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As they gear up for the scheduled implementation of Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law tomorrow, local law enforcement officers are attempting to figure out how

Denver’s Initiative 300 , which would have required all businesses in Denver to provide paid sick leave to employees lost big tonight, with a margin approaching 2-1. Early polls showed the sick leave measure winning, but Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and a majority of the Denver City Council urged no votes and opponents raised nearly twice the money supporters raised during a campaign that quickly became ugly. From a press release issued by opponents to the measure, Keep Denver Competitive: Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Michael Hancock, a majority of city council members, the state’s leading business and employer organizations and hundreds of small, family-owned businesses, voters understood Initiative 300 was flawed and would have hurt Denver’s smallest businesses the most.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Birther conspiracy theorist Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona will be a featured speaker at Choose Liberty, an event organized by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity. Choose Liberty will take place in Orlando on Nov

Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is young, Southern and right-wing -- a set of demographics that Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, has sought to draw into his campaign. So why did Jindal last week take himself out of the running for the No. 2 spot on McCain’s ticket?

As the debate over health care reform rages on, there’s been almost no attention to the fact that health and medical malpractice insurance companies since 1945

In an interview released in Christianity Today Thursday, Tim Pawlenty asserted that the United States was “founded under God” and that the founding fathers put that into the nation’s founding documents. In the wide-ranging interview, Pawlenty talked about his faith, his reversal on cap and trade, and the possibility of running against Rep. Michele Bachmann for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has added another item to their list of grievances with the Obama administration. The group recently lost millions of federal dollars for their relief program for victims of human trafficking because they refused to refer victims for contraceptives or abortion. Three other groups were awarded the grants instead.

Leaders of the Mine Safety and Health Administration have, for months, been warning Congress that they simply don’t have the resources to address the enormous

On the heels of his recent call to prayer for rain amid a statewide drought, Gov. Rick Perry is rallying Texans and governors across the country for more prayer

Marilyn Musgrave, the ultra-conservative Republican congresswoman from Colorado who disappeared for a while after her 2008 defeat, has emerged in the NY-23 to

During this morning’s American Spectator breakfast with journalists, Carly Fiorina, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in California, fielded a friendly

As select members of the Senate Finance Committee race to finalize their health reform bill before August recess, it’s worth noting just how few Americans those

Here’s Hillary Rodham Clinton at her diplomatic best. After getting tepid applause at AIPAC for her call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian

Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and former North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt say states haven’t been able to wait on Washington, D.C

The remaining members of the Iowa Supreme Court have proven they are immoral and “open enemies of God” by choosing Mark Cady as chief justice, and thus, all deserve to be impeached, according to conservative radio host Steve Deace and Republican Party of Iowa central committee member Wes Enos . Three Republican state legislators have begun drafting articles of impeachment for the remaining four members of the Iowa Supreme Court because of its 2009 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones -- Democratic super-delegate, vocal Hillary Clinton supporter, and the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress -- remains

The Iowa 175 bridge over the Missouri River remains in peril due to flooding as state officials continue to monitor and do what they can behind the scenes to limit further damage. Preliminary inspection work, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation, has revealed a deepening of the river channel around the bridge pier by as much as 42 feet, and serious scour and loss of embankment near the bridge abutment on the Iowa side has occurred

Chris Slattery, a former Operation Rescue organizer in the 1980s, said that the inaugural Summer of Mercy, which was held in Wichita, Kan., in 1991 to target

More on the Arab-American Institute’s forthcoming poll about U.S. attitudes toward Israel. I still haven’t seen the full poll, but I’ve gotten one detail of it.

Every time some economy is screwed up these days, it’s a safe bet Goldman Sachs is involved.

The Nuclear Posture Review, set for release next week, will chip away at the justification for a nuclear stockpile, but it’s still likely to disappoint arms control advocates.

A new study points to income inequality (the gap between those making most of the income and those making the least) as one of the main culprits for a country’s lagging economy. The United States’ income inequality is currently very high — and yet, some states are faring worse than others. Florida ranks “as the fifth-worst state in the nation on a measure of income inequality,” the Gini Index, according to the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy . Mother Jones reports that “equality” in income remains one of the most important “economic drivers” in an economy: “Countries where income was more equally distributed tended to have longer growth spells,” says economist Andrew Berg, whose study appears in the current issue of Finance & Development , the quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund.