This is unintentionally funny.
A USA Today article Friday profiles the Obama administration's solicitor general who will argue the government's side in the upcoming Supreme Court case over Obamacare.
Donald Verrilli is a career lawyer who spent 30 years in private practice -- though he took some time to do pro bono work defending death row inmates -- before having a Road to Damascus moment after the 2008 election.
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Many Republican House members, and the bloggers and tea partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010, seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.
WASHINGTON -- Can civility be saved?
At least with debates, you've got issues. No debates, round-the-clock, TV-time silliness.
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A poster child for federal government mismanagement sits in downtown Miami. Actually, there are two of them.
The Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse, at 400 N. Miami Ave., was originally intended to supplement space in the neighboring David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse.
Then the overbuilding and cost overruns started.
RELATED: Miami courthouse a case study in overbuilding.
Seeking to stop the hemorrhage at Uncle Sam's real estate holdings, Rep. John Mica says a Washington, D.C., deal with Donald Trump signals a healthy start.
Mica, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced that Trump would bring a 250-room luxury hotel to the largely abandoned Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Civil War aficionados, sporting both the Union Blue and the Confederate Gray, will be gathering this weekend some 15 miles east of Lake City, in the middle of the Osceola National Forest and right off of I-10, to re-enact the battle of Olustee -- the largest Civil War battle in Florida. Monday marks the 148th anniversary of the battle.
While there will be a parade and festival being held in Lake City the entire weekend, the highlight will be the 36th re-enactment of the battle which will be at the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park on Sunday starting at 1:30 p.m.
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