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America’s Judeo-Christian Roots are Bigger Than Texas by Susan Stamper Brown The hysterical reaction to Republican presidential hopeful Governor Rick Perry’s faith is about as overblown as his home state of Texas is big. Perry is facing a federal lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) — purportedly because Perry prayed publicly for our nation. America is headed south to a place much hotter than Texas, and you would think national figures offering prayers for the...

Super Duper Congress Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Oh sure, they made a big show of signing the debt-ceiling agreement, with official photo- ops and fancy commemorative pens all accompanied by great racking sighs of relief. But now both Congress and the president are having second thoughts; treating the deal like a dead horsefly floating in their cut-glass tumbler of 25-year-old Scotch. You’d find more enthusiasm from the contestants of a beach volleyball tournament surveying a sand court...

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Political Enemies Within by Peter Funt The axiom in recent presidential elections is that the left and right stay put, while the middle shifts just enough to determine the winner. When the middle moved to the right we got Bush; when it slid left we got Obama. What makes the 2012 campaign so intriguing — and frightening — is that it may be determined by two other elements: the far right and the far left. The role of extremists — arch conservatives and progressives — is nothing new. They’ve...

Forget Rick Perry – Mitt Romney is Perfect for the GOP by Tina Dupuy The Iowa Straw Poll last weekend is to election season what Labor Day is to Fall; it’s official now — the season has begun! I don’t care about the “viability” of candidates. I am not a prognosticator. Well, if I were, I’d be a very bad one. I said former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was most likely to get the nomination because his name is the easiest to make puns with (i.e. Pawlenty of Votes!)...

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RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch If the Tea Party Were Liberal by Tina Dupuy Just imagine there was a giant swarm of super-super liberal freshmen in Congress. They had given the President a “shellacking,” secured a large number of seats in the House of Representatives and had been on the job for eight months. Just a bunch of lockstep liberals clogging up the Capitol. In that time, they’d done amazingly little work while cashing their government paychecks. Sure, they’re...

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Rick Perry’s Path by Matt Mackowiak You’re always strongest when you’re “thinking” about running for president. Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in the history of the nation’s second-largest state, is unquestionably the “flavor of the month.” And his likely entrance into the 2012 campaign has many excited, but, as a recent Politico story reported, some in the Republican establishment feel threatened. National polls show Perry in second...

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