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Norm Coleman and others are seeking to create a right-wing version of the Center for American Progress and hoping to exploit the Citizen's United ruling to fund it. Mike Huckabee will be heading to Iowa to campaign for GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats. James Dobson has endorsed Kansas

The Family Research Council is demanding that "President Obama support a ban on all federal abortion funding in health reform" legislation. The Hill: The Club for Growth is sending a letter to each of Utah's delegates to the state Republican convention and running an ad hitting Sen.

Christy Hardin Smith captures the essence of right-wing opposition to Sonia Sotomayor. Media Matters has put together a large collection of right-wing commentators smearing Sotomayor as a bigot which, as Dave Neiwert points out, is itself rather ironic. As Jed Lewison explains, Ronald Reagan was t