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Texas governor Rick Perry today became the fourth GOP candidate to sign the National Organization for Marriage’s anti marriage equality pledge. Tonight Perry will host a fundraiser in suburban Denver , with admission said to be $5,000 a pop

Supporters of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) more or less invented the concept of the one-day moneybomb tied to a history event. Two years ago exactly, Paul raised

This is crazy: The U.S. military on Sunday ordered a court-martial for a civilian contractor charged with aggravated assault while working as an Army

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the post of surgeon general to neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, who is better known for his work as a CNN correspondent, The

Democrats’ push to expand entitlement programs is just an attempt to get Americans hooked on federal spending just “like a drug dealer,” former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Monday night at the annual Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition fundraiser

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, who appeared at the Occupy MN protest in Minneapolis over the holiday weekend, advised public officials to respect the autonomy of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

This is one strange way for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to describe a bipartisan approach to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay: The South

For those who thought that snowmobiles in Yellowstone were a bad idea, watch out! The Bush administration proposed new rules today that would allow people to

Government watchdog bloggers - like those at the Sunlight Foundation and Government, Inc. - are in an unusually happy mood this morning as a bill meant to

As expected the American Family Association’s president, Bryan Fischer, delivered a Values Voter Summit speech rife with rhetoric some have called unmitigated

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today announced the support of several Colorado Republican heavyweights including former senators Hank Brown and Wayne Allard, former Governor Bill Owens, former Congressman Bob Beuprez, current Attorney General John Suthers and current Treasurer Walker Stapleton. “I am proud to earn the support of so many well respected Colorado leaders,” Mitt Romney said in a press release. “I look forward to working with them during my campaign to promote job creation, balance our exploding budgets, and reverse President Obama’s failed policies.” Announcing his support, Brown said, “Mitt Romney has the proven record to pull our economy out of this downturn.

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Gov. John Hickenlooper today dismissed the fears of activists and community members concerned that the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing can contaminate groundwater supplies, but he conceded the state should require the industry to disclose chemicals used in the “fracking” process. “Everyone in this room understands that hydraulic fracturing doesn’t connect to groundwater, that it’s almost inconceivable that groundwater will be contaminated,” Hickenlooper said in the opening speech of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) annual meeting in Denver, according to the Denver Business Journal

In reporting yesterday on the fallout from Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposal last week to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the

Among the greatest obstacles to sweeping health care reform this year (or any year) is the question of whether to include a government-sponsored insurance plan

For a different take on the Beitullah Mehsud killing, commenter Abujeeyun has a great series of observations counterbalancing my own. We got into a bit of a

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) An upcoming Water Supply Summit hosted by the Everglades Foundation will include a “Legislative Briefing Breakfast” and a “Capital Lobby Day,” according to information released by the group. The summit will kick off in Tallahassee on Tues., Jan. 17, with a luncheon, and will wrap up the next day with “briefings, meetings, and advocacy to save America’s Everglades.” According to a press release, the event will be attended by top government officials and business leaders and will feature a performance by recording artist Gavin DeGraw

Here is an excerpt from my interview with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process whereby natural gas is