Former Gov. Buddy Roemer of Louisiana shows no signs of heading to the political sidelines despite pulling out of the presidential race in May. Roemer first set his eyes on the Republican nomination but, after being left out of the debates, he went third party as he attempted to snag the nominations with Americans Elect and the Reform Party. With Americans Elect opting not to run a presidential candidate in 2012, Roemer ended his presidential bid.
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The future of barrel racing as a contest to be bet upon wasnt decided last week and hearings on the dispute will continue in August.
Four days of testimony before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings ended June 29 without any determination if Gretna Racing LLC can continue to use barrel races as pari-mutuel heats to fulfill the requirement for its quarter horse racing and poker room licenses, according to Bloodhorse.com.
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In a state with leadership strongly opposed to expanding gambling, people are playing Floridas games of chance at a record clip.
The Florida lottery, which last fall inked a deal to make the Sunshine State the first state to offer lottery tickets in Wal-Mart stores, announced this week that sales for the recently completed fiscal year were a one-year record of $4.45 billion.
With President Barack Obama focusing on two battleground states -- Ohio and Pennsylvania -- on Thursday and Friday, Republicans are countering with a pair of the leading possibilities to wind up as Mitt Romneys running mate.
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana will be taking a bus tour of the two states and looking to throw jabs at Obama. Theyll be attacking the president on the national debt in Ohio on Thursday morning before heading to a rally in Parma in the afternoon and one in Pittsburgh on Friday morning.
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One of the basic tenets of American conservatism is that there are more important aspects to life than politics and government.
Rasmussen Reports releases this poll on Independence Day:
To display their loyalty to the United States, Americans recite the Pledge of Allegiance, ending with the key phrase with liberty and justice for all. But just over half of Americans actually believe that to be true. That said, a lot more wouldn't live anywhere else in the world.
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The nonpartisan movement to keep the Internet free and unfettered gained striking momentum this week, as an Internet-rights petition called the Declaration of Internet Freedom gathered more than 20,000 signatures on Monday, its first day.
Those backing the drive include Mozilla, the American Civil Liberties Union, Reporters Without Borders and university professors from Harvards Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Stanford Law Schools Center for Internet and Society.
That's more or less what happened last Sunday in Mexico, at least as far as most American journalists (including me) are concerned.
Continuing a national media blitz Tuesday against last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Rick Scott fielded some penetrating questions from radio hosts about statements he's made since the high court ruled.
Those included queries based on a PolitiFact review the fact-checking website by the Tampa Bay Times which awarded Scott a "pants on fire" and two "falses" for remarks he's made since the ruling.
