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Former New Hampshire Attorney General and Republican Senate hopeful Kelly A. Ayotte encouraged Republicans to return to the core values of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and national safety at the Harvard Republican Club’s eighth annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday...
Past speakers at the HRC’s Lincoln Day Dinner include Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee’s Platform Committee J. Kenneth Blackwell and Michael S. Steele, who has since become chairman...
...effort that has been increasingly successful in the past few years. Supporters of such a public-records exemption say there's no reason the general public needs access to information about citizens who are simply exercising legal rights. "There are no downsides," says Idaho state representative Judy Boyle, a Republican who proposed the measure. If a hunter seems to be doing something wrong, she says, let the police investigate: "We're not vigilante people," she says. Millage, who, as a way to combat his harassment, posted on a website the vitriolic missives he received, takes the same line: "There...
...Republicans believe there is political hay to be made over the fight to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, you wouldn't have known it from the speeches at this past weekend's Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Some of the party's leading lights - and several of its most likely presidential candidates - focused their criticisms on the Obama Administration's record on spending and national security, with barely a mention of the looming court vacancy...
...would Republicans, particularly at a gathering of Bible-belt activists, avoid such a fresh platter of political red meat? The party's dominance starting in the Reagan era - and, yes, Reagan was the most popular figure invoked in New Orleans, as has been the case at Republican gatherings for two decades - was based on the three-legged ideological stool of smaller government, a strong national defense and family values. But in the past few years more moderate Republicans and up-for-grab independents have become increasingly turned off by the emphasis on that third...