1. Howard Dean's fruitless outreach

    ... , ''At a time when the Republican Party is in trouble with their conservative base, Bill Frist is taking ... ''values voters'' for the Democratic Party. On that program Dean reportedly said the party's platform ... leaders for incorrectly stating the party's platform position. Surely I'm misreading one

  2. Good Samaritan leaps onto subway tracks to save stranger

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    ... (London Daily Mail) The incredible moment a Good Samaritan fearlessly leaped onto live subway ... subway station on Thursday afternoon when he saw what appeared to be a man tumble off the platform. 'Out

  3. Rudy's unholy jihad

    ... has been pro-life in its platform ever since 1976, the first platform after Roe, and I think most ... out of 10 things in the platform they agree with and one or two things that they don't agree ... portion of my party disagrees with that. My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican

  4. Where citizens are taxed to death

    ... Life holds few guarantees, save two: death and taxes. And if you live in certain states, you ... are literally being taxed to death. Where you live can make a big difference in how much you pay in taxes ... is a website with daily updated collection of high quality movies and cinema films. The platform

  5. How to survive Obama's economy

    ... apparently believes he can keep throwing money to his base, which consists of unions, minorities ... teachers is flipped off a platform and dropped into a tank of cold water. Now, imagine if Barney Frank ... , Henry Waxman or Nancy Pelosi were perched on that platform. The line of customers would stretch all

  6. Stuck with a RINO? Try the 90% solution

    ... or nieces and nephews for the "Additional Child Tax Credit," even though the children live in Mexico ... running for both the House and the Senate need to pick some 90 percent issues and form a platform that all ... the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was born. The idea was simple. BRAC would review all

  7. Republicans: Get back to truth

    ... John McCain has a knack for the bizarre. But he outdid himself, appearing on "Saturday Night Live ... convictions? Of course not. He concluded he had to placate the evangelical base. Did he move to find ... that the problems of the party relate to process? They suggest that the party platform must change

  8. After the GOP suicide

    upsidedown_elephant

    ... is that the conservative base of the Republican Party – which is to say, 80 percent of the party's membership ... smart politics, as if you can expand your numbers by insulting and then angering your base. That's ... or some version of it? The name is not so important as the platform, and the platform might well

  9. You're fired! Boehner, GOP bosses must go

    120216boehner

    ... Mitt Romney should have embraced the Republican platform, and the current Republican leaders ... says the Republican platform adopted in Tampa this past August was probably the most conservative ... platform ever. And I think that's probably true, but Romney did not run on the platform

  10. Democrats don't get it or my vote

    ... cycles, their party platform makes it clear that their efforts have no more substance than smoke ... . In contrast, the Republican Party platform this year is probably the most unambiguously pro-gun ... statement the party has ever made. The question is whether they will live up to it or are just blowing