U.S. court backs Spain over $500M sea treasure
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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain has won a major victory in its long court battle with a Florida-based deep-sea salvage company over rights to an estimated $500 million in silver and gold coins, officials said Wednesday. The treasure was recovered in 2007 from a 19th century sunken ship off the Spanish coast. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Tuesday turned aside another motion from the U.S.-based company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, and Spanish officials said they now expect the coins -- nearly 600,000 of them -- to arrive in Spain soon. "With the ruling by the appeals...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Wisconsin recall unprecedented for Chicago political consultancy
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Ann Liston and Eric Adelstein are hardened Chicago Democratic consultants. Their behind-the-scenes role helping the Wisconsin Democratic Party collect more than 1 million signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker has put them in a campaign unlike any they've ever seen. The two 40-somethings said Facebook's power to reach voters, combined with a recentU.S. Supreme Court ruling that unfettered limits on corporate and union political spending, has rewritten their industry's game plan. "It's horrible for democracy but great for business," Adelstein said Tuesday, referring to the Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision. Voters in Wisconsin, South Carolina and Florida have been...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Mitt Romney Is Driving Others Away, Too
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Over at Hot Air, Wolf Howling penned a comment that perfectly sums up my feelings about the Florida primary. I’ve spent the last few weeks watching Romney run the most intellectually dishonest campaign against Gingrich that I could imagine. Romney isn’t making the case that he has a better conservative pedigree, nor that his vision for America is superior or more conservative than Gingrich’s. He spent 17 million doing nothing but trying to delegitimize and demonize Gingrich with gross distortions of history. I haven’t seen anything like this since what the left did to Sarah Palin. And the last time...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Repsol Begins Deep-Water Exploration Drilling Off Cuba
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MADRID - Spanish oil firm Repsol YPF SA has begun offshore drilling in Cuban waters as part of its global exploration operations, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday. Deep-water exploration drilling began about 50 kilometers north of Havana and will take at least 60 days to complete, this person added. Repsol is resuming exploration in the area after it failed to find exploitable oil in 2004. The U.S. Geological Survey has said there could be a substantial amount of untapped oil off the Cuban coast. The Repsol well is much closer to Florida than any other well in...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
George LeMieux needs to denounce Charlie Crist, or quit
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George LeMieux has two big problems to overcome in his campaign to become the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. One is Connie Mack, and the other is Charlie Crist. LeMieux has taken a lot of heat in this race because he was Crist's strategist and helped guide him into the governor's office. That is a legitimate concern for conservatives, but I don't put a lot of stock in that criticism because, as a former political consultant, I know it's incredibly rare for a consultant to agree with his client about everything. The relationship, no matter how close, is fraught...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
JUST DUCKY
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Hooded Mergansers for the most part. I used to see a greater variety when I was hunting, I can't get far enough off the road these days.
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Newt Gingrich Is Right (NYT Ed on Fla)
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You did not misread the headline; and it’s not just a truism about Mr. Gingrich’s political orientation, I mean he’s correct—that Florida’s winner-take-all primary system isn’t fair. According to Republican National Committee guidelines, all contests held prior to April 1 must allocate delegates proportionally. But Florida, not wishing to change procedures or fall behind other states, decided to flout the RNC rule, which means that Mitt Romney will get all 50 of its delegates. Mr. Gingrich—who came in second—will get none. Under a proportional system, Mr. Romney would receive 23 and Mr. Gingrich 16. Not only that, NPR has calculated...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Rush Limbaugh: Trump Had to Do Something After Politico Called Me Florida's Most Important Voter
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You know, all of this is my fault. All this Trump stuff is my fault. (interruption) I do. I think I caused it. And, no, I don't know. I said, "You want to go play golf?" He said, "Sure." I said, "Who you gonna endorse?" He said, "What tee time do you want?" This is Thursday. So it must have been Tuesday, because on Monday I got the e-mail from Jonathan Martin at Politico. Jonathan Martin sent me a note last night, "Look, you understand this Florida 'cracker' stuff. I mean, that's what people up there call...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Exit Polls Reveal Tea Party Was a Bright Spot for Gingrich
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The Florida primary may have delivered a decisive victory for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but the exit polls also revealed a bright spot for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — the tea party. Gingrich racked up a decisive victory of his own among voters who said they “strongly support” the tea party movement, according to exit poll data compiled by Fox News. Overall, 45 percent of those voters chose Gingrich over Romney, who finished with just 33 percent of support from strong supporters of the tea party movement. The tea party is also thought to have played a key...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Florida primary might not be a done deal
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The Newt Gingrich campaign is gearing up to challenge the results of the Florida Republican presidential primary based on the Republican National Committee's own rules which state that no contest can be winner-take-all prior to April 1, 2012. It was assumed that Mitt Romney, who won Tuesday's contest, would gain all 50 of the state's delegates. But the Gingrich campaign plans to challenge Florida's allocation and demand the delegates be divvied up proportionally. Fox News has learned exclusively that on Thursday, a Florida Gingrich campaign official will begin the process of trying to have the RNC rules enforced so that...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Greta: Is the Florida Primary NOT OVER?????
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"See below what I received from FNC Carl Cameron! This is really wild! More possible Florida election problems?" — Tampa, FL — Florida’s primary might not be over just yet. The Newt Gingrich campaign is gearing up to challenge the results of the florida primary based on the Republican National Committee’s own rules which state that no contest can be winner take all prior to April 1, 2012. (See attached RNC memo.) The Gingrich campaign plans to challenge Florida’s winner take all status & demand proportional allocation of delegates. Fox News has learned that Thursday, a Florida Gingrich campaign official...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Florida Legislature to Propose Internet Sales Tax
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The Senate has confirmed our fears and on Thursday they will be proposing a new tax on Internet purchases. During a full-fledged recession, leave it to the Florida Legislature to propose a new tax - and one that they have questionable constitutional authority to enact.On Thursday morning the Senate Subcommittee on Finance and Tax, chaired by Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, will propose SB 7206 for consideration. This bill would institute a new sales tax on Internet purchases if the retailer uses affiliates or referrals in the state. This bill aims to tax transactions by companies like Amazon, and has been proposed...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Pencil-pushing weasel Patrick Murphy calls Allen West a ‘coward’
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Today, Patrick Murphy, the underdog in the Democratic primary for Congressional District 22, called incumbent U.S. Rep. Allen West -- a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, and a combat veteran, mind you -- "a coward." Responding to West’s decision to run in a newly drawn district further north, Murphy posted the following statement on his website: Allen West went from talking tough this weekend and telling progressives to "get the hell out of this country" to abandoning the people who elected him. There is no other way to interpret this: Allen West is a coward. The truth is...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Allen West to Endorse Adam Hasner for Congress (don't panic he ain't quitting!)
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Former Florida House Majority Leader and now former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Adam Hasner will announce that he is running for Congress in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, currently held by Congressman Allen West, who just announced yesterday that he will be running for re-election in congressman Tom Rooney’s congressional district, according to a close West source.
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Mitt's Scorched Earth Win
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While Mitt Romney may have taken a step closer to the nomination Tuesday in Florida, the scorched earth he leaves behind tells me he took a few steps further away from the White House -- and what's more, he knows it.
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
'Forty-Six States To Go' (video/select text)
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Gingrich concession speech a rousing call-to-arms: 'We are going to contest everyplace, and we are going to win, and we will be in Tampa as the nominee in August.' 'If (Obama) can have a record this bad, unemployment this bad, deficits this bad, policies this bad, gasoline prices this high -and still get reelected- you can't imagine how radical he'll be in his second term.' 'There's a core question, both in the primaries and in the general election, and it's a simple question: If you're comfortable with the way America is decaying, then we don't have to do much... we...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
96% of Florida does NOT choose Mitt Romney!
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Florida population of 19,000,000 and Mitt gets a whopping 4% to turn out and vote for him! 774,000 votes out of 4,000,000 registered Republican voters! How many of those 774,000 votes were from liberals who changed party to vote for mittens?
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Despite Mitt Romney’s Big Florida Win, the GOP Race Is Not Over
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Romney is being portrayed as having locked up the Republican nomination with his Florida victory, but he’s a long way from the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch, and voters in other states deserve to be heard. Yes, Mitt Romney had a big win in Florida last night. He’s won two of the first four primary states, totaling 84 delegates to date. But he needs 1,144 to clinch the Republican nomination—he’s just 7 percent of the way there. So call off the coronation—give people in the other 46 states a chance to vote. “We’re in the first quarter,” says John Brabender,...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Freepers, Newt Supporters: 46 States to go (Mitt's Gotta Face the South Again Soon)
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Four down, forty-six to go! First, I would like to Congratulate Mitt Romney! No, really! Between he and his Super PAC, Team Romney dumped over 25 million dollars into Florida since the beginning of the campaign which, along with the diabolical coordination with formerly credible GOP media personalities in a massive Establishment smear campaign, resulted in Mitt Romney getting less than 200,000 votes more than he got four years ago! The result was a plurality win in a four-person primary where only two candidates even attempted to win the state. At least as impressive a performance as winning a basketball...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
Ann Romney talks up Mitt Romney's conservatism (Hurl Hazard)
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An exuberant Ann Romney said on the evening of her husband’s Florida primary win Tuesday that she was amused by attacks on the former Massachusetts governor that characterized him as a “moderate” or a “liberal.” “It’s been funny to me. What’s next, a communist? I don’t know, it’s been humorous,” she said with a laugh during an interview with CNN moments before the network called the state for Mitt Romney. “We are looking forward to a win tonight.” Ann Romney said that she knew where Mitt’s true beliefs lay. “I know where his values are on a personal level. He...
Published on Monday 6th of February 2012 02:35:10 AM
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