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Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Gov. Rick Scott sparked a debate when he released the salary data on dozens of professors at Florida’s public universities

It’s fun, I know, to get all concerny about the apparent lack of press briefing transcripts on the new White House website, but if you actually want to get the

A new ABC News poll shows that 45 percent of Americans consider themselves middle class, a significant difference from other polls that find when asked

He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he’s done it: President Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is

TPM caught a poor word choice in Howard Kurtz’s Monday column: The Boston Globe has an interesting piece from Obama’s native country on attempts to cash

The Pentagon general counsel, July 7: Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson suggested to the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the difficulties

Ann Romney, wife of GOP presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, will be in Marion at noon on Wednesday to attend a luncheon at the Linn County GOP Headquarters alongside newly selected Iowa Senate candidate Cindy Golding.

There was little improvement in the unemployment picture this week as the latest Department of Labor report shows new weekly unemployment claims virtually unchanged from last week at 428,000, only slightly less than last week’s 429,000. This was the 12th straight week that new unemployment claims have been over 400,000, leaving the four-week average at 426,250.

Responding to the controversial assertion by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair on June 8 that warrantless wiretapping wasn’t illegal, Senator

Until now, the debate over a government-backed insurance plan has been largely partisan, pitting Democrats who support the concept against Republicans who

Pic via arcc-cdac.ca Florida’s Department of Health suggested cutting state funding to crisis pregnancy centers, among other services, to state legislators during a committee meeting last week. The department presented a report on what it sees as possible areas of budget reduction to legislators in the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, as they prepare to make more cuts to the budget during their upcoming session. Crisis pregnancy centers (known as CPCs) are often religious centers created to persuade women to not have abortions.

The headlines about stress tests released Thursday seemed sort of reassuring, after all the concern about the banking system going under. Ten banks need more

Just to get an idea of how much money flows through the education industry, a report by the investment banking firm Berkery Noyes calculates that in the first

The Supreme Court returned the case of a Muslim Pakistani immigrant to a lower court, leaving questions about how specific a claim against a government official must be for it to be heard.

Vice Adm. Robert Harward arrived in Afghanistan this fall to take over detention operations for Gen. Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal’s explicit instructions for

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced a bill today that clarifies that victims of the Gulf oil spill can sue any party responsible for the disaster, not

When John Becker of Truth Wins Out, a non-profit that fights anti-gay religious extremism, recently went undercover as a conflicted gay man seeking ex-gay

Can I be real for a moment? I don’t know a thing about what can or should be done about the Somali pirates. It seems as if the unionized crew of the Maersk

Yesterday, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) introduced a bill to provide extra weeks of federally paid-for unemployment insurance benefits for the 99ers -- the

VP candidate rose to power by looking out for No. 1. Now that she’s on the national stage, she could be back to politics as usual.

If there’s a story whose facts are verifiable, and it generates interest, and it comes from Satan himself, I will take it and I will pay him a reporting fee, Tucker Carlson said.