Thursday, February 09, 2012
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New Illegal Alien Advocate
Undercuts Border Control
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Investors Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 5:30:42 AM
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Law: If anything shows how ever-expanding government works at cross-purposes, it's the Obama administration's newly named post of "public advocate" for illegal aliens. What part of "illegal" don't they understand? It seems those who've broken the law by entering the U.S. illegally are now entitled to special U.S. government protection from — the U.S. government. At least, that's the logic of the phony new "public advocate" post created for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In naming Andrew Lorenzen-Strait to the job, ICE announced he would work "directly for ICE's Executive Assistant Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations" to help build
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Let’s put the girl who cried
‘wolf!’ on trial instead
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New York Post, by Andrea Peyser
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Posted By: MissMolly- 2/9/2012 5:16:29 AM
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Her name is Maria Di Toro, the woman who claimed she was raped by Greg Kelly. In the interest of justice, as well as protecting the safety and sanctity of all women, I’m begging Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance to prosecute Di Toro, 29, a paralegal who wants to be an actress and model, to the fullest extent of the law. The girl who cried “rape’’ was almost believed. She twice told prosecutors a consistent and credible story that, were it not for the exertions of the DA’s office, might have cost a good man his liberty
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What if Botticelli had Photoshop?
Artist re-imagines ten classic
images of goddess of love Venus
with the 'size zero' treatment
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Daily Mail (UK), by Daily Mail Reporter
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Posted By: pineledger- 2/9/2012 5:11:43 AM
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A quick stroll through any decent art gallery in the world will tell you that, back in the day, artists and and their patrons liked their woman naked - and with a bit of meat on their bones. Indeed, it is only recently in the grand scheme of things that we have become obsessed with the 'size zero' model. Back in the 15th century, for example - when the likes of Sandro Botticelli were kicking about - a waif with gangly limbs and an impossibly tiny waist would have been told to go home and eat a few decent meals.
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The political transformation
of Barack Obama
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Politico, by Jim Vandehei
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 5:11:32 AM
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There are two indisputable facts about politics. The first is that every modern president in the fourth year of his presidency resorts to the cheap political stunts, broken promises and truth-fudging it takes to win reelection in what has been and will be a 50-50 nation. The reason is simple: Politics is not clean-living; it’s survival. The second is that Barack Obama, for all his talk of moving beyond conventional political tricks, is doing just that, which wouldn’t be so glaring had it not been for his incessant call for a newer, cleaner and more transparent paradigm
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I Scream, You Scream…
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National Review Online, by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 5:06:43 AM
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The other day, The New York Times offered the story of Juliet Pries, who attempted to open an ice cream parlor in San Francisco: Ms. Pries said it took two years to open the restaurant, due largely to the city’s morass of permits, procedures and approvals required to start a small business. While waiting for permission to operate, she still had to pay rent and other costs, going deeper into debt each passing month without knowing for sure if she would ever be allowed to open. “It’s just a huge risk,” she said,
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Newest Domestic Threat:
“Sovereign Citizens”
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Commentary Magazine, by Alana Goodman
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 4:55:41 AM
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It’s nice to see the FBI is keeping its eye on the real homegrown threat in America — Ron Paul fans: Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday. These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard. Routine encounters with police
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The Reversal of Proposition 8:
A Dangerous Precedent
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American Spectator, by Hunter Baker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 4:44:56 AM
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has acted to reverse the democratic decision of the people of California to confine marriage to its traditional parameters of a man and a woman. In making this decision, the court decided that it could overturn the will of the people of California on the basis of what is known in legal circles as "the rational basis standard." When evaluating the violation of fundamental rights, the court has often used a standard of "strict scrutiny" in cases involving racial or religious discrimination. By that standard, the petitioner frequently wins.
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Barry Landau, collector of presidential
documents, pleads guilty to theft
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Washington Post, by Peter Hermann
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 4:36:02 AM
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Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in court Tuesday to stealing thousands of documents treasured for their national and cultural significance from historical societies and libraries stretching from Baltimore up the East Coast. Landau’s guilty plea in federal court to two criminal counts involving theft of artwork revealed a scheme in which prosecutors said he compiled lists of items to steal and matched the names of historic icons to their “potential monetary value.”Authorities said that Landau, 63, used various means to distract librarians and staffers in four states, sometimes with cupcakes but also by using aliases.
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The Hoopla Surrounding
Romney’s Electability
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Roll Call, by Stuart Rothenberg
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/9/2012 4:32:39 AM
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For all the hoopla over former Sen. Rick Santorum’s (Pa.) Tuesday sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri (and the breathless coverage over at CNN on Tuesday night was a great example of hype trumping serious analysis), the dynamics of the Republican presidential race have changed little. While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seems unable to actually win the nomination, it is still awfully difficult to see him losing it. As others have already noted, Santorum becomes relevant again, which is a bigger problem for former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) than it is for Romney.
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The Himalayas and nearby peaks have
lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows
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Guardian [UK], by Damien Carrington
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/9/2012 4:28:47 AM
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The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall. The study is the first to survey all the world's icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps – Greenland and Antarctica –
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Newt's Southern Strategy Won't Work
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Wall Street Journal, by Karl Rove
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 4:21:02 AM
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Newt Gingrich's remarks Saturday night after the Nevada caucuses and on NBC's "Meet the Press" the next morning proved that presidential candidates should talk policy, not process. Proclaiming "We want to get to Georgia, to Alabama, to Tennessee," Mr. Gingrich said primaries in the South would produce "a series of victories" that by the April 4 Texas primary would make him "very, very competitive in the delegate count." Well, the Gingrich Southern strategy faces big obstacles, starting with Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Demanding that these two candidates drop out so he becomes the only conservative alternative to Mitt Romney hasn't worked.
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Obama contraceptive mandate has a price
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Associated Press, by Rachel Zoll
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2012 4:14:07 AM
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The Obama administration's new mandate that religious organizations pay for their workers' birth control has become a bludgeon for Republican culture warriors, as social issues have surged to the forefront in the presidential campaign. Conservatives who believe religious freedom always trumps gender equity in the public arena are outraged. But so too are Roman Catholic and evangelical moderates who have stuck with President Barack Obama, an abortion rights supporter, because of his 2008 pledge to reduce the abortion rate and find common ground among religious and secular Americans. These backers say the administration could have easily avoided the controversy
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LA County OKs $1,000 Fine For
Throwing Football, Frisbee On Beaches
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CBS Los Angeles, by Staff
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Posted By: PChristopher- 2/9/2012 1:38:35 AM
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When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County. In passing the 37-page ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.
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Delousing of a movement
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Washington Times, by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:54:02 AM
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As the tents were coming down at McPherson Square, the dead rats and mice being retrieved, the urine and feces and filthy bedding disposed of by D.C. employees dressed in hazardous-materials suits like their contemporaries at Fukushima, Japan, I thought of the left-wing press. (Snip) To read their reports, one would think that this Occupy movement really was sweeping America rather than standing on its last legs and being shut down. Its end was coming for very good reasons, I might add. The Occupy movement was a health hazard, occasionally a serious crime scene - rape, robbery and mayhem -
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Liberal Catholics who supported
Obamacare now upset
over contraceptives
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Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:51:24 AM
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Without former Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, President Barack Obama wouldn’t have gotten his health care overhaul in 2010 passed through Congress. But Stupak, a pro-life Catholic who voted for the health care reform after being promised that federal dollars wouldn’t fund abortions, now isn’t happy with Obama. Appearing Wednesday night on Fox News, Stupak made clear he opposes the Obama administration’s insistence that religious-affiliated organizations are not exempted from the law’s requirement that health insurance plans cover contraceptives.
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Obama export adviser exports jobs
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Daily Caller, by Neil Munro
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:49:08 AM
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A firm overseen by one of President Barack Obama’s trade advisers has just announced plans to export 149 white-collar jobs — including numerous high-tech jobs — to an India-based info-tech firm. The outsourcing announcement came during an election campaign in which Obama’s allies frequently lash former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for supposedly exporting jobs, and only two weeks after Obama showed he had little understanding of outsourcing in the high-tech sector. (Snip) Rubel is also a member of Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He’s a very successful retail executive, and was appointed to the 33-member committee in
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John Edwards' failed presidential campaign owes
taxpayers $2.1million - so how is
it still spending money?
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/9/2012 12:47:22 AM
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Federal election officials say John Edwards owes taxpayers more than $2.1million in public matching funds improperly received after he dropped his 2008 run for the White House, yet disclosure reports show his failed campaign is still spending freely. Edwards' hopes for the Democratic presidential nomination imploded in a sex scandal four years ago that left him facing criminal charges. But reports filed last week show his 2008 primary campaign spent $836,712 in 2011 on airfare, hotel rooms, cell phones and other expenses. The campaign reported $2.1million in cash remaining as of December 31, a figure close to what the Federal
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Immigrants swell Canada’s population
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The Scotsman [Scotland], by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:46:04 AM
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Canada’s population grew by 5.9 per cent to 33.5 million over the last five years on the strength of immigration, the fastest growth rate in the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations Statistics Canada released census data yesterday that shows its immigration programme accounted for about two-thirds of the increase in population over the past decade. The report shows people are flocking to Canada’s resource-rich western provinces. The population of oil-rich Alberta jumped 10.8 per cent, while potash-rich Saskatchewan grew 6.7 per cent. Ontario, the centre of the country’s manufacturing sector, is the only province to see its growth rate
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U.S.: Afghan forces will be ‘good enough’
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Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:44:12 AM
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Afghan forces will be “good enough” to take over from the American-led coalition as the U.S. and its allies pull out troops over the next two years, the second-ranking U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. (Snip) “I can tell you personally from experience and from feedback from others, these [Afghan] soldiers will fight,” Gen. Scaparrotti told reporters at the Pentagon. “There’s no question about that. And they’re going to be good enough as we build them to secure their country and to counter the insurgency.”
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Lawmaker: Obama wooing
youth vote with tuition costs
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Washington Times, by Ben Wolfgang & Tim Devaney
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:40:21 AM
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President Obama keeps tossing ideas to curb rising college tuition costs against the wall in the hope that a few will stick and re-energize young voters ahead of the November election, the Republican chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee contends. “That’s a plea for the youth vote. … His proposals are all over the map,” Rep. John Kline of Minnesota (Snip) Most recently, Mr. Obama proposed tying some federal financial aid to limits on tuition increases, threatening to cut off government money to universities that continue to raise rates each year.
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9th Circuit delusion
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Washington Times, by Mario Diaz
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:25:31 AM
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit just ruled that Proposition 8, California’s constitutional marriage amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. This decision is one of the most radical to come out of a circuit known for fringe rulings. It’s little wonder that this circuit is the nation’s most overturned. The decision presents a clear example of judicial activism, in which you can see the court struggle to find the arguments to substantiate a predetermined decision. Neither law nor fact stood a chance before the judges. To advance the cause, the 9th
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Obama's Budget Would Cut Mars Program, Solar System Exploration
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Washington Post, by Brian Vastag
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Posted By: Northcross- 2/9/2012 12:20:38 AM
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The budget coming Monday from the Obama administration will send the NASA division that launches rovers to Mars and probes to Jupiter crashing back to Earth. Scientists briefed on the proposed budget said that the president’s plan drops funding for planetary science at NASA from $1.5 billion this year to $1.2 billion next year, with further cuts continuing through 2017. It would eat at NASA’s Mars exploration program, which, after two high-profile failures in 1999, has successfully sent three probes into Martian orbit and landed three more on the planet’s surface.
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Judge dismisses PETA 'slavery'
suit over SeaWorld orcas
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USA Today, by Michael Winter
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:16:05 AM
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Saying the anti-slavery 13th Amendment applies only to humans, a federal judge today dismissed a landmark lawsuit that sought to extend constitutional protections to the famous killer whales that perform at SeaWorld, according to news reports from San Diego. In a seven-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller threw out the suit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Snip) PETA nonetheless hailed its lawsuit as a victory, calling it "one more step taken toward the inevitable day when all animals will be free from enslavement for human amusement," the Los Angeles Times says.
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States with enacted or
pending online tax rules
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USA Today, by Sandra Block
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:09:40 AM
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Attention, online shoppers. The days of tax-free online shopping may be coming to an end. More than a dozen states have enacted legislation or rules to force online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases, according to tax publisher CCH. Similar legislation is pending in 10 states. (Snip) "A store manager has the power to say, 'I'll match that price,' but they don't have the power to say, 'I won't charge you a sales tax,' " he says. "They go to jail if they do that."
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Prop. 8 supporters ponder next move
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Los Angeles Times, by Maura Dolan
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2012 12:06:28 AM
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San Francisco - Proposition 8 backers, who have longed to get to the nation's highest court, debated Wednesday whether to go there immediately or delay by seeking another review of a federal appeals court ruling that overturned California's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage. ProtectMarriage, the Christian conservative sponsor of Proposition 8, is expected to announce next week whether to ask a larger panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider Tuesday's ruling, a decision that could postponeU.S. Supreme Courtreview for months.
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10 advantages Rick Santorum
has over Mitt Romney
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Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/9/2012 12:03:36 AM
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So how do we make sense of what happened last night? No one but no one (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) predicted that Rick Santorum might win all three states on what turned out to be Loopy Tuesday. Mitt Romney remains the frontrunner but the former US Senator for Pennsylvania is clearly a force to be reckoned with. Here are 10 things to understand about Santorum's second surge and what it means for Romney, Republicans--and President Barack Obama. 1. Santorum is not Romney It may seem tough to start off with a negative but Santorum's success perhaps
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