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Last night, after falling in the polls in recent days, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) managed to eke out a win in her primary runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill

Why Obama’s speech on financial reform was so soft on Wall Street bankers. Democrats plan to introduce legislation to check the Citizens United

Elana Schor at Talking Points Memo has a great inauguration interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She asked him about TWI’s story last week revealing that

There is a new buzz in the roadless debate. Charlie Berger, owner of Denver Beer Co., this week called on Congress to strengthen protections of public lands in light of the U.S. Forest Service’s deliberation of a new state-specific proposal to manage forests and attempts by Republican lawmakers to roll back wilderness and roadless area protections

At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the Tea Party movement could help Republicans from moving too far to the

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Legislators consider defining foreign in campaign finance law. Starting next month, a government program will help underwater homeowners via short

NASHVILLE -- WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it

Rush Limbaugh will play himself on this weekend’s Family Guy. Newt Gingrich’s group spends $2.2 million on chauffeurs and private flights. Rahm Emanuel

The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club is the latest statewide group to come out against a 2012 ballot question that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The influential lobby for the environment said Friday that it was jumping into the same-sex marriage debate because of its commitment to social justice. “To achieve our mission of environmental protection and a sustainable future for our planet, we must attain social justice and human rights at home and around the globe,” said Margaret Levin, the state director of the Sierra Club North Star Chapter

Recent changes to the state’s unemployment compensation system will impose new requirements on people seeking benefits, which will in turn lead to fewer benefit payments by the state . # The Ocala-Start Banner offers a look at what these changes mean for people who are out of work: # Melanie Sellers didn’t receive her $198 unemployment compensation payment last week. # Sellers, who lost her job as a scanner technician at the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in the spring after a 20-year career, was denied a week of her jobless benefits because she could not show she had tried to contact at least five potential employers during the qualification period.

Former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota (Pic by Meredith Hill, via myfloridahouse.gov) Former state Rep.

Earlier today, we reported that Merck, the manufacturer of the human papillomavirus vaccine that Gov. Rick Perry attempted to mandate for Texas girls in 2007,

There are petty political battles happening in the Gem State. The Idaho House Wednesday voted down a bill that amends an existing law related to early

Fifteen years after the United States first instituted Operation Gatekeeper to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border with more agents, walls and fences, the

That was fast: The Obama administration told Citigroup to get rid of its $50 million jet, just one day after reports about the expenditure made their way into

Another Facebook endorsement from Palin, another race turned on its head. This time it’s the Republican primary race for governor in Georgia, where state

The Afghan police force is, by and large, a corrupt institution that performs the Taliban’s work for it. And yet it’s part of everyone’s plan -- from Gen.

Either it was very timely or very untimely. This afternoon, we ran a story on a controversial provision in the Senate stimulus bill providing a $15,000 tax

Below are some photos of yesterday’s People’s Rally in Worcester, the rally that Brown held to counter-program the Obama rally in Boston. The crush of

A bill to prohibit private health insurers from covering abortion passed the Florida Senate Health Regulations Committee 8 to 4 on Monday. Senate Bill 1414,

I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden