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Voter photo identification proposals in 32 states, including Colorado, are the product of a coordinated effort by conservatives to reduce polling place turnout by minority groups, who turned out in unprecedented numbers during the 2008 presidential election, a progressive civil rights organization alleges in a new report .

More bad economic news is out today already, with a jobs report showing unemployment leaping to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent -- much worse than expected. That

It’s fun, I know, to get all concerny about the apparent lack of press briefing transcripts on the new White House website, but if you actually want to get the

A new ABC News poll shows that 45 percent of Americans consider themselves middle class, a significant difference from other polls that find when asked

He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he’s done it: President Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is

TPM caught a poor word choice in Howard Kurtz’s Monday column: The Boston Globe has an interesting piece from Obama’s native country on attempts to cash

The Pentagon general counsel, July 7: Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson suggested to the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the difficulties

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) The House of Representatives’ Office of Congressional Ethics has launched a “preliminary” investigation into Rep. Vern Buchanan, R- Sarasota

Just when you thought the conversation over government spending had moved firmly from the executive branch to the legislative, Christopher Hellman, a military

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A question that intuitively speaks to the voluntariness of Omar Khadr’s statements to interrogators in Bagram (and later Guantanamo) in 2002

One of the points that Defense Secretary Bob Gates emphasized -- arguably, in fact, the key point -- in his Senate testimony last month is the abundant need to

Spending bailout money to lobby for more bailout money might soon become slightly more difficult. Incoming Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to

Last year, Manatee County addressed a significant rise in teen pregnancy in the county by opening up its sex education policy to include a curriculum that moved beyond “abstinence-only” information.

In a move that’s sure to dismay some of President Obama’s faithful, the new administration today stood up in a federal appeals court and reiterated the Bush

Sen. Barack Obama is tapping his sizable political cell phone network to help Hurricane Gustav relief. On Monday, he issued a personal plea via text message to

Every city has its own variation of political scandal. In Los Angeles, it’s usually about complicated land grabs and water. Many people view

I first encountered former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) at a 2007 forum on, of all things, the media, at the 2007 Yearly Kos convention. (Starting in 2008, the

The Colorado Division of Wildlife is looking for two, maybe three potential Darwin Award recipients who bought hamburgers and cheeseburgers at the Burger King in Eagle on Wednesday and hand fed them to a mother black bear and her three cubs. “This is an extraordinary example of stupid and irresponsible behavior by people,” said CDOW northwest regional manager Ron Velarde, according to RealVail.com .

July is the bloodiest month for the United States in Afghanistan since the war began almost eight years ago. The entire defense establishment has warned that

Josh Rogin reports that multiple sources are saying Jim Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, is being headhunted for a position running Georgetown

Although some in GOP politics have called her actions “ divisive ,” freshman lawmaker and tea party favorite Kim Pearson is only making good on a promise. Pearson, a Pleasant Hill Republican, taped a segment with faux Democratic presidential candidate and anti-abortion extremist Randall Terry this spring that spelled out her intentions toward the state political party and GOP lawmakers who did not live up to her level of conservatism.