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A coalition of groups, including Demos, Project Vote, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL), and the NAACP, sent a letter to Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson last week alleging that the state is in violation of federal law requiring voter registration at public assistance offices.

WorldNetDaily has the exclusive: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has joined five Republican members of Congress in demanding an investigation of the Council on

Bank-owned foreclosed homes a target for fraudulent deals.

Aaron Blake reports that former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), now a conservative radio host, is backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in a special

Via the Kansas City Star, a government report released this week found that foreign workers are at times abused and exploited under the H-2B visa program, which

The New York Times ran a great story yesterday on the elephant in the room when it comes to renewable energy: cost. Even as many politicians, environmentalists

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast-cancer survivor, has been busy on the news shows this week, attacking the new guideline that women seek routine

In a study that could cause the U.S. to rethink its designation of biomass as green energy, Australian scientists have found that living forests soak up far more carbon dioxide than previously thought. Researchers at the Global Carbon Project based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia detailed the volume of CO2 absorbed by the world’s forests and found that they soak up 10 percent of the emissions caused by human activities

Last month, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made a rather remarkable statement about the trillion-dollar Bush tax cuts, arguing, here’s no evidence whatsoever

Flanked by his newly formed economic transition team at the Chicago Hilton, President-elect Barack Obama today gave his first press conference today. Taking

The original Deepwater Horizon fire (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) According to a plan approved by the Coast Guard and obtained by the Associated Press, BP will no longer be responsible for the cleanup of any oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores, unless officials can prove it came from the BP well that blew out in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending more than 20 million gallons of oil into the gulf. Via the AP : About 90 percent of the Gulf coast has been deemed clean, according to officials. The plan spells out protocol for when an area still needs to be cleaned and when BP’s responsibility for that ends.

People with recently-acquired disabilities have been swimming through an endless sea of red tape to get the U.S. Department of Education to forgive their

A year out from the 2012 election for U.S. Senate, incumbent DFLer Amy Klobuchar has raised $1 million and has $4 million in the bank, while her Republican challengers have taken in a fraction of that. Combined, Joe Arwood and Dan Severson have raised only $50,000 and have about $35,000 in the bank.

Today, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio), the House minority leader, sent a letter (PDF) to the White House asking President Barack Obama to tally the pending

The Associated Press reports that two additional nonprofits that support conservative causes -- Americans for Job Security and The 60 Plus Association -- have

What do the Gulf oil spill and MTV’s Jersey Shore have in common? Well, nothing. Except this: A recent survey found that BP Spillcam, the underwater camera

When I was at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot I met Carl Swensson, an activist from Georgia who was hustling to get people from all 50 states to form citizen

In 2007, Gen. David Petraeus, then the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, testified to Congress about how he envisioned the war ending. It turned out that he had

Guess that historic first vote on single-payer health coverage won’t happen this year after all. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today withdrew his

Banking on an injunction filed Wednesday against the city, Occupy Dallas protesters are hunkering down as lawyers argue for their right to demonstrate in a city

A scratched back is scratching back. One of the first candidates endorsed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) in 2008 has been named the chair of Paul’s

Depending on who you ask, the sentencing yesterday of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri to eight years in prison is either evidence that the civilian federal judicial