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Coloradans blame market speculation and oil companies for high gas prices, and the vast majority say the best way to bring prices down is to crackdown on market manipulation, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Checks and Balances Project commissioned Colorado pollster Chris Keating to conduct research that shows that 79 percent of Coloradans favor a crackdown on oil price speculation and market manipulation to reduce gas prices. The survey showed 77 percent of Colorado voters think reducing oil consumption through efficiency would also be an effective way to reduce prices.

Sen. Barack Obama’s vote was recorded, broadcast, reported and blogged in real time. His campaign still turned the footage into one of the fastest ads of this

I’m just getting to President Bush’s What Sadrist Intifada? speech from yesterday. It’s predictably stupid. (Since the surge began, business registrations

The Guttmacher Institute on Tuesday launched its first animated short film, summarizing information about women in America who have abortions -- information the

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert might be ready to flex the muscles of his newly established Super PAC, and he seems willing to begin the work-out in Iowa. On The Colbert Report Monday night, the comedian told other potential PACs hoping to back Texas Gov. Rick Perry to back off, “I saw him first.” According to Colbert, he will premiere an ad offering in Iowa Wednesday night during news broadcasts in the Des Moines area.

To gaze in one’s own navel: I said earlier I’d be listening to Obama’s Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions, like this was Passover or something. So what

As the fight over Florida pastor Terry Jones’s crusade against Islam carries on in court, at least one barometer has surfaced that provides a sign of just how

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Minnesota-based big box retailer Target is coming under fire from anti-gay groups for commercials it bought during airing of a teen drama on a Nickelodeon offshoot. Caton’s organization, the Florida Family Association, is an affiliate of the American Family Association, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled an anti-gay hate group

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee today called for a subpoena of White House records regarding the half-billion dollar taxpayer loan guarantee of Solyndra, a move Rep. Diana DeGette, the ranking Democrat on the panel, blasted as “an act of irresponsible partisanship.” “In my 15 years on this subcommittee, we have forged a strong bipartisan tradition of thorough and meaningful investigations. That could have been the case with the Solyndra investigation,” DeGette said today at a subcommittee meeting on oversight and investigations.

Remember that GAO report from a few weeks back revealing that: 1) Iraq’s oil revenue surplus could reach $50 billion this year and 2) roughly $10 billion of

Following a Colorado Department of Labor and Employment hearing today, the state minimum wage rate will increase from $7.36 to $7.64 an hour on January 1, 2012.

Source: donsutherland1, Flickr Reps. Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum and Tim Walz joined 130 other members of Congress in filing a brief in a court case challenging part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

The Heritage Foundation published a report today examining what an average poor household looks like in the U.S., remarking such families have more living space

Another swarm of earthquakes in an unusual part of the country has generated aftershocks of debate about whether the oil and gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is to blame. The early returns in Oklahoma, where a 5.6-magnitude earthquake near Sparks damaged buildings and rattled nerves on Saturday, are inconclusive

When Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted decided not to allow county boards of elections to mail out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms, he overturned a

Marcus Bachmann, husband of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and proprietor of Bachmann & Associates, told the Star Tribune on Thursday that audio of him comparing gays and lesbians to barbarians was doctored.

Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel follows a tip and finds enough problems with Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts -- star-studded events meant to pay for

On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Attorney General Eric Holder left open the possibility of another lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070 if it goes into effect, in

Despite some of the more extreme attacks on Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Obama’s nominee for counsel to the State Department, Koh skillfully defended