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Obama has made the non-release of any personal info entirely acceptable.

LMAO at the number of people who don't know the back story and think that's the "real definition" of the word ... as if that's an actual English word that appears in the dictionary.

who is your candidate, SA?

This election is going to come down to a fight between two corporate liberals. Social conservatives have got to be so pissed.

LOL...SIAP, but the Boston Globe endorses Huntsman.

Romney may have gotten an extra 20 votes in Iowa

Pretty good article by Jonah Goldberg...and it's important that the GOP realize they aren't going to find their Jesus anytime soon.

“By making ‘recess’ appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when Congress is not actually in recess, President Obama has acted in clear disregard of the Constitution.“

Yeah, I've been reading that we're really close to fisticuffs. But it's not that we're pushing them towards war...this is just the endgame of the standoff that's been happening for more than a decade.

Iran's not completely blameless here, though...they claim they have the right to decide what traffic can transit the Straits of Hormuz and when, which is just flat out wrong. So we sent the USS Stennis there to prove freedom of navigation there, and they took exception to it and threatened retaliation if it happened again. They're wrong on this, completely.

Also, the school of thought in the middle east is that Iran is itching for a limited clash with us at a time and place of their choosing, which will benefit them somewhat in the region.

Excerpt...what's funny is that Iran thinks they can control the "limits" of conflict here, especially if they start it:

The armies of Saudi Arabia and fellow Gulf Cooperation Council states stood ready Thursday Jan. 5, for Washington to stand up to Iranian threats and send an aircraft carrier or several warships through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. Riyadh has been leaning hard on the Obama administration not to let Tehran get away with its warning to react with "full force" if the USS Stennis aircraft carrier tried to reenter the Gulf or Iran's pretensions to control the traffic transiting the world's most important oil route.

Wednesday night, the Iranian parliament began drafting a bill prohibiting foreign warships from entering the Gulf without Tehran's permission.

debkafile's Washington sources report that Saudi Arabia has warned the Obama administration that Iranian leaders mean what they say; their leaders are bent on provoking a military clash with the United States at a time and place of their choosing, rather than leaving the initiative to Washington. To this end, Iranian officials are ratcheting up their belligerence day after day.

Notwithstanding their military inferiority, the Iranians believe they can snatch a measure of success from a military confrontation, just as the Lebanese Hizballah did in the 2006 war against Israel. In any case, they expect any clash to be limited – at least at first. The two sides will begin by feeling for the opposite side's weaknesses while endeavoring to hold the line against a full-blown war.

Will he make a several months after the signing Statement ?

In case there was still any lingering doubt that this thing is over....Romney pulls ahead in South Carolina.