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Two initiatives were launched Thursday morning by a somewhat beleaguered but still popular Cain campaign that are intended to either speak directly to Iowa caucusgoers or provide a foundation for a better ground game in the Hawkeye State. As the May video embedded below shows, Atlanta businessman Herman Cain was a fixture in Iowa early in the 2012 campaign who often attended and provided “star-power” to local GOP fundraisers.

The Senate finance panel just shot down an amendment to the committee’s health reform bill that would have required beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Children’s

The so-called Oracle of Omaha largely shifted the blame from himself and Moody’s, in which Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is a major stakeholder.

Though Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and his supporters were unsuccessful in stripping Planned Parenthood Federation of America of federal funds that go to

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Though voters soundly rejected a state “fetal personhood” measure that appeared on Mississippi’s November 2011 ballot, reps for Personhood USA say they still have hope — in the state’s Legislature. The group’s Amendment 26, which would have defined life as beginning at the moment of conception, was harshly criticized for being broad and vague

A state legislator is holding fire on his plan to broaden Colorado’s bear hunting season. Rep. J

In its 15th annual report on banned, challenged or restricted books in Texas schools, the Americans Civil Liberties Union found the number of books banned by

House Republicans may place more rigid amendments on an abortion bill passed by the Iowa Senate last week . Senate File 534 would allow new free-standing late-term abortion clinics open in Iowa, with a stipulation that doctors get a certification of need approval from the state of Iowa prior to opening

I don’t know what there is to this story apart from the obvious fact: Former Virginia Gov. George Allen must have a good literary agent. Not a fantastic agent,

Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday that the passage of

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wasted little time linking at least one Colorado congressman to Monday’s damning Bloomberg Markets Magazine report on Koch Industries. Hours after Bloomberg published an investigative piece enumerating a pattern of dubious business practices at Koch Industries, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blasted U.S. Rep

American Family Association leaders’ attacks on minority groups are among the reasons LGBT, faith-based and grassroots groups have joined in denouncing Gov.

Despite pressure from national tax executives, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an Iowa-based case involving fried chicken giant KFC, which means the company will be liable for a quarter of million in back corporate income taxes on franchised restaurants in the state. The case, KFC Corporation v

I ducked in and out of XPAC, the lounge-for-kids (i.e., kids without photo IDs to get them into Woodley Park bars) in the basement of CPAC. Like a lot of other

Minneapolis Mayor R.T.

GOP candidate’s Libertarian free-market proposals seek smaller government and tax cuts for big business.

With crude oil prices creeping back toward $100 a barrel and unrest racking the Middle East from Egypt – where 3 million barrels of mostly U.S.-bound oil passes through the Suez Canal each day – to Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, it’s not surprising there’s renewed interest in Colorado’s vast oil shale reserves. “As we all know, the energy challenges our country faces are serious and have gone unaddressed for far too long,” U.S

Today, Standard & Poor’s released an update of the Case-Shiller home price index, finding house prices increased 4.4 percent in the second quarter after

Immigrant rights activists are condemning Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal for appointing Phil Kent, spokesperson for the restrictionist group Americans for Immigration

“It’s time to make tough choices and put politics aside,” Obama said to 70 attendees in a Des Moines backyard chat.

State Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey (Pic via Facebook) State Sen

In a recent interview former Dept. of Natural Resources Director Rebecca Humphries compared the ‘Pure Michigan’ marketing campaign to “putting pretty paint on a house that is structurally unstable.” In an interview with the Center for Michigan’s Bridge Magazine , Humphries, who led the DNR from 2006-2010, predicted that cuts to conservation programs could come back to haunt Michigan