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Speculation about whether Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who officially lost the Republican Senate primary to challenger Joe Miller last week, will run as an

Though it has been buzzed about for months, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., officially announced her candidacy for the Oval Office early this morning. Bachmann, who has been a fixture on the anti-abortion circuit, took part in a presidential forum at the National Right to Life Convention in Jacksonville last Friday

The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER ENSURING

Drone attacks in Pakistan provide context for a still-secret CIA program.

This is going to be tough to dig out from under: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is admitting more encounters with his Argentine mistress than he previously

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.

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

It’s been a low-level foreign policy gaffe swirling around the conservative blogosphere for the past couple of days. I’ll let Anthony G. Martin tell it: We

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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

Aleshia Napier was 18 years old in 2006 when she hung herself with a bed sheet at the Broward Correctional Institution in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after being

Doug Feith started off today’s House judiciary torture hearing by insisting that Philippe Sands misquoted him in the book "Torture Team." Feith said

The antagonism to President-elect Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder to attorney general seems to be crumbling, despite Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-Penn.)