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Mark Ambinder has a post running under the headline, Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win. He argues: The Minnesota canvassing board doesn’t

The New York Times editorial board slammed the Koch brothers yesterday, arguing they are disastrously wrong about the science and economics behind climate

Doctors that worked in Rick Scott’s health care company say records show Medicare was being charged 100 percent, rather than the mandated 85 percent, for some visits.

The governor of Minnesota, answering a barrage of questions about Sarah Palin from Newsweek, has a politically astute answer to whether Palin has enough

From 2006 to 2010, the state spent $11.7 million on its Texas Alternatives to Abortion Services Program, with nearly $7 million of that finding its way to 33

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While governor, Palin founded a company -- called Pie Spy. The public supports Obama’s Afghanistan dithering. Romney tries to explain away

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is challenging a report by the Washington Examiner’s Kevin Mooney which alleged that the group had

Jonathan Martin writes about the possible, if unlikely, nightmare scenario of cafe owner Tamyra D’Ippolito succeeding in her fringe campaign to get on the

Members of the Republican leadership in the Minnesota Senate have introduced legislation to ban state funding for abortions, just weeks after saying that creating jobs and fixing the budget deficit would be the party’s top priorities.

Mike Konczal, a writer for the Atlantic, makes a very prescient statement on his blog about the difficult time the unemployed have had in getting their interests taken as seriously as the interests of the wealthy and powerful: We just had to bribe the top 3% with massive tax cuts for the next two years in order to keep unemployment insurance extensions in place for another year. Unemployment benefit extension are a net job creator and should have been a no-brainer, but it couldn’t pass without a massive bribe

John Gizzi, the extremely plugged-in political editor of Human Events, has a fun story on the troubles facing Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) after his recent

In making its decision to expand offshore drilling earlier this year (before the massive oil spill in the Gulf), the Obama administration did not work closely

The number-one factor fueling high school dropouts across the country is pregnancy and parenthood, a problem Colorado Congressman Jared Polis hopes to address by reintroducing his Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act . He pitched for the bill Thursday at Denver’s Florence Crittenton High School , a one-of-a-kind facility that provides the kind of “wraparound services” like daycare and counseling that make it possible for young parents to stay in school. Polis says that if the country is going to address the serious social and economic problems that come of dropouts, than providing support for parenting students is the best way to begin.

Rep. Mark Kirk’s (R-Ill.) successful Illinois Senate primary campaign against a truly weak field of GOP candidates is being interpreted as a blow to the Tea

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Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed this week $400 billion in real and necessary budget cuts in federal spending to avoid raising the budget ceiling

The White House calls reports that Rahm Emanuel plans to quit halfway through Obama’s term ludicrous. The Washington Post looks at five governors’ races

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