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The GOP frontrunner cannot catch fire with conservatives because he wants to run on a platform of fixing the economy and restoring jobs-but they're more interested in fighting a culture war about limited government and greater freedom.

For a few days last week, the harpies of the extreme right assaulted the President of the United States for first considering, and then firing Gen.

Andre Gide wrote that "everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." Which is kind of why the wrangling over the construction of the Keystone pipeline resonates like the debate that raged seven years ago over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, known as ANWR.

I dismissed the first two Africans who told me they preferred former President George W. Bush to President Barack Obama as anomalies.

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and younger brother of President George W. Bush, has repeatedly said he will not run in 2012.

Minnesota last week was among the first states to receive a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Mitt Romney's primary win in Maine and straw poll backing at the Conservative Political Action Conference are likely to do little to mute his critics, and Rick Santorum is unlikely to fade away as a fractured Republican party sorts out who will face President Barack Obama.

Local business owners were updated on important changes to the tax code at a recent Holmes County Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

With his sleeves rolled up and collar unbuttoned, Congressman Vern Buchanan visited Bradenton on Saturday as he spoke to more than three-dozen residents about the U.S. deficit, the creation of jobs and helping small businesses.

During the 2004 campaign, Republican strategists put gay marriage on referendum ballots in key swing states as a "wedge" issue to unnerve Democrats and gin up the conservative base for President George W. Bush.

Thandie Newton showed off her long legs in a pair of form-fitting black leather trousers paired with sky high, studded heels.

I don't intend to write about Republicans in general because I've worked for several moderates.

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President Barack Obama expects the federal budget deficit to reach $1.33 trillion this year, administration officials said Friday evening, the fourth straight year of trillion-dollar deficits.

Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly home-spun rhetoric declared we don't need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As expected, she received roaring applause.

Newt Gingrich has an exquisitely sensitive moral antenna, and Mitt Romney's remark suggesting indifference to the poor sent it quivering.

It sounds too good to be true: Sell stocks for a profit and your capital gains tax rate is zero percent.

Yale University's "Skull and Bones Society," an elite secret club, has all sorts of conspiracy theories that swirl around it.

Ten states now have President Barack Obama's OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education -- that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014.

For a perfect viewpoint into the financial world's next big move, there is no better vantagepoint than the Chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee.