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Those who signed up to attend The Response, the all-day prayer event hosted by Gov. Rick Perry earlier this month, are now being asked to partake in an

If it seemed quiet in the Senate today, that’s because the chamber was closed, the lights turned off. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had postponed

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) Yesterday, the U.S.

Though last Friday’s near-government shutdown did not lead to a major defunding of Title X family planning programs, at least one anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, still sees it as a “partial victory for the pro-life movement,” and is unlikely to give up the fight to defund Planned Parenthood. # The United States government was on the verge of shutting down over a dispute involving funding for Planned Parenthood and clinics like it.

Tar balls recently washed up on the Alabama shoreline have now been linked to BP, according to preliminary tests performed by Auburn University. Via the Associated Press : Tests show the wave of tar balls that hit Alabama’s beaches after Tropical Storm Lee was from last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a coastal mayor said Tuesday. Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon said the connection was found in preliminary tests performed by Auburn University, and additional tests will be conducted

During a brief exchange in Washington, D.C.

The libertarian think tank releases this video, offering a soup-to-nuts critique of the Afghanistan war, complete with ominous-sounding music:

I spent a good deal of time today at the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire drive, an annual event where immigration

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Counties across Colorado are gearing up for the next major oil and gas boom, scrambling to draft local regulations for everything from visual impacts to physical setbacks of drilling equipment. But state officials are increasingly flexing their regulatory muscles, and industry representatives fear more local regs will slow the next boom before it’s in full swing

State Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, says the Legislature will yet again reject home visiting grants from the federal government because the money is still allocated from the Affordable Care Act

As former Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) could tell you, a challenge in your own district is a heck of a thing to deal with while you’re running the NRCC.

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The Minnesota House passed a bill late Saturday night that would put a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the ballot in 2012.

An anonymous robocall is being sent to voters in Michigan with an ominous and inaccurate warning: Signing petitions could result in identity theft. Blogging for Michigan has the audio , and presents this transcript: This is an identity theft alert.

The GOP presidential nominee’s role in the Keating Five scandal raises questions about his fitness to handle Wall Street’s meltdown.

President Obama just acknowledged that the government messed up in not passing along information intelligence agents had about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the

DENVER -- In 2004, I was googling around to find something about Joe Biden for a piece I was writing. What I found was a short-lived blog titled Joe Biden Is

Nearly all of the GOP candidates for U.S. Senate have agreed to subject themselves to tea partiers’ scrutiny during a series of six candidate forums being