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The Minnesota governor’s PAC is rolling out today with a media blitz reflecting the talent of his staff (such as former Republican National Committee spokesman

The Associated Press is reporting that Gov.

CNN has just released a poll that found 52 percent of Americans, according to a new CNN poll, say Afghanistan has turned into a situation like the U.S. faced

An Indiana election law expert said Texas lawmakers do have reasons to be concerned that proposed voter photo identification legislation -- authored by state

An editorial in today’s New Orleans Times-Picayune today says calls for an extension of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in light of

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today defended Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s restriction of military recruiters’ access at Harvard Law School

Immigration and human rights experts say that no other developed country has passed an immigration law as stringent as Alabama’s. Although pieces of the law

For the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the battle to restrict marriage to straight couples has often been waged at the same pace as the battle to

New details have emerged on Louisiana’s $142.4 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The program aims to expand child reading and

Iowa’s public universities are experiencing record enrollments but are being funded in real dollars at the same level as they were 30 years ago. In fact, no area of state government has taken more hits in funding over the past 10 years than Iowa’s Regent universities, according to the Legislative Services Agency. The universities made up most of the cuts through efficiency measures — staff and faculty reduction, closing programs, reducing janitorial services — but average tuition increases have been increasing while nationally they have declined

President Obama signed the 2010 defense appropriations bill into law this morning, following a brief bit of legislative theater by Republicans who wanted to

Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton of Auburn Hills has decided to leave office and move to California to work for Michelle Rhee’s education reform group

You can’t be a conservative today unless you’re taking the hammer and tongs to Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.). The Fox News All-Stars (I always expect them to turn

A new study by a U.S. Forest Service researcher found that the application of hydrofracking wastewater to a forest in West Virginia did enormous damage to the forest ecosystem, killing all ground plants and many trees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility reports on the study’s findings: She looked at the effects of land application of fracking fluids on a quarter-acre section of the Fernow Experimental Forest within the Monongahela National Forest

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Despite delivering on his promise of wings and Guinness, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry failed to draw a crowd to his news conference at the National

Lisa De Pasquale breaks the news of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Sarah Palin, to be conducted in the second hour of his Nov. 17 show. Since the 2008

Smelling blood in the water as Democrats made contradictory statements about what a Senate health care reform bill might contain, Republicans are pushing back against a possible compromise.