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The National Security Agency, which recently came under fire for a widespread surveillance program of millions of people all over the world, is apparently not as up-to-date with its email system as it is with its spying programs. Justin Elliott of ProPublica requested documents unrelated to the surveillance program last week, but was told the agency doesn't have the technology to do a simple search of its own employees' email.
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More celebrities are joining musician Stevie Wonder in boycotting Florida after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, according to news reports. Several high-profile celebrities have reportedly joined Wonder in boycotting Florida, including Jay-Z, Kanye West and Madonna.
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Another poll finds Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, way behind as she looks to defeat U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., in the Republican primaries in 2014.
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American voters still aren't convinced President Obama and his administration were unaware of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party and other conservative groups. A new poll shows 59 percent of likely American voters think it's at least somewhat likely the president and his top aides knew about the targeting of conservative groups. That number includes 38 percent of voters who believe it's very likely the president or his top aides knew of the rogue IRS activity. Only 32 percent consider that unlikely.
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President Barack Obama would have a lot more credibility as he arm-twists the 31 states with Stand Your Ground laws if he would just admit he was wrong in 2004 when he co-sponsored a bill that strengthened his own state's Stand Your Ground law. Just say it, Mr. President: "I sponsored bad law."
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Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that the writings of Ernesto Che Guevara, one of the leaders of the Communist Revolution in Cuba, would be included in the Memory of the World Register -- and a congresswoman from Florida is not happy about it. Less than 300 collections of documents and manuscripts are listed under the Memory of the World Register.
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The Campaign for Liberty, which is chaired by former Congressman Ron Paul, continues to sound the alarm that Democrats in Washington are planning to ramp up gun control measures -- and that Senate Republicans are enabling them. The Campaign for Liberty sent out a follow-up email late Monday, much like one they released on Friday on the topic.
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Graduate students at the University of South Florida are petitioning Secretary of State Ken Detzner to exhume bodies at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. Detzner recently rejected the USF team of researchers' petition for permission to exhume bodies at the school, which has become notorious in recent years for allegations of physical abuse, rape, and even murder. In a letter to the research team, Detzner explained his department does not have the legal authority to authorize the exhumation process, but USF researchers believe he does.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubios, R-Fla., support of immigration reform in the Senate is hurting his chances for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Robert Costa over at National Review headed out to Iowa, home of the first caucus, and asked conservatives what they thought of Rubio and found increasing disenchantment with the junior senator from Florida due to his stance on immigration reform.
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Neal Freeman over at National Review looks at former Gov. Charlie Crists plans to run for governor again in 2014 but this time as a Democrat. Freeman argues Crist is more concerned with running for office than governing but also notes that Gov. Rick Scotts team hopes the former governor emerges as their opponent next year. Scott tipped his cards a little to Freeman:
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The team of researchers at the University of South Florida working to exhume the bodies at the Dozier School for Boys has fired back at Secretary of State Ken Detzner, asking him to reconsider the conclusion that the Department of State does not have the authority to issue archaeological permits to exhume human remains "under the circumstances."
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It seems confidential tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were improperly accessed by government officials, but guess what? The Justice Department didn't want to know. The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday it declined to prosecute any of the officials involved, even in one willful violation of the law.
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On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott announced BRS Aerospace will take over what had been the Parachute Repack Facility at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), bringing in more than $7 million to the Space Coast in capital and creating 34 new jobs.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, who advocated boycotting Florida as an "apartheid state"last week, is speaking out again on the George Zimmerman case, this time calling on Obama to turn his personal comments on the death of Trayvon Martin into policy, specifically to repeal Stand Your Ground laws. Jackson took to his Facebook pageon Sunday to post the following message to his followers:
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Most Americans don't believe health care will actually improve in the next two years, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday. In fact, the poll found the majority of American voters actually believe health care will get worse over the next two years. Sixty-one percent of likely American voters said they believed the U.S. health care system was likely to get worse over the next two years, while only 24 percent said it would get better. Only 9 percent said the health care system would be about the same two years from now.
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