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Lillis is on the phone reporting or something, so I’m going to steal his thunder on this press release Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell just sent out

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 11, 2009. Rep. Joe Wilson, the

Congressional Democratic leaders want to give GM, Ford and Chrysler billions of dollars to save them from bankruptcy. But the White House and the GOP are skeptical about throwing more money at an industry that has resisted calls to change. Are car manufacturers too big to fail?

Research finds lawful residents and undocumented immigrants held in inhumane conditions.

This morning, The Wall Street Journal breaks the unfortunate if unsurprising news that big Wall Street banks routinely lower their debt levels shortly before

Senate supporters of the Children’s Health Insurance Program won two years of additional funding for the popular federal-state program under the upper chamber’s

The first week of May was as eventful for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as any time since the 2008 election.

At this point, following investigators’ lead, it’s probably fair to conclude that the Fort Hood shooting suspect was motivated by religious extremism: U.S.

After an 11th hour deal to patch together competing versions of a school voucher program failed to materialize Wednesday in the Pennsylvania Legislature,

After banks received billions of dollars when their risky investments failed, most economists understand that, without strict controls, markets and banks are

Wade Henderson and Janet Murguia, presidents of two national organizations present at the White House meeting held this Tuesday to discuss immigration reform, are highlighting the president’s support for the DREAM Act. Just last week, though, a leading advocate for the passage of the DREAM Act received a notice of deportation. # During a phone conference organized by the National Council of La Raza on Wednesday to present a report on the impact of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration-enforcement law, Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , said that the president voiced his support for the DREAM Act Tuesday.

There ought not be open dissension on this issue, is the message the Catholic hierarchy is telling priests in Minnesota -- this issue being same-sex

State Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) A school prayer bill introduced by state Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, has caught the attention of national groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Freedom From Religion Foundation

The State Department released a revised civilian strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan today. And it’s really more of a summary of what’s been going on as much

... comes a report (pdf) that finds Medicare’s hospital fund will go broke sometime in 2017 -- two years earlier than analysts reported just a year ago. The

Congress has until Friday at midnight to pass 12 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2012, as well as stopgap spending legislation to keep the government

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Joseph Farah, who’s edited the conservative WorldNetDaily.com since its founding in 1997, is swinging back at an ad hoc campaign led by conservative blogger Jon

Four Senate Democrats have called for EPA administrator Stephen Johnson to resign. Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer

There was no reason to pay off these parties at 100 cents on the dollar, said Bill Black, a leading critic of the government’s bailout managers.

The news that was circulating through the Arabic-language press yesterday has now been confirmed by Human Rights Watch, The Washington Post reports. According