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Newspapers throughout the state have come out against a Republican bill that proposes a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

Kris Kobach is the Kansas secretary of state and an attorney who is a pivotal player in the anti-immigration movement. He personally helped write much of the

Residents of Benton Harbor should not lose their democratic rights or their city parks just because the city is poor, Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday, and he called for people to speak out against Michigan’s Emergency Manager law. In an op-ed to the Chicago Sun Times Jackson wrote: Benton Harbor’s finances are a mess

While journalistic accolades can come in many forms — awards, peer recognition, a paycheck — here’s a new one to us: A bull calf born during Tuesday’s snowstorm was named after Minnesota Independent Senior Reporter Andy Birkey. According to rancher Barbra Peterson, who has a 92-head herd in Sandstone, Birkey’s reporting on reproductive health and social justice issues prompted the move

Former Vice President Al Gore is publicly urging President Obama to deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that the increased greenhouse gas production from the use of tar sands oil will only make the planet’s climate problems worse. On his blog, Gore says : The leaders of the top environmental groups in the country, the Republican Governor of Nebraska, and millions of people around the country—including hundreds of people who have bravely participated in civil disobedience at the White House—all agree on one thing: President Obama should block a planned pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. The tar sands are the dirtiest source of fuel on the planet.

Well, at least there are bales of hay in the background. But the scariest thing about this vaguely Halloween-themed rally in Columbus, Ohio, wasn’t anything

Dr. Howard Fuller, a longtime advocate for school choice options in inner cities who recently came out against aggressive voucher expansion in his home state of

A new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that low-income Latino immigrants face increasing hostility as they fill low-wage jobs in

<div class="mini gray">photo credit: Lauren Burke, wdcpix</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Immigration was to be the

A statement just in from the Club for Growth’s head honcho Pat Toomey. As this disastrous recession worsens, I have become increasingly concerned about the

The news is already abuzz with the start of the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the United States Supreme

This is sort of sad. Lt. Scott R. Easterling, a former contractor who became a commissioned officer in 2007, has signed up with Orly Taitz’s crackpot quest for

The Justice Department on Thursday again delayed disclosure of three critical legal memos written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the Justice Department’s

Leadership in the U.S.

LONGMONT– The right and left protesters and counter-protesters gathered here off a sprawling suburban four-lane road and around a wall-less field house at the Boulder County Fairgrounds agreed on at least two things: that the group hosting the gathering, Americans for Prosperity , is suffering an image problem and that government subsidies to oil and gas companies have got to end.

Reports that the Obama administration will appoint the assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Bush administration, Daniel Fried, as a

Just released from Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council: “National Security Advisor General James Jones is pleased to announce an

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had threatened to file a federal lawsuit if Democrats deemed the health care reform bill passed. In the end, of course,

Eric Holder has taken heat from the right, but the attorney general hopeful may face tough questions from the left during confirmation hearings on Thursday.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she has to live ... every day with her vote for the Iraq war, which was based on the dead wrong National Intelligence