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Jacob Laksin has a lengthy take-out on the muckraking right, the conservative bloggers and videographers who’ve been able to, occasionally, blow past the

White House officials today will begin their investigation of the horrific explosion that killed 29 miners in southern West Virginia a week ago. But, as in

A poll shows a reasonably close Senate race in Massachusetts -- and GOP activists have their fingers crossed. The final result probably won’t be that close,

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After more than a year idling in the House, a proposal to give the residents of the nation’s capital a voting representative in Congress finally seemed clear

With the recession’s deepest layoffs having occurred two years ago, the number of 99ers is on the rise. But some, like LaDona King, are holding out hope.

No, not that Palin. Apparently, an online movement is building to put Monty Python’s Michael Palin in the Oval Office -- despite the fact that the

Wait! Don’t click away from this post yet! Most defense secretaries find themselves frustrated by the labyrinthine system in place to approve military sales

A transgender woman charged with murder in Hennepin County is currently being held in solitary confinement in the county jail, local LGBT rights activists say. The activists are attacking the county for using a measure criticized by many national transgender rights organizations as a flawed attempt to keep the accused safe while she awaits trial. The prisoner, 23-year old Chrishaun McDonald, has been charged in the murder of 47-year old Dean Schmitz, of Richfield, outside the Schooner Tavern on the night of June 5.

The Columbine and Pentagon shooters exploited a loophole that allowed them to purchase guns without a background check. Now their victims and their families are pressing their representatives for change.

Bob Vander Plaats, head of Iowa’s Family Research Council affiliate the Family Leader, an organization opposed to rights for LGBT Iowans, endorsed Rick Santorum

KANSAS CITY, MO. — After a Michigan Messenger investigation, Missouri is no longer requiring HIV-positive individuals to sign a document acknowledging the state’s reckless exposure law in order to for those persons to qualify for federally funded medical programs. “That particular form that’s used in case management will be eliminated,” said Michael Herbert, HIV program director for the Missouri Department of Human and Senior Services

While Minnesota for Marriage gears up outreach to conservative churches and pastors and recruitment of “church captains” in effort to pass a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage, Minnesotans United for All Families is doing the same with progressive people of faith. The coalition is hosting a series of trainings on how to defeat the amendment in 2012. On Sept

Just when journalists were busy writing the obituaries for Sarah Palin’s ability to play kingmaker, an obscure Palin-backed GOP challenger named Joe Miller

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) went hunting for Blair to say that the Bush administration didn’t pressure intelligence analysts ahead of the Iraq WMD National

These banks are way too involved in the economy, and they have been way too involved in protesting this bill, one advocate said.

After toxic gasses initially turned them away, two teams of inspectors have re-entered the Upper Big Branch mine this afternoon to begin their investigation

Alex Conant, who until March was the spokesman for the Republican National Committee, has made the smooth transition into insightful conservative punditry. He’s

Even before Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) was sworn in Tuesday, less than a week after his special election victory against a pair of feuding Democrats, pundits

Doctors that worked in Rick Scott’s health care company say records show Medicare was being charged 100 percent, rather than the mandated 85 percent, for some visits.

The New York Times editorial board slammed the Koch brothers yesterday, arguing they are disastrously wrong about the science and economics behind climate