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A poll, released just two days after the Department of Homeland Security announced changes to its deportation proceedings , indicates that the majority of most likely voters still favor border security. # According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll , “even as the Obama administration moves to slow the pace of deportation for illegal immigrants, voters continue to believe strongly that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already living in the United States.” # “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S

Maybe the proposal was already in the works, but on Wednesday -- the same day The Wall Street Journal reported on the problem of Mexican gangs smuggling

The New York Times has a (somewhat disorganized) story co-written by its very knowledgeable reporter Carlotta Gall that suggests the arrest of top Taliban

Ohio’s former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner stopped short of criticizing her replacement, but made it clear they disagreed on the importance of absentee

The Obama administration announced today that it is launching an investigation into China’s green technology trade policies. The investigation is in response to

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) Yesterday, the U.S.

Though last Friday’s near-government shutdown did not lead to a major defunding of Title X family planning programs, at least one anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, still sees it as a “partial victory for the pro-life movement,” and is unlikely to give up the fight to defund Planned Parenthood. # The United States government was on the verge of shutting down over a dispute involving funding for Planned Parenthood and clinics like it.

Tar balls recently washed up on the Alabama shoreline have now been linked to BP, according to preliminary tests performed by Auburn University. Via the Associated Press : Tests show the wave of tar balls that hit Alabama’s beaches after Tropical Storm Lee was from last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a coastal mayor said Tuesday. Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon said the connection was found in preliminary tests performed by Auburn University, and additional tests will be conducted

Some good reading today in The Washington Post, which got its hands on transcripts depicting reactions from some AIG employees when their bonuses were

The firm faces a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad.

Economist Dean Baker isn’t happy about seeing people like Larry Summers and Robert Rubin surrounding President-elect Barack Obama as he consults experts on the

Joe Miller ad says Murkowski is not a witch, but might be Voldemort. Liberal? It might be genetics. Obama says he might evolve his same-sex marriage

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Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument. It relieves the U.S. from dependency on foreign oil, some reports say, and it reduces the pollution spewed out the tailpipe

In my piece a few weeks ago about the rudderlessness of GOP foreign policy, I mentioned a National Journal item reporting that several of the neoconservative

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have been patting themselves on the back for passing out a health reform proposal that both saves money over the next

This news may disappoint restrictionist groups and CNN’s Lou Dobbs, but the Pew Hispanic Center reports today that despite the poor economy, Mexican immigrants

During a recent retreat featuring a cast of influential conservatives, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his support for a controversial Ohio bill seeking to