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As voluntary mortgage modifications have failed to keep pace with foreclosures, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said

A controversial prayer rally took place at Ford Field Friday and Saturday but many mainline Christian leaders protested the event, calling out organizers for their anti-Muslim, anti-gay and even anti-Catholic views. The Detroit Free Press reports : Organizers for Engle’s prayer event were expecting 50,000 to 70,000 people to show up, but the crowd size was markedly smaller than that, with much of the stadium unfilled

Rep. Kenneth B. Horn (R-Frankenmuth) is pro-choice when it comes to light bulbs.

Michelle Obama will make her first appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Wednesday. Her husband has already done three visits, but Michelle

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who’s about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, doesn’t appear to be

I reported earlier that Arlington, Va., is giving up on its efforts to opt out of Secure Communities, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows

Less than a week remains before Gov. Rick Perry’s Houston prayer event, and since Perry distanced himself from some controversial endorsers of The Response,

Responding to congressional opposition to an investigation of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the national anti-abortion rights group that

False claims on Environmental Protection Agency regulations made in a Herman Cain ad aren’t worth responding to, a spokeswoman for the Sierra Club says, claiming voters are smart enough to see through political rhetoric in the ad. Herman Cain The ad, running statewide in Iowa on FOX News Channel, features several Hawkeye State farmers saying the EPA wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming operations. A spokesman for the EPA said Monday that’s simply not true.

In this third edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists take note of international and national headlines, and summarily tossing most of them all out the window in favor of their views of a somewhat more insulated and currently emotion-based Iowa ground game.

At a campaign stop Thursday in North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann blamed Pres.

Yesterday The National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed its plans to replace an aging Los Alamos National Labs facility, which runs across a major fault line, with an estimated $4-6 billion plutonium lab. According to the NNSA notice, the new building “would provide vitally essential technical support capabilities to NNSA’s national security mission.” However, according to Greg Mello of the Albuquerque-based Los Alamos Study Group, a LANL watchdog, the project creates very few new jobs for New Mexicans — perhaps as few as 300 — over its projected 10-year-long construction. Moreover, the unofficial cost of the building by the time of its actual completion could run as high as $12 billion.

On a call with reporters this afternoon, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) and Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colo.) urged their Republican

A three-year-old state-funded website in Massachusetts that provides youth-tailored information on sex and reproductive health has fueled recent outrage among

Via Ben Smith, I see that the America Family Association’s Bryan Fischer went nuclear over CPAC’s inclusion of GOProud and included some surprisingly hard

Pharmaceutical companies and a Saudi prince were among the funders of recent Pentagon junkets, despite their financial interests in U.S. military spending.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) This week, Congress will hold yet another hearing addressing a grievance from Catholic bishops, this time about a recent loss of federal funds.

The “ glitterbombs ” that have targeted Michele and Marcus Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty were taken to the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday when Minnesota For Marriage, a group that opposes rights for same-sex couples, was showered with glitter from the fair’s Skyride. The glitterbomb phenomenon, homegrown in Minnesota, has also secured a place in pop culture.

The NARAL Pro-Choice America logo (Pic via naral.org ) NARAL Pro-Choice America, a national reproductive rights group, announced today that it sent a letter to President Obama denouncing a federal agency’s recent decision to overrule an FDA request to expand access to Plan B, or the morning after pill, to young women under the age of 17.

Imagine my delight when dishonest reporter Steve Hayes cited as another example of journalistic sanity on the Saddam/Al Qaeda lie... dishonest reporter Jeff

In my last post, I asked what it means to disrupt and defeat al-Qaeda, which President Obama said in his speech was the goal in Afghanistan-Pakistan. Denis

For Rep. Mike Coffman, R-CD6, signing on as Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s Colorado chairman probably seemed like a smart move back when Perry went from announcing he was running to being the front-runner in a matter of hours

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly jobs report for January this morning and, once again, what appears to be very good news on the surface is really bad news when you look at the details. The good news on the surface is that the national unemployment rate dropped a whopping .4 percent, down to 9 percent overall. The bad news in the details is that it did so while the economy only created a net 36,000 new jobs, which means nearly the entire decline is due not to people finding jobs but to people exhausting their unemployment benefits and joining the shadow world of the 99ers — uncounted.

The on again, off again recall election against Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) is heating up now that the courts have said the recall must proceed