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Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, not only doesn’t think that gays and lesbians should be protected from discrimination, he thinks that companies should not hire them at all. In an interview with Linda Harvey of Mission America, Glenn makes his argument on the basis of alleged health concerns: Glenn: Herman Miller, which is a major employer and corporation in Holland , a furniture company, supported this so-called gay rights ordinance on the claim that it allowed them to attract the best and brightest.

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DES MOINES — Texas Gov. Rick Perry swung through Des Moines on the caucus campaign trail last week, bringing a touch of Texas swagger to the Iowa Credit Union Convention while again railing against federal regulations

So says Shaun Donovan, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In an interview with The Washington Post, Donovan says the focus of the real

The combative head of an anti-environmentalist Washington, D.C. nonprofit with Colorado roots vowed on Thursday to appeal last week’s Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s nearly 100-year-old ban on corporate campaign spending.

Byron York had been working the sleepy Census controversy beat yesterday, so it makes sense for his story today to focus on how Republicans were fretting

Large majorities of the Alabama legislature approved a new immigration-enforcement law Thursday. The law is specifically modeled after Arizona’s notorious

TWI’s David Weigel sat down with Politico’s Ben Smith yesterday for a wide-ranging Bloggingheads.tv diavlog that covered President Obama and Afghanistan, the

As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) girds for the March 4 Ohio and Texas primaries -- races that could mark her last stand in the battle for the

Mitt Romney is announcing his long-coming official 2012 presidential bid on a New Hampshire farm today.

Among the myriad criticisms that opponents of the Democrats’ health reform bills have leveled at the legislation, perhaps none resonates as strongly as the

Senator Michael Bennet today signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Togo West and Vernon Clark, the co-chairmen of Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s Fort Hood commission, have been beaten up all morning in the Senate Armed

In a letter released today, the Senate Ethics Committee admonished Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) for actions and statements reflecting unfavorably upon the

If it doesn’t make any sense to you to spare defense programs from the spending freeze, pay attention to next Tuesday. At 8:30 a.m., Undersecretary of Defense

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich has officially thrown his hat into the presidential ring. Gingrich, a Georgia resident, made the announcement Wednesday afternoon.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler says he found out about allegations of unpaid wages at a local construction site through The Florida Independent. # “Other than reading your article, no one came to me on this issue. No one from the Housing Authority, nobody from the contractor, subcontractor, general contractor and no employee came, so I’ve seen your article and trying to figure out what happened here,” Seiler says.

Although Iowa’s top Republican donors may point to their recent 2012 recruitment trip and express desire for a presidential candidate more in line with their fiscal conservative values, some of Iowa’s political analysts see the excursion as a response to fear. One such analyst notes that the Hawkeye State’s establishment GOP base is shrinking, and an unsuccessful attempt to bring an additional campaign to the 2012 mix may have caused more harm than good.

So a couple months ago I asked David McKiernan, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, what he thought of the idea of arming Afghan tribesman along a Sons of