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Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) An Everglades restoration task force meeting today is expected to unveil a new plan to fast-track restoration in South Florida’s “River of Grass.” According to McClatchy , the plan will look at ways to reduce pollution that is damaging the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries, and provide more natural flows throughout the Central Everglades.

It may have started when he lost the mullet two years ago, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s appearances on “The Daily Show” Thursday night and Good Morning

As our story pointed out Thursday, investors are worried about a lot of banks lately -- including the Federal Home Loan Banks, the 12 regional institutions that

It might have seemed like a GOP victory when last November, President Obama ordered a moratorium on earmarks. But lately, a few House appropriators, both

It’s looking like political insiders might prevail in tomorrow’s most anticipated Senate and gubernatorial primaries in Florida, an outcome that would throw a

In the latest issue of The Nation, Andrew Ross looks into the strange allegiance between climate fears and nativism. It’s worth checking out the whole piece,

Tom Ricks, preparing for today’s Pentagon subcabinet-official hearings, muses: It’ll be interesting to watch the Armed Services Committee hearing today on

Here’s an interesting detail/admission from Michael O’Brien’s interview with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho): Crapo said that he credited the August recess protests

Recent reports quoting anonymous officials within the Obama administration suggest the president is considering reviving the same military commissions that he called “an enormous failure” as a candidate.

Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is telling reporters that he has the votes of two Republicans for his extension of federal unemployment

I happened to be at a lunch with Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, when news broke that former Senate Majority

A screenshot from a broadcast of the Scott event During the unveiling of his budget recommendations for the upcoming legislative session, Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show asked Gov. Rick Scott to pee in a cup to prove he is not on drugs

The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee axed three Republican immigration bills Monday. Like many times this session, the committee, on a party-line vote, turned down legislation that targeted voting accessibility and immigration concerns

Porter Goss, director of the CIA from 2004 to 2006, previously gave the impression he was dismayed when his operations chief, Jose Rodriguez, ordered the

The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) is getting some serious help in his Senate primary contest against billionaire Jeff

HALT, an immigration-enforcement bill, is necessary because President Obama is seeking “backdoor amnesty” for millions of undocumented immigrants, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Tuesday during a House Judiciary committee hearing

Today, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its 2010 report on the state of the American housing market. The verdict? Not good, if stable. The

Wow. A federal judge has ordered the release of five of six Algerian enemy-combatant defendants from Guantanamo Bay -- including Lakhdar Boumediene himself, the

In a rote column about liberals stifling dissent, The Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone argues that the two most violent incidents at this summer’s town

Alex Koppelman is a must-read on the subject of Lou Dobbs, and his decision to trust the incredibly strange, discredited conspiracy theories of people like Orly

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) Fourteen U.S.