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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

While recent reports suggest that Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm is on President Obama’s shortlist of potential nominees to replace retiring

I’ve got some more interviews from Nashville and the National Tea Party Convention that didn’t make it into today’s story. Here is Roy Moore, the Ten

Marco Rubio’s Reclaim America PAC said in a press release Wednesday that a recent speech delivered by the senator at the Ronald Reagan Library “drove extreme liberals crazy, and they are on the attack.” # The release added: # MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow chopped up Marco’s words and distorted them, even weaving in mentions of Marco’s parents to attack him.

UPDATED at 2:33 p.m. As The American Independent previously reported, anti-abortion rights group Americans United for Life (AUL) released Thursday a report of

In light of the rally this afternoon that I wrote about earlier, the American Civil Liberties Union is cautioning that comprehensive immigration reform

If anyone thought that a liberal President Obama, backed by large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, was just going to write his way through

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The members of the Republican National Committee have just approved an amended version of their resolution on The Democrats’ March

Following up on Sahil Kapur’s excellent piece on the expansion of gun rights under the Obama administration’s watch, The New York Times has a nice overview

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The Houston Chronicle reported today that BP identified in September of last year dozens of concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig, the rig that exploded and

Bob Woodward’s new book, entitled Obama’s Wars, will be released next Monday. The book covers the Obama administration’s decision-making process about troop

Duty calls on the home front, and the Governoress simply can’t be bothered with trifles from the press.

As Newsweek reported Friday evening, the CIA inspector general report expected to be released on Monday reveals that the CIA staged mock executions to terrify

Whoa. Via Juan Cole, here’s something I never expected to read: The Iraqi government is likely to abandon plans to sign short-term contracts with foreign oil

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has pulled out of the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner June 10, party officials said Thursday, leading the party to cancel the entire fundraiser for this year. Trump was to be the keynote speaker.

A new report by the Michigan League for Human Services finds that long-term unemployment is at the highest rate since such measures began to be tracked in the state of Michigan. More than half of Michigan’s unemployed adults of prime working age (25-54) last year spent a half year or longer looking for jobs – the longest on record, the 2011 Labor Day Report from the Michigan League for Human Services concludes.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has still not made a decision about whether to lift her hold on President Obama’s nominee to head the White House Office of

Mixing classic rightwing economics and Christianist populism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a rapt crowd in a Minneapolis hotel Tuesday night that “government is taking from the overly happy and redistributing to the insufficiently happy.”

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote. Skekina Pena, owner of Your Healthy Choice Clinic, was arraigned Monday at 54-A District Court for “influencing voters with Money or other valuable consideration.” Pena was released on a personal bond of $3,500.

In a new series of automated phone calls launched today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) again calls on citizens to tell Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, to “come clean” about ethics violations

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