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Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants. EPA has set a Dec.

Both liberal and conservative experts are pushing Congress to follow the lead of 17 states that already have job-sharing systems, but some Republicans are balking at the cost.

The FBI seal (Pic via fbi.gov) The number of hate crimes in the U.S.

All the attention on the energy front today is going to the BP spill, but the Environmental Protection Agency quietly released its long-anticipated analysis of

Iowa U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) can count himself among the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, according to a USA Today analysis of financial disclosures of members of Congress

A Gallup poll released Monday shows that for the first time since Gallup began asking the question more than 40 years ago, a majority of Americans favor legalizing marijuana. The poll showed 50 percent in favor of legalization and 46 percent opposed

A major theme at this past weekend’s faith-based conference The Awakening at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., was winning over young voters. During the

Spencer blogged about Florida congressional candidate Allen West’s eye-popping statement on the Ft. Hood tragedy; I spoke to West for a story about black

Today, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has an opinion piece in The New York Times entitled, awkwardly, Welcome to the Recovery. The article comes as

The Salerno army base offers a window into the hard counterinsurgency battle at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) Rep

Iran is placing extraordinary emphasis on its ballistic missile and WMD development programs. The ballistic missile infrastructure in Iran is now more

New unemployment claims took their first significant drop in nearly four months last week, dipping below 400,000 for the first time since April with 398,000 new claims. The four week average stands at 413,750.

New Mexico will end a food stamp supplement for elderly and disabled residents, according to the Associated Press . The cuts come just as Congress is considering cuts to the food stamp program even as a record-high amount of people are receiving the benefits. The AP reports that the Human Services Department will stop the supplement on July 1 because there is no money in the state budget for the program.

While opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will be well-funded, a strategy division, and the size of the Democrats’ majorities in Congress, are making life difficult for the anti-labor side of the debate.

From Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker comes this simple but not-much-discussed observation: Empathy is not, as some seem to think, a scourge peculiar

COMMENTARY Washington again placed bets on the wrong foreign leaders. Is personal diplomacy a farce?

Today Alabamans go to the polls, again, to determine the Republican candidate for governor after a June 1 primary forced a runoff between Bradley Byrne, a

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