On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., hammered the Obama administration over education.
Rubio sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan regarding the administrations handling of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and forcing states to follow policies backed by the White House.
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Mike McCalister, a retired Army colonel and a businessman who is running for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, is stressing his conservative credentials. Next week, McCalister will clash with three of his main rivals -- former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, and businessman Craig Miller -- at a forum and straw poll in Orlando which will be part of the American Conservative Unions (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Florida meeting. The CPAC event will be held on Friday, Sept. 23.
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Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis took aim at President Barack Obama on immigration on Tuesday and called on the president to end his latest amnesty plan.
Bilirakis maintained that the administration was backing a policy to deport only select illegal aliens -- namely those who are criminals or are considered threats --while showing no signs of looking to deport the overwhelming majority of illegal aliens.
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Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, continuing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, took aim at President Barack Obamas Middle East policy on Wednesday.
While Americans have been focused on the economy and domestic politics, the Middle East has been deteriorating in very threatening ways, noted Gingrich in an e-mail sent out to supporters. In the last few months, events have begun to turn against the United States, Israel, and freedom in the Middle East."
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In a stunning repudiation of Barack Obama and his party, a rock-solid Democratic district in New York City elected Republican Bob Turner to Congress on Tuesday.
The CD 9 seat formerly held by disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner went Republican for the first time since 1923. Obama carried the district by 11 percentage points just three years ago.
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Summer officially ends Sept. 22 -- and it wont be a day too soon.The summer of 2011 may go down as one of the most challenging in history for children in our country -- and not for the reasons you may think.
With senior-rich Florida shaping up as a critical state in the 2012 Republican primary, two of the leading candidates are battling over the future of Social Security and whether one front-runner's inflammatory comments about the program could harm the party in a general election.
At stake are the 29 electoral votes up for grabs in Florida and perhaps more in other states where retirees have flocked in recent decades. The scuffle also shows where tea-party rhetoric could collide with electoral realities in the largest of swing states.
"NBC Nightly News" is the highest-rated daily news show in the morning or evening. In mid-August, the show had been ranked No. 1 for 100 straight weeks, pulling an average of 7.7 million viewers.
Declaring that "the world will pay a terrible price" if America does not actively champion the cause of freedom through moral and, if necessary, military strength, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said the country is at a historic crossroads.
Delivering his first foreign-policy address, the Miami Republican on Tuesday discussed "America's Role in the World" at the Jesse Helms Lecture Series at Wingate University in North Carolina.
