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A single mother is in the media spotlight after joking to Obama that he is a hottie, with a smokin’ little body. Sarah Palin will be the top speaker at the

Legislators consider defining foreign in campaign finance law. Starting next month, a government program will help underwater homeowners via short

NASHVILLE -- WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it

Rush Limbaugh will play himself on this weekend’s Family Guy. Newt Gingrich’s group spends $2.2 million on chauffeurs and private flights. Rahm Emanuel

Conservative media personality and editor of the blog RedState Erick Erickson wants his readers to send Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a toy

After challenging businesses across the country to submit some of their biggest regulatory gripes, Rep.

About sixty percent of donations to Sarah Palin’s PAC went to consultants instead of candidates or campaigns. Democrats can’t find a GOP co-sponsor for

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings will start June 28. McCain still leads former Rep. J. D. Hayworth in the latest poll of Arizona’s

An ugly video of Tea Party protesters, gathered outside the office of Rep. Mary Joe Kilroy (D-Ohio), mocking a pro-health care reform protester -- who sits

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (Pic by World Economic Forum, via Flickr) The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance will hold hearings today to consider bills to implement three free trade agreements, including the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, mired in controversy since its proposal under the Bush administration

The perennial presidential candidate blogs that his quest to overturn the results of the 2008 election -- which he surely would have won had Barack Obama had to

The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club is the latest statewide group to come out against a 2012 ballot question that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The influential lobby for the environment said Friday that it was jumping into the same-sex marriage debate because of its commitment to social justice. “To achieve our mission of environmental protection and a sustainable future for our planet, we must attain social justice and human rights at home and around the globe,” said Margaret Levin, the state director of the Sierra Club North Star Chapter

Recent changes to the state’s unemployment compensation system will impose new requirements on people seeking benefits, which will in turn lead to fewer benefit payments by the state . # The Ocala-Start Banner offers a look at what these changes mean for people who are out of work: # Melanie Sellers didn’t receive her $198 unemployment compensation payment last week. # Sellers, who lost her job as a scanner technician at the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in the spring after a 20-year career, was denied a week of her jobless benefits because she could not show she had tried to contact at least five potential employers during the qualification period.

Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire newspaper publisher and right-wing philanthropist Sunday came out strongly in opposition to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. He writes that women must have control of their own bodies and that depriving poor women and teenagers of family planning services is not only wrong but counterproductive. From his column in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: The Republican-led U.S.

Former Bush White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove will headline a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson on August 11 in Albuquerque. When Wilson and Rove last appeared together, in early June, Democrats criticized them for their alleged role in the firing of U.S.

First appeared December 24, 2008 In October, Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan expressed skepticism over the prospect of

Former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota (Pic by Meredith Hill, via myfloridahouse.gov) Former state Rep.

There are petty political battles happening in the Gem State. The Idaho House Wednesday voted down a bill that amends an existing law related to early

Earlier today, we reported that Merck, the manufacturer of the human papillomavirus vaccine that Gov. Rick Perry attempted to mandate for Texas girls in 2007,

The labor market appears to be stabilizing. An insurance industry group is distributing anti-public option talking points. Sotomayor will be confirmed

Fifteen years after the United States first instituted Operation Gatekeeper to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border with more agents, walls and fences, the

Speaker of the Iowa House Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) stood by House Republicans’ budget proposals Tuesday, after Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) announced they would get the public involved to break the budget battle gridlock , claiming the Republicans “are not listening.” “Democrats want to talk about stalemates and impasses, but I’m not using those words,” Paulsen told The Iowa Independent. “The concern here is, the House Republicans had already put together a thoughtful and reasonable budget.

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