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State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee, has filed a bill that would end the death penalty in Florida

So says Capt. Matt Pottinger, one of the co-authors of Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn’s scathing assessment of intelligence operations in Afghanistan: This is

Allow me to revise and extend a remark I made yesterday when I noted that Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Judith McHale made some gestures to

The McCain campaign’s robocalls have drawn a lot of attention over the past couple of days. The phone calls play one of several automated messages about Sen.

What I should have written yesterday about Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies is that she supports using an executive order on preventive

At an intimate meet-and-greet held on Sarasota’s Main Street this morning, GOP Senate candidate and former Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner pitched himself as the “principled” conservative in the race, asking the small crowd to help him “fight Washington” and “save” the United States. # The Hasner campaign has touted its strategy of connecting with grassroots supporters at the expense of big fundraising totals, and today’s Sarasota event brought out a handful of important local conservative faces — Sarasota Republican Party chair Joe Gruters and right-wing blogger and radio host Richard Swier among them

The federal government changed a federal regulation (PDF) originally implemented in December 2008 to allow health workers to refuse to provide care in cases

If your legacy consisted of two draining wars, close to 5,000 U.S. fatalities, the spread of anti-Americanism around the globe, the alienation of

Presumed 2012 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty released a new highly produced video called “Stand With Scott” on Thursday. The video throws support behind Wisconsin Gov

At the request of the federal government, a federal judge yesterday put a temporary halt to the legal clash over Appalachia’s largest mountaintop coal mine, the

The secretary of state made a case that intransigence on a two-state solution was against Israeli interests.

Wall Street is lobbying hard on a bill it sees as a gold mine.

The popular education blog Eduwonk included a post today stating school reformers like former NYC superintendent of schools Joel Klein, current superintendent

The far-right site Newsmax.com has quietly launched a blog by stalwart Bill and Hillary Clinton ally Lanny Davis, and it’s as entertainingly scattered and

Just out from the White House: Michelle and I were deeply saddened today to hear about the passing of Congressman John Murtha. Jack was a devoted husband, a

In the midst of the second-worst drought in Texas history, towns across the state are going to extreme measures to cope, capping residential water use, and

A campaign promise by Gov. Terry Branstad to rescind an earlier mandate by former Gov

PITTSBURGH - Three days ago, a Pennsylvania voter thanked Sen. Arlen Specter (D-a.) for his opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. At the Americans for

Successful statewide efforts to restrict teen access to abortion coupled with unsuccessful efforts to enhance sex education in public schools (most receiving