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After yesterday's spurt in talk radio about Ron Paul, I've been thinking about his positions. I oppose Ron Paul on Foreign Policy (especially his position ignoring the threat of Islam taking over our policy), but have to seriously wonder about supporting some of the other candidates who have not faced opposition. Ron Paul gets a lot of flak, but why do the others get away with cheating us for doing far worse than what Ron Paul promises to do to Israel? Many candidates like Rick Santorum, George Allen and Joe Barton have hijacked the label of conservative, but are less...

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said there is “all kinds of pressure” by the Democratic Caucus on Committee Chairman Max Baucus not to call in President Obama’s recess-appointee to run Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald Berwick, for hearings, which are constitutionally mandated. Hatch added that there “must be a reason why they don’t want him” to testify before the committee, and said he thinks it is because of the “outlandish viewpoints” that Berwick has expressed over many years. Obama nominated Berwick to run the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) on Apr....

But there remain detractors, some in his own party, who argue he has lost touch with the state. And he angered some die-hard conservatives with his support for embryonic stem cell research and the expanded law enforcement powers in the Patriot Act. So it is not surprising that, as Hatch prepares to stand for re-election next year, there is a search - as there was in 2000 - for a dark-horse candidate willing to take on the Goliath.

Our Constitution has stood the test of time. It has served our country well, guiding it through times of war, peace, prosperity and depression. As a conservative I do not want it changed without good reason. One worthy reason is protecting marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman, a definition in consonance with Christian tradition that has proven itself sufficient for centuries. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has proposed to amend the Constitution to allow naturalized Americans to become president. If his amendment were adopted any person who had been a United States citizen for at least twenty...

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

Washington's conservative activists have found a traitor in their midst, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch. The occasion is Memogate, the internal Senate investigation into whether Republican aides unethically (and perhaps illegally) tapped into Democratic computer files containing private judicial-nomination strategy memos and leaked them to the press. The more the story balloons in the media, embarrassing Republicans and distracting them from trying to confirm more judges, the more right-wing activists savage Hatch, the man they hold responsible for it.To them, the Utah Republican has done something "acutely damaging to the struggle to get conservative judges onto the federal bench,"...

WASHINGTON -- Open access to the opposing party's private computer files was common knowledge among staff of Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, claims a former Hatch employee implicated in leaking Democratic memos. Manuel Miranda, a former Hatch Judiciary Committee staff member, resigned Friday as an aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee after acknowledging accessing confidential Democratic memos about blocking President Bush's judicial nominees. In a "departure statement" released Monday, Miranda said the "glitch" that allowed Hatch staffers to snoop in Democrats' computer files was no secret, that Democrats' own negligence is to blame...

Austrian born Arnold Schwarzenegger is still a long way from being elected California's Governor, but proposed Constitutional amendments that would allow foreign born citizens such as the action movie star to become President will be debated in Congress this autumm. One of the proposals, by Schwarzenegger political friend, Senator Orin Hatch, Republican Utah, would allow anyone who has been a US citizen for 20 years, and has resided in the country for 14 years, to be elected President. Schwarzenegger was naturalized in 1983. The other proposal, by a bi-partisan group in the house, whose ranks include conservative Representative Darrell Issa,...