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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Women’s issues may not be high on the list of Sen. John McCain’s priorities, as we saw this week when he squirmed as a reporter asked about

The massive oil spill last summer that contaminated dozens of miles of the Kalamazoo river with crude oil, has resulted in U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St.

Multiple groups are calling for a boycott of the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Phoenix, Ariz., on July 12 in protest of the immigration law SB 1070.

So, keeping up on the Pakistani military’s offensive against the Taliban, there’s this: The government claimed 700 insurgents had died and the Taliban were on

The title of Sen. John McCain’s newest campaign ad, "Love" -- which opens with scenes from the summer of the same name -- may make you think he’s gone

The Senate just voted 70 - 29 for cloture, meaning the nomination of David Hamilton to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will receive an up-or-down

The United States has reached an agreement with the Motors Liquidation Co -- the part of General Motors that split off during bankruptcy and holds the company’s

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It’s hard to know whether this is good news or bad, but theoretically, at least, it could have been worse. The Obama administration said on Wednesday that it

<p>Sen. John McCain is <a href="http://www.coloradoconfidential.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3616">drilling</a> for oil and gas money at

A week before the midterm elections, the Sierra Club today released an advertisement touting Rep. Tom Perriello’s (D-Va.) record on clean energy and attempting

I spent a few minutes talking with Maggie Gallagher, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, after she gave a rip-roaring introduction for

Late last year, as Democrats were considering climate change bills and the Obama administration was mulling new regulations to rein in mountaintop removal coal

The NARAL Pro-Choice America logo (Pic via naral.org ) This week, rumblings on the Internet that Siri, Apple’s new iPhone voice software, is “anti-choice,” have garnered the attention of political advocacy groups on both sides of the abortion debate. Reproductive rights bloggers, such as the Abortioneers , noticed recently that Siri was unable to help women who are seeking abortions, emergency contraception and birth control, among other things.

A pair of campaign finance complaints against the National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council were dismissed by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Wednesday. Common Cause Minnesota had filed the complaints alleging that advertising by the two groups on an anti-gay marriage amendment in 2010 constituted lobbying. The board ruled that the ads were too vague to trigger the registration requirement for lobbyists