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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 1.4 million Floridians relied on food stamps in 2010, and 76.2 percent of those recipients did not have an earned income.

Just released from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.): Bart Stupak is a public servant of great integrity and genuine conscience. I deeply regret his decision from a

A new weekly newspaper launching in Vail next week already has competition in the form of a preemptive publishing strike from Vail Daily Editor and Publisher Don Rogers, who tells the Colorado Independent he already launched his own new weekly Thursday afternoon. “Ours came out yesterday afternoon,” Rogers said in an email. “It’s a weekend fun guide, basically

As it if weren’t enough that Greece and Lehman Brothers were caught shifting their debts off the books with the help of a variety of irregular accounting

The former GOP Speaker of the House tweets: Just had remarkable interview with chris wallace on foxnews sunday. I asserted releasing terrorist trainees into

This, from Roger Simon, is the kind of political commentary that shoots for outside the beltway and just becomes patronizing. Mocking the media coverage of

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick (Pic by MilitaryHealth, via Flickr) Donald Berwick, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters yesterday that the agency has the funds necessary to move forward with the Obama administration’s plans to create state health care insurance exchanges throughout the country. However, Florida remains one of five states that has not made any effort to take part in the reform

President Obama this morning finalized (sort of) the Democrats’ sweeping health care reforms, signing into law the reconciliation bill that refines the larger

Facing the threat of losing its state funding under a new law, the board of Austin’s Central Health voted Thursday night to stop providing abortions to

This certainly seems like a prelude to a very long-telegraphed campaign: There’s been a heavy bombardment. They targeted some militant hideouts as well as

For more on using counterinsurgency means to counterterrorism ends, Marc Ambinder is hearing things about the White House Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review,

Today’s moment of sheer Jamesian confusion comes from Rep. Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) disclosure today that Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is larding the Defense

His son Rand’s campaign for Senate in Kentucky is going better than anyone could have expected -- every Kentuckian I met at the National Tea Party Convention

The top Democrat in the Florida Senate today called for the federal government to reject a proposed overhaul of the state’s Medicaid system, citing public outcry at recent meetings hosted by the Agency for Health Care Administration (aka AHCA). # AHCA held the meetings this month as it prepares for the August deadline to submit its proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

As I wrote earlier today, it is difficult to see the May jobs numbers as anything but a worrying disappointment. The stall-out in job growth might be temporary

Low-income Iowans will be able to continue accessing legal services, as the Iowa Judicial Branch announced this week it has approved $321,000 in grants funded by Iowa lawyers trust accounts.

This is starting to look like a trend -- Florida Republican activists are demanding a special emergency closed meeting with state party chairman Jim Greer.

My friend Malcolm Nance, who used to train Navy special forces how to survive waterboarding, bravely testified to Congress last fall in opposition to the U.S.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A source from the convening authority for the military commissions just informed the press corps that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has