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In an effort to galvanize support for his signature piece of legislation, a public employee union-busting bill commonly known as Senate Bill 5, Ohio Gov. John

It seems like piling on at this point, but here’s the highlight of Michael Steele’s gig guest-hosting on Bill Bennett’s radio show. I don’t need some judge

The Facts in Brazoria County reported this morning that U.S. Rep Ron Paul (R-Texas) won’t be seeking a new term in Congress, planning to focus instead on his

AARP, the largest advocacy group in the U.S. for retired persons, sued on Tuesday the Department of Housing and Urban Development for promoting policy changes

Daphne Eviatar wrote an excellent piece last week pointing out that private contractors in Iraq are not currently subject to any U.S., Iraqi or international

A new transcript of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) April 9 interview on San Francisco AM station KSFO yields yet another error: On the station’s

In a report submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Enbridge increased its estimate of how much it will cost to clean up the company’s Kalamazoo River oil spill. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that the company has revised its cleanup estimate from $585 million to $700 million. Enbridge spokeswoman Terri Larson told the Gazette that costs have increased due to a need for additional testing, continual reassessments, shoreline cleanup and more operations to recover submerged oil.

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. After a tumultuous week that saw the release of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.)

Via David Corn at Mother Jones, no alarms and no surprises here. Only a fraudulent election upheld by the same clique that put the fix in. Hopes for a

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Reactions to President Obama’s speech to Congress on Wednesday continue to pour in. A Democratic

With an emphasis on help for civilians, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) just issued a statement applauding President Obama for

Pontiac Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel’s recent decision to fire the city clerk led the ACLU to warn that today’s election has been jeopardized . The Treasury Dept., which is responsible for overseeing Emergency Mananger, however, says that it is not worried about the election.

You didn’t really think that Al Qaeda’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, could become any more of an asshole, but it turns out that the intellectual architect

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. President Obama gave a speech today in support of health care reform at a General Motors plant in

A civil rights group is pressing Sen. John McCain to disown the ugliest attack on voting rights in recent history, referencing a Republican scheme to

The Alliance for Climate Protection, the environmental advocacy organization founded by Al Gore, says that ABC refused to run its TV spot promoting alternative

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