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A new post on the on the Constitutional Accountability Center’s climate change blog lays out what’s at stake for state climate change laws in two upcoming

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. (Pic by jonworth, via Flickr) Congress yesterday approved three free trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, with supporters touting U.S.

Based on their media releases over the past 24 hours, we can determine that Concerned Women for America finds two things to be absolutely beyond the

The American Independent News Network was accepted into the Association of Alternative Newsmedia as the group’s first web-only news outlet following a vote of

On July 13, TWI contributor Alex Zaitchik wrote a brief follow-up to his profile of Libertarian Party media star Wayne Allyn Root, noting that Root had been

In a 249-179 vote, the House of Representatives last week passed an amendment to its budget plan that targets policy czars in the Obama administration (full

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) returns, and asks about intelligence warnings of Al Qaeda movement into the chaos of Somalia. What’s your view on what’s gone wrong

This weekend, hundreds of Tea Party activists gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to protest illegal immigration. Speakers and Tea Partiers proposed a

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost the Alaska Republican Senate primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller last month, is calling on the oil industry for

If they had been pulling out all the stops and working as hard as possible to get as many nominations as fast possible, said former associate counsel in the Bush White House Rachel Brand, they might have done the same as us.

As stated in Article V, Section 7 of the New Mexico Constitution, “when the governor travels outside New Mexico’s borders . . . the lieutenant governor shall act as governor.” Governor Susana Martinez recently told the Albuquerque Journal that she’d like to amend this 1948 amendment in such a way that she would retain all the authority of her office when traveling outside the state

Organized labor is continuing the push back against moves by the GOP-dominated state legislature to erode union rights in the state.

In a 200-page complaint filed in federal court Monday, dozens of former government contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan accuse their old employers and

The release of the Fed’s 2004 transcripts and my initial post have ginned up a number of posts and stories -- including ones by Ryan Grim, Yves Smith, Matt

Politico’s Jeanne Cummings has a fine analysis of the GOP’s 1993 all over again strategy for opposing President Obama and the Democrats, even if she assumes

Media snark from Milbank and Pitney. Learning to love from Sanford’s romance. Conyers and Conyers: partners in crime? Pseudo-facts good enough for

President Obama’s 2012 Department of Homeland Security budget proposal favors immigration enforcement increases for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE.

Members of Colorado’s relatively small Muslim community are intently watching the rising tide of unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, according to the head of the Colorado Muslim Society , and are very supportive of changes that lead to greater freedom throughout the Arab world. “We are for human dignity and justice and freedom from oppression for all of mankind,” CMS President Talib Syed told The Colorado Independent. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s here in the United States or in Africa or in Europe or the Middle East

The online legal resource SCOTUSblog, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court, is holding an online symposium on an issue that figures prominently in the fate of Florida health policy: the constitutionality of the federal health reform law.

During a pair of press conferences today, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan offered a rough sketch of the waivers states can use to opt out of

When West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) said Friday that he was passing the torch to Carte Goodwin, his former general counsel and appointee to replace the