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When Texas representatives voted to move $7.3 million into the state’s Alternatives to Abortion Services Program from family planning services, they shifted

Another thing Roger Villere, chairman of the Louisiana GOP, said was that Republican National Committee chairman candidate Ken Blackwell would bring his

It may be a bad time to be endorsed by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC. The group is once again being accused of ties to white supremacist groups

Feeling bored on a quiet Friday? Well, staffers in the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) have created an interactive timeline highlighting

Senate Republicans pledged on Tuesday not to request earmarks in the next two years. But some, including the party’s Senate leader, were wary and left the door open to other ways to fund their pet projects.

One of the many unanswered questions about the current financial crisis is why there haven’t been more criminal investigations into what happened, including the

Unemployment falls to 10 percent, but don’t get too excited -- the White House won’t. And the RNC takes a glass-half-empty view. Harry Reid’s approval

Over the past five years, evaluators have found violations at state-funded subcontractors for Texas’ Alternatives to Abortion Services Program, which reimburses

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR MI) has written a letter to the U.S.

Following up on Chris Steller’s elucidation of the Senate recount in Minnesota that’s left most pundits scratching their heads, several new reports show Al

There was some buzz last year about Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe receiving some sort of honor at CPAC as a show of gratitude for the ACORN

Yet another anti-choice measure was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. The amendment, offered by Rep

Commenter Decora points to some references to diapering in the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel memoranda on torture. What’s striking is how the CIA describes the

<p>The Kansas power company Sunflower Electric is offering Kansas State University $2.5 million for energy research for 10 years to get support for two

The House voted to extend the Patriot Act, the same legislation many Democrats opposed during the Bush administration. Read about the changes taxpayers

Only about 100 or so oil spill claims had been denied as of the end of September. Given recent comments by oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg about

Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is well known on Capitol Hill for his harsh criticisms of anything

The American public thinks most of the stimulus money’s been wasted; leading economists disagree. Beau Biden’s decision not to run hands his father’s old

St. Paul Cathedral. Source: Wikipedia Archbishop John Nienstedt sent a letter to every priest in the state at the start of October urging them to put every Catholic church in Minnesota tow work passing a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage

Remember many things, but especially the Marines fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Here’s a progress report emailed out at 4 p.m. Friday local time/9

A beef with McChrystal may have led Eikenberry to leak his own cables. Are Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry behind his block of an Obama EPA

I don’t know if I believe this, but The Guardian is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama might put out feelers for direct U.S. talks with Hamas. The