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CITIZENLink, a Focus on the Family-affiliated website, features a recent post that praises Florida legislators for accepting $2.5 million a year from the Affordable Care Act to fund the state’s abstinence education programs. # The state’s acceptance of the money has been controversial because state legislators have rejected other funds from the law.

While high-profile, politically charged abortion battles are being waged in the Texas Legislature and Congress, the Texas Attorney General quietly issued a pair

When House Democratic leaders unveiled their $825 billion stimulus wish-list last week, it marked only the beginning of a much longer process to forge the

Days after the ACLU called for additional protections against sexual abuse of immigrant detainees, Human Rights Watch issued a report today demanding

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Mark Dice, a somewhat well-known 9/11 conspiracy theorists, is launching a campaign against Glenn Beck for his disrespect of the truther movement. Beck’s

In an interview with Senate staff, former Paravant vice president Brian McCracken said that the only reason a company called Paravant ever existed was because

DENVER — As anticipated, President Obama this morning detailed his plan to use an executive order to ease the burden of student loan debt that presently presses down on tens of millions of Americans. Speaking in shirtsleeves and drawing on his own struggles with student debt as a young man, husband and father, Obama told the energized crowd in an event center hall on the downtown university Auraria Campus that he was determined for the foreseeable future to act wherever possible to relieve economic distress in the country without going through the gridlocked Congress.

My friends Jason Talley and Pete Eyre, anarcho-capitalists road-tripping across America, capture some footage from a New Hampshire Tea Party of angry

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is clearly excited about her 9-point win over Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary. But is it enough to

Daphne Eviatar is guest-blogging for Glenn Greenwald today. The following is cross-posted at Salon. Ever since The Los Angeles Times reported last weekend

In the aftermath of last year’s spill of nearly a million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River here in Michigan and a recent spill of the same kind of oil into the Yellowstone River, TransCanada executives were in Montana this week promising that the Keystone XL pipeline will be safe. Company president Alex Pourbaix said Keystone XL would incorporate pipeline technologies and construction techniques not seen on older lines. He added that the company would take precautions beyond what is required by federal regulation.

He’s a Republican gladiator, not a conservative, said American Conservative Union chairman David Keene.

In stark contrast to the orange chicken canard about the treatment of Guantanamo detainees comes this disturbing Andy Worthington report on malnutrition at

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall at a gay-rights event this weekend in Denver said he supports marriage equality for all Americans. Udall joins a growing list of lawmakers who have gone on record in support of ending the era where the federal Defense of Marriage Act and where constitutional bans like Colorado’s Amendment 43 blocked LGBT couples from the legal protections and advantages provided by the state through marriage

Today, in Senate dysfunction: Republicans filibustered a long-embattled small-business bill -- designed to create jobs, created with bipartisan input, and

The most succinct and uncontroversial explanation as to just how the recession began is that a massive surge in foreign capital in the early 2000s sent banks

As the United Nations climate talks in Durban progress, they are becoming increasingly combative, offering a soft preview of the kind of political atmosphere destined to prevail in a world where agriculture in vulnerable regions of the planet begins to succumb to catastrophic drought and flooding. The United States and Canada have drawn intense criticism here during the first two days of the conference

Use the initials if you don’t understand, but that was what Gen. Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, told commanders in Afghanistan would be

State Sen. Nan Rich, D-Sunrise (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) Florida lawmakers have crafted a slew of new bills that would outlaw hiring discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, whether someone is unemployed and whether an applicant has a criminal history. State Sen.