The Daily Caller

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TheDC Morning: Increased legislative stupidity arrives with the new year - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

Movie review: 'True Grit' - LAT

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

The Coen brothers clearly find a kindred spirit in Charles Portis. His novel is delivered in all of its savage beauty in this thoroughly entertaining movie

Yankees' pitch to Lee: 6 years, up to $150M - NY Post

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

A six-year pact in the $144 million range would make Lee the highest paid pitcher ever on a multi-year contract

Voters to Lawmakers: Don't touch my junk...or my soda

| Patrick Gleason

Soda taxes are bad policy and bad politics.

California set to 'defeat energy rationing' - TheDC

| Kevin Mooney

California voters could reverse state level regulations modeled after Kyoto Protocol

Cliff Lee's wife is no fan of Yankee Stadium - USA Today

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

Kristen Lee sat in the visiting family section at Yankee Stadium during the playoffs. She says there were ugly taunts. Obscenities. Cups of beer thrown. Even fans spitting from the section above

Would-be Republican freshmen talk tough on spending, Obamacare - TheDC

| Jonathan Strong

The class of GOP candidates fighting to come to Congress are vowing aggressive measures to cut government excess and to repeal the president’s health care law

Dems release inaccurate attack ads against Fair Tax - The Hill

| Pat McMahon

Various Democratic candidates are releasing ads that FactCheck.org have labeled to be wrong about the tax reform plan many conservatives tout

The future of the South is a liberal paradise? - TheDC

| Jeff Winkler

Liberals conceive modern South as defined by major negative traits, including: violence, oppressive social hierarchy, and rejection of outside ideas

Distractions, distractions

| Princella Smith

A young conservative female defends herself against attacks from Emily’s List and the left.

Republicans stand to make big gains in Arkansas - NYT

| interns

The usually solidly blue state could see some red infusion this election

The Senate seats Dems need to hold - WSJ

| Pat McMahon

If Republicans hope to gain control of the Senate, they must breach the four seat Democratic firewall

DREAM act remains up in the air - The Hill

| Pat McMahon

Several key Democratic senators have not made up their mind on the immigration amendment that will be attached to the defense authorization bill

Trade association says tax hike would raise costs, stifle job growth - TheDC

| Chris Moody

National Association of Manufacturers to run multi-million dollar ad campaign against potential energy tax increase

Tea Party takes aim in Delaware's GOP Senate primary - FOX News

| Pat McMahon

Organization hopes to prop up Christine O’Donnell’s candidacy against moderate GOP congressman Michael Castle ahead of September 14

Democrat Blanche Lincoln being crushed in Arkansas Senate race - Rasmussen Reports

| Pat McMahon

Poll: Republican John Boozman holds an almost 40-point lead over the incumbent senator ahead of November’s election

Let my people vote: Don't let the DOJ make service members wait another 58 years

| Capt. Samuel F. Wright, JAGC, USN (Ret.)

In the 2008 general election, as in all other recent elections, a substantial minority (in some places a majority) of the military personnel who tried to vote by absentee ballot were disenfranchised through no fault of their own

Obama's lawyers seek electronic card check as alternative to congressional approval

| Kevin Mooney

With mid-term elections looming, union bosses who spent millions to elect a Democratic president and congress are going for broke to secure transformative policy changes that could reinvigorate their membership rolls

10 reasons why Republicans could come up short in the mid-term elections

| Myra Adams

I don’t mean to be a speed bump at the Indy 500, but here are 10 ways the GOP might have less to celebrate on the morning of November 3rd