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After weeks of Congressional wrangling over raising the debt ceiling, U.S. Rep. Ron Paulthrew a wet rag on celebrations by his Republican colleagues, with a

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s legal foundation has filed a legal motion against a University of Michigan resolution that allows graduate research students to unionize. The resolution recently passed by a 6-2 vote by the University’s Board of Regents

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that defendants in criminal cases are entitled to

Mandatory E-Verify opponents do not propose eliminating an employee verification program, but say businesses need one that works well for employers — especially small companies — and workers. # Analysts and business organizations have argued that E-Verify alone would hurt Florida and the U.S. economy, but those same organizations say that a program that allows employers to verify a workers immigration status must be part of federal immigration reform

Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the recession’s racial divide, making the point that the hard times are hitting the black community

This week, Jesse Rothstein, the chief economist at the Labor Department, spoke at the Economic Policy Institute, and the organization just posted the slides.

CNN reports that former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) will be a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics in the fall. Six years ago, Al Franken -- the man who

Maybe I should have added Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to my list of Congress members to watch on Afghanistan. At his weekly pen-and-pad briefing, the Democratic

Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida today, scrambling clean-up crews who

Bill Pascoe, who worked for both of the luckless Republicans who ran against Barack Obama in the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race, tells his party to distance

<< BACK TO STORY Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. -- Surrounded by a chain-link fence posted with signs warning of dangerous radiation levels, the

My story about WorldNetDaily today makes the case that a fringe Website can actually have an impact on the mainstream political debate if, as WND does, it

Anyone who’s wandered the halls of the Capitol in recent years is likely well familiar with the irascible Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.). The Hall of Fame baseball

Shortly after Politico reported on an internal Democratic memo telling members to spin away the looming cost of a doc fix, Republicans began pointing

The Republican Party makes history, but grumbles.

This part of RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s press release On Democrat Withdrawals From 2010 Elections has all the hallmarks of news cycle giddiness. The

The Radiance Foundation logo (Pic via toomanyaborted.com) The Radiance Foundation, an anti-abortion group that has focused its attention on the African-American community, has released a new video titled “WE’VE BEEN GUTTMACHER’D.” The group claims the video “exposes the pro-abortion distortions of the Guttmacher Institute.” As the Independent’s Virginia Chamlee previously reported , the Radiance Foundation’s Ryan Bomberger has had his eye on the Guttmacher Institute for some time. He has called the Institute a “global pro-abortion extension” of Planned Parenthood that is “continually lavished with misleading credentials by mainstream media.” His new video condenses all his past claims about the group into a snappy one-minute ad with lyrics mostly aimed at the Institute’s founder: “You are all about eugenics … lying about abortion clinics … you are funded by Planned Parenthood,” etc. Bomberger’s recent press release announces his new video while simultaneously defending presidential candidate Herman Cain’s comments falsely claiming that Planned Parenthood was created to prevent “black babies from being born.” According to the press release : “Planned Parenthood’s Negro Project 2.0 Director lashed out at Cain for using ‘inflammatory and divisive language.’ In the real world, we call this language ‘truth.’ Guttmacher began as a pseudo-scientific arm of Planned Parenthood and, today, gives legs to the abortion giant’s propaganda,” said Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation.

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