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The end is near for the first week Summer of Mercy 2.0, the anti-abortion rights protest targeting Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in Germantown, Md.,

Did you ever wonder where all those subprime lenders who made big profits making predatory loans during the housing boom ended up? Think about it: What kind of

As the debate over health care reform rages on, there’s been almost no attention to the fact that health and medical malpractice insurance companies since 1945

In an interview released in Christianity Today Thursday, Tim Pawlenty asserted that the United States was “founded under God” and that the founding fathers put that into the nation’s founding documents. In the wide-ranging interview, Pawlenty talked about his faith, his reversal on cap and trade, and the possibility of running against Rep. Michele Bachmann for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

Here’s Hillary Rodham Clinton at her diplomatic best. After getting tepid applause at AIPAC for her call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian

Tea Party: The Documentary Film is, according to its stars and filmmakers, an attempt to celebrate -- and correct -- the history of what FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey called a movement to fulfill the destiny of this land.

Red State’s Erick Erickson pronounced Sen. John Thune’s (R-S.D.) potential 2012 presidential bid dead today when sources informed him that Thune was opposing

Environmental groups are disputing claims by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, that they weren’t included in the congressman’s Tuesday water pollution hearing because they didn’t ask to be . # The Stearns hearing in Orlando focused on new EPA water pollution rules in Florida.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) announced that she will not run in 2012 for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate in a letter to her supporters Thursday. I am

As other states seek to undermine abortion using a number of tactics, including imposing mandatory ultrasounds before having an abortion and banning insurance

Lawmakers want to rein in spending, but not if it threatens jobs in their states.

Yesterday, New York State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced that New York will end its fiscal year at the end of March with a $2 billion budget shortfall.

Manu Raju’s lede from his latest dispatch on former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) endless legal bids to stop the Senate from seating Al Franken is a

Carla Bruni claims Michelle Obama said being First Lady is hell. Jim DeMint defends his backing Christine O’Donnell. ...and Palin tells her to speak

Some members of Iowa’s faith community received an invitation in their mailbox this week from the Iowa Renewal Project, which is featuring Texas Gov. Rick Perry in an all-expenses-paid Pastors’ Policy Briefing in Des Moines next month. The invitation differs little from those that have gone out previously to Iowa pastors and church leaders.

As mentioned earlier, tomorrow morning Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Amb. Karl Eikenberry begin two days of hearings on the revised Afghanistan strategy. I’ll be

Citizen activists in the natural gas drilling hotspot of western Garfield County, Colo., apparently caught Halliburton employees on tape working in and around a

After my post yesterday updating the status of the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to conceal evidence that British resident and former Guantanamo Bay

The ACLU of Florida logo (Pic via savedade.org ) The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida announced today that “along with the Brennan Center for Justice and the law firms Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and Coffey Burlington sued on behalf of the League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote, and Florida PIRG, challenging the state’s new restrictions on voter registration.” According to the ACLU of Florida, the “lawsuit argues that the restrictions passed this year violate the US Constitution and the National Voter Registration Act. The restrictions being challenged are part of HB 1355, the ‘Voter Suppression Act,’ a comprehensive overhaul of Florida’s election laws which is currently under review by a federal court for potential violations of the Voting Rights Act.” The ACLU of Florida is also intervening in the state’s attempt to receive federal approval for some of the more controversial aspects of the new voting law

On the same day GOP presidential contender Jon Huntsman’s campaign manager resigned, the leader of the anti-abortion rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony

When two African trials last year showed that circumcised men were 60 percent less likely to become infected with HIV than those with foreskins, the World