Mitt Romney seems more and more like the winner of the Republican presidential nomination, but looking ahead to a main event between the former Massachusetts governor and President Barack Obama, Romney has lost ground.
According to a national ABC/Washington Post poll out Monday, the president is getting a boost from improved economic indicators and questions about Romney's wealth and taxes.
In "The Book of Man," his new book offering readings to help educate boys, William Bennett offers a quick profile on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to illustrate two forms of polis -- democratic America and tyrannical communist Cuba.
In its sleeping-with-the-enemy story last Thursday, Time magazine captured perfectly the eco-pretensions of a rich and powerful organization like Sierra Club.
It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.
Some customers of Citizens Property Insurance might have their homeowners policies taken over by private companies under a bill passed in the House and heading to the Senate.
Passage of the bill Friday came over the objection of many coastal legislators who said allowing private companies known as "surplus line" firms take over some Citizens Property Insurance policies, because they're largely unregulated by the state, could end up raising rates. They also may still not have enough money to pay claims.
LOS ANGELES -- The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison.
The Republican Party of Florida says Democrats are playing politics with the state's process to redraw voting districts to accommodate a growing population -- districts that were approved in the House in a party-line vote Friday.
Nearly one-third of House members would have to square off against a fellow incumbent in the fall unless they seek to run for a different district or office if the new districts are eventually approved and survive expected court challenge.
When the 2012 legislative session started, it would have been safe to predict that redistricting would be the most difficult -- and politically divisive -- issue to resolve.
But with House votes Friday, the Republican-dominated Legislature is close to finalizing its redistricting plans. The maps likely will face court challenges from Democrats and other critics, but Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, praised what he described as a "careful, thoughtful and deliberative process.''
Sierra Club officials in Florida aren't talking, but the environmental group is taking heat over revelations that it took more than $25 million from a gas-drilling company.
The nation's oldest and largest "green" organization accepted the donations primarily from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, one of the biggest gas-drilling companies in the country, and a firm heavily involved in the controversial practice of fracking, Time magazine reported this week.
