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Pro-life Musgrave group attacks Obama for rescuing NH family-planning services

By Sofia Resnick | 09.22.11 | 11:26 am

Anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List this week launched a video campaign against President Obama based on the administration’s move to shore up family planning services in New Hampshire. Social conservatives on the state’s executive council earlier stripped $1.8 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates there. New Hampshire officials informed the Obama administration that, in failing to provide key women’s health services, the state was violating federal law.

Romney hits Perry on immigration

By Scot Kersgaard | 09.06.11 | 6:37 am

If he wins the Republican nomination for president, you can count on evolution, climate change, The Texas Miracle and a host of other issues becoming interesting to voters when they think about Rick Perry. For now–chasing only Republican votes–his positions on those issues seem pretty safe. Immigration, though, is dogging him everywhere he goes.

New Hampshire Republicans vote to defund Planned Parenthood family planning

By John Tomasic | 07.08.11 | 11:12 am

Critics of the 2011 Republican battle against abortion on Capitol Hill and in capitals around the country have said it’s about more than abortion. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, told the Colorado Independent this spring that the GOP push had exposed a large percentage of Republican lawmakers as anti-contraception and opposed to family planning. That assertion is supported by the vote and related discussion in New Hampshire last week that rejected a $1.8 million state contract for Planned Parenthood’s family planning and disease prevention and treatment services. The contract had been in place for decades.

Video: Tea Party movie all about American exceptionalism but paced like The Sopranos

By John Tomasic | 06.24.11 | 11:59 am

“The justice of man is rot,” which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon. Courage, New Hampshire, is a one-hour drama made by Tea Partiers for Tea Partiers that shines out with Christian faith and American exceptionalism and the unfettered right to bear muskets. After debuting Sunday in Monrovia, California, it heads straight to DVD.

O’Rourke seeks and discovers a Tea Party foreign policy

By John Tomasic | 09.22.10 | 8:17 am

Libertarian satirist P.J. O’Rourke has written about a journey he took recently through New Hampshire Tea Party land in search of the movement’s foreign policy platform. He is a sympathetic tourist. The piece he produced for World Affairs Journal,…

New-direction Dems Try to Seize the Moment

By Jim Spencer | 01.07.08 | 9:03 am

Ex-Colorado Sen. Gary Hart boarded the Dump Hillary bandwagon over the weekend. So did ex-New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. Both endorsed Iowa caucus winner Sen. Barack Obama for president.