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The much-derided amendment by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to gut the consumer financial protections from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory

On Aug. 4, President Obama’s birthday, WorldNetDaily released and began shipping A Question of Eligibility. It’s an hour-long documentary produced by an

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who unveiled this week a stand-alone bill that would require a certain percentage of the country’s energy to come from renewable

The Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, Jim Tedisco -- who loudly denounced negative ads in his race against

Louisiana Lieutenant Gov. Scott Angelle railed against the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling at a rally today in Lafayette, La, calling the

So: $25 billion, five years and 17,000 U.S. trainer troops to yield 400,000 total Afghan soldiers and cops. That’s Center for a New American Security president

For the second time this week, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, this time to pick apart the GOP’s problematic pledge to

The perils of writing posts last night and timing them for release in the morning! Meet re-Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His reinstatement meets the basic

<div class="mini gray">Illustration by: Matt Mahurin</div> <p>Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney agreed

Citing budget concerns, the Senate on Wednesday killed a $245 billion proposal to scrap the controversial formula that dictates doctor payments under

When pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer pay billion-dollar fines for illegal off-label marketing (promoting drugs for unapproved uses), prosecutors and the

Just released from the White House communications shop: The White House today announced that Deputy National Security Director and National Security Council

As we noted on Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee is in the midst of tackling financial regulatory reform, which has brought out the lobbyists in

Forgive me if this reads like I’m greasing a source, but as part of the holds on administration appointees released by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) last week,

White House Internet wizard Jesse Lee writes to defend the record of the solicitor general and Supreme Court nominee: Most prominently, a handful of Republican

There’s not much I can add at this point to Mark Mazzetti’s great scoop about the CIA hiring the-private-military-firm-formerly-known-as-Blackwater for its

Some conservatives are taking heart that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had second thoughts about trying 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan.

Luke Johnson’s piece on the Values Voters Summit, which took place in Washington this weekend, provides a nice look into the ongoing war over the importance of

In Afghanistan, you’ve got a war of unclear goals that everyone agrees has no military solution. But it’s also not clear if the alternative to open-ended

A few weeks back, President Obama made waves by announcing his support for an expansion of offshore oil drilling -- a strategy that Democrats on Capitol Hill

The Obama administration may circumvent the spirit of a judge’s order to disclose hundreds of documents relating to the CIA’s Bush-era interrogation program.