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The American Conservative Union's 2012 Rankings

On Feb. 21, 2013, <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">The American Conservative Union</a> released its 2012 conservative ratings guide. Which members of Congress had a perfect score?

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)

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Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)

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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)

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Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)

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Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.)

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Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

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Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)

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Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.)

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/dan-burton-retirement-indiana-gop_n_1244141.html">Editor's note:</a> Burton retired from Congress in January 2012</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)

(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/jeff-flake-election-results-2012_n_2049514.html">Editor's note:</a> Flake became a U.S. senator in Jan. 2013</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas)

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Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)

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Rep. John Fleming (R-La.)

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Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas)

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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)

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Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.)

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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)

(Photo by Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call) <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.)

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Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.)

(Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/wally-harger-retirement-california-republican_n_1197156.html">Editor's note:</a> Herger retired from Congress in January 2012.</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.)

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Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.)

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)

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Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.)

(Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/09/charles-boustany-wins_n_2267276.html">Editor's note:</a> Landry was defeated by fellow Republican Charles Boustany in Dec. 2012's special election.</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas)

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Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas)

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Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.)

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Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)

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Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.)

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Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.)

(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/david-schweikert_n_1838371.html">Editor's note:</a> Quayle was defeated by David Schweikert in the Republican primary for Arizona's 6th congressional district.</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.)

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Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

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Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.)

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Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)

(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/tim-scott-senate_n_2315830.html">Editor's note:</a> Scott was appointed U.S. Senator by S.C. Gov Nikki Haley in Dec. 2012, taking the seat of Jim DeMint.</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.)

(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/cliff-stearns-planned-parenthood-reelection_n_1777602.html">Editor's Note:</a> Stearns lost the Aug. 2012 GOP primary to retain his House seat.</em> <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.)

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Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.)

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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.)

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Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.)

(AP Photo/Michael Conroy) <a href="http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/1174985/8b2d5dc5f6/ARCHIVE">Source: American Conservative Union 2012 Rankings </a>

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How the next pope will be chosen, step by secret step

The cardinals will fill out ballots in the Sistine Chapel until all 77 ballots ? two-thirds plus one of the cardinal electors ? reach a consensus. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News

When the College of Cardinals convenes Tuesday to choose a pope, it will revive a centuries-old tradition ? cut off from the world by an oath of secrecy and doors that close with a firm and final thud.

In a ritual that has been described by participants as solemn and moving, the cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel for their conclave, a word drawn from the Latin terms for "with" and "key." They will vote, four times a day after the first day, until they settle on a leader for the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

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In many respects, the ritual is unchanged from the rules Pope Gregory X instituted 800 years ago. But this time, there's a wild card: The previous pope, Benedict XVI, is still alive, and while he won't be in the room, he will probably have an indirect say in the outcome.

Benedict spent just seven years as pope but appointed 67 of the 115 cardinals eligible to vote on his successor. The rest were appointed by his predecessor and theological soul mate, Pope John Paul II. Benedict also made changes to the voting rules that could keep the cardinals working long past the four ballots it took to elect him in 2005.

"It takes as long as it takes. No one wants to rush this," Cardinal Daniel Di Nardo, the archbishop of Houston, told reporters this week. While he spoke, Vatican workers were preparing the chapel for the gathering ? closing it to visitors and installing anti-bugging devices and the stove where the cardinals' ballots will be burned to produce the black or white smoke that tells the world how they're coming along.

Locked up in the Vatican

However long it takes, the cardinals will be locked inside the Vatican, with no newspapers, no TV, no radio, no Twitter or Facebook.

During the day, they will deliberate inside the Sistine Chapel, beneath Michelangelo's breathtaking "Creation of Adam," with its famous depiction of God and Adam touching fingers.

At night, they will bed down in the Casa Santa Marta, which John Paul II had built in 1996. It's relatively modest but a dramatic upgrade from what the cardinals were provided before then ? cubicles furnished only with cots and washbasins, with but one bathroom per 10 people.

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Pope Benedict XVI delivered his final audience Feb. 28, 2013, in St. Peter's Square as he prepared to stand down.

Usually, the dean of the College of Cardinals presides, but the current dean, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, is 85 and disqualified from the voting, which is limited to cardinals under 80. So Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, will be in charge.

Custom and conclave rules fashioned over centuries mean the cardinals have assigned seating, with the prime seats going to two "cardinal bishops" ? the senior Rome cardinals who are younger than age 80 and therefore eligible to vote.

Then come the four patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic churches, the middle-ranking "cardinal priests" who make up the bulk of the college, and the most junior members, the "cardinal deacons."

"It does look quite dramatic, all of the cardinals dressed in scarlet sitting around," said Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, who took part in Benedict's election in 2005.

Then somebody says extra omnes: Everybody out except the cardinals.

"That's a very dramatic moment, because the door is shut ? there's a thud," Murphy-O'Connor, who is too old to take part this time, told the BBC in a long interview for its radio documentary series "Witness" last month. "I remember looking around at the other 114 cardinals and thinking to myself, 'Well, one of us will be going out with a white cassock on.'"

Ballot after ballot, day after day

Once locked in the room, the cardinals will take a collective oath of secrecy. That's followed by a roll call in which each cardinal, with his hand on the Bible, individually swears: "And I, (name), do so promise, pledge and swear. So help me God and these Holy Gospels which I touch with my hand," according to John L. Allen's book "Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election."?

Allen, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, is considered one of the world's foremost experts on the church. His book, published in 2002, is an encyclopedic chronicle of how things work when the cardinals gather. Much of what else is publicly known about the process comes from the Vatican's Code of Canon Law and history and apostolic letters on the election of the pope issued in 1996 by John Paul II and in 2007 by Benedict XVI.

When the voting finally begins Tuesday, there will be one round of voting in the afternoon, followed by two every morning and two every afternoon until someone gets two-thirds of the votes.

Each cardinal gets two or three ballot papers, inscribed Eligo in summum pontificem ("I elect as supreme pontiff"). They're encouraged to disguise their handwriting and to fold the paper twice to prevent eavesdropping.

Then each cardinal walks up to an altar that stands before Michelangelo's turbulent "Last Judgment." After kneeling in a brief moment of prayer, he recites in Latin: "I call as my witness Christ the Lord, who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected." He then slides his ballot into a chalice using a large circular plate.

Three cardinals chosen at random count the ballots; three others chosen at random check their work. The cardinals can keep their own tallies, because each vote is read out before it's threaded with a needle and string; at the end, they're all gathered by the strings and tied together in a knot. Assuming there's no winner, the session's second round of voting begins immediately.

Twice a day, after the morning and afternoon sessions, the ballots are burned in a special stove.

That's how the masses outside know how things are going. If there's no new pope, the knotted-up ballots are treated with damp straw or a special chemical so that they produce a black smoke. The dramatic appearance of white smoke ? signaling a winner ? is produced by using a different chemical or by leaving it out altogether.

Technically, the cardinals are supposed to keep their own counsel, but many accounts over the decades make it clear that extensive debate and discussion goes on during breaks and in the residence.

A (relatively) new way of doing things

?Benedict's election was unusually quick, coming after only four ballots. More commonly, the balloting takes a few days, and because of a change Benedict instituted in 2007, there's the potential for a long conclave this time.

Benedict was elected under rules stipulating that after about 30 ballots, depending on how many votes are taken on the first day,?the cardinals could choose to drop the threshold for election to a simple majority.

Benedict threw out that stipulation, meaning a two-thirds vote will be needed for all of the ballots. After 33 or 34 ballots, and occasional one-day breaks for prayer and reflection, the election is narrowed to the two leading vote-getters ? but even then, Benedict ordered, the winner has to get two-thirds.

Many "Vaticanisti" ? the pundits and journalists who obsessively follow the political goings-on of the church ? predict that this change will result in a compromise pope, with the leader in early balloting ultimately fading.

Eventually, someone will be chosen, at which point the senior cardinal will ask the winner, "Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?" If he says yes (accepto), he is the pope, just like that. The new pope will then declare his papal name.?

"Then he goes out," Murphy-O'Connor said. "There's a papal tailor outside with three cassocks, white cassocks ? large, medium and small ? and then after 10 minutes or so he comes back and he's put in the middle and we all go up and kiss his ring.

"It doesn't matter how you voted, whatever. He's the pope now," Murphy-O'Connor added. "It's very dramatic, it's very moving, and it's very faithful."

After the white smoke appears ? historically triggering extended cheers from the thousands gathered outside ? a senior cardinal will step onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and declare: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus papam. ("I announce to you news of great joy. We have a pope.")

The new pope, whoever he is, then appears before the throng and performs his first official public act. It is a simple apostolic blessing called Urbi et orbi ("to the city and the world"):

May the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in whose power and authority we have confidence, intercede on our behalf to the Lord.

Through the prayers and merits of the Blessed Mary ever-virgin, of Blessed Michael the Archangel, of Blessed John the Baptist and of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of all the saints, may Almighty God have mercy on you, and with your sins forgiven, may Jesus Christ lead you into everlasting life.

May the Almighty and merciful Lord grant you indulgence, absolution and remission of all your sins, time for a true and fruitful penance, an always repentant heart and amendment of life, the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit and final perseverance in good works.

And may the blessing of Almighty God, and the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit descend on you and remain with you always.

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Top Picks: Showtime's special on Dick Cheney, Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, and more

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If you haven?t seen Paperman, which won the 2013 Oscar for Best Animated Short, head over to Hulu.com. The six-minute video tells a charming tale of love and missed connections in midcentury New York. Disney created the animation with 3-D models, but you?d never know it. Through skilled use of penlike lines and paperesque filters, the characters look hand-drawn. Check it out at http://bit.ly/papermandisney.

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Daylight Savings Time 2013 - Middletown, RI Patch

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Zimbabwe's Innscor H1 earnings fall 11 percent

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods's sharp putting helped him to a share of the five-way lead at the WGC-Cadillac Championship on Thursday after he got lessons on the practice green from one of his opponents. Woods worked with Steve Stricker, one of the game's best putters, for over an hour on Wednesday and it clearly worked as he shot a six-under 66 at Doral, with just 23 putts in his round, including a 38-footer for birdie on the fourth hole. "Whatever he says, I'm going to do. He's one of the best putters that's ever lived," Woods said after his round. ...

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US trade gap widens to $44.4B as oil imports rise

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. trade deficit widened in January, reflecting a big jump in oil imports and a drop in exports.

The Commerce Department said Thursday that the deficit rose to $44.4 billion, an increase of 16.5 percent from December. U.S. exports dropped 1.2 percent to $184.5 billion, reflecting declines in sales to Europe, China, Japan and Brazil. Imports rose 1.8 percent to $228.9 billion as oil imports surged 12.3 percent.

Even with the wider deficit in January, economists say they think the deficit this year will narrow slightly, in part because of continued gains in U.S. energy exports. A narrower trade gap boosts growth because it means U.S. companies are earning more from overseas sales while U.S. consumers and businesses are spending less on foreign products.

The deficit for all of 2012 was revised down slightly to $539.5 billion, a drop of 3.6 percent from 2011. The January deficit was running at an annual rate of $533.4 billion.

U.S. exports had jumped to a near-record high in December, a surge that helped the economy grow slightly in the fourth quarter. The economy as measured by the gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the October-December quarter, an upward revision from an initial estimate that it had shrunk at the same rate.

The December trade report had not been available when GDP for October-December was first reported.

Economists see the trade picture brightening further in 2013, helped in part by an energy production boom in the United States and by stronger growth in some major export markets. That forecast is also based on an assumption that the European debt crisis will continue to stabilize, helping boost exports to that region and that growth in Asia will rebound.

For January, however, exports showed widespread declines. U.S. exports to the European Union dropped by 6.4 percent and were also down in China, Brazil and Japan

The politically sensitive trade deficit with China rose in January to $27.8 billion, up 13.6 percent from December. For all of 2012, the deficit with China increased to $315.1 billion, the largest imbalance ever recorded with a single country.

That could add pressure on the Obama administration to take a harder line on China's trade practices. Some U.S. manufacturers contend that China keeps the value of its currency artificially low to make its exports to the U.S. cheaper.

Production of oil and natural gas has been rising in the United States because drillers have learned to tap once-inaccessible reserved trapped in shale formations. New techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have made this possible.

Increased production has lowered U.S. prices of crude oil and natural gas, which refiners use to make gasoline, diesel and other fuels. Crude in the U.S. has been selling for $20 per barrel cheaper than international crude. With lower input costs, U.S. refiners are making enormous amounts of petroleum-based fuels and selling them on the international market at a huge profit.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/07/3271927/us-trade-gap-widens-to-444b-as.html

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