This morning Paul told conservative talker Laura Ingraham the appearance was a mistake.

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Verlander appeared on only 27 ballots and was omitted by Jim Ingraham of The Herald-News in Ohio, who voted Bautista first.

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Since Mr Ingraham's party came to power five years ago, the Bahamas has started to live down its reputation for corruption and mismanagement.

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Conservative talk show hosts, including Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, have blasted McCain in recent weeks, calling him too liberal and saying his nomination would split the party.

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Mr Ingraham argues that more education and training will help.

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On Tuesday conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham criticized the Victory Project's Law, who was a guest on her show, for specifically highlighting losses by tea party candidates last year.

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Ingraham doesn't think pitchers should be eligible for MVP.

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Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham went after the Times.

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"To have women serving in infantry ... could impair the mission essential task of those units, and that's been proven in study after study, " he told radio host Laura Ingraham earlier this month.

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We read of comments by the predictable crack pots, such as Alex Jones and Erik Rush, and by the usual suspects of incitement, from Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Glenn Beck to Laura Ingraham, Steve Emerson and the always bizarrely quotable Dana Rohrhacher.

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