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Atlanta Center for Disease Control
February 8, 2010
Reuters, CNN Wire Services
New Disease Discovered and Classified: ‘Gonorrhea Lectim’
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced “Gonna re-elect ‘em”).
The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting [...]

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Via FOX News:

President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November.
Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas — even [...]

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Or so says CNN:

52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll.
44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else.
Obama faces a [...]

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From the Boston Herald:

Upstart Republican Scott Brown rocketed to victory in the race to the U.S. Senate yesterday, steamrolling Attorney General Martha Coakley’s layabout campaign in an against-all-odds triumph that sent shock waves from the Heartland to the White House.
“I thought it was going to be me against the machine. I was wrong. It’s all [...]

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From Rasmussen:

Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican.
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
Among voters not [...]

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Says Jonah Goldberg:

Hence, the quest for the middle ground usually rewards the worst kinds of politicians — those devoid of any core convictions and only concerned with feathering their own nests — and yields the worst kinds of policies. Blending the two visions is like trying to marry two different recipes. You don’t get the [...]

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Said by Doctor Zero:

The Declaration of Independence states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The American understanding of democracy does not envision voters as slaves who enjoy the privilege of voting for a new master every few years. When the Declaration speaks of the right – and, later the [...]

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Says Richard Viguerie at ConservativeHQ:

In her statement announcing suspension of her campaign in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district, Assemblywoman and liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava refused to throw her support behind a fellow Republican, Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative Party ticket in this particular race.
That was one more [...]

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New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie (R) – 49%
Jon Corzine (D) – 45%
Virginia Governor
Bob McDonnell (R) – 59%
Creigh Deeds (D) – 41%
N.Y. District 23
Bill Owens (D) – 49%
Doug Hoffman (Conservative) – 41%
Christie and McDonnel, both Republicans in heavily-Democratic states, won. Hoffman, a complete underdog on a 3rd party ticket, almost beat professional politician Owens.
Says Michael Barone:

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From Rasmussen:

The race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District highlights the concerns many Republican voters have about their party leaders.
At a time when 73% of Republicans believe their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with the GOP base, 11 county leaders in upstate New York picked a nominee for Congress who supported the Democratic [...]

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From The Politico:

The conservative coup in upstate New York did much more than lay bare the power of conservative activists: It exposed how little control GOP officials hold over this surging and formidable political movement.
In the wake of conservatives’ role in forcing liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava out of Tuesday’s special election in New York’s 23rd [...]

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Who you voted for President:

“The Post-American World”
by Fareed Zakaria
“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal [...]

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Found at The Hill:

Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously.

Uh, no, you limp-wristed Republican senators. Sarah Palin is NOT taking her White House aspirations entirely too seriously. If there were [...]

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Sarah Palin.

Because everyone else in the news last year were pussies.

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