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Protesters remain undaunted by a U.S. State Department decision Friday giving preliminary approval to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline meant to pump tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Demonstrations have been taking place all week in front of the White House and included a “No Tar Sands Caravan” bus tour that stopped in Boulder and Denver earlier in the week

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Human Events gives the title to the former vice president in an op-ed penned by former UN Ambassador-turned-omnipresent critic of the Obama administration John

Via David Corn at Mother Jones, no alarms and no surprises here. Only a fraudulent election upheld by the same clique that put the fix in. Hopes for a

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Reactions to President Obama’s speech to Congress on Wednesday continue to pour in. A Democratic

This nugget from Jake Sherman and Patrick O’Connor’s preview of the House GOP retreat deserves more attention. Boehner has told his rank and file to embrace

State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale (Pic by President’s Office, via flsenate.gov) According to The Miami Herald , state Rep

On Thursday, Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council suggested that one way for the Iranian opposition to keep its resistance to the re-election of

The Texas branch of FreedomWorks has thrust itself into the debate over controversial higher education policies pushed by Gov. Rick Perry and allies. An online

President Obama, in an interview with Rolling Stone published on the web today, said he would push to pass energy legislation next year. While his commitment is

Amid the debate over Sotomayor’s supposedly activist move joining the per curiam opinion in the reverse discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano, there’s

With an emphasis on help for civilians, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) just issued a statement applauding President Obama for

Today, the House Ethics Committee released a number of documents related to the three charges against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), accused of working to

Pontiac Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel’s recent decision to fire the city clerk led the ACLU to warn that today’s election has been jeopardized . The Treasury Dept., which is responsible for overseeing Emergency Mananger, however, says that it is not worried about the election.

You didn’t really think that Al Qaeda’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, could become any more of an asshole, but it turns out that the intellectual architect

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. President Obama gave a speech today in support of health care reform at a General Motors plant in

Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Conservative Republican Forum podcast on Saturday that she was “heartsick” in learning on Friday that the new Republican majority in the U.S. House was powerless to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Alliance for Climate Protection, the environmental advocacy organization founded by Al Gore, says that ABC refused to run its TV spot promoting alternative

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced a little while ago that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation when the Senate Judiciary

A civil rights group is pressing Sen. John McCain to disown the ugliest attack on voting rights in recent history, referencing a Republican scheme to