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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed a former attorney for the anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue to a position that would have him regulating abortion providers

State Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) The Anti-Defamation League expressed disappointment with yesterday’s vote by the Florida Senate Pre K-12 Education Committee “in favor of an amended version of a divisive and constitutionally defective statewide school prayer bill.” According to a summary of the bill , it would “authorize district school boards to adopt resolutions that allow prayers of invocation or benediction at secondary school events.” The Anti-Defamation League, a group that fights anti-Semitism in public policy, says the amended bill voted for yesterday is actually more problematic than the original

It’s a day of nuclear-strength oppo hits on Dan Coats, the former Indiana senator who’s running for his old job against Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). The ugliest

The Bank of America logo (Pic via blog.firstfoodbank.org) CNN Money is reporting that Bank of America is reconsidering its controversial decision to impose $5 debit card fees. The national bank’s decision to levy a new fee was met with outrage from all over the country

Despite recent reports to the contrary, Spain’s attorney general has now reportedly decided not to prosecute the Bush Six -- the top legal officials in the Bush

The honeymoon period that most new presidents enjoy has probably been voided this time around. President Barack Obama will face a financial crisis that only threatens to become more severe at the start of 2009. And there are no simple fixes.

No other single intelligence reporter/analyst drives me as bonkers as David Ignatius. Sometimes his Washington Post columns are straight-up brilliant, since

Source: Flickr, jimmywayne The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens Board unanimously approved water quality permits for an expansion of a taconite facility on the Iron Range Tuesday. The permits leave only one more step before the expansion , which will cost about $300 million, create 120 permanent jobs and increase the capacity of the plant, according to Keetac owner, U.S.

Here’s one of the cheerier conservative videos of the day: Myron Ebell and Lee Doren of the energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute hound the

Don’t expect any charitable feelings around the holidays. According to a new Rasmussen national telephone survey, 58 percent of U.S. voters say they’d support

Yesterday, an unlikely message popped up in my inbox, from the U.S.-African Chamber of Commerce. Responding to Madonna’s latest controversial forays into the

Former Vice President Dick Cheney -- the avatar of secrecy -- really did say this last night. Daphne puts together a wish list: f there are memos showing that

Today’s Washington Post reports that Sen. Barack Obama will try to change party rules to reduce the power of superdelegates and reform the presidential

Laura Rozen breaks the news: Rajiv Shah, the Department of Agriculture’s undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics, is going to head the U.S. Agency

CNN picks up on a mostly overlooked component of the mortgage crisis that TWI has been following: Growing numbers of trashed and abandoned bank-owned foreclosed

Hey, remember earlier this week when we discussed how to read a troop-increase announcement? The troop numbers that are typically announced are combat troops

The National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. announced Thursday that a study of the impact of anti-retroviral medications on the infectiousness of those infected with the virus found the medications cut infections by 96 percent. The study confirmed a determination by the Swiss High Court several years ago

The Iranians have so far greeted every Obama administration overture to them with tepid-to-hostile reactions. Without reading too much into it -- Mahmoud

Some more good stuff from yesterday’s conference call with Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Gen. James Cartwright, the Joint Chiefs vice chairman. Noah Shachtman