Conservatives lose latest Darwin battle in Kansas
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TOPEKA, Kansas  - The Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday threw out science standards deemed hostile to evolution, undoing the work of Christian conservatives in the ongoing battle over what to teach U.S. public school students about the origins of life.
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Republican gains in the Senate from last month's elections have pumped new life into the administration-backed move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, prompting environmentalists to mount what one of them called "the fight of our lives" to defeat the proposal.
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By ROBERT THOMPSON, The Washington Post News service  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
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Rasmussen Reports - Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is one incumbent whose campaign seems unimpaired by the malaise afflicting the GOP this election year.
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There is a book out right now called What&#39;s the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank in which the author explores the issue of why it is that so many middle and low-income Americans consistently vote Republican
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Belgrade, Sep 14 (IPS) - Within a few days of declaring that Darwin's   theory of evolution was being banned from Serbian schools, the  government  has reversed the controversial decision.
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By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 10--HUTCHINSON -- Disaster aid for drought-stricken parts of the state, money challenges to the 2007 farm bill, changes to farm policy, and gaining markets for U.S.
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Christian conservatives, whose lack of enthusiasm for George W. Bush in 2000 worried Republicans, could be the president's ace in the hole in his race for re-election this time around.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal MPs fought a Conservative motion Thursday that would set up a judicial inquiry into the collapse of this year's Fraser River sockeye salmon run.
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Conservative candidates like Mike Huckabee find themselves increasingly out of step with the state's moderate voters
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Mike Huckabee trounced John McCain in Kansas' caucuses Saturday, their first head-to-head contest, and told fellow conservatives he was in the Republican presidential race to stay.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 14--LINCOLN -- Water managers and irrigators in Nebraska's Republican River Valley will face gut-wrenching decisions in coming years if Gov. Dave Heineman carries out a new plan to prevent another legal clash with Kansas.
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Mike Huckabee is pro-gun, pro-life, and anti-gay marriage. So why isnât he catching fire with the social conservatives who dominate the GOP primary electorate? A chat with the other Arkansas governor who wants the White House.
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TOPEKA, Kansas  - Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas, a two-term conservative U.S. senator whose presidential campaign failed to draw money or garner much attention, dropped out of the 2008 White House race on Friday.
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Christian conservatives ended a summit divided over which of the Republican presidential candidates to support.
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John McCainâs defeats in Louisiana and Kansas underlined the thinness of support for him among conservatives.
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They helped re-elect the President, and Christian conservatives want payback. A look inside the struggle over their agenda