It's amazing to me that good people can win elections by speaking independently of outside influences in their districts, but when they get to Washington, they become slaves to positions set forth by a party's leadership which has no connection, no understanding, of those people's individual districts' needs. Roll over, James Madison.

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Online story: "Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the U.S. "absolutely" should get rid of the debt ceiling as soon as possible. * "It would have been time a long time ago to eliminate it," Geithner told Bloomberg TV on Friday. "The sooner the better." -- There are just way to many DUMBERats in Washington.... they don't want to pass a spendings budget, they don't want controls on how much debt they can accumulate, and they don't feel taxpayers should complain about how much they are asked to send to Washington.

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Why is the media so concerned with how Walmart conducts its business in foreign countries? Do we ever see media interest in how unions strong-arm American businesses?

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Two states, CA and NY, provided an potUS Oblunder margin of 3,946,986 popular votes. The other 48 states gave Romney a popular vote margin of 470,211. There is no landslide. no mandate.

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Further, if you take away the vote margins in Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Minnesota (states where the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates are connected), the other 42 states gave Romney a popular vote margin of 2,225,821. Take those 6 states out of the Electoral College vote, and potUS Oblunder loses 119 Electoral votes which make the score 213 for Oblunder and 206 for Romney. Once again, the urban city vote in enough states overwhelms the overall popular vote. There must be change in the Electoral College procedure. Electoral Votes should be cast by individual Congressional District results and the two Senate votes for overall state results. That in mind, Romney would have the Electoral Vote win.

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The Founding Fathers made sure our right to bear/own guns was prominently presented in our Constitution knowing that every despotic, Marxist, aristocratic, or bureaucratic form of government would favor having no such protective tools in non-police/military hands. The DIM&DUMBERats are at it again...

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Can you believe that the UN is chastising Israel for defending itself? You know... you can believe it.

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Protesters can be weird (as overly documented by the Occupy Wall Street movement) but nowhere are they weirder that during the SOA protest. Protesters wear stilts and football mascot uniforms trying to close a school that has been closed for years; don't any of them read the papers they try so desperately to make the news in?

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Oregon AND Kansas State crumbled this weekend.... Looks like the BCS will have a shot at the match-up they secretly want. If Notre Dame wins out, and Alabama takes the SEC Championship game against UGA, the BCS gets their financial jackpot! Of course, Auburn could be a monkey wrench in the whole scheme. Punt, Bama, punt!

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Why is it that major cuts are iminent for Ft Benning and the military in general, yet potUS Oblunder wastes tax dollars on fruitless solar energy loans and loan guarantees. Oh, and don't forget the Obamaphone program.

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The Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer e-edition is not up and running yet (8:11 AM EST), so some stories may not get included today.