Month: January 2012
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Perry, Gingrich Appeal Ruling Keeping Them Off Virginia Ballot
Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich are appealing the ruling that they cannot get on the Virginia ballot. Their argument doesn’t amount to much.
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Romney’s Chavismo
Greg Weeks explains.
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Rick Perry: Deadender?
Via The Hill: Perry vows to fight on, regardless of result in South Carolina primary Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday vowed to continue his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in Florida, regardless of his finish in the South Carolina primary. "That’s our intention," he told Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of the Union.…
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Mitt Romney Gives Money To Unemployed Woman At Campaign Stop
Charity? Or campaign stunt? Does it matter?
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More Evidence Of Mitt Romney’s Florida Firewall
I noted late last week the fact that Mitt Romney seems to be building a firewall of sorts in Florida that could blunt the impact of whatever happens in South Carolina. Further evidence of that came on Friday, when we learned that nearly as many people have already Florida as voted in the Iowa Caucuses:…
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How The Tea Party Lost The 2012 Republican Primaries
After having so much influence in 2010, the Tea Party is finding itself adrift in the search for a Republican nominee in 2012.
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Evangelical Leaders Back Santorum, Unaware They’re Irrelevant
150-plus evangelical leaders are trying to derail the Romney Express. They’re going to get run over.
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El Baradei will not Run for President
Via the BBC: Mohamed ElBaradei will end Egypt presidency bid Mr ElBaradei, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, said he had taken his decision in protest at the way Egypt’s military rulers governed "as though no revolution had taken place". […] "My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or…
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On Interpreting Primary Results
Is a vote for Gingrich (or whomever) necessarily an anti-Romney vote?
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Republican Race In South Carolina Tightens
Things are tightening up among the Republican candidates in the Palmetto State.
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Congress Feeling Pushback on SOPA
Ars Technica reports: Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA. It appears that members of both the House and Senate are starting to feel some serious pressure on this issue. For a SOPA FAQ, see Reddit (h/t: mistermix). And amusingly, the main author of SOPA, Lamar Smith (R-TX) was caught violating copyrights…
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North Koreans Reportedly Being Punished For Insufficiently Mourning Kim Jong-il
The Daily Mail reports that Kim Jong-Un and his underlings are punishing citizens perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the death of his father: North Korea’s hardline regime is punishing those who did not cry at the death of dictator Kim Jong-il, according to reports. Sentences of at least six months in labour camps are…
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Would Americans Be Healthier If They Spent More On Food?
Are their cultural reasons for America’s obesity problem?
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$4.00 Per Gallon Gas By Spring? Bye Bye Economic Recovery?
Higher gas prices in the spring could have an impact on the economy, and the election.
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Gingrich Calls On SuperPAC To Withdraw Anti-Romney Ad
Newt Gingrich’s schizophrenia over the anti-Bain attacks he and the SuperPAC supporting him have made against Mitt Romney continues. Now, he is saying that the SuperPAC, Winning Our Future, should withdraw the ad and remove any incorrect information: Misleading and exaggerated claims in a film portraying Mitt Romney as a heartless job killer led Newt…
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Complaining About Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and other Constantly Changing Products
Henry Farrell thinks “The New Gmail Sucks” and doesn’t care who knows it.
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Paula Deen Has Diabetes; Will Get Rich From That, Too
Shockingly, Paula Deen, the morbidly obese woman who fries Twinkies on television, has diabetes.
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Federal Judge Rejects Rick Perry’s Ballot Access Lawsuit
Not surprisingly, Rick Perry’s effort to get on Virginia’s primary ballot via litigation has failed
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North Dakota: Sex Sells
North Dakota has a very interesting tourism campaign, this is one of the posters: I would imagine these women are wearing a little more when walking around Fargo in January, where it is currently 11°. Found via Twitter
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Once Again, Allen West Proves Himself To Be An Embarrassment
Allen West, the Florida Congressman whose military career came to an ignominious end when he was relieved from command and investigated for attempted murder over an incident involving the questioning of an Iraqi police officer, has decided to weigh in on the controversy that has erupted over the Marines who were recorded on video urinating…
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Tim Tebow: It’s Just A Football Game
Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.
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Court Martial Recommended For Bradley Manning
Not surprisingly, it looks like Pfc. Bradley Manning is headed for a court martial related to the allegations that he improperly accessed, copied and transferred classified information that later ended up in the hands of Wikileaks: WASHINGTON — The military officer who presided over an evidentiary hearing on charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of…
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Gingrich SuperPAC’s Anti-Romney Film Fails The Fact Check Test
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker took a look at “King Of Bain,” the 27 minute film released yesterday by the pro-Gingrich SuperPAC attacking Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital, and found it wanting: Newt Gingrich, meet Michael Moore! The 29-minute video “King of Bain” is such an over-the-top assault on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney…
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Major Donor To Gingrich SuperPAC Wants No Part Of Anti-Bain Attacks
One of the biggest donors to the main pro-Gingrich SuperPac Winning Our Future is saying he does not support the attacks on Mitt Romney’s history at Bain: Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s $5-million donation to supporters of Newt Gingrich may have helped fund distribution of a brutal anti-Mitt Romney video, but he’s not necessarily…
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Republicans Vying For Tim Tebow Endorsement
Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?
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TSA Collected $400,000 In Change Left Behind By Travelers
Apparently, a lot of us are forgetting to take back the coins we keep tossing in those little plastic bins at the airport: Airline passengers left more than $400,000 at airport security checkpoints operated by the Transportation Security Administration in 2011. TSA found $409,085.56 in spare change last year that was unclaimed by passengers, according…
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U.S. Warns Iran On Straits Of Hormuz
The United States is sending a warning to Iran not to play games with the Straits Of Hormuz: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is relying on a secret channel of communication to warn Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a “red line” that would provoke an American response,…
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Gingrich Ad Criticizes Romney For Being Able To Speak French
Matt Lewis passes along the latest Web ad from Newt Gingrich, which ends with the line “And just like John Kerry — he speaks French, too.” Coming next from the Gingrich campaign, “Mitt Romney Is A Big Giant Poopy Head” One wonders what Gingrich would say about Thomas Jefferson who was fluent in English, French,…
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Romney Building A Firewall In Florida?
Regardless of what happens in South Carolina, Mitt Romney seems to be going for a final knockout punch in Florida.
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George Bush Wanted Jeb Bush To Run For President In 2012
George W. Bush thinks his brother should have tried to follow in his footsteps this year: Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura wanted his brother Jeb Bush to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, the former first lady said Wednesday in Florida. “We wanted him to [run] this time,” Laura Bush…
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Jim DeMint Demonstrates What’s Wrong With Washington
Senator Jim DeMint demonstrated clearly today what is wrong with Washington.
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Rick Perry Experiences Blowback From His Attacks On Romney
Rick Perry’s odd populist attacks on Mitt Romney of late have cost him a major supporter: Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) – One of Rick Perry’s leading financial supporters in South Carolina is defecting to Mitt Romney – and he told CNN Thursday that Perry’s sharp criticisms of Romney as a “vulture capitalist” were the main…
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Marines Piss on Taliban Dead: Understanding War Crimes
Understanding the outrageous.
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Marines Accused Of Desecrating Taliban Corpses
A new story out of Afghanistan is causing embarressment for the United States, and the Marine Corps: The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating a video that surfaced online today in which several Marines appear to urinate on the corpses of suspected Taliban fighters. The video, which is less than a minute long, appears to show…
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A Post-Holiday Jobs Slump?
In addition to last week’s encouraging unemployment report, another set of data that has been sending out positive signals for several weeks now has been the weekly initial jobless claims report from the Department of Labor. Several weeks ago, that number fell below 400,000 claims, a level it had stayed above for the better part…
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Voter Fraud Exposed!
Dead people almost voted in New Hampshire. Zombie democracy is nigh!
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Does America Spend More Than Next 10 Nations Combined on Defense?
A Washington Post fact check calls this “true but false.”
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Supreme Court Upholds Religious Exemption To Employment Discrimination Laws
A far-reaching decision from the Supreme Court protecting religious liberty.
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The Death Toll in Mexico
Via the BBC: Mexico drug war deaths over five years now total 47,515 That number is since 2006 and the escalation of the drug war by President Felipe Calderon. According to the piece, while the murder rate continues to increase on an annual basis, the growth rate has slowed: The PGR said that the 11%…
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Obama Campaign Raises $42,000,000 During Final Quarter Of 2011
The Obama Campaign nearly doubled the fundraising haul of the Republican frontrunner during the final quarter of 2011: WASHINGTON — President Obama’s presidential campaign raised $42 million during the final three months of 2011, giving him what his campaign manager called a “pretty good quarter” going into his re-election year. In an e-mail to supporters…
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Modifiers Matter
Via the Political Fix: Spence’s college degree? Economics, yes, but of the home, Republican Dave Spence, the plastics guru running for governor, says he "earned a degree in Economics" from the University of Missouri. That may be true — but it is not entirely accurate. According to the university, Spence’s degree is not in economics.…
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Haley Barbour Pardons 14 Murderers; Judge Orders Halt
A Mississippi judge has stayed a slew of pardons issued by Haley Barbour on his way out the door.
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More Salvific Politics
Yesterday, I noted how Mrs. Romney asked her husband The Messianic Question. Given that post, I found the following line from last night’s acceptance speech to be of interest: Our campaign is about more than replacing a president; it is about saving the soul of America.
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Newt Gingrich Walking Back His Attacks On Romney Over Bain Capital
It sounds like Newt Gingrich is feeling the heat from his recent attacks on Mitt Romney over the history of Bain Capital: SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Newt Gingrich signaled Wednesday that he believes his criticism of Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital is a mistake — and that he’s created an impression that he was echoing…
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Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction Due To Improperly Withheld Evidence
Another death row inmate. Another case of prosecutorial misconduct from the office of Harry Connick, Sr.
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Jim DeMint: Romney Will Win South Carolina
Senator Jim DeMint says he’s not going to endorse anyone before the South Carolina primary ten days from now, but last night he poured cold water on the hopes of anti-Romney forces even before they were finished counting the votes in New Hampshire: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) thinks Mitt Romney is in store for a…
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Obama’s Pentagon ‘Power Grab’
Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.