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Jon Voight appeared on Mike Huckabee's talk show and slammed Time magazine calling the publication anti-Semitic.

Whether Republicans like it or not, Dan Maes is their nominee for governor. Whether they like him or not, most GOP county chairs in Colorado say they support Maes. Mark McCarol, Conejos County chair summed up the comments of many of the 28 county GOP chairs surveyed by the Colorado Independent last week: “Mr. Maes won fair and square. [Colorado Republican Party Chairman] Dick [Wadhams] needs to curb the opposition to Maes. He should have backed Mr. Maes right away.” The Colorado Independent called all 63 county GOP chairs, spoke with 28, and left messages for most of the rest...

*snip* Ben Domenech, writing Wednesday on the influential conservative blog RedState, summed up Rove's criticism of the insurgent tea party candidate as "an instructive moment about how the old guard is failing to adapt to this new environment." Rove's critique also raised questions about whether he's still serving as a behind-the-scenes political operative for races he analyzes on Fox News. Malkin linked to an item *snip* that alleges Rove tried to strike a deal with Delaware Tea Party activists in December to withhold support for O'Donnell. Thanks to Malkin's reach, Freedomist's claim is already bouncing around the blogosphere. Dan Riehl,...

The air war is under way. Republican congressional candidate Kristi Noem aired her first general election TV ad Tuesday while Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., aired her fourth of the campaign. Noem targets what she terms out-of-control spending in Washington, D.C., in the 30-second spot that features images of the candidate as well as South Dakota icons such as a buffalo and Mount Rushmore. “The government is here to serve the people, not the other way around,” Noem says in the ad. Spending is an issue that plays well in the state, Noem said.“No matter where I travel in our...

NEW YORK — Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue," has died. He was 91. NBC News did not immediately say Wednesday where or when Newman had died, or the cause of death. At NBC from 1952 until his retirement in 1984, Newman did political reporting, foreign reporting, anchoring of news specials, "Meet the Press," ''Today," ''The Nightly News," midday news and a variety of radio spots. He announced the death of President Kennedy on...

Conservative radio personality Steve Malzberg on Tuesday told Joy Behar exactly what the vast majority of right-thinking Americans would love to say to this "View" co-host if given the opportunity: "You represent a radical leftist view in this country; it`s a very small minority." Chatting with Behar on the CNN Headline News program bearing her name, Malzberg told the comedienne turned political commentator a thing or two about the Democrat President she adores, the former Republican President she hates, and why those controlling Congress are to blame for the sagging economy. After only three minutes of having her poorly-founded opinions...

...conservatism OR the GOP? As for me and mine, we choose CONSERVATISM. If the GOP wants to survive, they'd better start moving in the RIGHT direction, post haste!! >:-(

Tim Kaine announced there would be a major announcement later today. From CNN: Democrats tout "major" announcement Wednesday Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine plans to make what's being billed as a major announcement Wednesday about the future of the party, according to a Democratic source with knowledge of the speech. The source tells CNN that Kaine will announce something that will excite Democrats across the country. Kaine's event comes as Democrats face the difficult task of holding onto their majorities in the House and Senate this November. Any guesses? Here are some of mine: 1. Hillary will replace Joe...

If you Tweet it, they will succumb. That might be the lesson today as the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has just announced that it will support Republican “tea party” candidate Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. NRSC Chairman John Cornyn, Republican Senator from Texas, just released a statement announcing the committee’s support: Let there be no mistake: The National Republican Senatorial Committee – and I personally as the committee’s chairman – strongly stand by all of our Republican nominees, including Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. I reached out to Christine this morning, and as I have conveyed to all of our nominees,...

Republicans more than likely cost themselves a Senate seat last night. Chris Coons begins the general election in Delaware with a 50-34 lead over Christine O'Donnell. Mike Castle would have led Coons by a 45-35 margin. While O'Donnell may have ingratiated herself to Delaware's small group of registered Republicans over the last month she's turned off everyone else. An August Daily Kos/PPP poll in Delaware found her favorability rating at 23/33. It's now 29/50. If Castle had won he would have received more Democratic support than any other Republican Senate candidate in the country. Now our polling suggests with O'Donnell's...

Health insurers are asking for immediate rate hikes of more than 20 percent in Connecticut for some plans, citing rising medical costs and federal health reform laws as reasons. Both issues — the new federal health care reform and rising medical costs — are significant drivers of the increases, according to filings by insurers with state regulators that were reviewed by The Courant.

MOUNT LAUREL — Republican congressional candidate Jon Runyan has accused a Democratic campaign volunteer of trespassing on the Runyans' Mount Laurel property and taking photographs as his 8-year-old daughter, Isabella, played in the front yard, according to a report on CourierPostOnline.com. Runyan's wife Loretta followed Fredric C. Samson for four miles until he stopped at Rep. John Adler's Evesham campaign office at which time police were notified, the report said. Samson is a Burlington County Democratic committeeman.

About all the Guardian could say about Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware GOP primary was to blubber incredulously that a person who “is pro-gun, anti-abortion, fiscally conservative and believes masturbation is a sin” could win 53% of the relevant vote. They could only maintain self-respect by sneering that the “Delaware result will at least give the Democrats hope that they can hold it. The seat might hold the balance in the Senate.” If that’s the good news, the bad news is that a “surge of anger among US conservatives both with Barack Obama and the Republican Party” — the...

Angelo M. Codevilla’s essay, “America’s Ruling Class — and the Perils of Revolution,” published this summer in the American Spectator, and released this week in book form, has already accomplished what few essays do: it has touched a nerve. In his essay, Codevilla contrasts the “Ruling Class,” including both Republicans and Democrats but tending leftward in word and deed, with the the “country class,” consisting of heterogonous individualists who’d rather be judged on their merits than their beliefs and affiliations. Despite its name, it should be emphasized that you can belong to the “country class” and still live in a...

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O'Donnell's victory and the resulting uproar among RINOs and talking heads has gotten me thinking: What really is the risk of her losing vs. winning the general election? The answer my logic is driving me to is, I don't really care. Don't get me wrong. As a conservative I'm excited by her win and the trouncing of establishment Republicans and the strength of the Tea Party insurgency. I'd _like_ to see her take office at a gut level. But here's what my head is pointing out: Scenario A: Republicans take the House and Senate in 2010. Obama remains in office....

A handful of Roman Catholic convents are contradicting the decades-long slide in the number of women choosing to devote their lives to the sisterhood. And at least two of them are doing it by sticking to tradition, including the wearing of habits. The number of nuns in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the last several decades as more women in religious life approach retirement and are not replaced with younger sisters. But the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville have remained an exception for years. The order has 27 postulants entering the convent this fall, likely the largest...

CLARKSTON, GA (CNN) - A Georgia man is headed to court over how many vegetables he can grow on his land. Code enforcement says until recently, the farmer had too many vegetable plants for his property in Clarkston, just outside Atlanta. Steve Miller's profession is landscaping, but his passion is growing organic vegetables. That passion landed the Clarkston man in court. Before he rezoned the land two months ago, DeKalb County Code Enforcement cited him for illegal growing crops and using unpermitted workers. "I never realized this could get me in trouble," Miller said. "In fact, it was a shock...

Karl Rove on FOX now with Jon Scott speaking more harshly about Christine O'Donnell than he's ever spoken about 0bama, even after he had a night to sleep on it.

Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, a U.S. environmental policy consultant and one of Feisal Abdul Rauf’s spokesmen for the new mosque being contemplated near Ground Zero, surprisingly announced in August that it will be the first “green mosque” in the United States. Not only will this structure comply with very strict LEED green standards (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), but it will also become an interfaith cultural center that will emphasize “the intricate relationships between Islamic teachings and environmentalism.” As such, this new mosque will not only be built green, but it will also become an environmental Islamic community center. In fact,...