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Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president. Newt Gingrich Former U.S

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An environmentalist closely involved in Senate energy bill negotiations told TWI that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s energy and oil spill response bill

From The Colorado Independent: The Denver Democratic headquarters was vandalized last night, the long bank of windows that fronts the building smashed.

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It was supposed to be a magical day: the day when, in response to an agreement reached in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama

Julian Sanchez reads through the annual federal criminal wiretapping report so I don’t have to. On the surface it appears that federal wiretapping has declined

Despite Republican accusations that Obama does not want to secure the border, stronger enforcement isn’t off the table for Democrats. Yesterday’s ruling

Records released this week from the California state attorney general’s office show that many charities are awful at collecting the money for-profit fundraisers

The former vice president has an interesting standard for what constitutes certainty. Somehow in his hands a CIA inspector general’s report that says repeatedly

A new report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation finds that the individual and small group health insurance market in Florida is “highly concentrated,” which could present problems as the state starts to create a health insurance exchange program or marketplace. According to a 2010 report (.pdf), individuals who shopped for health care insurance that year faced a market in which four insurers had more than 5 percent of the state’s market share.

A new study has found that corporations have instituted a number of policies to reduce campaign finance spending while the number of corporate boards overseeing

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich seemed to steal the show Saturday evening at a presidential forum hosted by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, focusing mostly on economics as several other GOP hopefuls tried to convince the social conservative crowd they have the strongest stances against abortion and same-sex marriage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News wrote an interesting profile of Todd Palin’s 87-year-old grandmother this week that offers a

This July, Governor Susana Martinez, a descendant of illegal immigrants, implemented what she called a residency certification program — an effort to review the authenticity of foreign nationals’ drivers licenses. The state currently has about 85,000 licenses issued to foreign nationals. State district judge Sarah Singleton issued a preliminary injunction against the program back on September 22

The national group (with Texas roots) backing efforts to replace federal health care programs with interstate health care compacts is the newest sponsor of

Correction, 5:00 EST: This story originally implied the stay placed on Foster’s execution by the U.S. Supreme Court was based on the use of pentobarbital. In

Iowa politicians offer a wide array of opinions on the role of faith in politics, with some saying they can’t be separated and others saying there must be a clear delineation between the two.

Is that your opening negotiation position, Mullah Omar? From the BBC: Taleban leader Mullah Omar has denied there are any talks under way to end the

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday easily passed a bill that would require the Obama administration to make a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1