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Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack appears to be preparing for a U.S. Senate run in 2012 -- though he doesn’t outright say it, only referring to the next

Comprehensive immigration reform already stands on shaky ground, but what would happen if a reform bill included a provision that granted gays and lesbians the

The Federal Emergency Management Agency last week asked for immunity from lawsuits over the high formaldehyde levels in the trailers it used to house Hurricane

Next week, a coalition of conservative legal groups will host a Libel Lawfare: Silencing Criticism of Radical Islam, a conference on how Islamist lawfare is

Seven members of the Democratic National Committee have joined with environmental activists, celebrities and a group of Nobel Peace Prize winners in calling on President Obama to deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The New York Times reports : Authored by Maryland state legislator and Democratic national committeewoman Heather Mizeur — who drew fire from the natural gas industry this year after pitching a bill to “pause” the extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing in the Free State — the resolution won an endorsement from Rep.

Conservative publisher and pundit Andrew Breitbart is slated to headline the King Street Patriot’s True the Vote National Summit in Houston in March. The

Speaking at Denver’s Lincoln High School Tuesday, President Obama said that if Congress passed his jobs bill it would put thousands of Coloradans back to work. See his speech below. He said much of the world is moving past America in their investments in education, research and basic infrastructure, and that it is time for America to lead again

It’s not quite like naming an aircraft carrier after a recently retired chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, but creating an Ike Skelton Chair of

To return one more time to Vice President Biden’s what-did-he-mean-exactly remarks about a potential Israeli strike on Iran, it’s notable that Adm. Michael

Troy Newman, president of the radical anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue has announced that the group will be conducting a “massive research project

Though it was presidential candidate Mitt Romney who hardened his stance opposing same-sex marriage during Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate in Sioux

More on the mercury beat: The National Fisheries Institute is angry about a front-page New York Times, and a related piece yesterday, claiming that restaurant

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has recently been heralded by conservative pundits who regret his early departure from the GOP presidential race, told MSNBC Thursday that he won’t accept a vice presidential position. Pawlenty dropped his bid for the GOP presidential nomination following a third-place finish in the August Iowa Straw Polls.

When you go on vacation and an international crisis breaks out, you get hounded by protesters. From a pool report today: About a half dozen demonstrators

Following up on our stories earlier this week about the legal vacancy at the National Security Agency, Mark Hosenball at Newsweek finds that the Justice