Gov. Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion from the Department of Transportation to help Florida build a rail-line between Orlando and Tampa. As a result, former Republican congressman and current Transportation Secretary Ray...
Read MoreYou can listen to all the phone calls that President Lyndon Johnson participated in on November 22nd, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated, through to the end of the month. All of them, that is, except for the call Johnson had...
Read MoreTim Rutten sees in the Pew Research data evidence of the Californication of America. Perhaps most troubling, Pew found that a majority of registered voters — and a stunning 79% of “staunch conservatives” — say they...
Read MoreI really wish that we had someone other than Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) as our Budget Committee chairman. I am certain that progressives are going to hate his budget plan. One lawmaker who attended the meeting said Conrad did not...
Read MoreI wonder if it is true. I wonder if the GOP’s decision to block any and all nominees to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will actually make it more likely that the president will recess appoint Elizabeth...
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