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New Jersey boy. Pro wrestler. Republican candidate in Nevada. Dan Rodimer has led many lives, but his latest - a cowboy-hat-wearing, Southern-drawling bull rider - might be the most extreme transformation to date. In his first ad as a candidate for Texas's 6th Congressional District, "Big Dan" Rodimer speaks in a gravelly, indistinct Southern accent, throws jabs at Democratic policies and compares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to a bull. The bull he's supposedly riding in the ad. But the New Jersey native did not have the twang last year when he ran for Congress in Nevada. In one of...

ST. CROIX — Six of the ten contestants who participated in Sunday evening’s Miss Universe U.S. Virgin Islands were women from outside the USVI, most with no known ties to the territory and some of whom had participated in other pageants just months prior. The competition, held in a banquet room at the Divi Carina Bay Casino, was the qualifying event whose winner will represent the U.S. Virgin Islands on the world’s biggest and most prominent pageantry stage: Miss Universe. But what was a relatively engaged audience turned somewhat raucous when not one of the four local young women who...

AL KRESTA, HOST: Alan, nice to talk to you again. ALAN KEYES, ILLINOIS U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE: Thank you for having me. KRESTA: I was surprised when you ended up deciding to run. What was the decision-making process? What happened? KEYES: Well I was actually surprised at the whole thing. KRESTA: [laughs] KEYES: That the Republicans approached me was a surprise. My initial reaction, as I've often said, was negative--but I think in the conversations that I've had, they convinced me to take a look at Barack Obama, and the situation struck me as one, first, that they were making an...

[break] AFR: Welcome back. Our guest in the program today is Ambassador Alan Keyes, candidate for the Senate in the State of Illinois. Fred, before we proceed, you had a quick follow-up question. JACKSON: Quick follow-up on the reparations question, Ambassador Keyes. I'm just wondering, and I'm sure some people are wondering, if there is a means test in there--the question being, would somebody like Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey, would they never pay taxes again under your plan? And the other side of it--many folks, whether they're black or white, are below the level where they pay income tax,...

Barack Obama’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention recently was the crest of a wave. A judge’s decision to make his former opponent’s "sealed" divorce records public left Obama the lone candidate in the Illinois US Senate race--but not for long. Alan Keyes, former U.N. ambassador and twice presidential candidate, was recruited to run against him. Keyes heads RenewAmerica and has been at the forefront of the Ten Commandments rallies around the nation. He works to return America to its founding principles. Obama’s supporters are already shouting "carpetbagger" because Keyes currently lives in Maryland. But that’s a charge that...

Stop with the Hillary/Keyes comparisons already (like in the linked oped in the newspaper, the Pantagraph). Hillary was on a POWER TRIP -- she pushed local candidates (Lowy and Andrew Cuomo) to the side so she could have the prize for herself. IN CONTRAST, AMBASSADOR KEYES IS RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR HELP FROM AN IMPERILED ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY. He's on a rescue mission. True, the media in Illinois don't like his decision, they don't want him showing up with a life-preserver - - - but why should he agree with them that the local GOP should be allowed to...