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The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is scheduled to join previously announced headliner Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party

Good catch by the New York Times: This morning, in opening remarks on the floor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell began by ticking off amendments that

President Obama should be commended for his reality-based presentation of what the United States is after in Afghanistan: ABC’S TERRY MORAN: Define victory in

While the Florida Department of Health declines to answer questions about oversight of state-funded anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law last week a bill to require similar centers there to disclose information about their practices to patients .

A new study by the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University finds that the U.S Immigration and Customs

Congress looks at inefficiencies in international aid program that is a boon to U.S. growers.

One of the donut holes in last week’s testimony from Justice and Defense Department officials about the Obama administration’s planning for military commissions

A few more points worth noting about the new Military Commissions Act amendments passed by Congress yesterday: Just as the House bill circulating earlier did,

To hear the Bush administration promote its $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s ailing financial institutions, the impression created is one of dire

As Daphne pointed out, the insurance industry’s witness at yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine a law exempting health insurers from

The Montgomery Advertiser reports that Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law, which was set to go into effect on Sept. 1, was temporarily blocked until at

So says The Washington Post, reporting this morning that, for the sake of passing banking reforms this year, the White House is willing to drop its insistence

Most Republicans blame the left for the prominence of birther theories. But it was John McCain’s re-election campaign that fired off the first attack ad on the birther conspiracy.

When Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday proposed to an audience at Georgetown University the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to

In a phone interview with TWI following his speech to the Tea Party crowd this afternoon in Washington, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) laid out his philosophy for

The prospects for congressional approval of climate change legislation this year have dimmed but not disappeared. Yesterday the Senate voted against using the

Lt. Comm. William Speaks, a spokesman for Centcom, spoke with TWI today about Maj. Stefan F. Cook’s controversial request for conscientious objector

On a Thursday night Republican Governors Association conference call with conservative activists, moderated by Erick Erickson of RedState, Gov. Tim Pawlenty

New numbers released today by the Center for American Progress show that industry groups, including many associated with the oil and coal industries, spent a

While most news channels focused on Sen. John McCain’s big night on Thursday, it was a battle of the B.O.s on Fox News. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic