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Environmental groups are concerned that the appointment of Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to the

I guess I see what Washington Times mainstay Wes Pruden is trying to say here, but there could be a less Cecil Rhodes-ian way of expressing it. Mr. Obama’s

The Miami Herald is reporting that Florida’s unemployment rate stayed static at 10.7 percent from July to August. Via a press release posted by the Herald : Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in August 2011 is 10.7 percent. This represents 987,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,201,000

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made no announcements today about the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, despite

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Mr. M, a former Army National Guard medic at Bagram from August 2002 to spring 2003, testified that he never saw any fresh wounds on Omar

Under a new ruling, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will allow traditional political action committees to merge with super PACs, effectively allowing

Environmentalists scrambled today to get control of the midterm narrative following a crushing defeat for Democrats in the House and Senate. At a press

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times implored state education officials to re-instate an erasure analysis of standardized public school tests. The state

Normally when I see the Wall Street Journal flash breaking news like, the Dow industrials fall more than 600 on fears bailout package vote will fail, I’d

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells Politico that he thinks former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) -- convicted on seven felony counts of failing to

GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux (left) (Pic by Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Nicole Bieneman, via Wikimedia Commons) GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux today announced the launch of a new website that labels opponent Adam Hasner a “phony conservative.” LeMieux’s new website goes after Hasner for allegedly being a “ self-proclaimed moderate ,” as well as having an inconsistent record on conservative issues such as abortion and “school choice.” The website’s launch follows the Family Research Council’s endorsement of Hasner last week. The Research Council is a staunchly conservative anti-gay and anti-abortion rights advocacy group that routinely endorses the most conservative candidates running for federal office

University of Texas System regent Alex Cranberg has several things in common with recently fired UT special adviser Rick O’Donnell: Colorado, Jeff Sandefer’s

Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday announced the details of a compromise on education reached with the Republican leadership in both chambers of the state legislature, which he said should help complete the budget by his self-imposed deadline

Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the only designated enemy combatant held on U.S. soil, in a U.S. federal court,

Four reports released today by the national oil spill commission detail mistakes made by the White House in the chaotic aftermath of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Denver 2022 Winter Olympic bid may face a much stiffer challenge than the ongoing squabble between U.S. and international Olympic officials over revenue sharing

A Colorado Springs school district spokesperson told the Colorado Independent this morning that the district’s hands are tied by state law in terms of how it handles the case of a student with a prescription for medical marijuana. “This is a legal situation with the state, not with the school district,” spokesperson Jennifer Sprague said. “State law says no one can possess or ingest medical marijuana on school grounds.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today signed an agreement with the IRS and nine state agencies to “improve departmental efforts to end the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” A Department of Labor press release adds that “signatory states are Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah and Washington

Since posting my story yesterday on how the Obama Justice Department is heading for a showdown with the federal judiciary in the Al-Haramain warrantless