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As Art Allen reported yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a proponent of a video game-style of hunting, where hunters shoot animals, like wolves and bears,

Since announcing his bid for the 2012 Republican nomination for president, former Sen. Rick Santorum has not been shy about touting his anti-abortion views, which he’ll be discussing next week at the National Right to Life conference in Jacksonville. # An anti-aborton rights stalwart, Santorum has long been vocal in the charge to ban partial-birth abortions, and was the primary sponsor of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997 during his time as a U.S

Revelations Monday that Houston-based Anadarko may be sitting on up to a billion barrels of oil along Colorado’s Front Range immediately raised concerns about the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing in an area of increased residential growth in recent years. Anadarko plans to step up oil drilling in the Wattenberg Field over the Niobrara Shale formation, mostly in Weld County. Estimates put the overall revenue flowing into Colorado at $4 billion a year

I asked the American Civil Liberties Union’s Chris Anders, a military commissions opponent, to react to Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson’s indication that

Vice Adm. Robert Harward, a former senior officer with the Joint Special Operations Command and U.S. Joint Forces Command, arrived in Afghanistan in late

Today, the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development Departments released April data on the Home Affordable Modification Program, the Obama administration’s

In a major surprise, President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize this morning. The Nobel Committee cited his extraordinary efforts to strengthen

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida’s executive director, Howard Simon, appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about a host of personal freedoms he says Gov. Rick Scott has infringed upon since taking office early this year.

If you missed it yesterday, Heritage Foundation’s president Ed Feulner’s pushback on President Obama -- who gave the conservative think tank credit for

Voters in Iowa Senate District 18 head to the polls today to decide between Republican Cindy Golding and Democrat Liz Mathis . But phones in the district have been ringing for days as the candidates and third-party supporters hope to sway and influence voters in their direction.

Carbondale’s denizens shouldn’t have to lie down in front of bulldozers any time soon. Efforts to drill for oil and gas in Thompson Divide have been met with fierce opposition from residents and leaders in Pitkin County — so much so that the executive director of the Aspen Wilderness Workshop previously told The Colorado Independent that his neighbors in Carbondale say things like, “Over my dead body,” and “Just tell me when it’s time to lie in front of the bulldozers.’” Thompson Divide (Image: Thompson Divide Coalition) Then last month, Pitkin County Commissioner George Newman flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with Colorado’s congressional leadership and urge them to stave off drilling in the Thompson Divide area, which consists of 221,500 acres spread out over Pitkin, Gunnison, Garfield, Mesa and Delta counties. There are as many as 81 leases in the area; half of them on terrain that is currently roadless

During one of the most important Senate committee meetings on K-12 education in the past decade, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) had an active roll in pushing through a bill aimed at overhauling the much-maligned No Child Left Behind. The legislation, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), was proposed by the two leading Democrat and Republican Senators in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and articulated many of the terms and conditions states must honor to receive federal education dollars

The LetsTalkLiberty Twitter account is reporting every step that Carl Swensson and his small group of Birthers are taking around the Capitol. Two recent tweets

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, held a hearing to weigh the costs and benefits of funding certain ailing

It’s been one of the most anticipated moments of the Afghanistan debate in Washington: when the commander of U.S. and NATO forces will testify before Congress

Just two days after the U.S.

The Netanyahu government in Israel is claiming that the Bush administration had a secret deal with Netanyahu’s predecessors to allow Israel to continue

A new report from the Friends of the Earth paints a terrible picture of the business practices of TransCanada, the company seeking to build a pipeline to carry tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The report is entitled “Dirty Business: How TransCanada Pipelines bullies farmers, manipulates oil markets, threatens fresh water and skimps on safety in the United States.” In related news, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council joined Sen. Ron Wyden in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged manipulation of the oil market by TransCanada to boost their profits

The Miami Herald caught up with Gov. Rick Scott , who was in South Florida for a hurricane conference. Asked about a controversial rewrite of the state’s election laws, he said basically the same thing he’s been saying for the past several days: he doesn’t want fraud, but he does want people to vote.