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FreedomWorks has launched a Facebook page for a Sept. 12, 2009 march on Washington -- 9/12 being the date that Glenn Beck is building his anti-whatever and

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A piece in the Pakistan paper the News accused the U.S. military of taking the inexplicable step of abandoning checkposts on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Up until Thursday night it had been a crowded week for the Democratic National Convention. There were too many delegates and reporters jammed into the Pepsi

Credit unions, once considered mom-and-pop operations, made the same risky mistakes as big banks.

He reframes his argument that the Democrats need a new speaker in a Human Events column: Speaker Pelosi has damaged America’s safety. She’s made America

It’s been a good week for Chrysler. The United Auto Workers ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with nearly 55 percent of the vote and the company also announced a third quarter profit of more than $200 million

House Democrats introduced legislation yesterday designed to stem the foreclosure crisis, including a provision empowering bankruptcy judges to alter the terms

Democrats are reacting to today’s jobs report with an optimism that’s also notably guarded. (Despite the 0.3 percent drop in unemployment, House Speaker Nancy

The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board ruled today that corporate donations to groups advocating for or against a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage must be disclosed.

The New York Times has a good article about how 501(c)4 organizations are increasingly being utilized to influence elections by donors who appreciate that they

What was reported a few months ago is now official: Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. commander in Iraq, will head up the Joint Forces Command, pending (a certain)

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made it official Sunday morning during a conference call with his team; the campaign will end following a poor showing at the 2011 Ames Straw Poll. Pawlenty thanked staff members for their work but said that the campaign, which had pinned much of its hopes to Iowa, needed to receive a boost from the straw poll

Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in the special election in New York’s 20th Congressional District, has seized onto the AIG bonus outrage and is upping the

If the Stupak amendment is in there, I would definitely define it as one of most important life votes in more than a decade, said Doug Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

The numbers aren’t all in yet, but it looks like 885,268 people cast ballots in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Illinois, while 736,137 people cast

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was none too happy when House leaders stripped his single-payer provision from their $894 billion health reform proposal. Today,

Under a new decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals made on Thursday, immigrants arrested without a warrant will not be read their rights until they are

You can’t raid the Pentagon that way -- those who built the building thought of this -- but you can kill a lot of commuters, especially shortly before 7 on a

I’m still reading the Office of Legal Counsel documents from 2005 that blessed CIA torture despite a 2004 withdrawal of earlier OLC opinions blessing torture --

Free Speech TV invited The Florida Independent’s Virginia Chamlee on yesterday to discuss her recent feature examining the political clout wielded by Florida’s sugar industry. Watch the segment, hosted by Marcy Miranda, below. Chamlee talks about her piece, which zeroes in on Big Sugar, and about the larger series the story is a part of, which you can find out more about at CampaignCash.org