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The National Organization for Marriage has tapped tea party attorney Cleta Mitchell as the organization’s Minnesota lobbyist during the state’s contentious 2012 battle over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

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Today, the congressionally appointed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission subpoenaed Goldman Sachs for failing to hand over certain documents or failing to

In August when Bahrain’s police came under pressure to explain its interrogation of Nabeel Rajab, a prominent international human rights activist, for articles

Tea Party: The Documentary Film is, according to its stars and filmmakers, an attempt to celebrate -- and correct -- the history of what FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey called a movement to fulfill the destiny of this land.

High gas prices are spurring support for offshore drilling, which experts say won’t alleviate the pain at the pump.

In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today

In the investigation of Gov. Scott Walker’s former and current aides for campaign finance improprieties, Walker’s current spokesman, Cullen Werwie, has been granted immunity to offer testimony. Immunity is typically granted when the subject thinks they could otherwise get in trouble, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

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

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

State Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville, yesterday filed his first bill for the upcoming 2012 legislative session: House Bill 609 , which preempts all local laws, ordinances or rules that address wage theft in the state.

BP just started construction on a new wind farm in Colorado, according to Bloomberg, adding to the eight wind farms it already owns in the United States. The

Jon Michael Turner’s tattoos cover his arms almost entirely. They peeked out under the rolled up sleeves of his crisp blue shirt, on which were the medals and

It’s looking like the Tea Party might be Rep. Alan Grayson’s saving grace. The firebrand freshman Democrat from Florida won a close election in his swing

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

Former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and tea party favorite Herman Cain edged closer to entering the field of Republican 2012 presidential candidates on Wednesday.

Three of the four top congressional leaders have snubbed President Obama’s invitation to attend Wednesday evening’s White House State Dinner for the visiting

Environmental groups are disputing claims by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, that they weren’t included in the congressman’s Tuesday water pollution hearing because they didn’t ask to be . # The Stearns hearing in Orlando focused on new EPA water pollution rules in Florida.

Lawmakers want to rein in spending, but not if it threatens jobs in their states.

Yesterday, New York State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced that New York will end its fiscal year at the end of March with a $2 billion budget shortfall.

As other states seek to undermine abortion using a number of tactics, including imposing mandatory ultrasounds before having an abortion and banning insurance

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) announced that she will not run in 2012 for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate in a letter to her supporters Thursday. I am

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