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The Republican Study Committee just blasted out a release attacking the Democrats’ health care reforms for forcing Boeing, among other large corporations, to

Colorado U.S. Representative Diana DeGette on Thursday sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Cliff Stearns urging him to invite Brian Harrison, president and CEO of Solyndra, to testify before an investigative subcommittee of which she is a ranking member.

Among other things in the Homeland Security appropriations bill President Obama signed into law yesterday is a provision that authorizes the Defense Department

Experts say long-term unemployment is dangerous because it can have a snowball effect.

A conference call with senior administration officials previewed the major themes in tonight’s presidential announcement of a refined Afghanistan-Pakistan

Max Blumenthal analyzes the post-Senate record of the potential dark horse 2012 Republican presidential hopeful, noting (accurately) that Santorum’s sinecure at

Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford ruled today that the process by which the Florida Legislature pushed through a plan to privatize prisons in 18 counties was unconstitutional, writing that the Department of Corrections “proceeded without statutory authority and contrary to statutory authority” by implementing the plan. The lawsuit was filed by the Police Benevolent Association, a union that represents corrections officers and prison guards. The Florida Independent’s Travis Pillow outlined the argument behind the union’s lawsuit last month: The union has long questioned the financial benefits of privatization and the calculus behind the 7 percent savings mandated by Florida statutes.

The officers’ involvement signals the debate has moved past a rigid choice between expansive counterinsurgency missions and narrowly tailored efforts to find and kill terrorists.

The U.S. Census Bureau released a report today that finds income declined and poverty rose in the United States from 2009 to 2010. According to the “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010″ (.pdf) report: Real median household income in the United States in 2010 was $49,445, a 2.3 percent decline from the 2009 median.

Here’s another interesting tidbit from The Wall Street Journal: The Obama Administration is expected to unveil new incentives today to encourage servicers to

A new ad hits Lou Dobbs for flirting with birtherism. Corporate PACs have an outsize influence among small-state senators. Want to pass health care

A Boulder-based conservation group is pushing for much stronger language in a draft rule by the state of Colorado requiring oil and gas companies to disclose chemicals used in the controversial drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Western Resource Advocates (WRA) officials said on Wednesday that the new rule contains “a significant loophole” that would allow companies to withhold information by claiming an exemption for chemicals they consider trade secrets. A natural gas rig at the entrance to Battlement Mesa in Garfield County on Colorado’s Western Slope (David O.

In a recent radio interview, Mississippi Lt. Gov. (and gubernatorial candidate) Phil Bryant said that he wholeheartedly supports the fetal personhood movement

Today, the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate fell in 34 states from March to April, did not change in 10 states and rose in six. That

The sun rose today and its gravitational force kept the planet twisting around it through the void, so naturally Fred and Kim Kagan, the neoconservative wing of

Having lost his strongest (theoretical) 2010 GOP Senate primary opponent, former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey blasts out a statement about former

When the question arises of whether Texas’ imminent voter ID law will pass U.S. Department of Justice muster, GOP lawmakers routinely point to the existing law

On Monday, just hours after Vice President Dick Cheney announced from Baghdad that the war in Iraq has been a successful endeavor, 10 Democrats vying for

If you watch local TV news in different cities around the country, and we’re not suggesting you do so, you see that a small number of stations have political beat reporters, but most do not. Why? “Most stations where politics is a beat with a dedicated reporter happen to be in places where politics is part of the culture,” says Deborah Potter, who writes about television news for the American Journalism Rewiew

Local government officials are asking the governor not to sign a new bill that blocks communities from restricting the areas where mines can be placed. The bill, which cleared the Legislature in just two weeks at the end of the session, amends the Michigan Zoning Act to block zoning ordinances that prevent the extraction of natural resources if someone could make a profit by extracting them unless “very serious consequences” would result. The measure would overturn a 2010 Michigan Supreme Court decision that held that Leelanau County’s Kasson township may restrict gravel mining through zoning

Clovis High School may end all non-curricular clubs rather than allow a gay-straight alliance to form at the eastern New Mexico high school, the American Civil Liberties Union in New Mexico claims. The school superintendent told the Albuquerque Journal that a vote Tuesday night on whether to disband all non-curricular clubs is unrelated to an attempt to form a gay-straight alliance at the school.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney plans to forgo the Ames Straw Poll, a political event and Iowa GOP fundraiser that has been previously used to measure grassroots candidate support. During the 2008 presidential contests, the Romney campaign spent in excess of $1 million to claim straw poll victory