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When last I heard from Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it was early October and he was only grudgingly in favor of supporting

To paraphrase Gus Haynes, you never really want to call another reporter a rip-off artist. At a wire service, it can be hard to credit someone who broke a story

Responding to a letter from state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, imploring Florida medical associations to encourage doctors to use the state’s new prescription drug monitoring database, Florida Osteopathic Medical Association Executive Director Stephen Winn says that the Association “agrees that we should encourage all physicians to check the database before prescribing.” According to Winn’s letter, the Association will “continue to encourage all physicians to check the database prior to writing a prescription.” As part of the state’s plan to curb the illicit distribution of prescription drugs, E-FORCSE allows state health care professionals to query the database for any indication that a patient is engaging in the practice of “doctor shopping” in order to accumulate prescription drugs.

<p>In earlier posts I’ve argued that, as immigration reform continues to stall in Congress, state and local jurisdictions will fill the vacuum by passing

The number of people living with HIV/AIDS that are on Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list has dropped slightly through the month of June. # The Drug Assistance Program supplies life-saving drugs to patients who are uninsured and unable to afford their HIV/AIDS medications.

Two of the most negative and expensive primary battles this cycle are coming to an end tonight in Florida, and our sister site, The Florida Independent, will be

Though he is now out of prison, the legal trouble for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got a bit worse this week when his former fundraiser pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against him in the upcoming federal corruption trial. The Detroit News reports : Kwame Kilpatrick’s longtime fundraiser, Emma Bell, pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion Monday and has agreed to testify against the former mayor in the City Hall corruption case in hopes of getting a shorter prison term.

MSNBC is reporting that President Obama has just landed in Baghdad, where he is scheduled to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal

Unemployment rate continues to rise. Detroit morgues fill up as recession continues. JumpStart works with subprime lender CompuCredit. Texas judge

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way. Meaning: extend the traveling distance into which Mexican nationals can penetrate New Mexico, so that they can bring their cash to cities like Las Cruces, Lordsburg, and Deming.

Congressman Jared Polis and drug-policy reform advocate Ethan Nadelmann argued Wednesday night in Vail that one of the most compelling reasons to legalize marijuana in the United States is to eliminate a major funding source for deadly Mexican drug cartels. Both Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and recently retired DEA agent Anthony Coulson sharply disagreed. Polis, Suthers (Williams photo)

Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio) filed as an independent congressional candidate today in his old House district, but may file to run in a neighboring

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As The Minnesota Independent previously reported, ABC News recently released an undercover video of Bachmann & Associates, a Christian counseling clinic run

Here’s one way to eliminate conflicts of interest. The Obama administration has in mind to carve up the Minerals Management Service, a branch of the Interior

Legislators consider defining foreign in campaign finance law. Starting next month, a government program will help underwater homeowners via short