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The Los Angeles Times reports: The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage but also ruled that gay couples who wed

Last week, the Florida Chamber of Commerce started airing radio ads raising the specter of large-scale union protests in Florida. # “We’ve seen the images on television: government unions from around America staging protests in Wisconsin,” warns Chamber chief Mark Wilson, adding: “Florida is next on the union bosses’ hit list.” # He goes on to accuse unions of transporting protesters to “harass” Central Florida’s legislative Republicans

On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) appeared alongside New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a New York police station to announce his intention to

Eric Kleefeld notices that FreedomWorks’ logo for the Sept. 12, 2009 anti-tax March on Washington appropriates the Communist/left-wing iconography of red fists

Forbes magazine has an article about a new report that looks at a new market developing for companies that are inventing techniques to clean up the toxic liquid mix recovered from hydrofracking natural gas wells. The report focuses mostly on the Marcellus Shale, which underlies most of the Appalachian basin under New York, Pennsylvania, and parts of Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia

Success equals leadership plus strategy plus resources said retired Lt. Gen. David Barno about Afghanistan. Although he doesn’t say it himself, he had the

Five years after Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) beat him in a Senate primary by only 17,000 votes, and months after he ruled out a rematch, Club for Growth

The private security company, renamed Xe Services, objects to my use of the verb stole to refer to the guns it got from the U.S. military in Afghanistan in

Speaking of returning the United States to an active role in Arab-Israeli peace processing, here’s a statement just issued by new White House press secretary

Sen. John McCain has the answer to the fundamental questions that have plagued economists for decades.

Economists often describe unemployment as cyclical or structural. Cyclical unemployment results from broad economic slowdowns: As the economy turns,

Indulge me for a second. Two years ago I shopped around a deeply-reported piece about U.S. plans for permanent bases. No one wanted it. Print and TV. Seriously.

Politico’s Laura Rozen had a good post this morning about agita on the Hill after the seemingly unimpeachable Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill that grants $7.5 billion

With State Senator Russell Pearce’s dramatic recall in Arizona behind us, the nation’s immigration watchers turn their eyes to Alabama, now home to the nation’s fiercest immigration laws. In Alabama, comparisons to the civil rights battles of the 1960s are hard to avoid. From local press to the New York Times and beyond, reporters and those they interview are connecting the dots, not generally in a way flattering to the state

White House Counsel Gregory Craig, a longtime Washington insider who’s faced mounting criticism for his role in the Obama administration’s plans to close the

The Justice Department still hasn’t officially announced it, but The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon, based on anonymous sources, that Attorney

President Obama spoke with George Stephanopoulos yesterday in Cleveland, and the interview is being aired this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. It was a

Want a sure sign that Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal isn’t going to face a difficult confirmation hearing to command U.S. forces in Afghanistan? The Senate

From the stage of the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips announced that organizers would be putting together a second convention from July 15

Public Policy Polling dips into Arkansas, one of the few states where Barack Obama won fewer votes for president than John Kerry, and finds that only 45 percent

For those who dare not look away from the rapidly evolving soap opera that was formerly known as the McCain-Palin campaign, GQ reporter Robert Draper has