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I’m just trying to fill some time here while waiting for the Benghzi hearings to start tomorrow. So I thought I’d fill you in on a few things that are going on around here. For starters, let’s talk golf, shall we? After losing the golf match, Big Guy returns with his tail between his legs...I may be missing something, butt how does a “guy” do that? After Big Guy went out of his way to reach across the aisle to the three Republicans with the lowest handicap in the Senate and offers them a chance to play golf with him,...

Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger.

The SBA List reported that Chambliss had a one-hundred-percent pro-life voting record in the U.S. Senate. It also mentioned that as a state legislator, Chambliss’ opponent Jim Martin voted against parental notification requirements for a minor’s abortion and had pledged to oppose a bill banning partial-birth abortion...

Sen. Saxby Chambliss failed to win a majority over challenger Jim Martin on Nov. 4 and now in the runoff Georgia is home to one of two hotly contested Senate races. The other race still unresolved is the recount in Minnesota, where Republican incumbent Norm Coleman faces comedian Al Franken. If Chambliss wins the Georgia standoff, it would decisively aid conservatives against a liberal agenda, especially since a Franken victory in Minnesota would give Democrats 59 seats, one short of a filibuster-proof Senate majority.