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PITTSBURGH - Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), a strong progressive voice on climate change, made a surprise appearance at an environmental panel here at Netroots

Arizona has proved both an example of both positive and negative consequences for the 22 copy-cat states considering immigration enforcement legislation. On one

Focus on the Family news outlet CitizenLink on Monday posted a dire summary of a recent court ruling that rejected an attempt to protect the identities of donors to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign. The CitizenLink story echoes the fears of intimidation and harassment from “gay activists” and “the homosexual lobby” that drove the major organizational financial backers of the campaign to file the suit in 2008. CitizenLink leans on high-profile religious-right attorney and Republican National Committeeman James Bopp Jr.

Breaking news from The Associated Press: A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with fed scrawled on his chest

The Scrabble Club plans to honor Blagojevich at a banquet to be held “between the time he’s impeached and the time when he goes to jail.”

At CIA headquarters in Virginia today, Rep. Michele Bachmann viewed photos of the late Osama bin Laden who was killed in a U.S. military raid in Pakistan and confirmed his identity

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports that Dennis Blair, the embattled director of national intelligence, is getting fired tomorrow. I could give you the rundown of all of

A federal appeals court has upheld a race-based admission process employed by the University of Texas at Austin, striking down a request for a rehearing by two

The New York Times’ lead editorial today is a powerful indictment of the Obama administration’s continuation of Bush-era efforts to conceal the facts of

Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican checked to see how the sale of the state jet — the one Gov. Susana Martinez made a big issue to sell the state jet in her campaign , calling it the “ultimate symbol of waste and excess.” However, the jet still hasn’t been sold at $2.35 million less than what the state paid for it and it costs about $400,000 a year to fuel and maintain.

California Republican Chuck DeVore’s senatorial campaign sends over word that it’s severed all ties with Erik Brown, the Orange County GOP consultant who

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Faced with the prospect that New York lawmakers will make gay marriage the law there this week, Christian organizations are touting new polling data that runs counter to data brought out in waves by major nationally respected firms such as Gallup over the last two years showing fast-expanding support among the U.S.

TWI’s own David Weigel -- arguably the world’s foremost expert on and chronicler of the birthers -- went on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk

Despite growing public support for a government-backed insurance option to compete with private insurers, a Senate panel on Tuesday twice beat back Democratic efforts to create such a plan.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (Pic by ryanjreilly, via Flickr) Talking Points Memo reports that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern over states seeking to “restrict the ability of people to get to the polls” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.

Under a bill passed by the Michigan Senate yesterday, all public employees must pay at least 20 percent of their health insurance premiums. The vote was 25-13, with one Republican voting against the bill. Proponents of the bill say it will save the state $174 million, as well as saving other public employers in the state about twice that much

Rep. Michele Bachmann hit the cable news circuit this week alleging that the Affordable Care Act contained $105 billion in “hidden” spending

Court records, according to a news report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , indicate that a lien has been filed against former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum for roughly $500 in delinquent property taxes on his Penn Hills home

Saying it will compel the media to pay attention to his presidential candidacy, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul has challenged supporters to donate $3 million to his

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is trying to convince the White House that the only way to win congressional Republican support for closing the detention facility

A study conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of California indicates that as the border between the United States and Mexico tightens and as immigration laws are more strictly enforced there could be dramatic changes in how American crops are harvested. The study, reported on in Western Farm Press, says that the cost of running a farm will increase and farmers will rely more and more on mechanization as a way to make do with fewer workers