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Voters in Iowa Senate District 18 head to the polls today to decide between Republican Cindy Golding and Democrat Liz Mathis . But phones in the district have been ringing for days as the candidates and third-party supporters hope to sway and influence voters in their direction.

Former Iowa First Lady and 4th Congressional District candidate Christie Vilsack is among a handful of House and Senate candidates who “are distinguishing themselves as breakout fundraising stars in the still-developing 2012 campaign season,” Politico reports. Reporter Alex Isenstadt writes : Vilsack has quickly established herself as one of the most formidable Democratic fundraisers, raking in more than $750,000 in her first six months of campaigning

Carbondale’s denizens shouldn’t have to lie down in front of bulldozers any time soon. Efforts to drill for oil and gas in Thompson Divide have been met with fierce opposition from residents and leaders in Pitkin County — so much so that the executive director of the Aspen Wilderness Workshop previously told The Colorado Independent that his neighbors in Carbondale say things like, “Over my dead body,” and “Just tell me when it’s time to lie in front of the bulldozers.’” Thompson Divide (Image: Thompson Divide Coalition) Then last month, Pitkin County Commissioner George Newman flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with Colorado’s congressional leadership and urge them to stave off drilling in the Thompson Divide area, which consists of 221,500 acres spread out over Pitkin, Gunnison, Garfield, Mesa and Delta counties. There are as many as 81 leases in the area; half of them on terrain that is currently roadless

Figures released by the Williams Institute in California show that the 2010 census was a banner year for self-reported same-sex couples in Michigan. The census snapshot released by the LGBT legal research organization show that Michigan had a 42 percent increase statewide in the number of households reporting a same-sex partnership

The delightfully strange Russian propaganda network RT (formerly Russia Today) spends some time with Pastor James David Manning, one of the three or four most

Conservatives who attended a town hall meeting with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) have uploaded video of her being peppered with questions, including this

This makes it much, much harder for the administration to move forward with the closure of Guantanamo, said Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

During one of the most important Senate committee meetings on K-12 education in the past decade, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) had an active roll in pushing through a bill aimed at overhauling the much-maligned No Child Left Behind. The legislation, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), was proposed by the two leading Democrat and Republican Senators in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and articulated many of the terms and conditions states must honor to receive federal education dollars

The LetsTalkLiberty Twitter account is reporting every step that Carl Swensson and his small group of Birthers are taking around the Capitol. Two recent tweets

That’s the line from the Guardian Council. As The Wall Street Journal reports, this is part of the regime trying to stop the opposition, especially ahead of

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, held a hearing to weigh the costs and benefits of funding certain ailing

It’s been one of the most anticipated moments of the Afghanistan debate in Washington: when the commander of U.S. and NATO forces will testify before Congress

The campaign of Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison is using Fox News’ criticism of a recent comment he made about Rep. Michele Bachmann to appeal for donations for the upcoming 2012 election. Ellison told student activists last week that conservatives, including Michele Bachmann, want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Fox News picked up the clip.

DENVER— If winning the Democratic nomination for U.S Senate in Colorado comes down to who seems more passionate on the stump, challenger Andrew Romanoff will

Just two days after the U.S.

The Netanyahu government in Israel is claiming that the Bush administration had a secret deal with Netanyahu’s predecessors to allow Israel to continue

A new report from the Friends of the Earth paints a terrible picture of the business practices of TransCanada, the company seeking to build a pipeline to carry tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The report is entitled “Dirty Business: How TransCanada Pipelines bullies farmers, manipulates oil markets, threatens fresh water and skimps on safety in the United States.” In related news, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council joined Sen. Ron Wyden in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged manipulation of the oil market by TransCanada to boost their profits

There were few surprises this morning from President Obama, who was in Strongsville, Ohio, to promote the health reform proposals the Democrats hope to move

The one-day moneybomb for Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, modeled on the 24-hour fundraisers that fueled his father Ron’s

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) vouched for Ahmed Wali Karzai in a speech on Monday, saying he was never shown any evidence that the brother of the Afghan president