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The Tampa Bay Times failed to note the extremist past of David Yerushalmi — an anti-Muslim lawyer and activist — who authored the model legislation for a Florida bill which would attempt to ban Sharia law in the state.

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Thanks in no small part to massive spending by just one Republican donor , Republicans now control the entirety of North Carolina’s government for the first time in more than a century.

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned on Sunday that the immigration reform debate could be choked off if his Senate colleagues submit bill-killing amendments. As a member of the Senate’s so-called “Gang of Eight” devoted to immigration reform, Rubio has taken the spotlight as the GOP’s point person on the issue.

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Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @ TPEquality . – Meet the amazing Trans 100 ! – Sen

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) compared universal background checks to the government spying on American eating and reading habits during an appearance on Fox News on Friday

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Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the nation, is grappling with what to do about its Medicaid program . A deeply red state where the GOP controls both state houses and the governor’s mansion, Mississippi lawmakers are highly skeptical of Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion.

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As a private prison corporation with a history of alleged abuses and violations continues to lobby for more privatization of incarceration in Florida, it has found a new way to brand itself. In exchange for a $6 million gift, Florida Atlantic University will  rename its football stadium GEO Group Stadium , after the second-largest U.S. corporation that runs criminal detention facilities.

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Florida Secretary of State Rick Detzner Because Gov. Rick Scott (R) and his legislative allies spent much of 2011-2012 filling up the November ballot with complicated and unnecessary ballot questions and pushing through measures aimed at suppressing voter turnout , Florida voters had to wait in lines for up to six hours

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Legislation aimed at reducing gun violence is “a limitation on a God-given right of man that has existed throughout the history of civil society,” according to an article published in the leading conservative opinion journal National Review. The author, David French, interprets the Christian Bible as granting everyone a right to self-defense. He suggests that this, if true, means that God’s will is that people have access to guns , as they are the means for self defense: In fact, Jesus’s disciples carried swords, and Jesus even said in some contexts the unarmed should arm themselves …What does all this mean?

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The U.S. is currently experiencing its worst flu season in a decade , but many workers can’t heed the advice of public health experts to stay home when they’re sick due to a lack of paid sick days. And Florida business leaders are looking to keep it that way : The Florida Chamber of Commerce said Wednesday that one of its top legislative priorities this year would be blocking local governments from adopting paid sick-time measures such as the one pending in Orange County.

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