"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside," Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday on the Spanish-language Univision network. "You can only change it from the outside."
ABC News jumped out in front of other fact-checkers on Friday, exposing President Barack Obama's "false claim" that the Fast and Furious program began under President George W. Bush.
It did not. In fact, the program began nine months into the Obama administration, in October 2009, and the network's online website "Political Punch" was the first to check the president's statement and set the record straight.
Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Judge Thomas Portuallo, of Flagler Beach, to the 7th Judicial Circuit Court.
Portuallo, 50, has served as a judge of compensation claims for the Daytona Beach district since 1996.
For the past 16 years, Judge Portuallo has gained a reputation as a diligent, fair jurist who strictly adheres to the law as enacted by the Legislature. I am confident he will continue doing so as a circuit court judge, Scott stated in a release.
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Of the 11 amendments placed on the November 2012 ballot by the Sunshine States Republican-dominated Legislature, perhaps the strangest is the third: Almost no one seems willing to go on the record to defend it.
The Florida State Revenue Limitation Amendment (Amendment 3), if approved by 60 percent of the voters, would change the way the state calculates limitations on the amount of revenue it can raise each year.
With party primaries finished and the general election looming, new campaign-finance reports show where some of the state's top legislative races will play out in November.
Money flowed between Aug. 10 and Sept. 14 to districts where Republican and Democratic leaders see opportunities to pick up seats -- or fear incumbents could be threatened.
SALT LAKE CITY -- A specter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration.
A group of Chinese private investors will be in Florida next week, but Gov. Rick Scott was already suited up at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas on Friday to begin promoting the Sunshine State.
About 25 wealthy Chinese investors will descend on Orlando, offering the prospects of millions of dollars in fresh capital, as part of the US-China Investment Week event that kicked off in the $1.15 billion football stadium where they were greeted by Scott, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
