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Sponsor of Florida law aiming to restrict bypass of parental notification law is wife of circuit court judge

By | 05.20.11 | 4:02 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A bill currently awaiting signature from Gov. Rick Scott aims to restrict access for minors seeking a judicial bypass for the state’s mandatory parental notification for abortion law. Florida’s House Bill 1247 was just one of a crop of controversial measures introduced during the 2011 More…

GOP Gambles With Its ‘Pledge to America’

By | 09.23.10 | 9:58 am

After following a long road to completion, the GOP’s “Pledge to America” is finally being announced today in Sterling, Virginia, and almost everybody thinks it’s a bad idea. That’s because the document, while it proposes a seemingly well trodden list of Republican talking points that includes repealing health care, More…

Obama on the Midterms

By | 09.09.10 | 9:48 am

President Obama spoke with George Stephanopoulos yesterday in Cleveland, and the interview is being aired this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. It was a wide-ranging talk in which the president stood firm on letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans lapse, spoke against Pastor Terry Jones’s More…

McCain’s Court

By | 09.12.08 | 7:13 pm

There has been much debate about whether Sen. John McCain is a candidate of change. But in one area, McCain is unquestionably a reformer. He would almost certainly make fundamental changes in the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court.

McCain has said that, should he be president, Chief Justice John More…