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The McCain campaign today brought out the big guns to set the record straight about Sen. John McCain’s ties to Charles Keating, a central figure in the

President Obama announced this morning that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It’s a small step compared to the nationwide

In the battle over Senate Bill 5, proponents have pointed to various studies that claim to show a large disparity in pay between public sector workers and their

A case involving CIA black sites, Boeing and torture victims sets up the first real-world example of the Obama administration’s take on national security.

According to a recently released report by the U.S. Census Bureau, Florida received the third least amount of aid per capita from the federal government in 2010. Nevada and Virginia were the only other states to be granted less money than Florida

In a call with reporters this morning, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag conceded that cap-and-trade climate legislation would not be

Opponents of oil shale development in western Colorado, Wyoming and Utah participated in a “fly-in” to Washington, D.C. this week to push for increased federal oversight of the still-unproven form of energy that would consume huge amounts of water and conventional power. The group was made up of sportsmen, energy experts, farmers and former politicians.

Less than a week remains before Gov. Rick Perry’s Houston prayer event, and since Perry distanced himself from some controversial endorsers of The Response,

Responding to congressional opposition to an investigation of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the national anti-abortion rights group that

I reported earlier that Arlington, Va., is giving up on its efforts to opt out of Secure Communities, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows

Yesterday The National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed its plans to replace an aging Los Alamos National Labs facility, which runs across a major fault line, with an estimated $4-6 billion plutonium lab. According to the NNSA notice, the new building “would provide vitally essential technical support capabilities to NNSA’s national security mission.” However, according to Greg Mello of the Albuquerque-based Los Alamos Study Group, a LANL watchdog, the project creates very few new jobs for New Mexicans — perhaps as few as 300 — over its projected 10-year-long construction. Moreover, the unofficial cost of the building by the time of its actual completion could run as high as $12 billion.

Via Ben Smith, I see that the America Family Association’s Bryan Fischer went nuclear over CPAC’s inclusion of GOProud and included some surprisingly hard

A three-year-old state-funded website in Massachusetts that provides youth-tailored information on sex and reproductive health has fueled recent outrage among

On a call with reporters this afternoon, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) and Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colo.) urged their Republican

Pharmaceutical companies and a Saudi prince were among the funders of recent Pentagon junkets, despite their financial interests in U.S. military spending.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) This week, Congress will hold yet another hearing addressing a grievance from Catholic bishops, this time about a recent loss of federal funds.

Imagine my delight when dishonest reporter Steve Hayes cited as another example of journalistic sanity on the Saddam/Al Qaeda lie... dishonest reporter Jeff

The NARAL Pro-Choice America logo (Pic via naral.org ) NARAL Pro-Choice America, a national reproductive rights group, announced today that it sent a letter to President Obama denouncing a federal agency’s recent decision to overrule an FDA request to expand access to Plan B, or the morning after pill, to young women under the age of 17.

The “ glitterbombs ” that have targeted Michele and Marcus Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty were taken to the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday when Minnesota For Marriage, a group that opposes rights for same-sex couples, was showered with glitter from the fair’s Skyride. The glitterbomb phenomenon, homegrown in Minnesota, has also secured a place in pop culture.

In my last post, I asked what it means to disrupt and defeat al-Qaeda, which President Obama said in his speech was the goal in Afghanistan-Pakistan. Denis

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It’s the 99 percent. Perhaps you’ve heard of them? They are the folks who did as they were asked, who followed the rules, who believed this really was a country where any Average Joe or Jane could make good.

Nearly 1,000 Michigan State University students, administrators and community members packed into a large lecture hall at Conrad Hall on the campus to discuss what administration officials have called a “rash” of racial incidents on the campus. In the last three weeks, at least two incidents of racist graffiti have occurred in two different dorms. In one instance, the racist message was written on the dorm room dry erase board of a black student