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In a big setback for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy’s (D-Pa.) efforts to insert amendments overturning the military’s ban on open gay

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has blocked the state’s Personhood affiliate from introducing a bill that would define life from the moment of conception, on the grounds that it is “too vague” as written. Though fetal personhood measures across the country have been criticized for that very reason, Personhood Arkansas leaders are now accusing McDaniel of having “pro-abortion” leanings.

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Good news from RealtyTrac this morning, as it reports that foreclosure filings -- default notices, auctions and reposessions -- fell 9 percent from March to

President Obama’s ethics czar, is going to Europe as an ambassador -- and it’s causing anxiety among government watchdog groups who admire the work

A few weeks ago, a group called Concerned Taxpayers of America emerged out of nowhere and started to spend large sums of money attacking Rep. Peter DeFazio (D)

Black Hills Power, a South Dakota utility with offices in Denver, filed papers Tuesday to shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and build a new natural gas-powered plant in Cheyenne – the first of its kind in the coal-dominated state. According to the Casper Star Tribune , Black Hills is making the $237 million move in anticipation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating mercury and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants

The GOP could see its first victory in the fight to take down the one-year-old Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if the Senate votes next week to

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled their long-awaited proposal to overhaul the nation’s health care system, including the creation of a government-backed

Daily Kos and Research 2000 are out with an interesting poll of likely voters in Montana. Kos flags the approval numbers of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) -- the

The former GOP House majority leader, now president of FreedomWorks, endorsed dark horse Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio back in July, but today he

In a report released today, the U.S. State Dept.

One more thing on Rashid Khalidi. Eric Alterman and Adam Serwer make good points about the McCarthyism at work when a noted Palestinian scholar is smeared as

The Supreme Court today announced it won’t get involved in a lawsuit brought by El Paso and other Texas counties against Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Former presidential contender John Edwards has been largely in hiding since admitting last August to an extramarital affair with a woman who later worked for

A handful of religious right groups are criticizing the Obama administration’s role in urging countries doing business with the United States to ease up on

Fewer Americans have full-time, permanent jobs that offer employer-provided health insurance, a report from The Iowa Policy Project finds, largely due to a changing labor market. The report from the nonpartisan, nonprofit group found a shift from manufacturing to service jobs and from long-term to short-term employment has left fewer Americans uninsured, and the recession has intensified those trends.

There are few light moments in the habeas corpus cases of Guantanamo detainees, given that most of these men have been holed away in cells or cages for years

As best I can piece together this morning, the Iranian regime’s crackdown is halting the momentum of the opposition. Andrew says he can find no sign of today’s

A new generation of pioneers have struck proverbial gold at an abandoned silver mine near Aspen. What was once a wasteland of arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc on a steep mountainside that abuts Castle Creek is now a haven for natural grasses and wildflowers that have stabilized the slope and drastically reduced the risk of the heavy metals crashing into the city’s main water supply. The striking change of scenery around Hope Mine is the result of the first whole-scale reclamation project ever attempted in the United States, and possibly the world, using biochar — a type of charcoal produced through the thermal treatment of organic material in an oxygen-limited environment.

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