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Super-PAC donors acting as kingmakers in presidential contest -- The Washington Post Feb. 22, 2012

The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate "debates" is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a repetition of this debacle in future elections.

Presidents Day has passed again with not much more recognition than special sales at the malls of America. What an extra 20 percent off the latest fashions has to do with how important our history is to our present condition and how critical the form and structure of our government is to the well-being of all of us, Ill never know.

Mohammed Bouazizi had had enough. The police had humiliated him. They had confiscated his fruit and vegetable cart. He had nothing left all because hed refused to give them a bribe.

If you were listening reasonably carefully to last Wednesday's Republican presidential candidate debate, you heard Rick Santorum say, "Charles Murray just wrote a book about this."

Recently, two pieces of proposed legislation Senate Bill, SB 1506 and SB 1316 were amended to include dangerous provisions that would allow nonmedical doctors, specifically optometrists, to prescribe and administer systemic oral drugs for the first time in the state's history.

WASHINGTON -- Let me be blunt: If Republicans nominate Rick Santorum, they will lose.

"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it."

President Obama talked to students and other Floridians at the University of Miami on Thursday to reiterate a major item from his State of the Union address last month --what he calls an all-of-the-above approach to energy.

We knew this was coming. In fact, in the first year of the Obama administration, I focused on this very issue. Now it has risen to the level of potential reality.

Before the Presidents Day congressional recess, both houses of Congress voted to pass legislation extending a 2 percent cut in the amount employees must pay into Social Security.

An examination of administrative earmarks around the time of congressional votes on key pieces of President Obamas agenda suggests the White House used its power to fund local projects as a means to buy votes for major legislative efforts.

The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of "some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology."