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Since the Texas Democratic Party sued the Houston tea party group King Street Patriots last fall, accusing the group of engaging in partisan politics without

Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex... ...and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With

Almost 200 undocumented young people from across the U.S. gathered in the Russell Senate Office building in Washington, D.C., today to argue for the passage of

The former governor of Florida does some helpful tackling for Marco Rubio, spending several minutes with a Newsmax interviewer to make the point that Crist’s

And the winner is ... a cardboard box, followed closely by cow farts and evaporating tiles! The results of Forum for the Future’s green design competition

During this morning’s Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on torture, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) who chaired the hearing, asked Philip Zelikow, the

The Detroit Free Press reports: As expected, President Barack Obama this morning signed into law a bill extending benefits for out-of-work Americans who have

Excerpts released by C-SPAN in advance of its upcoming series on the Supreme Court, scheduled to begin airing October 4, suggest that some of the more

The 2012 presidential buzz is centered on whether or not former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is going to choose to formally enter the race, but locally it seems Palin still needs to decide whether or not she will appear at an Indianola tea party event scheduled for Saturday. CNN is reporting that Palin sources have said organizers for the “Restoring American Event” have been “dishonest” about the speaking program and rally promotion, and that Palin is no longer likely to attend.

The post-Fort Hood right-wing attack on their fellow American citizens continues. Here’s conservative Christian commentator Pat Robertson yesterday on The 700

This morning we ran a piece from our finance reporter Mary Kane on how the Bear Stearns deal struck a nerve with housing advocates who have been calling for

Critics of the conservatives who’ve brought guns to rallies outside of President Barack Obama’s speeches have found an unlikely ally: Bernard Kerik, the former

Last week, Richard Goldstone, who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza for the United Nations, wrote to Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) to say that a

Catholics and clergy dined over $65 plates of sausage, bacon and scrambled eggs Wednesday morning at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., to celebrate

The Michigan League of Women Voters are calling for reform of the state’s redistricting laws and will be hosting a forum at Cooley Law School on Wednesday evening on the subject. In a press release, the organization says: Calls for transparency and other reforms to Michigan’s redistricting process were ignored this year, as the Legislature went about the business of drawing political maps in the usual secretive fashion. Maps for Michigan’s new Congressional and State legislative districts were signed into law in August and will remain in place for a decade

Via Marc Ambinder, according to a new poll of residents of Arizona’s Maricopa County -- the state’s most populous and home to eight of its 10 largest cities --

Minnesota Congressman told college activists at a gathering last week that conservatives like Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. “We live in an era of extremism,” Ellison said in his July 6 address to the 2011 Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C.

Many experts say slow job recovery is a simple economic reality going back at least 20 years.

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