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Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning took to the airwaves Friday, continuing his defense of a controversial elections bill signed Thursday by Gov. Rick Scott. # During a morning show appearance on WFLA Radio in Tallahassee , he said the measure “does not do anything to truncate” voter registration activities.

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. The White House says that Sen. Mike Enzi’s (R-Wyo.) comments on health care reform might mean the now

Mark Leon Goldberg has a wonderful Daily Beast piece about the Haiti that the U.S. rarely sees: the functioning society that arduously got built in the 1990s

Writing in The Hill earlier this week, U.S. Senator and former DPS superintendent Michael Bennet issued a call for education reform. To his voice, we add that of renowned scholar Ken Robinson , who calls for an absolute re-thinking of how we educate kids

Iowa’s federal lawmakers had mostly positive reaction to President Barack Obama ’s Thursday speech on the changing face and policy of the Middle East in the wake of the May 1 death of terrorist Osama bin Laden. Obama’s comprehensive speech covered a variety of topics, though he emphasized the United States would give its support to countries forming new democracies — specifically Egypt and Tunisia — and would protect Israeli security interests, while fostering tolerance of religious minorities in the Arab world

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) During a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Orlando this Wednesday, Frank Luntz, one of the most well known political communications strategist in the country, talked to GOPers about how they could do a better job talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Yahoo News’ Chris Moody reports that “Luntz offered tips on how Republicans could discuss the grievances of the Occupiers, and help the governors better handle all these new questions from constituents about ‘income inequality’ and ‘paying your fair share.’” “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort

We learn via the Nashville Post that Republican Rep. Eric Swafford, of the Tennessee State House, has decided to don clown shoes and join a crackpot legal

In the wake of the Senate’s failure to pass the bailout for the Big Three automakers due to a threatened Republican filibuster, I’d like to expand on an

The Republican Obama -- who doesn’t really push back against that term -- gets the first real negative coverage of his Florida campaign for U.S. Senate, and

Gov. Rick Snyder, despite facing major protests against his policies and a recall campaign to remove him from office, told the Detroit News that he believes most voters support his policies: About the recall he faces, Snyder said he didn’t think it would succeed

The Department of Labor’s Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for April is out and the news is decidedly mixed.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wasted little time linking at least one Colorado congressman to Monday’s damning Bloomberg Markets Magazine report on Koch Industries. Hours after Bloomberg published an investigative piece enumerating a pattern of dubious business practices at Koch Industries, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blasted U.S. Rep

American Family Association leaders’ attacks on minority groups are among the reasons LGBT, faith-based and grassroots groups have joined in denouncing Gov.

Despite pressure from national tax executives, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an Iowa-based case involving fried chicken giant KFC, which means the company will be liable for a quarter of million in back corporate income taxes on franchised restaurants in the state. The case, KFC Corporation v

I ducked in and out of XPAC, the lounge-for-kids (i.e., kids without photo IDs to get them into Woodley Park bars) in the basement of CPAC. Like a lot of other

Minneapolis Mayor R.T.

In testimony before Minnesota Senate and House committees last week, religious leaders and representatives from religious right organizations cited single-parent families and a skyrocketing divorce rate as reasons to protect marriage from being redefined to include same-sex couples by “activist judges” and “handfuls of legislators.” And GOP members rebuffed efforts by DFLers to include a ban on divorces in a proposed ban on gay marriage. However, a number of the legislators who say they want to protect marriage appear to have been divorced.

If today’s economy wasn’t already bad enough and the need to bail out entire countries rather than just banks didn’t strike enough fear into your heart,

For the first time since 1,300 workers at American Crystal Sugar were locked out on Aug. 1, the company and union representatives will meet Thursday.