Unity eludes Nevada tea party in GOP presidential race

LAS VEGAS — In 2010, as the tea party rose to prominence, the movement splintered in Nevada and helped nominate Republican Sharron Angle in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
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Obama ruling requires Catholic institutions to violate church teaching

President Obama quoted C.S. Lewis on Thursday morning, and normally that would have made my day. The president is good at talking about his Christian faith, as he did at a National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, and ought to do more of it if he wants to relieve Americans of some of their most basic misconceptions about him.
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Voter frustration makes for tumultuous GOP primary

The American people, a small slice of them, have spoken, and they are none too pleased.
The rest are yet to be heard, as the men who would be president march West, to caucuses Saturday in Nevada, where the unemployment rate is 13 percent, and then to Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday.
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Trump’s endorsement of Romney mocked by Democratic National Committee chair

Celebrity mogul Donald Trump’s announcement Thursday afternoon that he is backing Mitt Romney is a classic “me for me” endorsement, as our colleagues at The Fix have noted – a move that appears to help the endorser more than the endorsee.
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Gingrich’s ‘Dancing Queen’ ringtone strikes again

For the second time at a campaign-trail event in recent months, former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) was interrupted Thursday.
But it wasn’t by protesters, or by supporters of a rival campaign.
It was by ABBA.
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