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I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities,” President Obama said this winter.

Activists called off a week-old boycott of an Edina business that allowed a controversial youth ministry to fundraise on their property after Murphy Automotive distanced themselves from the ministry Wednesday. The boycott kicked off last week when 17-year-old Gabe Aderhold saw members of You Can Run But You Can’t Hide ministry, which is run by Bradlee Dean , fundraising at the Edina Car Wash.

With all eyes on the Somali pirates reported to have taken an American hostage in the waters off of Africa’s Horn, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), a 31-year Navy

One of the biggest fears surrounding contentious new breast-cancer screening guidelines, which were unveiled last month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task

Following up on President Obama’s Transparency Memoranda signed on his first day in office, the White House today issued two new documents pledging openness: An

The new Quinnipiac Poll suggests that conservative U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is making gains in Florida. The new results among GOP primary voters, with

Via Nathan Hodge at Danger Room, there are Russian reports that Kyrgyzstan is going to end American access to their Manas Air Base. If true, that’s huge: Manas

TWI obtained a letter from the four major natural gas industry groups pushing for gas to be included in a renewable energy standard. Environmentalists could be open to compromise if safer drilling methods are introduced.

State Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) Kaiser Health News and USA Today report that Florida is among a slew of states that have been cutting costs by limiting hospital coverage in their Medicaid plans

Climate Progress touts a new study by the New Rules Project showing that 31 states in America could produce enough energy from renewable sources to exceed their

Patrick Murphy, one of two Democrats running to unseat tea party favorite Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, has reported that he raised $450,000 in the second quarter. # The other Democrat running against West, Emily’s List-endorsed Lois Frankel , has not disclosed how much she raised yet

A Florida Tea Party Convention ad (Pic via ttpnc.com) Next week’s Florida Tea Party convention is slated to feature some big names in Florida politics, as well as the opportunity for state tea party members to discuss some of their favorite topics — including Agenda 21 and Islam. According to the current convention agenda , speakers will include Gov.

Denver Archbishop Chaput asked Notre Dame University Catholics this weekend to press for Church policy that would deny communion to U.S. Catholic politicians who support pro-choice or pro-gay rights positions. The speech comes in the wake of surveys that show most Catholics don’t agree with Chaput on the issues.

Last week, PolitiFact.com announced its Lie of the Year: Sarah Palin’s claim that the health care bill might create death panels that would kill elderly or

The race for Maryland governor is becoming increasingly focused on immigration as Republican candidate Robert Ehrlich, a former governor, criticized Gov. Martin

Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cash vouchers

What, you thought I stopped going after Mike O’Hanlon? He’s re-upped in the Washington Post today: There is real hope for major progress on most of these

Iraq war veterans in Iowa held their own version of the Winter Soldier investigation covered by The Washington Independent last week. Four Iraq veterans

Now that Tom Ricks, the best military reporter in the country, has published the second volume of his politico-military history of Iraq, The Gamble, my

The GOP candidate in the Massachusetts special election for Senate will be on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show tonight, according to David Bernstein of the Boston