• Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq?

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Republican Party (United States)

• Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?
• Baton Rouge attorney Dan Claitor was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana State Senate despite his fellow Republican, Governor Bobby Jindal endorsing his opponent?
• Chicago politician Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary?
• Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?
• Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
• Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?
• Haley Barbour became only the second Republican Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction after winning the 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election?
• Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
• Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
• Mitch Daniels became the first Republican Governor in 16 years in the 2004 Indiana gubernatorial election?

North Carolina

• "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
• North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color?
• North Carolina-based author Perry Deane Young's first Vietnam War article for UPI was about the Tet Offensive, which began the night he arrived in Saigon?
• Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina?
• Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
• Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
• Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?
• James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?

Ron Paul

• United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls, placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls?
• during his 1988 presidential campaign, Congressman Ron Paul (pictured) received the Libertarian Party's nomination over another candidate who wanted to "put handcuffs on all IRS agents"?

Neoconservatism

• prominent sociologist Nathan Glazer has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a Marxist, a neoconservative, and an espouser of "armchair intellectual liberalism"?

Alaska

• Alaska's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times?
• Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins?
• aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?
• Becharof Lake within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska contains the second largest run of sockeye salmon in the world?
• Hudson Stuck, who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley's South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits in Alaska?
• logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk?
• Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead (pictured) was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska?
• Spanish naval officer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán led an expedition in 1779 to Alaska, and performed a formal ceremony of possession at present-day Port Etches?
• Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who, in 1897 and 1898, helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow, Alaska?
• Afognak Island State Park was established as a conservation area in 1892, but did not become an Alaska state park until 1994, as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill?