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Joe Bolkcom Sen. Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa City) said in a statement Tuesday he will introduce a new abortion bill this week aimed at prevening a Nebraska doctor from opening a family planning clinic in western Iowa that would offer late-term abortion services.

The Pakistani Army is claiming that it has practically cleared the Taliban out of the Swat Valley. Now comes the real counterinsurgency test: holding the area.

Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism teamed with researched at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Maryland to analyze a sample of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active duty between 2002 and 2008.

Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat -- here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of

Sen. John McCain, as everyone knows, loves to say that he has never once, in his whole career, requested nor received a single earmark or pork-barrel project

Forget $400 haircuts -- accessorizing the GOP vice presidential nominee requires serious cash. Politico reports that the Republican National Committee

Josh Gerstein is all over the Justice Department’s filing in Orly Taitz’s latest birther lawsuit. Taitz’s suit includes — not as evidence, but as something

Koch Industries Inc. isn’t just in Kansas anymore, Toto. The nation’s second largest private company and its subsidiaries are also in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas and just about every other state in the nation.

A glimmer of good news in the monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released today: In July, there were more job openings than in June -- the first

With a raft of controversial social and budgetary bills moving through the Republican-controlled state House, Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) is already looking for a possible new job

Multilateral talks with Iran over its nuclear program are underway in Geneva. There are reports that there has been one breakout meeting between chief U.S.

Today, Douglas Elmendorf, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, testified before the Senate Budget Committee on the subject of the Bush tax cuts. If

Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have won their bids for the GOP nomination in the California gubernatorial and Senate contests, respectively. And Rachel’s hunch

A story today in the The Los Angeles Times on a study about biology and politics starts with: Die-hard liberals and conservatives aren’t made; they’re born.

With Congress returning this week, I thought it would be a good time to do a quick overview of what to expect on energy and environmental legislation. The

Iowa’s school districts’ operating budgets are the major roadblock preventing the end of the legislative session, Democrats said Thursday. While both sides of the aisle continue to negotiate and discuss how the state should budget, an unwillingness to compromise on Iowa schools’ allowable growth and property tax relief is keeping lawmakers in a deadlock

Ann Althouse puzzles over an assertion, in The New York Times, that President Obama’s winning agenda included rebalancing the distribution of wealth. Obama

Former Alaska Gov.

Anyone with a serious S&M fetish will appreciate the auction, announced Monday, of a collection of 252 torture devices from the 16th and 17th centuries.