
After Obamacare Decision, Libertarians Say Don't Vote for Mitt Romney
The National Libertarian Party's reaction to the SCOTUS Obamacare decision transcends disappointment. In fact, it's fairly incredulous. It goes after Mitt Romney like a vulture after road kill.
Carla Howell, the party's executive director, explains it like this: "A President Mitt Romney would not undo Obamacare. Hed make it permanent."
She claims the high court ruling matters not a hoot: "It will make little difference to America in the short run, and no difference in the long run."
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Rasmussen: Most Voters Say the Feds Encourage Illegal Immigration
This may or may not come as a surprise to you. It certainly did me:
Most voters continue to believe the federal government encourages rather than discourages illegal immigration.
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How Come Steve MacNamara Gets a Party and a Plaque?
Steve MacNamara leads a charmed life.
In the first place, how does the governor's ethically challenged, $189,000-a-year chief of staff get to stick around this long after he was fi... uh, after he resigned in May? I can't recall where any of the state employees MacNamara dispatched with a pink slip over the years were allowed to stay on as long after the hatchet as he has.
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Supremes Strike Down Montana's Campaign Finance Law
Little reported so far is Monday morning's 5-4 Supreme Court decision to overturn a Montana campaign finance law that would have limited corporation and union political speech.
An outraged Common Cause, the organization pushing for the Montana law, calls the decision to support Citizens United "a brazen attempt to buy our elections out from under us."
Montana's highest court defied the 2010 Citizens United ruling by upholding a centuries-old ban on corporate political spending. It was that case at the state level that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear.
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Alex Sink and Bill McBride's Daughter Weds in North Carolina
Mount Airy, N.C., is probably saying, thank you Florida voters -- thanks to you, we got to put on a pretty darn good wedding.
If Democrat Alex Sink had defeated Rick Scott in 2010, Sink, with her husband Bill McBride at her side, would have been the governor of Florida today, and probably -- though there's no telling for sure -- her daughter Lexi McBride would have been married in Florida.
Florida is, after all, as Sink often chirped, "truly paradise." Surely it would be bad form for a governor's daughter to marry three states away.
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Massachusetts Mayor Heads Down the Michael 'Nanny' Bloomberg Trail
No, no, Henrietta, don't do it.
You represent Cambridge, Miz Mayor -- the "Cradle of Liberty," remember?
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60 Plus Bus Tour Headed to Florida
The 60 Plus Association, which bills itself as the leading conservative seniors organization with more than 7.2 million supporters, is launching its Healthcare Freedom bus tour Thursday in Florida, beginning in Sarasota.
The purpose of the tour is to discuss with seniors their concerns over the so-called Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- which 60 Plus labels the Unaffordable Care Act, based on costs that are soaring into trillions over the Obama administration's estimates.
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FDLE Clears Rick Scott in Transition-Records Case
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) investigation that Gov. Rick Scott requested himself is over -- clearing the governor and his transition team of wrongdoing in the loss of transition team documents.
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Big-Name Felon Gets New Voter Card in Palm Beach County
It wasn't sloppy work in her shop, oh, no. As always with the accident-prone Palm Beach County supervisor of elections, sending a new voter card to a high-profile felon was someone else's fault.
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U.S. Senate Rejects AIF-Opposed Legislation Harmful to Florida Farmers
The U.S. Senate voted 50-46 to table an amendment backed by a group of sugar users that would have phased out the federal sugar program, comprised of marketing allotments and import restrictions.
Associated Industries of Florida took action against the legislation it deemed harmful to one of Floridas largest industries.
The states premier business lobby group urged members of Congress to oppose the amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill, saying Florida sugar farmers provide 12,311 jobs and $3.3 billion of economic activity in the state.
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