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For weeks, the presidential and vice presidential candidates have been pounding the Wall Street vs. Main Street trope into our heads. Now, the good people at

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has backed the Obama Administration in its case against SB 1070, the controversial immigration legislation passed by Arizona lawmakers last year. A three-judge panel ruled Monday that Arizona District Judge Susan Bolton “did not abuse her discretion,” as the Washington Post put it, when she blocked key provisions of the bill.

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Florida Gov. Rick Soctt said on Fox and Friends today that ”you cannot win the presidency if you don’t win in Florida.” Scott said Ronald Reagan and George Bush won the Florida straw poll and went on to win the nomination and the presidency

Aleshia Napier was 18 years old in 2006 when she hung herself with a bed sheet at the Broward Correctional Institution in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after being

Doug Feith started off today’s House judiciary torture hearing by insisting that Philippe Sands misquoted him in the book "Torture Team." Feith said

Lillis forwarded me this with the subject line Things Are Out of Control: A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of

Gov. Susana Martinez has released evidence in an effort to disprove her earlier claim that her grandparents came to the United States as undocumented immigrants. The Associated Press reports: Martinez, a Republican and the nation’s only female Hispanic governor, made headlines this year by acknowledging that her grandparents came to the U.S

With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against czars — on Monday, the publication sketched out a GOP czar

If you want to know what Sen. John McCain said to the the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC, you are probably best off

It’s early, but it’s got to be this from Sarah Palin’s Facebook reaction to Newsweek’s cover, which uses a photo of her clad in workout duds from her Runners

Tuesday afternoon, in Speaker of the House John Boehner’s home state, anti-abortion-rights protesters are organizing a rally to encourage the Ohio Senate to

The U.S. Department of the Interior has responded to reports from over the weekend that BP is set to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and that Transocean,

For the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, it is WaMu week. Tomorrow, the subcommittee will release more than 500 documents on Washington

A hearing earlier today on SB 1070, Arizona’s immigration crackdown, went basically as expected: Department of Justice lawyers argued that the law pre-empted