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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a long-time abortion rights advocate, is predicting that a controversial amendment restricting abortion coverage that passed the

The dismissal of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party by the Department of Justice, something that had been roiling conservatives like Rep.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has not made a public appearance in more than two years, and conspiracy theorists have been speculating for some time that

It was just a matter of time, but right-wing bloggers, restrictionist immigration groups and now even some politicians are blaming illegal immigrants and the

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio would like you to think he’s the toughest anti-immigration cop in the world.

Illegal immigrants could get up to 300,000 construction jobs financed by the federal stimulus, reports USA Today. Based on studies conducted by two

Probably the strangest celebrity of the Tea Parties is Bob Basso, a motivational speaker who started recording YouTube videos as Thomas Paine and was briskly

Earlier this morning, President Obama announced a set of criteria for states to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law following a long period

The environmental group Friends of the Earth released more emails between the U.S.

The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, feeling the pressure from his diminishing popularity, has been hinting he wants to negotiate a deal to draw at least some

Just when the Republican Party is skidding along to its lowest level of power since the 1970s, here comes Scott Rasmussen, the only pollster who matters: A new

Inside the ballroom of the National Press Club, the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights and the Competitive Enterprise Institute are holding an Intellectual

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) planted a U.S. flag in an artificial reef during a Sunday diving trip in Dearfield Beach, likely violating a federal statute that makes

<p><span >Obama and Huckabee grabbed top slots in Iowa Independent&rsquo;s final set of

As long as I’m praising Marc I Won The Morning Ambinder, check out this rather significant data point he mines from a Washington Post story on the final

Fox Nation is promoting this story, which means that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) will join the food fight any moment now. was telling a group of business and

Michael Bromwich, who heads the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at the Interior Department, told a national commission on the Gulf oil spill

Lotta good that did. The Obama administration last Friday issued an official statement in support of mortgage lending reforms that would allow some

Since bloggers at Grist and Biosurveillance first starting pointing to a subsidiary of the U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods as a possible source of the swine

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), who is now being mentioned as a strong candidate for Sen. Barack Obama’s running mate, co-sponsored the 2003 resolution authorizing the