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Democrats’ push to expand entitlement programs is just an attempt to get Americans hooked on federal spending just “like a drug dealer,” former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Monday night at the annual Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition fundraiser

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, who appeared at the Occupy MN protest in Minneapolis over the holiday weekend, advised public officials to respect the autonomy of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

This is one strange way for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to describe a bipartisan approach to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay: The South

For those who thought that snowmobiles in Yellowstone were a bad idea, watch out! The Bush administration proposed new rules today that would allow people to

Government watchdog bloggers - like those at the Sunlight Foundation and Government, Inc. - are in an unusually happy mood this morning as a bill meant to

As expected the American Family Association’s president, Bryan Fischer, delivered a Values Voter Summit speech rife with rhetoric some have called unmitigated

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today announced the support of several Colorado Republican heavyweights including former senators Hank Brown and Wayne Allard, former Governor Bill Owens, former Congressman Bob Beuprez, current Attorney General John Suthers and current Treasurer Walker Stapleton. “I am proud to earn the support of so many well respected Colorado leaders,” Mitt Romney said in a press release. “I look forward to working with them during my campaign to promote job creation, balance our exploding budgets, and reverse President Obama’s failed policies.” Announcing his support, Brown said, “Mitt Romney has the proven record to pull our economy out of this downturn.

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Gov. John Hickenlooper today dismissed the fears of activists and community members concerned that the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing can contaminate groundwater supplies, but he conceded the state should require the industry to disclose chemicals used in the “fracking” process. “Everyone in this room understands that hydraulic fracturing doesn’t connect to groundwater, that it’s almost inconceivable that groundwater will be contaminated,” Hickenlooper said in the opening speech of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) annual meeting in Denver, according to the Denver Business Journal

Gov. Rick Snyder has set up funds that can receive unlimited contributions from anonymous donors, prompting concerns by non-partisan campaign reform advocates that the anonymity could conceal quid pro quo arrangements between contributors and the governor.

In reporting yesterday on the fallout from Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposal last week to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the

Among the greatest obstacles to sweeping health care reform this year (or any year) is the question of whether to include a government-sponsored insurance plan

For a different take on the Beitullah Mehsud killing, commenter Abujeeyun has a great series of observations counterbalancing my own. We got into a bit of a

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) An upcoming Water Supply Summit hosted by the Everglades Foundation will include a “Legislative Briefing Breakfast” and a “Capital Lobby Day,” according to information released by the group. The summit will kick off in Tallahassee on Tues., Jan. 17, with a luncheon, and will wrap up the next day with “briefings, meetings, and advocacy to save America’s Everglades.” According to a press release, the event will be attended by top government officials and business leaders and will feature a performance by recording artist Gavin DeGraw

About two weeks ago I was talking to an Obama administration official about the prospects for Pakistan accepting a larger contingent of U.S. counterinsurgency

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Obama administration not to surge U.S. troops before accelerating

The Democratic majority leader was lauded for his efforts enabling passage of the health care reform bill earlier this year. Now, the party, as well as the

Last month, Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno went to the Hill for his confirmation hearing as the U.S.’s new Iraq commander and... no one cared. Odierno, formerly David

Ouch. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) just lit into Sonia Sotomayor for being a terror on the bench and nasty to lawyers, and for attacking lawyers she

Colorado conservation groups will rally on the sidewalk in front of U.S. Rep

The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil