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“CREW is this left-wing organization that puts out a list every election of the top Republicans who have tough races and calls them all corrupt because they take contributions from PACs. It’s a ridiculous charge. And you should know better than to cite George Soros-like organizations to say that they’re corrupt.” – Rick Santorum

For a while, large numbers of Americans still believed that the right politician would bring them “hope” and “change”, but now crushing despair is giving way to absolute desperation for millions of people. Desperate people do desperate things, and as our major cities continue to decay they are going to become very dangerous places to be.

Last September the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, announced it was suing the nation’s 17 largest banks—some of which the government had recently bailed out—for selling risky mortgages to the two GSEs. Yet just two months before, the Department of Justice “requested” that a number of banks lower lending standards for minorities with poor credit ratings, threatening them with discrimination charges if they failed to comply. – The Freeman

“[T]he reality is that the economy is currently struggling along at a very anemic pace. Without employment growing fast enough to offset the labor pool overhang, we are unlikely to reduce the real unemployment problem that persists in the U.S.” – Steettalklive.com

Christie is Romney’s strongest surrogate in the GOP primary race.

Anyone who watches the headlines knows that war rages in our nation. The liberal agenda to destroy America’s three cornerstones of exceptionalism and to transform our nation into a socialist country grows more blatant by the day. What many parents and educators fail to realize, however, is that this agenda has already gained ground in communities across the fruited plain through an avenue few would expect—our public school system.   Jeffrey Wick, an educator in the public school system for […]

The spotlight on Tim Tebow due to his Christian faith drew many viewers to witness his dramatic win over the Steelers in his first playoff game. If you left the room you missed it. Denver won the toss and received in the overtime game which has new rules on sudden death requiring a touchdown to win. In the first play from the 20 yard line Tebow threw a touchdown pass that won the game and will lead them to the next game against New England.

[T]here is a Fed-financed bailout of European banks in progress. The Fed is implementing it through currency swaps because swaps obscure the nature of the transaction, which is in reality a loan. (The Greek government used currency swaps to hide the size of its fiscal deficits.)

Iran has expanded its economic, political and military influence in Latin America, taking advantage of an upswell of anti-American sentiment in the region led by Chavez and his eight-nation Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. – Bloomberg.com

“Santorum, Gingrich, Paul and Huntsman probably didn’t.” – Michael Barone at Washington Examiner