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Mitt got laughed at last night! I cannot find what self-deportation could mean? Starving them out? Keeping a bad economy? What?

According to Ron Paul, in order to stop terrible oppressors like China from killing 100 million more of their own people, we need to play ping pong. According to Ron Paul, if you intend to save the country and be credited with bringing it back to a Constitutional Republic, vote for only a few appropriation bills in 24 years, and earmark every nickel for the 14th District of Texas, that way, you are not spending money on frivolous things like the rest of the country. According to Ron Paul, one must agree with the decision of Roe v. Wade because...

America, liberalism has gotten it's first sound warning of the 2012 election season. Liberalism in all it's forms has caused the decline of the greatest nation on earth. As we decline, traitors to the American spirit pressure us to accept it, through silencing of debate, through appeals to our emotion, and the bully tactics of the mob against the individual. May those who would crush the spirit of the American individual taste the first step toward decline. Let socialized medicine, high taxation, culture depletion, amnesty, appeasement, and the replacement of God by science and the heavy hand of government be...

I read Ann's latest column with a heavy heart. I came away with the unmistakable feeling that she has lost faith in the philosophy and movement she has been a firebrand for until now. And I think about how it happens that a person at the age of 50 becomes the very cheerleader for the status quo that she argued against these many years. I believe it is true that as we age we develop different thoughts about things, through experience, through people we meet, through having to be forced to take a position on something we cannot imagine when...

With the policies of the GOP now in place, anyone could run under the Republican banner. The mentality of the GOP has brought it to this point in history, where the party pushes candidates who sound like Democrats in order to trick the electorate into believing Republicans aren't really "mean" enough to expect them to be responsible for their own lives. But that is not the problem of Ron Paul. The Ron Paul problem of the GOP is that there has never been a real clear interpretation of what he and his followers truly believe because the Republican Party wants...

The National Journal has an article about the Trump debate that is to happen on December 27th. Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman aren't going to be there, and now Romney says he won't "kiss the ring" of the Trumpster either. You know, if I was Trump, I'd ask Sarah Palin to join him to moderate the debate. The left in the media are talking about how Trump is just a publicity hog, and how he's not a serious journalist who can moderate a debate, forget that, if Sarah Palin, who did go to college for journalism's sake and knows a...

Who would believe that Newt Gingrich holds support amongst Conservatives? His written and orally described stances on issues Conservatives know to be fraudulent would put him in the same boat as Romney. We've all heard the problems with him as a Conservative, his couch talk with Pelosi on Global Warming for the Al Gore website, his affirmative push for mandates in health care, his failures as Speaker, his pro-Fairness Doctrine bill, his immigration stance, and so much more. He is apparently effectively deflecting Conservative criticism better than Romney. Why is that? Though Gingrich has so many negatives, and actually, more...

Question: Why would Mitt Romney repeal Obamacare if he took office, like the beltway losers say he will? It was a great surprise when Mitt jumped into the race with his speech that he was not going to denounce Romneycare, even though it would have been a political no-brainer to do so. He instead decided that his move in Massachusetts was an example of States Rights, presumably to try to fool tea party folks with his zingy buzz words. The tea party movement is dominated by people who know, instinctively, or by studying the Constitution, that our federal government has...

You know, if it weren't for Romney supporters, I might be able to support the guy. On Tuesday night, Ann Coulter was a guest on the Sean Hannity Show where she said this: COULTER: I think the candidate, it is going to be and is the strongest candidate to beat Obama is Mitt Romney. And, you know, I'm a little tired of these Johnny-come-lately conservative purists. She's talking about us, the tea party. She is calling us Johnny-come-latelys, saying, basically, "Where were you when we were fighting all this time, you just showed up on the scene in 2009, who...

Republican Michigan Attorney General, Bill Schuette, joined with 25 other state AG's in a lawsuit against Obamacare. That lawsuit was decided by Judge Roger Vinson of Sarasota, Florida, and stands as one of the greatest arguments toward declaring Obamacare unconstitutional. Prior to the ruling, Schuette renewed the fight initiated by former Republican AG Mike Cox, saying, “For the first time in history the federal government is forcing us to buy a product under the threat of a penalty, in violation of the U.S. Constitution,” said Schuette. “I will fight Obamacare tooth-and-nail to protect our citizens from this constitutional overreach.” So,...

Newt Gingrich is a former history professor. After finding out that he co-sponsored the reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, I think someone needs to make the point that you have to listen very closely to Newt Gingrich when he speaks. This video, in my view, offers a liberal view of the aftermath of abolishing the Fairness Doctrine. The monotonous narrator doesn't point out that if not for the nixing of the Fairness Doctrine, freedom in broadcasting could not be achieved. The major media, during the reign of the Fairness Doctrine, could and did spin the news toward liberalism....

What is Newt Gingrich's environmental policy? He has not abandoned his stance that between he and Nancy Pelosi, "we do agree that our country must take action to address climate change." Newt told Fox News is that he does still believe government has a role in addressing climate change, and that he took somebody's advice to call the commercial dumb. From the Congressional Record, April 19, 1990: Mr. Gingrich: Mr. Speaker, I rise to say that I think that Earth Day is very important. I used to teach environmental studies. I think we are making progress. I think the recent...

What are we to believe about Newt Gingrich's recent admission that his commercial with Nancy Pelosi in 2008 was the, "dumbest single thing," he has done in years. Conservatives agree that it was dumb, in fact, infuriating. Gingrich has for years suggested that he is a staunch, combative conservative. This week, the Daily Caller reported on a segment on Fox News where Newt was a guest and said, “First of all, that is probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in years,” Gingrich said. “It is inexplicable that somebody used to say, ‘You know, there aren’t enough hay wagons to...

Politico, as I have mentioned, has brought up a non-story about Herman Cain and allegations of sexual harassment, so Cain can run through the media gauntlet. They have done this before.Last year, I wrote about the punk, Jonathan Martin when he laid this accusatory and defamatory, and might I add, untrue in many parts, hit-piece on Sarah Palin. Martin could have easily checked with Sean Hannity, Mark Levin or Glenn Beck on whether the hearsay in his report was true, but instead, published it as the truth. He was soundly embarrassed by Levin and Hannity that day, and Beck, who...

I watched Off The Record this weekend, a half-hour political talk show in Michigan, hosted by Michigan political reporter, Tim Skubic. Usually liberal and fast-paced, Off The Record deals with the downstate politics that rule the rest of us. Part of the discussion was with Representative Al Pscholka, the new Republican representative of Benton Harbor, who took some grilling about the emergency financial manager that has now turned Benton Harbor around in 6 short months. A controversial law was passed in April, criticized by liberals and libertarians alike, that allowed for the State to take over local control of municipalities...

The Walt Disney Company owns ESPN radio. I cannot believe that the great name of Walt Disney has been reduced to such disgusting filth as ESPN Radio in Las Vegas. Mike Tyson, former boxer, convicted rapist, son of Islam, said vile, violent, putrid things about Sarah Palin, all the while laughing with the radio hosts, who took no offense when he said he'd like to see Dennis Rodman, "Pushing her guts up in the back of her head." From the audio, you could tell they were holding their sides, laughing so hard it hurt. Walt Disney was a name synonymous...

(CNN) - Responding to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's labeling of Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme," Vice President Joe Biden said in a CNN interview the governor needed to check his facts. "He should go back and find out who Ponzi was," Biden told CNN's John King in an exclusive interview to air Monday night. "Ponzi was a man in trouble with the law, but he made up for his shortcomings by doing random acts of kindness and being the go-to-guy for many youths in his small community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Biden said, attempting to set Perry straight. He went...

When John Boehner was a Freshman in Congress, he was one of the "Gang of seven" that took on the House Banking Scandal, that implicated both Democrats and Republicans, and the House Post Office Scandal that implicated and eventually led to the conviction of Democrat Dan Rostenkowski. Looking back on his involvement with the Gang of Seven, he has said "I think showing the American people that there are people willing to take a principled stand in Washington is a very good thing." Ever since the tea party phenomenon began in early spring of 2009, it has been diminished, maligned...

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06) submitted the following statement to the Congressional Record regarding the “Cut, Cap and Balance” proposal tonight: Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion before us. While I embrace the principles of Cut, Cap and Balance, the motion does not go far enough in fundamentally restructuring the way Washington spends taxpayer dollars. The principles found in this bill are a step in the right direction toward the fundamental restructuring we need in the way Washington spends taxpayer dollars. Along with cutting spending, putting in place enforceable spending caps that put us on a path to...

Last night, Mark Levin offered some advice to the Republicans in both houses of congress. They didn't listen to him during the budget battle, will they listen to him now? Listen to Mark: (transcription below) (audio here)Mark Levin: I'm going to try to push the ball further and further ahead. Try to help out the Republican leaders with my advice, to keep them strong, to stop trying to look for the easy way out, there are no easy ways out, and to give the hosts tomorrow some more of their talking points. Now, we've talked about this, but we have...