
Carl Domino Calls Out Obama and Patrick Murphy on Shutdown
As he continues his bid for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., former state Rep. Carl Domino ripped into the incumbent and President Barack Obama on Tuesday over the federal shutdown.
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Jimmy Carter, Founder of Political Dynasty?
America should count itself fortunate that four of our first five presidents -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe -- did not have sons that survived to adulthood. Otherwise the early days of our republic would have featured presidential elections which would have seemed like wars of dynastic ambitions. There were certainly some political dynasties -- the Adams family, the Harrisons, the Pierces, the Tylers, the Van Burens, the Lincolns and even a populist like Andrew Jackson whose nephew Andrew Jackson Donelson ran for vice president.
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Americans Say Founding Fathers Would See U.S. Today as a Failure
Abraham Lincoln famously declared at Gettysburg that the Founding Fathers "brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," but a new Rasmussen Reports poll shows half of Americans think the Founding Fathers would view the nation they created as a failure today.
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Masochistic Appeal
Allen West: Captured Terrorist 'Should Be Heading to GITMO'
Former U.S. Rep. Allen West weighed in on Monday on the capture of Abu Anas al Libi, the al-Qaida leader captured by American military forces in recent days for his role in planning terrorist attacks in Africa. West expressed strong disapproval of plans to try al Libi as a criminal and insisted he should be held as a prisoner of war at Guantanamo Bay.
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Cyber Failures in Obamacare Exchanges: Dangerous to Your Wallet and Privacy
More than a week since the rollout of the new Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, and still not much about the process is going smoothly.
Is the Conflict Between Us Irreconcilable?
One way or another, the battle of the budget and the debt ceiling will be over by All Hallows' Eve.
Yet, as one looks deeper, at the irreconcilable conflict behind the present clash, only a roaring optimist would imagine we shall ever know again the tranquility and unity of the Eisenhower-Kennedy years.
Gambling Study Raises Doubts
Colodny Lobbying Shop Home for Gaggle of Insurers
Southern Strategy Group Gets Big Bucks to Push Legislation in Tallahassee