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When Governor Rick Snyder comes to Traverse City this weekend to march in the Cherry Festival parade he is likely to encounter some angry locals. Though he trounced his Democratic opponent in that county by about 24,000 to 5,000 in the 2010 election his popularity has plummeted as he’s pushed to tax pensions, cut school funding and give unelected officials almost total power over local communities

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Via Alex Koppelman, I see that Orly Taitz has unleashed another incoherent, vicious rant in response to the demolition of the forged Kenyan birth certificate

Public Policy Polling (PPP) posted an interesting follow-up to its poll showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry running tied with his Democratic opponent Bill White.

Live from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, here’s John Brennan, President Obama’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism,

One of the Office of Legal Counsel memos that was released today was the famous hidden Yoo-Bybee Two or Second Bybee Memo from August 2002. Recall that the

An Associated Press analysis published over the weekend is breathing new life into the debate about so-called sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants. The

AMES — Longtime political consultant and activist Fred Karger , the first official Republican 2012 presidential candidate, admits he’s a long shot. But as Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss) bows out of the race because he “doesn’t have the fire in his belly,” Karger insists he does

Federal agencies have stepped up efforts to crack down on medical marijuana, and while high-profile ATF raids may be more immediately shocking, there is a less

Marc Lynch goes through the latest Gallup poll about what’s important to Arab public opinion. It was conducted before the Gaza war -- way before, in fact:

So, a few rounds of calls and background conversations later, the picture that emerges is that Leon Panetta, President Obama’s pick to head the Central

More from the White House’s letter objecting to certain provisions in the fiscal 2010 defense authorization. I thought this deserved to be quoted in

What better indicator of the glasnost and perestroika that have been sweeping through his administration than Gov. Rick Scott actually outlasting reporters at today’s post-cabinet press conference? # A day after inviting a few dozen reporters into his office for coffee and doughnuts, Scott answered everyone’s questions and then asked for more

The soap opera continues ... The secretary of the Senate this morning refused to seat Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general picked by embattled

The Mississippi House on Wednesday sent a bill to Gov. Haley Barbour, which, if he signs it, could mean more comprehensive sex education for state public

I missed it yesterday, but Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) pledged yesterday to re-introduce the Reuniting Families Act in the GOP-run House next session. The bill

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is pounding the pavement all day today, traveling around the greater Philadelphia area in an attempt to raise turnout in the area where

This one is sure to get the attention of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). The Associated Press reported yesterday that BP has decided to delay drilling in

Republicans hoping that voter unrest is targeted largely at the majority Democrats won’t like what they see in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. That survey

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is less than satisfied with the report of a commission empaneled by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to investigate the deadly Fort