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All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Dec. 23, 2009. Last week, PolitiFact.com

University of Texas System regent Alex Cranberg has several things in common with recently fired UT special adviser Rick O’Donnell: Colorado, Jeff Sandefer’s

While major corporations and utility companies have accommodated themselves to the reality of climate change and the necessity of doing something about it, the

Four reports released today by the national oil spill commission detail mistakes made by the White House in the chaotic aftermath of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, one of the advisers for Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy review, doesn’t know if Ahmed Wali

Anti-marriage-equality advocates have a spotless record when it comes to helping prevent voter approval of state laws allowing same-sex marriage: 31 out of 31.

In a speech at the Minneapolis Convention Center Tuesday, Pres.

In reporting on my story today about the behind-the-scenes battle over requiring employers receiving stimulus money to weed out undocumented workers by using

Ousted Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed today by Libyans near his hometown of Sirte. His death comes two months after he was removed from power.

Word coming down the pike: the Senate Armed Services Committee is gearing up to release a fuller version of its report from last year on how the Rumsfeld-era

Yesterday, I got cold-called by a volunteer from Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) Campaign for Liberty, the organization he set up after his presidential bid ended. I

Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee jokingly suggested late last week to a group of Issue 2 supporters last week that

A Colorado Springs school district spokesperson told the Colorado Independent this morning that the district’s hands are tied by state law in terms of how it handles the case of a student with a prescription for medical marijuana. “This is a legal situation with the state, not with the school district,” spokesperson Jennifer Sprague said. “State law says no one can possess or ingest medical marijuana on school grounds.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today signed an agreement with the IRS and nine state agencies to “improve departmental efforts to end the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” A Department of Labor press release adds that “signatory states are Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah and Washington

I’d like to know what Kyle Smith thinks of Will Ferrell’s one-man play about former President George W. Bush. Instead, the New York Post’s writer spends eight

The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama-Biden transition team plans to release details and documents relating to all of the transition’s meetings with

A Denver 2022 Winter Olympic bid may face a much stiffer challenge than the ongoing squabble between U.S. and international Olympic officials over revenue sharing

For supporters of the bill to grant Washington, D.C., a voting representative in Congress, it may be 2010 or never. At least that’s the warning coming from

Noting that most of the criticism from the right of Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor has completely ignored her long written record as a court of

From The Colorado Independent: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today issued a notice of withdrawal of nearly 1 million acres of BLM and U.S. Forest Service land

A handful of high-profile Christian activist groups and conservative legislators have declined to lend their support to Florida’s proposed fetal personhood amendment, an initiative that aims to outlaw abortion and some forms of birth control. # That’s not deterring Personhood Florida leader Bryan Longworth, who says many of those who “have a negative view of the bill have participated in an abortion” and “have to come to grips with the fact that they participated in taking their own child’s life.” # Anti-abortion critics say the initiative is simply too extreme, and are instead supporting legislation like a bill that would require that women seeking an abortion undergo mandatory ultrasounds.

A new study released this week by the conservative Tax Foundation shows that Florida has the fifth lowest unemployment benefits in the country. Florida’s unemployment tax currently averages about 0.5 percent of all wages, which is eighth among the 50 states.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) Last week, a handful of House Republicans — including one Florida congressman — accidentally voted against a measure expressing disapproval of raising the country’s debt limit