NEW YORK -- Despite its considerable gains in the midterm elections, the GOP has a problem looming in the margins named Sarah Palin.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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On Election Day, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association. The irony of this case name was obvious: The celebrated violent-action-hero governor of California had signed a bill into law in 2005 forbidding the sale of ultraviolent video games to minors, a law that lower federal courts prevented from ever going into effect.
Let's try to put some metrics on last Tuesday's historic election. Two years ago, the popular vote for House of Representatives was 54 percent Democratic and 43 percent Republican. That may sound close, but in historic perspective it's a landslide. Democrats didn't win the House popular vote in the South, as they did from the 1870s up through 1992. But they won a larger percentage in the 36 non-Southern states than -- well, as far as I can tell, than ever before.
Elections have consequences, and I won. Remember that quote from our president? He said it just three days after he took the helm as our president.
WASHINGTON -- When Alexander Pope was on his deathbed, his doctor assured him that his breathing, pulse and other vital signs were improving. "Here I am," Pope said to a friend, "dying of a hundred good symptoms."
Those who've followed this column over the years know that when President Obama was first elected, I tried valiantly to give him the benefit of the doubt. I believed for the best that his promise of "change" would be an exercise in moderation and sound judgment. But that didn't happen, and this past week's elections were a comprehensive rebuke of the first two years of his presidency.
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Can we now please talk about drinking water and where the money's going to come from to make sure it's there for our children and grandchildren?
A new EPA survey shows the nation needs $384 billion to assure its water infrastructure is up to par to provide potable water by 2030.
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On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is considered one of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls in 2016, called for a constitutional amendment to push back against President Barack Obamas federal health-care law.
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Nearly half of voters think President Obama's doing a poor job at handling gun control, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday. Only 37 percent of voters give Obama positive reviews for the way he's handling gun control as opposed to the 46 percent of voters who give him a poor rating.
The president's poor approval numbers have been climbing over the past few months. They were 34 percent in February and have climbed 13 points since then.
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On Tuesday morning, Gov. Rick Scott signed into law SB 1852. The new law authorizes funding from the National Mortgage Settlement to go to state agencies working on housing and foreclosure issues.
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Former Congressman Allen West continues to remain in the national spotlight -- and he is gearing up for a book tour.
West took to Facebook on Tuesday morning and informed his followers that he had finished writing a book. We now move into the editing phase, which we have been doing chapter by chapter as I completed writing, West wrote. The book will present my thoughts as a man, a warrior, my political philosophy, being a black conservative, and my vision for the republic as an American statesman.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination back in 2008, came out swinging on Tuesday in defense of Common Core Standards in education. He sent a letter to lawmakers in Oklahoma, urging them to support Common Core.
Its disturbing to me there have been criticisms of these standards directed by other conservatives including the RNC, Huckabee wrote. The truth of the matter is, these criticisms are short-sighted.
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With revelations that sexual assault is on the rise in the military, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan announced on Tuesday that he was co-sponsoring a bill with Ohio Republican Michael Turner and Massachusetts Democrat Niki Tsongas which prevents officers from overturning convictions for major offenses including sexual assault. The BE SAFE Act ensures any officer found guilty of rape, sexual abuse or forcible sodomy be dishonorably discharged.
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E-Verify was one of the major bones of contention between Rick Scott and Bill McCollum during the divisive 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary -- but one of the leading conservatives in the Sunshine State offered cautionary words on that program on Monday.Responding to a constituent, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued to advocate for immigration reform.
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From his perch as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw has some control of how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manages its funds -- and, on Monday, he called some of that organizations managers before his committee.
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Add another name to the list of potential Republican presidential hopefuls -- U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. Portman will be heading up to New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary, later this month. David Catanese over at The Run has the details.
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