Last week's Republican debate at Ames, Iowa, and the straw poll Saturday did more than sort out the Republican field for 2012.
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The Senate and House spent their first full week enjoying the traditional August recess with a double digit number of CODELs (congressional delegations) touring the world and very few town hall meetings being scheduled.
No matter what happens in Wisconsin's next round of recall elections on Tuesday, Republicans will maintain control of that state's Legislature.
WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin's 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete.
Never before has there been a televised presidential candidates debate so short a time before the Iowa Republicans' Ames straw poll.
"You've damaged your own race," said Mayor Michael Nutter to the black youths of Philadelphia whose flash mobs have been beating and robbing shoppers in the fashionable district of downtown.
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By Kevin Derby
Former Congressman Allen West has left the door open to a political comeback in 2016. While most political observers believe he will run again for the U.S. House or possibly for the U.S. Senate, West could have other ambitions -- namely, the White House.
On Friday, West will head up to New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary, to offer the keynote address the Nashua Republican City Committee.
West started posting ads on Facebook on Monday asking his friends in New Hampshire to attend the event.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will be making a stop in Jacksonville Monday to speak about defunding Obamacare before the Rotary Club of Jacksonville. His trip to Jacksonville is one of many that the Florida senator will be making to speak out on Obamacare. On Monday afternoon he'll be heading to the University of Florida to speak again about the health care law before the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce.
On Tuesday, Rubio will be speaking again in Panama City and then will stop in Pensacola Wednesday to speak with small-business owners.
By Kevin Derby
Conservative leader Bob Vander Plaats has emerged as a power broker in Iowa, home of the first presidential caucus, in recent election cycles. Vander Plaats helped former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania upset former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts in last years Iowa Republican caucus.
By Kevin Derby
Florida Carry, a group that focuses on defending Second Amendment rights, launched a petition on Monday urging the state government to keep its Stand Your Ground law.
Florida self-defense laws are under unprecedented attack, Florida Carry insisted in an email sent out on Monday. No person should be required to turn their back on a criminal attack. We call on you to Stand Your Ground and protect the right of the law-abiding people to defend themselves.
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A new poll shows that most Americans are not fully satisfied with the new health care law, and most say it has either had no impact or hurt their lives.
By Nancy Smith
Told you Florida Atlantic University still mourns Frank Brogan, its last classy president.
Today The Daily Caller comes out with a story by its education editor telling why the Boca Raton school has "undisputed dominance as quite obviously the worst place in the United States to attend college."
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President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that will restore lower interest rates on loans for millions of students who are heading back to college this fall.The new law links student loan interest rates to the financial markets and will restore lower rates this fall.
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The National Senatorial Republican Committee is holding a contest to meet Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., complete with airfare, a hotel stay and transportation.
By Kevin Derby
The Cook Political Report released its look at the 2014 congressional races across the nation and included six races in Florida as some of their most competitive contests.
By Kevin Derby
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, the new president of the Florida Sheriffs Association (FSA), announced on Friday that his group continued to back Floridas Stand Your Ground law. The FSA voted unanimously to support the law.
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