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Yesterday, I highlighted the dark-horse campaign of Michael E. Arth for governor of Florida, pointing readers to the whimsical bio featured on his website. This

The founder of the influential Fastweb.com and FinAid.org websites wrote a short research paper two weeks ago arguing college minorities receive a

President Obama reiterated his support for the DREAM Act during a meeting this afternoon with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.Y.) and Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and

Former Vice President Al Gore is honored by the blowback he received for blasting climate change deniers with a certain eight-letter epithet during an off-the-cuff speech last month in Colorado . “There’s a long tradition of people who don’t like a particular message turning to attack the person delivering the message,” he said on NPR’s Talk of the Nation .

Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz will comply with Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s order not to send ballots to soldiers out of state who are legally registered Pueblo County voters but who failed to cast ballots in 2010. The news came Friday afternoon in a carefully worded release that came after hours of deliberation. “Pueblo County will honor Secretary Gessler’s order but this is not over,” Ortiz is quoted to say.

Today will be the first in a series of meetings between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and officials in communities that want to opt out of the Secure

Dick Cheney: Another term out there that slipped into the discussion is the notion that American interrogation practices were a “recruitment tool” for the

That’s going to be the focus of this morning’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning with Gen. David Petraeus and Michele Flournoy, the

Just minutes after polls closed, the AP has called the Senate race in Kentucky for Republican Rand Paul, sending Jack Conway to defeat. It’s not an unexpected

With the deadline for filing campaign finance reports this week, Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced that she raised $1 million for next year’s election, matching her chief Republican competitor, Rep

Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher was a late addition to the speaker lineup at the How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St. Louis, but I

Though the Senate is moving to restore Medicaid funding to states and to hand them new money to keep teachers employed, Congress is granting far less than

The president-elect is something new in American politics. In showing unfailing respect for those with competing views, he attempts to produce solutions that will accommodate the defining commitments of his fellow citizens. But he also wants to transform the nation’s self-understanding.

Earlier today, the White House reiterated that it opposes a blanket moratorium on foreclosures, preferring to work with servicers and lenders to sort out the

EPA REGION 7 RELEASE — As the risks of new flooding along portions of the Missouri River continue to exist, EPA Region 7 is urging residents of those areas to consider moving potentially hazardous items to safer locations in advance of rising waters. During past flooding events in the Midwest, EPA has partnered with various local, state, and tribal governments to respond under the authority of the federal Oil Pollution Act to recover certain types of items from flood waters to prevent them from entering landfills. Notice of impending flooding allows residents and property owners time to relocate and secure items so that they do not become inundated, pollute water or become hazardous wastes

It’s a rarity to find agreement on both sides of the national political aisle these days, but it seems Atlanta businessman Herman Cain ‘s ’9-9-9′ tax plan is a uniting force. Michele Bachmann The campaign for U.S.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Stephen Xenakis, a retired brigadier general in the Army medical corps and a psychiatrist as well as a general practitioner, didn’t have time

The changing demographics of the United States suggest that there would be a lot of support for comprehensive immigration reform that includes legalization of