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Where Is Today’s Jack Kemp?
National Review, by Rich Lowry
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Posted By:tisHimself, 3/23/2013 12:24:36 AM
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| The harsh assessment of the RNC “autopsy” committee would be that it talked to 2,600 people, yet one of its top proposals is reviving a minority inclusion council from the 1990s. It takes months of research to come up with this stuff? But that would be too harsh. The autopsy is a good-faith effort to stare the Republican predicament straight in the face. It’s just that there are inherent limits to any such exercise. The party is not going to be saved by committee.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
CleanhouseinDc, 3/23/2013 12:41:43 AM (No. 9239558)
Looking for a third party.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher, 3/23/2013 1:04:17 AM (No. 9239565)
How about a council to address rampant Democrat voter fraud? How about a council on how to act like men, not wimps?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden, 3/23/2013 1:16:38 AM (No. 9239570)
Where is today´s RR?
[Who would never signed/agreed to never challenge Voter Fraud by Dems...]
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
noproblems, 3/23/2013 1:36:50 AM (No. 9239580)
Jack Kemp? really? NR is lost
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sfacheem, 3/23/2013 6:15:05 AM (No. 9239651)
Thank you #4.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Gretchen, 3/23/2013 6:39:34 AM (No. 9239673)
Exactly, #4. Jack Kemp???? You have got to be kidding. The implosion of the Republican Party (along with its mouthpieces) continues apace.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 3/23/2013 6:45:25 AM (No. 9239679)
I will forever remember Vice-Presidential candidate Jack Kemp for his refusal to say anything critical of the Dems and his el foldo in the debate. Bob Dole had little chance to win that election anyway, but Jack Kemp drove the stake.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tulipwood, 3/23/2013 6:46:54 AM (No. 9239682)
A ´minority inclusion council?´ There are plenty of minority conservatives out there for everyone to see. The truth is the RNC just wants to seem inclusive by issuing reports and studies, while keeping control centralized. They are delusional and embarassing and totally devoid of testosterone.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam, 3/23/2013 7:31:20 AM (No. 9239724)
Running out of fossils whose "turn" to be President has come?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bluehouse, 3/23/2013 7:54:08 AM (No. 9239770)
Kemp lost along with Dole. Why do we need another Kemp?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
beveyscool1, 3/23/2013 9:07:07 AM (No. 9239899)
Worked for the Kemps for 18 years so I am a little partial. Jack was a statesman, did what he thought was best for the country, not necessarily best for his party. He butted heads with the Bushes and was pro affirmative action. He suffered more than a dozen concussions playing with horrible equipment in the old AFL. He was an honest thoughtful guy, too nice of a guy to run for VP. In fact too nice of a guy to ever have been a politician. RIP
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Obama to Name Wheeler to Head FCC
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Wall Street Journal, by Danny Yadron
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Posted By: tisHimself- 5/1/2013 11:58:10 AM
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President Barack Obama is expected to tap a venture capitalist and former lobbyist to be the country´s next top telecom-industry regulator. Mr. Obama´s choice to run the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, appeared open in 2011 to letting wireless giant AT&T Inc. T +0.99% acquire T-Mobile USA despite a lawsuit from antitrust regulators seeking to block the deal. But he had a price. In exchange for a $39 billion merger, AT&T would have had to agree to a slew of new regulations, according to an idea Mr. Wheeler laid out at the time on his personal blog.
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The Presidential Wheel Turns
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Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/25/2013 10:21:41 PM
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Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush. On some level he knew this, which is why every time he got in trouble he´d say Bush´s name. It´s all his fault, you have no idea the mess I inherited. As long as Mr. Bush´s memory was hovering like Boo Radley in the shadows, Mr. Obama would be OK. This week something changed. George W. Bush is back, for the unveiling of his presidential library. His numbers are dramatically up.
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Democrats blink first on aviation cuts
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Politico, by Kathryn A. Wolfe and Burgess Everett
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/25/2013 10:15:09 PM
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The White House and Democrats in Congress argued for months against a piecemeal fix to the budget problems caused by the sequester. But on Thursday, Democrats caved in and agreed to allow the Federal Aviation Administration to keep air traffic control towers running at close to full capacity. All it took was a few thousand people standing in line at the airport. The Senate approved a deal late Thursday to ease the FAA's burden following negotiations among both parties and the White House. The House is expected to take up the bill Friday, just before the congressional weeklong recess, so President Barack Obama can sign it.
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Paul Ryan’s Immigration Play
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National Review, by Robert Costa
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/24/2013 10:52:23 PM
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This week, there was a new development in the House: Paul Ryan may be the key to passing comprehensive immigration reform. But that should hardly come as a surprise. Long before he was a vice-presidential nominee, Ryan was an adviser to former New York congressman Jack Kemp at Empower America, a conservative think tank. It was there, in his early twenties, that Ryan began to share Kemp’s politics.
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Forget About Family Reunification
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National Review, by Charles C, Cooke
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/24/2013 10:49:06 PM
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n Emma Lazarus’s 1883 poem The New Colossus, the United States offers a “world-wide welcome” to the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” One suspects that, were the poem written today, it would be rather more prosaic. “The golden door,” Lazarus might surmise, is open principally to those who happen to have a family member in the country or are fortunate at lotteries. When discussing any aspect of immigration policy, politicians shrewdly chatter on about “skills.” An immigrant “inventor” — of which there is an apparently unlimited supply — will create manufacturing jobs for the natives;
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Do You Have the Right
To Remain Silent
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New Republic, by Jeffrey Rosen
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/22/2013 12:52:01 PM
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The FBI’s decision to interrogate the Boston marathon bombing suspect before reading him the Miranda warnings has been extensively criticized by civil libertarians. Meanwhile, on the other side, conservatives like Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went even further in their disagreement, suggesting that Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev should be interrogated as a “potential enemy combatant.” (Even Graham, however, eventually acknowledged that, as a U.S. citizen, Tsarnaev could not be tried in a military commission and “any time we question him about his guilt or innocence, he’s entitled to his Miranda rights and a lawyer.”)
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The Irresponsible Search
for Bomb Scapegoats
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Commentary, by Jonathon S. Tobin
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/19/2013 10:40:07 PM
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It was probably too much to hope that the chattering classes would keep their desire to spin the tragedy in Boston in check for long. Filling the air and the Web with copy in the absence of any real information about who is responsible for the bombing at the Boston Marathon places a real burden on those who comment about such things to avoid sending the discussion off the deep end. Though there are some exceptions, such as MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (who couldn’t wait to speculate about the bombs being planted by radical right-wingers)
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Falsely Accused in Boston:
3 Examples and What They
Should Teach Us
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Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/19/2013 10:35:16 PM
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What is it like to be a Muslim, or a person frequently mistaken for a Muslim, in the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack? Americans who don´t fit that description can´t really know for sure, but three news items from the last few days show that knee-jerk prejudice is inexcusably common. If your ethnic group were treated this way, you´d be walking around paranoid and anxious. Innocent victim number one is a 20-year-old Saudi who is studying in the Boston area. He was watching the marathon when the force of the bomb blast tore into him.
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The Poverty Lie: How Europe´s
Crisis Countries Hide
their Wealth
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Der Spiegel, by Staff
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/17/2013 11:48:32 PM
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The images we see from the capitals of Europe´s crisis-ridden countries are confusing to say the least. In the Cypriot capital Nicosia, for example, thousands protested against the levy on bank deposits, carrying images of Hitler and anti-Merkel signs, one of which read: "Merkel, your Nazi money is bloodier than any laundered money." German Chancellor Angela Merkel was greeted by a similar scene when she visited Athens in October 2012.
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America Needs an Alternative
Maximum Tax
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Wall Street Journal, by John H. Cochrane
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/15/2013 5:25:14 AM
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They keep coming back, like the villains of a good zombie movie, chanting "more taxes, more taxes." Long ago, Congress passed the alternative minimum tax, or AMT—a simple flat rate to ensure that in an insanely complex tax code, no one escapes paying something. Now we need an alternative maximum tax as a simple, rough-and-ready way to limit the tax zombies´ economic damage. Call it the AMaxT. With Monday´s deadline for filing tax returns looming, let´s start a national conversation: How much is the most anyone should have to pay?
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Manchin, Toomey Prepare
to Unveil Gun Deal
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Roll Call, by John Gramlich
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/9/2013 11:38:13 PM
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A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators signaled Tuesday night that it has reached a deal in principle on expanding background checks to include more gun sales, in what was widely seen as the major sticking point on the biggest gun control legislation to reach the floor since 1994. Sens. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., and Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa., said they would hold a news conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday to discuss the details of the tentative deal, which was reached with the support of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and could entice a significant number of other lawmakers to sign on.
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Badger Brat Pack Charting
GOP´s Path
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Roll Call, by David Drucker
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Posted By: tisHimself- 4/9/2013 11:31:38 PM
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Badger State Republicans swear that there’s nothing in the water in southeast Wisconsin. But for the next few years, the GOP’s fate could rest with three men who hail from there and who have become crucial leaders in the national party. The trio, House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan, Gov. Scott Walker and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, has a strong personal and professional bond.
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Hillary Clinton — culpable for
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 5:14:14 AM
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When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.
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Republican probe of Benghazi
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Turning on Obama
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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 6:19:30 AM
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns
into peace bricks
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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