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Two weeks ago, Republican leadership in the Minnesota Senate introduced a bill to ban state funding for abortion, and on Monday, two more bills with identical language were introduced in the Senate and another in the Minnesota House. The text of all three bills reads, “Funding for state-sponsored health programs shall not be used for funding abortions, except to the extent necessary for continued participation in a federal program.” The bill also includes language that anticipate a court challenge

Silicon Valley is apparently none too pleased about the big cuts in the federal Department of Energy’s physics research budget I mentioned last week. Craig

Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan-American believed to be an al-Qaeda asset in the U.S., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to attack the New York City subway system

Glenn Beck on Eric Massa, March 8: I’m not saying he is as pure as the driven snow, I don’t know, I don’t know the guy, but this is a moment that will

Long-time supporter of the tea party movement, U.S. Rep

Here’s a strange saga, even for a campaign year. It seems that over the weekend officials with the Arizona Democratic Party discovered a credit card

Despite faulty science and misleading characterizations of sex, a sex education program delivered by an Austin crisis pregnancy center remains in use in 13

Wow oh wow oh wow. Former Department of Justice official and torture memo author John Yoo will be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday to promote his

Two days after it overcame its chief procedural hurdle, a scaled-back jobs bill just passed the Senate by a vote of 70-28. The $15 billion bill must now be

TIFFIN — If Republicans want to advance an agenda of conservative principles and values, simply retaking the White House from Democratic control won’t be enough, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a group of political activists gathered at Clear Creek Amana High School. “This can’t be an election just about the presidency,” Gingrich said

I’ve got a copy of Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence, which is as chock-full of remembered conversations as a D.C. memoir should be. The first conversation

An April 1 decision to remove two public computer terminals is coming under fire by residents, attorneys and private investigators.

Reports that only 25 percent of eligible homeowners have applied for inclusion in President Obama’s $75 billion mortgage modification program and only 5 percent

WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh has a lot of fun with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s report on new right-wing extremist groups, calling up some of the leaders

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The New Mexico Department of Corrections is fining GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison operator, $1.1 million for understaffing one of its prisons. GEO manages three of the four private prisons in the state, including Lea County Correctional Facility, where from September of 2010 to March of 2011 one out of every four jobs were vacant

The Colorado Independent’s story Monday on the Koch brothers influence in environmental politics has gone viral in a radio version produced by Kathleen Ryan for Public News Service. Ryan interviewed Colorado Independent reporter Troy Hooper for her report, which she broke into two segments, which ran Monday and Tuesday of this week. She said she will know by the end of the week how many stations carried the stories and how big the total audience was

Dave Itzkoff ribs Sarah Palin, in perfect New York Times style, for a strange complaint made on the program formerly known as The Tonight Show With Conan

Tea Party Nation blasted out an email asking its Tennessee members to protest Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and stop financial reform legislation -- which

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Bill Kristol hears that Rasmussen Reports, the conservative pollster whose surveys have consistently shown the lowest levels of support for the stimulus, is