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In a recent radio interview, Mississippi Lt. Gov. (and gubernatorial candidate) Phil Bryant said that he wholeheartedly supports the fetal personhood movement

Today, the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate fell in 34 states from March to April, did not change in 10 states and rose in six. That

The sun rose today and its gravitational force kept the planet twisting around it through the void, so naturally Fred and Kim Kagan, the neoconservative wing of

Having lost his strongest (theoretical) 2010 GOP Senate primary opponent, former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey blasts out a statement about former

When the question arises of whether Texas’ imminent voter ID law will pass U.S. Department of Justice muster, GOP lawmakers routinely point to the existing law

On Monday, just hours after Vice President Dick Cheney announced from Baghdad that the war in Iraq has been a successful endeavor, 10 Democrats vying for

If you watch local TV news in different cities around the country, and we’re not suggesting you do so, you see that a small number of stations have political beat reporters, but most do not. Why? “Most stations where politics is a beat with a dedicated reporter happen to be in places where politics is part of the culture,” says Deborah Potter, who writes about television news for the American Journalism Rewiew

Local government officials are asking the governor not to sign a new bill that blocks communities from restricting the areas where mines can be placed. The bill, which cleared the Legislature in just two weeks at the end of the session, amends the Michigan Zoning Act to block zoning ordinances that prevent the extraction of natural resources if someone could make a profit by extracting them unless “very serious consequences” would result. The measure would overturn a 2010 Michigan Supreme Court decision that held that Leelanau County’s Kasson township may restrict gravel mining through zoning

Clovis High School may end all non-curricular clubs rather than allow a gay-straight alliance to form at the eastern New Mexico high school, the American Civil Liberties Union in New Mexico claims. The school superintendent told the Albuquerque Journal that a vote Tuesday night on whether to disband all non-curricular clubs is unrelated to an attempt to form a gay-straight alliance at the school.

In 2008, Oklahoma passed HB 1804 (RTF), a law attacking residence and employment of undocumented immigrants in the state. One provision specifically repealed an

Senate Democrats may have leaned too heavily on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) when funding recent

After suggesting to a crowd of Tea Party constituents that he was interested in trying to impeach President Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess,

Representative Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) earned a national reputation as a bomb-thrower in the House by saying that the Republicans want you to die quickly during

A 37-year-old Afghan prisoner known only as Inayatullah held at Guantanamo Bay committed suicide yesterday according to the U.S.

Republicans might be marching lockstep in their opposition to President Obama in Congress, but the same cannot be said of GOP candidates on the campaign

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann concluded a weekend of Florida events with a Sarasota rally cosponsored by the local Republican Party and a handful of tea party and 912 groups, repeating her calls to eliminate both the EPA and the Department of Education and promising to lead the charge to repeal “ObamaCare.” # Hundreds of Sarasota residents packed the Sahib Shrine Temple Sunday afternoon, many wearing yellow “Tea Party Manatee” or red “Venice 912″ T-shirts. Local Republican Party chairman Joe Gruters MCed the event, developer Pat Neal offered a prayer and state Rep.

The drone attacks that killed Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen have sparked renewed talks of due process for U.S. born citizens alleged to have been involved in terrorist activity.

In a recent radio interview, Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, says he is willing to compromise on a funding measure for the Federal Aviation Administration. # While Mica — who heads the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee — has faced criticism for his role in the recent FAA shutdown

Iowa’s two largest print outlets spent some ink this week to call attention to Gov. Terry Branstad ‘s push to replace certain state leaders. The attention wasn’t of the positive variety.

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