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Remember Michael D. Furlong, the Pentagon official under investigation for allegedly using a government information program to launder money for an

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s nomination to become secretary of state has cleared its most important hurdle. This morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Congressman Jared Polis and drug-policy reform advocate Ethan Nadelmann argued Wednesday night in Vail that one of the most compelling reasons to legalize marijuana in the United States is to eliminate a major funding source for deadly Mexican drug cartels. Both Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and recently retired DEA agent Anthony Coulson sharply disagreed. Polis, Suthers (Williams photo)

Findings released by a left-leaning think tank today demonstrate minority students will soon out-number whites, but a dearth of minority instructors is holding

Here’s one more interesting tidbit from the claims process statistics released yesterday by Kenneth Feinberg’s Gulf Coast Claims Facility. More than 1,300

Michael Steele became chairman of the RNC on a 91-77 vote on the fifth ballot, having picked up 12 of Saul Anuzis’s 20 votes. I’m at a press conference now,

From Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks today with the prime minister of Qatar: Among the matters that we consulted on, the situation in Yemen

The labor market appears to be stabilizing. An insurance industry group is distributing anti-public option talking points. Sotomayor will be confirmed

There is a new buzz in the roadless debate. Charlie Berger, owner of Denver Beer Co., this week called on Congress to strengthen protections of public lands in light of the U.S. Forest Service’s deliberation of a new state-specific proposal to manage forests and attempts by Republican lawmakers to roll back wilderness and roadless area protections

At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the Tea Party movement could help Republicans from moving too far to the

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Legislators consider defining foreign in campaign finance law. Starting next month, a government program will help underwater homeowners via short

NASHVILLE -- WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it

Rush Limbaugh will play himself on this weekend’s Family Guy. Newt Gingrich’s group spends $2.2 million on chauffeurs and private flights. Rahm Emanuel

The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club is the latest statewide group to come out against a 2012 ballot question that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The influential lobby for the environment said Friday that it was jumping into the same-sex marriage debate because of its commitment to social justice. “To achieve our mission of environmental protection and a sustainable future for our planet, we must attain social justice and human rights at home and around the globe,” said Margaret Levin, the state director of the Sierra Club North Star Chapter

Recent changes to the state’s unemployment compensation system will impose new requirements on people seeking benefits, which will in turn lead to fewer benefit payments by the state . # The Ocala-Start Banner offers a look at what these changes mean for people who are out of work: # Melanie Sellers didn’t receive her $198 unemployment compensation payment last week. # Sellers, who lost her job as a scanner technician at the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in the spring after a 20-year career, was denied a week of her jobless benefits because she could not show she had tried to contact at least five potential employers during the qualification period.

Former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota (Pic by Meredith Hill, via myfloridahouse.gov) Former state Rep.

Earlier today, we reported that Merck, the manufacturer of the human papillomavirus vaccine that Gov. Rick Perry attempted to mandate for Texas girls in 2007,

There are petty political battles happening in the Gem State. The Idaho House Wednesday voted down a bill that amends an existing law related to early

Fifteen years after the United States first instituted Operation Gatekeeper to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border with more agents, walls and fences, the