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The Plot to Purge GOP Moderates

AP Photo A sect of hard-right Republicans is celebrating their loss in a New York House race - but that's just the beginning of a plan to purge moderates.

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Related Topix: US News, New York, US Politics, Mitt Romney, US Senate, Republican

Sun Nov 08, 2009

New York Times

Fiorina Formally Announces a Hinted-At Candidacy

As the dust settled from Tuesday's elections, one of next year's potentially bruising campaigns came into focus on Wednesday as Carly Fiorina , a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a Republican, declared her candidacy for the Senate seat long held by Barbara Boxer , a Democrat.

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Related Topix: US News, HP, Computers, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Ellen Tauscher, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, San Francisco, CA, US Senate, Republican

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Aiken Standard

Dems discuss presidential election, issues at Fish Fry

Democratic candidates in several races came out to meet the voters Thursday at the Aiken County Democratic Party's seventh annual Fish Fry.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Aiken County, SC, Barack Obama, Rob Miller (Robert Lauransom Miller), Republican, US House of Representatives, Joe Wilson, US Senate

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Free Lance-Star

Terrorism amendment dies in Senate

The Senate has defeated an amendment that would have kept the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks out of ordinary federal courts - leaving military commissions as the only option for trying the terror suspects.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, 2008 Presidential Election

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Senate rejects bid aimed at Sept. 11 terrorists

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Prison, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, Barack Obama

Spartenburg Herald-Journal

Graham, DeMint want military detainee trials

In this June 1 photo reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees show a home-made note to visiting members of the media, at Camp Iguana detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US Military, US Navy, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Free Times

Gay Activists Say State Hate Crimes Law Still Needed

Local and national gay activists are celebrating a new federal hate crimes bill but say South Carolina still needs its own hate crimes law.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Gay/Lesbian, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Transgendered, Columbia Metro

Lake Wylie Pilot

Norman to return to state House

Voters in northern York County gave Ralph Norman a political comeback on Tuesday, choosing the Republican real estate developer over Democrat Kathy Cantrell in a state House special election.According to unofficial results, Norman earned 72 percent of the vote to recapture the District 48 seat he held for a term before an unsuccessful 2006 run ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, John Spratt, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, York County, SC, US Senate, Republican, Charlotte Metro, Rock Hill, SC

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Media Matters for America

Media advance GOP's deceptive claims of partisanship in health reform process

In the wake of the Senate Finance Committee's October 13 passage of a health care reform bill, the fifth such bill passed out of congressional committees this year, numerous media figures have advanced the claim that the bill and the process of crafting health reform more generally was overly partisan, and have blamed Democrats.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics

Mon Nov 02, 2009

On Top Magazine

Obama Signs Gay-Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill

President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hates Prevention Act during a White House signing ceremony on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, University of Wyoming

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Charleston City Paper

Pennsylvania Avenue Whores

I don't know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called "experts," including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right.

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Related Topix: Capitol Hill (Washington, DC), Washington, DC, US News, US Politics, Joe Wilson, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Barrett warns of detainees in S.C.

The White House said Friday no decisions have been made about transferring detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Navy brig in Charleston or other prisons on the U.S. mainland.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Gresham Barrett, US Senate, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, Charleston, SC

Fri Oct 30, 2009

WSAV

Savannah Neighbors Debate Hate Crimes Expansion

In a victory for gay rights activists, crimes targeting people because of their sexual orientation are now federal hate crimes, but many are still speaking out against the new measure.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA, Savannah Metro, Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Barack Obama

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Daily Citizen

Jim Hightower: How do you spell a oehypocrisya ?

Try this: "H-Y-P-O-C-O-N-G-R-E-S-S." The hypocongress consists of those Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats who have risen up on their hind legs in recent weeks to snarl and howl at any mention of a government role in meeting America's health care needs.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican, Opinion

Crooks and Liars

The Rachel Maddow Show: Purge and Fringe

Rachel Maddow talks to Steve Benen about the Republican infighting going on in the New York 23rd District's special election.

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Related Topix: Marilyn Musgrave, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Tom Cole, Dana Rohrabacher, 2008 Presidential Election, US Senate

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Raw Story

Obama signs historic hate-crimes bill, massive defense budget

President Barack Obama signed into law a historic and contentious defense spending bill Wednesday that includes a broad expansion of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Laramie, WY, US Senate, Republican

The Huffington Post

Michele Bachmann Was Gretchen Carlson's Nanny

Tonight Keith Olbermann awarded conservative columnist George Will the medal for "World's Best Person" for his revelation that controversial Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was once the nanny of Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Michele Bachmann, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Fox and Friends, Entertainment, Television, Hannity, US Senate

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Aptos Times

Senator calls Pink Slips 'Wake-up Call'

WASHINGTON a ' Members of both the House and Senate are going on the record to commend WND for its dramatic "pink slips" campaign notifying members of Congress that they will be permanently "pink-slipped" in 2010 if they vote for bigger and more intrusive government.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Todd Akin, Representative Michele Bachmann

Mon Oct 26, 2009

In These Times

Casualties of the a Bloodlessa Coup

On September 23, two days after deposed President Mel Zelaya's return, Honduran riot police stand ready to disperse a peaceful protest march in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.

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Related Topix: Honduras, World News, Central America, Riot, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

Sun Oct 25, 2009

NewsBusters.org

Name That Party: Nyt Quick to Id Gop Insult of Jews -- Avoided...

Two Republican chairmen in South Carolina have apologized for an op-ed article that made a clumsy comment about wealthy Jews being fiscally prudent.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Representative Steve Cohen, US House of Representatives, Democrat

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