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The University of South Florida logo (Pic via cee.eng.usf.edu) The Florida State University System’s Board of Governors met late yesterday to make a decision on USF Polytechnic’s attempt to split into a separate university, a decision that would make it Florida’s 12th public university.

One of the NRSC’s hardest potential targets in 2010 has been Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.): appointed in a bit of a mess by Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.),

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the iconoclastic Minnesota congresswoman becomes, as far as I can tell, the first incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party

In an open letter published yesterday , the Broward-Palm Beach New Times ‘ Bob Norman attacks right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman for her incendiary rhetoric, connecting Kaufman statements like “If ballots don’t work, bullets will” to the shooting of Rep.

The top aides to Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign have resigned en masse, the Associated Press is reporting. The departed include two former key personnel

A judge in Greensboro will today hear a lawsuit filed against North Carolina’s ultrasound law.

Here’s an example of why LGBT activist groups who cheered the Obama administration’s acquiescence to a legislative push overturning the military’s ban on open

J Street, the progressive pro-Israel/pro-peace lobby group, has issued a statement urging both the Obama administration and the Israeli government to remember

Responding to news that state Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, has filed what one right-wing organization is dubbing an “anti-Shariah” law, Nezar Hamze, executive director of the South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations , tells The Florida Independent that Hays’ bill could impact believers in all faiths and that its filing shows Hays is “disconnected” from his constituents and Florida’s “real problems.” # According to a state Senate summary , Hays’ law “specifies the public policy of this state in applying the choice of a foreign law, legal code, or system under certain circumstances” and that “certain decisions rendered under such laws, codes, or systems are void.” # Hamze responded to news of Hays’ legislation via email: # I see an impact on all religions regarding marriage contracts, wills, and burial rights

One reason that attacks on his master thesis didn’t really damage Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R-Va.) 2009 campaign was that his record as state attorney general was

Hakimullah Mehsud, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, gave his inaugural press conference yesterday -- The Associated Press’ Ishtiaq Mehsud reports in an

The end is near for the first week Summer of Mercy 2.0, the anti-abortion rights protest targeting Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in Germantown, Md.,

Did you ever wonder where all those subprime lenders who made big profits making predatory loans during the housing boom ended up? Think about it: What kind of

The former Congressional Budget Organization head and McCain campaign economic adviser shows up on the host committee for Tim Pawlenty’s Pretzels and Pints

President Obama spoke with George Stephanopoulos yesterday in Cleveland, and the interview is being aired this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. It was a

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, registered a political action committee (PAC) with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Monday with the purpose of defeating a ballot measure that would place a ban on same-sex marriage in the Minnesota Constitution.

Want to read an extremely thorough response to Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani’s remarks on the ceasefires in Pakistan’s Swat Valley? Over at the Weekly

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) makes the gaffe of the day. Rachel Slajda recaps: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) argued that insurers must be required to cover basic

The Obama administration is this week proposing a series of expensive tax breaks for businesses as part of a larger effort to create new jobs: $100 billion to

A suit filed last week by state Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth) is just one of many in federal courts around Texas now alleging the Texas Legislature’s new map

I missed this over the weekend, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China will not block shipments of rare earth elements to the United

Speaking before Florida’s Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Thursday, oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg faced lingering questions about