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Writing in The Hill earlier this week, U.S. Senator and former DPS superintendent Michael Bennet issued a call for education reform. To his voice, we add that of renowned scholar Ken Robinson , who calls for an absolute re-thinking of how we educate kids

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Though GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has caught flack for apparent flip-flops on abortion issues, perhaps none are quite as critical of him as “fetal personhood” supporters. The “personhood” movement wants governments to legally define a human being from the moment of conception, and Keith Mason, the head of Personhood USA, is saying that Romney should clarify his stance on the issue. The “Personhood” movement is controversial because of its vague nature

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) During a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Orlando this Wednesday, Frank Luntz, one of the most well known political communications strategist in the country, talked to GOPers about how they could do a better job talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Yahoo News’ Chris Moody reports that “Luntz offered tips on how Republicans could discuss the grievances of the Occupiers, and help the governors better handle all these new questions from constituents about ‘income inequality’ and ‘paying your fair share.’” “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort

We learn via the Nashville Post that Republican Rep. Eric Swafford, of the Tennessee State House, has decided to don clown shoes and join a crackpot legal

Minnesota House Republicans invited anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide to give the morning prayer. The prayer was so offensive to many legislators that House leadership brought in the chaplain to redo the prayer. Dean has made many controversial statements as pastor of You Can Run, including advocating the incarceration of gays and lesbians, that the LGBT community is trying to usher in Sharia law in Minnesota , that gay men molest an average of 117 children “before they get caught,” and that Muslim nations that execute gays are more moral than American Christians .

It is my country’s duty to ask for the custody of our detainees, like every country would do, the Yemeni official told TWI.

LEESBURG, Va. -- I’m on the idling Palin press bus, getting ready to head out on a swing through the state and then on to Pennsylvania tonight. Sitting here

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, has been playing defense lately. A recent water pollution hearing he sponsored in Orlando has been subject to scrutiny, mainly because he invited a slew of agriculture and industrial interests to testify, and only one environmental advocate (who was invited at the last minute).

House Speaker Ben Luján sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders Tuesday outlining plans to form a subcommittee during the special session to investigate allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., which would ultimately decide whether to recommend impeachment for the full House. The process of impeachment is just like it is at the federal level: It requires a majority vote in the House and a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, Democrat Brad Gallegos announced his candidacy for Block’s seat on the PRC, bringing the total number of announced Democratic challengers against Block to five.

House Republicans may place more rigid amendments on an abortion bill passed by the Iowa Senate last week . Senate File 534 would allow new free-standing late-term abortion clinics open in Iowa, with a stipulation that doctors get a certification of need approval from the state of Iowa prior to opening

President Obama’s pick to lead war effort said time on the ground is critical to provide specific answers on key issues.

I don’t know what there is to this story apart from the obvious fact: Former Virginia Gov. George Allen must have a good literary agent. Not a fantastic agent,

Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday that the passage of

Minutes after I published that post profiling the hawkishness of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Danish prime minister posted a new

The Department of Transportation is asking for public input on a proposed new set of regulations to govern natural gas pipelines in the United States. Cynthia Quarterman, director of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released a document called an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking , which invites stakeholders to submit written testimony on the need for new regulations

While the national press bats around the question of whether, or how, Gov. Rick Perry ought to be called a racist, newspapers in Texas have unearthed a few new

Senate candidate Hector Balderas went on the offensive Friday — but in an email against the two top-tier Republican candidates, not his main opponent, fellow Democrat Martin Heinrich. Balderas said that he would vote against the Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., budget. But with the two Republicans, he said, “We just don’t know.” The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that Lt.

While anti-gay slurs may have been part of a Waterloo assault that led to the beating death of a 19-year-old Waterloo man, law enforcement investigating the incident say they do not believe sexual orientation was the focus of hate and violent actions. “These were individuals who were known to each other, and there had been previous incidents,” Lieutenant Michael McNamee of the Waterloo Police Department told The Iowa Independent by phone early Wednesday. “It is possible that there was anti-gay shouts made at the time of the incident early Friday, but the attack did not stem from that

Senators are currently debating Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Audit the Fed amendment to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. (Watch the

DES MOINES — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney received a rather aggressive Iowa welcome Thursday during his Des Moines Register soapbox appearance at

Government spending in America is out of control and in need of a strong leader to reign it in and reduce debts for future generations, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty told a Des Moines crowd Monday morning, a day after he announced his candidacy for President . “Our country won’t get fixed is we keep going in the same direction,” Pawlenty told a crowd of about 200 people, including about 60 members of the press and some state politicians like Rep.

Poor residents of the state of Michigan who lose a family member will lose an assistance program to help pay funeral costs.

In testimony before Minnesota Senate and House committees last week, religious leaders and representatives from religious right organizations cited single-parent families and a skyrocketing divorce rate as reasons to protect marriage from being redefined to include same-sex couples by “activist judges” and “handfuls of legislators.” And GOP members rebuffed efforts by DFLers to include a ban on divorces in a proposed ban on gay marriage. However, a number of the legislators who say they want to protect marriage appear to have been divorced.