Though there is strong support for individual aspects of Governor Jerry Brown's 2012-2013 budget proposal, Californians are more conflicted over the plan as a whole, according to a wide-ranging survey published by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).
Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean that is 90-miles from the US border (from Key West, Florida). With it being so close to the country, it's history and that of the US has been intertwined many times throughout history. Christopher Columbus first set foot on the island in 1492. It would be a colony of Spain until after the Spanish-American War when Spain would give up its authority over the island.
Newt Gingrich is definitely regretting the commercial he once made with Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. It was 2008 and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project cut the commercial, which featured former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sitting on a couch with then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.