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At the Lifeway Christian Store in Woodbury on Tuesday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he’s “seriously considering running in 2012.” Pawlenty has been courting conservative evangelicals over the last week with an appearance on the radio program of the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and an upcoming trip to Iowa to meet with a group called The Family Leader , which teaches classes called “gay sex kills.” Pawlenty was in Woodbury to sign copies of his book, Courage to Stand.

Does the United States have to remain in Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is captured? And will the war be incomplete until that happens? Rep. Gus Bilirakis

Rep. Richard Nugent, R-Brooksville (left) (Pic via Facebook) According to immigrant advocates, a new immigration enforcement bill being considered in Congress would undermine existing immigration law by removing prosecutorial discretion and deferred action, two components that protect undocumented victims of domestic violence. Michelle Ortiz — the supervising attorney of Lucha , a unit within the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center — says that Rep.

A conservative Michigan blogger is accusing Democrats and union thugs of planting a man holding a sign comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler at a town

If all the headlines surrounding the fatal mine blast in West Virginia last month did nothing else, they at least highlighted how reluctant federal regulators

Springfield, Ore., Mayor Sid Leiken, one of the GOP’s first strong recruits for the 2010 cycle, is dropping a bid against Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.). The

Republican presidential candidates hoping to make a little political hay wasted little time Friday in offering statements on a dismal jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor

Even as a non-partisan report was released showing that cutting tax breaks for oil companies would probably not result in higher pump prices for American drivers, the United States Senate voted Tuesday to continue letting oil companies avoid taxes. Colorado’s two senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, voted with the majority to end the tax breaks, but as the measure needed 60 votes to pass, it fell largely on party lines. From The New York Times: The Senate on Tuesday blocked a Democratic proposal to strip the five leading oil companies of tax breaks that backers of the measure said were unfairly padding industry profits while consumers were struggling with high gas prices.

On Wednesday the House oversight committee’s national security and foreign affairs subcommittee will hold a hearing, One Year After Walter Reed. It’s intended

For those who say the American Southwest is up a creek without a paddle in terms of the future water supplies in the Colorado River Basin, they can take comfort in the fact that at least Interior Secretary Ken Salazar now has one. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar American Whitewater and the Colorado River Outfitters Association presented the former Colorado senator with an engraved paddle in his office in Washington today, honoring Salazar for his efforts to bring all the stakeholders along the river together and try to ease future conflicts. “We need to find a way to balance the little water we have to meet the needs of people, recreation and the fish that depend on the river,” said CROA’s Dave Costlow.

If it’s a population-protection mission you’re after in Afghanistan, then placing U.S. troops far from the population doesn’t make much sense. And

Completing their dig at Snowmass Village, scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and other institutions now wonder if an ancient earthquake that created quick sand explains the unusual number of bones from juvenile mastodons. “What is so curious about this site is that we are regularly finding parts of small animals,” said Johnson, a paleontologist and chief curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Even as proponents of legalizing marijuana in Colorado meet this evening to debate the best way to accomplish that, former U.S.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney seems dangerously close to waffling on union reform, an issue core to many conservative voters, in Ohio, as he has

An anonymous official quoted in Politico’s story on the House GOP budget plans said, We need to hold something up and say, ‘Here are our charts. Here are our

Building a Better Ohio, the group heading the campaign to preserve Ohio’s controversial anti-collective bargaining law Senate Bill 5, is, as a 501(c)4

Corporations will help the state pay a $1.6 million four-year compensation package for the head of the newly created statewide district for failing schools.

The most humorous moment of the hearing so far is also, bizarrely, the most profound. Asked by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) how the mission got refined in the

As GOP candidates geared up to spend the holiday weekend in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire, the field for President grew by one, as U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich) officially announced his candidacy Saturday

TWI’s Annie Lowrey makes another appearance on Bloggingheads.tv today, discussing all things financial with Rortybomb’s Mike Konczal: regulatory reform, Blanche

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) The director of Florida State University’s program in history and philosophy of science, Michael Ruse, has released the latest of what he calls “dispatches from the war zone,” a series of pieces looking at Gov. Rick Scott’s likely changes to Florida’s higher education system