WEST DES MOINES — About 100 people gathered outside the Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday evening to express their displeasure with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and what they see as a nationwide attack on workers’ rights.
Citizen activists in the natural gas drilling hotspot of western Garfield County, Colo., apparently caught Halliburton employees on tape working in and around a cloud of hydraulic fracturing sand emanating from tanker trucks near a Williams natural gas well pad in Parachute last week.
An example of the effects of Nebraska’s new fetal pain abortion law, which went into effect last October, was publicized in a recent interview Danielle Deaver gave to the Des Moines Register, published Sunday.
President Obama explains a deal with Republicans on the Bush tax cuts (for further information, read TAI’s coverage of the deal):
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), considered one of the few Republicans to make concrete budget proposals during the current recession, spoke at the Brookings Institution today, discussing the ballooning budget deficit and the policies he recommends to get it under control. Video after the jump:
Unprompted, TWI video intern Abbey Brandon produced a trippy (and informative!) video, breaking down this year’s open Senate seats and competitive Senate races. Give it a watch, as a crash course, a visual encapsulation of the midterms or just an energizing musical interlude to your day:
Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, arguing that it would enhance the country’s national security and allow America to lead by example on the global stage. He noted that seven More…
Today at the Heritage Foundation, legal experts debated the merits of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision — with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberal wing in the majority — in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case. The Court ruled that public universities may deny funding to student organizations that More…
Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon drilling site for more than two months now — but TWI’s video team has done us the favor of condensing the major events surrounding the spill to a digestible three minutes. After the jump, check out a More…
Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist conservatism? Here’s what Jonah Goldberg, Dick Armey, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Michael Barone had to say:
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