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Tea Party Nation, the group that sponsored the National Tea Party Convention and announced a clear stance against third parties, is helping the effort to

The Republican Party of New Mexico’s suit filing in federal court last Friday to challenge to the state’s Limits Law, a campaign finance law passed in 2009, is poised for a fight. Some who previously supported the law are now joining to dismantle it.

Conservative groups may still be dominating the outside spending game overall, but it turns out that in the last couple weeks, liberal ones have been competing

When it comes to the super PAC game, the Federal Election Commission sent clear signals Thursday morning: Stephen Colbert can play, but elected officials should refrain. Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report,” told supporters via his show, Twitter and Facebook in May that he and attorney Trevor Potter, a former FEC chairman, were asking the FEC to provide an advisory opinion regarding the creation of a Colbert Super PAC. “The American Dream is simple — that anyone, no matter who they are, if they are determined, if they are willing to work hard enough, someday will grow up to create a legal entity that will then receive unlimited corporate funds which can be used to influence our elections,” Colbert said previously.

Eliminating a political headache for Republicans in next year’s mid-term elections, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) announced today that he’ll retire at the end of

Following a meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, said in a press release that the federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has “taken the broad authority irresponsibly ceded to them by Congress, and run wild with it.” Ross also said that the agency “must realize that moms and dads cannot afford thousands more in power bills or plummeting home values.” According to his press release, Ross’ conversation with Jackson centered mostly on the federally mandated numeric nutrient criteria and the future of radiation flyovers. The nutrient criteria were mandated by the EPA after a lawsuit brought by several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the St

Gov. Terry Branstad indicated he wants to be a “good host” during the 2012 GOP presidential contest and, therefore, is unlikely to endorse a candidate in the lead-up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses. “I have not ruled out the possibility, but I think it’s probably still unlikely that I’m going to endorse,” Branstad told Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics .

Reid Wilson breaks the news: Allison Meyers, director of the RNC’s Young Eagles program, was terminated yesterday after reports that the RNC reimbursed a

CNN is reporting that a Western source close to the Afghan leadership is saying talks for next week’s runoff election between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah

GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman (Pic by calon, via Flickr) Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will meet former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich at a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate next Monday, focusing on foreign policy and national security. Gingrich recently made a slew of appearances in Florida, appearing at a town hall meeting at Jacksonville Landing

The Orlando Sentinel is calling on Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) to withdraw his bill (now co-sponsored by 10 other House Republicans) demanding proof of citizenship

As the IRS continues to expand audits demanding millions of dollars in back taxes from medical marijuana dispensaries across California, many dispensaries are

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials will issue new documents for naturalized citizens beginning today to help prevent fraud. The agency has

<p>One of the principle architects of the Rumsfeld Pentagon’s torture apparatus, Defense Department General Counsel William Haynes, is <a

The day after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upheld the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include contraception in its list of

Obama unveils a new Darfur strategy, but human rights groups aren’t satisfied. The man who sent an Obama death threat had already been warned by the

Several Romulus police officers, including the former police chief and his wife, were charged with using funds seized under the state’s drug asset forfeiture laws to for a wide range of illegal and illicit activities. The Detroit News reports : The former Romulus police chief, his wife and five Romulus officers were charged today with running a scheme in which drug forfeiture money was used to pay for prostitutes, marijuana and alcohol. The charges are the culmination of a nearly three-year investigation by Michigan State Police into what Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy called “a culture of corruption and greed at its core.” … Worthy said the former chief directed a team of detectives from the Romulus Police Department’s Special Investigation Unit that investigated alleged liquor violations, narcotics trafficking and prostitution at the Landing Strip bar in Romulus and Subi’s Place in Southgate from January 2010 until January 2011.

Within hours of each other on Tuesday, four anti-abortion news websites posted information on a recently-released Australian report claiming that medical abortions are “ less safe than surgery .” Previous research conducted in the U.S. contradicts the survey’s findings

In addition to the major primary runoff in Arkansas’s Senate race and the 10 states holding primaries today, a new member of Congress will be elected tonight in

Earlier this week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) was asked by Charleston’s Post and Courier whether people have a right to health care? I think health care is