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The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing group and the national affiliate

It’s worth taking some time to read Sam Stein’s piece on the New York Post and its disgruntled ex-employee Sandra Guzman. Her story, and her complaint against

Two pieces of news from the Republican National Committee summer meeting in Kansas City. First, the RNC’s budget committee approved a $10 million line of credit

The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false. The television ad from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, running statewide on the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the EPA wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming activities

UPDATE: The original version of this article incorrectly listed earmarks from Fiscal Year 2010 as requests in Fiscal Year 2011. TAI drew those numbers from

Three pro-immigration reform Republican representatives from Miami made a somewhat awkward endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott Monday,

The Birmingham News noted in an editorial Sunday that the Alabama state constitution, written in 1901, says the state should encourage immigration. This may come as news to state legislators who recently passed immigration restriction laws viewed as the strictest in the country

It looks increasingly as though the Tea Party wing of the Congressional Republican caucus is winning the battle within the caucus on whether or not to avoid budget compromise with Democrats and shut down the government Friday. Republicans cheered the prospect of a shut down behind closed doors this week and some of them have been openly stumping with shut-down rhetoric in their districts.

Mark Blumenthal has delved back into one of the year’s political mysteries: What happened to Strategic Vision, the Republican-leaning polling company that

Andrew Ross Sorkin takes a shot at explaining why we have to pay those AIG bonuses today in The New York Times. Sorkin explains that he knows it’s not a popular

The attacks keep coming on Obama and his presumptive Supreme Court nominees (such as Sonia Sotomayor, who I wrote about today) who the president expects to be

The University of Texas system is developing a pilot program that would allow students to graduate a year earlier, condensing undergraduate education and

I’ll have a piece shortly on recent polling that shows that an increasing number of Americans are skeptical of the threat of global warming. Evidently,

Sen. John McCain, who has locked up the GOP nomination, was chased down in the parking lot of a Phoenix shopping mall today and persuaded to remove his

The Texas Republican Party unveiled its new platform today and it contains some very far-right provisions, to say the least. Media Matters has the full details,

More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman: “Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart

Glenn Thrush gets the Republican National Committee, via spokeswoman Katie Wright, to walk a few steps back from the health care survey that suggested Democrats

Jeanne Cummings digs through the RNC’s finance reports and comes out with details that don’t reflect well on Chairman Michael Steele’s spending habits. For

A federal court in Detroit has granted a preliminary injunction against the SMART bus system, ordering them to allow an anti-Muslim advertisement to be placed on buses pending the outcome of a full trial on the issue.

It crushes the low-income and elderly, says Robert McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice.

Pontiac’s Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel has fired the city’s clerk and attorney and replaced the director of public works with an employee of United Water — the criminally-indicted French water company that has operated the city’s wastewater treatment system since June.