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Check out this authentic-frontier-gibberish from Bernard Henri-Levy: From these three certainties, considered together, arises a clear obligation: aiding and

A new peer-reviewed study published by the National Academy of Sciences shows a link between hydrofracking wells to obtain natural gas and contamination of drinking water supplies — particularly with methane, which can even make drinking water flammable. ProPublica reports : For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire… The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University

Two weeks after a deadline for local police departments to count their untested rape kits and report back to the state, fewer than five percent of the agencies

In case there were any lingering doubts as to just how Kafkaesque the U.S. detention policy for Guantanamo Bay prisoners has become, the latest chapter in the

According to credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, Ohio’s decision to overturn its contentious anti-collective-bargaining law will have little effect on its

Interviews with Republican House candidates likely to win their elections next month reveal a wide array of ideas, but few specifics or substantial cuts.

In February, as the law authorizing the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless wiretapping program was set to lapse, House Democrats brushed aside

Just days after American Forces launched a targeted assault that killed Osama Bin Laden, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet asked nominees for counterterrorism posts in the Obama Administration how Bin Laden’s death would affect the flow of financing to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and how terrorist network overlap might complicate U.S

The tripartisan Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Senate climate squad made a splash this weekend with its decision to drop cap-and-trade from its (eventual) legislative

If you happened to catch The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC last night, you saw TWI Legal Correspondent Daphne Eviatar breaking down the pros and cons of Sen.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an

The Fred Karger 2012 campaign has sent an email to CNN executives, asking them to “Let Fred In” to its New Hampshire debate on June 13. In addition to the memorandum sent by Karger, the campaign is encouraging its supporters to contact CNN directly to further press the case for Karger’s inclusion in the Republican debate. The full text of the message is below: MEMORANDUM TO: Jim Walton, President, CNN Worldwide; Ken Jautz, Executive Vice President, CNN FROM: Fred Karger DATE: May 30, 2011 RE: Let Fred In the New Hampshire Debate The June 13, 2011 New Hampshire Republican Debate that you are hosting along with the New Hampshire Union Leader and WMUR-TV is fast approaching, and I have yet to receive an invitation.

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, President-elect Barack Obama acted swiftly to fill three key

The state’s second largest power provider – Tri-State Generation and Transmission – has an all-of-the-above approach to energy resources, but that doesn’t mean its interest in a coal plant expansion in Kansas is meant to transform the Westminster-based company into a larger regional power wholesaler. “We serve 44 co-ops in four states over 200,000 square miles,” Tri-State spokesman Jim Van Someren said Thursday

A central component of Democrats’ health care reform plans would bring more people under the umbrella of coverage, but less clear is whether more patients would find treatment.

Philip “Flip” Benham, the recently convicted stalker of an abortion provider, has made his way to Orlando. # Behman and other protesters are currently holding a weeklong protest of abortion clinics in Orlando. Clinics in the area were given advance notice and a “who-to-watch-out-for” guide from an abortion rights group called Feminist Majority.

Speaking this morning at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s fiscal summit, former President Bill Clinton forcefully argued that immigration reform is crucial to