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I’ve been reading the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil charges of Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents carefully. It’s a complicated case

Latino voters support the Affordable Health Care Act , but do not support the mandate to purchase coverage, according to a poll released Thursday. Conducted by ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions (IM-LD) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, the poll reveals “that 50% of Latino voters support the Affordable Health Care Act and only 29% support its repeal,” adding that “59% of these voters are not well disposed toward one of the law’s regulations, which makes it mandatory for them to purchase insurance if they do not have coverage

Health care lobbying has almost doubled in 2009. The gun lobby claim that the Senate health bill would allow the government to crack down on gun

The creation of a statewide prescription pill-monitoring database is well underway, with a new name and new requirements.

Republicans pick up 680 seats in state legislatures. Peggy Noonan calls Sarah Palin a nincompoop. Nancy Pelosi might try to be minority

An hour ago I mused about what the Club for Growth, which has spent over a million dollars opposing Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), might do about the latest poll

Harry Reid thinks Kirsten Gillibrand is hot. Even her own ad-makers can’t spell Murkowski. Sarah Palin forgets ACORN no longer exists. Dating sites

The November elections, animated. A Georgia politician thinks Minnesota might be psychotic. More Democrats come out against the mosque near Ground

A student filed suit against the Anoka-Hennepin School District on Monday alleging that the school district did not do enough to protect her from bullying. Filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the new suit alleges that a lesbian student was repeatedly harassed, both verbally and physically, and that the school undertook disciplinary action against the student instead of her tormentors. The suit follows a similar lawsuit against the district filed in July and brings the number of students suing the school to six

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, one of a handful of national anti-gay groups that lead the effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices , wrote on his blog Thursday that not only did the country’s founders not intend for the First Amendment to protect Islam, but Muslims do not have a constitutional right to build mosques in the United States. “Islam has no fundamental First Amendment claims, for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the religion of Islam.

The trial begins for Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner. JetBlue’s angry flight attendant finds fame. Colorado Republicans don’t like their options in today’s

Conservatives in Utah signed a pact last week promising to push for a moderate approach to immigration reform as a state lawmaker works on an Arizona-style

From a Washington Post breaking news alert: President Obama will oppose the release of several dozen photos depicting abuse of detainees held in U.S. military

Facing criticism that the administration has given BP too much control over the response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama asserted that

“When high stakes are attached to tests, people often act in ways that compromise educational values. High-stakes testing incentivizes narrowing of the

A new poll shows Michiganders are not satisfied with Gov.

DeSmogBlog’s Richard Littlemore took notice of my post on the research into the effect of climate change on hurricanes. Unfortunately, I think Littlemore

Anti-abortion-rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony List this week launched an attack video against President Barack Obama, depicting his only friends as

Sen. John McCain’s top economic adviser is busy tracking the financial crisis, but he took time on Tuesday to offer a novel argument for McCain’s grasp of the

Ratcheting up her attacks on President Obama, Rep. Michele Bachmann said Thursday that she believes President Barack Obama is intentionally trying to make Americans poorer. The Sixth District Republican appeared on the religious right radio program of Jay Sekulow to state that “liberalism actually makes people poorer” and that Obama is “angry” at people who have succeeded.