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Acknowledging the public has a right to be angry at both parties, Republican leaders responding to President Obama‘s State of the Union speech implored Americans to trust them to lead the country out of its economic malaise. Rep. Paul D. Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican chosen to give the party’s official response, said both sides face a “tipping point” in addressing the problems of federal spending and ballooning national debt. “Americans are skeptical of both political parties, and that skepticism is justified - especially when it comes to spending. So hold us accountable,” said Mr. Ryan in a televised GOP rebuttal...

Sarah Palin was not scheduled to arrive for another 30 minutes, but by 9 A.M. last Thursday more than a hundred journalists from around the world had gathered in a large ballroom at the InterContinental Hotel for a chance to ask her a question. Palin had been at the hotel the previous day, to tape interviews with Wolf Blitzer and Larry King. Everywhere she went in Miami a media caravan followed close behind, hoping for an impromptu question-and-answer session--something the McCain campaign leadership had not permitted her during the campaign. For political reporters, Palin remains something of an enigma. The...

The Virginians Want to know how the campaigns ahead will unfold? Look to the Old Dominion, where two rising stars offer competing models for how to succeed with Southern voters. As young men in law school in the 1970s, neither Mark Warner nor George Allen set the legal world on fire. At Harvard, Warner founded a group called the Somerville Bar Review—that's "bar" as in drinking studies, not professional ones. "I was the only guy I knew who didn't get law-firm offers after summer internships," he says. At the University of Virginia, Allen lived in a cabin on the mountaintop...

The Kickoff Rally for George Fassitt, the Republican Candidate for Biloxi City Council's Newly Created Sixth Ward and potentially the first African American GOP member will be held at the Biloxi Beachfront Hotel, 2400 Beach Boulevard, Biloxi, Mississippi 39531. The date is March 10, 2005 at 11:00 a.m., and refreshments will be served. Whether or not you can make it, contributions are gladly appreciated and checks may be sent to: Campaign to Elect George Fassitt P.O. Box 4201 Biloxi MS 39532. The number is (228)209-2652 George, a successful mortgage broker and ordained minister, is attempting to become the first African-American...