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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 19, 2012

  The timing of this high-profile Internet shutdown of Megaupload is mighty suspicious. The Department of Justice, which hasn’t been able to give a straight answer for months about the botched DOJ/AFT Fast and Furious operation or the sudden dropping of the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, has suddenly hammered the popular file sharing [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 19, 2012

  Last May, political columnist Charles Krauthammer had unceremoniously written off Newt Gingrich and his bid for the GOP presidency nomination. That view has moderately changed. Krauthammer expressed a bit of admiration on “The O’Reilly Factor” this week for Gingrich’s deft response to a question posed at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Gingrich’s response received [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 19, 2012

  Time is running out, Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker is the best thing that has happened to the state in years. His efforts to curtail bleeding-from-the-jugular overspending are being ruthlessly attacked. Gov. Walker has taken on what others have not dared in the state: trimming the outrageous union-negotiated, platinum-level benefits of government workers. Already his [...]

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