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The Fat Lady Hasn’t Sung, But She’s Warming Up

If I were a national Republican operative, I’d be very worried about tonight. If I were a Mitt Romney fan, I’d be ecstatic. The Romney win in Florida was huge. He won the hispanic vote. He split tea party activists and evangelicals. He won where people live. Gingrich won the panhandle and largely tied in [...]

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Regarding that “scathing” Dept of Justice report

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Regarding that “scathing” Dept of Justice report being used as a club against Sheriff Arpaio, [...]

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Susan G. Komen Listened. Have You Responded?

Yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced it would stop giving money to Planned Parenthood. Conservatives have been pushing on this issue for a while. As a result of the announcement, the left has gone on the attack. It is important that you who wanted Komen to do this say thank you. You can email [...]

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RESULTS: Florida 2012 Presidential Preference Primary

We’ve got what you’re looking for The results of Florida’s winner-take-all Republican primary tonight will be defining, with the state’s 50 delegate prize up for grabs. The delegates are needed to ultimately nominate the national party’s candidate at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa this August. Mitt Romney is heavily favored in tonight’s balloting [...]

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The Bad Messaging of the Newt Gingrich Super PAC

I was surprised to land in Miami today for CNN’s coverage of the Florida Presidential Preference Primary and hear one Newt Super PAC ad over and over. I heard it on rock stations. I heard it on Rush Limbaugh. I heard it on a sports talk station. It attacked Mitt Romney for abortion. Abortion. In [...]

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GAB Keeps Voters in the Dark on Fraud, Sides with ACLU

From the diaries by Neil Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board has been a poster child for dysfunction for a while now and even still this supposedly non-partisan agency never ceases to amaze with its inexplicable behavior.  In December, a GAB representative said that Mickey Mouse or Adolph Hitler could sign a recall petition and it would [...]

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Florida Results CoveritLive

Neil Stevens predicted Romney would win by 10. Nate Silver predicted Romney would win by 15. According to CNN’s early exits, the margin of victory for Romney may be unexpecedly small tonight. Click the box to join the discussion or join in the comments!  Florida Results CoveritLive

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More on the Allen West Saga

Javier Manjarres is reporting that Allen West has announced that he is switching Congressional districts, from FL-22 (which was drawn to doom him) to FL-16. I don’t know the particulars of that district since it has been redrawn but it used to be one of the safest GOP seats in the country (and is now [...]

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Susan G. Komen Ends Relationship with Planned Parenthood

For years and years, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has pointlessly given money to Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that Planned Parenthood’s claims regarding breast exams have been exposed as wildly exaggerated. Today, after years of work by pro-life activists, that ends: NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for [...]

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Why the AZ Republic is irrelevant

Effect of recommendation is zero This foolish headline appears on the front page of the Valley & State section: Phoenix commission votes 13-0 for Arpaio to resign The Phoenix Human Relations Commission is the commission in question. According to its own website, it‘s a group of 17 volunteers appointed by the mayor and City Council, [...]

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