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Jim Antle writes at the Daily Caller about a Rand Paul foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation on February 6:

In an attempt to bring citizen feedback into the digital age, Textizen has created a service that allows local governments to get in touch with their constituents with one simple text. Tweet

The website reads,

Earlier this month, a prominent and award-winning political watchdog group in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, had its budget cut in half after losing funding from one of its biggest donors.

In response to racist and anti-Semitic tweets posted on the social network, Twitter, a French court ruled Thursday that Twitter must act in compliance with French law and reveal the identity of the users responsible for the tweets.

A proposed California initiative would lower the voter preregistration age to 15.

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It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to let freedom ring across the nation.

Congressman Geoff Davis, a Republican serving Kentucky's 4th congressional district, announced in 2011 that he was retiring from office at the end of his term, but in the summer of 2012, Davis resigned his seat immediately.