Politics

Rand Paul refuses TSA patdown

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Sen. Rand Paul said his misunderstanding with the TSA Monday morning could have been avoided if he would have simply been able to go through a body scanner in Nashville again. After missing his original flight because he would not submit to a pat-down, Paul told reporters staked out at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport [...]

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The Year of the Dragon May Spur a Baby Boom in Asia

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Monday marks the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, when Chinese communities around the world celebrate with extravagant festivities, vibrant parades and an influx in consumer spending. But forecasters and health officials are anticipating a different boost: a new wave of births. According to state news agency Xinhua, China is expecting a 5% increase [...]

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Why You Should Fear SOPA and PIPA

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Initially, the simple question of the day is: “What’s so bad about trying to protect movies and music from being pirated?”   And, the simple answer is: “Nothing at all.” But upon further examination, the next and ultimately most important question is:  “To what lengths will they (studios and the record labels) go to accomplish their [...]

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Occupy Wall Street Wants to Start Suing People

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Topics in today’s show: –Conservatives are largest self-identified political group –Occupy Wall Street wants to start suing people –Obama decides to delay 215k deportations –Vladamir Putin –Hostess, maker of Twinkies, declares bankruptcy –Amish men decide to go to jail rather than pay a traffic fine

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G.O.P. Turns Its Focus to Florida

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A drastically reshaped Republican presidential campaign begins anew in Florida on Sunday as the party’s establishment confronts the likelihood of an extended and bitter leadership fight and the increasing possibility that Newt Gingrich could be its nominee. Mr. Gingrich’s stunning victory over Mitt Romney in South Carolina on Saturday all but ensured 10 days of [...]

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South Carolina AG: 900 Dead People Voted in Recent Elections

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It looks like New Hampshire is not alone… South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R-SC) told Neil Cavuto today that the state has hundreds of people voting for dead people. “We just recently learned that there are over 900 individuals died before the election and at least 600 of those individuals died outside window when [...]

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Romney Must Release His Tax Returns Immediately

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From time to time Newsmax offers editorials to its readers on important matters. Our editorial on Mitt Romney and his tax returns follows. Mitt Romney owes it to Republican primary voters, not to mention the American people, to release his tax returns — now! After declining to release his returns, Romney has reluctantly agreed this [...]

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Obama’s Quest for a Second Term Doomed by His Own Policies

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It’s starting to feel a lot like 1992, and President Obama’s re-election team should be worried. At this point in President George H.W. Bush’s term, the president’s approval rating stood at 46 percent. According to Gallup, Mr. Obama’s is doing worse by 1 percent. “It’s the economy, stupid” was 1992’s winning campaign slogan, and the [...]

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When the Government Decides Who Lives and Who Dies

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If the government can say that any of us need its approval to exist, it has actually said that about all of us.  And if our very right to our own existences has been stripped away, then we truly are just the property of an almighty State. Isn’t it interesting that even though every political [...]

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Colbert and Cain Rally in South Carolina

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Herman Cain has already dropped out of the presidential race…but that won’t stop Stephen Colbert from rallying for him. The Comedy Central funnyman hit the campus of the College of Charleston Friday, joined by over 3,000 students, a marching band and cheerleaders, to urge South Carolinians to cast a vote for Cain (who just so [...]

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Paul looks past South Carolina to caucus states

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is already looking past the South Carolina primary with plans to make the most of a few states that could be more receptive to his libertarian, Internet-driven message. Paul campaigned across seven South Carolina cities the day before Saturday’s first-in-the-South primary, flying to a series of rallies in airports to [...]

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Islamic Attacks in Nigeria Kill at Least 143

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An Islamic militant group in Nigeria staged devastating bomb and gun assaults on government targets in the northern city of Kano, the latest in a series of attacks that appeared aimed at splitting Muslim and Christian communities in Africa’s most populous country. The attacks, which took place late Friday and Saturday, paired bomb blasts with [...]

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If feds can bust Megaupload, why bother with anti-piracy bills?

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It was almost as if the thrums of digital artillery could be felt across millions of keyboards. As some of the internet’s biggest power players, including Google and Wikipedia, protested two fast-tracked anti-piracy bills going through Congress, the US Justice Department launched an attack on one of the web’s biggest alleged scofflaws, Megaupload, and, in [...]

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Obama to Draw an Economic Line in State of Union

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President Obama will use his election-year State of the Union address on Tuesday to define an activist role for government in promoting a prosperous and equitable society, hoping to draw a stark contrast between the parties in a time of deep economic uncertainty. In a video preview e-mailed to more than 10 million supporters on [...]

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Gingrich Foes Fight to Remind GOP of Ex-Speaker’s Ethics Woes

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Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have fought in the closing days of the South Carolina primary to remind voters of the headaches Republicans faced during the speakership of Newt Gingrich, highlighting in particular the ethics investigation that led to his official reprimand. For his part, Gingrich has dismissed the investigation as an essentially partisan exercise; [...]

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