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TIFFIN — If Republicans want to advance an agenda of conservative principles and values, simply retaking the White House from Democratic control won’t be enough, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a group of political activists gathered at Clear Creek Amana High School. “This can’t be an election just about the presidency,” Gingrich said

I’ve got a copy of Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence, which is as chock-full of remembered conversations as a D.C. memoir should be. The first conversation

An April 1 decision to remove two public computer terminals is coming under fire by residents, attorneys and private investigators.

Reports that only 25 percent of eligible homeowners have applied for inclusion in President Obama’s $75 billion mortgage modification program and only 5 percent

WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh has a lot of fun with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s report on new right-wing extremist groups, calling up some of the leaders

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The New Mexico Department of Corrections is fining GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison operator, $1.1 million for understaffing one of its prisons. GEO manages three of the four private prisons in the state, including Lea County Correctional Facility, where from September of 2010 to March of 2011 one out of every four jobs were vacant

The Colorado Independent’s story Monday on the Koch brothers influence in environmental politics has gone viral in a radio version produced by Kathleen Ryan for Public News Service. Ryan interviewed Colorado Independent reporter Troy Hooper for her report, which she broke into two segments, which ran Monday and Tuesday of this week. She said she will know by the end of the week how many stations carried the stories and how big the total audience was

Dave Itzkoff ribs Sarah Palin, in perfect New York Times style, for a strange complaint made on the program formerly known as The Tonight Show With Conan

Tea Party Nation blasted out an email asking its Tennessee members to protest Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and stop financial reform legislation -- which

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The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday sent a letter to both chambers of Congress, asking Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader

The Minnesota Service Employees International Union today announced plans to “dramatically increase” its donations to the Alliance for a Better Minnesota in order to run advertisements criticizing the state’s GOP-controlled legislature over the budget impasse that led to the government shutdown.

In a move that may help them stay in office despite radical reformulations of their districts by the Republicans that control the state redistricting process, Detroit Democrats Hansen Clarke and John Conyers are expected to swap districts in the race for reelection in 2012. Clarke, 54, the first member of Congress of Bangledeshi descent and a former chief of staff for Conyers, is serving his first term in the House. In 2010 he defeated district 13‘s longtime Democratic representative, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick amid fallout from the corruption indictment of her husband and son, Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor

During his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, Jack Lew, the deputy secretary of state, praised Gen. Stanley McChrystal and

This is a ... curious argument for CIA Director Leon Panetta to make in a court filing arguing that the CIA shouldn’t have to describe the contents of

Human Rights First has just released a new report updating its previous study of criminal terrorism cases prosecuted since the early 1990s. Once again, it

After the jump, the full text of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Republican Address to the

Michigan Messenger intern Sam Inglot was on the Cheryl Fritze show on WILS 1320-AM in Lansing, talking about the current redistricting process. You can listen to the entire segment by clicking here .

ThinkProgress reported this week that presidential candidate Herman Cain was once a spokesperson for America PAC — a radical group that “among other things, suggested Democrats wanted to ‘ kill black babies .’” # A Gallup poll released today shows that Cain holds the No.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said in no uncertain terms Wednesday that the $25 billion bailout being sought by America’s

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as