Compare your issues with the Presidential Candidates
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Bush Signs Order to Curb Earmarks
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President Bush took executive action on Tuesday to crack down on pork barrel practices in Congress. He promised to veto any spending bill that doesn't cut the number and cost of congressional pet projects in half.

Insecticide poisons Chinese dumplings
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Dr. Alberto Hodari spoke to students at Wayne State in Detroit about his career performing abortions. In his speech, In the latest scare from Chinese exports, dumplings containing insecticide have made 10 people in Japan ill, including a girl in serious condition, according to police who warn they could press criminal charges.

McCain Beats Romney to Win Fla. Primary
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Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary Tuesday night, seizing the upper hand in the Republican presidential race ahead of next week's coast-to-coast contests and lining up a quick endorsement from soon-to-be dropout Rudy Giuliani.

Obama trounces Clinton in South Carolina Primary
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Barack Hussein Obama trounced Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the first Southern primary of the 2008 campaign, winning 55 percent of the vote to Clinton's 27 percent. Former senator John Edwards of North Carolina was third with 18 percent.

Obama takes big risk on driver's license issue
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Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama
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The daughter of President John F. Kennedy has endorsed Barack Hussein Obama saying, “We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960. We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Barack Obama.”

Senator Ted Kennedy Endorses Obama
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Both the Clintons and their allies had pressed Mr. Kennedy for weeks to remain neutral in the Democratic race, but Mr. Kennedy had become increasingly disenchanted with the tone of the Clinton campaign, aides said. He and former President Bill Clinton had a heated telephone exchange earlier this month over what Mr. Kennedy considered misleading statements by Mr. Clinton about Mr. Obama, as well as his injection of race into the campaign.

McCain appoints “Mexico First” Advisor
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Word of the appointment, made in November, spread across the Internet, sparking reaction from secure-border activists who charge Juan Hernandez's position in the campaign belies the Republican candidate's attempt to position himself as an advocate of border security. Last August, Hernandez published a book entitled "The New American Pioneers: Why Are We Afraid of Mexican Immigrants?" in which he argued Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, were at the forefront of establishing a new North American market combining the U.S. with Mexico.

Martinez endorses McCain
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Florida Sen. Mel Martinez will endorse John McCain on Friday, The Associated Press has learned, a move likely to give the Republican presidential candidate a crucial boost with the state's Cuban- Americans just days before the primary.

McCain Faces Conservative Skeptics
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Much of their disenchantment is tied to the positions McCain has staked out on hot-button issues. McCain's relative moderation on immigration led his onetime rival in the GOP race, Tom Tancredo, to suggest that McCain "is one of the most dangerous threats we have." His sponsorship of campaign finance reform legislation has prompted outrage from conservative advocacy groups who see it as a limit on free speech. And his longtime opposition to the Bush tax cuts, characterization of conservative religious leaders as "agents of intolerance," decision to partner with Joe Lieberman on global warming legislation, and bipartisan Senate compromise on judicial nominees have all generated anger from the right.

McCain Temper makes Mississippi Senator Endorse Romney
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Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has known Senator John McCain for more than three decades, on Wednesday endorsed Mitt Romney for president. "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Cochran said about McCain by phone. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

Huckabee alienates GOP in Arkansas
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"Not only would he not help you, he would go out of his way to do things in opposition to you," said a former Arkansas conservative legislator. For the 10 years he was governor of Arkansas, Mr. Huckabee was at war with much of his party.

Romney’s Health Care Plan Proves Problematic
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According to recent reports, the cost of Massachusetts' health insurance mandate will rise 85 percent, or $400 million, in 2009. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), meanwhile, has been on the presidential campaign trail praising the program he put into place.

Newt could come out on top in GOP Race
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Who, then, could conservatives end up backing if the GOP goes to the convention with no clear nominee? Well, who recently has come out with a new book? Who's doing all the shows talking about his new book? Who is advocating common-sense solutions to the most pressing problems America faces? Newt Gingrich, that's who.

Economic Stimulus Package: Rebate or Welfare?
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Congress and the White House have reached tentative agreement on a $150 billion economic stimulus package, but analysts on the political left and right differ on whether this deal will help boost the U.S. economy or whether it's just another swipe of the federal government's credit card.

Al-Qaida cyber terrorist's den raided
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Intelligence officials in Great Britain are circulating to European and U.S. intelligence chiefs a detailed report about al-Qaida’s top cyber terrorist, Younis Tsouli, to illustrate the threat Muslim terrorists pose on the web.

MRSA Outbreak linked to Gay Community
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Almost two weeks ago, researchers announced they have isolated a new form of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an infection that is spreading through San Francisco's homosexual community and could spread to the general community. Conservative groups say the truth about a new "multi-drug resistant microbe" prevalent among homosexual men is not being presented to the public because of political correctness.

Cell Porn Hits High Schools
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Police faced a difficult if not impossible task Thursday as they tried to stop the spread of pornographic video and photos of two high school girls, images that were transmitted by cell phone to dozens of the girls' classmates and then to the wider world.

Say What?
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A vending machine for medical marijuana and other prescriptions is making its debut in Los Angeles. Soon the cannabis dispensers will be available throughout California.

ESPN anchorwoman commits Blasphemy
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ESPN and its parent company, ABC, have refused to take any action against ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson for her hateful, slurring remarks against Jesus, saying "F-- -- Jesus."

Liberals want to tax TVs, video games to fight fat, fund education
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A Democratic lawmaker in New Mexico wants to tax televisions and video games to raise funds to fight childhood obesity and improve education in the state, officials said Friday.

Safari Club Contributes $250,000 for Future Hunting Programs
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Safari Club International Foundation has announced that it will contribute $250,000 to the Hunting Heritage Partnership (HHP), a program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). The donation increases annual grant money available by 50 percent, from $500,000 to $750,000 to address critical issues affecting the future of hunting.

Vatican Announces Global Campaign for a "Moratorium" on Abortion
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The Vatican has announced that it will begin a global campaign to institute a United Nations moratorium on a abortion, which will begin in Latin America.

Planned Parenthood to give $10M to liberal Congressional Candidates
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A former aide to San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi who last year became president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has decided that the nation’s largest abortion provider must now become actively involved in politics because “reproductive rights are under assault by Republicans,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Planned Parenthood will actively campaign on behalf of abortion supporters running for Congress and the White House in the 2008 elections, and says it will spend $10 million on political campaigns, according to the newspaper.

Congress Should Withhold Funds from the U.N. Development Program
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Congress should utilize the power of the purse to express its dissatisfaction with UNDP activities and withhold U.S. funds from the organization until it meets two conditions: it provides unfettered access to all internal audits, financial documents, and other relevant information to member states; and it either adopts strong whistleblower protections (at least equivalent to those of the U.N. Ethics Office) or submits to the jurisdiction of that body.

ADA Restoration Act: Undermining the Employer-Employee Relationship
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The ADA Restoration Act (ADARA, S. 1881, H.R. 3195) would dissolve this limitation, making disability status and protections available to nearly all Americans, such as those who wear eyeglasses or suffer "tennis elbow." This loose standard would hit employers especially hard, because they would have to go to great lengths, at potentially great expense, to accommodate minor "impairments" and would face tremendous risks in disciplining or firing employees suffering from such minor impairments. This standard would chip away at the fundamental nature of the employer-employee relationship. Before it makes such a radical change, Congress should consider the impact that it would have across the economy and on so many employers and diligent workers.

Movie makes Pro-Life Cool
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A debate has arisen about whether the out-of-nowhere smash hit comedy Juno--a box-office sensation and the sleeper candidate for Best Picture Oscar--is a pro-life document and, therefore, a cultural landmark of sorts. Rick Santorum, the former senator, says it is. He points out that the title character, a 16-year-old Minnesota girl, sets out to abort her fetus but is then told by a good-natured classmate demonstrating outside the clinic that the unborn child she is carrying has fingernails. Santorum is very excited by Juno's decision to have the baby, so much so that, he writes, "I begin this new year with greater hope for our culture."

Colorado tries to make Catholic Charities non-Catholic
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Add Colorado to the list of state governments sharpening the points of the already thorny problem of church and state. Catholic Charities of Colorado and the state’s legislature are at odds over a pending bill that would restrict religious organizations’ ability to discriminate on the basis of religion in their hiring. In other words, a non-profit such as Catholic Charities would not be permitted to make adherence to the Catholic faith a qualification necessary to be a manager, even a director, in the organization. Obviously this is a cause for concern for an institution claiming to have a distinctly Catholic identity.

From the Surreal – Illegals Van rear ends Homeland Security SUV
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Normally, a non-injury rear-end collision wouldn't warrant a news story. But in an ironic twist, this crash involved a van full of illegal immigrants, which slammed into an SUV owned by the Department of Homeland Security

Presidential Primary Results
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Republicans – Wins/States/Delegates – 1,191 Delegates Needed
Romney – 3/NV-WY-MI/59
Huckabee – 1/IA/40
McCain – 2/NH-SC-FL/93
Democrats – Wins/States/Delegates – 2,025 Delegates Needed
Clinton – 2/NH-MI-FL/256
Obama – 2/IA-NV-SC/181