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TVNewser has the email network president Jon Klein sent to producers: I asked the political researchers to dig into the question why couldn’t Obama produce

At around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, Rich Weathers got a call. The Edgewood, Ky., businessman had been a Republican voter and donor for years, so he wasn’t surprised

Florida is getting another round of grants from the Affordable Care Act for public health. The state was awarded nearly $1 million for immunizations and a tobacco cessation program. # The U.S.

Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson was not invited to the first New Hampshire debate of the Republican primary on June 13. The debate , sponsored by CNN, WMUR and the New Hampshire Union Leader, does however include Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann , who has not yet announced her candidacy for president

Following up on ABC’s report that U.S. intelligence knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan tried to contact al-Qaeda facilitators online, The New

ABC News is reporting that Susan Rice -- you remember her, I’m sure -- is now the leading candidate to become Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United

Christopher Hitchens died yesterday of cancer. He was a learned and caustic cultural critic who wrote for the popular press and who was at his best when eviscerating the hypocrisy and pretense of people in power. He famously hated organized religion.

Some nice folks on Twitter have informed me of the actual culprits behind the wave of birther calls to Glenn Beck’s radio show: a coordinated campaign dubbed

In recent months, the Scott administration has cut $305 million from environmental land-buying projects in the state budget , all but ignored pleas to halt the construction of a Georgia-Pacific pipeline to funnel additional effluent into the St. Johns River and attempted to halt or delay the implementation of a set of criteria to govern water pollution in the state.The administration also made cuts to the state’s five water management districts, and sent out a memo asking them to “reexamine” how they do business

Like Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Alabama and South Carolina, Utah has passed an immigration enforcement law requiring police to check the immigration status of

Michelle Lujan Grisham Bernalillo County Commissioner Michelle Lujan Graham announced Tuesday she is running for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District. “I’m running for Congress because we are under attack in this country,” Grisham said in remarks released to the media. “A band of right-wing radicals in Congress has hijacked our country and put the interests of their corporate masters ahead of the middle class, seniors and the most vulnerable among us.” Grisham won a seat on the Board of County Commissioners in 2010

A new United Nations report found that civilian deaths increased in Afghanistan by 40 percent in 2008. That’s a death toll of more than 2100 civilians due to

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Republicans and Democrats in the state are divided over which court should be assigned the task of redrawing New Mexico’s federal and state legislative districts, and Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to pick a location.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster on the defense authorization bill, which some senators have threatened to

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) scored a victory in the annual CPAC straw poll, besting nine other Republicans in a vote taken by around 2,395 attendees -- around 25

The Iowa Democrat Party and Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party joined forces Monday in a press conference denouncing former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s political platform, questioning his reasons for running and criticizing his political strategy after supposedly creating the highest deficit in Minnesota state history. It is the third time in recent weeks the IDP and lawmakers or political groups in Minnesota have reached over state lines to lambaste the two-term governor, who announced his candidacy in a video Sunday afternoon, and held a town hall meeting on the rooftop of Des Moines’s Iowa Historical Building the next morning . Democrats were critical of Pawlenty’s political record while governor of Minnesota, particularly his Monday statement which called for called for phasing “out subsidies across all sources of energy and all industries, including ethanol.” “We simply can’t afford them anymore,” he added

Chevron is the latest oil company to try to prove it’s environmentally aware by supporting energy conservation. But this could be a tough sell.

In another of the Bush administration’s awesome midnight rule changes, the White House announced Friday that visitors to national parks may now carry concealed

Jon Stewart vs. Death Panel fearmonger. Scandals dogging New Mexico Democrats. Faking your own disappearance is a poor campaign strategy. It’s been

If anyone doubted the willingness of the White House to stick its neck out for health care reform this year, President Obama likely put those questions to rest

On mortgage giant Freddie Mac’s blog, Featured Perspectives, executive Don Bisenius takes on strategic defaulters -- underwater mortgage-holders (that is,

No one likes paying taxes, responds Scott Brown to news of the plane attack on a Texas IRS building. What are Obama’s biggest challenges in 2010? Here’s a