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Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a bill that sets a 48 month lifetime limit on receiving welfare cash payments in the state of Michigan

A poll released Thursday by Public Opinion Strategies shows that 62 percent of Americans say that marriage in the United States should be between a man and a

When the Pentagon’s leadership announced a process to end the military’s ban on open gay service before Congress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates played the

Colorado Representative and head of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus Diana DeGette is surprised to find herself doing heated battle on a number of fronts in the war over abortion rights this early in the year. This session of Congress was supposed to be about jobs and the economy, she has said, but the new Republican majority right out of the gate has gone full steam ahead with two bills aimed at expanding restrictions on federal abortion funding while, outside of Capitol Hill, conservative media activists have launched an attack on Planned Parenthood , using cut-and-paste undercover videos to spur Congress to slash all federal aid to the organization. “I’m surprised, given that the number one issue right now is jobs, that the Republican leadership would make extreme position one of their top three priorities of the session,” DeGette told Politico

A lawsuit filed against Texas’ mandatory pre-abortion sonogram bill saw its first hearing at a U.S. District Court in Austin on Wednesday. Lawyers for the

It (the war) has not even been an issue in the course of this campaign, said Pennsylvania political expert Terry Madonna.

Today, BP, responsible for the disastrous Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, said its efforts to seal the leaking well are over for the time

When federal agents led a raid on medical marijuana businesses in Montana last week , questions were raised as to whether these businesses were raided because they were suspected of selling out of the proverbial back door to people without medical marijuana permits–or whether they were raided simply for being medical marijuana businesses. While answers are not readily forthcoming, facts suggest it was a little of both

The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that puts the state within reach of having some of the toughest immigration laws in the

A survey developed by graduate students as part of a capstone project at Drake University, College of Business and Public Administration, is seeking the opinions of Iowans on the topic of same-sex marriage. The 10-minute survey, which is posted on the Survey Monkey website , is intended for general audiences, but should be taken only by individuals who are age 18 and older, according to the creators. It was developed to capture all views on the issue, and the researchers are hopeful a broad cross-section of opinions will be represented

The secret to ending abortion America is by shifting abortion rights to the states, saidAmericans United for Life‘s President Charmaine Yoest on a recent

Republicans aren’t exactly warming to Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) new language in the DISCLOSE Act, intended to treat disclosure requirements on campaign

Members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation signed onto a letter urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed up the approval process for medical devices. It was signed by 41 members of Congress, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep

If you cannot sell your house, you cannot move to a city or town with more jobs. It is an obvious point, but an important one for explaining the sustained, high

With the odds of an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions fast approaching zero, the White House is speaking favorably about a cap on just the utility sector as

WorldNetDaily has the scoop: the reservist who refuses to fight under President Obama unless he proves he wasn’t born in Africa has had his military orders

United Nations food inspectors are going to Mexico to investigate reports that industrial pig farms were the source of the swine flu outbreak, the BBC

In The New York Times, University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan offers some housing-market optimism: Recent reports on housing starts, new home sales and

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the people Gen. Stanley McChrystal dissed to Rolling Stone, issued this

By 1916, the allies had opened up the Arabian Peninsula as a front in the First World War by convincing the Arabian tribes that Britain and France supported

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