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Mich. state rep. Agema not to appear at controversial Terry Jones rally as announced

By | 09.06.11 | 5:00 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) was announced as a speaker at a Lansing rally Wednesday organized by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who made headlines when he threatened to burn a Koran on his church property earlier this year, but his office denies the accuracy of that announcement.
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Pro-voucher group spent $730,000 in Wisconsin for 2010, mostly on behalf of GOP

By | 05.24.11 | 5:41 pm

The American Federation for Children’s insistence that it is a bipartisan education group took a hit today when it was revealed to be one of three school choice advocacy organizations raising $3.36 million dollars for mostly Republican candidates during the 2010 Wisconsin legislative season.

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Care Net and NARAL reps trade barbs over Crisis Pregnancy Centers

By | 05.20.11 | 9:25 am | More from The Florida Independent

Care Net, a network of more than 1,100 pregnancy centers across North America, released a statement earlier this week in response to a video posted on YouTube by pro-abortion rights group NARAL New York. More…

Blocked from using excess funds to cover costs, USPS can only watch as default deadline approaches

By | 05.06.11 | 12:30 pm

Image by Matt MahurinThe U.S. Postal Service is hurting. In April, The American Independent reported that it’s teetering on the brink of financial insolvency, with no obvious solution in sight. Unless something changes quickly, within five months, the USPS will default on its largest single financial obligation, an action that could have More…

Republican bill gutting local anti-wage theft ordinances passes House committee

By | 04.15.11 | 11:33 am | More from The Florida Independent

The Republican majority on the state House Judiciary committee voted Thursday to support House Bill 241, which would render useless local wage theft ordinances that help workers who have been stiffed of their earned wages by dishonest employers.

statewide construction business coalition, the National Federation for Independent Businesses More…

‘Patriotic Millionaires’ challenge Tea Party’s ‘war on the weak’

By | 04.13.11 | 4:13 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

It’s tax time 2011, which means it’s the second anniversary of the Tea Party. It’s also nearly a week after the first great Washington budget battle of the Tea Party-era in what’s sure to be a series of similar battles pitting the Republican-controlled House against the Democratic-controlled Senate and President More…

Pawlenty names campaign manager

By | 04.13.11 | 2:10 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

The 2012 hopes of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty have received a major boost with the acquisition of Nick Ayers, 28, a well-respected conservative who formerly led the Republican Governors Association.

Nick Ayers 

Ayers will serve as campaign manager for Pawlenty’s presidential exploratory effort, according to More…

Breaking video: Live stream from Wisconsin

By | 03.10.11 | 12:46 pm

Word from Wisconsin late last night is that Senate Republicans were able to strip the state’s infamous collective bargaining bill of certain fiscal details. The move allowed them to pass the bill with or without absent Senate Democrats. The legislature has now barred all press from the floor of the More…

Obama, Harper to discuss oil pipeline

President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation.

The Keystone XL pipeline would carry highly polluting Canadian tar sands crude oil from More…

‘Get in the back of the line,’ Malkin tells UT sophomore and DREAM Act hopeful

By | 12.01.10 | 12:16 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinConservative blogger and author Michelle Malkin rebuked the proposed federal DREAM Act during a talk at the University of Texas Tuesday evening.

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which suffered a major setback Tuesday, would grant citizenship to young illegal immigrants brought to the country as More…