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A bill in the Texas House seeks to criminalize substance abuse during pregnancy. Currently, no such state or national law exists; however, for years, various

The legal challenge to Iowa’s same-sex marriage ban will finally come to a close tomorrow, when the Iowa Supreme Court issues its ruling in the case of Varnum

Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, points out that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s

Via Ezra Klein, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study this month on whether immigration hurts the economy and takes away jobs from

Eric Kleefeld points to the internals of a Fox News poll -- one that shows President Obama’s overall approval rating dipping into the mid-40s -- that has a mere

The junior senator from New York talks with Lloyd Grove about her successful preemptive drubbing of Harold Ford, sounding about as giddy as it’s possible for

With the economy this bad, people obviously are cutting back on their spending. But they’re also changing their spending patterns, and those choices sometimes

A bill that would ban taxpayer funding to clinics that perform abortions — and caused significant controversy over the definition of rape — has been changed by the bill’s author , Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey.

The Michigan House of Representatives passed a series of bills Thursday that will revamp the state’s tax structure, shifting $1.8 billion in taxes from businesses to individuals, including a new tax on pensions. Republicans argue that reducing the tax burden on businesses will allow them to create more jobs, fueling an economic boom.

Another vote on a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed may come to the floor of the Senate as early as tonight,

Though the mainstream media has left the story alone, reports of a new slick of oil spotted about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, near British Petroleum’s Maconda well, have many concerned. Though the theories are un-comfirmed by BP, many worry that the oil might be the result of yet another BP spill . Several samples collected by the Mobile Press-Register in late August bore the same chemical footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil, according to chemists with Louisiana State University

Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry,

Since Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory in Massachusetts last month, the thinking among a good number of moderate Democrats seems to be that simply having

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City to lay out the Obama administration’s new counterterrorism

Today and tomorrow, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is delivering his twice-yearly Monetary Policy Report to Congress and taking questions --

Colorado-Springs Republican Doug Lamborn has led the charge for two years to ban federal funding for National Public Radio programming . His bill has gained traction among Republican House leaders as a conservative dirty-tricks media campaign has been waged against the public broadcaster and it has been given top priority this week. Majority Leader Eric Cantor, looking to strike while the iron is hot, fast-tracked the bill, lining up a vote for today

A poll released by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday shows that New York voters support a law passed on Friday that legalized same-sex marriage in that state.

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At The Minnesota Independent, Andy Birkey flags the always-entertaining Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) appearance on Fox News’ Hannity last night. During

Fantastic news for conservatives and libertarians who’ve been pushing this message for years and getting called kooks for their trouble. A new Pew poll has

The New York Times, again with the scoop: The Chinese government abruptly ended on Thursday its unannounced embargo of exports of crucial strategic minerals to

A new Political Action Committee, Michigan Citizens United, has officially begun the process of recalling Gov.