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Donald Trump's visit to the Iowa State Fair was a spectacle... Rob Stutzman...witnessed the scene and experienced flashbacks to the hordes his client, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, encountered during his unlikely bid for California governor during the 2003 recall election. "It's celebrity appeal," Stutzman said. "Both of them are very skilled at using their celebrity to attract public and media attention," They are wealthy celebrities, so universally branded that they are known by their first names. Schwarzenegger and Trump have a flair for theatrics that play well on the evening news. Some examples: Schwarzenegger dropped a 3,600-pound wrecking ball on an...

Thanksgiving produced many conversation, one surrounding the riches of eMeg, and if she is buying the governor's race for the GOP. There seems to be a new mantra that says, “Republicans are making a mistake in supporting wealthy candidates like Meg Whitman in the gubernatorial primary race; she is just too wealthy to be supported as a candidate.” After reading the bottom-line in the LA Times Wednesday, it seems that GOP voters are beside themselves. How can we vote for a woman who has, and spends, so much of her own money? More at the link...

Several hundred copies of the Gator Standard, a weekly conservative student newspaper published at the University of Florida in Gainesville were stolen on Wednesday, according to its managing editor Adam Guillette. Guillette said this is the second theft in a row. Several people had stolen copies of the Standard's first edition when it came out March 20. According to Guillette, the first theft occurred when he and other Standard staffers were distributing the papers on campus. "A couple of neo-hippies tried to steal [news] boxes and then they got up in a middle of a crowd of people where we...