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The Mayor who cried "Lone-Wolf"?
AP Photo: Jefferson SiegelI was watching CNN with a friend Sunday evening when they started reporting that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was going to give a live press conference at 7:30 p.m....
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Word association game - GOP primary edition
Photo: Aikenstandard.comInstead of wasting time writing a detailed analysis of where today's GOP contenders stand, I've opted to go the simple route. A variation on word association. Why not? Since...
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Mother Jones: 13 reasons Newt will not be the GOP nominee
In a recent column, conservative big-thought guy George Will described Newt Gingrich as unstable as water. That quote he plucked from Genesis nails it. Unfortunately for the rest of the Republican...
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ABC News-Iowa GOP debate: Will the real front-runner please stand up?
With the fur now flying between the Romney, Gingrich and Paul campaigns, tonight's ABC News,Yahoo News, WOI-TV, Des Moines Register, Iowa Republican Party debate should be very entertaining. With the...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan sums up tonight's debate quick-like
"10.54 pm. Tapper is playing up the $10,000 Romney bet - and I suspect he's right to. It leapt out at me, along with the "Newt Romney" line from Bachmann. Other than that, Newt wins; Romney loses; Paul...
View ArticleRomney jabs at Gingrich, gets punched right back
Earlier today, a desperate Mitt Romney challenged Newt Gingrich to return the money he received from consulting with Fannie and Freddie.Newt's reply: "I would just say: if Governor Romney would like to...
View ArticleNDAA: Handing our nation's enemies the biggest victory ever
According to a new article in The Huffington Post: A measure that Congress will likely pass this week allowing indefinite detentions of Americans by the U.S. military will mark a significant loss in...
View ArticleHouse bill could make diplomacy with Iran illegal
The Orwellian/NeoCon nonsense continues. Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Pete Stark (D-CA) warned colleagues in a letter that the Iran Threat Reduction Act (H.R. 1905), expected to pass this week,...
View ArticleTaibbi discusses the declaration of Battlefield U.S.A.
The elites are feeling the heat from Occupy Wall Street and are striking back using their useful idiots in congress. If the National Defense Authorization Act passes (including the provision declaring...
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Savage offers Gingrich $1 Million to drop out of GOP race
Image: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/gingrich-prepares-to-make-his-move.htmlConservative radio host Michael Savage has offered"fat, old, white" Newt Gingrich, current GOP front runner, $1...
View ArticleHouse, Senate agree on defense bill authorizing indefinite detentions of U.S....
Donna Cassata at The Huffington Post reports: House and Senate negotiators late Monday agreed to a sweeping $662 billion defense bill that requires military custody for terrorism suspects linked to...
View ArticlePresident Obama trailing GOP front runners?
I'm not buying the numbers being offered in a new round of USA Today/Gallup polls.They surveyed registered voters across 12 battleground states: Romney 48 - Obama 43; and Gingrich 48 - Obama 45. I'll...
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Newt/Romney a lock on Iowa? Don't bet on it
Image: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/09/08/am-the-republican-debate-social-security-and-minimum-wage/As we get closer to the Iowa Caucuses Jan. 3, most folks are laser-focused on...
View ArticleIs Mittens the Hillary Clinton of 2012?
From an interview with Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman at Politico:"When the (Des Moines register poll) came out showing Romney in third I actually had a shot of PTSD,” said one former Clinton adviser....
View ArticleDoing delegate math with Mittens!
Here's your word problem for the day: Based on the delegate math, his performance in 2008 and the cosmic variable unknown, can Mitt Romney overcome a possibly hostile early primary schedule to win the...
View ArticleNDAA (indefinite detention bill) no longer faces veto threat from White House
The White House has withdrawn its veto threat of the National Defense Authorization Act which states the U.S.A. is a battlefield (WOT) and okays the detainment and indefinite detention of U.S. citizens...
View ArticleThe colors are coming home: US military officially ends war in Iraq
President Barack Obama can cross off the list his greatest campaign promise - to end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home. Nine years after the invasion and ouster of Saddam Hussein, and with the...
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From the So What? dept.: SC gov. Nikki Haley endorses Romney
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (R) has endorsed Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination. My first thought when I heard that was, really? How politically dumb can she be? I agree with this writer at...
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Romney snags endorsement from the Des Moines Register
Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images North AmericaI don't know what's more exciting, Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell's endorsement of Mitt Romney or the one he just got from Iowa's largest...
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Iowa wild card: Christian conservatives
Image from Washingtonpost.comWith two weeks to go until the Jan. 3 Iowa Caucus, the great unknown in that race continues to be who evangelical Republicans will get behind. According to Boston.com, the...
View ArticleThe race for 2012 begins tonight
After months and months and months of GOP campaigning and debates, and a constantly changing slate of front-runners, the moment has arrived. Tonight is the Iowa Caucus, the official kick-off for the...
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Bachmann's Waterloo: candidate leaves race after last place finish
Image Source Page: http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2011/03/michele-bachmann-current-united-states.htmlMinnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has formally dropped out of the race for the 2012...
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Perry: "Here we come South Carolina!!!"
Perry TweetAfter a poor fifth place showing in Tuesday's GOP Iowa caucuses and saying he'd reassess his campaign, Texas Governor Rick Perry is now saying he'll forge on to the South Carolina primary....
View ArticleTo be in a hostile land...
With all the recent craziness going on in the Mid-East, from the murder of our Ambassador in Libya, rioting in Cairo and across the region, to more of our troops in Afghanistan being killed by supposed...
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