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One presidential campaign claims an impressive effort in Iowa this year: eight offices opened, 350,000 phone calls to potential supporters and 1,280 events to recruit and train volunteers. It’s not Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul. It’s Obama for America, the president’s re-election campaign, which badly wants to win this battleground state in [...]
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The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan and the American led-military coalition have withdrawn their staff from the Afghan government’s main media center in Kabul, amid a dispute over whether it was being improperly used by some Afghan officials to attack U.S. policy. American officials said it was also reviewing financial support for the Government Media and [...]
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Mitt Romney has racked up another key endorsement from a member of the GOP establishment, winning the support of Elizabeth Dole. Dole wears many hats, as a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, ex-Cabinet official and presidential candidate, and wife of 1996 GOP nominee Bob Dole. She called Romney “a man of experience, leadership and [...]
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A pro-family leader says a public embrace between two lesbian sailors proves that homosexual activists are taking every effort to celebrate the federal government’s repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” A public kiss between two lesbians in the U.S. Navy is being dubbed “the kiss heard ’round the world.’” The Los Angeles Times reports that [...]
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Nearly 47 million acres of American forests are now off-limits to slurry drops to fight fires because of a successful lawsuit by environmentalists who say the retardant kills fish and endangered species. The Forest Service decision that was due before Dec. 31 says the new directions for the use of the fire retardant will help [...]
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The Census Bureau’s recently created “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM) looks like a ruse to artificially show economic and poverty-reducing improvement in time for the 2012 presidential election. Longer-term, it appears to be a rigged mechanism for demonstrating how ObamaCare, assuming it survives legal challenges and attempts at repeal, is a resounding success. If I’m right, [...]
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Reid Ribble, a Wisconsin roofing contractor-turned-Republican lawmaker, has helped change the way Washington talks about the national debt. That’s not to say he has done much about the debt itself. Nearly a year ago, Ribble and other newly elected House Republicans came to Capitol Hill on a single-minded mission to shove the federal debt to [...]
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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has decided against running for reelection, dealing a serious blow to Democratic hopes of retaining the Senate. Nelson, a centrist Democrat who had been a thorn in the side of liberals for years, faced a difficult race in a solidly red state. But his decision to forego trying to win a [...]
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A couple months ago, I had an on-air conversation with veteran liberal commentator Cokie Roberts who spent a great deal of time discussing her belief that then Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney would struggle in early Republican primary states because they are heavy laden with evangelical Christian voters. Those voters, she supposed, would struggle against their [...]
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The state chairman of Indiana’s Democratic Party resigned recently as a probe of election fraud in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary widened. State law requires a presidential candidate to gather 500 valid signatures in each county to qualify for the ballot. Barack Obama may not have met it. Investigators think 150 of the 534 signatures [...]
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Mitt Romney was a moderate governor in Massachusetts with an unimpressive record of governance. He left office with an approval rating in the thirties and his signature achievement, Romneycare, was a Hurricane Katrina style disaster for the state. Since that’s the case, it’s fair to ask what a Republican who’s not conservative and can’t even [...]
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Margaret Thatcher ran Downing Street with an iron fist from 1979 to 1990. Vilified by her liberal opponents, Great Britain’s first and only female prime minister was the patron saint of the conservative movement. But Hollywood’s new film about the iconic leader – “The Iron Lady,” starring Meryl Streep – has viewers arguing about more [...]
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What is the teaching of the Bible on women in positions of civil or ecclesiastical authority? Specifically, does the Bible permit a woman to function as a civil magistrate, to be in authority in civil government? In recent years women have sought political offices, including the highest office in the land. In this presentation the [...]
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“Tax policy should be serious business carried out by serious politicians using real facts and figures. This is why we have the Library of Congress and the Congressional Budget Office, among other expert institutions,” writes Paul Roderick Gregory of Forbes. Indeed, given the current state of the U.S. economy, tax policy has become an increasingly [...]
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Mitt Romney is airing a new 30-second ad in Iowa in which he promises to shrink government and get rid of the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law. The ad, “Conservative Agenda”, features Romney promising to streamline the federal government and highlighting the former Massachusetts governor’s background as a businessman. Spliced together with clips of him [...]
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