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Rick Perry will be the next President of the United States if I have anything to do with it. Who am I? I’m a mom, a doctor, a business owner, a former Michigander, Californian and New Yorker, a conservative with a libertarian streak, a Tea Party attender and reporter, a blogger, an activist, and for 14 years, a Texan. For the last four plus years, I’ve been howling in dismay at our national political catastrophe. It started under President Bush who I believed was a good man (still do) but possessed of the soft, big government ease driven by noblesse...

Like many conservatives, I have been concerned and distressed by some of George W. Bush’s policies and actions, particularly on the domestic front. For me, probably the most distressing of all was his signing of the so-called campaign finance reform law, or McCain-Feingold. This was made worse by the recent Supreme Court decision upholding some of the worst features of that law. As a result, all of us have lost a measure of political freedom and first amendment rights. It would have been so easy to veto the bill and save the country from this terrible state of affairs, but...

MESA, Ariz. - President Bush said Wednesday that his proposed temporary worker program would help cut back abuses against illegal immigrants by smugglers who slip them across the border. Bush suggested that the program allowing migrants to obtain renewable three-year labor visas to work here would offer an alternative to using people smugglers, also known as coyotes. "It's essential to the security of the country that we have a legal system so that we don't have this terrible problem of coyotes smuggling people across the hot Arizona and Texas deserts," Bush said. Bush led a discussion at Mesa Community College...

Victim: They attacked like 'pack of wild wolves in search of their prey' Four illegal aliens were among the five men who brutally gang-raped a New York City woman. The woman described her ordeal in a scathing letter to state Supreme Court Justice Randall Eng, saying the men carried out their attack like "a pack of wild wolves in search of their prey." "They punched me so hard that I was knocked to the floor," the 43-year-old victim wrote before Eng sentenced one of her attackers Thursday, Victor Cruz, to 21 years in prison, the New York Post reported. "They...

Here we are on the outset of 2004, and the hope that President Bush would wrap up his first term with a conservative agenda is rapidly fading. From the beginning of his administration with the No Child Left Behind Act, the Patriot Act, and later with the Homeland Security bureaucracy and the farm bill, President Bush has abandoned his conservative base. Many conservatives were convinced that it was all a part of a grand political strategy and that when the Republicans took the Senate, all would be different. Unfortunately, nothing changed, except that more liberal legislation has been passed. I've...

National leaders of six conservative organizations yesterday broke with the Republican majorities in the House and Senate, accusing them of spending like "drunken sailors," and had some strong words for President Bush as well...

President Bush's plan to give undocumented workers temporary legal status brings back painful memories for Florentino Lararios, who spent 14 grueling years in a similar World War II-era program. Lararios, a 77-year-old with large, rough hands that never mastered a pencil, recalls the back-breaking work picking cotton in the South, the slapped-together communal housing, the cold meals eaten in the fields, and the unwelcome prospect of going back to Mexico without a chance to become a U.S. citizen. "If we accept, then our grandsons and great-grandsons will go through what we went through," Lararios said. "We suffered a lot." While...