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House Speaker Kurt Zellers said that voting is not a right, but a privilege Wednesday evening, the Star Tribune reports . Zellers is not the first conservative to make that claim during the debate over voter ID which is heating up the Minnesota Legislature. Republicans and voter ID advocates have compared showing identification for voting to everything from cashing a check to boarding a plane to buying cigarettes.

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Ken Buck, Colorado’s GOP senate candidate and Tea Party favorite, is taking the high road -- sort of. The Denver Post’s blog reported yesterday that Buck has

The Illinois General Assembly will address a proposed state education bill mandating more comprehensive sex education in its fall veto session, which begins

Officially, House leaders are saying they’ll have the support to pass an enormous jobs proposal that would extend the deadline to file for additional

It may not be the 9/11 Commission, and may not have the force of, say, John Durham’s Justice Department inquiry into prospective CIA illegality in the Bush

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on May 21, 2009. Bouncing around the InterWeb,

Well, not explicitly, of course. But that Senate Armed Services Committee report blaming Donald Rumsfeld for the torture of detainees in Defense Dept. custody?

Jim Cramer is looking at President Obama and seeing red. Let me tell you something, we heard Lenin. There was a little snippet last week that was, ‘Now is

Here’s a video of one of the better scenes from the CPAC exhibit hall: Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty hosts sumo wrestling matches that pitted America

Earlier today, environmental reporters were surprised to learn that, in a reversal, the Interior Department had extended its offshore drilling freeze to shallow

Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri talk to the anti-ACORN filmmaker, who’s trying to make it to Washington to join Hannah Giles -- who played the prostitute in his

In February, U.S. Special Operations Forces raided a house in Gardez, in the eastern district of Paktia, searching for Taliban militants. They killed two men

Sen. Barack Obama’s infomercial attracted 33.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen, making the pricey programming an effective message tactic. The

An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal attacks President Obama’s cap-and-trade plan to curb carbon emissions as a regressive policy: Hit hardest would

GUANTANAMO BAY -- After a tough morning session for the defense, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, Omar Khadr’s military lawyer, brought some momentum back to his team.

What a difference a chairman makes. When he ran the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (then-R-, now-D-Pa.) dealt in a genteel manner with hot-button