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Controversial preacher Bradlee Dean says that House Speaker Kurt Zellers asked to appear on Dean’s radio show, the Sons of Liberty, the week before Dean gave a controversial prayer before the Minnesota House . Dean’s claim stands in stark contrast to Zeller’s words condemning Dean, as well as House leadership’s insistence that they weren’t familiar with Dean.

One of Texas’ most influential lobbying groups has expanded its reach to Washington, taking its arguments against government spending and environmental

The FBI details an upswing in threats against members of Congress last year. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) will serve up to five years in jail

Al Jazeera: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its disenchanted brothers in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged

Inspired by the numerous videos that have already been created as a part of the anti-suicide and anti-bullying public awareness campaign “It Gets Better,” federal government employees from the National Parks Service, U.S.

The Federal Reserve released its flow-of-funds report yesterday, and the document shows household net worth has fallen $11.4 trillion from its 2007 bubble-era

A year later, Obama’s popularity is nearly identical to Election Day. Canadians still distrust the United States. HBO will air a documentary tonight on

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is slated to testify next week before the House Energy & Commerce Committee on the role of the Interior Department in the

Commenting on the undisclosed cash that was spent in the 2010 elections and the campaign finance reform battles that lie ahead in Congress, Democracy 21

We’ve heard a lot about the potential health impacts of the oil spill, but not much has been said about the mental health impacts. BP announced Monday it is

Record another data point for the Obama administration’s military-civilian resource shift. In a speech yesterday to the still-leaderless USAID, Secretary of

Earlier this afternoon, Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that opposes the Democrats’ soon-to-be-voted-on climate change bill, shot out an email

Later today, the Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on House-passed legislation extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits through the

The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed the recommendation of a state commission to raise the tax on gasoline by up to 10 cents per gallon. Craig Lang In the endorsement statement, IFBF President Craig Lang (also recently elevated as an Iowa Regent at the request of Gov. Terry Branstad) said that an increase “is the fairest way to fund” road repairs “because it charges people who actually use the roads whether they live in Iowa or are from out-of-state.” Here’s the statement: With rural roads making up nearly 90,000 miles of the state’s 114,000-mile road system, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) applauds the Governor’s Transportation 2020 Citizen Advisory Commission recommendation for an additional 8 to 10 cents per gallon fuel tax

Just when you thought the Florida Senate race drama had stabilized for a few hours, meet Jeff Greene. Greene, a real estate billionaire, is reportedly preparing

I meant to blog this when it first came out, but Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times writer Paul Krugman has as good an evisceration of the

With a field of GOP candidates who have yet to catch fire, social issues — especially same sex marriage and abortion — are becoming defining factors in a how a candidate will play in the Hawkeye State, political activist Bob Vander Plaats told The Iowa Independent this week. Furthermore, Vander Plaats says, social litmus tests are not responsible for driving away more fiscal Republican candidates, like former Massachusetts Gov

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The America’s Future Now! conference, organized by the progressive Campaign for America’s Future, kicked off in Washington today, and TWI’s crack video team

Both the House and Senate bills include a strong new consumer financial protection agency and it will regulate them (payday lenders), one consumer advocate said.

This Web ad, now running on sites like National Review Online, caught my eye: Click and you discover that the meddling European is ... billionaire