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Multiple groups are calling for a boycott of the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Phoenix, Ariz., on July 12 in protest of the immigration law SB 1070.

The Senate just voted 70 - 29 for cloture, meaning the nomination of David Hamilton to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will receive an up-or-down

So, keeping up on the Pakistani military’s offensive against the Taliban, there’s this: The government claimed 700 insurgents had died and the Taliban were on

The title of Sen. John McCain’s newest campaign ad, "Love" -- which opens with scenes from the summer of the same name -- may make you think he’s gone

The U.S. House has voted 255-172 in favor of restricting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas

We ran a piece earlier this week noting an apparent failure of federal regulators to enforce safety laws governing the oil and coal industries, both of which

Anti-illegal immigration groups claim that an environmental bill to protect lands in New Mexico will make it easier for cartels and immigrants to enter the country.

Sharron Angle, Nevada’s Republican candidate for Senate, has a new ad today attacking her opponent Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on his positions on illegal

Citing reports alleging that Sen. Barack Obama has received illegal campaign contributions from overseas, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis called for the

BUTTE, Mont.-- Ralph Maxwell, a former attorney and judge in North Dakota, nearly shook with anger. Wearing his World War II uniform, which he hadn’t taken

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Both parties have legal teams on call, but the Republican National Lawyers Association’s success in training over 1,000 volunteer lawyers is unprecedented.

An organization that worked with the state legislature to draft laws that limit collective bargaining rights and tenure for teachers spent more than $900,000 on advertising in the first seven months of this year. The Michigan Campaign Finance Network reports that Students First , a California and D.C.-based ‘education reform’ organization, spent more than any other group on lobbying over this period.

Liberal establishment Democrats fared well against their more conservative establishment counterparts, and the party scored a win in Pennsylvania.

State Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey (Pic via Facebook) A few weeks ago, Gov. Rick Scott put out a challenge to teachers across the state: Come up with new ideas for Florida’s K-12 education system. One of the responses to that call is now coming in the form of a bill sponsored by state Sen

We’ve heard plenty of grumbling from Republicans about how they couldn’t support the recently passed economic stimulus package because it’s a spending bill,

In an interview with the Family Research Council (FRC) on Tuesday evening, Rep. Michele Bachmann admitted that the new health care law won’t be defunded in 2011. The FRC hosted a webcast called “Time to Act: How big government is fiscally and morally bankrupting America,” during which Bachmann also said she wants FRC’s membership to pray for her and other Republicans to have “supernatural abilities.” FRC’s Tony Perkins said to Bachmann, “We need to defund the government takeover of health care.

Lots of individual seats in Tuesday’s House and Senate races remain genuine toss-ups, but the consensus among odds-makers about the House is pretty darn clear.

The two Colorado lawmakers leading the charge to clean up the controversial natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, were pleased

President Obama explains a deal with Republicans on the Bush tax cuts (for further information, read TAI’s coverage of the deal):

PBS will air Tuesday a documentary examining the lives of four Filipino educators who moved to Baltimore as part of the city’s efforts to shore up its teacher