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Remember how I wrote earlier this month that Gen. David Petraeus’ public statements appeared to implicitly back Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy? Here’s

By a 22-9 vote, the South Carolina Republican executive committee has voted to censure Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). Only 10 members of the committee demanded his

In his party’s push to curb collective bargaining rights among public employees in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) let police and firefighters off the hook

“If that bill passes, we will be sued immediately. That’s the purpose of the bill,” said Texas state Rep. Leo Berman. “The ACLU, La Raza, the Justice Department -- someone will sue us for the bill.”

Voters in Kalamazoo approved a controversial amendment to the city’s charter which makes possession of a small amount of pot for those 21 years of age older a “lowest possible law enforcement priority.” The measure was approved with 4,649 for it and 2,416 against it, reports The Kalamazoo Gazette. Louis Stocking, who led the petition drive of the Kalamazoo Coalition for Pragmatic Cannabis Laws to get the measure before voters, said the vote was unsurprising.

Despite turning down money for state programs because of their disagreement with federal health care reform, Florida officials accepted more than $2.5 million made available by the Affordable Care Act to fund its abstinence-only sex education grant program. # The Florida Legislature has faced controversy over its refusal to accept money for dozens of programs that would aid the state as it faces steep budget cuts. State legislators turned down millions in grants for child abuse and neglect prevention, as well as pregnancy prevention for teens

State officials have certified that critics of Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) have gathered enough signatures to put him on the ballot for recall, but several legal challenges could still stand in the way of that vote.

After my post yesterday updating the status of the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to conceal evidence that British resident and former Guantanamo Bay

The ACLU of Florida logo (Pic via savedade.org ) The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida announced today that “along with the Brennan Center for Justice and the law firms Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and Coffey Burlington sued on behalf of the League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote, and Florida PIRG, challenging the state’s new restrictions on voter registration.” According to the ACLU of Florida, the “lawsuit argues that the restrictions passed this year violate the US Constitution and the National Voter Registration Act. The restrictions being challenged are part of HB 1355, the ‘Voter Suppression Act,’ a comprehensive overhaul of Florida’s election laws which is currently under review by a federal court for potential violations of the Voting Rights Act.” The ACLU of Florida is also intervening in the state’s attempt to receive federal approval for some of the more controversial aspects of the new voting law

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who was occasionally criticized during the 2008 campaign for lacking foreign policy/national security gravitas, is

Obama doesn’t care what Arianna Huffington thinks of his decor. Hillary Clinton visits a statue of Bill in Kosovo. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown disagree on

To add to Weigel’s post a bit, I’m not sure Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) is really hedging his bets on the Iran resolution he signed onto with Rep. Mike Pence

DTE Energy is repossessing Highland Park’s street lights and selling them as scrap metal as part of a settlement over a $4 million dollar electric bill. Highland Park is a small city that is surrounded by the city of Detroit. Detroit News reports that 14,000 light poles have been removed and locals are complaining that schools and businesses have been targeted by burglars since the city went dark.

Last Friday, the Florida Senate drew criticism for sneaking growth management provisions into a budget bill, which would allow lawmakers to bypass the normal legislative process to roll back 25 years of environmental regulations. Members repsponded that they had the votes to pass the bill normally.

First it was Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) urging an outright ban on mountaintop mining in lieu of new EPA restrictions. And now Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is

In the dull drone of a late Friday afternoon in Washington in August -- you know, when absolutely nothing happens? -- FBI Director Robert Muller called Bill

A bill that would commit California’s 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote (NPV) in presidential elections was signed into

On the same day GOP presidential contender Jon Huntsman’s campaign manager resigned, the leader of the anti-abortion rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony

When two African trials last year showed that circumcised men were 60 percent less likely to become infected with HIV than those with foreskins, the World

In an indication of the full-spectrum pressure that the Obama administration is facing on its plan to close Guantanamo Bay, today a coalition of major civil