During its recent years at the top of the American political pyramid, the Bush family has valued loyalty and has generally defended its assorted subordinates. Even when the retainers have weighed the Bushes down politically -- Nicholas Brady, Dick Darman, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, Alphonso Jackson, we can go on here -- the family has generally been loyal, often overly so.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., running once again for the Republican presidential nomination, has a strategy in response to the cyber attack on the federal government which included stealing Social Security numbers and other information on 4 million federal employees: “hack China back.” There are reports that the cyber attack emanated from China.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., might not be joining the Avengers any time soon but they are the stars of new comic books as Bluewater Productions rolls out looks at the 2016 presidential candidates.
On Monday night, Bluewater released “Female Force: Hillary Clinton: The Road to the White House” which looks at the favorite for the Democratic nomination.
The Democratic leadership at the national and state levels have made their choice in South Florida, rallying behind Annette Taddeo, the former chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democrats, to run against U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., in 2016.
Though Taddeo has failed in her past attempts to win political office and had to move to the district, Democrats are increasingly backing her campaign.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., now running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, made the case for same-sex marriage on Monday.
“I believe in equal rights for all Americans, regardless of race, creed, gender, religion, or sexual orientation," Murphy insisted on Monday. “Love is love, regardless of gender. All families deserve to have equal representation under the law. Those are just three reasons why I support marriage equality.
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After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China, bitter recriminations in Washington led to the question: "Who lost China?" China was, of course, never ours to lose, though it might be legitimate to ask if a different American policy toward China could have led to a different outcome.
Gov. Rick Scott's call for more money to attract businesses to Florida put an unexpected halt Monday to budget talks on transportation, tourism and economic-development issues.
Senators claimed a "lack of respect" as they sought what they considered an adequate explanation about why the House wanted to boost funding for Enterprise Florida, the state's public-private economic development agency.
Looking to trip up former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Florida, largest swing state in the 2016 presidential election, the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Monday fired away at the Democratic presidential front-runner over President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law.
Of all the lame arguments against school choice, the lamest must be “diversion.”
Yet, once again, it was trotted out by the Associated Press, reporting in Wisconsin:
“A Republican-approved expansion of the private-school voucher program could divert an additional $600 million to $800 million from public schools over the next decade ...”
First, the most obvious flaw: What is being diverted is students, not money. The state's duty is to educate students, not to fund government schools.
