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Following the horrific explosion at a West Virginia coal mine Monday, a strange thing has happened on Capitol Hill: Everyone seems to be treating the disaster

So called Alt-a or liar loans that allowed buyers to skip downpaymets are tumbling and expected to get worse. Maybe there isn’t much sympathy for a

A finding that the Second Amendment protects individuals’ right to own a gun could also provide more solid ground for recognition of the right to abortion, to sexual privacy, to gay marriage, and to a wide variety of other rights that conservative justices on the court and “originalist” Constitutional scholars have long opposed.

The November elections, animated. A Georgia politician thinks Minnesota might be psychotic. More Democrats come out against the mosque near Ground

Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as

The trial begins for Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner. JetBlue’s angry flight attendant finds fame. Colorado Republicans don’t like their options in today’s

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, one of a handful of national anti-gay groups that lead the effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices , wrote on his blog Thursday that not only did the country’s founders not intend for the First Amendment to protect Islam, but Muslims do not have a constitutional right to build mosques in the United States. “Islam has no fundamental First Amendment claims, for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the religion of Islam.

Following up on earlier reports that the White House this week will announce new national standards for vehicle fuel efficiency, The New York Times is reporting

The electricity-less cruise finally makes it back to shore (and smells). Nancy Pelosi demands perfection from Obama. The Tea Party helps Bristol Palin

Is the administration getting its money’s worth from the health care industry? Palin’s popularity remains unscathed by her recent resignation (at least among

An anonymously sourced Fox News story claiming the defunct voter mobilization organization ACORN is behind the Occupy Wall Street movement has served as a

The statements are dribbling in slowly, but the common verdict from members of Congress surrounding the economic team put together by President-elect Barack

Yes, this is still happening. Take it away, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin: For the first time in all my years of service to our great nation, and at great peril to my

Michigan state representative doesn’t want any part of health reform plans. Obama to talk health care on conservative radio. Blackwater was in the

Conservatives in Utah signed a pact last week promising to push for a moderate approach to immigration reform as a state lawmaker works on an Arizona-style

Facing criticism that the administration has given BP too much control over the response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama asserted that

From a Washington Post breaking news alert: President Obama will oppose the release of several dozen photos depicting abuse of detainees held in U.S. military

With a U.S. District Court slated to rule today on the Susan B. Anthony List’s lawsuit over an Ohio law outlawing false claims in campaign ads, tensions are

Sunday’s inaugural same-sex marriages in New York were met by thousands of protesters blasting the New York Legislature’s passage of the Marriage Equality

Kathleen O’Dell reports on a town hall meeting held by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) with some choice hecklers: t was the next question from a Rogersville man

A group of local pastors and the Lansing branch of the NAACP held a press conference today inside a Lansing courthouse to raise some serious questions about the fatal shooting of a 17 year-old girl in March by a Lansing police officer. The shooting took place in the early morning hours of March 14th at a South Lansing Bank of America