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The Pew Research Center today released its annual poll of the public’s priorities for the new year. Topping the list is strengthening the nation’s economy,

The Florida Independent has partnered with Ms. magazine , a national publication, to investigate crisis pregnancy centers around the country, and we’re asking our readers for help.

Copper State Gov. Jan Brewer is evidently feeling a little left out when it comes to the 2012 presidential contest, and is considering moving the state’s presidential primary to the last Tuesday in January for extra attention.

The Iowa Democratic Party admonished GOP candidate Tim Pawlenty for comments made during an interview with The Des Moines Register’s editorial board that this week was the first week the former Minnesota Governor had started “campaigning in earnest.” Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky was critical of Pawlenty’s statement because the Governor has been in running for president for just over six weeks. “If Tim Pawlenty wasn’t campaigning ‘in earnest’ what exactly was he doing?” Dvorsky said through a party spokeswoman. “What about his claims of telling the ‘hard truths’? What about the staff, time and resources he has devoted to the state? What about the ads he began running weeks ago?

Al Gore made headlines when he called B.S. on climate change deniers in Aspen over the summer, and now the Pacific Institute is doing the same

An amendment allowing companies to bypass the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling ban doesn’t go far enough for Republicans. Attached to the House oil

We already knew that the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel held a broad view of executive power. But the memos released today suggest the OLC lawyers

Responding to an opinion piece by former director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag, President Obama plans to say during a speech in Cleveland

Now this makes more sense. In remarks announcing the receipt of his preliminary reviews of the near-attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, President Obama

We just put up a piece about how the Democrats’ legislative efforts to make credit cards more consumer friendly have been delayed, likely until July 2010, when

A coalition of 19 environmental groups sent a letter to President Obama today encouraging him to require that cars made after 2025 meet a 60 mile-per-gallon

A poll, released just two days after the Department of Homeland Security announced changes to its deportation proceedings , indicates that the majority of most likely voters still favor border security. # According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll , “even as the Obama administration moves to slow the pace of deportation for illegal immigrants, voters continue to believe strongly that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already living in the United States.” # “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R) leads the entire North Carolina congressional delegation with $1,204,438 in cash-on-hand (COH) at the end of the 2010 fundraising cycle,

As Bloomberg reports, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell confirms. I don’t yet have the full transcript of his press briefing today, but he said that Gen. Stanley

Maybe the proposal was already in the works, but on Wednesday -- the same day The Wall Street Journal reported on the problem of Mexican gangs smuggling

The office of House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has been forwarding that Rasmussen poll to reporters, with the topline A stimulus plan that includes

According to recent reports, Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, has again aligned himself with a controversial group. As reported yesterday by blogger Spencer Ackerman , West will sponsor a July 25 briefing by Citizens for National Security , a self-described group of “concerned citizens interested in education on extremism, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.” # From a press release on the event: # Less than two months before the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, Congressman Allen West (R-FL) will sponsor a Capitol Hill briefing this coming July 25, on Homegrown Jihad in the USA: Culmination of the Muslim Brotherhood’s 50-year History of Infiltrating America

Three weeks after a state-appointed Emergency Manager used new powers to suspend all elected boards in the city of Benton Harbor, Gov. Rick Snyder was met with protests when he went to that city to march as the Grand Marshall of the annual Blossomtime parade.

Ohio’s former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner stopped short of criticizing her replacement, but made it clear they disagreed on the importance of absentee

The Obama administration announced today that it is launching an investigation into China’s green technology trade policies. The investigation is in response to