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Four young violent leftists were sentenced last week on charges they created a road hazard as a stationary target. Then the young leftists hurled a chlorine bomb at the police officer when he stop to clear the road.

While many became enraged by an op-ed column by local GOP leaders, Yomin Postelnik came to their defense. Postelnik, a Republican candidate for Florida’s House District 91, wrote a column that was quickly circulated among blogs and online community forums in which he, a Jewish man, defended the actions of the Orangeburg and Bamberg Republican Party chairmen. The column by Jim S. Ulmer Jr., Orangeburg County chairman, and Edwin O. Merwin Jr., Bamberg County chairman, praised U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s stand against congressional earmarks. In lauding DeMint’s frugality, the two men wrote: “There is a saying that the Jews who...

Two Republican county chairmen in South Carolina wrote an op-ed in support of one of our greatest Senators, Senator Jim DeMint. In their op-ed, they innocently used the argument of the frugality purportedly displayed by some Jews as a role model for sound economic policy. Their choice of words was open to misinterpretation, but their well meaning and intentions were not. Democrats pounced on one line in the op-ed and even a great Jewish conservative organization, afraid of what this would do to Republican recruitment, wrongly chastised the writers. To be fair, the organization stated that the intentions behind the...

Alaska Republicans have long mined into the state's deep reservoir of conservatism, enabling them to turn congressional elections into political riches for decades. But this year, it's Democrats who see electoral gold in them thar hills. Prospecting for opportunity in a fairly barren political landscape, Democrats are laying claim to the seat held by former Sen. Frank Murkowski (R), who, after winning last year's gubernatorial contest, appointed his daughter, Lisa Murkowski, as his successor. Murkowski will serve out a two-year term before facing her first election for a full term in 2004. Democrats are banking on a backlash against the...

<p>Gubernatorial candidates Fran Ulmer and Frank Murkowski are neck and neck going into the final weeks of the campaign, according to a poll released Wednesday.</p> <p>Ulmer, a Democrat and the current lieutenant governor, who trailed Republican Murkowski by double digits in polls last spring, is now about even with the Republican contender, according to a poll commissioned by KTUU-TV Channel 2 in Anchorage.</p>