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This week the Senate debated the appropriations minibus that encompasses three major appropriations/spending bills into one bill.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Richard Mourdock, a Republican and Indiana's treasurer, wants to wrest his party's U.S. Senate nomination from a six-term incumbent who has been a national figure since becoming mayor of this city in 1968 at age 35, who has averaged 69 percent of the vote in five re-elections, and who ran unopposed by a Democrat in 2006.

WASHINGTON -- The operative maxim in cable television can be summed up as follows: Is it good teevee?

Gov. Rick Scotts 2012 Job Creation and Economic Growth agenda includes an encouraging focus on Floridas STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects.

When state Sen. Alan Hays suggested that the creation of "Hispanic districts" be predicated on legal citizenship, not illegal residency, everyone ran for cover.

This is too juicy not to share. It's a little gossipy and involved, but it stars three presidential candidates, so it's topical stuff.

Walter Cronkite's longtime producer Leslie Midgley once wrote that, "News is what an editor decides it is." News today is what TV producers decide can help President Obama. News that hurts isn't news at all.

While Herman Cain and Rick Perry chip away at Mitt Romney, does Michele Bachmann deserve a second look?

"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government ..."-- U.S. Constitution

John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize."