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More from that PPP poll: That high number of North Carolinians who say Obama wasn’t born in the United States is largely built on white voters. Thirty percent

I spent a good deal of time today at the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire drive, an annual event where immigration

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A day after the Senate approved sweeping financial reform legislation, White House senior adviser David Axelrod affirmed that President Obama is considering

Now that the veil has been lifted, here are a few of the important numbers surrounding the Senate’s health reform bill, courtesy of the Congressional Budget

A day after oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg told Floridians he would be releasing his standards for determining who is eligible for claims, new state Chief Financial Office Jeff Atwater sent him a letter asking to weigh in on those standards as they’re being developed.

The full statement, just issued by the owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine: Massey has no knowledge of criminal wrongdoing. It is not uncommon that an

Counties across Colorado are gearing up for the next major oil and gas boom, scrambling to draft local regulations for everything from visual impacts to physical setbacks of drilling equipment. But state officials are increasingly flexing their regulatory muscles, and industry representatives fear more local regs will slow the next boom before it’s in full swing

Another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The New York Times reports that the rig is just east of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded in

As former Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) could tell you, a challenge in your own district is a heck of a thing to deal with while you’re running the NRCC.

<p>Republican campaign strategists aching for the chance to link Barack Obama to Tony Rezko, the controversial Chicago political operator now on trial for

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the announcement made by American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS -- the sister groups that Republican strategists Karl Rove and

The campaign chairman for presidential candidate Ron Paul Tuesday morning was investigating a link between anti-library recorded robocalls bombarding homes and cellphones in Carroll. The calls urge residents to vote against a new library today to send a message to the Carroll City Council for a decision last winter prohibiting firearms on public property.

It comes from VetVoice’s Brandon Friedman, though I seriously considered stealing it. Pakistan, Friedman says, is the AIG of International Affairs. It’s

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Few people focus more on the signature weapon of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- the improvised explosive device, or IED -- than Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, who

In his first interview since being appointed to lead the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, Herschel Vinyard spoke with The Florida Current about some of Florida’s more controversial proposals, including a stricter set of water pollution standards and a plan that would privatize portions of some Florida state parks.