Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.), who is often mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate for the GOP, spoke yesterday at the Capitol Visitors Center on the topic of health care reform. In response to a reporter’s question, he pledged that as president, he would sign a repeal of “ObamaCare” as More…
Sarah Zibanejadrad of our video team was at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) speech today to the America’s Future Now conference when a protest broke out. The demonstrators seemed to be yelling for a number of different causes — some held signs about America’s Israel policy, while another shouted that More…
The “America’s Future Now!” conference, organized by the progressive Campaign for America’s Future, kicked off in Washington today, and TWI’s crack video team — Abbey Brandon, Sarah Zibanejadrad, Lucas Thomas and Jaime Bellemare — was on hand. Here are some highlights from the afternoon panel on money in politics, at More…
After much of the day’s news was dominated by Wikileaks’ distribution of a graphic video purporting to show U.S. military personnel in Iraq in More…
WATERTOWN, N.Y. — As I mentioned today in my story, some reporters have been frustrated by how calm, and downright shy, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman can be in speeches and interviews. The best example of how the media here reacts to Hoffman came in the More…
At today’s Heritage Foundation briefing, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told the audience of conservative bloggers that “‘Republican’ still isn’t a positive brand name for people but ‘conservative’ is.” She said that a new conservative movement “under that banner coalition of respecting the constitution [...] is a winning formula going More…
At the “How to Take Back America” conference in St. Louis, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy led two workshop sessions — one on “how to defeat attacks on sovereignty by U.N. treaties and North American Union” and one on “how to understand Islam.” At that More…
The Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill has gained momentum since its passage out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21. The bill, which carries tax implications, is expected to pick up its needed stamp of approval from the Ways and Means Committee by June 19, says More…
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I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s More…
Following up on my photos earlier, here’s some video from today’s tea party in our nation’s capital. It was a patriotic ceremony all around, and it kicked off with the Pledge of Allegiance (a bunch of videos after the jump):
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