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A Florida Tea Party Convention ad (Pic via ttpnc.com) Next week’s Florida Tea Party convention is slated to feature some big names in Florida politics, as well as the opportunity for state tea party members to discuss some of their favorite topics — including Agenda 21 and Islam. According to the current convention agenda , speakers will include Gov.

Denver Archbishop Chaput asked Notre Dame University Catholics this weekend to press for Church policy that would deny communion to U.S. Catholic politicians who support pro-choice or pro-gay rights positions. The speech comes in the wake of surveys that show most Catholics don’t agree with Chaput on the issues.

Last week, PolitiFact.com announced its Lie of the Year: Sarah Palin’s claim that the health care bill might create death panels that would kill elderly or

The race for Maryland governor is becoming increasingly focused on immigration as Republican candidate Robert Ehrlich, a former governor, criticized Gov. Martin

Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cash vouchers

It should come as no surprise that President Obama’s nomination of the widely respected human rights expert and dean of the Yale Law School, Harold Hongju Koh,

<div class="mini gray">Illustration by: Matt Mahurin</div> <p>The talk of South Florida is the possible changing of the guard in

Breaking news from The Associated Press: Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from healthcare

Facing what some have said is a crackdown on temporary worker visas, the business world is arguing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should refocus

Lately I’ve been bashing Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, for his performance in a recent Senate hearing. So let me take this opportunity to

Sirajuddin Haqqani of the infamous Haqqani network -- which, among other aspects of bloody rampage, took New York Times reporter David Rohde hostage -- may have

Elizabeth Warren, the Treasury and White House adviser helping to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, made her first trip yesterday to meet with

Commonsense Ten, a Democrat-leaning independent spending outfit -- and one of the first groups, along with Club for Growth, to petition the FEC to create a new

With midterms a day away and early voting already underway in a number of states, conservatives and anti-illegal immigration groups are claiming that large

BIRMINGHAM, Mich.--At last, a press conference. Late in the afternoon, Sen. John McCain, flanked by his wife Cindy, wearing a sling after a wrist injury

The Department of Justice announced today that Roy Belfast Jr., aka Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 97

For a one-stop compendium of how the prospects for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City for his role in 9/11 have deteriorated, ProPublica’s Dafna

While feminists worried that the economic stimulus package would neglect them, a quiet but concerted pressure campaign to get women’s interests in the bill was underway.

Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm

The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration yesterday to overturn the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico