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The author of a House budget amendment on ’traditional values’ centers on college campuses said he doesn’t know if the legislation will affect existing LGBT

The National Review reported last week that Gov. Rick Perry is reaching out to veterans of the George W. Bush White House for foreign policy tips, meeting with

While I was covering the McChrystal/Eikenberry hearings, the State Department finally fired ArmorGroup, the private security company hired to protect the U.S.

The Southern Poverty Law Center logo (Pic via guidestar.org) “Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011,” a Southern Poverty Law Center study, shows that most states fail when it comes to teaching the U.S.

Miracles never cease. In a quiet announcement made earlier this month, the Bush administration said it has canceled plans to outsource the development of an

Election Day 2008 is here! To keep you up to date on results as they roll in, we’ve compiled some interactive maps. With this Google map, it’s simple to

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that new jobless claims decreased by 4,000 to 444,000. The four-week moving average declined to 450,000. The

Gov. Rick Perry may join Focus on the Family’s James Dobson and other conservative figures during a two-day Pastor Policy Briefing, in Orlando, Fla., an

Syracuse University law professor and journalist David Cay Johnston writes in an editorial for Tax.com that a major premise on which the debate over public

Members of the media refer to him as a “stunt candidate.” He didn’t appear on stage in South Carolina last week for the Republican presidential debate because he failed to hit the required support threshold– 1 percent in five national polls. He won’t pull down financial backing from the conservative oil billionaire Koch brothers, nor win over the far-right readers at the RedState blog. Yet, set against the uninspiring candidacies likely to be waged by the men so far lined up to challenge Barack Obama for the White House, Fred Karger’s candidacy could be the most influential, if he stays with it.

The opposition to the $2 billion extension of the cash for clunkers program that passed the House today is lining up in the Senate, which is expected to take up

Erick Erickson has the news: Dick Armey, the former GOP House majority leader and current grand marshal of the Tea Party movement, will campaign for

Bank employees may not be digging into their pockets to make campaign contributions they way they used to, as Elana reports today, but those pockets are

Marc Ambinder has a preview of what Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will tell the Senate

A screenshot of the Ignite brochure (Pic via flfamily.org (.pdf)) The leader of an influential anti-gay, anti-abortion Florida group has issued a new fundraising pitch to help gin up support for the work of its “Ignite an Enduring Cultural Transformation” campaign during the state’s upcoming legislative session.

TVNewser has the email network president Jon Klein sent to producers: I asked the political researchers to dig into the question why couldn’t Obama produce

At around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, Rich Weathers got a call. The Edgewood, Ky., businessman had been a Republican voter and donor for years, so he wasn’t surprised

By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living

ABC News is reporting that Susan Rice -- you remember her, I’m sure -- is now the leading candidate to become Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United

The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to send Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate. The margin was 13-6, with Sen. Lindsey Graham