"The State Department is a fitting venue," declared Barack Obama at the beginning of his speech on the Middle East last Thursday.
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As far as I'm concerned, there's a circle in hell reserved for late-term abortionists. But this is the Obama era, so Hollywood makes TV shows casting them as heroic figures. Such is the state of our popular culture.
In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth.
Exit Mike Huckabee. Enter Newt Gingrich. Exit Donald Trump. It's been a busy week in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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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."
By Nancy Smith
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.
By Kevin Derby
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.
By Kevin Derby
Late on Friday, the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Foundation announced another potential Republican presidential candidate will be speaking at its Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando at the end of August -- Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
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Protesters speaking out against the George Zimmerman case are still camped out in front of Gov. Rick Scott's office in Tallahassee, and the governor is sending his juvenile justice secretary, Wansley Walters, to meet with them.Scott met with Walters Monday morning at the DJJ's office in Tallahassee.
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The Department of Justice announced it would not be prosecuting top officials involved in the Internal Revenue Service's scandal involving illegally accessing confidential tax records of political candidates and campaign donors in 2006.
By Kevin Derby
Despite losing his last two primary battles, on Friday, former Florida Rep. Carl Domino filed his paperwork to run for the Republican nomination to challenge freshman U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., in 2014.
By Kevin Derby
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was outflanked on his right by Mitt Romney on immigration during the primaries. But, with the Gang of Eights" immigration reform bill passing the Senate last month, Gingrich had harsh words for the legislation championed by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. In an email sent out late Friday, Gingrich praised House conservatives who are poised to kill the bill.
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