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Democrats are passing around this article by election handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, which takes the hammer and tongs to Rasmussen Reports. Rothenberg focuses

While the State Department is in the process of approving the Keystone XL pipeline, the first part of that project — Keystone I — just had its 12th leak in only its first year of operation, according to environmental group Friends of the Earth . A TransCanada pipeline that carries tar sands oil into the U.S. from Canada had to be shut down for inspection Saturday after spilling about 21,000 gallons of tar sands oil in southeastern North Dakota, according to news reports.

A Monday blog entry posted by Family Research Council Action references a media account of how adoption is changing due to technology, but FRCA omits the portion about technology and instead attempts to make the leap that a lack of birth mothers is due to abortion services, and specifically due the presence of Planned Parenthood. The FRC report, authored by Nick Frase, links to a news report in the Merrillville, Ind.-based Post-Tribune that discusses how the Internet has changed adoptions , but pulls only five paragraphs from an interview with the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Gary in which the charity expressed its hope that a legislative effort to defund Planned Parenthood would have brought more birth mothers

The Obama administration has said its immigration policies are working to keep out illegal immigrants, and a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center today

There have been some pretty nasty banners waved around by the town hall crowds protesting the Democrats’ health overhaul plans in recent days, but none reaches

Occupy Wall Street? Sure. Occupy Denver

Fortune has a great story up: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission requested that Warren Buffett, the head of investment giant Berkshire Hathaway, come

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Victor Davis Hanson writes an atypically concise post about President Obama’s middle name. He wants Europeans to know the name, says Hanson, but: It is

Extremely relieving news for a Monday morning: An Iranian appeals court has reduced the eight-year jail sentence for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi

Several national organizations have released statements about the immigration-enforcement bills that failed in the Florida legislature this session. # The National Immigration Forum said in a statement released on Monday : # Friday was a victory for Florida’s economy, businesses, tourists, and immigrants. Florida’s heritage as a state welcoming to immigrants and visitors from around the world has been preserved # The release commends GOP Sen

As the dust settles around the State Capitol, a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to get a Texas driver’s license has emerged as another conservative win

Righty activist author Jerome Corsi’s latest anti-Obama book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” is climbing the ranks at Amazon.

With Sen. Barack Obama vacationing in Hawaii, Sen. John McCain now has an opportunity -- one that will not likely come again before the November general

Former state lawmaker Tom Graves has won the special election in Georgia’s 9th District, reports the Associated Press. With 77 percent of precincts reporting,

The upshot of the news that Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden--son of the vice president--won’t run for the state’s open Senate seat is that Rep. Mike Castle

CANCÚN, MEXICO — There are rumblings around Cancún that China may be willing to legally commit to its domestic cuts in carbon emissions. Negotiators, ministers and world leaders are currently in the second week of talks at the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP 16 ).

File this in the unsurprising news category, but today the president of FreedomWorks -- who’s still part of a lawsuit against Medicare -- backed the effort to