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South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint is reportedly considering a run for president in 2012. The South Carolina Republican, who ruled out the possibility of a run, is said to be reconsidering his decision in light of Rep. Mike Pence’s official withdrawal from the race. Additionally, news that Mr. DeMint will travel to Iowa on March 26 to address a conservative forum organized by Rep. Steve King is adding fuel to the fire over the possibility of a DeMint presidential run. Mr. DeMint, who raised his national profile during the 2010 mid-term election, continues to build his base amongst those...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="285" caption="(March 1, 2010 - Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images North America)"][/caption] Retiring Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning has apparently decided to make the most of the time he has left in Washington by making the lives of his fellow senators a living hell.  In what has now become a four-day standoff with many from both sides of the aisle, Bunning is holding firm on his opposition to proposed legislation that would extend unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.  With Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN following the story almost exclusively all morning, his standoff is quickly becoming the...

We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents. One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They...