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The GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility pink-slipped its workers this week after the state of California decided not to renew a contract to house inmates there. The Baldwin facility, Michigan’s only private prison, originally operated as a maximum security youth prison but sat dormant for six years before reopening in May with a plan to house more than 2,500 California inmates.

According to new numbers from Gallup, more than four in ten Americans describe themselves as conservative, significantly more than the 35 percent who describe

The Republican-led state Legislature ended its session last night by passing a highly controversial package of reforms that reduce job security for teachers. The Detroit Free Press reports that the bills will: • Extend from four years to five the time it takes a new teacher to earn tenure protection. • Bar districts from using seniority as a primary factor when laying off teachers

Westminster, Colo. -- Sen. Barack Obama gave another detailed economic address on Monday afternoon, but it was mostly beside the point. He ticked through his

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A youthful-looking woman in a gray suit with long brown hair is known only to us as Interrogator Number 11. She was a military interrogator at

Brian Maloney writes at the Radio Equalizer that conservative Boston talk show hosts have been yanked and banned today. He writes of WTKK-FM host Michael

Florida state Senate President Mike Haridopolos announced in December his bid for U.S. Senate in 2012, becoming the first Republican opponent to Democratic U.S.

CARROLL — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann , taking a rhetorical cue from one her political heroes, Ronald Reagan, elicited some of the strongest response from a Carroll audience Sunday when she asked, “Are you better off today than you were two years ago?” U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus appeared before voters in Carroll, but avoided all audience and local media questions.

After I wrote my earlier posts about how the National Rifle Association opposes the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and explaining the

Blogging at Naked Capitalism, Edward Harrison provides a persuasive argument for why retail sales and consumption are increasing, despite persistent joblessness

The party increased margins in both the House and Senate on Nov. 4. But many gains came in conservative-leaning districts, where a preference for a balanced budget could frustrate congressional leaders’ ambitious spending plans. Republicans, meanwhile, vow to unite to thwart Democratic goals. And President-elect Obama may have ideas of his own.

Frank Bruni reports a new fact in the Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) origin story. How and why did he acquire his famous truck, as he calls it? As Arianna, the

TOLEDO, Ohio -- The Sarah Palin Introductory Tour continued through the weekend with stops at a pair of independent-league ballparks in Washington, Pa., a

After a former immigration detention guard was charged yesterday with sexually abusing female detainees, the ACLU is renewing calls for further reform of the

For many conservative activists, the RNC’s lavish spending only accelerated the revolt against the committee that had been brewing for months.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is giving a speech right now at the University of Louisville about nuclear security. Its overall purpose is to build

The #TCOT Report homepage is currently given over to a huge picture of me and this charge, which I’ll just reprint below: Meme Wars: Transparency Dodger

The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of the nation’s pipeline system released for public comment earlier this week a proposal to overhaul

Jacob Laksin has a lengthy take-out on the muckraking right, the conservative bloggers and videographers who’ve been able to, occasionally, blow past the

It’s been a bad week for the markets and Sen. John McCain. Now, after several days of attacks on McCain’s economic policies and overall competence, the Obama