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Surviving the next decades might be an uphill struggle for the Democrat Party. This not so much, or not only, because of the strength of its opponents, but because of education options that give students the choice to attend a school other than their neighborhood public school, commonly referred to as ‘school choice’ policies. So says The Spectator’s Lewis M. Andrews. His reasoning goes as follows: only occasionally in U.S. history does an issue surface that challenges not only the core values of a political party but the party’s working system, that is its ability to function. Now, “if any...

President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, has presided over the hiring of at least four senior staffers and advisers who have no law enforcement experience but align politically with the president. Jordan Grossman is a special adviser and deputy to the deputy chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, for instance, yet his resume shows no law enforcement experience. Before Grossman got his post in January 2009, he was a “special assistant” at the Obama-Biden presidential transition team after working for Obama’s 2008 election campaign. Before that, Grossman worked as a research assistant at the Annenberg...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, once a critic of patronage in government, has rewarded 29 aides from his reelection campaign with state jobs, promotions and hefty raises. Jeffrey Wyly left the state labor agency last spring to work for the governor's reelection. After Schwarzenegger won, Wyly returned to the agency with a promotion and a $20,304 raise. At 26, Wyly is now paid $75,000 a year — a 37% bump — to help enact Schwarzenegger's labor agenda. Administration staffers from the governor's first term who were employed by Californians for Schwarzenegger in 2006 today earn an average 27% more than...

Was out for an evening walk in my town. Hoboken, NJ Spotted three people carrying stacks of kerry/edwards signs. They were going into each and every business along Washington St and asking store owners to display the signs in their windows. I shadowed them for a while and went in every store they went in, after they left the store. I inquired if the store owners/employees were accepting the signs. A few did. Luckily the few that did admit to taking the signs know me as a customer. I told them that I give my patronage to them in the...

The Carthage Tennessee Courier will have a full page ad Wednesday asking former Vice President Albert Gore to run for President in 2004.The group that paid for the ad, Grassroots Democrats, also has a website urging Gore to reconsider his December decision not to run for the Democratic nomination again.This group says it has plans in the works to organize pro-Gore Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire to help draft the former Vice President.In a release Tuesday about the ad, the group says 'It does not expect or request a response from Al Gore in the immediate future. His was...