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Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert shut down on Friday after the system that cools the reactor began leaking water at around 15 gallons per minute. The Herald Palladium reports: The plant was shut down shortly before 3 p.m

The health care multi-millionaire’s group, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, is going on the air in 11 states, targeting 14 senators (12 Democrats and two

CitizenLink , the Focus on the Family Christian news site based in Colorado Springs, weighed in Thursday on the latest political controversy winging out of Washington. The site reported that, in using “recess appointments” to fill three seats on the National Labor Relations Board and to place Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama had “ stepped over a line and into history .” The CitizenLink reporter then turned to Georg W. Bush justice department attorney John Yoo, the author of the notorious 2002 War on Terror “torture memos,” to support the argument that the nation was witnessing a major unconstitutional power grab.

Private prison companies lost the possibility of a big profit last week when one of the largest known government privatization campaigns in the country was

Michael Patrick Leahy, one of the men behind Top Conservatives on Twitter (#TCOT) and a leader of the anti-spending Tea Party movement, is planning to attend

Public Policy Polling has proven, once again, that one in five Americans will signal their belief for just about anything. The group’s poll today notes that

There’s a new meme in the presidential race: The Internet is helping expose dirty tricks, enhance campaign accountability and punish the purveyors of

A spokesperson for TransCanada just gave a little more detail on the company’s plans to withdraw its special permit request to pump oil at a higher pressure

Defense Secretary Bob Gates took a tour of the armed services’ war colleges last week to deliver the message that the Army, Navy and Air Force need to focus

Former Fox News icon Glenn Beck was traveling abroad when news leaked late last month that he’d leased a huge house near Dallas/Fort Worth International

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When most East Coasters could no longer follow the returns from sheer exhaustion, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) had fallen behind challenger Ken Buck (R) in his

This Quinnipiac poll is the latest to show Republican candidate Chris Christie faltering in his campaign for governor of New Jersey. Christie, who’d risen as

At least 257 for-profit higher education institutions receive more than 85 percent of their income from federal student aid. That figure, however, does not include military aid and benefits paid to individuals going to school on GI Bill benefits. In addition, although roughly 10 percent of for-profit college enrollment is made up of service men and women, the industry is receiving more than a third of money paid out to help veterans attend school.

<p>&nbsp;Dien Judge over at <em>Iowa Independent</em> has some video that captures Huckabee&rsquo;s surge in popularity in

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has now distanced himself even further from state Republicans, this time by wading into a contentious battle over dueling

Earlier today I wrote about a new Republican National Committee fundraising website called No More Frankens, which says, We now know that Republicans should

Former Vice President Al Gore is honored by the blowback he received after he blasted climate change deniers with a certain eight-letter epithet during an off-the-cuff speech last month in Aspen. “There’s a long tradition of people who don’t like a particular message turning to attack the person delivering the message,” he said on NPR’s Talk of the Nation today

This is a deeply strange story, ably picked apart by the smart conservative blogger Ed Morrissey. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has been making the rounds today

Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the recommendations as part of a minimum swath of services.

Just hours before Senate lawmakers met this afternoon for a hearing on mine safety -- a hearing inspired by the deadly blast at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch