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WASHINGTON, April 9 – Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to compel the agency to produce text messages sent by government officials, as required by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In December 2013, CEI...

man. America’s 50 states are sometimes called “laboratories of democracy.” Although the expression is intended to highlight in flattering terms how innovative they can be, it also suggests that the states’ political experiments can and do fail. In the event of failure, the hope must be that...

Brian Mulroney didn’t come to Ottawa to bury Stephen Harper. But he didn’t come to praise him either. The former prime minister was in the capital to speak about the “next big thing” for Canada — making the most of its treasure trove of oil, gas and mineral resources. To do so requires...

As many as 20 students have been injured in multiple stabbings at a high school in Murrysville, Pa., 29 kilometres east of Pittsburgh. One male student has been taken into custody and as many as nine people were believed to have been taken to hospital following the incident Wednesday...

The Minnesota Commerce Department has endorsed Enbridge Energy’s plan to boost the capacity of its Alberta Clipper crude oil pipeline across Minnesota, warning that the state’s two oil refineries face shortages if the project doesn’t go ahead...

James WoodsVerified account ‏@RealJamesWoods Kirsten Powers: Liberals' mob rule http://usat.ly/1gJ2Kqx Scratch a liberal, find a fascist every time... Kickstarter's attempt to censor film about convicted abortion...

James WoodsVerified account ‏@RealJamesWoods Sober, well written article in the midst of all the tedious "the sky is falling" cacophony...

30,000 Old Photos Released By The City's Department Of Records: Gothamist source: NYC Municipal Archives

The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel. The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is being hailed as “a game-changer” because it would significantly shorten the supply...

Wrestlemania VI @ Skydome: The Ultimate Warrior, one of professional wrestling’s biggest superstars, has died at 54, days after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, WWE officials confirmed in a statement. “WWE is shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of the...

WINTER HAVEN, FL (WFLA) - A family in Winter Haven shot and killed a burglary suspect, according to the Winter Haven Police report. Officers responded to the burglary call around 6:50 a.m. Monday. When they arrived to 4219 Lake Marianna Drive they found the burglary suspect...

via bcf: (Reuters) - A Moroccan man who entered the United States as an exchange student six years ago is facing criminal charges after planning to use a remote-controlled plane to bomb a U.S. university and a federal building in Connecticut, officials said on Tuesday. The resident of...

An alarming lapse in Internet security has exposed millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive bits of information to potential theft by computer hackers who may have been secretly exploiting the problem before its discovery. The breakdown revealed this week affects the...

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Alex Smith, chairman of the College Republican National Committee, Cassie Williams, executive assistant of the CRNC, and Maggie Cleary thought that the simple visual aid of apples and oranges might make the White House rethink its perspective on paycheck fairness. Even White House press...

SDA ‏@smalldeadanimal What Would We Do Without Peer Review? http://dlvr.it/5Llyf9 #cdnpoli Want your, er, highly innovative research to get lots of attention, the sort that keeps those grants coming? You could do worse than start with some kind words from a peer-reviewer...

via Fark New study shows that music listeners prefer more repetition within songs. All hail our ultimate music overlord, Philip Glass A couple of years ago, music psychologist decided to make some alterations to the music of . Berio was one of the most famous classical composers of the 20th...

for donating to an anti-gay candidate in 2004 The People's Cube ‏@ThePeoplesCube Mother Jones denounces OkCupid's CEO for donating to an anti-gay candidate in 2004 http://j.mp/1iqveGt #TCOT It appears that...

via Fark Hey dude, I'm just saying, you better leave those guys, who are totally your citizens and not people we shipped in, alone or it will start a "civil war" U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia is fueling separatist unrest in Eastern Ukraine that could be a "contrived...

for not letting him live in male dorms via bcf A female-to-male transgender student has filed a discrimination complaint against his Christian university, claiming the school must allow him to live in men’s dormitories regardless of its theological principles. George Fox University...