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At today’s Heritage Foundation briefing, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told the audience of conservative bloggers that “‘Republican’ still isn’t a positive brand name for people but ‘conservative’ is.” She said that a new conservative movement “under that banner coalition of respecting the constitution [...] is a winning formula going forward.”
Bachmann announced a threefold strategy: “Number [...]

So reports Mike Allen. I’m not really sure how many minds this will actually change. Will’s never been much of a hawk, though he does represent something of a curmudgeonly conservative establishmentarianism. Dave can correct me if I’m off-base here.

Brian Maloney writes at the Radio Equalizer that conservative Boston talk show hosts have been “yanked” and “banned” today. He writes of WTKK-FM host Michael Graham that his timeslot “was given to local liberal advice talker Mel Robbins, who used the time to deliver syrupy tributes to Kennedy.”
It’s possible that Graham was already off for [...]

J.D. Hayworth, a former Arizona Republican congressman who went down to a narrow defeat in 2006, now hosts a radio show on KFYI 550. Today he interviewed Orly Taitz, the luckless attorney for Maj. Stefan Cook, and gave her plenty of airtime to misinform about her latest court defeat. Audio of the interview is here.

Given that the Obama administration worked last night with House Democrats to soften the language of Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) Iran resolution — which passed by a 405-1 margin today — it should come as no surprise that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just now told reporters, “we welcome the resolution.” The current language [...]

Here’s an interesting, under-reported twist on Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial record: she’s apparently a conservative when it comes to criminal justice.
The Wall Street Journal reports today:
New York criminal-defense lawyers say she is surprisingly tough on crime for a Democratic-backed appointee — a byproduct, they believe, of her tenure as a prosecutor.
Makes sense. She may also have [...]

The Iowa Independent reports:
Steve Deace, who hosts a drive-time show on WHO-AM, said society helped create Scott Roeder, the man in custody for the killing of Tiller Sunday morning, by refusing to stop abortion by legal methods.
“Maybe the fact that we have a lawless society that has not protected these babies from infanticide created the [...]

The governor of Alaska writes a soaring endorsement of the Republican National Committee chairman on her political action committee’s Website:
We have another voice in Washington, DC – a man who understands what Alaskans believe: less centralized government control, restrained budgets, more opportunity for development, and fewer taxes. Today, we have a friend in RNC Chairman [...]

Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early leader for the open Senate seat and Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum narrowly ahead in the race to replace Crist.
Crist leads former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) by 35 [...]

Some quick fun with the transitive property. Item one:
Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how [Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)] is handling her job as Speaker of the House in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, while 39 percent approve of her performance … That puts her approval rating at [...]