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Pretty much wherever you find efforts to tighten immigration laws in the United States, you find John Tanton–or more likely these days, one of the groups he founded. The Federation for American Immigration Reform was in Arizona when that state wrote its famous senate bill to crack down on immigration. They were in the Colorado Capitol last November when the Republican Study Committee of Colorado hosted a forum on immigration reform

As the saga of Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) apology to BP took yet another strange turn today, a new poll shows the voters he represents think he was wrong --

The Massachusetts state Senate will debate Kennedy’s succession today -- and Dukakis picks up a key endorsement. Who leaked McChrystal’s strategy review?

One more point about the Rasmussen poll that’s refocused some attention on Massachusetts. On Nov. 24, 2009, Rasmussen did the last big poll on the Democratic

DES MOINES — Lyndsay Harshman grew up in a small southern Iowa town that had no pediatrician. In May she’ll graduate from medical school to go into pediatrics while balancing $135,000 in student debt.

Last week, Richard Goldstone, who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza for the United Nations, wrote to Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) to say that a

Catholics and clergy dined over $65 plates of sausage, bacon and scrambled eggs Wednesday morning at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., to celebrate

The Michigan League of Women Voters are calling for reform of the state’s redistricting laws and will be hosting a forum at Cooley Law School on Wednesday evening on the subject. In a press release, the organization says: Calls for transparency and other reforms to Michigan’s redistricting process were ignored this year, as the Legislature went about the business of drawing political maps in the usual secretive fashion. Maps for Michigan’s new Congressional and State legislative districts were signed into law in August and will remain in place for a decade

Via Marc Ambinder, according to a new poll of residents of Arizona’s Maricopa County -- the state’s most populous and home to eight of its 10 largest cities --

Minnesota Congressman told college activists at a gathering last week that conservatives like Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. “We live in an era of extremism,” Ellison said in his July 6 address to the 2011 Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C.

Many experts say slow job recovery is a simple economic reality going back at least 20 years.

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The New York Times reported today that BP has indicated it may not be able to pay all of the $20 billion in compensation it has promised victims of the Gulf oil

Sure, the associate attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department is supposed to be in charge of the office. But in 2001, then-OLC

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Not being in Pittsburgh, I wasn’t aware of a background briefing on the previously undisclosed Qom nuclear facility. But I’ve just gotten the transcript emailed

Not only would new investment in neglected road, bridge and other infrastructure strengthen the country’s structural backbone, experts argue, it would replace lost jobs and help the country climb out of the current recession.

The National Immigration Forum — a member of a task force created by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help improve its Secure Communities

The New York Daily News reports that Van Jones has taken a job at the Center for American Progress, noting that the former Obama administration green jobs guru

The affidavit that Obama foe Larry Sinclair claims to have filed in a California court, in which he accuses birther Orly Taitz of trying to get him to lie on

Lisa De Pasquale, director of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, shares the news on Twitter. It’s another confirmation of Rubio’s prominence