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I’m all set to see a D.C. premiere of this film; Ben Smith has the trailer (after the jump).

Back in February, 1st Lt. Scott Easterling wrote a widely distributed open letter questioning President Obama’s citizenship and announcing his intent to join

An accreditation agency looking into the Wake County School System after turmoil over how students are assigned to schools will visit on Jan. 12-14, the agency

Home owners not expected to sign away their legal rights under a new loan modification program.

The feud is officially over! Jerry Brown’s campaign announced today in a press release that Bill Clinton will be joining him and San Francisco mayor Gavin

It read to me yesterday like the torture documents requested in the Senate intelligence committee’s intelligence authorization bill were probably documents from

A chief criticism of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, enacted in February, was that too large a portion went to tax cuts in lieu of spending. Critics,

Perceived national frontrunner Mitt Romney ‘s religion could yet play an important role in whether he wins the GOP presidential nomination and defeats President Obama, political observers say. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a 2008 candidate for president, is a Mormon. There are about 15 million Mormons in the world, and about 6 million in the United States

Gov. Scott Walker; Source:Flickr, Gateway Technical College ; Wisconsin Republicans are moving to strengthen their position as a likely recall of Gov. Scott Walker by Democrats nears

By a 68-29 margin, the Senate approved a jobs bill today that will provide tax breaks and fund public construction projects. From the AP: The Senate is sending

Though Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) won’t say whether he’ll vote for or against Sonia Sotomayor, he used his opening statement to take a shot at the

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rio Tinto, the company that owns the Kennecott nickel mine near Marquette in the Upper Peninsula, will have to face civil charges of genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea. Reuters reports : A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a lower court’s dismissal of claims against the mining giant for genocide and war crimes, while upholding the dismissal of claims for racial discrimination and crimes against humanity

Zachary Roth has a must-read collection of interviews with constitutional lawyers on whether or not health care reform could withstand a court test. And in a

Reports are that at this week’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers, the Obama administration will press for the allies to contribute 10,000 additional troops to

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been pushing the notion that President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal (which he dubs a light-switch tax) will

Every Friday, TWI will highlight the week’s top immigration news, focusing on the issues that affect immigration policy debates in Washington. Here is the first

The Bush administration has no plans to rescind controversial guidelines restricting enrollment in a popular children’s health-care program, despite a

The new poll, conducted by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 46 percent of Americans support the health reform bills moving on Capitol Hill,