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Immigration and human rights experts say that no other developed country has passed an immigration law as stringent as Alabama’s. Although pieces of the law

For the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the battle to restrict marriage to straight couples has often been waged at the same pace as the battle to

Voters around the state, from Anchorage shopkeepers to political insiders, say Sarah Palin has been re-branded, both in message and style, for the national arena. What has the McCain campaign wrought?

The outrage over AIG bonuses is dying down, but it is only being replaced by a blame game. According to critics, President Obama went too far in his populist

New details have emerged on Louisiana’s $142.4 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The program aims to expand child reading and

Four Senate Democrats have called for EPA administrator Stephen Johnson to resign. Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer

President Obama signed the 2010 defense appropriations bill into law this morning, following a brief bit of legislative theater by Republicans who wanted to

Joe DiVincenzo styles himself affectionately as Joe D, the Essex County executive who has happily given bipartisan credence to New Jersey Republican Gov.

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman told The Iowa Independent Friday that dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel rods at two Nebraska facilities are not being protected from flood waters because the situation poses no public or environmental threat. Victor Dricks, an NRC Region 4 spokesman, said by phone Friday afternoon that the regulatory agency continues to closely monitor conditions along the Missouri River where floodwaters are rising at the Cooper and Fort Calhoun nuclear power stations. Flooding, brought on by heavy rainfall and snow melts in northern states, is expected to continue for several weeks.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) In a recently filed court document, a one-time business partner of Rep.

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Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton of Auburn Hills has decided to leave office and move to California to work for Michelle Rhee’s education reform group

A new study by a U.S. Forest Service researcher found that the application of hydrofracking wastewater to a forest in West Virginia did enormous damage to the forest ecosystem, killing all ground plants and many trees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility reports on the study’s findings: She looked at the effects of land application of fracking fluids on a quarter-acre section of the Fernow Experimental Forest within the Monongahela National Forest

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You can’t be a conservative today unless you’re taking the hammer and tongs to Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.). The Fox News All-Stars (I always expect them to turn

Joseph Farah, who’s edited the conservative WorldNetDaily.com since its founding in 1997, is swinging back at an ad hoc campaign led by conservative blogger Jon

Jonathan Martin follows up on Ralph Z. Hallow’s story about Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) being willing to campaign for Democrats by ... asking a bunch of

In the wake of yesterday’s Minnesota three-judge panel court decision that ratified Al Franken’s Senate victory, I see that the InTrade price for Norm Coleman

Though most of the Republican Party leadership is on record backing Bush-era spending, now they hope standing opposed to spending will be a successful path to victory in the 2010 election cycle.

Republicans are not well-equipped for the coming fight over health care, widely viewed as strong Democratic turf.

The leak I got yesterday from Kandahar expressing skepticism that counterinsurgency can bring the nine-year war in Afghanistan to a successful conclusion has