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Florida Attorney General Pam won a partial victory in the state’s case challenging the federal health care reform law. Here’s a roundup of reactions the Eleventh Circuit’s decision. # Bondi: # Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi today declared victory in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that forcing Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional

The first number is how much Democrats say their Senate candidate in Massachusetts has raised since sending out an email appeal yesterday from Vicki Kennedy,

On today’s call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the RNC’s response to a new Democratic National Committee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the CIA and torture,

“I’d be OK if there were never any more coal,” retiring Xcel Energy CEO Dick Kelly recently told the non-profit news site MinnPost.com . Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado (where Xcel is the state’s largest electric utility), went on to question those in Congress denying the science behind global climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. Dick Kelly “I think the science is pretty solid

The contest between Chris Romer and Michael Hancock for mayor of Denver is getting to the point where Tom Tancredo may need to step in and mediate. Tuesday as former mayor Federico Pena was announcing his endorsement of Chris Romer at a press conference, he and others were interrupted by Hancock supporters, at least one of whom–Kendra Sandoval–was a paid staffer.

Newsweek reveals a series of newly released documents from the Department of Energy that shows all of the Republican members of the Michigan congressional delegation seeking stimulus funding for projects in the state on the grounds that such spending would create jobs — despite frequently claiming that the stimulus bill created no jobs. The story names Rep

Ralph Hallow, the Washington Times’ crack reporter on the RNC, has a damaging scoop this morning on RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s side gig as a

Though several states, including Michigan, have decided to require natural gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in hydrofracking, many of those state regs have loopholes in them.

Amid his noticeably robust travel agenda these days, Gov. Rick Perry plans to stop in Colorado later this month to deliver the keynote address at the Western

Because The New York Times is reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the Obama administration’s indispensable interlocutor with Afghan

Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (Bullcrap.), suggests the

It really helps to have metrics when stuff like this happens. Yesterday The Wall Street Journal published a story on all of the ways in which Gen. Stanley

The Senate is back to amending Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal today. Here is a list of pending amendments that might come up

The Michigan Messenger reports on a state legislature hearing about a proposal to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish, Mich., maximum-security

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims -- or, as Spencer puts it, simply lying -- on the

So, OK, Saudi Arabia has a pretty impressive deradicalization program. But would deradicalization work in Pakistan? Doubtful, says Kenneth Ballen of an

From The Minnesota Independent: No Republican contenders in the 2010 gubernatorial contest — except environmental activist Leslie Davis — believe in global

Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) joined the Republican governor of his home state, Dave Heineman, in calling on President Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline

Speaking at Grand Canyon National Park today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims as the “preferred alternative” in an ongoing federal review of hardrock mining on the 1 million acres of public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon.

Whether BP will be found grossly negligent in its handling of the Deepwater Horizon rig is one of the next big questions in the saga of the Gulf oil spill. To