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Newt Says He Would Never Vote For Ron Paul
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The Big Story, By Matt Taylor Finally, Rick Santorum is getting his surge. The former Pennsylvania senator has been stuck at the bottom of the polls since he launched his presidential campaign, but now it looks like months of aggressively courting Iowa power-brokers, evangelical leaders, and Republican base voters is paying dividends. Recent state surveys indicate that the conservative stalwart -- he has touted his consistent willingness to confront the twin threats of Iran and gay marriage -- is rapidly gaining support, just days before the caucuses that will play an outsized role in determining the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Law & Order For years, proponents and opponents of the death penalty have been divided over whether the death penalty actually deters murders. But both sides have to agree that deterrence requires that any penalty be swift and certain, or at least reasonably so. The death penalty just isn't. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Social Security And You This year will go down in my books as the year of Internet hogwash -- at least as far as Social Security is concerned. Here are some of the most ridiculous Internet rumors that muddied people's understanding about Social Security during the past year. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Video Of The Day This Christmas message from NewtHampshire 2012 -- featuring 90 seconds of a break-dancing elf as he terrorizes Gingrich's campaign office, before ending with a disclaimer that it was paid for by the Gingrich campaign -- is destined to be remembered as one of the weirdest moments in a decidedly strange presidential campaign. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: E.J. Dionne No matter what happens in Iowa, Mitt Romney has a safety net in New Hampshire. The key to wrapping up a nomination quickly has always been an Iowa-New Hampshire one-two punch, and the Granite State, which votes on Jan. 10, seems to be a Romney fortress. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Politics Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have made no attempt to hide their personal disgust for one another, increasingly brutal attacks having quickly become the signature of the final days leading up to the Iowa caucuses next Tuesday. But now it's getting nasty: Newt implied that he'd vote for Obama over Paul. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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 7 shot, 2 fatally at Church's Chicken | VIDEO Police continued the search for the gunman Wednesday morning who opened fire on a South Side restaurant. Moms hold 'nurse-in' at Northwest Side Target | VIDEO A group of Chicago moms is part of a nationwide campaign spawned by the story of a Texas woman who breastfed her child inside a Target store. 5 charged in Hoffman Estates cab beating Five people, including three northwest suburban women, are charged in connection with the beating of a taxi driver in Hoffman Estates earlier this month. Man charged in shooting, chase that injured officers A man has been charged in a Chicago police-involved shooting Tuesday that included a short chase and a crash that injured two officers. Thieves steal $2K from Catholic shrine in Libertyville Police say thieves cracked a safe at a Catholic shrine in the northern suburbs on Christmas Eve. Taste 2012 to go from July 11-15 | VIDEO Next summer's Taste of Chicago will be cut in half to five days and take place after the Fourth of July. MORE STORIESStrange News Consumer Healthbeat MOST POPULAR | Advertisement  TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK
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'Occupy' Will Caucus In Iowa
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The Big Story Americans are gaining faith that the economy is on the upswing. An improving job outlook helped the Consumer Confidence Index soar to a post-recession peak, a signal that conforms with other economic indicators and reveals that people no longer feel certain they can't get a job or the economy is stalled. But the future still depends on the housing market -- which is plummeting. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Jim Hightower With today's working-class depression severely restricting the ability of most people to splurge on "stuff," and with the public's rising unwillingness to keep shoveling their money at narcissistic corporate profiteers, a return to a more modest -- but also deeper -- spirit of gift-giving seems to be spreading. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Strange But True The former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania -- the only Republican candidate who hasn't yet ridden a surging poll -- is best known for his strident social conservatism: He once compared same-sex marriage to bestiality. But did you know his Senate office in Scranton was next door to a gay bar named "The Silhouette Lounge"? Fun ensued. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Featured Column: Gene Lyons In essence, the Iowa caucuses amount to a marketing device for cable TV news channels; it's "American Idol" for the politically obsessed. Their secondary function is to introduce cosmopolitan news correspondents to the homespun wisdom of Real Americans in places like Ankeny, Iowa, a Des Moines suburb where John Deere tractors are manufactured. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Politics Already they have interrupted Michele Bachmann and drawn a withering putdown from Newt Gingrich as "all noise, no thought." But less than a week before the Iowa caucuses, Occupy activists in Des Moines are vowing to expand their protests as GOP presidential hopefuls converge on the state that speaks first in the race for the party's presidential nomination. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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Video Of The Day The latest video to emerge from the Ron Paul archive, produced by the extremist right wing John Birch Society, echoes the paranoid tone of the Texas libertarian's newsletters. It suggests that the United Nations is planning to impose a global dictatorship, leaving the U.S. Constitution "consigned to the ash heap of history," among other conspiratorial warnings. READ MORE | |||||||||||||||||||
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