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Santorum's Out, But Delegates Still Focus of GOP Primary
Santorum's Out, But Delegates Still Focus of GOP Primary
Senator Santorum suspended his campaign today, leaving Governor Romney as the likely Republican Party nominee with Speaker Gingrich and Dr. Ron Paul trailing, but still in the race. This is a fortuito ...
10 Apr, 2012
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Wisconsin Primary: What's at Stake?
Wisconsin Primary: What's at Stake?
Today, Republicans in Wisconsin, Maryland, and Washington D.C. will go to the polls to vote for one of the four remaining Republican presidential candidates. In what will likely turn into a showdown b ...
03 Apr, 2012
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Happy New Year: 40,000 new laws to take effect in 2012
Happy New Year: 40,000 new laws to take effect in 2012
Despite the influence of small government advocates like those in the Tea Party movement, the size, role, and influence of government on a federal, state, and local level is set to grow significantly ...
03 Jan, 2012
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3 min read
Food stamp usage soars despite job growth
Food stamp usage soars despite job growth
Fresh off the heels of Bureau of Labor Statistics findings that slightly fewer Americans were jobless in November – reflecting an expected uptick in temporary and seasonal employment, as well as a mas ...
07 Dec, 2011
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California legislature endorses National Popular Vote
California legislature endorses National Popular Vote
Governor Jerry Brown is expected to provide a huge boost to the progressive anti-Electoral College movement with his signature on AB 459, the National Popular Vote law. The highly controversial bill, ...
20 Jul, 2011
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Majority of Independents open to third party candidate for President
Majority of Independents open to third party candidate for President
A new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling has found that 37% of Americans and 51% of Independents are open to supporting a third party candidate for President in 2012.  And there is good ...
02 Feb, 2011
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2010:  the Year of the Tea Party
2010: the Year of the Tea Party
Looking back on 2010, we'll all remember what a strange year it was. But while replete with iPads, vuvuzelas, Lady Gaga outfits, earthquakes, treacherous winter storms, Old Spice commercials, Ta ...
28 Dec, 2010
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2 min read
Food stamp usage continues to climb
Food stamp usage continues to climb
Perhaps the most damning evidence of a false economic recovery is the sustained rise in food stamp usage across the country. Unemployment numbers can be groomed and refined, the Consumer Price Index c ...
24 Nov, 2010
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10 weirdest moments of the 2010 midterm elections
10 weirdest moments of the 2010 midterm elections
Either this has been one of the strangest elections in recent history, or else having the Internet around has simply made it possible to nationally ruminate over the strange goings-on in elections thr ...
02 Nov, 2010
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Top political fouls
Top political fouls
In case you missed it, in:  California:  Even before potentially taking office, Whitman has unselfishly injected over $150 million of her own money into California’s fledgling campaign indus ...
22 Oct, 2010
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