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Phyllis Schlafly, the attorney and conservative political activist, has published a piece arguing against the United States’ progressive tax structure, in which

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – The booms began around 1:45 p.m., loud enough to cause you to jump if you’ve never heard a Howitzer fire a

Details are still emerging, but this can’t be good news for the Gulf coast. NBC News reports: Adding insult to the Gulf’s injury, a wellhead hit by a tug

Following a storm of criticism of U.S. Rep.

With profits soaring for hard-rock mining and oil and gas companies doing business on public lands, U.S.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted Friday that education is at the core of all efforts to promote economic development in rural America, echoing a theme that has appeared numerous times in reports by The Iowa Independent staff. “A well educated work force is critical to a thriving business — to developing new ways of producing goods and providing services.

It’ll soon be clear just what offshore oil drilling in America will look like, post oil spill. The newly formed Bureau of Energy Management is expected within

For weeks, the presidential and vice presidential candidates have been pounding the Wall Street vs. Main Street trope into our heads. Now, the good people at

Back in January, I reported that Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze (R), whose party had just won control of the legislature, was pushing legislation that would

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico--Sitting in a downtown public library here I began to blog about how the presumed Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, seemed

Phil Klein has the letter Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) sent to the White House vis-a-vis his refusal of $700 million of stimulus cash. The headline is probably

That’s the shrewd question that Charlie Savage raises in his Washington Memo Monday in The New York Times. Looking beyond the usual liberal-conservative

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In a letter sent to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Democrats expressed their concerns with anti-environmental policy “riders” in the forthcoming continuing resolution that would fund the government for the remainder of 2011.

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At today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the strategy as being responsive to a

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has backed the Obama Administration in its case against SB 1070, the controversial immigration legislation passed by Arizona lawmakers last year. A three-judge panel ruled Monday that Arizona District Judge Susan Bolton “did not abuse her discretion,” as the Washington Post put it, when she blocked key provisions of the bill.

Abby Johnson (Pic via thatsabortion.com) At an Orlando conference for crisis pregnancy centers packed with more than 1,000 attendees, former Planned Parenthood employee-turned anti-abortion advocate Abby Johnson told the room that they had to fight Planned Parenthood, a group she says is “working with the devil.” Johnson gave a keynote address today during Care Net’s Central Florida conference . Care Net is an organization that manages a nationwide network of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), including some in Florida. Some of Care Net’s brochures have been found in taxpayer-funded CPCs in Florida.

Following up on President Obama’s speech on the economy in Ohio last week, in which Obama decided to make things personal and call out House Minority Leader

Don Blankenship -- the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week -- just