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The Miami Herald caught up with Gov. Rick Scott , who was in South Florida for a hurricane conference. Asked about a controversial rewrite of the state’s election laws, he said basically the same thing he’s been saying for the past several days: he doesn’t want fraud, but he does want people to vote.

A group of about 100 Occupy Des Moines demonstrators opted to cross the street to a public sidewalk Monday evening rather than face another night of arrests for trespassing at a park just west of the Capitol. Several of the demonstrators are meeting with state officials Tuesday morning to obtain the necessary permit to stay in “People’s Park” past the 11 p.m

Liberals love it. Conservatives hate it. Moderates have proposed some compromises, and the Obama administration is weighing ways to appease all camps.

This photo spread from a thinly attended anti-Obama protest in Mesa, Ariz. is worth a scan. First: guys, when you’re going after a man who draws crowds in the

According to Politico Pro, the state of Florida is going to keep yet another grant that is funded (partly) from the federal health care reform law. The state has dismissed other grants that were awarded from the federal government because the state Legislature is opposed to the Affordable Care Act. # The U.S.

With the HPV vaccine making headlines during the recent Republican presidential debates, an obvious question arose: What is Michigan’s policy about the vaccination? To answer that Michigan Messenger emailed Angela Minicuci, spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Community Health.

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) On Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on Al Punto , a Spanish-language TV news show, saying he doesn’t need a different message for Hispanic voters. Paul said he does not want to remove all 11 million undocumented immigrants, but insisted “we must have secure borders and we must not reward people for breaking the law.” “I don’t think people should come here and esaily become citizens who can vote and receive social benefits,” Paul said, but he added there must be a program to allow “people who want to work to come.” Paul said there should an assimilation program, but borders remain important and that citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants should not automatic.

Moments after the Obama-Biden Transition team announced former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) would head a health care policy working group in the new

Laura Rozen has a good post on some Harvard war games about new unilateral sanctions on Iran ultimately proving counterproductive to getting the Iranian regime

An average of 1,200 people are questioned by private security at Bloomington’s Mall of America each year, with security sometimes forwarding names to the FBI for such innocuous activity as taking photos or acting nervous after being approached by guards. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and NPR News Investigations released a report on the private mall’s security program Wednesday, illuminating practices that some said violates civil rights

Bill Kristol has a post up at The Weekly Standard’s blog about what conservatives ought to do about President Obama and Iran: There have been very good grounds

With Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, Sen. John McCain just brought up the infamous Bridge to Nowhere for the first time in quite a while at a town-hall

Just hours after President Obama reiterated his plans for overhauling the nation’s health care system to trim costs and cover the 46 million people estimated to

In an interview with ABC News on Sept. 20, President Obama said that the ACORN scandal “is not the biggest issue facing the country” but that the case

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asked President George W. Bush last month to pardon her former counterpart in the U.S.

Not content with the right-wing pundits’ method of evaluating Judge Sonia Sotomayor by hurling epithets and baseless accusations against her, Tom Goldstein, the

Polls and politicians agree that something needs to be done to reform immigration at the federal level, but Democrats can’t seem to agree on the right way

Hamid Karzai went home to Afghanistan last week having reached a modus vivendi with the U.S. on the non-offensive in Kandahar. The Obama administration, the

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) held a meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus yesterday to discuss the fate of energy legislation -- and address