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A little over a year ago, I spent some time with the Obama campaign’s foreign policy brain trust to glean the emerging preoccupations of his advisers. There

On Tuesday morning, Politico broke the news that Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) was switching from the Democratic Party to the GOP. For Les Phillip -- a Tea

Buried inside the new Fox News poll are some trial heats for the 2012 presidential election that look awfully good for President Barack Obama. Three candidates

The Associated Industries of Florida logo (Pic via saintpetersblog.com) Associated Industries of Florida, one of the state’s most influential lobbying groups, submitted 16,024 public comments from Florida residents to the U.S. Department of State yesterday, all of which are in support of the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline expansion, a hotly contested network of pipes that would route crude oil from Canada all the way to Texas. The comments were gathered in collaboration with a group called the Consumer Energy Alliance, a so-called “grassroots” organization with ties to top lobbyists.

At Tuesday night’s annual Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet, the Minnesota Independent was honored with three Page One Awards, including first place prize for “Best Independent News Blog.” In that category, judges wrote that the Minnesota Independent is “ easy to navigate” and offers “lots of supplemental information and good participation from readers.” Also taking home a first was photographer Kathy Easthagen for her photo essay about President Barack Obama’s 2010 rally at the University of Minnesota with then-candidate and current governor Mark Dayton (who gave the keynote speech at last night’s banquet).

The new Washington Post-ABC News poll has only 72 percent of Americans saying that global warming is occurring right now. It’s an eight-point drop from last

A Congressional report released Tuesday details the sordid story of how the military contrator AEY, and its 22 year-old company president, Efraim

Ryan Frazier, one of the crop of strong African-American Republican candidates I spoke to for this piece, out-fundraised Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) in the

In a big setback for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy’s (D-Pa.) efforts to insert amendments overturning the military’s ban on open gay

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has blocked the state’s Personhood affiliate from introducing a bill that would define life from the moment of conception, on the grounds that it is “too vague” as written. Though fetal personhood measures across the country have been criticized for that very reason, Personhood Arkansas leaders are now accusing McDaniel of having “pro-abortion” leanings.

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Good news from RealtyTrac this morning, as it reports that foreclosure filings -- default notices, auctions and reposessions -- fell 9 percent from March to

President Obama’s ethics czar, is going to Europe as an ambassador -- and it’s causing anxiety among government watchdog groups who admire the work

A few weeks ago, a group called Concerned Taxpayers of America emerged out of nowhere and started to spend large sums of money attacking Rep. Peter DeFazio (D)

Black Hills Power, a South Dakota utility with offices in Denver, filed papers Tuesday to shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and build a new natural gas-powered plant in Cheyenne – the first of its kind in the coal-dominated state. According to the Casper Star Tribune , Black Hills is making the $237 million move in anticipation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating mercury and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants

The GOP could see its first victory in the fight to take down the one-year-old Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if the Senate votes next week to

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled their long-awaited proposal to overhaul the nation’s health care system, including the creation of a government-backed

Daily Kos and Research 2000 are out with an interesting poll of likely voters in Montana. Kos flags the approval numbers of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) -- the

The former GOP House majority leader, now president of FreedomWorks, endorsed dark horse Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio back in July, but today he

I spent my morning attending the fifth birthday of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the management organization dedicated to marshaling the