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FRC promises to challenge LGBT groups at 2012 GOP national convention in Tampa

By | 08.25.11 | 11:17 am

Image by Matt MahurinAfter being tipped off by a recent Washington Blade article about GOP LGBT groups’ attempts to influence the Republican Party platform at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says those groups should expect a fight.

Piper Palin, Superstar

By | 11.18.09 | 8:45 am

In the opening pages of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin tells an anecdote about the Alaska State Fair that took me aback. Here’s the story:

Ahead, on my right, I saw the Alaska Right to Life (RTL) booth, where a poster caught my eye, taking my breath away. It featured the

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Fox on the Run

By | 06.18.09 | 9:03 am

Progressive activist Adam Green confronts Griff Jenkins — a  Fox News “color” reporter who’s often assigned to cover left-leaning events in a goofy manner. Last year, he stumbled through a Republican National Convention protest yelling about the First Amendment when no one would talk to him. In April, he More…

Palin Bests Obama, Biden, McCain in New Poll

By | 09.05.08 | 3:28 pm

It’s premature, misleading and beside the point. Stop reading now. We shouldn’t even be talking about it. Having cleared the caveats, this new Rasmussen poll will have politicos buzzing all weekend:

[F]ollowing a vice presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, [Alaska Gov. Sarah] Palin

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McCain Plays to Strengths

By | 09.05.08 | 6:00 am

St. Paul–Darkness had fallen over the city when Sen. John McCain stepped out from the shadow created by his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, when she lashed out at the Democrats and the media and intellectual elites the night before. He did so as a man declared politically dead More…

Ohio Boy No More?

By | 09.04.08 | 3:45 pm

St. Paul–Standing on the floor of the Xcel center last night made me embarrassed about where I come from. Born in Ohio to immigrant parents, with a father who came from nothing — meaning no shoes till he was nine — who then rose to the supposed academic elite, I’ve More…

Fred Thompson’s second chance

By | 09.04.08 | 9:25 am

On a bus between Minneapolis to St. Paul–Where was this a year ago?

That was the only response I could ultimately come up with after watching former Tennessee senator and Republican presidential nominee Fred Thompson address his party’s national convention from a Cleveland hotel bar Tuesday.

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Minnesota police raid “criminal” RNC protesters

By | 09.01.08 | 11:22 am

News of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Hurricane Gustav has eclipsed a series of police raids that took place in the Twin Cities over the weekend, in which FBI agents and local law enforcement detained six people on suspicion of conspiracy to riot at the Republican National Convention. More…