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Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) filed his appeal of the Senate election contest with the Minnesota Supreme Court today, arguing that “widespread

After Matt Corley of ThinkProgress picked up my post about Jason Mattera’s tongue-in-cheek ghetto joke about Sonia Sotomayor, Mattera posted a response at

’24’ is hardly a template for counterinsurgency, as it glorifies brutality, particularly toward Muslims who may or may not be terrorists, rather than emphasizes

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On April 15 U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) voted in support of House GOP budget plan authored by U.S.

Self-employed New Mexicans relying on Blue Cross Blue Shield health care services are due to incur a ten percent increase on premiums paid less than a year

If you haven’t been following the latest speculation about the potential musical chairs on various energy committees in Congress as a result of the midterms,

Iowa’s grassroots political process was on display Thursday evening as precinct-level GOP representatives from Senate District 18 gathered at a local hotel to make a decision that will hold statewide ramifications.

Fine, that’s unfair, but this is a jarring paragraph from Barnes’s editorial on how Republicans can defeat Obamacare. Obama’s liberal reforms... would only

Liberal Democrats have insisted the option be included to keep private companies honest, while Republicans have insisted that it be scrapped to ensure the viability of the private marketplace.

Both civil libertarians and ex-CIA officials involved in interrogations and detentions policies welcome the changes.

March will bring the beginning of the British army’s withdrawal from Iraq, a move that will the current force of 4,100 down to roughly 400 by the summer. As

Personhood Mississippi has launched a new website to tout its “Yes on 26″ campaign, which aims to drum up publicity for an amendment that would make abortion, and possibly some forms of birth control, illegal in the state. # The website, YesOn26.net , includes a section of endorsements (which are plenty), volunteer and email lists, and several ads for the amendment, including a video entitled “Ronald Reagan endorses Personhood.” # The site also lists the members of the Yes on 26 “Advisory Board,” which is co-chaired by Mississippi Lt

According to the conservative Business and Media Institute, Republican whips are going to give their House colleagues iPod touches to keep everyone on message.

For my piece today I present a number of progressive agenda-items for a new counterterrorism policy. But naturally I couldn’t include everything that my

President Obama has just signed the bill extending unemployment benefits into law. Now, the 300,000 jobless workers per week exhausting their 26 weeks of state

Colorado’s top oil and gas regulator and the head of one of the state’s leading industry lobbying groups both say federal legislation compelling disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing would not have prevented the state’s worst cases of groundwater contamination.

President Obama and the Democrats are both kicking their midterm election efforts into a higher gear today. The President held a fundraiser for the Democratic