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Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*. In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and,

No details on this yet, but the stimulus summary floating around Washington includes the following: Provides incentives to buy new cars, including light trucks

Billed as an “alternative” to Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fast event The Response, the ACLU of Texas and Americans United for Separation of Church and

So we don’t know exactly what significant actions CIA Director Leon Panetta has acknowledged to the House intelligence committee were not properly briefed to

Its a clean coal culture war. Last week, the Coen Brothers, Hollywood wise guys with a dozen feature films to their credit, released a satiric 30-second

All that hand-wringing over California being the next Greece might not be for nothing. States are starting to report their April tax collections, and several

A few weeks ago, I noted that in a new Gallup poll, Americans ranked terrorism and the national debt evenly -- above health care costs, unemployment and climate

Big Government’s Andrew Breitbart brought ACORN videographers James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles to the National Press Club this morning for the release of a video

Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn said that, in leading the charge to strip National Public Radio of taxpayer support, he is aiming simply to “let loose” the station to thrive in the free market. In a round of interviews Thursday held just before and after the House voted along party lines to pass his “defund NPR” bill, he said he was not acting out of partisan motives

It’s looking like it’ll be interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn -- who came under fire from Fox News host Glenn Beck last week for quoting Mao

Wow, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial on the Minnesota recount was the screed heard ’round the world. Here’s Bill O’Reilly, the Sinestro to Al Franken’s Hal

NASHVILLE -- The 1,100 ticketholders for Sarah Palin’s speech have assembled in the ballroom after a lengthy wait outside. As promised, the dinner being served

Luxury goods have very low tariffs, while cheap clothes, underwear, shoes and household products have much higher rates, making the tariff system our most regressive tax, says a trade policy expert.

In a classic case of bad timing, the day before a Western Slope rally to call for more oil and gas jobs and fewer environmental regulations, a tanker truck carrying 10,000 gallons of crude oil crashed just north of Gateway, Colo., Monday, threatening to contaminate the Dolores River. Crews were scrambling today to clean up the spill before rain and snow moved into the area where oil was threatening a creek winding through beaver ponds before running into the Dolores River — which eventually empties into the Colorado River

The Wall Street Journal reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will question Chinese officials this week about reports that the country is blocking

You might think that members of Congress and their staffs would be prohibited from using their privileged access to nonpublic information to cash in on Wall

This morning, Michael Barone joined a number of American Enterprise Institute fellows for a briefing on the 2009 elections. One of the more interesting

Pat Toomey, the former Club for Growth president and leading Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2010 Senate race, has announced a $1 million haul in the

The DCCC pulls out of the Hawaii special election. Congress won’t find a way to pay for Cash for Caulkers until after it passes. Tea Party activists

Eric Kleefeld has a great rundown of the Republican players who’ve taken sides in the New York 23rd Congressional District special election between GOP

As the House works to set limits on carbon emissions, electric utilities see opportunity.

A study, the first of its kind, shows that undocumented immigrants pay sales taxes and property taxes, and at least half pay an income tax. # According to an Immigration Policy Center report released yesterday, tax day, the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy has estimated the state and local taxes paid in 2010 by households that are headed by unauthorized immigrants.