Eight-Ball: Will Romney's Tiny Iowa Win Stifle Rivals?

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Big Story Santorum Takes Iowa Caucus By Storm Mitt Romney eked out a minuscule 8-vote victory over Rick Santorum in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses on Tuesday night, bringing down the curtain on an improbable first act in the campaign to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama for next fall. "Game on," declared Santorum, jaw set, after easily outdistancing several other contenders to emerge as Romney's unvarnished conservative rival for the primaries yet ahead. Ron Paul finished a close third -- but Santorum's true test will come in next week's New Hampshire primary, where he must contend with Romney's organization, warchest, and Super PAC ads. READ MORE

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My Front Pages, By Joe Conason Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let Republicans Answer Politicians and their flacks lie every day, but it is unusual for someone prominent to utter a totally indefensible falsehood like the whopper that just sprang from the mouth of Eric Cantor's press secretary on national television. While profiling the House Majority Whip, "60 Minutes" correspondent Leslie Stahl suggested that he might consider compromise because even Ronald Reagan had raised taxes several times. Cantor's flack then burst out in protest, saying he couldn't allow her remark "to stand." Stahl was right, of course, but the rude staffer is scarcely alone in promoting this super-sized lie about Reagan's tax purity -- and it would be worth discovering which of the Republican candidates likewise rejects this fundamental truth about their party and its idol. READ MORE

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Military Special-Ops Troops Go To Spy School Among the students at the CIA-approved "Special Warfare Center" are U.S. Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs and Marine Corps special operators. The school illustrates how special operations and intelligence forces have reached an easier coexistence, after early clashes where CIA officers accused the military operators of ineptly trying to run their own spy rings overseas, without State Department or CIA knowledge. READ MORE

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Featured Column: Gene Lyons Ron Paul's Crazy Moment Let's start at the starting place. Rep. Ron Paul has no chance whatsoever of securing the Republican nomination, nor of being elected president under any imaginable circumstances. Ain't gonna happen. Even Newt Gingrich has basically said he'd vote for President Obama over Paul. Given that Newt would probably back Vladimir Putin over Obama -- robust foreign policy, after all -- that's definitely saying something. READ MORE

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Labor Battle Indiana Preparing To Slash Union Rights Indiana's Republican House leader on Tuesday promised to move swiftly to make his state the first in more than a decade to ban labor contracts that require employees to pay union fees. If Brian Bosma, Governor Mitch Daniels, and other right-to-work supporters are successful this time around, they would give national conservatives and business groups a major victory on an issue that has recently stymied them elsewhere. It also would deal another blow to organized labor, which has seen mixed results in its fight against initiatives to curb union rights nationwide, following Republican takeovers in statehouses across the country last year. READ MORE

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Video Of The Day Bitter Newt's New Mission: Anti-Romney Kamikaze Having finished a disappointing fourth in the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich essentially admitted that he is giving up hope because negative advertising by Mitt Romney and the front-runner's "millionaire friends" had destroyed his candidacy. But later Gingrich vowed to go after Mitt Romney "every day" for the next weeks, fighting the good conservative fight for himself (and Rick Santorum). READ MORE

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Best Organized In Iowa? It's Obama

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The Big Story Iowa Campaign Ends -- With Millions In Shady Ads Look no further than tonight's Iowa caucuses to observe the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates to outside money in American politics -- and get a glimpse of what's in store for the race between President Obama and the eventual Republican nominee. In the final week before the first Republican primary contest, groups like the Mitt Romney-leaning super PAC Restore Our Future and the Rick Perry-leaning Make Us Great Again have spent a combined $1.2 million on (mostly negative) television ads, a sum greater than what the candidates bought themselves. READ MORE

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Law And Order Does Having HIV Make You A Biological Weapon? A man in Texas is serving a 35-year prison sentence for spitting at a police officer -- because he has the virus that causes AIDS and his saliva was deemed a deadly weapon. In Michigan, an HIV-positive man who allegedly bit a neighbor during an argument faced a bioterrorism charge. Are these charges constitutional? READ MORE

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Featured Column: Mary Sanchez Our Challenge For 2012: Get Americans Working The point needs to be made that the greatest job creators are not the rich but the American consumer. You, me and everybody else from the poorest to the topmost of the 99 percent. We create jobs by demanding goods and services -- and we can't do it without income. The economic policy we need now can be summed up in three words: Get Americans working. READ MORE

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Election 2012 How Barack Obama Built Iowa's Best Campaign Organization One presidential candidate claims an impressive effort in Iowa this year: eight offices opened, 350,000 phone calls to potential supporters and 1,280 events to recruit and train volunteers. And it's not Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum or Ron Paul. READ MORE

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Social Media Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter, Immediately Emits Obnoxious Tweets Rupert Murdoch had just joined Twitter, and the 80 year-old media lord sounded bored with his New Year's holiday when he complained that there were "too many people" on the exclusive Caribbean hideaway of St. Barth. Then there was Murdoch's controversial tweet about the British economy -- which was erased after wife Wendi, who had also just joined the social networking site, responded, "RUPERT!! Delete tweet!!" READ MORE

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Iowa Caucus Newt Deflates: "I Don't Think I'm Going To Win" Millions of dollars in attack ads may have condemned Newt Gingrich to defeat in tonight's Iowa caucus -- or at least that's his explanation. Gingrich told reporters Monday that the "volume of negativity" by his rivals and their allies had done its damage, and then went on to admit: "I don't think I'm going to win." READ MORE

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Happy New Year

INTERESTING HISTORICAL FACTS WE SHOULD KNOW. I FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE RECEIVED THIS INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH MY CHRISTIAN FAMILYAND THE BLACK COMMUNITY ALARGE .
 
MAY GOD BLESS US ALL.
 
BE A BLESSING 2012 AND BEYOND.
 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
 

Watch Night Service"

The History: At the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1862,  the new year was ushered in ... and at 12:01 AM, on January 1, 1863,

ALL SLAVES IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES WERE DECLARED LEGALLY FREE.

 

Many of you who live or grew up in Black communities in the United States have probably heard of "Watch Night Services," the gathering of the faithful in churches on New Year's Eve. But are you aware of its history? The service usually begins anywhere from 7 p.m. To 10 p.m. and ends at midnight with the entrance of the New Year.

Some folks come to church first, before going out to celebrate.   For others, church is the only New Year's Eve event. Like many others, I always assumed that Watch Night Service was a fairly standard Christian religious service -- made a bit more Afro-Centric because that's what happens when elements of Christianity become linked with the Black Church.  Still, it was obvious that predominately White Christian churches did not include Watch Night Service on their calendars, but focused instead on Christmas Eve programs...   In fact, there were instances where clergy in mainline denominations wondered aloud about the propriety of African Americans linking a religious service to a secular holiday like New Year's Eve.

However, there is a reason for the importance of New Year's Eve services in African American congregations. The Watch Night Services in Black communities that we celebrate today can be traced back to gatherings across the South on December 31, 1862, known at that time as, "Freedom's Eve."  On that night, Blacks came together in churches and private homes all across the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had actually become law.

Then, at the stroke of midnight, it became January 1, 1863, and all slaves in the Confederate States were declared legally free. When  the news was received, there were prayers, shouts and songs of joy throughout the South as people fell to their knees and thanked God.

Ever since, Black folks have traditionally gathered in churches annually on New Year's Eve, praising God for bringing us safely through another year, but many do not realize the historic value.

It's been 145 years since that first Freedom's Eve and many of us were never taught the African American history of the Watch Night Service, but tradition still brings us together at this time every year to celebrate "how we got over."

Pass this information on so we can educate more of our Family and Friends about our History!