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Flickr: EAWB Popular candidates like Gen. Wes Clark and Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) were famously recruited into politics by volunteer-driven

Two federal agencies have teamed up to offer Congress and the nation a realistic picture of the extent and nature of homelessness experienced by military veterans, and it isn’t pretty. This first-ever report of its kind indicates that homeless veterans are present to some extent in each state, and provides in-depth demographic information on homeless veterans and how those individuals compare to others in the population who are homeless

The number of Americans who self-identify as abortion rights advocates grew by 4 percent while the number identifying as anti-abortion rights advocates shrank by three percent, according to a new national poll.

Wal-Mart and Salem Communications have severed ties with two entities run by pastor Bradlee Dean , who made headlines last week for a controversial prayer before the Minnesota House of Representatives. David Brauer reports that AM 1280 The Patriot, owned by Christian broadcaster Salem Communications, dropped Dean’s “Sons of Liberty” radio show, and Nick Pinto writes that Wal-Mart has told Dean’s ministry, You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, that it can no longer fundraise in the parking lots of its Minnesota locations. MinnPost’s Brauer notes that Dean was fired from AM 1280 before he gave his controversial speech before the House .

A mysterious, and mysteriously detailed, email criticizing President Obama’s feckless decision-making during the Somalian pirate standoff has been making the

Last week, North Carolina’s state Senate passed its “Woman’s Right to Know Act” — a bill that will require women to wait 24 hours before receiving abortion services, require them to view and hear a description of an ultrasound and require providers to give women printed information about risks associated with the procedure. The measure is similar to a Florida bill approved by the Legislature this year.

In this month’s trickle of economic data comes a little good news for the market, even if it’s perhaps not great news for people’s bank accounts: Consumer

After last month’s marathon Afghanistan-Pakistan Congressional hearings with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, I noted an unanswered

Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI. “Yes, this is, in my opinion, fraud,” Hertel said.

New Mexico House Democrats reintroduced a compromise bill tightening requirements for foreign nationals applying for driver’s licenses Friday, but Gov. Martinez called it a “partisan gimmick.” The bill, almost identical to the one passed in the Senate during the regular session, would require driver’s licenses for those without a Social Security number to be renewed every two years — instead of every four to eight — and additional documentation proving New Mexico residency. Some of the notices sent out to foreign nationals asking them to prove state residency were sent back because the license-holders never lived at the address, the address did not exist or they simply moved out-of-state.

It’s only been a few hours since the Senate Finance Committee killed two separate proposals to create a public insurance plan as part of the year’s health

National anti-abortion-rights policy group Americans United for Life emailed supporters Monday announcing a new strategy in the form of a video to try “once

The Conservative Party’s candidate is pushing this news today: a one-day $116,000 fundraising surge on Thursday, which is impressive when you realize that Sarah

Again stirring controversy on Capitol Hill is a measure in the U.S. House budget bill that would prevent federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood and cut Title X family planning funds. Potential presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty told anti-abortion rights group the Susan B

Speculation that the the Obama administration’s February announcement that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court would change how

Just out from Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), one of the leading civil libertarian voices in Congress opposing the 2007 FISA Amendments Act that lowered the

Controversial pastor and rock musician Bradlee Dean filed suit Wednesday in federal court alleging he was defamed by reporting from The Minnesota Independent,

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles. According to a press release from the campaign posted by The Miami Herald : Each member has been an active voice in state politics and an advocate for conservative causes and issue campaigns. The Romney campaign will utilize this coalition to perform voter outreach and coalition building for Get Out the Vote efforts

Maybe it’s something in the water, but Colorado lawmakers are increasingly leading the charge on the wave of bipartisanship that’s sweeping Washington. Whether it will continue – or result in any substantial change in what many deem a badly broken system – remains to be seen. Fresh off of his co-mingling effort at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech by President Obama , Democratic Sen

Minnesota is the only state to face the possibility of a government shutdown this year, but at least twenty states have had late budgets since 2002.