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The Senate this afternoon confirmed Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by a vote of 59 - 39, despite Republican efforts to filibuster

Several hundred protesters flooded the Minnesota Capitol outside the House chambers on Monday morning to urge members to forgo a vote on a proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitution that would bar same-sex marriage. As the protesters demonstrated, House members of the Rules Committee moved to put the issue on the agenda for Wednesday morning.

Interesting. A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that, by a 16-point margin, Americans still blame the recession on former President George W. Bush’s policies

A survey of more than 1,000 Republicans by Public Policy Polling shows that self-identified members of the party support legal rights for same-sex couples even

A 33-year-old Idaho woman is seeking class-action status on a federal lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, made

Former Massachusetts Gov.

For the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, it is WaMu week. Tomorrow, the subcommittee will release more than 500 documents on Washington

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Though there’s been lots of talk so far about comprehensive immigration reform from advocates, a handful of lawmakers, and even President Obama when he

Republicans in the Minnesota House are pushing legislation that would ban the Affordable Care Act from being implemented in the state under the grounds that it violates the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The bill calls the law “unconstitutional,” declares it “void” in Minnesota and directs all state agencies to halt implementation of any aspect of health care reform

Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy review is absolutely scathing in its assessment of the Afghan government. It raises the effect of its corruption

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.

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

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

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