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The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER ENSURING

Peter Baker’s news analysis of the tax payment problems of some Obama nominees is deeply strange. The premise is right—the Democrats look bad after a week of

As if there weren’t enough already to worry about during this credit crisis, now there’s a possible surge of bank failures ahead. So far this year, three

Media Matters has done yeoman’s work debunking the myth of a New England Journal of Medicine study that allegedly found 46 percent of physicians ready to

In a search for film distributors, two independent anti-abortion-themed thrillers are hoping to make it to the big screen before next fall’s legislative

Now that primary season is over, Politico is reporting that environmentalists are hopeful Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might return to the fold. After backing

Something that yesterday’s look at the NATO/Afghan process to secure Kandahar overlooked is that one of the reasons U.S. officials have taken pains to say

Drone attacks in Pakistan provide context for a still-secret CIA program.

This is going to be tough to dig out from under: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is admitting more encounters with his Argentine mistress than he previously

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted Friday that education is at the core of all efforts to promote economic development in rural America, echoing a theme that has appeared numerous times in reports by The Iowa Independent staff. “A well educated work force is critical to a thriving business — to developing new ways of producing goods and providing services.

With profits soaring for hard-rock mining and oil and gas companies doing business on public lands, U.S.

It’s been a low-level foreign policy gaffe swirling around the conservative blogosphere for the past couple of days. I’ll let Anthony G. Martin tell it: We

For weeks, the presidential and vice presidential candidates have been pounding the Wall Street vs. Main Street trope into our heads. Now, the good people at

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico--Sitting in a downtown public library here I began to blog about how the presumed Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, seemed

Back in January, I reported that Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze (R), whose party had just won control of the legislature, was pushing legislation that would

In a letter sent to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Democrats expressed their concerns with anti-environmental policy “riders” in the forthcoming continuing resolution that would fund the government for the remainder of 2011.

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The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has backed the Obama Administration in its case against SB 1070, the controversial immigration legislation passed by Arizona lawmakers last year. A three-judge panel ruled Monday that Arizona District Judge Susan Bolton “did not abuse her discretion,” as the Washington Post put it, when she blocked key provisions of the bill.

Don Blankenship -- the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week -- just