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A sex education curriculum rife with factual flaws and medical inaccuracies continues to be taught to the state’s middle and high school students in at least

Last week, lawyers for Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Kurt Browning responded to the case brought in federal court with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union , which seeks to block implementation of a sweeping set of changes to state elections laws. # The state’s lawyers argue the judge should not block the implementation of the law, and that the case should be dismissed, because, among other things: # The state has already submitted the changes in House Bill 1355 to the U.S

Actually, the direct quote is much more colorful. During a riveting news conference on the federal corruption charges being brought against Illinois Gov. Rod

Compassionate conservatism at work. One wonders if George W. Bush’s presidential library will feature an interactive waterboarding exhibit.

While Sen. John McCain is busy bolstering his friend-of-the-military image in the Middle East this week, Democratic Sen. Jim Webb (Va.) is calling on the GOP

Opponents could take up to 30 hours of precious floor time debating her nomination while Congress debates key legislation on health care, climate change and the economy.

The Los Angeles Times has a great story this morning on the natural gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno last week, killing at least four people and

In his first public comment on TransCanada’s plan to build a new pipeline to move tar sands oil from Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) criticized the project as unwise. The Washington Post reports that in an Oct.

A public hearing on legislation that would alter collective bargaining rights for Iowa’s public employees, and a rally to protest the bill, will be broadcast live online by the state Senate Democrats. The event will be livestreamed at www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats starting at 4 p.m. At 5 p.m., Democratic staff will livestream a pro-labor union rally on the first floor of the rotunda, and will switch to the hearing at 6 p.m

The U.S. Marshals have ended a program credited with rounding up 34,000 fugitives in the past five years because the program is not affordable. The Associated Press reports that Project Safe Surrender was started in Ohio in 2005 after a law enforcement officer was shot in the head during a traffic stop

<p>There was lots of enthusiasm at this morning&rsquo;s Blogs For Life meeting&mdash;conveniently scheduled right before the 35th annual March for

<p>Fellow <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/">TPMmuckraker</a> alumnus Justin Rood has an <a title="amazing story"

Jonathan Stray, an energetic blogger, has constructed a social-network chart detailing the connections between the so-called Counterinsurgents. It has some

I just talked with James Bopp, Jr., the Indiana member of the Republican National Committee who’s doing a lot of the legwork to pass the Democrat Socialist

In an insightful column in The New York Times Sunday, Frank Rich attributes Obama’s choice of the Rev. Rick Warren -- the megachurch pastor who has likened gay

Tensions ran high during former Massachusetts Gov.

We’ll know for sure imminently, but McClatchy reports Secretary Bob Gates’ full defense budget may cut purchases of the Marines’s V-22 Osprey aircraft -- a kind

A proposal allowing guns in national parks. That’s right. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pushing a provision to overturn the Obama administration’s dismissal

My pal Marc Lynch helped advise the Obama campaign on foreign policy as part of the oft-mocked Gang of 300. (The campaign had a lot of advisers. Get it?) Alas,

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has been a champion in the post-9/11 era of the need to balance tough national security measures against concerns for civil liberties and privacy protections