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Conservative: Fox News helps us get our message out ‘unfiltered’
Last month, former Virginia Senator George Allen spoke at a luncheon of the conservative Heritage Foundation about how Republicans “need to use the new media … so we get our ideas, our solutions, out to folks unfiltered.” He went on to cite Fox News as the one television news source…
Senator suggests using beer ingredients to clean up spill
Iowa’s senior senator has a suggestion for President Barack Obama: Time for a beer summit. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told a conference call of Iowa reporters Wednesday that he thought the government should try using an alternative method to clean up oil that’s been polluting the gulf since a…
McCain on military’s gay ban: ‘I believe that it’s working’
Sen. John McCain once said that he would trust the opinion of military leaders to decide when it was time to end the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Now that the Congress is considering repealing the policy, and he is facing a primary challenge, McCain is changing his…
GOP Senator: Obama not an ideologue
Republican senator Lamar Alexander raised the ire of Charles Krauthammer and other conservatives Sunday morning simply by agreeing with Barack Obama that the president is not an ideologue. Speaking about the health care reform proposals on Friday, Obama told House Republicans at their policy retreat that he’s not an impractical…
Claim: ‘Scores’ of Guantanamo inmates back on battlefield
Dozens of released Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield, said a senior US Senator, urging the Barack Obama administration not to release more inmates from the war-on-terror prison camp. US Senator Dianne Feinstein told CBS television’s “Face the Nation” program that about a third of former inmates at the…
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