Posts by Matthew DeLong

The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is scheduled to join previously announced headliner Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party Convention to be held Feb. 4-6  at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.
From The Minnesota Independent:
[O]rganizers of the National Tea Party Convention tweeted that Bachmann would be a speaker at the Feb. [...]

McClatchy reports that, after weeks of deliberation, President Obama has settled on the number of additional troops he plans to send to Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he’s called “a war of [...]

Breaking news from The Associated Press:
A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with “fed” scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” last night to talk about the forthcoming movie, “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” with guest-host Larry O’Donnell. Video after the jump.

Here are some stark — if not entirely surprising — numbers from the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the 2010 Arizona gubernatorial race. Out of four potential Republican contenders, anti-illegal immigration crusader and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the only one who leads the likely Democratic front-runner Terry Goddard, the state’s popular attorney general, [...]

TPMDC’s Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has announced he plans to vote to send the Senate health care bill to the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled the vote for Saturday night.
“This weekend, I will vote for the motion to proceed to bring that debate onto the Senate [...]

TWI national security reporter Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” last night to talk about his “game-changing” story on the limited number of troops available for an Afghanistan escalation. Video after the jump.

The Washington Post reports that President Obama said yesterday that the U.S. detention facility will remain open past the January 2010 deadline for closure he set during his first days in office.

TWI legal reporter Daphne Eviatar appeared earlier today on MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” alongside NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann and former Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) to discuss the proposal to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Thomson, Ill. Video after the jump.

The Associated Press reports that White House Counsel Greg Craig is stepping down:
The White House’s top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama.
White House counsel Greg Craig, who’s leaving in early January, has been the subject of questions about his future since late summer. Those questions [...]