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Warren Meyer, who runs the website climate-skeptic.com, said younger generations are drawn to “the ‘civilization in peril’ line,” and Anthony Watts of the site Watts Up With That blames the liberal education process.

Today, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate majority leader, sent out a statement blasting a Republican plan to keep all the Bush tax cuts, adding an estimated

I noted last week that the push by some Republicans — including, now, Gov. Tim Pawlenty — to review and possibly alter the 14th Amendment to the

A faction of Baltimore church leaders supportive of the Democratic Party, backed by Maryland House Del. Emmett C. Burns, Jr. (D-Baltimore County), have formed a

The American people have a right to know what the true value of the assets they now own are, said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

In a new chapter of the often topsy-turvy story of the Tea Party era, Colorado Democratic US Rep Diana DeGette this week finds herself championing local government rights against Republican efforts to expand federal power. DeGette on Wednesday urged House and Senate appropriations committees staffers to reject legislative stipulations that aim to prohibit the District of Columbia government from using local tax dollars to pay for abortions as part of its employee insurance policies. “Not only would this proposed language undermine the self-governing rights of the people of the District of Columbia, it would deny low-income women access to basic, constitutionally protected, medical services,” DeGette, co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said in a release.

Last week, the North Carolina Independent News reported on the state’s Racial Justice Act -- which allows death row inmates to appeal their sentences if they

A Saginaw County judge ruled this week that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision means that property owners in the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawasee floodplain cannot sue Dow Chemical for damages in a class action. Operations at Dow’s Midland plant have spread dioxin — a highly toxic and cancer-causing byproduct of the chemical manufacturing process — and other chemicals, through the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers and into Lake Huron .

The Afghan police force is, by and large, a corrupt institution that performs the Taliban’s work for it. And yet it’s part of everyone’s plan -- from Gen.

Either it was very timely or very untimely. This afternoon, we ran a story on a controversial provision in the Senate stimulus bill providing a $15,000 tax

Secure Communities, a federal immigration enforcement program, is once again at the center of a debate, this time about the possibility that local law enforcement should be able to opt out of the program. # According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the program allows local law enforcement agencies to compare the fingerprints of every person arrested and booked with FBI criminal history records and Department of Homeland Security immigration records. But critics of the program point to data from Immigration and Customs enforcement, which they say shows that Secure Communities leads to the detention and deportation of people who are not criminals

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- The Republican National Committee is running a radio ad in New York’s 23rd Congressional District telling voters that their choice in this

Gov. Susana Martinez announced Monday that she will call the Legislature back to work beginning on September 6, six days earlier than the Legislative Council wanted. Redistricting will be on the agenda

That was fast: The Obama administration told Citigroup to get rid of its $50 million jet, just one day after reports about the expenditure made their way into

Another Facebook endorsement from Palin, another race turned on its head. This time it’s the Republican primary race for governor in Georgia, where state

According to The News Service of Florida , Florida health officials have “less than three months” to develop a detailed Medicaid-overhaul plan to sell to the Obama administration. But whether or not the federal government will give Florida a go-ahead with its proposed overhaul is unclear, due to certain provisions that “conflict with basic federal laws.” Among these conflicts is a provision that allows Medicaid providers to opt-out of providing family planning services on “moral or religious grounds.” # The Medicaid reform bill recently passed by state legislators is only an outline of what will be proposed to the feds. Currently, agencies such as the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) are developing concrete proposals to show the federal government

Elana Schor at Talking Points Memo has a great inauguration interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She asked him about TWI’s story last week revealing that

I didn’t see today’s State Department presser, but Ben Smith did, and he passes on word that spokesman Ian Kelly would not confirm or deny today’s Ha’aretz

That’s the question being asked by some government watchdogs in the wake of Rep. Charlie Rangel’s admonishment by the House Ethics Committee yesterday. The

Speaker of the Iowa House Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) stood by House Republicans’ budget proposals Tuesday, after Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) announced they would get the public involved to break the budget battle gridlock , claiming the Republicans “are not listening.” “Democrats want to talk about stalemates and impasses, but I’m not using those words,” Paulsen told The Iowa Independent. “The concern here is, the House Republicans had already put together a thoughtful and reasonable budget.