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SCOTUS To Rule on Violent Video Games
SCOTUS To Rule on Selling Violent Games to Minors SCOTUSBlog reports : The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on the constitutionality of a state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The Court accepted for review an appeal by the state of California, …
Miller Leads in New Poll
Miller Leads in New Poll with 37% Public Policy Polling reports : Joe Miller is favored heading into the final two days of the US Senate campaign in Alaska. 37% of voters say they'll pick him while 30% plan to vote for Scott McAdams and another 30% plan to write in Lisa …
Jeb: Midterm Victories Won't "Validate" GOP
Jeb: Midterm Victories Won't "Validate" GOP The New York Times reports : MIAMI — If voters engineer the Congressional makeover that strategists in both parties now expect, the implications for governance over the next two years, and for America’s political future, remain a …
GOP Holds 15-Point Lead in Generic Ballot
GOP Holds 15-Point Lead on Dems According to the latest Gallup poll: The final USA Today/Gallup measure of Americans' voting intentions for Congress shows Republicans continuing to hold a substantial lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that …
Gitmo Teen Terrorist Sentenced
Teen Terrorist Sentenced The Los Angeles Times reports: A military jury on Sunday sentenced former child soldier Omar Khadr of Canada to 40 years more imprisonment for war crimes, including the battlefield death of a U.S. soldier. The sentence was the harshest to come out of a …
Will Voters Punish Frank for Mortgage Meltdown?
Barney Frank, who usually coasts to victory, is in one of the toughest reelection fights of his career. Can he survive voter anger over his role in the mortgage mess? In the aftermath of the financial crash and in the midst of 9.6 percent unemployment, it is only fitting that Massachusetts …Black Back in Court
Conrad Black's fight for justice hit a bump after an appeals court failed to clear him on two convictions, sending his case back again for re-sentencing. Here we go again. The Conrad Black story hits another road bump, with the U.S. 7 th Circuit Court of Appeals delivering what is being …O'Donnell Cuts Ad 30 Minutes Long
O'Donnell Cuts Ad 30 Minutes Long Talking Points Memo reports: WILMINGTON, DE -- It ain't over 'til it's over, says Christine O'Donnell. The embattled Republican nominee for Senate here in The First State told a crowd of supporters from her tea party base not to count her out just …
Matt Scully Remembers Ted Sorensen
Matt Scully Remembers Ted Sorensen Matt Scully wrote (posted on October 31st, 2004): Should John F. Kerry win this election, his speechwriters will set about preparing for Jan. 20 by studying the inaugural addresses of the presidents, and like others before them, they will discover …
Stopping Palin
Politico reports that GOP leaders are seriously discussing how to do it. Is this the birth of the "Draft Jeb" movement? Politico reports that GOP leaders are seriously discussing how to do it. Is this the birth of the "Draft Jeb" movement?Reid Promises Immigration Vote
Reid Promises Immigration Vote The New York Times reports: Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader fighting to hold his seat in Nevada, said on a taped television appearance on Sunday he planned to bring legislation that would create a path for some illegal …
Over 200K Attended Sanity Rally
Over 200K Attended Sanity Rally The Hill reports: More than 200,000 people showed up Saturday on the National Mall for the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear." The crowd reached about 215,000, according to an estimate commissioned by CBS News on Sunday. The company …
Palin: Voters Telling Dems 'You Blew It'
Palin Tells Dems: 'You Blew It' The Washington Times reports: Republican Sarah Palin predicted a "political earthquake" on Tuesday in which the GOP will win big in elections across the country. "The message has been sent [to Democrats] that they blew it," Mrs. Palin said on "Fox …
Obama to Voters: Beat 'Cocky' GOP
Obama to Voters: Beat 'Cocky' GOP The Hill reports: Staring down the prospect of big losses in both the House and Senate Tuesday, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made one last impassioned appeal to the party's base Sunday, warning supporters that if Democrats don't …
Intel ID's Cargo Bomb Plot Suspect
Intel ID's Cargo Bomb Plot Suspect The Washington Post reports: Investigators examining explosives found in packages intercepted in Britain and Dubai suspect the material, preliminarily identified as PETN, points not only to the role of an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen but to a …
Palin: 'Corrupt Bastards' in Media Trying to Beat Miller
Palin: 'Corrupt' Media Trying to Beat Miller Politico reports: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claimed on Sunday that she has video evidence proving that reporters for a CBS affiliate in Alaska conspired to show Joe Miller, the state's Republican Senate nominee, in a negative …
GOP Giving Up on Miller
GOP Leaders Giving Up on Miller ABC's Jonathan Karl reports: A high-level GOP source tells me that party leaders have essentially given up on Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller and are now banking on a victory by write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski as the best bet for Republican…
Cornyn Doesn't Expect GOP Senate Majority
Cornyn Doesn't Expect GOP Senate The Hill reports: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) conceded Sunday that it will take two election cycles for his party to take control of the Senate. Only two days shy of the midterm elections on Tuesday, …
Brazil Elects Female President
Brazil Elects Female President CNN reports: Dilma Rousseff has won the election for president in Brazil, according to the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal Minister, making her the nation's first woman to hold the office. TSE Minister Ricardo Lewandowski made the announcement …