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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Eight people charged with conspiring to riot during last year's Republican National Convention in St. Paul will be tried together. Ramsey County District Judge Teresa Warner says
Associated Press - December 8, 2009 7:15 AM ET CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Republican Party intends to elect a new committeeman to represent the state on the Republican National...
Republican foes of the president's health plan are just like those lawmakers who once dragged their heels to end slavery -- doling out the "same excuses" to wrongly maintain the status quo, the Senate's leading Democrat charged yesterday. "Instead...
RNC chairman: Focus on lagging economy instead.
Liberal and centrist Democrats worked on a deal for a public option as the majority leader’s slavery analogy drew Republican ire.
n Abortion, public option still contentious issues as lawmakers haggle, bicker and trade barbs
Recently I was rather dismayed when I read of a movement to require a "Purity Test" for GOP candidat ...
Seeking to resolve two contentious issues blocking health-care reform in the Senate, lawmakers began consideration Monday of an amendment to restrict abortion coverage, while Democrats closed in on alternatives to the public-insurance option.
The Republican Party's days of putting benchwarmer candidates on the ballot in South Jersey may soon be over.
Sworn into office facing similarly high levels of unemployment, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama pursued starkly different policies. A comparison of their results should put the final stake in voodoo economics.
Republicans attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday after Reid compared opponents of healthcare reform to those who opposed the abolition of slavery. Read more...
LANCASTER - Councilwoman Emily Whitworth announced Monday night at the city council meeting that she will be stepping down because she is moving outside the city limits. The city council has voted to elect Maggie Morris in Whitworth's place.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid upped the rhetorical tension Monday during debate on healthcare, invoking times of slavery and women's suffrage fight.
As is often the case when a politician releases this sort of information, Montana Sen. Max Baucus waited for the weekend to announce that he had nominated his girlfriend for appointment as Montana’s U.S. attorney. To be clear, Baucus has maintained that he did nothing wrong, calling Melodee Hanes, whom he now lives with in Washington, D.C., “highly qualified” – although she later withdrew from ...
Washington » Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid equated Republican attempts to delay health reform to politicians who argued against ending slavery or giving women the right to vote.
Onions: To Gary D., owner/publisher of the Range Times for his Nov. 19 “Notes”. You insinuate that the attack at Fort Hood was the fault of the “New” Administration.
Times are hard, but the pathway to fame in America has never been easier. No talent is required – you can go on a shooting spree, give birth to octuplets or launch a homemade balloon from your backyard and tell the cops that your little boy is trapped inside.
I spent a considerable amount of time this week trying to determine exactly what certain members of the GOP were thinking when they attempted to institute a new Conservative Purity Test to judge political candidates across the country.
The Republican National Committee chairman is calling for a Senate Ethics Committee investigation, after Senator Max Baucus nominated his girlfriend for a position as Montana's U.S. Attorney.
Listen carefully dear reader, can you hear music in the air? Barry Manilow, Dave Matthews Band, John Tesh; but where could it be coming from? Wonder no longer, the Masticator has discovered the latest source of whiteness in our area; Chipotle has come to town.
INDIANAPOLIS —Southwestern Indiana teenagers once again will be able to make the Statehouse their classroom for a day when the Indiana General Assembly returns to session in January. State lawmakers are inviting those in middle school and high school — you must be 13 to participate — to apply to become a page. Those selected spend a day working with lawmakers and their staffs, learning about ...
