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South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is out with a fundraising pitch that goes after his party for conducting "business as usual." DeMint is blasting Republicans who, in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, voted to allow Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski to retain her leadership position on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "It was bad enough to watch my colleagues work to support [Murkowski] in the primary after she had built a record of betraying conservatives principles," DeMint wrote Saturday in an e-mail to supporters of his PAC, Senate Conservatives Fund. "But watching them back her after she left the...

JUNEAU, Alaska – South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is scolding Republican colleagues for refusing to strip Sen. Lisa Murkowski's leadership position on the energy committee. DeMint says in a fundraising appeal that seeing this result was more than he could bear. He views colleagues' decision as hurting Murkowski opponent Joe Miller and asks for help raising $150,000 through a political action committee he chairs. DeMint says the money will allow for ads to be run in Alaska to help stop Murkowski's campaign "dead in its tracks." Murkowski announced last week that she'd mount a write-in campaign to try to keep...

"I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven.  I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do." -- Christine O'Donnell, R-Delaware Well whaddya know.  Christine and I have something in common! I too have dabbled in witchcraft, though I never joined a coven.  I even hung around people who were doing these things.  And like Christine, I'm not making this stuff up. I grew up amidst self-proclaimed witches in my hometown -- Salem, Massachusetts -- the officially designated "Witch City".  The City's logo is a...