WASHINGTON -- The passions that swirled around Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that ended 10 years ago Sunday, dissipated quickly. And remarkably little damage was done by the institutional collisions that resulted when control of the nation's supreme political office turned on 537 votes out of 5,963,110 cast in Florida.
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 -- and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years -- which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat?
State economic forecasters predicted Friday that without additional appropriations, Floridas Medicaid program could begin running a deficit as soon as the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Incoming Gov. Rick Scott continues to meet with as many legislative members as possible before he takes office in January.
Public Policy Polling, a firm with ties to Democrats, released a poll this week that showed President Barack Obama maintaining a healthy lead in Minnesota over possible Republican candidates.
While former House Speaker and incoming U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has not even served a day in his new position yet, an activist out in Texas has created a Draft Marco Rubio website to promote the Floridians chances for the presidency in 2012.
As a Republican, I think its crucial for the health of our nation that we beat Barack Obama, wrote the founder of the site, who identified himself as a late 20-something Texan.
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Derrick Burts, 24, started working as a porn-film actor in June. By October, he'd contracted the HIV virus. The AP story on Burts contained this jaw-dropping sentence: "He said he began to have doubts about the business after contracting chlamydia, gonorrhea and herpes in his first month of work, but was convinced to keep working."
