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Tweet              PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA — U.S. Rep. Allen West told a town hall audience today that Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann made “an incredible faux pas” when she said she is open to allowing drilling for oil and natural gas in the Everglades if it can be done safely. “When I see [...]

Tweet ObamaNapolitanoIrene With Hurricane Irene bypassing Florida, the Sunshine State was spared death and destruction — as well as the weirdness of dealing with the “federal family” for post-storm assistance.  Here’s the headline on a Tuesday news release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that landed in thePostOnPolitics.com inbox: “FEDERAL FAMILY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT RESPONSE AND RECOVERY EFFORTS [...]

Tweet Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born Mary Elizabeth Anania; Born in Jacksonville, Florida on July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Edwards lived a private life until her husband’s rise as senator and ultimately unsuccessful vice presidential and presidential campaigns. [...]

Tweet Bond investors are reducing their estimates for Mexican inflation to a three-month low, a sign the central bank may have room to cut interest rates to safeguard Latin America’s second-biggest economy. The yield gap between inflation-linked debt due in 2013 and similar-maturity fixed-rate bonds, a gauge of investor expectations for price increases, sank 64 basis [...]

Tweet Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Born in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, [...]

TweetThe gas attacks promised by national Democrats are up, including this one against Rep.C.W. Bill Young. The DCCC earlier this month unveiled plans to go after a group of Florida Republicans for voting for a GOP-pushed budget blueprint that would overhaul Medicare while slashing trillions in spending over the next decade. The effort was to include canvassing, [...]

TweetAfter a successful summer experience, a Tea Party-affiliated organization is offering Saturday morning civics classes for children. The Tampa 912 Project sent out a message announcing October sessions of its Tampa Liberty School in Carrollwood and Brandon. “The school is dedicated to educating, enlightening, and exciting the youth of America, as to the fundamental principles [...]

Tweet Sixty-seven major progressive organizations have penned an open letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to “go big” as he prepares a new jobs plan, which he will announce in a major speech just after Labor Day. The groups — including MoveOn, Democracy for America, Rebuild the Dream and the National Council of Women’s [...]

TweetOkay, so not all the leading presidential candidates will actively campaign for the Florida GOP’s Presidency 5 straw poll Sept. 24. That mock election will still say a lot about the state of play among Republican activists in Florida. And looking at the lineup for a competing GOP event, the Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island Sept. [...]