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“Today’s action doesn’t solve this issue,” Marco Ciavolino, a staffer at the Terry Lakin Action Fund , told the Colorado Independent in response to news that President Obama released an image of his “long-form” birth certificate today.

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

Last week, the USDA suspended the organic certification of Promiseland Livestock , one of the largest organic cattle companies in the country.

A new United Nations report found that civilian deaths increased in Afghanistan by 40 percent in 2008. That’s a death toll of more than 2100 civilians due to

It looks like the left-wing independent spending infrastructure, long moribund, is starting to show its first signs of new life. According to The Washington

Banned in Tysons Corner, Va., actually, where Pat and Bay Buchanan’s The American Cause will hold its conference on building a new Republican majority. An email

The opposition to the $2 billion extension of the cash for clunkers program that passed the House today is lining up in the Senate, which is expected to take up

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.

The McCain campaign’s vocal hostility toward the mainstream media may be creating a dangerous environment for reporters covering the Arizona senator’s

A study of medical marijuana users in California, conducted by The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, has found that medical marijuana users are in some ways just as stereotype would suggest: young men using marijuana for pain relief. In other ways, however, the study reached some startling conclusions, namely that medical marijuana users are less likely to use alcohol, cocaine or prescription drugs than the population as a whole

Daily Kos diarist Chuck Cook has photos of a Americans for Prosperity-sponsored rally against freshman Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-Md.) in Salisbury, Md. The

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The Washington Post today runs a timely reminder that the nation’s unemployment rate will likely rise even as hundreds of thousands of jobs start being created.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is warning that the reactor it built for DTE Energy’s Fermi II nuclear power plant may not shut down properly during an earthquake. The Pittsburgh Tribune reports that Fermi II is among 35 GE reactors where the company is recommending testing to determine what level of friction would interfere with the insertion of control rods into the reactor core during an earthquake

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.

A bill currently awaiting signature from Gov. Rick Scott aims to restrict access for minors seeking a judicial bypass for the state’s mandatory parental notification for abortion law. Florida’s House Bill 1247 was just one of a crop of controversial measures introduced during the 2011 session that aimed to limit abortion-rights in Florida .

The McCain campaign is apparently angry with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell for reporting that the Obama campaign staff suggested Sen. John McCain may have been able

<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

Both Chuck Todd at NBC and The New York Times are reporting Leon Panetta, a former member of President George W. Bush’s Iraq Study Group who doesn’t have much