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Nice catch by Andrea Nill -- Queen’s Medical Center, where Rush Limbaugh is being treated after experiencing chest pains yesterday, happens to be a crucial

The Lowe’s logo (Pic via melissabargains.com ) In response to the company’s recent decision to pull ads from the TLC reality series All-American Muslim , Detroit-area faith leaders will hold a demonstration outside a Michigan branch of home improvement chain Lowe’s on Saturday. Lowe’s pulled its advertising from the show after the Florida Family Association complained that it depicted American Muslims “as ordinary folks just like you and me.” The group said the show is nothing more than “propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law.” At least 60 companies have acceded to the group’s demands, but Lowe’s has born the brunt of most of the scrutiny — likely because of a public comment issued shortly after the ad pulls were announced.

Arlen Specter has a strange concept of hypocrisy. What’s the deal with the new General Motors? Bachmann’s new nemesis: bike paths. The New York Times

Pontiac City Council members say that the city’s Emergency Manager, Michael Stampfler, is trying to intimidate them and control their speech.

Hoping to prevent the election-coverage debacle that marred the 2000 presidential race, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is urging the major television networks to

At the beginning of 2011 the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture began the congressional session by questioning agriculture officials on the government’s role in regulation of biotechnology. The Committee seems poised now to take their questions a step further, and have scheduled a Thursday hearing to “review the causes and consequences of government over-regulation of agriculture biotechnology.” (Editor’s Note: At 5 p.m

The American Independent has previously reported on declining American cities and rising income inequality since 1979. Now, the Atlantic Monthly combines income

DAYTON, Ohio -- Sen. Barack Obama is speaking exclusively to small crowds on his current tour through the Midwest, but during most nights this week, his

Unemployment rate continues to rise. Detroit morgues fill up as recession continues. JumpStart works with subprime lender CompuCredit. Texas judge

Despite attempts by the federal government to delegitimize WikiLeaks, a new review from The Atlantic indicates that the whistleblowing organization has a great

After challenging businesses across the country to submit some of their biggest regulatory gripes, Rep.

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way. Meaning: extend the traveling distance into which Mexican nationals can penetrate New Mexico, so that they can bring their cash to cities like Las Cruces, Lordsburg, and Deming.

To keep the markets from melting down today in the wake of the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy filing and the sale of Merrill Lynch, ten of the world’s largest banks

The push to slash billions of dollars for private insurers who cover Medicare patients has been met by relative silence, even from the program’s supporters.

PBS’s Tehran Bureau interviews the son of Green leader Mehdi Kerroubi: 10:00 am EST: Tehran Bureau interview with Hossein Karroubi, opposition leader Mehdi

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