become more severe at the start of 2009. And there are no simple fixes.

No other single intelligence reporter/analyst drives me as bonkers as David Ignatius. Sometimes his Washington Post columns are straight-up brilliant, since

Source: Flickr, jimmywayne The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens Board unanimously approved water quality permits for an expansion of a taconite facility on the Iron Range Tuesday. The permits leave only one more step before the expansion , which will cost about $300 million, create 120 permanent jobs and increase the capacity of the plant, according to Keetac owner, U.S.

Don’t expect any charitable feelings around the holidays. According to a new Rasmussen national telephone survey, 58 percent of U.S. voters say they’d support

Yesterday, an unlikely message popped up in my inbox, from the U.S.-African Chamber of Commerce. Responding to Madonna’s latest controversial forays into the

Here’s one of the cheerier conservative videos of the day: Myron Ebell and Lee Doren of the energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute hound the

Via Zach Roth at TPMmuckraker, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) released this statement in response to Jeff Stein’s CQ story: The CQ Politics story simply recycles

Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), has surprised a lot of people by surging in polls and fundraising to quasi-frontrunner status in next year’s U.S.

While recent signs -- a presidential straw poll win, visits to Iowa, references to other key national primary states -- may indicate that U.S. Rep. Ron Paul

For nearly one year, a mysterious graphics expert who goes by the name Dr. Ron Polarik has claimed to have proven that the certificate of live birth