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Editorial: Next chapter for Dobson and Focus on the Family

What does the future hold for the conservative Christian leader and the ministry he founded when he steps down next year? James C. Dobson founded the conservative Christian ministry. "One word I don't suspect we'll hear him use...

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Two area conservatives have new posts

Posted Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009 By MARIA RECIO, ANNA M. TINSLEY, DAVE MONTGOMERY and AMAN BATHEJA Star-Telegram staff writers Two local conservatives are taking the reins of two established political groups. Pat Carlson of Fort...

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Cruise passenger tax clearly legal, Alaska AG says

JUNEAU -- Alaska has a strong case to defend itself in the cruise ship industry's lawsuit on a passenger tax, according to the state attorney general. Attorney General Dan Sullivan told legislators Thursday that the...

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If you still have a job, stimulus worked

Recent headlines suggest the hype over President Barack Obama's $787 billion plan to stimulate a slumping economy may have been overblown. That's not surprising to me. Isn't hype always overblown? In local news, a Journal...

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Column: Despite wins, GOP still has work to do before 2010

By PHIL VALENTINE • November 8, 2009 last Tuesday a shot across the bow of the Democratic Party? Although the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey captured most of the media attention, the little congressional race in...

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Electronic books redefine light reading

1.2 million expected to sell at end of 2009; price keeping it from becoming a must-have By YLAN Q. MUI • The Washington Post • November 8, 2009 Technology is stalking your bookcase. Sales of electronic books jumped 68.4 percent...

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Pawlenty trying to plant his name with Iowans

DES MOINES - As Iowa farmers harvested the last of their fall crops, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty arrived in their state this weekend to sow the political seeds he may need to spring from Midwestern obscurity to Republican...

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Obama and the liberal paradigm

Much of the American political world collapsed in laughter, pointing out that her boss was president of the United States, the most powerful man on earth. Thus the liberal paradigm divides the American body politic into sheep,...

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North Pole Republicans pick 3 to replace Coghill

This is the place to talk about Alaska politics, state, local, national. Public life in the Last Frontier has never been more interesting -- Sarah Palin, a new governor, a new Anchorage mayor, the political corruption...

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Mark O'Brien: Let's hear it for women in politics

Mark O'Brien • mobrien@pnj.com • November 8, 2009 It's time for me to mosey over to the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival and get a new painting of dogs playing poker or maybe a BillyBass for my wall. Meanwhile, please check out...

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