In dead-tree TIME this week, Jay and I will have a story on Hillary Clinton’s strategy for dealing with the new challenge she faces from Barack Obama. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading down to South Carolina this morning, so that I can see all the Democratic candidates being put through their paces at tonight’s debate, tomorrow night’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner and–one of the most delightful rituals in presidential politics–the Clyburn Fish Fry in a downtown Columbia parking garage. The best fish fry moment four years ago came when Dick Gephardt attempted the Electric Slide. While it would be difficult to imagine what could top that, there’s always hope…
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Rick Santorum Wants to Fight ‘The Dangers Of Contraception’
Candidates often say things when polling in the single digits that come back to haunt them when they start leading the polls. Last October, Rick Santorum gave an interview with an Evangelical blog called Caffeinated Thoughts, in which he said contraception is “not okay,” and that this would be a public policy issue he would tackle as President. In particular, he said he would “get rid of any idea that you have to have abortion coverage or contraceptive coverage” as a government policy. Start watching the following video at 17:55.
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There’s nothing “wrong” with protests built around placard-hoisting and park-squatting, but Occupy the SEC is definitely doing something right with its radically different tack. The OWS-offshoot has submitted a 325-page letter to federal financial regulatory agencies on the Volcker Rule, a controversial measure designed to prohibit banks from proprietary trading, or making investments with their own dollars rather than their customers’, that was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
