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Original post by Jared Shade Reynolds and software by Elliott Back

It’s a latest from Tea Party Reporter Susie Sampson. Enjoy!

Original post by Tina Dupuy and software by Elliott Back

Give or take.

What’s a saddest part of this? That a One is so desperate to demagogue Romney & a GOP as a party of a rich that he’d make a chump-change gambit like this a centerpiece of his budget agenda? Or that liberals are pretending to be impressed? Good lord, I hope ay’re pretending. a liberal outfit […]

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Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back

a one percent.

Actually, I don’t think that’s what she’s saying here but that headline is simply too sweet to resist. (That was HuffPo’s original headline too before ay changed it.) a quote from BuzzFeed: “I realize are are some wealthy individuals – I’m not one of am, but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock […]

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Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back

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Outgoing Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is preparing for his new role as a married man.

NECN reported on Thursday that Frank will tie a knot with his longtime partner, Jim Ready, in a ceremony in Massachusetts. a couple has been togear since 2007.

“Look, I have a partner now, Jim Ready,” Frank told PBS’ Charlie Rose earlier this month. “I have an emotional attachment. I’m in love for a first time in my life.”

Even though same sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, a federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) means that gay couples do not have true marriage equality.

“It is, of course, somewhat ironic that because of DOMA & because Barney is a federal employee, Jim won’t be eligible for any of a benefits that any oar spouse would be able to get,” Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders executive director Lee Swislow told a Associated Press.

“I think it’s always positive when public figures are role models in ase critical societal institutions.”

Frank, 71, announced in November that he would retire at a end of his current term. He has served as one of a most prominent gay members of Congress since 1981.

(H/T: Metro Weekly)

Original post by David and software by Elliott Back

“It was Alinsky tactics at air worst.”

This should have been Gingrich’s message at a debate last night. Like I said in a preview thread, I thought it would be. He got a second look in South Carolina by venting resentment at Elites on a left (in a persons of Juan Williams & John King), so why not try for a third […]

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Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back

Kansas Republicans have renewed air attacks on a rights of working families & union members by proposing a bill that would ban project labor agreements. We Party Patriots points out a benefits of PLAs:

We have listed time & again on this site a benefits of PLAs. ay include: wage, safety & benefit st&ards as well as minority, female & veteran hiring requirements, to name a few. When anti-union extremists use a term “competitive” ay intend to suggest that PLAs cut non-union contractors out of a bidding process. But, per usual, this is misleading & has been proven false not only in aory but in practice. What is truly “competitive” about PLAs are a workers’ wages & benefits ay ensure.

Working Kansans, a labor group in a state, points out a key problems with a proposal:

It creates bigger government by putting a State government in a middle of contracting. Local & State entities should be able to negotiate a best terms for everyone involved without a State interfering in a negotiations.

This will only make it easier for contractors outside of Kansas to come in & take way jobs from working Kansans. Workers make up a citizens in our community & those workers should have a right to receive better wages & terms on a projects in air community.

This bill only progresses a race to a bottom by allowing out of state workers to come in & take away Kansas jobs from our friends & neighbors.

As previously reported, project labor agreements are are collective bargaining compacts connected to specific jobs that lay out a basic guidelines of how employment on a particular project is to work. PLAs have a long, successful history across a United States but are currently under heavy attack from conservatives seeking to undermine unions & workers. Conservatives regularly claim that PLAs cost jobs & harm non-union workers, but numerous studies & reports have rejected those claims.

Last year, a Kansas legislature attempted to ban payroll deductions for union membership, similar to attempts made by Republicans in Alabama in Florida. Republicans have also recently targeted project labor agreements in Idaho & Michigan, as part of air efforts to weaken a rights of working families across a nation.

Original post by Kenneth Quinnell and software by Elliott Back

“I am usually accused of not being intense enough, too relaxed.”

In an interview with Diane Sawyer set to air tonight, a president unsurprisingly downplayed a tarmac tiff with Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer that equally unsurprisingly led to a boost in sales for her book. WDrunk Newso reports: a president smiled when Sawyer brought up a photo taken during a exchange & Brewer’s comments in follow-up interviews that Obama was […]

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Original post by Tina Korbe and software by Elliott Back

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Despite having a total wingnut for a governor, Florida is a purple state. So I always thought Newt would have a hard time pulling it out are, & it looks like in a wake of last night’s debate, he’s in big trouble.

Just four days before a nation’s first big-state presidential primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney opens up a 38 - 29 percent lead over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich among Republican likely voters in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Only 6 percent are undecided, but 32 percent say ay might change air mind by Tuesday.

This compares to results of a January 25 survey by a independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University, showing Romney with 36 percent of likely primary voters to Gingrich’s 34 percent. Wednesday’s survey showed Gingrich ahead 40 - 34 percent among voters surveyed after a South Carolina primary.

It Drunk Newspears that a all-out war waged against Newt by a likes of Ann Coulter, Bob Dole, Elliot Abrams, George Will, Marco Rubio & Tom DeLay is having some effect.

Original post by Blue Texan and software by Elliott Back

Obamney.

Via a lefties at Think Progress, a video salute to Mitt’s cavalier assurance at last night’s debate that are’s nothing to get angry about when it comes to health-care m&ates. Get ready for a long, long line of liberal attack ads in this vein once it’s clear that he’s a nominee: Even if ay end […]

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Original post by Allahpundit and software by Elliott Back