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Melody Barnes, President Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, said today that the Obama administration does not have second thoughts about pushing health care

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (Pic by Cooper Levey-Baker) Partnering with Citizens United, former presidential contender and Arkansas Gov

After cutting roughly $900 million in direct funding to K-12 education several weeks ago, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania told reporters Tuesday

A day after the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) lauded Basic Rights Oregon’s decision not to push for a marriage-equality bill next year, news comes

Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office issued findings that the Treasury Dept. has done nothing to measure the effectiveness of its Wall Street bailout

PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano spent 15 years testing immigration policies in her border state. She could be another centrist choice for President-elect Obama’s cabinet.

You know whose opinion you should really value when assessing the impending retention of Bob Gates at the Pentagon? Larry Di Rita, the last living Rumsfeld

It’s hardly rare that members of Congress take a break from legislative debate to honor home-town heroes, so it comes as little surprise that Rep. Sue Myrick

The Hill reported today that the head of the agency in charge of mine safety, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, has pledged to increase enforcement of

As Mike pointed out today, the slow pace of loan modification progress has prompted some lawmakers to once again call for mortgage cramdown legislation that

This week, the American Civil Liberties Union released a letter it received from the Department of Defense confirming that it does not compile statistics on the

This Saturday, hundreds of Miami-ans turned out in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street’s global protest in downtown Miami. The group is also currently occupying a busy part of the city

UPDATED: Aug 12, 9:30 a.m. EST, with a correction Of the approximately 15 Republicans who have either announced or hinted a run for president in 2012, the

A sex education curriculum rife with factual flaws and medical inaccuracies continues to be taught to the state’s middle and high school students in at least

Actually, the direct quote is much more colorful. During a riveting news conference on the federal corruption charges being brought against Illinois Gov. Rod

Last week, lawyers for Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Kurt Browning responded to the case brought in federal court with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union , which seeks to block implementation of a sweeping set of changes to state elections laws. # The state’s lawyers argue the judge should not block the implementation of the law, and that the case should be dismissed, because, among other things: # The state has already submitted the changes in House Bill 1355 to the U.S

In what public interest and science organizations are declaring a “victory” for Texas education, the Board of Education voted Friday to accept new online

While Sen. John McCain is busy bolstering his friend-of-the-military image in the Middle East this week, Democratic Sen. Jim Webb (Va.) is calling on the GOP

Compassionate conservatism at work. One wonders if George W. Bush’s presidential library will feature an interactive waterboarding exhibit.