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GOP candidates make reducing power of federal courts a campaign issue
Even though the U.S. federal court are hardly hotbeds of liberal sentiment by most standards, their willingness to uphold freedom of speech, the separation of church and state, and equal protection for gay and lesbian citizens has frequently irked conservatives. Now a majority of would-be Republican presidential candidates appear to…
Ron Paul wins Ohio GOP straw poll by huge margin
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas won a landslide victory in the Ohio Republican straw poll conducted on Saturday. Of the 428 Republicans who voted in the straw poll, nearly 54 percent cast their ballot for Paul. He was followed by businessman Herman Cain, who received about 26…
Bachmann: Gaddafi ‘may be’ still in power if I were president
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann admitted Sunday that Libya may still be under the rule of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi if she had been president instead of Barack Obama. In May, the candidate called the U.S. military action in Libya “a disaster in the making.” “If President Bachmann had been…
Bachmann’s New Hampshire manager, staff leave campaign
After back and forth reports, it seems Michele Bachmann’s New Hampshire staff is leaving her fading campaign. According to The New York Times, Bachmann’s New Hampshire campaign manager Jeff Chidester confirmed that he was leaving the campaign on Friday evening. Frustration with the nation campaign and not Bachmann herself has…
Trump plays birther card at Bachmann campaign event
Business mogul Donald Trump used the opportunity of speaking at Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s “tele-townhall” event Monday to say “someone should analyze” President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. During an answer to a question about China, Trump noted that he had been at the top of the polls when he…
Arpaio: Electric fence joke proves Cain is serious
When Herman Cain meets with Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio Monday, it will make him the fourth Republican presidential candidate to personally seek the endorsement of “America’s toughest sheriff.” “I’ll meet with Mr. Cain,” Arpaio told CNN’s Christine Roman’s Monday. “I’ll see how he stands on the illegal immigration problem.”…
Video game maker revels in Sim City’s similarities to Cain’s tax plan
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Herman Cain has soared to the top of the Republican presidential polls by touting his 9-9-9 tax plan as the solution to everything from unemployment to deflated housing prices. Now, the similarity of the plan to one used in a version of hit video game…
Gingrich says Chris Dodd and Barney Frank should be jailed
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) should be in jail instead of the bankers responsible for the financial meltdown. “I think the people who are protesting on Wall Street break into two groups,” Gingrich told an audience at…
Coulter: Chris Wallace should be ‘punched’ for asking Santorum about gays
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter is so upset at Fox News host Chris Wallace for asking Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum about gays in the military that she is advocating violence. In asking Santorum about the military’s now-repealed gay ban Sunday, Wallace had compared the integration of blacks to the integration…
Huntsman: Anti-Mormon pastor is a ‘moron’
Republican presidential candidate and Mormon Jon Huntsman on Monday called a Dallas pastor a “moron” for claiming that Mormonism was a false religion. TV evangelist and prominent religious leader Pastor Robert Jeffress called Mormonism a “cult” at a conservative gathering on Friday, just minutes after introducing Texas Gov. Rick Perry.…
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