Choosing to leave his seat in the Illinois General Assembly, State Representative Mike Bost is hoping to capture Illinois' 12th congressional district in Washington. He is challenging incumbent Bill Enyart, a Democrat who is in his first term.

An amendment to the Patriot Act that would have limited the surveillance powers of the NSA, failed to pass the House last week by a vote of 205-217 with 12 not voting.

In a recent Florida League of Women Voters Florida On-Line conference call, Dr Susan MacManus (USF Department of Government) characterized Florida NPA voters for the listening audience.  She is one of the leading political science experts in the state of Florida.

According to Dr MacManus, the bottom line is that NPAs are very diverse in their views and hard to characterize regarding their voting preferences from election to election.  Dr MacManus went on to say that when a majority of NPAs vote for a specific candidate that candidate tends to win an election.

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On Wednesday, July 24, the United States House of Representatives defeated a measure to limit the amount of surveillance the National Security agency aka the NSA.

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most independent members of the House GOP and strives to distance himself from party groupthink.

The industrial revolution was paved with asphalt on which millions of automobiles thrust the American economy into the 20th century only to slowly decline by the end of it.

By 1946, 75 percent of all cars were produced inside the United States. By 2011, the amount of cars produced inside the US dropped to 11 percent. China has made significant strides to fill the gap, climbing from 3 percent in 1997 to 23 percent in 2011.