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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the white firefighters in the Ricci v. DeStefano case, overturning a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling

In his press briefing yesterday, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly took a beating over the fact that department bureaucrats didn’t revoke Umar Farouk

In the how-dare-you-question-my-virtue category of political certitude, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) had a somehow refreshingly honest response

Meet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the only man in Washington who’s actively working to undermine legislation he’s in the process of writing. Graham’s

Anti-abortion activists recall Clinton-era consequences to rise in abortion clinic violence.

Just announced by committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.): “I very much regret the fact that the Republican side of the Intelligence Committee has

UPDATED: March 28, 11:54 a.m. As The American Independent reported earlier this week, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns’ proposed Informed Choice Act

The White House just released a statement touting a provision in the financial reform bill, which President Obama signed into law Wednesday, that requires

Mother Jones is running a series of infographics in its most recent issue that follow income trends in the U.S. Among other findings, they show that the top .01

Rep. Michele Bachmann told radio host Mark Levin on Friday evening that in facing protests by labor supporters Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans are like President Abraham Lincoln, who fought the Confederacy, and President Reagan, who contended with the Soviet Union

Responding to a Florida Independent story revealing ties between Project SOS , a federally funded Jacksonville abstinence education program, and Martin Ssempa, a controversial Ugandan pastor who supports a law in that country that prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality, program founder Pam Mullarkey says she wants to “dissociate and distance” herself from “allegations” about Ssempa made by “the US media.” # Mullarkey contacted the Independent via email with this statement: # While I don’t believe the allegations made about Pr. Ssempa, and he has categorically denied them, I wish to dissociate and distance myself from the allegations of genocide, violence against gays which are attributed to Dr.

With the DISCLOSE Act still stalled in the Senate, President Obama took the opportunity on Saturday to scold the GOP leadership for its recalcitrance in working

With major gay rights victories in Iowa and Vermont in recent days, the movement seem to be on the upswing in much of the country. Arizona, however, is another

In a major turnaround for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, she told ABC News, in an interview that aired last night, that she doesn’t disagree with scientists who say

Updated at 5:08 p.m. In the tide of abortion-related legislation sweeping the nation, among the popular proposals is to mandate counseling services for women

Byron York’s report on Republican frustration with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is as juicy as it could be without actually naming any

One reason that Republicans are happy to have recruited Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) to run against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) -- the odds of a primary win by

Last week’s poorly researched Debbie Schlussel story on Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts burned some of the people who posted on it, such as David Frum.

Republicans have made it clear that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder is the most problematic of President-elect Barack Obama cabinet nominees. Sen. Arlen

It’s official -- David Axelrod, one of the masterminds behind President-elect Barack Obama’s White House bid, is taking a huge pay cut to come to Washington.

Coal production in the United States dropped by 8.5 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy

Today, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their financial disclosure forms from 2009. In them, you can learn that Obama made $1