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ARIZONA GOP DEBATE:: Feb 22 CNN – Watch Live – CNN Blogs
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 1:29 pm
CNN LIVE: Tune in Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET for the last presidential debate before Super Tuesday, the CNN/Arizona Republican Party Debate hosted by John King. Follow it on Twitter at #CNNDebate and on Facebook at CNN Politics. For real-time coverage of the Arizona and Michigan primaries, go to CNNPolitics.com or to the CNN apps or CNN mobile web site. via CNN Political ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , Featured , General , News , Politics
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TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARDS: ‘Don’t Believe the Liberal Media!’ – CNSNews
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 1:28 pm
(CNSNews.com) – The Media Research Center (MRC), a watchdog group that tracks liberal bias in the news, had two massive billboards erected in New York City’s Times Square on Tuesday. The billboards say “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media!” and they are expected to be viewed by 1.3 million onlookers over the next four weeks, according to the MRC. “There is no ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , Featured , General , News , Politics
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PETHOKOUKIS:: Why Obama’s corporate tax plan is a total bust – The Enterprise Blog
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 1:27 pm
The current U.S. economic recovery is arguably the worst in modern American history. Incomes are flat, housing is moribund, and the past three years have seen the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Yet President Barack Obama—with the backing of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner—has the temerity to propose a corporate ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Economy , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics , Taxes
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VIDEO:: CHRIS CHRISTIE to WARREN BUFFETT: ‘Write a check and shut up’
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 1:26 pm
Election 2012 , General , News , Taxes , VideoPage
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POLLS:: Santorum surges among California GOP voters – San Jose Mercury News
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 1:25 pm
SACRAMENTO -- California's Republican voters have warmed up to the surging candidacy of Rick Santorum but also are expressing growing dissatisfaction with the field of GOP presidential candidates, according to a Field Poll released Wednesday. The former Pennsylvania senator is preferred by 25 percent of the state's registered Republicans, a turn-around that has come ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Polls , Rick Santorum
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TERRORISM:: ANDREW McCARTHY: McCain & Graham [Heart] the Muslim Brotherhood – NRO
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 10:40 am
![TERRORISM:: ANDREW McCARTHY: McCain & Graham [Heart] the Muslim Brotherhood – NRO](http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/wp-content/themes/NewsFlash/thumb.php?src=http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/McCainGraham.jpg&w=190& h=150& zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have taken time off from helping install an Islamist government in Libya (mainly the Muslim Brotherhood, with some help from al Qaeda) and calling for the arming of the Syrian “rebels” (mainly the Muslim Brotherhood, with some help from al Qaeda) to heap praise on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The post-Mubarak regime for ... Go To Article
Andrew C. McCarthy , Commentary , General , Islam , Politics , Terrorism
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QUINNIPIAC POLL:: Santorum Leads GOP Field With 35% Support – Wash Wire – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 9:54 am
Another new national poll shows Rick Santorum leading Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential race. The Quinnipiac University poll shows Mr. Santorum leading the Republican field with the support of 35% of the GOP voters surveyed , while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 26%. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stands at 14%, and Rep. Ron Paul has ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics , Polls , Rick Santorum
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VIDEO:: GINGRICH Releases Half-Hour Energy Ad
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 9:49 am
Economy , Election 2012 , Energy , General , News , Newt Gingrich , Politics , Video news , VideoPage
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DONALD TRUMP records robo-call in Michigan for Romney – AP
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 9:45 am
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump is telling Michigan voters that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a career politician who doesn't know how to create jobs. Mitt Romney's campaign deployed an automated phone call from Trump Wednesday in Michigan, a state that has become a must-win for the former Massachusetts governor. Trump also recorded a Michigan radio ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics
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SARAH PALIN:: Media ‘wee-weed up’ about Rick Santorum – POLITICO
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 9:31 am
Sarah Palin came to the defense of Rick Santorum for his “Satan” comments as she condemned “lame-stream media characters” for getting “all wee-weed up about” the candidate’s past remarks. “They will attack any conservative who boldly proclaims their faith and talks about, there is good in the world and there is evil in the world, and that’s what Rick ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Rick Santorum , Sarah Palin
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CHRIS CHRISTIE:: Buffett should “write a check and shut up” – CBS News
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 9:05 am
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R). Famously outspoken New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says he's "tired" of making the discourse surrounding tax reform all about Warren Buffett - and that if the billionaire investor wants so badly to pay more taxes, "he should just write a check and shut up." In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Christie sparred with Piers Morgan over ... Go To Article
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AZ GOP DEBATE:: High stakes for Rick Santorum at tonight’s GOP debate – LATimes
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 8:58 am
The last time the four remaining contenders in the GOP presidential race met on a debate stage, all eyes were on Newt Gingrich, who was trying to ride the momentum off his surprise victory in South Carolina. On Wednesday night, the spotlight turns to Rick Santorum. In a race that has seen a cast of not-Mitt Romney characters take turns challenging the ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Rick Santorum
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AZ GOP DEBATE:: Lots at stake in first GOP debate in nearly a month – CNN
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 8:52 am
Mesa, Arizona (CNN) -- Twenty-seven days. That's how long it has been between the 19th and 20th Republican presidential debates. But that ends Wednesday, when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas face off at a debate hosted by CNN and the Republican Party of ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Newt Gingrich , Politics , Rick Santorum , Ron Paul
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ELECTION 2012:: Former Louisiana Gov. Roemer leaving GOP to try presidential campaign trail as an independent – WaPo
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 8:50 am
BATON ROUGE, La. — Former Louisiana Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer is abandoning his bid to win the Republican presidential nomination and will instead try to run as an independent candidate. Roemer says he will make a formal announcement Thursday in California. The 68-year-old former congressman who barely registered in polling on the GOP race said he will try ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
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US Embassy In Afghanistan On Lockdown As Anti-American Protests Continue Over Koran Burning Incident | Fox News
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:52 am
KABUL – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is on lockdown as protests rage in multiple Afghan cities over an incident the U.S. says was inadvertent burning of Muslim holy books at a military base. "The Embassy is on lockdown; all travel suspended," the embassy announced on its Twitter page Wednesday. "Please, everyone, be safe out there." On the ... Go To Article
General , Islam , Middle East , News , Politics
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FREEDOM:: Plan B for China’s Wealthy: – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:42 am
By JEREMY PAGE BEIJING—This time last year, Shi Kang considered himself a happy man. Writing 15 novels had made him a millionaire. He owned a luxury apartment and a new silver Mercedes. He was so content with his carefree life in Beijing that he never even traveled overseas. Shi Kang, a millionaire writer living in Beijing, started thinking about emigrating ... Go To Article
American Exceptionalism , Featured , General , News , Politics
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RICH LOWRY:: The Effrontery of Rick Santorum – NRO
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:40 am
The media has unleashed the hounds on Rick Santorum. He was last seen a step ahead of the braying pack, trying to explain that he hadn’t accused President Barack Obama of being a crypto-Muslim. The former Pennsylvania senator criticized the president’s environmentalism as representative of a “phony theology.” The press snipped the remark out of the context and ... Go To Article
Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics , Rick Santorum
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ECONOMY::REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Obama’s Dividend Assault – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:35 am
President Obama's 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax rate on corporate dividends, which believe it or not is higher than in his previous budgets. Mr. Obama is proposing to raise the dividend tax rate to the higher personal income tax rate of 39.6% that will kick in next year. Add in the ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics , Taxes
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GUN CONTROL:: Disarming the Myths Promoted By the Gun Control Lobby – Forbes
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:30 am
As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and ... Go To Article
Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics
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CRONY CAPITALISM:: Documents: LightSquared shaping up as the FCC’s Solyndra – Daily Caller
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:25 am
Documents and copies of communications obtained by The Daily Caller indicate that the Federal Communications Commission propped up broadband company LightSquared with favorable regulatory decisions and other special treatment, while driving its competition out of business. In August 2008, Wall Street hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, owned by longtime Democratic ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Crony Capitalism , Election 2012 , Featured , General , News , Politics
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ENERGY:: Aren’t High Gas Prices What Democrats Want? – RCP
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:20 am
By David Harsanyi Gas prices are spiking. That's great news, right? We have to wean ourselves off the stuff. At least that's what we've been hearing for years. Oil is dirty. We import it from nations that hate our guts (like Canada!). And moreover, we're running out. Oil is "finite." Finite much in the way water is finite. So why aren't Democrats making the case ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Election 2012 , Energy , Featured , General , News , Politics
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PETHOKOUKIS:: What might Romney’s new tax reform plan look like?
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:15 am
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow: Team Romney tells me there will be a bolder tax-cut plan released either at the debate tomorrow night (if Mitt gets it in) or more formally at his Detroit Economic Club speech on Friday. I’m embargoed from releasing details until tomorrow. But I can say that the new plan will be across-the-board with supply-side incentives from rate reduction, ... Go To Article
Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Mitt Romeny , Politics , Taxes
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OBAMA to propose lowering corporate tax rate to 28 percent – WaPo
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:10 am
By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Tuesday, February 21, 11:04 PM President Obama on Wednesday plans to propose a major overhaul of the nation’s corporate tax code, an election-year gambit that is likely to draw a contrast over a key policy issue with the Republicans vying to replace him. Obama will propose lowering the nation’s tax rate to 28 percent. At the same time, ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , Featured , General , News , Politics , Taxes
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ELECTION 2012:: At Arizona debate, Santorum to get his turn in spotlight – Reuters
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:07 am
(Reuters) - After months on the sidelines, Rick Santorum finally gets his chance at center stage in a debate of Republican candidates on Wednesday, and the increased scrutiny that comes with it. Santorum is surging in opinion polls and is likely to face tough questions over some of his strong social conservative views when he, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Rick Santorum
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SANTORUM blasts Obama’s motives on power, abortion – AP
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:06 am
PHOENIX (AP) -- A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president's competence but his motives and even his Christian values. Mitt Romney also is sharpening his anti-Obama rhetoric. He said Tuesday the president governs with "a secular agenda" that hurts religious freedom. In general, however, ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , News , Politics , Rick Santorum
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ROMNEY Faces Unexpected Challenge From Santorum in Michigan – NYTimes
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:05 am
NOVI, Mich. — This was supposed to be a state, at last, where Mitt Romney could coast. After all, he grew up here. His father, an automobile executive, had been the governor. And the last time there was a Republican presidential primary in Michigan, Mr. Romney won handily. Yet, with less than a week until Michigan Republicans vote and with polling suggesting that ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics , Rick Santorum
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TAXES:: Obama seeks 28 percent corp. tax rate – AP
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says. In turn, corporations would have to give up dozens of loopholes and subsidies that they now ... Go To Article
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MITT ROMNEY aiming to keep focus on economics – BostonHerald
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:02 am
Mitt Romney — desperate to turn the campaign conversation back to the economy as social issues have roiled the GOP primary — will try to keep the focus on tax reforms at tonight’s debate as he looks ahead to a must-win primary in his native Michigan, according to the former Bay State governor’s close advisers. “He will talk in some detail about how he would ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics
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ELECTION 2012:: Republican Candidates Battle as Arizona and Michigan Races Tighten – NYTimes
By MB Snow at February 22, 2012 | 12:00 am
In the brilliant sunshine of Arizona, Rick Santorum aggressively challenged Mitt Romney in a state where the Tea Party is strong and the politics of immigration are poised to take center stage at a debate on Wednesday night. And in the gritty cold of Michigan, the advertising air war intensified, as Mr. Romney increasingly faced questions about his conservative ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics , Rick Santorum , Tea Party
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RELIGION:: ROMNEY says Obama has ‘fought against religion’ – Yahoo! News
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 5:31 pm
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's administration has "fought against religion" and sought to substitute a "secular" agenda for one grounded in faith. Obama's campaign seized on the characterization, calling Romney's comments "disgraceful." Romney rarely ventures into social issues ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics , Religion
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VIDEO:: Governor Chris Christie on K-12 Education: We Cannot Accept Failure
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 5:18 pm
Education , General , News , Politics , Video news , VideoPage
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ROBERT McDOWELL:: The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 1:10 pm
On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year's end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish "international ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , Politics
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:: As Time Goes By . . . – NRO
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 1:05 pm
It is hard to remember a more tense time in the last 20 years. Tiny Israel may be poised to preempt the nuclear capabilities of Iran (an Iran that itself once attempted, unsuccessfully, to take out the Iraqi reactor at Osirak before Israel finished the job), whose terrorist appendages and missiles have the ability to do it a great deal of damage in return. How such a war ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , Middle East , Politics
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FRANK GAFFEY, Jr::Blind Ideology – CFSP
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Last week, President Obama feted Communist China’s Xi Jinping, the man who hopes to lead his country as it emerges as the world’s next superpower. Mr. Xi must have been delighted to see press reports that his host is poised to end America’s claim to such status – at least with respect to the traditional means of measuring it: nuclear weaponry. According to a ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Featured , General , Politics
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ECONOMY:: Dow Pierces 13000 – First time since 2008 – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 10:43 am
The Dow Jones Industrial Average pierced the 13000 level for the first time since before the financial crisis. The Dow broke 13000 just before 11:30 a.m. EST on Tuesday, fell back and then did it again just after noon. The index was trading just shy of the mark in midday trading, up 40 points, or 0.3%, at 12990. The Dow last traded at the 13000 level on May 20, 2008. ... Go To Article
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SUPREME COURT will consider challenge to affirmative action at University of Texas – WaPo
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 10:32 am
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas. The court said Tuesday it will return to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for the first time since its 2003 decision endorsing the use of race as a ... Go To Article
General , News , Politics , Supreme Court
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ELECTION 2012:: Ominous Numbers for Obama – Barrons
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 10:12 am
Will the economy (stupid) again determine the outcome of a presidential election? Based on two important economic measures that I've examined and their relationship to the presidential races since 1956, Obama supporters have cause to worry. All but the most recent of those races featured an incumbent, whether it was a sitting president (nine races out of 13) or a vice ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
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VIDEO:: Gohmert Talks to Lou Dobbs About State Department Ordered Release of Mexican Fugitive
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 10:01 am
General , Immigration , News , Politics , Video news , VideoPage
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ELECTION 2012:: Romney inches forward in Michigan, but victory still far from certain – DC
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 9:54 am
Mitt Romney’s efforts to prevent a potentially devastating upset in next week’s Michigan primary appear to be bearing fruit. Rick Santorum has been consistently beating Romney in recent Michigan polls, but the former Pennsylvania senator’s lead seems to have all but disappeared according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. The poll finds Santorum leading ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
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WELFARE STATE should not be a middle-class subsidy – WashEx
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 9:47 am
Pundits who describe America as a fundamentally conservative country are wrong,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote last week. “Yes, voters sent some severe conservatives to Washington. But those voters would be both shocked and angry if such politicians actually imposed their small-government agenda,” Krugman said. Krugman wrote these words in ... Go To Article
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POLL:: Santorum opens up double-digit national lead over Romney – The Hill
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 9:43 am
By Meghashyam Mali - 02/20/12 08:03 PM ET Rick Santorum has opened up a double digit lead over rival Mitt Romney in Gallup's latest daily tracking poll. The survey finds Santorum with support from 36 percent of registered Republicans nationally, topping Romney at 26 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) follows at 13 percent, with Texas Rep. Ron Paul ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics , Polls , Rick Santorum
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McGURN: Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 9:39 am
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he declared that marriage is between a man and a woman. For the most part, his position was treated as a nonissue. Now Rick Santorum is campaigning for president. He too says that marriage is between a man and a woman. What a different reaction he gets. There's no mystery why. Mr. Santorum is attacked because ... Go To Article
Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics , Rick Santorum
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GOP ‘SUPER PACs’ overtaking campaigns’ fundraising – APDispatch
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 9:27 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support. For two of the GOP front-runners, their supportive super PACs raised more money and have more cash left in the bank than the candidates' own campaigns. ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics
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BILLIONAIRE SHELDON ADELSON Says He Might Give $100M To Newt Gingrich Or Other Republican – Forbes
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:35 am
Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, with another ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Israel , News , Politics
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JONAH GOLDBERG:: The GOP’s quest for Mr. Right – latimes
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:32 am
"If we could just take a little bit from each of them." I've lost track of how many people I have heard say some version of this in the last couple of months. The "each of them" refers to the final four combatants for the Republican nomination. You could take Newt Gingrich's verbal dexterity, encyclopedic grasp of politics and techno-optimism. Add in Rick Santorum's ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics
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CLIMATE CHANGE:: Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:30 am
Editor's Note: The authors of the following letter, listed below, are also the signatories of "No Need to Panic About Global Warming," an op-ed that appeared in the Journal on January 27. This letter responds to criticisms of the op-ed made by Kevin Trenberth and 37 others in a letter published Feb. 1, and by Robert Byer of the American Physical Society in a letter ... Go To Article
Commentary , Energy , Environment , Featured , General , Politics
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ENERGY:: Campaign against Canadian Keystone XL pipeline driven by US foundations millions – DailyCaller
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:28 am
A Powerpoint presentation obtained by The Daily Caller shows that during a July 2008 meeting, the $789 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund proposed to coordinate and fund a dozen environmental and anti-corporate activist groups’ efforts to scuttle pipelines carrying tar sands oil from Canada to the United States. The most recent incarnation of that pipeline plan, the ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Energy , Environment , Featured , General , News , Politics
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STEVE FORBES:: Ben Bernanke: Supreme Socialist – Forbes
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:25 am
You thought socialism was dead, other than in miserable countries such as North Korea and Cuba? Think again. It’s alive and well at the Federal Reserve, and we and the world are paying a price for it. Our central bank tries to manipulate our economy in ways befitting a Soviet commissar. Take interest rates. Fixing the price of money is a form of price control, pure ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Economy , Featured , General , Politics
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FED Writes Sweeping Rules From Behind Closed Doors – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:22 am
By VICTORIA MCGRANE And JON HILSENRATH The Federal Reserve has operated almost entirely behind closed doors as it rewrites the rule book governing the U.S. financial system, a stark contrast with its push for transparency in its interest-rate policies and emergency-lending programs. While many Americans may not realize it, the Fed has taken on a much larger ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Featured , General , News , Politics
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DANIEL GREENFIELD:: The Global Warming Cult and the Death of Science | FrontPageMag
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:15 am
At the end of last year, the media widely trumpeted the “recantation” by Richard Muller, a physics professor at Berkeley. Muller’s confession of faith was met with the unreserved glee of fanatics who believe that conversion equals validation of the True Faith. Now Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a prominent German chemistry professor and green activist, announced that he is ... Go To Article
Commentary , Energy , Environment , General , Politics
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THOMAS SOWELL:: Academic Hypocrisy – RCP
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:13 am
It is fascinating to see people accusing others of things that they themselves are doing, especially when their own sins are worse. Academics love to say that businesses are not paying enough to people who work for them. But where in business are there people who are paid absolutely nothing for strenuous work that involves risks to their health? In academia, that ... Go To Article
Commentary , Education , General , Politics
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DENNIS PRAGER:: If You’re Ever Murdered, Here’s an Idea
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:10 am
I'd like to offer a simple proposal that, if enacted, could generate a great deal of a most precious resource: moral clarity. It concerns the death penalty. Opponents of capital punishment for murderers argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting on behalf of the ... Go To Article
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CRONY CAPITALISM:: The power company underwriting the DNC for $10M | Campaign 2012 | WashEx
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:08 am
Power giant Duke Energy is subsidizing the Democratic National Convention by guaranteeing a $10 million line of credit for the convention. The convention, like all recent major-party conventions, will basically be a political commercial for the party's nominee -- President Barack Obama. Duke is one of the biggest businesses in Charlotte, where the convention will be. ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Economy , Election 2012 , Energy , General , News
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PRO-ROMNEY PAC spent $13.5 million in January – Yahoo! News
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:06 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is struggling to regain control of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his allies appear ready to offer him a strong crutch for the road ahead. Restore Our Future, the independent "Super PAC" that supports Romney, spent $13.5 million in January on ads attacking his rivals and still emerged with $16.3 million in ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , Mitt Romeny , News , Politics
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ELECTION 2012:: ADELSON Donations Dominate Super PAC Supporting Gingrich – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:00 am
By Danny Yadron The latest campaign-finance report from Winning Our Future, a Super PAC that supports Newt Gingrich, confirmed what many already knew: The group has a hard time raising money from people with a last name other than Adelson. Nevada casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, Mr. Gingrich’s longtime friend and supporter, donated a combined $10 million with his ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Newt Gingrich , Politics
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‘ACT OF VALOR’ Star Roselyn Sanchez Preferred Working With Navy SEALs To Hollywood Actors | FoxNews
By MB Snow at February 20, 2012 | 4:26 pm
An unprecedented action-adventure film,“Act of Valor” stars a group of active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs in a fictionalized portrayal of real anti-terrorism operations. But for star Roselyn Sanchez, who plays a CIA operative held captive, it wasn’t just the story line that piqued her interest – it was also a welcome change to star alongside real American servicemen as ... Go To Article
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ENERGY:: IEA: Oil Market Ready For Iran Loss – WSJ
By MB Snow at February 20, 2012 | 4:09 pm
LONDON—Oil markets, including in the European Union, could cope with any loss of Iranian oil exports, an official with the International Energy Agency said Monday, after an Iranian threat to pre-empt an EU embargo pushed oil prices to a nine-month high. But the IEA, which represents the views of energy consumers, warned that the standoff between Iran and the West was ... Go To Article
Charles Krauthammer , Economy , Energy , Featured , News , Politics
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ELECTION 2012:: POLL: finds most GOP voters opposed to brokered convention – The Hill
By MB Snow at February 20, 2012 | 3:43 pm
A new poll finds most Republican voters opposed to the idea of a brokered convention to select the party's 2012 presidential nominee. A USA Today/Gallup Poll released Monday finds that 66 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning independents surveyed are opposed to a brokered convention and would prefer one of the four candidates secure the nomination beforehand. 29 ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Polls
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VIDEO:: SARAH PALIN: Chords of Memory
By MB Snow at February 20, 2012 | 2:42 pm
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Sarah Palin , Video news , VideoPage
