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Iowa Gov. says GOP will pick up state seats in 2012

By | 11.14.11 | 10:41 am | More from The Iowa Independent

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Despite his party losing a critical Iowa Senate special election on Nov. 8, Republican Gov. Terry Branstad believes the GOP can pick up five or six seats in the Iowa Legislature in 2012.

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CBS accused of liberal bias over email sent accidentally to Bachmann campaign

By | 11.14.11 | 10:12 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann’s campaign and CBS News clashed over the weekend when her campaign was accidentally included on an email chain with CBS News’ John Dickerson explaining that Bachmann would not get as much attention during and after Saturday’s presidential debate.

Sierra Club opposes Minn. anti-gay marriage amendment

By | 11.14.11 | 10:08 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club is the latest statewide group to come out against a 2012 ballot question that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution.

The influential lobby for the environment said Friday that it was jumping into the same-sex marriage debate More…

Hispanic GOP group announces N.M. officials

By | 11.14.11 | 9:23 am | More from The New Mexico Independent

A self-described “center right” Hispanic Republican group announced its two New Mexico state coordinators on Thursday.The Hispanic Leadership Network named Jamie Estrada, a former Bush administration official, and Christopher Saucedo, an Albuquerque attorney, to run the group’s grassroots outreach efforts in the state.

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Religious groups stage get-out-the-vote effort in 34 Florida churches

By | 11.14.11 | 9:09 am | More from The Florida Independent

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr)

This Saturday, 34 churches in Florida hosted a viewing of “One Nation Under God,” which is being promoted as a “two-hour premiere DVD event featuring top American thinkers and political leaders who will bring More…

Florida churches will host conservative get-out-the-vote effort

By | 11.11.11 | 12:19 pm | More from The Florida Independent

This Saturday, 34 churches in Florida will host a viewing of “One Nation Under God,” which is being promoted as a “two-hour premiere DVD event featuring top American thinkers and political leaders who will bring the truth about God and America to people gathered

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Personhood USA unveils new video comparing itself to civil rights movement

By | 11.11.11 | 11:34 am | More from The Florida Independent

Personhood USA, the group behind ballot initiatives that aim to define life as beginning at the moment of conception, has unveiled a new video, comparing its efforts to ban abortion to the civil rights movement.

In newly released grand jury testimony, Nixon leaned on familiar national security tropes

By | 11.10.11 | 4:46 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Richard Nixon is perhaps the best-known outed liar in history. In 1975, the year after he resigned in disgrace and was lifted away from the White House in a helicopter, the ex-president gave testimony before a grand jury investigating his administration. University of Wisconsin professor Stanley Kutler recently persuaded a More…

Occupy Atlanta mobilizes to block foreclosure of policeman’s home

By | 11.10.11 | 4:37 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

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This week the Occupy Atlanta protesters found a way to protest economic injustice that may build allies within the local law enforcement community.

GOP resolution to repeal net neutrality voted down in the Senate

By | 11.10.11 | 4:29 pm | More from The Florida Independent

 

The resolution to disapprove the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules was defeated in the U.S. Senate today.