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Shocking Poll in California Senate Race: Democrat Boxer in Dead Heat with Republican Campbell
Rasmussen Reports - "Incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer is now in a virtual dead heat with former Congressman Tom Campbell in California's U.S. Senate race. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Boxer leading Campbell 43% to 41%"

Another Senate Poll:  McCain-Hayworth race tightening in Arizona
Rasmussen Reports - Sen. John McCain lost his bid for the presidency in 2008, and now it looks like he's fighting for his very political life as the most recent Rasmussen poll shows the Arizona GOP U.S. Senate race is tightening.  McCain's lead over J.D. Hayworth has narrowed to seven points, down from twenty-two in January - and it's now within the poll's margin of error. 

Fox News Poll: 68% say vote out all incumbents
Fox News - "If American voters only had the following two choices on the Congressional ballot -- keep all current lawmakers in office, or get rid of all incumbents in Congress -- what would they do?

"A new Fox News poll asked that question, and the answer could be bad news for incumbents this fall. Sixty-eight percent of voters would oust all incumbents, while 20 percent would keep all lawmakers in office." 

Brewing Tensions between the Tea Party and GOP
Reuters  - "Interviews with Tea Partiers across the country paint a picture of a genuine, amorphous, conservative grassroots movement united by three core principles: constitutionally limited government, free market ideology and low taxes."

Girl Scouts Ties with Planned Parenthood Extensive and Long Standing
Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute - Some Girls Scout mothers in St. Louis are fighting back against their own big-government friendly national organization. It turns out that Planned Parenthood has persuaded the Girl Scouts national organization to distribute the International Planned Parenthood Federation(IPPF) sex guide. But St. Louis moms are saying no.

Flashback: The Fusionist
National Review Online - Editor's note: This review appeared in the June 17, 2002, issue of National Review.

Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement, by Kevin J. Smant (ISI, 425 pp., $29.95)

"For fifty years, most American conservatives have stood for three basic propositions: that American foreign policy should seek to end totalitarian regimes; that the domestic functions of government, and especially of the federal government, should be strictly limited; and that the moral precepts traditionally associated with Christianity (sometimes the formulation includes Judaism as well) should be upheld."

LA Times suddenly wary of judicial activism and spouses
Hot Air (Ed Morrissey) - "I really wish the media would get its story straight on spouses and activism. When Bill Clinton ran for President, the media scolded people who began questioning whether Hillary Clinton would use her influence to shape policy in the White House.

"Suddenly, though, the LA Times and Kathleen Hennessey have a problem with activist wives. Hennessey profiles Virginia 'Ginny' Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and speculates throughout the article that Thomas' work as an activist with Liberty Central may cross lines of judicial objectivity."

Jeff Toobin Disagrees with LA Times on Mrs. Clarence Thomas' activism
Newsbusters - "Jeffrey Toobin disputed the conclusion of the Los Angeles Times on the new political initiative of Clarence Thomas's wife Virginia Thomas, that it 'could give rise to conflicts of interest for her husband...as it tests the norms for judicial spouses.' Toobin defended Mrs. Thomas' grassroots conservative work."

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Jim DeMint and Marco Rubio, in Sync and on the Road in South Carolina
Politics Daily - Sen. Jim DeMint has been an instrumental backer of the insurgent campaign of Florida GOP U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio from the beginning - and that support continues, including this look at a day of joint campaigning in DeMint's South Carolina. 

Glenn Beck and the Conservative Movement
Intellectual Conservative (Jack Kerwick) - "Glenn Beck's keynote speech at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has generated considerable controversy among self-conceived "conservatives" of a certain kind."

Father Pavone mobilizes clergy to oppose Obamacare
ProLifeBlogs.com - "Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, sent an urgent fax alert to priests and deacons nationwide today urging them to join with parishioners in contacting their Congressmen to express opposition to the health care bill that may be voted upon this week."

GOP Candidates in Agreement at Forum: No to Obama, Yes to Conservative Values
Arkansas Business - With headline grabbing races in states like Florida and Nevada, it's sometimes hard to remember that there are critical elections in other states as well if conservatives are going to cut into the liberal majority in Congress.

2,000 conservative activists gather in Wisconsin Dells
Saulk Prairie Eagle - "It's been about 30 years since [Michael] Reagan's father - the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan - started a small-government, lower-taxes revolution that bears his name to this day, Michael Reagan told about 2,000 listeners to his keynote speech March 13 at the Defending the American Dream Summit at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells."

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Wakeup call for the Tea Party
American Thinker - Tea Partiers who think they're on to something special are right. In terms of competing with the organized left, though, Tea Partiers are light-years and hundreds of millions of dollars behind.

DeMint not sold on Romney as 2012 approaches
CNN Political Ticker (blog) - Sen. Jim DeMint has established himself as a conservative leader in the Senate, and his endorsement (or lack thereof) carries significant weight with the grassroots. 

Conservative grassroots vies for power at Colorado Caucuses
Colorado Springs Gazette - Up until now, conservatives in Colorado have had to be content with being seen and heard at Tea Party protests - but that's about to change with the onset of the political nominating season. 

McConnell, Senate Republicans start to feel heat over earmarks
The Hill - Senate Republicans led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continue to insist that they're for reducing federal spending, yet many of them are unwilling to even commit to a similar one-year ban on earmarking that the House GOP conference agreed to recently. 

Don't do it, Charlie
American Spectator - As poll numbers continue to sink for flailing Florida GOP U.S. Senate candidate Gov. Charlie Crist, speculation runs rampant on how he'll end up exiting the race. 

Highest number of candidates ever file to run in Nevada
Las Vegas Sun - The wave of grassroots activism that has enveloped America in the last year has resulted in record numbers of candidates running from coast-to-coast - and here's a look at the situation in Nevada, where people are more engaged in the political process than ever this year. 

The Coffee Party Con
American Thinker (Thomas Lifson) - The new and much-publicized Coffee Party movement sports a fairy tale narrative about being a spontaneous uprising of concerned Americans appalled at the Tea Parties, and determined to restore civility. The truth, easily researchable on the internet, is that plenty of left wing establishment fingerprints are all over the birth of the Coffee Party.