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Ben Tribbett hears that the NRCC is polling Terry Kilgore, twin brother of former Virginia Attorney General and failed 2005 gubernatorial candidate Jerry

Four thousand Americans died to empower this torturer. From a brilliant Washington Post piece: What Zobaie wants is for the U.S. military to hand over full

Brooke Obie documents a paranoia that had escaped my attention up to now -- the worry that the Obama administration was altering the Missile Defense Agency’s

Pic by micahb37, via Flickr A court ordered a temporary halt to Florida’s controversial new law requiring welfare recipients to submit to a drug test before receiving benefits yesterday. In its decision, the court also dismissed a report by a newly formed conservative think tank, which the state had cited as part of its defense of the law

Florida Security Council Director Tom Trento (Pic via Facebook) The United West, an anti-islamic organization, will host an event in Tallahassee on the first day of Florida’s 2012 legisltative session to honor members of the U.S. military who served in Iraq

Public News Service called up TWI’s own Jesse Zwick to hear more about the financial support the Knights of Columbus are giving the National Organization for

During an emotional eight-hour hearing on same-sex civil unions at the capitol in Denver Thursday, a long list of witnesses on both sides of the issue told emotional stories of life as gay and transgender Americans. More than a few wept as they talked about shame, discrimination and systemic bias

The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal

Florida Congressman Vern Buchanan is no stranger to controversy, but Sam Kazran, a former business partner now currently enmeshed in a campaign finance controversy with the lawmaker, is. A recent interview with Kazran, along with a 2009 sworn deposition he made to the Federal Election Commission that he gave to The Florida Independent offer much greater detail about allegations of financial violations during Buchanan’s 2006 and 2008 campaigns

The Washington Independent hereby calls for Spanish Intelligence officers to investigate our contribution to any financial crisis Spain might have in the future, too.

The White House is pushing back against a series of draft staff reports released yesterday by the national oil spill commission. As I noted in my story

Obama fuses JFK with RFK -- the cool concealing the intense emotional message. It’s hard to think of a comparable figure on the American landscape. Well, there’s one. Sinatra.

Mississippi is the newest state to update its sex-education policy. Last week Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a bill that, beginning June 30, 2012, requires

Jonathan Turley points to a resolution introduced by State Rep. Sally Kern (R) in Oklahoma, into a state legislature that flipped to the Republicans in 2008 and

The House Financial Services Committee chairman applauds recent moves by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and banks to modify mortgages and keep borrowers in their homes. But companies that service loans aren’t doing enough, he says, and that needs to change.

Gary Johnson Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson minced few words in his blistering assessment of “ The Marriage Vow ,” a 2012 candidate pledge released by Bob Vander Plaats and The Family Leader last week. When asked for his thoughts on Johnson’s assessment, Vander Plaats first attacked the messenger

The Washington Examiner makes a point that I’m seeing on a lot of conservative blogs, alleging mean-spirited attacks against Tea Parties due to the failure

The Washington Post reports that a large group of Muslim travelers were removed from a flight Thursday at a Washington-area airport after one of them made a

Hoping to give their primary voters a voice at the presidential nomination convention, the Michigan Democratic Party will soon announce plans to hold a caucus,

As The Associated Press reported on Monday, President-elect Barack Obama is wasting no time in making plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and