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Yahoo! News: Elections 2012

A political tip sheet for the rest of us (AP)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:31:26 GMT

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Colorado Energy Summit in Golden, Colo., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012:


U.S. judge grants more time for accused Tucson shooter (Reuters)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:27:03 GMT
Reuters - A federal judge has agreed that the man charged with a deadly shooting spree last year that gravely wounded then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has made "measureable progress" in regaining his mental fitness to stand trial.
Tucson shooting suspect to remain at Mo. facility (AP)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:08 GMT

FILE - This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and left several others wounded, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A federal judge has called a hearing in San Diego to determine whether Loughner should remain at a federal prison facility where officials are forcibly medicating him (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Office, File)AP - A federal judge ruled Monday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will spend four more months at a federal prison facility where officials are forcibly medicating him.


Opponents: Congress went too far in Obama healthcare law (Reuters)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:32 GMT
Reuters - Congress went beyond its powers by requiring Americans to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul, opponents told the Supreme Court on Monday in arguing the law's centerpiece provision should be struck down.
Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney? (AP)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:11:27 GMT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colo., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.


Romney works to fend off Santorum challenge (AP)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:11:20 GMT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ducks out onto stage to speak at a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colo., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Sensing a possible threat, Mitt Romney criticized Rick Santorum's time in the Senate as "not effective" because of his past support for spending on pork-barrel projects as he worked to fend off an unexpected challenge in the next states to vote.


Virginia Senate votes to repeal limit on gun purchases (Reuters)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:42:30 GMT
Reuters - Virginia lawmakers on Monday moved toward lifting a 19-year-old law limiting handgun purchases to one per month, despite a recent history of campus shootings and critics' concerns that the state will become a "gunrunners' paradise."
Pentagon move on F-35B model premature: senators (Reuters)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:39:12 GMT
Reuters - The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday blasted the Pentagon's decision to lift a "probation" imposed on the Marine Corps variant of the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter a year earlier than planned, saying the move appeared premature and was not vetted with Congress.
Senate approves sweeping aviation bill, sends to White House (Reuters)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:37:08 GMT
Reuters - The Senate approved a $63 billion bill on Monday that funds U.S. aviation programs for four years and authorizes new steps for the government to modernize the air traffic system.
'Halftime in America' ad creates political debate (AP)
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:31:54 GMT

This advertisement provided by Chrysler Group LLC, shows actor Clint Eastwood, featured in an ad titled 'It's Halftime In America,' which aired during Super Bowl XVLI, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. AP Photo/Chrysler Group LLC)AP - People rarely pick a fight with Dirty Harry. But Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad featuring quintessential tough guy Clint Eastwood has generated fierce debate about whether it accurately portrays the country's most economically distressed city or amounts to a campaign ad for President Barack Obama and the auto bailouts.


Critics worry Senate ad will revive Asian-bashing (AP)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:40:56 GMT

FILE - In this July 13, 2010 file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra debates in Rochester, Mich. A coalition of black ministers in Detroit called Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, for U.S. Senate candidate Hoekstra to apologize for his Super Bowl ad featuring a young Asian woman speaking broken English to describe the impact of the Democratic incumbent's economic policies.  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - Criticism of a Senate campaign ad featuring a young Asian woman talking in broken English about China taking away American jobs grew Monday as some warned it could revive discrimination against Asian-Americans.


Rick Perry's Christian Ad Misses the Mark (ContributorNetwork)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:40:38 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Rick Perry's campaign is struggling to stay relevant these days despite falling behind in the polls so much that he has been all but written off. He hopes to gain some ground in the polls with his new ad, which will be airing in Iowa, according to the Associated Press. The campaign ad is stirring up debate and making headlines, but ultimately will gain him no success in the polls.
Congress passes FAA bill that speeds switch to GPS (AP)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:21:16 GMT
AP - A bill to speed the nation's switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressional approval Monday.
Marion Co. says Santorum still off Ind. ballot (AP)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:18:47 GMT
AP - An Indiana elections official said Monday that GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum still lacks the signatures needed to make it onto the state's May primary ballot.
Ruling near on California same-sex marriage ban (AP)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:15:37 GMT

Assemblyman Timothy Eustace, right, D- Paramus, listens in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, as son Kyle Eustace-Williams speaks fondly about his gay parents while addressing the Assembly Judiciary Committee in support of a bill legalizing gay marriage. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A federal appeals court plans to announce whether it thinks California's same-sex marriage ban violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and if the trial judge who struck down the voter-approved measure should have revealed he was in a long-term relationship with another man.


Get ready for another fight in Congress over payroll taxes (The Ticket)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:05:35 GMT
The Ticket - Congress has until Feb.29 to agree to extend the payroll tax cut, or the tax will rise 2 percentage points to the original rate of 6.2 percent. The president signed a two-month extension of the tax cut in December, as part of a deal that also extended unemployment insurance and avoided a reduction in Medicare [...]
Romney campaign takes aim at rival Santorum (Reuters)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:53:21 GMT
Reuters - Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign's firepower on Rick Santorum to head off the former senator's surge in two of three states with nominating contests this week.
New Jersey gay marriage votes set for later in February (Reuters)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:41:33 GMT
Reuters - New Jersey's Democrat-controlled state legislature will vote next week on bills to legalize same-sex marriage, the Democratic leadership said on Monday, adding pressure to Governor Chris Christie who opposes the measure.
Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra Incites Controversy with Super Bowl Ad (ContributorNetwork)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:38:50 GMT
ContributorNetwork - Former Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, campaigning for the Senate seat occupied by Debbie Stabenow, released an ad during the Super Bowl targeting her record on spending that critics are decrying as racist. Hoekstra's camp has defended the ad, saying it is meant to be "satirical," according to Politico.
What Can Be Done About Liberal Bias in Colleges? (ContributorNetwork)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:38:48 GMT
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | In a recent poll conducted by Young America's Foundation, 60 percent of college professors do not consider Ronald Reagan as one of the nation's top 10 presidents, according to a report from The Daily Caller. That's no surprise as 57 percent of those professors consider themselves liberals, while only 16 percent are conservative.

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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:

propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\  • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity

Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.

"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.

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