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A poll released Sunday found that a majority of Wisconsin residents disapprove of Gov.

“When high stakes are attached to tests, people often act in ways that compromise educational values. High-stakes testing incentivizes narrowing of the

A new poll shows Michiganders are not satisfied with Gov.

Former Colorado Congressman, right-wing icon and talk-radio host Tom Tancredo says he guessed right on the birth certificate. In April of last year on the Alan Colmes radio show, he told listeners President Obama was intentionally delaying release of his birth certificate so that the birther movement would burn hotter and hotter and make the Republican Party and its leaders waffling on the topic appear ridiculous. “Obama has followed Mohammed, not the religious leader, but the boxer.

Despite the massive Gulf oil spill, the majority of likely voters would support proposals to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, according to a new

According to supporters of progressive immigration reform, not very well. A Republican-run House would put Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in charge of the Judiciary

Anti-abortion-rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony List this week launched an attack video against President Barack Obama, depicting his only friends as

Ratcheting up her attacks on President Obama, Rep. Michele Bachmann said Thursday that she believes President Barack Obama is intentionally trying to make Americans poorer. The Sixth District Republican appeared on the religious right radio program of Jay Sekulow to state that “liberalism actually makes people poorer” and that Obama is “angry” at people who have succeeded.

Following a dramatic period of inter-legislative acrimony, McClatchy is reporting that the Iraqi parliament has again delayed a vote on the U.S.-Iraq Status of

Ben Smith has the results of a disturbing Research 2000 poll that asks Americans whether they believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of

Sen. John McCain’s top economic adviser is busy tracking the financial crisis, but he took time on Tuesday to offer a novel argument for McCain’s grasp of the

The vast Koch Industries-led cabal of GOP donors, free-market ideologues and titans of industry is real, it turns out, and The New York Times has obtained the

The House of Representatives has followed the Senate’s lead and passed an amendment banning ACORN from receiving federal funds. There aren’t many surprises on

Politico reporters transcribe, you decide: Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility for the disintegration of Afghanistan

With less than two weeks remaining before the Republican National Committee votes to select its next chair, the New Year’s holiday weekend saw a number of new

There’s no good response to the command Prove you don’t support Hezbollah. Acceding to a bad-faith frame is hopeless. That’s why we consider When did you

Add Iowa’s Democratic Gov. Chet Culver to the growing (and bipartisan) list of governors who have received letters containing a mysterious powder this week,

Congressional Democrats haven’t had much luck with efforts to move stimulus legislation this week. Plans to pump billions of dollars into public works projects

Kerry Picket reports that Marvel Comics is partially apologizing for a storyline that portrays Captain America investigating white supremacists and observing a