Anti-Proposition 29 signs line the shelves at Cigarette Plus in San Jose …
LOS ANGELES — Early election returns showed Californians divided Tuesday on whether to slap an additional $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products to fund cancer research. With 8 percent of precincts The tax on a pack of cigarettes would increase by $1 and those additional revenues would be used to fund cancer research [...]
Read MoreIs Scott Walker Facing Indictment And Does It Really Matter To Walker's …
Scott Walker rallied campaign workers and supporters in Allouez on Saturday while hopscotching the state in the final days before Tuesday's recall election. Walker said the election will be decided by turnout, though he contends there still are some Both groups, which do not dislose who is bankrolling their operations, are touring Wisconsin on the [...]
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Sarah Palin kept her winning streak of 2012 endorsements intact Tuesday as Ted Cruz forced establishment favorite Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst into a runoff in the Texas U.S. Senate race: Cruz, a Cuban-American lawyer who David Dewhurst and tea-party backed former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz are heading to a runoff in the state's Republican [...]
Read MoreRomney urges Liberty University grads to defend family values
Talk about a stiff crowd.This afternoon, Presidential hopeful (and this week's same-sex marriage elephant in the room) Mitt Romney gave By Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images Mitt Romney delivers the keynote address at Liberty University's 39th Annual Commencement in Lynchburg, Va., on Saturday. Romney pushed family values in the wake of Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage. [...]
Read MoreReport: Romney led 1965 Cranbrook bullying incident over student's hairstyle
George Romney spoke at youngest son Mitt's Cranbrook commencement in June 1965. Courtesy of Cranbrook Schools Some of those antics are again at the center of the presidential campaign today as the Washington Post published a story in which former Mitt Romney was a student at the elite Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., from [...]
Read MoreJoe Biden, Barack Obama and the value of strategic ambiguity in the gay …
During an appearance on Meet the Press earlier today, Vice President Joe Biden argued passionately in favor of full same-sex marriage rights, indicating a shift in position for the VP. Biden made sure to clarify that these were his May 06, 2012|AP Vice President Joe Biden says he hopes Osama bin Laden was wrong in [...]
Read MoreScandal over GSA junket won't affect travel spending, experts say
Now it's the General Services Administration that is getting heat for putting on an $823000 Las Vegas-area conference for 300 GSA employees in 2010. Investigators found that Jeff Neely, a top GSA administrator, had thrown a $2700 party in a hotel suite Now it's the General Services Administration that is getting heat for putting on [...]
Read MoreParker's 28 Leads Spurs Over Jazz 106-91 in Game 1
Utah Jazz at San Antonio Spurs betting preview for 2012-04-29 | NBA Basketball match tips and odds. Here it is. The playoffs. The NBA's second season. The time of year when you no longer have easy games against bad teams. Well, unless you're in the Eastern Conference. The Spurs, having just completed their 13th 50+ [...]
Read MoreAnn Romney, Hilary Rosen spat needlessly reprises Mommy Wars
By Jennifer Rubin Since Ann Romney has shown to be worth her weight in gold to her husband's campaign, maybe she would be willing to take on a new topic. (She could do everything from North Korea to school choice, as far as I'm concerned.) Long before she married Mitt Romney, Ann Davies had a [...]
Read MoreAnn Romney: How She Stacks Up Against Other First Ladies Regarding Jobs
April 12 (Bloomberg) — A fight for female voters in the presidential race got personal today, with Ann Romney, first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama wading into a dispute over stay-at-home mothers. In an interview on Fox News, Nicely played, GOP. Mitt Romney's “I know you are, but what am I?” strategy, declaring [...]
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