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On the heels of a court ruling that shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in the state of Michgian, a new study by the RAND Corporation finds that crime actually goes up when such facilities are closed down.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells Politico that he thinks former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) -- convicted on seven felony counts of failing to

GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux (left) (Pic by Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Nicole Bieneman, via Wikimedia Commons) GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux today announced the launch of a new website that labels opponent Adam Hasner a “phony conservative.” LeMieux’s new website goes after Hasner for allegedly being a “ self-proclaimed moderate ,” as well as having an inconsistent record on conservative issues such as abortion and “school choice.” The website’s launch follows the Family Research Council’s endorsement of Hasner last week. The Research Council is a staunchly conservative anti-gay and anti-abortion rights advocacy group that routinely endorses the most conservative candidates running for federal office

As Dave Weigel notes, the Tea Party movement to protest the mortgage rescue plan and other government bailouts rolls on, with a planned rally Friday in front of

U.S. Rep. Tom Latham (R-Ames) raised more than twice as much as U.S

You’d think nothing could top Rudy Giuliani’s noun-verb-9/11ism, but, via Ben Smith, that’s because you don’t pay enough attention to Rep. Peter King

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr ) The Supreme Court announced today that its hearings in the lawsuit challenging the new federal health care reform law will begin on March 26 and will last three days. Florida is leading the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a suit that includes 25 other states. State officials have argued that the alleged unconstitutionality of the individual mandate is grounds for striking the bill in its entirety. That argument has not been upheld in lower court decisions

Republicans at the state and national levels are skeptical of why President Barack Obama chose to visit an Iowa metal manufacturing plant today. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said, “the only job the President is interested in saving is his own.” Obama is scheduled to tour Alcoa , a metal plant in the eastern Quad Cities, where he is also expected to talk about job creation and the economy

As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread to cities across Michigan , the web site We Are the 99 Percent is inviting people to publicly share their stories of struggling to get by. In Michigan, the economic collapse caused in good part by Wall Street greed continues to cause suffering for unemployed workers and struggling families, while the top 1% are doing better than any time in history. Our Governor and Lansing politicians just don’t seem to get it.

Yesterday, I blogged on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with The Anchorge Daily News, where she reflected on her time on the campaign trail. There’s an

The conventional wisdom says that if a climate bill fails to pass before the August recess, there’s little chance that it could pass this year, as lawmakers

University of Texas System regent Alex Cranberg has several things in common with recently fired UT special adviser Rick O’Donnell: Colorado, Jeff Sandefer’s

Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday announced the details of a compromise on education reached with the Republican leadership in both chambers of the state legislature, which he said should help complete the budget by his self-imposed deadline

Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the only designated enemy combatant held on U.S. soil, in a U.S. federal court,

Four reports released today by the national oil spill commission detail mistakes made by the White House in the chaotic aftermath of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Denver 2022 Winter Olympic bid may face a much stiffer challenge than the ongoing squabble between U.S. and international Olympic officials over revenue sharing

Anti-marriage-equality advocates have a spotless record when it comes to helping prevent voter approval of state laws allowing same-sex marriage: 31 out of 31.

Although a measure to fund the war effort passed the House late Thursday night, two-thirds of Democrats voted to impose a withdrawal timetable.

While major corporations and utility companies have accommodated themselves to the reality of climate change and the necessity of doing something about it, the

In a speech at the Minneapolis Convention Center Tuesday, Pres.

Word coming down the pike: the Senate Armed Services Committee is gearing up to release a fuller version of its report from last year on how the Rumsfeld-era

In reporting on my story today about the behind-the-scenes battle over requiring employers receiving stimulus money to weed out undocumented workers by using

Ousted Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed today by Libyans near his hometown of Sirte. His death comes two months after he was removed from power.