div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/mittromneynewtgingrich_chriskeane_reuters.jpg” alt=”Mitt Romney” height=”271″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”The Dream Team? (Chris Keane/Reuters)br / nbsp;/div /div During an interview on Univision on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney not only displayed a shocking inability a href=”http://dailykos.com/story/2012/01/25/1058470/-Now-Mitt-Romney-claims-he-actually-pays-a-50-tax-rate?detail=hideamp;via=blog_1″to do simple math/a, he revealed that he’s completely clueless on the whole concept of picking a running mate: blockquoteJorge Ramos: We are going to open it up to the audience. Let me just ask you. Would you consider Newt Gingrich as your running mate? pMitt Romney: At this stage, if he were the VP and I was the President, why, that’s something I would consider … I haven’t made any considerations as to who would be my VP at this point. I think it would be presumptuous. I’ve got to become the nominee, first. And then I have to defeat President Obama. And then I’d get the privilege of having a vice president./p /blockquote pUh, no. Granted, after the Sarah Palin disaster of 2008, one can appreciate that Romney would be scared spitless at the thought of choosing a running mate that would appeal to the extremist wing of the Republican Party, while at the same time not making himself look like a complete, pandering idiot (see: McCain, John), but that’s not how it works. So be bold, Mitt. Excite the base./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_nR7dDSiBgOh-xnRTrouKFTECs/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_nR7dDSiBgOh-xnRTrouKFTECs/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_nR7dDSiBgOh-xnRTrouKFTECs/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_nR7dDSiBgOh-xnRTrouKFTECs/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=Vn1qyNFrr4E:9CXK-CGgLzc:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/Vn1qyNFrr4E” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/GOP-PrimaryDebate.jpg” alt=”GOP 2012 Debate” height=”100″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Talk about it here. Watch it live on NBC, MSNBC, or a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/16/1055228/-”Daily Kos/a.br //div /div pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123181804″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123181804″b 6:18 PM PT/b/a:/span Ron Paul gives a long and rambling answer. Says he doesn’t want to run as a third party candidate, but who knows?/p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123182127″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123182127″b 6:21 PM PT/b/a:/span So Mitt Romney released 23 years of tax returns to John McCain as part of McCain’s VP selection process, and says the means he was vetted? Uh, dude, McCain picked SARAH PALIN./p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123182308″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123182308″b 6:23 PM PT/b/a:/span Mitt Romney is trying to complain about how Newt Gingrich’s tax plan would mean he would pay a 0% tax rate./p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123182514″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123182514″b 6:25 PM PT/b/a:/span Is it just me or is Brian Williams dull as dirt? This should be an epic debate. Instead, it feels like we’re watching the middle rounds of a ho-hum golf tournament rebroadcast on the Golf Channel./p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123182612″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123182612″b 6:26 PM PT/b/a:/span Rick Santorum assures us he’s a capitalist. Also, he’s not a frothy mix./p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123182646″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123182646″b 6:26 PM PT/b/a:/span Who ARE those guys sitting behind Brian Williams?/p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123183028″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123183028″b 6:30 PM PT/b/a:/span Romney finally gets Newt Gingrich to show a flash of anger, pounding on the Freddie Mac thing. And Newt doubles down on the idea that he was paid largely because he was a historian. This is pretty hilarious that he’s still claiming that./p pspan class=”update”a name=”20120123183132″ href=”/story/2012/01/23/1054396/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-2#20120123183132″b 6:31 PM PT/b/a (Kaili Joy Gray):/span The liveblogging continues in a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/23/1053889/-Liveblogging-Newtmittgeddon-3?detail=hideamp;via=blog_1″the next thread/a./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EOLYhnuegyM3seiAFt2rFOPFPG4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EOLYhnuegyM3seiAFt2rFOPFPG4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EOLYhnuegyM3seiAFt2rFOPFPG4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EOLYhnuegyM3seiAFt2rFOPFPG4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=3G5aDvj_zk4:N9q3tNq6Xvo:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/3G5aDvj_zk4″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/152086/Jefferson_Parish_poll_tax.jpg” alt=”" height=”256″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Reciept for payment of poll tax, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, 1917/div /div Jan. 23 is the anniversary of the ratification of the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution”24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution/a in 1964, a major victory for activists who fought to eliminate barriers to voting like a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_29″the poll tax/a and literacy tests. blockquoteIn U.S. practice, a poll tax was used as a de facto or implicit pre-condition of the exercise of the ability to vote. This tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late 19th century as part of the Jim Crow laws. After the ability to vote was extended to all races by the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern states enacted poll tax laws which often included a grandfather clause that allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax. These laws, along with unfairly implemented literacy tests and extra-legal intimidation, achieved the desired effect of disenfranchising African-American and Native American voters as well as poor whites who immigrated after the year specified./blockquote pLet us never forget that this country’s beginnings did not offer voting rights to all. Only a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States#African_Americans_and_poor_whites”white male property owners/a were permitted to vote, with only four states allowing the vote to free black males. nbsp;/p pI don’t take my right to vote for granted. The ballot is still one of the most precious and hard won gifts of this democracy, and I know all too well the thin line that separates me from being allowed to vote, and losing it./p pI will not forget my ancestors who died fighting for me to be able to go to a polling station and cast a vote for my candidate of choice./p pI will not forget the obstacles strewn in their paths—be they poll taxes, or vigilante terror. nbsp;/p pI will not forget the determined resistance against repression—and the ultimate victories we won. nbsp;/p pI will not let my students forget that it was not so very long ago that most of them would not have been able to vote, since two-thirds of my students are female. I have Black, Latino, Asian and Native American students, all of whom would have been forbidden the ballot during different periods in our history. Though usually cast as solely a black-white issue, the subject of the franchise historically unveils the intersections of “race,” gender, ethnicity and social class. nbsp;/p pI will make sure that they know their votes are threatened strongright now/strong./p pAcross the nation, in state houses and courthouses, we are engaged in a battle for the ballot. We face current threats, not just from Republican state legislators hell-bent on turning back the clock and locking us out of voting booths./p pThe arch-conservative “educational foundation” a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Watch”Judicial Watch/a, funded primarily by the Sarah Scaife Foundation and The Carthage Foundation, both managed by a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife”Richard Mellon Scaife/a, and the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation”John M. Olin Foundation, Inc/a are already making moves./p pTheir action plan is to dredge up ACORN, again, as part of their a href=”http://www.rightsidenews.com/2012012115433/us/politics-and-economics/acorn-group-implicated-in-massive-voter-registration-fraud.html”delusional conspiracy theories/a [warning: link takes you to right wing Justice Watch site] about massive voter fraud and collusion between ACORN, a href=”http://www.projectvote.org/”Project Vote/a, the Department of Justice, and the president./p pWe have our own troops, and we can win this war—if we get actively involved./p pOn Dec. 10, 2011, the NAACP and NAACP Legal Defense Fund kicked off a year-long effort of voter education and legal moves to take a stand for our rights to vote./p div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/152086/Stand_for_Freedom.jpg” alt=”" height=”244″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Stand for Freedom logo nbsp;a href=”http://www.naacp.org/pages/stand-for-freedom-resources”NAACP voting rights campaign/a/div /div blockquoteOn December 5, 2011, the NAACP released a new report revealing direct connections between the trend of increasing, unprecedented African American and Latino voter turnout and an onslaught of restrictive measures across the country designed to stem electoral strength among communities of color. pThe report,a href=”http://www.naacp.org/pages/defending-democracy”Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America/a, details a plethora of voter suppression initiatives, most of them pushed in states with large African-American populations and where voting turnout has surged. The joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund examines scores of legislative proposals, ballot initiatives and voting laws enacted or proposed since the 2008 election./p pCopies of the report will be sent to the federal and state agencies that monitor, administer and enforce voting rights, including the US Department of Justice, the Federal Elections Commission, and the Election Assistance Commission, as well as Secretaries of State and Attorneys General in all 50 states. In addition, the report will be delivered to the appropriate committees of jurisdiction in the House and Senate, and entities within the United Nations./p /blockquote pa href=”http://www.stand4freedom.org/page/s/stand-for-freedom”Sign the pledge/a so you can get involved./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CUbf9oM9uQ4IBuUGX5YsP1fWmOA/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CUbf9oM9uQ4IBuUGX5YsP1fWmOA/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CUbf9oM9uQ4IBuUGX5YsP1fWmOA/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CUbf9oM9uQ4IBuUGX5YsP1fWmOA/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=URFnn5xs2mk:X26ERHM7unA:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/URFnn5xs2mk” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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div class=”dkimg-c”iframe width=”500″ height=”369″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/iXlxe-EeSZA” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/div iAnd more:/i ul liAlternet’s Sarah Jaffe looks at rising college tuitions and a system of subsidies that help individuals rather than lowering tuitions and asks a href=”http://www.alternet.org/story/153788/2C320_for_a_college_degree_with_tuition_skyrocketing%2C_it_is_time_to_rethink_higher_education/?page=1″one of my favorite questions/a: blockquoteIn other words, the hidden subsidies are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It’s also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. nbsp;So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we’re already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free./blockquote /li liFifty years ago this week, a href=”http://blog.aflcio.org/2012/01/17/50-years-ago-jfk-opened-door-for-federal-employees-to-join-unions/”John F. Kennedy/a opened the door for federal employees to join unions./li liKay at Balloon Juice takes Newt Gingrich’s a href=”http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/01/17/only-the-elites-insult-the-working-adults-who-pick-up-after-us”child janitors/a idea from the perspective of what he’s saying about adult workers: blockquoteBut Newt Gingrich believes that janitors are overpaid and that children can replace adult janitors, so let’s conduct one of those thought experiments that conservatives love so much, and see if any other adult workers can and should be replaced by children. pCould nine year olds replace the adults who cleaned up after that gathering of political and media luminaries last night? Working adults did that, after all. After the political and media celebrities left that room, real live adult janitors came in and cleaned up after them. Why didn’t Newt Gingrich suggest that the people who cleaned up after him last night be replaced by children?/p pWhat about Gingrich’s staff? How much do they make? Can children do their work as well as they can? Why or why not? Newt Gingrich has been paid an absurd amount of money for lobbying since he left Congress in disgrace. Could a nine year old replace Newt Gingrich? How hard could Newt Gingrich’s “job” be, after all? A lot of lavish meals, ass-kissing, and bloviating, right? We could employ a hell of a lot of nine year olds on the absurd amount of money Gingrich is paid./p /blockquote /li liAnd speaking of Balloon Juice, in honor of the crappy jobs Willard Mitt Romney never had, new Juicer Betty Cracker lists the a href=”http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/01/19/shit-jobs-mitt-romney-never-had/”three worst jobs she ever had/a. How would Mitt do with those?/li lia href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/nyregion/cablevision-resists-union-organizing-fight.html?_r=1″Cablevision workers/a are attempting to organize and join the Communications Workers of America./li liAnd speaking of the CWA, its president has joined with those of the UAW and SEIU to urge New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to a href=”http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/labor_to_cuomo_keep_up_the_fight_for_public_financing_of_elections#.TxmJi4Fve_I”keep up the fight for public funding of elections/a./li liWith so many jobs requiring people to work unpredictable, non-traditional hours, parents face big challenges arranging for child care. Some a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/us/day-care-centers-adapt-to-round-the-clock-demands.html?_r=1amp;hpw”day care centers/a are adding evening and even overnight hours to accommodate the demand./li liWhatever you thought of the AFL-CIO’s a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/17/1055681/-AFL-CIO-launches-ad-campaign-saying-work-is-what-connects-us?detail=hide”new ad/a, the companion website a href=”http://www.workconnectsusall.org/#/home”Work Connects Us All/a is worth playing around with./li lia href=”http://www.hotelworkersrising.org/update.php?city_id=358″Hyatt continues to suck/a: blockquoteThe General Council’s Office of the National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against the Hyatt Andaz in West Hollywood for increasing the number of hotel rooms housekeepers’ must clean in a shift, and threatening discipline to workers who spoke up about the problem. pHyatt housekeepers voiced concerns in March 2011 immediately after managers increased the cleaners’ room quota by two–meaning housekeepers were expected to complete an additional hour worth of cleaning in the same amount of time. Under the law, the hotel is required to negotiate workload increases with the workers’ union./p pThe Assistant Director of Human Resources threatened to discipline workers who voiced concern about the increased workload. The complaint alleges that the Hyatt Andaz’s actions violated the National Labor Relations Act./p /blockquote /li /ul br / pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MZMIZqqDerbesuWEcYgJ5uelCu8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MZMIZqqDerbesuWEcYgJ5uelCu8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MZMIZqqDerbesuWEcYgJ5uelCu8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MZMIZqqDerbesuWEcYgJ5uelCu8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=u4nzC7leSH0:hSWoMhQjXBk:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/u4nzC7leSH0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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This week in the War on Workers: ‘Hoosier jobs are at stake’
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pimg src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Daily_Kos_Elections_Polling_Wrap.jpg” //p pThis morning, Chuck Todd and the rest of the gang at MSNBC’s a href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10181450-first-thoughts-newt-mentum-returns”First Read/a sounded a very interesting alarm:/p blockquoteThere are some increasing signs — though all of it anecdotal for now — that Newt Gingrich is gaining some momentum three days before the South Carolina primary. pFirst was his strong debate performance on Monday, from which his campaign cut a new TV ad. Second, the Romney campaign today is holding a conference call (featuring former Sen. Jim Talent and former Rep. Susan Molinari) with the sole purpose of hitting Gingrich, and we haven’t seen one of those from the Romney camp since Iowa. And third, Sarah Palin sort of endorsed Gingrich last night, saying per NBC’s Alex Moe: “If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I’d vote for Newt and I would want this to continue.”br //p /blockquote pWithin hours, as if prompted by the invisible hand of the Peacock, polling data began to surface, on a national level, to buttress the point of Todd and company:/p blockquotea href=”http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57360828-503544/poll-mitt-romney-atop-fluid-gop-race-with-28/”NATIONAL (CBS News):/a Romney 28, Gingrich 21, Santorum 16, Paul 15, Perry 7, Huntsman 2 pa href=”http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx”NATIONAL (Gallup):/a Romney 33, Gingrich 16, Santorum 14, Paul 12, Perry 7/p pa href=”http://www.people-press.org/2012/01/18/unpopular-nationally-romney-holds-solid-gop-lead/”NATIONAL (Pew):/a Romney 31, Gingrich 16, Paul 15, Santorum 14, Perry 5, Huntsman 2/p pa href=”http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/election_2012_republican_presidential_primary”NATIONAL (Rasmussen):/a Romney 30, Gingrich 27, Santorum 15, Paul 13, Perry 4/p pa href=”http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/01/18/topstate4.pdf”FLORIDA (CNN/Opinion Research):/a Romney 43, Santorum 19, Gingrich 18, Paul 9, Perry 2/p pa href=”http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/new-jersey/release-detail?ReleaseID=1691″NEW JERSEY (Quinnipiac):/a Romney 40, Gingrich 14, Santorum 14, Paul 12, Huntsman 4, Perry 2/p pa href=”http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/ohio/release-detail?ReleaseID=1690″OHIO (Quinnipiac):/a Romney 27, Santorum 18, Gingrich 17, Paul 10, Perry 4, Huntsman 2/p pa href=”http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/01/18/topstate4.pdf”SOUTH CAROLINA (CNN/Opinion Research):/a Romney 33, Gingrich 23, Santorum 16, Paul 13, Perry 6br //p /blockquote pThe general election numbers, which could take on more significance if Mitt Romney iis/i able to close the deal on Saturday, portend a toss-up, but a race where Mitt Romney may well be losing some of his luster as a candidate with the general electorate:/p blockquotea href=”http://www.people-press.org/2012/01/18/unpopular-nationally-romney-holds-solid-gop-lead/”NATIONAL (Pew):/a Obama d. Romney (50-45); Obama d. Romney and Ron Paul (44-32-18) pa href=”http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/new-jersey/release-detail?ReleaseID=1691″NEW JERSEY (Quinnipiac):/a Obama d. Romney (48-38)/p pa href=”http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/ohio/release-detail?ReleaseID=1690″OHIO (Quinnipiac):/a Obama d. Romney (44-42); Obama d. Paul (48-39); Obama d. Santorum (48-37); Obama d. Gingrich (52-38)br //p /blockquote pSome thoughts about “Newtmentum II: The Sequel” past the jump./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Au9pfzdxfBtEXw4cUKyTIzuqS6A/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Au9pfzdxfBtEXw4cUKyTIzuqS6A/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Au9pfzdxfBtEXw4cUKyTIzuqS6A/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Au9pfzdxfBtEXw4cUKyTIzuqS6A/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=wrXOOl4zErU:LmelmOv37ng:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/wrXOOl4zErU” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Is there really Newt-mentum in advance of South Carolina?
Despite the number of complex global challenges we currently face, few government officials making key decisions actually have the formal training needed to properly address the underlying drivers and policy implications. bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-margon/why-the-state-department-_b_1213788.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/foreign-policy/”More on Foreign Policy/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZNvD7F128mQY5S__F5RZ-O0SUgU/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZNvD7F128mQY5S__F5RZ-O0SUgU/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZNvD7F128mQY5S__F5RZ-O0SUgU/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZNvD7F128mQY5S__F5RZ-O0SUgU/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cu2WN8r6XjA:O5zPAgUQc2w:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cu2WN8r6XjA:O5zPAgUQc2w:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=cu2WN8r6XjA:O5zPAgUQc2w:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cu2WN8r6XjA:O5zPAgUQc2w:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=cu2WN8r6XjA:O5zPAgUQc2w:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/cu2WN8r6XjA” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Sarah Margon: Why the State Department Needs More — and Better — Training
pReporting from Seattleâ In a new package of policies criticized even by some hunters, the Alaska Board of Game on Tuesday opened the door to aerial gunning of bears by state wildlife officials. It also debated a measure that would allow more widespread snaring of bears â including grizzlies, which are officially considered threatened across most of the U.S./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/shooting-bears-alaska_n_1212349.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NbsWGbqKMFz1UaGprX2Z9PC2BLM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NbsWGbqKMFz1UaGprX2Z9PC2BLM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NbsWGbqKMFz1UaGprX2Z9PC2BLM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NbsWGbqKMFz1UaGprX2Z9PC2BLM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=rXiqMfCpaAw:p6rS4X1tS-k:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=rXiqMfCpaAw:p6rS4X1tS-k:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=rXiqMfCpaAw:p6rS4X1tS-k:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=rXiqMfCpaAw:p6rS4X1tS-k:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=rXiqMfCpaAw:p6rS4X1tS-k:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/rXiqMfCpaAw” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Shooting Bears: Alaska Board Of Game Expands Aerial Culling Of Grizzly, Black Bears
pNewt Gingrich’s campaign is touting a Fox News appearance by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, with the headline, “a href=”http://www.newt.org/news/sarah-palin-if-i-were-south-carolinian-i-would-vote-newt” target=”_hplink”If I Were A South Carolinian, I Would Vote For Newt/a.”/ppPalin did not really endorse Newt, but she did have nice words about his debate performance. She said she would vote for him if she were in South Carolina because it would keep the process going — and prevent Mitt Romney from becoming the anointed nominee. From her appearance with Sean Hannity: /pblockquoteI do think that Newt is the one who won the debate, if you will, because Newt came out just like South Carolina’s own Smokin’ Joe Frazier. He came out there swinging, talking about work. Talking about jobs. Talking about work ethic. … bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/sarah-palin-newt-gingrich_n_1212125.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/newt-gingrich/”More on Newt Gingrich/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FRGKkRKLch6BTTPTGm9vcNjELzI/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FRGKkRKLch6BTTPTGm9vcNjELzI/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FRGKkRKLch6BTTPTGm9vcNjELzI/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FRGKkRKLch6BTTPTGm9vcNjELzI/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Vdc45YIv_P0:_tvcT8e2CRI:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Vdc45YIv_P0:_tvcT8e2CRI:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Vdc45YIv_P0:_tvcT8e2CRI:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Vdc45YIv_P0:_tvcT8e2CRI:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Vdc45YIv_P0:_tvcT8e2CRI:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/Vdc45YIv_P0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Sarah Palin Would ‘Vote For Newt’ To Keep Primary Process Going (VIDEO)
pSarah Palin took to Twitter early Tuesday to give Newsweek a piece of her mind./ppThe former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate seemed to be particularly annoyed by the magazine’s decision to run a cover story about President Barack Obama under the headline: a href=”http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/newsweek/_jcr_content/c-col/oncover_0/image.img.jpg/1326688145842.jpg” target=”_hplink”"Why Are Obama’s Critics So Dumb?”/a But Palin’s ire wasn’t directed at the story’s assertions; instead she took aim at a href=”http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/andrew-sullivan.html” target=”_hplink”Andrew Sullivan/a, the author of the article. /pp/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/sarah-palin-blasts-newsweek_n_1209736.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/barack-obama/”More on Barack Obama /a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CpUlzuYMva3odBlD-vYDmaMUaDM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CpUlzuYMva3odBlD-vYDmaMUaDM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CpUlzuYMva3odBlD-vYDmaMUaDM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CpUlzuYMva3odBlD-vYDmaMUaDM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KZ4_HfNYR5o:KspXBHKBcjY:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KZ4_HfNYR5o:KspXBHKBcjY:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=KZ4_HfNYR5o:KspXBHKBcjY:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KZ4_HfNYR5o:KspXBHKBcjY:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=KZ4_HfNYR5o:KspXBHKBcjY:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/KZ4_HfNYR5o” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Sarah Palin Blasts Newsweek For Running Story By Andrew Sullivan