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GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons) Gov. Rick Scott last week predicted that the winner of Florida’s Presidency 5 straw poll would not only take the Republican presidential nomination, but would go on to become the next president of the United States

The White House announced Tuesday that President Barack Obama was throwing his support behind legislation which would effectively kill the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The Respect for Marriage Act (RMA) would repeal all three sections of DOMA — which federally defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman — including section 1, which is the name; section 2, which instructs states not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states; and section 3, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing legally performed same-sex marriages. Change.org quotes White House spokesman Shin Inouye on Obama’s endorsement of the legislation: “The President has long called for a legislative repeal of the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,” which continues to have a real impact on the lives of real people – our families, friends and neighbors,” Inouye said.

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann , a Minnesota Congresswoman, has launched her third television ad in Iowa in her attempt to secure the GOP presidential nomination, and continuing her outreach to Iowans as the Ames Straw Poll awaits next weekend.

The two-minutes-hate dreamed up by the Iranian Revolution to divert public hostility at its repression over to Israel isn’t working this year. The New York

The topic of book banning entered the national conversation since the public started hearing about Sarah Palin’s inquiry into censoring books at the Wasilla,

A couple of months ago, as part of my counterinsurgency series, I pointed out that an impressive number of women were in positions of leadership in the emergent

Conservatives are having no trouble spinning Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) surprise cut-and-run from her office as an act of personal heroism that will help her

In the absence of meaningful legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions in Washington, the fight surrounding California’s ballot measure, Proposition 23, is

If you weren’t already a little nervous about where the economy is heading, today should give you plenty of reason to start worrying. Stock markets in Asia

The Associated Press: The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation and sent the measure to the House. Iowa

Considering that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty vowed to continue his 2012 presidential campaign regardless of the results of the Iowa Straw Poll, it was a bit of a surprise when he called it quits the day after he finished third place.

With the enormously popular cash for clunkers program soon to exhaust its $1 billion allotment, the Senate on Thursday passed legislation providing an

Cleveland--Here’s the deal with being from Ohio. Whenever I meet someone who’s been through the state, they always say they have relatives in Cleveland. I

- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), once a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, shot down hopes from advocates that he’d again push for the cause.

President Barack Obama just gave a brief address after his first meeting with his bipartisan commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the

The House might create a new border security bill to address jurisdictional issues over the $600 million border security bill passed by the Senate last week,