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(CNSNews.com) – “Stunning,” said the Associated Press. “Huge,” “amazing,” “incredible” and “surprising” were some of the other adjectives applied by TV pundits to Republican Rick Santorum’s triple win in Tuesday’s nominating contests.

It wasn’t even close. The former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania won by wide margins in all three states.

“Tonight, we had an opportunity to see what a campaign looks like when one candidate isn’t outspent 5- or 10-to-1 by negative ads impugning their integrity and distorting their record. This is a more accurate representation, frankly, of what the fall race will look like,” Santorum told a cheering crowd in St. Charles, Mo., Tuesday night.

In Colorado, Santorum took 40 percent of the vote to Mitt Romney’s 35 percent. (Newt Gringrich and Ron Paul took 13 percent and 12 percent, respectively.)

In Minnesota, Santorum took 45 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 27 percent, Romney with only 17 percent, and Gringrich with 11 percent.

In Missouri’s nonbinding primary, where Gingrich was not on the ballot and Santorum was expected to do well, Santorum won with a whopping 55 percent of the vote to 25 percent for Romney and 12 percent for Paul.

via Come-From-Behind Santorum Wins All Three: ‘Whole New Playing Field’ | CNSnews.com.

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Rick Santorum won three contests on Tuesday in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, showing how difficult it may be for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to seal the deal in winning the GOP nomination and how tough it will be for Romney to win over conservatives. It also provided Santorum with a tremendous opportunity to potentially emerge as the chief anti-Rommey alternative.

“Conservatism is alive and well,” Santorum said to open his speech he gave on Tuesday night as he hoped to be the conservative standard bearer in this primary season.

Santorum also took an aggressive stance against Obama, reiterating his belief that a bold contrast was needed with Obama in the fall for a Republican to emerge as the victor. Santorum said Obama was someone who did not listen to the American people when it came to bailouts, ObamaCare and cap and trade, and called Obama someone who “thinks he knows better” than the American people.

“Did he listen to you?,” Santorum asked.

“No, because he thinks he knows better,” Santorum replied.

via Santorum steals the show — can he sustain his momentum? – HUMAN EVENTS.

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Message to Mitt: A rising tide lifts all boats.

That great phrase was coined by the late Jack Kemp, who believed that growth and opportunity for all is the answer to poverty. In fact, Kemp believed it was the answer to all things economic. And he was right. The best anti-poverty program is the one that creates jobs. The answer to large budget deficits? Grow the economy, create jobs, watch incomes rise, and let the tax revenues come rolling in.

Partly from Jack Kemp’s work, and partly from his own experience, Ronald Reagan believed the same thing. He knew that growth is the single best solution for our economic ailments. And neither Reagan nor Kemp saw the world in terms of specific income classes or categories. They looked at the whole economy and realized that everyone is tied together. Dragging down the top earners will not help the middle class. And providing an ever larger safety net will not solve poverty. Reagan believed in the safety net, and maintained it. But he knew it was a stop-gap, not a solution.

via Message to Mitt – Larry Kudlow – National Review Online.

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(CNSNews.com) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the current trajectory of the federal budget – marked by large annual deficits – was “clearly unsustainable” and that “serious economic consequences” could result.

“Having a large and increasing level of government debt relative to national income runs the risk of serious economic consequences,” Bernanke told the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday.

“Even the prospect of unsustainable deficits has costs, including an increased possibility of a sudden fiscal crisis. As we have seen in a number of countries recently, interest rates can soar quickly if investors lose confidence in the ability of a government to manage its fiscal policy.”

Bernanke said that while nobody knows when a fiscal crisis will come, it is surely “ever closer.”

via Bernanke Points to ‘Increased Possibility of a Sudden Fiscal Crisis’ | CNSnews.com.

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The White House didn’t blow a dog whistle for deep-pocketed liberal donors on Monday. No, the administration whipped out a supersized vuvuzela. Blaring message: Let loose the campaign finance-bundling hounds of super PAC war!

President Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, who served as White House deputy chief of staff for operations before assuming 2012 re-election duties, announced the super PAC super-flip-flop in a mass e-mail to supporters and a blog post published on the left-wing Huffington Post website. In a related conference call to major campaign finance bundlers, Messina encouraged these high-dollar donors to start funding Priorities USA Action. That’s the Democratic super PAC founded by former White House staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney.

Super PACs and campaigns are barred from coordinating with each other. Nevertheless, Messina said that “senior campaign officials as well as some White House and Cabinet officials will attend and speak at Priorities USA fundraising events.” Of course, they “won’t be soliciting contributions.” Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

This brazen about-face for Team Obama is a goldmine of campaign lies, contortions and epic hypocrisy. Let us count the ways.

via Super PAC-Men: Obama Bundlers Gone Wild! | CNSnews.com.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, asserting that the voter-approved statewide initiative cannot limit the name “marriage” to heterosexual couples.

In a Feb. 7 news release, Liberty Counsel, “an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989,” states:

The ruling is very narrow and limited only to California…. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, commented: ‘The ruling is like kissing your sister. On the one hand, it is not the broad ruling sought by same-sex marriage advocates but, on the other hand, it also does not allow the people of California to limit the name ‘marriage’ to opposite-sex couples. If there is any good news that comes out of this opinion, it is that it’s limited to California and does not apply to the other 49 states and territories….

via Blog: California court overturns Prop 8.

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Many experts have noted that the “good news” regarding the unemployment rate reported on Monday has to be tempered with the realization that the number was artificially low. So many people have grown discouraged regarding job prospects that they are no longer looking for jobs.They have dropped out of the “workforce” and are therefore no longer considered as “unemployed” for purposes of the unemployment rate.

This is bad news – and the longer they are unemployed, the poorer are their prospects of getting rehired. Their personal finances suffer, as does their ability to pay off debts, including mortgages. Leave it for the spin artists at the White House to have the temerity to consider people leaving the work force to be an “economic positive”.

via Blog: WH spokesman: People dropping out of workforce is an ‘economic positive’.

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Our president throws out the phrase “fair share” pretty often — on his campaign stops throughout the country, in his State of the Union campaign speech, you name it.  But the president needs to understand that fairness is a subjective thing.  One man or woman’s legitimate, evenhanded, free-from-bias, conforming-to-rules tax proposal just might be considered unfair by the people being taxed.

President Obama is being totally unfair to the people he wants to tax in order to pay for his dream of an evenhanded America.  The facts support this — nothing subjective about it.  So I will pay my “fair share” of taxes when:

via Articles: I Will Pay My “Fair Share” of Taxes When….

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A Limbaugh endorsement has been the secret weapon of yesterday’s big winner.

Remember Rick Santorum, the neb who finished a distant third in Florida ‘s king-making primary last week? There was a lot of buzz about him after that outcome, mostly speculation about whether he should walk off into the Sunshine State sunset. He had only one victory, in tiny Iowa, and even that one was retroactive, announced weeks after the voting. He had no money, no rich backers, no famous billionaires with comb-overs to offer him apprenticeships. And he definitely needed to lose that lame sweater vest.

The pundits wrote him off and I was prepared to accept their verdict… until the Limbaugh endorsement. Suddenly, Santorum has a head of steam and he is pulling ahead of his team of competitors. Minnesota minimizes Mitt! Missouri misses the Romney bus! Colorado colors in Santorum!

“Wait a second. What are you talking about? Everyone knows Rush Limbaugh does not endorse candidates!”

“I didn’t say he did. I was referring to the David Limbaugh endorsement.”

“HUH?!”

via The American Spectator : Thank Him, Santorum!.

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If she can no longer support and defend the Constitution, as she is sworn to do, she should leave — and take the New York Times with her.

Did you know that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks the South African Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are preferable to the United States Constitution? You think Im kidding? Its right there on the front page of yesterdays New York Times.

In a profoundly stupid and uninformed story entitled, “Around the World, We the People Loses Followers,” Times analyst Adam Liptak informs us that the United States Constitution is “terse and old” and “guarantees relatively few rights.” Recent founding documents from other countries, on the other hand, are “newer [and] sexier” and offer “a more powerful operating system in the constitutional marketplace.” “Nobody wants to copy Windows 3.1,” quips Professor David S. Law of Washington University, author of a study documenting the Constitutions obsolescence and the source of many of these quotes.

via The American Spectator : Justice Ginsburg Should Resign.

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Las Vegas (CNN) — Declaring victory in Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, Mitt Romney again turned away from his GOP rivals and toward President Barack Obama.

CNN projected that Mitt Romney will win the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses based on results and entrance polling.

With 43% of the vote in, Romney held about 43% of the vote while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had 25% and Rep. Ron Paul had 19%. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who had largely bypassed the state, had 12% of the vote. Those numbers were gathered from vote counters at caucus sites across the state and the state’s Republican Party.

Romney thanked supporters at his campaign headquarters in Las Vegas, telling them that, “This isn’t the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, but this time I’m going to take it to the White House,” alluding to his win in Nevada in 2008.

via Romney again turns attention to Obama after Nevada win – CNN.com.

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