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A growing number of religious-based and LGBT rights groups are voicing their stern condemnation of Gov. Rick Perry’s recent call for Christian prayer and

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) -- a judge in his prior career -- comes out for repealing the 17th Amendment, to restore the balance between the federal

A little over a year ago, I spent some time with the Obama campaign’s foreign policy brain trust to glean the emerging preoccupations of his advisers. There

Daily Kos and Research 2000 are out with an interesting poll of likely voters in Montana. Kos flags the approval numbers of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) -- the

In a big setback for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy’s (D-Pa.) efforts to insert amendments overturning the military’s ban on open gay

Good news from RealtyTrac this morning, as it reports that foreclosure filings -- default notices, auctions and reposessions -- fell 9 percent from March to

So writes The New York Times, reporting today that the nation’s drug makers are prepping to pay more, under the Democrats’ final health reform bill, than the

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled their long-awaited proposal to overhaul the nation’s health care system, including the creation of a government-backed

Black Hills Power, a South Dakota utility with offices in Denver, filed papers Tuesday to shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and build a new natural gas-powered plant in Cheyenne – the first of its kind in the coal-dominated state. According to the Casper Star Tribune , Black Hills is making the $237 million move in anticipation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating mercury and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants

A new generation of pioneers have struck proverbial gold at an abandoned silver mine near Aspen. What was once a wasteland of arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc on a steep mountainside that abuts Castle Creek is now a haven for natural grasses and wildflowers that have stabilized the slope and drastically reduced the risk of the heavy metals crashing into the city’s main water supply. The striking change of scenery around Hope Mine is the result of the first whole-scale reclamation project ever attempted in the United States, and possibly the world, using biochar — a type of charcoal produced through the thermal treatment of organic material in an oxygen-limited environment.

I was just looking at some notes I took during the Clinton campaign’s conference call with reporters on Monday. It’s pretty clear that the kinds of things

Senator Michael Bennet is perhaps never in finer form than when he rails against his own kind. Armed with charts, he gave a funny, pointed floor speech earlier this week, where he noted that the approval rating of Congress stands at about nine percent today. He compared that with the approval ratings of British Petroleum during the Deepwater spill (quite a bit higher) and with the percentage of people who think America should become communist (a little higher).

Gov. Rick Snyder and his Budget and Treasury officials are meeting with bond rating agencies in New York City today in an effort to drive down borrowing costs for the state. Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel told the Detroit News that Snyder wants “to demonstrate and show all the steps Michigan is taking to get its fiscal house in order.“ Michigan has an AA- rating from Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor’s.

The New York Times runs a very good piece about the strained, tentative and sub rosa relationship between the Obama administration and American Muslim

Today’s edition of the GOP proposes plan that consists of vague attacks on Democrats story is the broad outline of a health care plan just released by the

Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood, whose mother was allegedly murdered by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon in 2007, says that Macon has now threatened her life as well as that of an Ingham County Prosecutor. Wood says she was notified in late August by the prosecutor’s office about a “concrete threat against Catherine Emerson and myself.” “They said that they had received a letter on that threat and that it would be turned over to the Michigan State Police Major Crime Task Force,” Wood said

More data are in concerning the new Super PAC, Alaskans Standing Together, formed to back Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her write-in re-election bid for

In places hit hardest by the mortgage crisis, like Prince William County, Va., federal bailout funds could have little effect on a community left reeling by hundreds of abandoned properties.

DES MOINES — President Obama’s American Jobs Act would mean about 11,000 jobs for Iowa, Democratic leaders say, including 4,100 teaching and first responder positions and 6,700 construction jobs. Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky , Sen. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames) and Des Moines Education Association President Melissa Spencer spoke about the plan Monday at the Des Moines Public Schools Central Campus

Interfaith Alliance of Iowa officials are disappointed in a lack of response from Gov. Terry Branstad concerning a desired discussion with state faith leaders concerning Texas Gov. Rick Perry ‘s day of prayer for the nation, which Branstad was invited to

This should sound familiar: Growing losses on Federal Housing Administration-backed mortgage loans are prompting fears the agency will be next in line for