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Evangelical college Liberty University is the largest recipient of federal aid to a student body in Virginia and the eighth largest recipient in the country

A little-noticed bill by Rep. Tim Walz is gaining national attention this week after CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an expose on insider training by members of Congress. Walz, along with Rep.

Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio) filed as an independent congressional candidate today in his old House district, but may file to run in a neighboring

The Mosaic logo (Pic via pimpmytrade.com) Gov.

As The Minnesota Independent previously reported, ABC News recently released an undercover video of Bachmann & Associates, a Christian counseling clinic run

Here’s one way to eliminate conflicts of interest. The Obama administration has in mind to carve up the Minerals Management Service, a branch of the Interior

Conservative media personality and editor of the blog RedState Erick Erickson wants his readers to send Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a toy

The perennial presidential candidate blogs that his quest to overturn the results of the 2008 election -- which he surely would have won had Barack Obama had to

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings will start June 28. McCain still leads former Rep. J. D. Hayworth in the latest poll of Arizona’s

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (Pic by World Economic Forum, via Flickr) The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance will hold hearings today to consider bills to implement three free trade agreements, including the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, mired in controversy since its proposal under the Bush administration

An ugly video of Tea Party protesters, gathered outside the office of Rep. Mary Joe Kilroy (D-Ohio), mocking a pro-health care reform protester -- who sits

About sixty percent of donations to Sarah Palin’s PAC went to consultants instead of candidates or campaigns. Democrats can’t find a GOP co-sponsor for

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

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

Lynne Torgerson launched her second campaign against Rep. Keith Ellison on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend at her home in Golden Valley, calling for a return to “Judeo-Christian values” and labeling Ellison as a “radical Islamist” who wants to do away with the U.S. Constitution.

A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5

Bailout Nation turns to consumers today, as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson prepares to announce a new program to encourage lending for auto loans, student

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.

While President Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review gets underway in earnest, several Afghan ministers are on their way to Washington for meetings with

Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration has ignored its own internal regulation and stopped requiring manufacturers of medical devices – such as