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Springfield College is a private, independent, coeducational four-year college offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
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About the College
Founded in 1885, Springfield College is known worldwide for the guiding principles of its Humanics philosophy—educating students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others. With its foundation of academic excellence and rich athletic heritage, Springfield College prepares students with real-world leadership skills for careers that transform lives and communities. The College offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the fields of health sciences, human and social services, sport management and movement studies, education, business, and the arts and sciences. It also offers doctoral programs in physical education, physical therapy, and counseling psychology. Springfield College has once again moved up the list of highest ranked colleges in the influential U.S.News & World Report's latest edition of "Best Colleges." In the 2016 report, Springfield College is ranked 29—up two spots from last year, and eight from two years ago—in the first tier in the category of Best Regional Universities – North. There are 138 colleges in the first tier and 180 overall in the category.
The Mission
The mission of Springfield College is to educate the whole person in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others.
Points of Pride
Springfield College is elected by more than 3/4 of our first-year students as their first-choice college—a figure that is well above the national average for peer institutions.
We're ranked in the top tier of Best Regional Universities—North Region, in the 2016 edition of U.S.News & World Report's "Best Colleges." The College is ranked 29 out of almost 200 schools in this category.
Many faculty members are recognized nationally and internationally as experts in their area of study. Approximately 85 percent of all faculty members have earned terminal degrees in their fields.
One hundred percent of the Springfield College Physician Assistant Program 2015 graduates passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) in their first attempt to become certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. This marks the eighth-consecutive year that physician assistant graduates have earned a 100 percent pass rate on the national certifying exam for first-time takers.
Unique academic programs make our graduates more marketable and shorten their educational career paths.
- Our dual certification in physical education and health education allows our graduates to earn a bachelor's degree and be certified in physical education and health/family and consumer sciences for elementary and secondary grades, making them more marketable and giving them a wider range of employment opportunities.
- Our six-year physician assistant program and our six-year doctor of physical therapy program enable undergraduates to work toward professionally licensed degrees and leave with a master's or doctorate in their field.
- Our MBA 4+1 is a five-year program culminating in a bachelor's degree and a master's in business administration.
Trendsetters and Innovators
At Springfield College, we continue to believe that an education grounded by our Humanics philosophy can change the world. We believe that return on investment means something different here than what it means to the rest of the world.
Since 2009, Diverse Issues in Higher Education has ranked Springfield College's School of Professional and Continuing Studies among the top three U.S. institutions for the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to African-Americans in public administration and social services.
The Center for Wellness Education and Research serves as a national resource for information on health, exercise, nutrition, and wellness.
The College is named annually to the "Colleges of Distinction" Guide, a national publication recognizing colleges that strongly focus on innovative learning experiences.
The game of basketball was invented at Springfield College in 1891 by James Naismith, a graduate student and instructor at the College, then known as the International YMCA Training School. Luther Gulick, founding superintendent of the physical education department of the School (1887-1900) and widely recognized as the "father of physical education and recreation" in the United States, Gulick persuaded Naismith to create an indoor game that could be played during the off-season. In response, Naismith invented basketball. Gulick also designed a triangle logo representing the YMCA and Springfield College philosophy.
William G. Morgan, an 1894 graduate of the College, known then as International YMCA Training School, invented the game of volleyball in 1896 in nearby Holyoke, Mass., as the physical director of the Holyoke YMCA. The game was first called mintonette and got its official name when Morgan came back to the College later that year to demonstrate the game to students. While watching the game, Alfred Halstead suggested it be called volleyball.
Robert Roberts, an employee of Springfield College in 1887 while it was still the School for Christian Workers, was the individual who coined the phrase "body building" while authoring books on weight lifting, exercise, and body building.
David Allen Reed is the founder of Springfield College. A Congregationalist minister who assisted evangelist and publisher Dwight Moody in religious revivals, Reed founded the tuition-free School for Christian Workers, at Winchester Square in Springfield, Mass., in 1885. The young minister was elected president and led the institution from 1885 to 1891. The school was dedicated to the training of Sunday School teachers, and included a Young Men's Christian Association Department. Reed raised the funds to launch the school with its own building and, according to YMCA historian Howard Hopkins, "maintained it against great odds through its pioneer years." Reed chose Robert Ross McBurney, who had strong YMCA connections, as vice president, and appointed Moody to the board.
The Springfield College men's volleyball team has earned three-consecutive NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Championships in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The team represented the United States in the World University Games in Kazan, Russia, in July 2013.
Springfield College graduate Erin Pac '03 received a bronze medal in bobsledding at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. She joins many other Springfield College alumni who have participated in the Olympics as athletes, coaches, sports psychologists, athletic trainers, administrators, judges, officials, and volunteers, including Greco-Roman gold medalist Jeff Blatnick '79, and swimming gold-medalist William Yorzyck '54.
Springfield College was named a finalist for the President's Award for Community Service by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The College was one of four finalists in the education category and also was awarded Honor Roll with Distinction status in the category of general community service. This nationwide designation is part of the 2014 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and recognizes institutions and their students across the country for their commitment to volunteer service.
The College has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as one of a select group of colleges and universities throughout the U.S. that have earned the foundation's Community Engagement Classification. This classification recognizes the College for its curriculum, which involves students and faculty members addressing community needs, as well as outreach and partnerships that benefit both the external community and the campus community.
Each year, Springfield College students provide more than 120,000 hours of community service work in neighboring communities and organizations. This dedication to the community has made it so that Springfield College is a frequent recipient of the Jostens/NADIIIAA (NCAA) Community Service Award of Merit for student-athlete participation in community projects; a recipient of multiple Super 60 Awards from the Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield, Inc., recognizing the College's significant contributions to the strength of the regional economy; and has been presented with a proclamation from Springfield City Council for "making the City of Springfield a better place to live" and helping to "improve the neighborhood to make it a better place to live, work, and learn."
The Paul E. Tsongas Award from Preservation Massachusetts, which recognizes Massachusetts colleges, universities, and preparatory schools that have utilized and embraced preservation in their educational identity for the benefit of future generations of students, was awarded to Springfield College for renovations to Judd Gymnasia. The landmark building also received a 2011 Preservation Award by the Springfield Preservation Trust. The Springfield Preservation Trust is the only nonprofit, non-governmental organization dedicated to historic preservation in Springfield.
In addition to classroom buildings and laboratories, the 100-acre main campus has 10 residence halls, new recreational and fitness facilities, a renovated main dining facility, expanded and renovated science and academic facilities, a renovated performing arts center, and the Richard B. Flynn Campus Union, which is complete with a food court, activity and lounge space, the College bookstore, and more.
East Campus
East Campus encompasses 82 acres of forest ecosystem located about one mile from the main campus. It provides rustic facilities for conferences and meetings, and space for outdoor research and recreation. East Campus is also home to the Springfield College Child Development Center, which provides quality early education services for children of members of the faculty and staff, students, and families in the community. The Child Development Center is linked to a number of academic programs and serves as a laboratory for Springfield College students with an interest in early childhood education.
The academic experience encompasses coursework, research, laboratory experience, and targeted fieldwork, enhanced by co-curricular and voluntary service activities on campus and in the community. Academic and co-curricular programs are integrated and include traditional coursework enhanced by applied internships, fieldwork experiences, and experiential learning activities.
Bachelor's and master's degree programs are offered for a full range of disciplines in the arts and sciences, health sciences and rehabilitation studies, education, business administration, human services, social work, and physical education, sport, and movement studies. Doctoral programs are offered in physical education; physical therapy; and counseling psychology.
Approximately 84 percent of full-time faculty have earned the highest degrees attainable in their areas of expertise; 70 percent hold doctorates.
Student-to-faculty ratio: 13:1
Schools and Majors
There are five schools at Springfield College.
The School of Arts, Sciences, and Professional Studies offers a broad and engaging curriculum, including mathematics, physics, computer science, biology/chemistry, psychology, management and economics, social sciences, humanities, education, business, and the visual and performing arts. A doctor of psychology (PsyD) program in counseling psychology, one of only three PsyD programs in counseling psychology in the United States, was launched in 2012.
The School of Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Studies provides an academic and clinical foundation for careers in physical therapy, occupational therapy, communication disorders, rehabilitation and disability, emergency medical services management, and physician assistant. A doctoral program in physical therapy is also offered.
The School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation focuses on the study of physical and health education, including applied exercise science, physical education, outdoor leadership, recreation management, and sport management, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, a doctoral program in physical education is also offered.
The School of Professional and Continuing Studies offers bachelor's and master's degree programs designed to build the leadership skills of human service professionals while they are serving in their communities, through weekend class schedules. Campuses are located nationwide at Springfield and Boston, Mass.; St. Johnsbury, Vt.; Wilmington, Del.; Charleston, S.C.; Tampa Bay, Fla.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Houston, Texas; and Southern Calif.
The School of Social Work prepares social work professionals through the advanced generalist practice approach. Master's degrees, post-master's certificates, and a joint master's/juris doctorate degree program are offered. The School of Social Work also offers master's-degree-level education in social work at Saint Vincent Hospital, in Worcester, Mass.
Undergraduate Majors
Springfield College's competitive Division III athletic program includes 26 varsity sports for men and women. The College is consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of Division III; many teams have competed in NCAA tournaments, been nationally and regionally ranked, and achieved conference champion recognition. A majority of coaches are also members of the faculty, which creates an enriched experience for their players and enables them to interact with the community as a whole. In addition, a large number of the College's student-athletes and coaches are national statistical leaders. Springfield College also hosts club sports and four seasons of intramurals.
- School colors: Maroon and White
- School nickname: Pride
- Symbol: Majestic Lion
- Mascot: Spirit
Student Body
Students enrolled in Springfield College's undergraduate traditional programs (including those majors within the schools of Arts, Sciences, and Professional Studies; Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Studies; and Health, Physical Education, and Recreation) are typically ages 18-21; come from across the country and include international students, but hail primarily from the Northeast corridor of the U.S.; include a fairly even mix of males and females; and reside predominantly in the residence halls and College-owned properties. Students enrolled in the School of Social Work and School of Professional and Continuing Studies are more typically working adults, three-fourths of whom are from under-represented populations.
Student Success (Retention/Graduation)
Springfield College boasts above national average rates of student retention (87 percent of all first year students on the main campus return) and degree completion (more than two-thirds of all first-year students complete their degree requirements within four years).
Athletics Participation
Approximately 44 percent of males and 32 percent of females enrolled in the traditional undergraduate programs on the Springfield College campus participate in intercollegiate athletics.
Springfield College students are actively engaged in volunteerism and service to the community. They contribute more than 120,000 hours annually, benefiting youth, families, and older citizens through their generosity of spirit and commitment to serving others.


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Elma Supervisor Dennis Powers has released a proposed 2014 budget of $7.6 million, reflecting a spending increase of 4.2 percent from the current plan and 3 percent raises for employees and elected officials.
The proposal retains the same tax rate as this year – $27.66 per $1,000 of assessed valuation for most residents. The spending plan would require a tax levy of $1.7 million.
Powers said the proposed budget reflects increasing fuel costs, payments to the state retirement fund and higher costs for asphalt.
The plan includes a 3 percent salary increase for union, non-union and elected officials and a slight tax decreases in the highway, lighting and water departments.
There will be no town tax again this year for the general fund portion of the budget, because revenues from sales and mortgage taxes and state aid offset expenditures.
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• Highway fund budget: $1.4 million, tax levy of $255,258 and tax rate of $4.72 per $1,000 of assessed valuation – a reduction of less than a penny.
• Water Department budget: $2,285,785 with a tax levy of $35,521 and tax rate of 61 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation – a reduction of about 0.4 percent.
• Lighting District budget: $35,016, tax levy of $29,516 and tax rate of 51 cents per $1,000 – down about a penny.
• A tax decrease for residents in special sanitary sewer districts 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7.
• Fire Protection District budget for Jamison, Elma and Blossom volunteer fire companies, covering two-thirds of the town: tax rate increase of 37 cents to $18.69 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, with a tax levy of $775,061. The Spring Brook Fire District established its own budget; no details were available.
• Fire pension fund: decrease of about 4.4 percent from this year to $130,000.
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Thirty-three-year-old Gerrans enjoyed a textbook lead-out from team-mate Daryl Impey to beat last year's green jersey Sagan by just a quarter of a wheel and secure Orica-GreenEdge's first ever victory on the world's biggest bike race.
Spaniard Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) took third place ahead of the Polish youngster Michal Kwaitkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), who retained his white jersey as best young rider. World champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC) was fifth and Spain's Juan Antonio Flecha (Vacansoleil-DCM) sixth.
Belgium's Jan Bakelants (RadioShack-Leopard) finished the lumpy 145.5km stage safely in a main pack of 72 riders to retain his slender one-second overall lead after three dramatic days of racing in Corsica.
"The team did a fantastic job in looking after me today," Gerrans told Eurosport after his second career win in the Tour. "This is a stage I pin-pointed a little while ago and luckily I had the legs to win a first Tour stage for Orica-GreenEdge."
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"I managed to hold off one of the quickest guys around so I'm rapt," he said. "It was so close and neither of us knew who won when we finished."
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The five escapees built up a maximum lead of four minutes before being reeled in on the slopes of the final climb of the day less than 20km from the finish.
Clarke, who won stage four of the Vuelta a Espana last year en route to winning the king of the mountains competition, showed his climbing pedigree by taking maximum points over the first three summits of the day to draw level on points with Frenchman Pierre Rolland in the polka dot standings.
With the peloton closing in, Clarke attacked his fellow escapees ahead of the final climb but was reeled in by Europcar's Rolland ahead of the summit of the Cat 2 Col de Marsolino 14km from the finish.
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"It's the Iranian nuclear programme," he says. "We have consistently been the party arguing for tough sanctions and a strong European approach over the last few years, and are very frustrated that this hasn't emerged strongly enough."
Commentators have been competing with each other to come up with the best superlative to describe the apparent crisis in Israel-American relations, but it has gone almost unnoticed that on one very significant issue, President Barack Obama seems to be closer now to Israel's position that the Bush administration.
The fiancé of Neda Agha-Soltan, killed during the Iranian protests last year, has been strongly criticised by Iranians for meeting Israel's President Shimon Peres.
Neda became the symbol of the resistance in Iran after she was killed during last June's protests against President Ahmadinejad's regime.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that his country now has the capacity to enrich uranium to 80 per cent, enough to produce nuclear weapons.
In a speech to hundreds of Iranians in Tehran's central square, marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "If we wanted to manufacture a bomb, we would announce it ... our nation has the courage to explicitly say it and build it and not fear you."
Iran has managed to produce uranium enriched to 20 per cent just two days after they announced they were beginning the process.
China's moment has arrived. Conventional wisdom says that whichever way Russia votes at the UN Security Council, China follows. Those days are over. As we head for sanctions against Iran "within weeks, not months", according to US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, China will choose its own path.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called for "crippling sanctions" against Iran in a meeting with European ambassadors in Israel.
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Many top Republicans are growing worried that the partys chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.
Congressional leaders talk in private of being boxed in by commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.
Some of the leading 2012 candidates are described by operatives as grappling with the same tension. The challenge is to tap into the richest source of energy in the party the disgust of grass-roots conservative activists with President Barack Obama and their hunger for a full-throated attack on his agenda without coming off to the broader public as cranky and extreme.
Mitt Romney has purposely kept a lower profile and stuck to speeches on specific policy issues, in part to avoid the early trade-off between placating party activists and appearing presidential. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, one of the most active potential opponents for Obama in 2012, said that media portrayals of a narrow-minded party could make it harder to attract the middle-of-the-road voters needed to make the GOP a majority party again.
The commentators are part of the coalition, not the whole coalition, Pawlenty said in a phone interview. The party needs to be about addition, not subtraction but not at the expense of watering down its principles.
We need more voices, said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, one of the partys up-and-coming leaders. Our partys challenge has been that we need to be more inclusive we need to attract the middle again. ... When one party controls all the levers of power in Washington, theyre going to try and villainize whoever they can on our side. It gives us an opportunity now to try and harness the energy and point it in a positive direction, so that we can attract the middle of the country to the common-sense conservative views that we have been about as a party.
Political operatives of all stripes like to fancy themselves as coolly controlling practitioners who can shape public images and direct the activities of party regulars from their perches in Washington.
But the reality of the GOP during the Obama presidency is that the partys image and priorities are in many ways being imposed on Washington driven by grass-roots energies that lawmakers and strategists can scarcely control.
At the same time, there are powerful incentives for Washington politicians to play to the crowd and bow to the influence of commentators like Beck, who at the moment is far more famous than any of the GOPs congressional leaders.
When Republicans such as Rep. Phil Gingrey have complained about these figures in public, most have quickly apologized in the face of outraged phone calls and e-mails from conservative activists.
House and Senate Republicans both seized on the issue of federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now after Obama critic Andrew Breitbart launched the controversy on his site BigGovernment.com with video of two people posing as a pimp and a prostitute in the groups offices.
As vividly illustrated by Rep. Joe Wilson, elected Republicans are seeing the benefits national media attention and fundraising from embracing the trash-talking style of talk show hosts. Wilson went from being a little-known member of the House minority who had repeatedly failed to get on the A-list committees to a cause célèbre for the right wing because he shouted You lie at Obama during a joint session of Congress.
Though he apologized to the president through chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Wilson moved quickly to exploit his brush with fame, posting Web videos to raise money, appearing on Sean Hannitys show, getting a coveted invite on Fox News Sunday and even being asked to raise money for some of his conservative colleagues. Most rank-and-file Republicans have to spend hours on the phone pleading for money and relish the chance to be taken seriously by a major Sunday show.
But some Republicans worry the party could squander an opportunity to capitalize on voters concerns about Obama and the Democratic Congress because they come off looking shallow, sharply partisan or just plain odd to persuadable voters.
Warning of the influence of the Fox host, who recently accused Obama of racism against whites, George W. Bush White House veteran Peter Wehner wrote last month: Beck seems to be a roiling mix of fear, resentment and anger the antithesis of Ronald Reagan.
Still, these concerns apparently are not powerful enough to prompt most elected Republicans to take public stands against the rhetoric coming from the web of conservative talk show hosts, websites and public activists.
Ed Gillespie, who was counselor to Bush and has started a conservative group called Resurgent Republicans, said his polling shows rising numbers of persuadable voters who are growing disenchanted with the Obama administrations policies but nevertheless remain invested in the president.
Our party has to bring those voters along with a critique of policies, not the kind of harsh rhetoric the left used against former President Bush, Gillespie said.
Without a good slice of the independents, we are doomed, said former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.).
The only Republicans standing up to Beck and other conservative activists right now are familiar iconoclasts like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and New York Times columnist David Brooks both of whom are distrusted by many Republicans for their frequent departures from conservative orthodoxy.
Graham, earlier this month, mocked Becks famous on-air cry and warned that the Fox News talk show host is not aligned with any party as far as I can tell. Hes aligned with cynicism. Not long afterward, he was heckled by conservatives at a political event back home.
Brooks, a Republican who has written both favorably and critically about Obama, amplified Grahams concern with the partys obsequious relationship with Beck and Limbaugh. It is a story of remarkable volume and utter weakness, he wrote. It is a story as old as The Wizard of Oz, of grand illusions and small men behind the curtain.
Allies of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have detailed for POLITICO how the former GOP presidential nominee is dismayed with the direction of the party and put an unusual amount of time and effort into trying to push the party in a more centrist direction.
All three figures are often irritants to establishment Republicans but in this case, many Republicans said privately they were in agreement that they need to move beyond the hard-core right to succeed.
But this critique goes to a major fault line within the party. Many activists believe the party lost because McCain failed to present a clear and genuine ideological contrast and that the party abandoned principles through excessive spending during the Bush years.
The debate means the argument over whether outspoken talk show hosts are reviving a beaten party or trashing its brand is likely to persist through the 2010 midterms and into the 2012 presidential primary.
On the one hand, the GOP seems to be surging a bit as it sharpens its attacks. The party is doing better than it has in recent history when it comes to generic matchups for the 2010 midterms. Beck, other Fox News commentators and Breitbart are clearly landing some punches on Obama.
Their efforts helped stoke turnout at the August town halls, forced the mainstream media and Obama himself to reckon with a scandal at ACORN and incendiary comments and led to the resignation of green jobs czar Van Jones.
On the other hand, the partys image more broadly remains in the dumps. An ABC News/Washington Post poll this week found that only 20 percent of those surveyed consider themselves Republicans. A larger study by the Pew Research Center this spring captured a similar trend: The share of independents in the electorate is the highest in 70 years (36 percent), while the share of voters who call themselves Republicans is the lowest in 30 years (23 percent, compared with 35 percent for Democrats).
Republicans in Congress are even more unpopular than the very unpopular Democrats who are running the House and the Senate. This suggests something has to change for a true GOP resurgence to take place.
Karl Rove, the chief political strategist for Bush, said impressions of the Republican Party as a captive of a fringe reflect a cynical and dismissive and small-minded view of who the American voter is.
The question will be whether the Republican candidates next year can talk about a lot of kitchen-table issues and the deficit and spending, Rove said. Rush Limbaugh wont be on the ballot.
This big tension is playing out in a smaller way in the special election in upstate New York. Congressional leaders are backing moderate Dede Scozzafava, despite her liberal views on abortion and other issues, because they think she has the best chance of winning this swing district. Conservatives, including many who participated in the much-publicized tea party protests, are convinced she is insufficiently Republican, so they are throwing their support and money to third-party candidate Doug Hoffman.
The result: Polls show the Republican vote could be so split that a lackluster Democratic candidate could pull off a win. If Republicans blow this race, it will leave the GOP holding only two of New Yorks 29 House seats. A decade ago, it had 14, most of which were occupied by Northeast moderates who no longer feel welcome in the party and were voted in by independents who remain very skeptical of the partys policy solutions.
But with the Scozzafava endorsement, one has to ask if they will even take a stand for NE RINOism...
He is from VA. From what I read, McDonnel doesn't turn left; yet, he might win the race next month. Meanwhile, the model for 'moderate', McCain, failed miserably last year, and Crist, another model for 'moderate', might lose the primary next year. The latest polls show that both Rubio and Crist do well in the general. So, why do we need to turn left?
"Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate"
...telling the truth has now become "wildly controversial".
Has anyone ever seen an article written about the radical left and it's death grip on the democrat party?
Didn't think so.
"McDonnel doesn't turn left; yet, he might win the race next month"
...McDonnell is now 14 points ahead of Comrade Deeds(D). Worried about the impending last minute "macaca" moment the libs WILL find and present 5 days before election. On the other hand, Deeds is very unpopular with blacks and a recent poll found that there's a percentage of BO voters disenchanted with the "one" and will stay home! (I work for McDonnell) Fairfax County (Northern Va lib hang out) endorsed McDonnell!! So did lib Hampton Roads!!
The GOP has taken a side-step to the left. We Conservatives firmly stood our ground, where we will remain. That's why they call us "Conservatives". We're stubborn as hell.
But I noticed this morning that Politico failed to even mention Cheney's commentary about this politicizing of the war in Afghanistan.
Politico chooses their articles carefully, very carefully.
Graham, Brooks, Snowe and those of the same ilk are the reason the republicans got their socks beat off in the last two elections. For CRYING OUT LOUD (I'M YELLING NOW!), IF I WANTED A !@#$%^&*()p_+_)(*&^%$#$%^&*( LIBERAL I'D VOTE FOR A RAT. THESE RINOS ARE JUST DEMOCRAT LITE.
I wish they'd just cross the dang aisle and STAY THERE.
Mr. McCain's attitude toward the conservative was 'just what
are you going to do about it'... well, now the answer has
come for Mr. McCain and the RNC.
So what the GOP needs is more Ken Mehlmans, Denny Hasterts, Mark Foleys, and John McCains.
Got it.
exposing the truth! ......
as it had to be dug up, researched, connected the dots, followed the trails, ............
These people have no clue.
Politico just told the GOP to make the conservatives shut up and go away.
If the GOP doesn't want our votes and money and volunteers let them say so. Just come right out and say it. We can completely take over the Libertarian Party within months.
"Once nominally in power, the Republicans spent & taxed & regulated like a bunch of Democrats- is it any wonder that the voters decided to elect The Real Thing?"
We aren't going to compete with the Evil Party by being ( "We can get you the goodies at a cheaper price" ) Democrat Lite.
That's my 2 cents, anyway...
"We need more voices..."
Someone isn't paying attention. Politico is asking you GOP leaders to make your base SHUT UP and GO AWAY. Those private citizens out there are making it hard for the leftists and RINO's to get things done.
Give John McCain's Senate seat to Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Throw McCain out and install a real law-enforcer.
Yeah, I'm not surprised if they will release something that potentially damaging McDonnell's chance. However, hopefully the fact that he is familiar with the Northern Va will cut Deeds' lead there.
"The GOP has taken a side-step to the left. We Conservatives firmly stood our ground, where we will remain. Thats why they call us 'Conservatives'. Were stubborn as hell."
Yeah! We will NOT compromose our principles.
"If the GOP doesnt want our votes and money and volunteers let them say so. Just come right out and say it. We can completely take over the Libertarian Party within months."
That's true. We may want to consider doing just that, as well.
Exactly. Politico.com is just such a box of tools .... on Election Night 2008, a guy from Politico commenting on network news used all his oxygen to slag on Sarah Palin. It was so vile .... these guys are a stone waste of human, just like all the rest of the 'Rats and RiNO's.
Fixed it.
I'm a 'small l' libertarian - but the 'big L' libertarian party has a VERY wrong position on a few issues, the primary one being the WOT.
Said Bob Michel -- who never held the Speaker's gavel in his long, long House career.
But Newt got it away from them. How'd he do that, Bob?
I told the last GOP caller who wanted money that I was fed up with them supporting RINOS and that from now on, I'd give to individual conservative candidates that I favored. I told them, "In short, don't call me, I'll call you."
Another example of wishful trash written by Washington Post rejects. It's a cheeerleading piece designed to calm the knuckleheads in king obuma's clown court who are losing the PR war and democrat seats. I approve of this propaganda because it envelopes rats in their comfortable cloud of liberal delusion, making way for major strategic mistakes. It reminds of Hitler's last days as he sat like a rotting mushroom in the bunker moving imaginary divisions around the battlefield map.
This is exactly why they are failing as a party. This is exactly why a talk of a third party is circulating. Folks, through their own admission they intend to play us like a fiddle in 2010.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll this week found that only 20 percent of those surveyed consider themselves Republicans.
(How many of those who no longer consider themselves Republicans because the party left them? Look around they are not turning into democrats, instead these are the people you say you have to placate!)
Republicans in Congress are even more unpopular than the very unpopular Democrats who are running the House and the Senate. This suggests something has to change for a true GOP resurgence to take place.
(Uh...yeah. But they continue to fail to understand the reason for their unpopularity. You can't be middle of the road and hold onto conservative party principles.)
Dede Scozzafava, despite her liberal views
What part of no to any form of liberalism do you not understand? We destroyed the Republican party because we refused to go along to get along with our new founded socialism?
Maybe the Republicans should take a look at a winner, a conservative, someone to get excited about. Sarah Palin!!
Rino fools
They Just dont get it ,what the Hell PRINCIPLES does the MIDDLE have? We are NOt ACTIVISTS we are just Americans who believe in Traditional American Values,Faith Family and country. We Go to work ,pay our taxes follow the Rules and watch Sleaze bag Politicians who Fatten their own wallets at our expense,look the other way when millions of people break the law by coming across the Borderand we are told to shut up and accept it because we are a Country of Immigrants ! I never heard my relatives tell me they snuck across the Border, they did tell me though they were terrified when they landed at Ellis island that if they sneezed they would be Quaranteened.
Health care is a Big issue now and I suppose The Middle would agree that the Pompous Aholes in washington should get big fat salaries and lifetime Health Benefits while the rest of us peasants get what the elite politicians you know our Government SERVANTS,see fit to Bestow upon us .
My Freedom is not for sale to any Moderate and I am sure that if we had an Individual who had the Courage to stand on COMMON sense issues AMERICAN traditional Value issues this Party would explode with people ,you do not have to sell out your ideals to grow, you have to have the Courage to stand up for them
The current RINO Stupid Party doesn't comprehend that there are many people who voted for the party of Reagan who became independents when the likes of McCain and Grahamnesty became the Stupid Party standard bearers.
If the RINOs would just get out...
Many activists believe the party lost because McCain failed to present a clear and genuine ideological contrast
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Oh, so many "quotes"... so little bandwidth.
The liberal elite snobs already have a party.. why would they vote R?
If the R's go down in flames again, so be it. I will NEVER EVER again vote for a RINO. Most polls show the majority of Americans are CONSERVATIVE. Except that "we're all Socialists now," aren't we.
Pawlenty = what a joke. Romney = ROMNEY CARE, HELLLLOOOOWW!
It's not just conservatives who are mad at Obama & the Dems but those so-called moderates and independents are mad too.
If the Republicans think by continuing playing nice to the Dems and being me-too Dems are going to win them seats they're smoking crack.
Why aren't lefties ever considered to be "cranky and extreme"?
At any rate, when the party powers are running people like scuzzyfuzzy, it's insane to expect the base to toe the line.
I received a pub party congressional survey today that of course included a solicitation. When the survey got to that part at the end, you check a box indicating the amount you will donate ($500, $250, $100, $50, etc.) or "Other". I checked "Other" and stated I would donate some advice. The advice was to start running candidates who are vertebrates instead of RINOs if they want any money from me.
We don't. McCain lost the election because the interminable war in Iraq lost the support of the "Jacksonian" segment of the electorate. McCain, Graham, and the rest are simply wrong.
Well, Ed, how well did that work out for Obama and his Maoist minions?
Freedom, personal responsibility, limited government, and truth ARE all "wildly controversial" in past ages and, in particular, in this age. They are ideas that motivate people to their highest achievements and many people are uncomfortable with that freedom. They are "wildly controversial" and dangerous to those in power.
Cantor didn't say we needed to turn left, and he's not a lefty. He's nowhere near McCain. I think what he means is that we should use our traditional values to attract people who are shocked and sickened by what they're seeing in DC.
I have. Several of them.
This one set me off yesterday like a rocket. I was screeming into the phone at John Boehner's staff and writing follow up letters.
What the hell is so extreme about what the TEA Party folks stand for. If you have to dodge the issues raised by the TEA Party folks as too radical they need to be gone...
It may not be just the rats who experience some grief from the upcoming elections. Pub party powers have a lesson coming to them. Scuzzyfuzzy is about to get her butt whipped to hell and back.
"We can completely take over the Libertarian Party"
I don't think so but the Conservative Party or the Constitutional party would welcome us with open arms. The only problem with that would be getting on the ballot in all 57 states.
The problem with Republicans is twofold. First, it's the two party system with all others being shut out due to the costs associated alone. Second, it's the fact that Republicans EXPECT your vote instead of hoping to EARN it.
For time exceeding my life span, you basically had two choices; Democrat or Republican representatives. Notice I did not say Liberal or Conservative representatives.
Now our country has been mortally wounded by these spineless Republicans in their quest to satisfy only their egos and pocketbooks.
It's time to throw all of them out of office and start once again with those who FEAR THE WRATH of those who put them into office and those who will protect the Constitutionality of all that transpires within the governing body of this country.
Boxed in? Really? The way out is simple unless of course conservative principles mean absolutely nothing to you which I believe in the majority of cases within the current crop GOP that is true.
Constitution, Western Values & culture, Sovereignty, Dismantling the Leviathan we call DC. All of these lead you out of the box.
Politico is a bunch of whoring lefties.
The illusion that the oligarchy has put up is being shattered.
The good news is that 2010 is coming, and it will make 1994 look like a day at the beach.
It'd be nice if the pubs for once were prepared and had their own bomb to drop.
What voices?
Imagine it's 1776. Our founders feared that sounding too radical against the English crown would just turn off too many people.
So they attempted to be more "moderate" in their dealings with the Crown.
After the war, as they attempted to write the Constitution, they were worried that some of the language in it may turn off moderates
Did not read all of the responses so if someone already said this - sorry. IMO, we will continue to see articles like this to try and push us to a third party there by rendering us ineffective come the next set of elections. Bad idea. Don't fall for this fluff! No third party! It was our party to begin with! We are making a difference! Stay the course!
Lots of straw-men and framing of the argument in this hit-piece.
If the party doesn't move in the direction of its impassioned and energized conservative base, of course party ID will go into the crapper. I've identified myself as a Republican since Barry Goldwater, and now, to my own amazement, I find that I cannot do so.
Dede is about more than just one upstate NY county - she's become a cause celebre, and is probably the best thing that could happen to conservatives, even if we lose a seat we've held forever. MAYBE THIS WILL OPEN THEIR EYES!
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Tough Lightweight Raymundo Beltran is coming off a big victory as he upset Hank Lundy on ESPN last July and earned a hard fought majority decision. Beltran had received some questionable decisions in his career but he was finally able to get the nod in a big fight as he now is looking forward to capitalizing on his win.
BoxingScene recently caught up Beltran at Robert Garcia's Boxing Academy in Oxnard, CA as he is helping Brandon Rios get ready for his fight with Mike Alvarado. After an intense and exciting sparring session with Rios, Beltran informed he is looking for a big fight in the Lightweight division.
"I've been fighting anybody. I'm the kind of fighter that I have no promoter. I make my own way. Nobody gave me nothing. I'm trying to get big fights, good fights. I'm not looking for an easy fight. I'm trying to get the big names and anybody in the [lightweight division] to show and prove to everyone that hey, I'm a good fighter also" said Beltran.
"I want to fight Broner. Any champion but if Broner was supposed to fight [Lundy], well okay, I beat him now fight me. I don't want an easy fight. I've always been the underdog."
Adrien Broner is currently looking for an opponent to fight on his new date of November 3rd as he has now moved into the Lightweight division. Beltran would love nothing more than to get an opportunity to get a crack at the undefeated former Super Featherweight champion.
"I think he's a great fighter and that's who he is. He's a good fighter, a strong fighter and he's fast and all but I believe in myself. To me it's a challenge and that's what I want. I respect him but I want to prove that I'm better than him. He does have more exposure than I do but it doesn't mean he's better than me. I just need exposure so people can see who I am" expressed Beltran.
Beltran is currently a free agent as he currently does not have a promoter. He's anxious to get back in the ring and land a big fight against Broner or any of the top guys in the division. In the meantime, he will be giving Rios some good work in training and getting some good work himself as he awaits his next assignment.
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**This summer, we're excited to present "Community Karma,"a weekly series featuring people just like you sharing their financial stories, personal money tips, how they over overcame hardships, and more!**
If anybody knows how to weather the storms of financial crisis, it's Amy Gatliff.
When she was young, her family lived on a school bus while her father built the family home. When the home was livable, they moved in. The house lacked indoor plumbing, so the family had to get creative. "When it came time for a bath, we kids would stand on the side porch steps in our underclothes for Mom to wash us down," Amy describes.
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Amy knew what she had to do: she had to get a job to help with the family's expenses. When she did, she found that nearly everything she earned went to daycare costs for her three children. After paying for daycare, Amy's take-home amount of $100 per month wasn't enough to close any budget gaps. So she stopped working.
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Don't depend on two incomes. The Gatliffs were used to being a two-income family, so they didn't bother to budget or put money away into savings. When the layoffs and pay cuts started, it was a struggle they were completely unprepared for. Amy advises to live below your means by not getting used to two incomes and putting money away for a rainy day. If a financial storm comes, you'll be better prepared.
Expect unexpected budget needs. In other words, have some savings put away. Amy thought that medical expenses were the last thing she would need to worry about at such a young age. She was healthy and her children were healthy; what could go wrong? But when all three of her kids developed allergies and asthma, she realized how expensive the monthly costs were. Budget for the unexpected by setting aside some savings and leaving it untouched.
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Great story of survival and great tips. Things can change so quickly that it is best to be prepared to weather the storm.
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President Obama pledged a "collaborative process" in implementing fixes to his signature healthcare law during a meeting with top insurance executives at the White House on Friday.
Afterward, the White House called the meeting "productive." Both sides emphasized minimizing disruption in the individual insurance market while still offering information about the newly created healthcare exchanges, according to a readout provided by the White House.
The meeting came after insurance groups expressed outrage with the president's announcement on Thursday to allow the companies to offer existing customers the same health plans they currently have — even if individuals had bought insurance since the passage of ObamaCare, or those policies had been substantially changed.
The move was seen as an attempt to shift the burden for the president's promise that Americans could keep their plans from the administration to insurers. But the companies warned the administrative solutions could destabilize the market.
"Changing the rules after health plans have already met the requirements of the [healthcare] law could destabilize the market and result in higher premiums for consumers," said Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, a leading trade group.
"The only reason consumers are getting notices about their current coverage changing is because the Affordable Care Act requires all policies to cover a broad range of benefits that go beyond what many people choose to purchase today," she added.
Ignagni was in attendance at the meeting, as were White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner.
Earlier Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president had "accepted an ample amount of responsibility" for his pledge individuals could keep their plans.
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