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Allen West's next target -- Witches or fluoridated water?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsWhen Allen West speaks, I don't know whether to laugh, cry or scream. His latest bout of lunacy: At a town hall meeting in Martin County last week, the Republican U.S. Rep. from Plantation said that "I believe...78 to 81"......Tags: Republican Party, Martin County, Bernard Sanders, Democratic Party, Politics
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More on licenses, IDs and immigrants
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsGot a lot of reaction to my Sunday column about the new ID requirements for Florida driver's licenses, along with my related point on Arizona's new get-tough immigration law. Wanted to share some of the mailbag, but let me just......Tags: Personal Data Collection, Local Government, Illegal Immigrants, Corruption, Crimes
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Rice's Rules of Engagement
The SwampBy Bay Fang Despite diligently ignoring each other at a United Nations-led conference on Iraq in Stockholm, Sweden, Condoleezza Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki could not avoid getting into a bit of a public spat. At the meeting,......Tags: Politics, United States, Condoleezza Rice, United Nations
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DiNapoli fundraising: Reform with an escape clause
Spin CycleComptroller Tom DiNapoli, following a report in Newsday, has issued a release on his new voluntary fundraising limits. At the time of his selection as comptroller, he explicitly refused to commit to a ban on donations from people doing......Tags: Political Fundraising, Politics, Elections, Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York
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Tim Russert's peers, pols reflect
The Swampby Katie Fretland Many expressed their deep sadness today for the death of newsman Tim Russert at age 58. Colleagues remembered him as a giant of the profession who was satisfied with no less than the highest standard of journalistic......Tags: Government, Michael Hayden, Tim Russert, Harry Reid, David Brinkley
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Ron Paul calls it quits
The Swampby Katie Fretland Tonight in a formal announcement that was foreshadowed by his low popularity in the Republican primaries, Ron Paul will tell his supporters that his campaign for president is over. Paul (R-Texas) will instead launch a different kind........Tags: Government, Republican Party, University of Minnesota, Elections, Political Candidates
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Audio: GOP airs phony troop-funding ad some more
Spin CycleThe Republican National Committee, trying to be clever, airs its radio ad accusing Obama of voting against funding for the troops in U.S. towns called London and Paris as the Democrat completes his foreign tour. Earlier in the week,......Tags: Republican Party, Politics, State Budgets, Sports, John McCain
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Paterson: $1.2 billion in cuts, no tax hike
Spin CycleJT Madore in Albany reports here on Paterson's presser this morning, putting some flesh on his fiscal crisis speech last night. He said he wants to cut $1.2 billion from a $122 billion budget now -- 1 percent, and it's......Tags: Politics, New York, Family
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Disgraced former County Commissioner Warren Newell has a new place to stay
Palm Beach Politics | Sun-Sentinel BlogsPalm Beach County is hosting another tourist. But this guest is not staying at The Breakers Hotel & Resort or any of the area???s other fine lodging establishments. Seven months after being sentenced to five years in prison, former County......Tags: Property, Charlie Crist, Lake Worth, Elections, Punishment
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Ron Klein labels his opponent's policies 'radical'
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsU.S. Rep. Ron Klein's campaign on Wednesday blasted positions taken by his Republican challenger, Allen West, as "radical policies" that would hurt South Florida. West's offense: advocating abolition of the federal Department of Education. Klein, a Boca...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Fort Lauderdale, Politics, Broward County, Teachers
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Fact check: "Fact check" distorts factcheck
Spin CycleWe noted earlier today that McCain's new Obama-as-wolf (left) ad inaccurately cites the Annenberg School's factcheck.org as finding that Obama had launched false attacks on Sarah Palin, when in fact the group was criticizing anonymous viral e-mail...Tags: Sarah Palin, Politics, Elections, Barack Obama, Political Candidates
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Sarah Palin: Sign of the old/new Times?
The Swampby Mark Silva Our friend at Top of the Ticket reports a certain case of whiplash in reading an editorial of the New York Times that spoke to the certain political wisdom of a political system that has the capacity......Tags: Sarah Palin, Environmental Issues, Elections, Parliament, Political Candidates
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