This November, Mississippi votes on the personhood issue by popular referendum. The results will gauge whether the movement is a powerful new front or a fringe strategy destined to fizzle.
The contemptuous reaction from the House speaker, John Boehner, to the president’s request to address a joint session next Wednesday — the day Congress returns from its summer recess — was appalling. No matter how he feels about Mr.
President Obama can raise taxes on the rich. By a whopping margin of 82%-5%, Obama voters said that they would be more likely to support the president in 2012 if he raised taxes on the rich and closed the corporate loopholes. This support was across the board.
I keep saying that the President is terrible at Presidential politics, if requesting a joint session of Congress, not only on the same night as the GOP debate but at the exact same time, doesn't prove that point I don't know what will.
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Wannabee scholars here on newsvine have been virtually jumping out of their skins because I have been saying America is a democracy. So I will say it one more time ...
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Talk about a killer gimmick. An Arizona Republican fundraiser is offering as a prize the same type of gun used in the attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. On August 26 the Pima County Republican Party sent out its regular online newsletter, e-Trac …
As Utah’s governor, Jon Huntsman overhauled the state’s tax code — leading to the biggest tax cut in state history — and now says if elected president, he’d like to do the same with the federal government.Huntsman unveiled plans Wednesday for wholes …
Liquor-serving restaurants licensed after January 2010 must, by Utah law, conceal their bartenders behind a screen that has come to be dubbed the Zion Curtain.
Rep. Eric Cantor attempts to be too cute by half when he suggests "there are no strings attached, we found the money". In a HuffPo article[1] on Wednesday, Cantor attempts to suggest that it's Democrats that are holding up emergency funding for hurricane Irene victims.
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Democrats has not initiated any private discussions.