"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out."     -Arthur Hays Sulzberger


 


09 /03 / 10 - Larry Sabato predicts massive GOP wins in 2010
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"GOP leaders themselves did not believe such a result was truly possible just a few months ago. If the Republican wave on November 2 is as large as some polls are suggesting it may be, then the surprise on election night could be a full GOP takeover."

09 /02 / 10 - Bernanke: Shut down banks if they threaten system
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"The Fed  chief said bailing out these institutions is not a healthy solution and that great improvement will come from the new financial overhaul law. It empowers regulators to shut down firms whose collapse pose a broader threat to the system."

08 /30 / 10 - Obama's Backdoor Amnesty Follows A Pattern of Disrespect for Our Laws
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"President Barack Obama lets people break laws that he doesn't like.  The latest example is his backdoor amnesty for thousands of illegal immigrants, as a still-fuzzy but insidious picture is emerging."

08 /26 / 10 - Government Motors No More?  Not so fast...
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"Confirming the suspicion that political calculations are a central driving force behind the decision to move forward with the public offering, Vice President Joe Biden this week immediately went to Ohio to proclaim that the IPO proved the GM bailout had saved the U.S. auto industry and stimulated job growth across the country. As AEI's Philip Levy and the Financial Times' Tony Jackson, among others, have recently pointed out, GM's projections of the earnings from the existing assets of its pension fund (8.5 percent) are optimistic in the extreme, if not delusional. Based on more realistic calculations laid out by Jackson, the company will face a shortfall of $7 billion per year for the foreseeable future."

08 /25 / 10 - Probe continues into 72 bodies found on Mexican ranch near U.S. border
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"The bodies of the 58 men and 14 women were found above ground in a structure on the ranch, which is about 14 miles from the town of San Fernando, near the border with Texas." And yet this administration is hell bent on undermining state's attempts to protect their citizens by enforcing illegal immigration law.

08 /21 / 10 - Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
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"Almost everything Obama does these days suggests that he doesn't care much about being re-elected. Strange as it might seem, perhaps he wants to be a one-term president." How much damage can he do in four years?

08 /19 / 10 - WND Drops Ann Coulter as Keynote Speaker of Speech to Gay Republicans
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"WND says that Coulter's decision to speak at Homocon, an event sponsored by a gay Republican organization called GOProud, disqualifies her from speaking at their "Taking America Back National Conference." Gays can be Republicans, and patriots - why the assumption that speaking at "Homocon" (who picked that name? Epic fail) means Ann Coulter endorses homosexuality?

08 /19 / 10 - Robert Redford e-stumps for Boxer
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"...I recently hosted a fundraising event for Barbara, to make sure her campaign has the resources to defeat Carly Fiorina this fall so Barbara can win re-election and keep fighting to protect the environment." Oh stop...just stop already. Gag.

08 /16 / 10 - A Stubborn Man Without Conviction. Obama votes "present" on the Ground Zero mosque.
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"...we got what sounded like a strong endorsement, followed by a backpedaling denial that it was any such thing, followed in turn by a denial that the earlier denial was backpedaling. The president stands behind everything he said but denies that he said much of anything."

08 /13 / 10 - Are liberals waking up to how thin-skinned the White House is?
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"Washington D.C. is full of people who proudly boast of careers spent about agitating politicians on behalf of labor unions, the environment, or other interest groups that align with their broader liberal economic and political goals - and they go ballistic when someone refers to them as the "professional left"? They may not be happy with Obama in a lot of ways, but in this sense maybe liberals have gotten the president they deserve.

08 /12 / 10 - The Obsolescence of Barack Obama The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it.
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"It is in the nature of charisma that it rises out of thin air, out of need and distress, and then dissipates when the magic fails. The country has had its fill with a scapegoating that knows no end from a president who had vowed to break with recriminations and partisanship."

08 /09 / 10 - 86 Days to Decide: Activists Say Tea Party Imposters Infiltrating Elections
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"As the midterm election nears, allegations are surfacing across the country that Democrats are exploiting conservatives' faith in the Tea Party name by putting up bogus candidates in November. The claim is that those "Tea Party" candidates will split the GOP vote and clear the way for Democratic victories."

08 /07 / 10 - Islamophobia and the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate
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"Bloomberg said in a speech: "We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else."
Bloomberg's predecessor didn't agree. The former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, claimed that the project, which is partially intended to be an interfaith community center, would be a "desecration," adding that "decent" Muslims ought not object to his opinion.

08 /03 / 10 - Mosque Near Ground Zero Clears Key Hurdle
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"After a protracted battle that set off a national debate over freedom of religion, a Muslim center and mosque to be built two blocks from ground zero surmounted a final hurdle on Tuesday." Say it 'aint so...

08 /01 / 10 - Internal memo suggests alternative methods to "amnesty" are in the works.
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"Read it carefully. Define discretionary. No wonder Pelosi and Reid are not pushing immigration reform before the November elections. It appears President Obama could use a work around to get the same results."

08 /01 / 10 - Secretary of Defense Gates tells Christiane Amanpour WikiLeaks was 'morally' wrong to leak documents
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"WikiLeaks put its own interests above those on the front lines in Afghanistan"

07 /26 / 10 - 20 years of problems at Arlington Cemetery
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"This is heartbreaking. Mismarked Graves? Urns in the fill dirt pile? How could this incompetence have been overlooked for so long?”

                                                                                                          07 /19 / 10 - Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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"In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."

07 /14 / 10 - NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party 'racism'
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"I am disinclined to take lectures on racial sensitivity from a group that insists on calling black people, 'Colored,'" Mark Williams, national spokesman of the Tea Party Express, told CNN. "The Tea Party movement is about the constitution of this country...and ensuring equality for each and every individual human being."

07 /12 / 10 - Governors Voice Grave Concerns on Immigration
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"In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration's suit against Arizona's new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections. "

07 /12 / 10 - President Obama's policy time bombs
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"President Barack Obama has long boasted about the transformative change he's bringing to the country. But by the time those reforms finally arrive, he could be long gone from the White House."

07 /07 / 10 Altruism at its finest.  For the veterans, by a veteran.
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A 2,400-square-foot chapel is being built at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo. The building will accommodate any religious denomination or nonreligious service, and it will also provide shelter from the summer heat and winter rains for veterans, their families and friends. Because the Federal and State government would not contribute to the funding, Senator K. Maurice Johannessen (ret) has personally guaranteed to make up the difference if donations to the non-profit, CalVetAssistanceGroup, do not cover the cost. I encourage all veterans and the families and friends of veterans to donate to this very worthy cause.

07 /06 / 10 - Justice Department Files Suit Against Arizona Immigration Law
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"The United States Constitution forbids Arizona from supplanting the federal government's immigration regime with its own state-specific immigration policy," the suit says. "A policy that, in purpose and effect, interferes with the numerous interests the federal government must balance."

07 /02 / 10 - McConnell, Hatch Will Oppose Kagan for High Court
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"McConnell said today Kagan failed to convince him during confirmation hearings that she can become an impartial judge and abandon a political past that includes working for former President Bill Clinton."

07 /02 / 10 - Mexican street gang leader arrested in fatal shooting of U.S. official
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"Federal police said Jesus Ernesto Chavez told them that consular employee Lesley A. Enriquez, 35, was targeted because she was providing visas to rivals."

06 /24 / 10 - A Bad Omen on ObamaCare: Fears About Health Reform's Costs Are Coming True
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"Shortly after President Obama signed the health overhaul law, several major corporations reported it would take a bite out of their future earnings. This group included AT&T, Caterpillar, John Deere, Verizon and several other large employers...after combing through 1,100 pages of corporate documents and e-mails, Waxman's staff canceled the hearing - and announced that "the companies acted properly and in accordance with accounting standards."

06 /23 / 10 - Immigrant families leave Arizona and tough new law
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"They want to escape a tough new state law whose stated intention is unambiguous: To drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona and to discourage them from coming here" . Good law, not racial profiling. From this article one gets the sense that the WP is pro illegal and anti AZ law.

06 /23 / 10 - U.S. troops split on controversy surrounding McChrystal
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"Among U.S. troops on Wednesday, opinion was split into three camps: those who were rooting for Gen. Stanley McChrystal; those who were eager to see him ousted; and those who were too deep in the trenches to follow the scandal."

06 /11 / 10 - Farewell Medicare Advantage
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"First and foremost," President Obama told seniors on Tuesday in Wheaton, Maryland, "what you need to know is that the guaranteed Medicare benefits that you've earned will not change, regardless of whether you receive them through Medicare or Medicare Advantage." First and foremost, nothing about that sentence is true.

06 /10 / 10 - Publishing Company Under Fire for Putting Warning Label on Constitution
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"...warns readers of its reprints of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federalist Papers, among others, that "this book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today."

06 /08 / 10 - Super Duper Tuesday: What to Watch For
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"Welcome to the biggest primary day of the year! Eleven states -- from California to Arkansas to Maine (and everywhere in between) -- are voting today. "

06 /08 / 10 - Obama to Reopen Oil Drilling
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"The Obama administration, facing rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, said Monday that it would move quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters."

06 /02 / 10 - AZ Governor Jan Brewer to meet with President Obama
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"We'll meet you in court," Brewer told CNN' when asked how she would respond if President Barack Obama's Department of Justice decided to challenge the law. "I have a pretty good record of winning in court."

06 /02 / 10 - Morning Bell: ObamaCare's True Costs Coming to Light
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"The central challenge is straightforward and stark: The rising costs of health care will put tremendous pressure on the federal budget during the next few decades and beyond."

05 /31 / 10 - VP Biden Pays Solemn Tribute to Fallen Troops in Arlington Cemetary
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"As President Obama was trapped in rain trying to pay his respects to America's war dead Monday at a ceremony in Illinois, Vice President Biden spoke at a sunny Arlington National Cemetery to offer words of respect to the fallen and a solemn tribute to troops now fighting to secure America from new enemies."

05 /31 / 10 - White House prepares for worst as new effort to slow leak begins
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"The Obama administration scrambled to regroup on Sunday after the failure of the latest attempt to kill the gushing oil well. But administration officials acknowledged the possibility that tens of thousands of gallons of oil a day might continue pouring into the Gulf of Mexico until August, when two relief wells are scheduled to be completed."

05 /31 / 10 - President Obama asking Supreme Court to review AZ law
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"The Obama administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to prevent Arizona from enforcing a law that punishes businesses that employ illegal immigrants, arguing that federal immigration law trumps state efforts."

05 /24 / 10 - Texas Board of Education Text book changes: Full PDF.
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The changes require students to learn more about the founding fathers, capitalism and American exceptionalism. Oh the horror!

05 /24 / 10 - Why the media ignored the Nashville, Iowa and North Dakota floods
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"With two other "disasters" dominating the headlines, the Times Square bombing attempt and the Gulf oil spill, the national media seems to largely to have ignored the plight of Music City" And Iowa, and North Dakota.

05 /20 / 10 - If Los Angeles persists in boycott, Arizona may have a boycott of their own
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"If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation"

05 /20 / 10 - It is Not Chuck DeVore Who Must Drop Out. Carly Fiorina Must Go.
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"A conservative whose first name starts with a “C” can win the primary and beat Barbra Boxer. But that person is not named Carly. Rather that person is named Chuck."

5 /18 / 10 - Primaries in 4 states, 1 House election
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"Politicians are like diapers. They both should be changed regularly," said Marc Coleman 41, of Philadelphia

05 /17 / 10 - Supreme Court: Sex offenders can be held indefinitely
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"The federal government, as custodian of its prisoners, has the constitutional power to act in order to protect nearby (and other) communities from the danger such prisoners may pose."

05 /13 / 10 - We're not yet Greece, but are we still America?
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So, are we Greece? Not yet. But if we don't change course and recognize that we are not exempt from the fundamental laws of prudent finance, we could be in the not too distant future.

There's another question worth considering: Are we still America? Our nation and too many of our citizens have become addicted to consumption and debt. But we can change our ways. Every previous generation has taken steps to keep America strong and improve the standard of living for future generations. Thanks to our forbears, we are the richest and most powerful nation on earth. Then again, back in the day, so was Greece.

05 /12 / 10 - CBO: Health Care Bill Will Cost $115 Billion More Than Previously Assessed. (Really?  Does this actually come as a surprise?) Please read my March 6th column: CBO missing in action: What's the real cost of Obama's Health Care Reform?
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The director of the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the health care reform legislation would cost, over the next ten years, $115 billion more than previously thought, bringing the total cost to more than $1 trillion.

05 /10 / 10 - Elena Kagan to be Obama's Supreme Court pick: The issues
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"Kagan is the consummate Obama insider, and her meteoric rise over the last 15 years, from obscure academic and Clinton White House staffer to Harvard law school dean to Supreme Court nominee would seem to reflect what writer Christopher Caldwell describes  as the "intermarriage of financial and executive branch elites [that] could only have happened in the Clinton years" and that has fostered the dominant financial-political oligarchy in America."

05 /06 / 10 - Last Navy SEAL acquitted of abusing Iraqi terrorist. (These charges never should have been pressed.)
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He was the only one of the three charged with actual assault, and even so, it took just an hour and 40 minutes to acquit him. Why so quick? Because the prosecution's case collapsed:

05 /06 / 10 - Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees On Cinco de Mayo
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"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July." (So, on Cinco de Mayo, Hispanics are not Americans? Insane bowing to the politically correct police at the cost of patriotism.)

05 /04 / 10 - Despite plan, not a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill
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If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land.

05 /03 / 10 - Pakistani Taliban release flurry of videos that appear to stake claim on NYC car bomb attempt
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The Pakistani Taliban promise future attacks on major U.S. cities and appear to claim responsibility for an attempted car bombing in New York

05 /03 / 10 - US to reveal its nuclear weapons (more erosion of our national defense under this administration).
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The Pentagon will make public on Monday previously classified statistics on the size of the US nuclear arsenal, a spokesman said.

04 /29 / 10 - Boycotting Arizona Ice Tea? The joke is on you.
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Arizona Ice Tea is based in New York. It was founded in 1992 in Brooklyn by former New York City beer distributors; the company says the founders borrowed "the motif from their south-western inspired house in Queens."

04 /29 / 10 - Boycotting Baseball? And they call themselves Americans...Arizona Immigration Boycott Zeroes in on Baseball
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Activists and sports columnists across the country are calling on baseball fans to ask the MLB to pull the 2011 All-Star Game out of Phoenix.

04 /27 / 10 - Arizona Immigration Law Prompts San Francisco to Consider Boycott of State
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"Lawmakers in San Francisco today will vote on a citywide boycott of the state of Arizona, in protest of its new illegal immigrant law that has spurred a backlash across the country." Leave it to SF to expect tolerance of its self proclaimed, and illegal, sanctuary city status but be completely intolerant of AZ's need to protect its citizens from foreign invasion. (AB)

04 /26 / 10 - Obama Jumps Into 2010 Race With Appeal to Latinos, African-Americans, Women and Youth
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President Obama left white, middle-aged male voters in his rear-view mirror Monday in launching his first midterm election pitch, calling on "young people, African Americans, Latinos and women" to deliver for Democrats in November.

04 /22 / 10 - Obama will ask Wall Street to drop efforts to block financial overhaul
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Obama will speak midday Thursday at the Cooper Union, in the shadow of Wall Street, as the full Senate prepares to debate legislation to regulate derivatives, create a consumer financial-protection structure and give the government mechanisms to stave off bailouts of giants considered too big to fail.

04 /22 / 10 - White House dismisses 'crazy' Internet conspiracies as Arizona House passes 'Birther bill'
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A bill that would require presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate in order to get on the state's ballot passed the state's House in a slim 31-29 vote. Was this really necessary?

04 /22 / 10 - How Facebook Plans to Dominate the Web
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It's not just social networking anymore; it's social domination.(Why am I suddenly thinking the name "Hal"?)

04 /21 / 10 - Arizona Passes Tough Illegal Immigration Law
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Arizona is enhancing its already hard-line stance against illegal immigration with a new law that makes the state the toughest in the nation for illegal immigrants. But will the measure withstand legal challenges from civil libertarians who claim it's unconstitutional?

04 /19 / 10 - Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington
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Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don't trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America's ills, the survey found.

04 /15 / 10 - Today is the Best Tax Day of Your Life
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Almost nobody likes tax day, but people may look back nostalgically on tax day 2010 and those of earlier years because, almost certainly, taxes are going up in the future, and they may go up a lot. With hindsight, tax day 2010 may seem almost dreamy.

04 / 15/ 10 - ObamaCare Promises and Facts
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Even those who voted for President Obama are wishing he had more clearly defined "change". In the election, what you "saw" is not what you "got". Now with ObamaCare, as Pelosi said, "We have to pass the bill so we can understand what's in it." Well, it is ugly.

04 / 12 / 10 - School Day Protest: Gay and Lesbian Advocacy Group to Sponsor an Anti-bullying "Day of Silence"
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Thousands of public schools are planning to allow students affiliated with a gay and lesbian advocacy group to sponsor an anti-bullying "Day of Silence" on Friday, but family organizations say the demonstration is a disruptive waste of taxpayer dollars and are calling for families to pull their kids out of school.

04 / 12 / 10 - Orin Hatch Names Hilary Clinton as Possible Supreme Court Nominee
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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, one of the top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Monday morning that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been mentioned as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court.

04 / 07 / 10 - U.S Shouldn't Play Nice on Nukes
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Under President Obama's new policy if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is "in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)," explained Gates, then "the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it." The naivete is stunning. Similarly the Obama pledge to forswear development of any new nuclear warheads, indeed, to permit no replacement of aging nuclear components without the authorization of the president himself. This under the theory that our moral example will move other countries to eschew nukes.

04 / 04 / 10 - Easy teen abortions undermine family
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For some, abortion is a heavily weighed decision. However, when it becomes something to fit in between math and biology class or viewed as simply a means to excise "unwanted tissue," the event carries less weight than the slapping of a mosquito at a barbecue.

03 / 31 / 10 - The most comprehensive analysis of America's debt woes that I have ever slogged through.  Rich in details - real details.
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Hope is not a strategy. Our leaders should obey the first law of holes: When you are in one, stop digging. Unfortunately, the current climate in Washington encourages the exact opposite: Dig as fast as you can while there's still time.

03 / 30 / 10 - With health bill, Obama has sown the seeds of a budget crisis
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Should the United States someday suffer a budget crisis, it will be hard not to conclude that Obama and his allies sowed the seeds, because they ignored conspicuous warnings. A further irony will not escape historians. For two years, Obama and members of Congress have angrily blamed the shortsightedness and selfishness of bankers and rating agencies for causing the recent financial crisis. The president and his supporters, historians will note, were equally shortsighted and self-centered -- though their quest was for political glory, not financial gain.

03 / 30 / 10 - Obama steps up confrontation
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President Barack Obama, after a year of fitfully searching for compromise, is taking a more aggressive tack with his Republican adversaries, hoping to energize Democratic voters and possibly muscle in some Republican support in Congress.On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, "Go for it." Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.

03 / 26 / 10 - Arizona law promises to be the "toughest" on illegal immigration
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A bill empowering police to arrest illegal immigrants and charge them with trespassing for simply being in the state of Arizona, is likely just weeks away from becoming the toughest law of its kind anywhere in the country. Already passed by the state's Senate and currently being reconciled with a similar version in the House, the bill would essentially criminalize the presence of the 460,000 illegal immigrants living in the state.

03 / 26 / 10 - CBO Report: Debt will rise to 90% of GDP
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President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation's economic output by 2020.

03 / 24 / 10 - House Democrats Face Violent Threats After Health Care Vote
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"Several members have faced death threats and harassing phone calls while others have experienced vandalism at district offices or their private homes." This is not the way folks, to take back your rights and freedoms. Don't sink to the level of fringe radicals.  Remain passionate and active, vocal and dignified and exercise your voting power.  It is unjust to attack the system that, by its very nature, allows you to attack it. Is there corruption around every corner?  Sure.  But resorting to violence solves nothing and serves only to undermine the crucial agenda that conservatives are fighting for.

03 / 22 / 10 - The 219-212 roll call Sunday by which the House passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Or, alternatively, who is in the dog house now!
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CALIFORNIA
Democrats -- Baca, Y; Becerra, Y; Berman, Y; Capps, Y; Cardoza, Y; Chu, Y; Costa, Y; Davis, Y; Eshoo, Y; Farr, Y; Filner, Y; Garamendi, Y; Harman, Y; Honda, Y; Lee, Y; Lofgren, Zoe, Y; Matsui, Y; McNerney, Y; Miller, George, Y; Napolitano, Y; Pelosi, Y; Richardson, Y; Roybal-Allard, Y; Sanchez, Linda T., Y; Sanchez, Loretta, Y; Schiff, Y; Sherman, Y; Speier, Y; Stark, Y; Thompson, Y; Waters, Y; Watson, Y; Waxman, Y; Woolsey, Y.

03 /21/ 10 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Health Care Vote on Sunday
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The Shorthand: House will have three major votes. Deem and pass is out. The House Democrats cannot have more than 37 of their members vote no and still pass the bill. Click the link to see the full process.

03 / 19 / 10 - Health Bill Horse Trading
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The deal-making appears to be at odds with a commitment from the White House to strip out provisions designed to benefit a particular state or special interest. The legislation has become controversial not only in the ways it would alter U.S. health care, but also because of public concern about the machinery employed to push it through the legislative process.

03 / 18 / 10 - The Health-Care Wars Are Only Beginning
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America will be in a constant health-care war if ObamaCare is enacted. Passage wouldn't end the health-care debate. Rather, it would perpetuate ObamaCare as the dominant issue for decades to come, reshape politics, create an annual funding crisis in Congress, and generate a spate of angry lawsuits. Yet few in Washington seem aware of what lies ahead.

03 / 16 / 10 - Obama Evokes Fear, Calls for Courage
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"As a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to the hilt." Can you say hypocrite?  I think you can.  Say it with me...Hypocrite - defined as the act of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have.

03 / 15 / 10 - Immigration reform could be dilemma. Support it or oppose it, Dems risk voter fallout
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"It is showdown time," activist Emma Lozano said at a recent Capitol Hill news conference called by members of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. "If you (Democratic leaders) don't keep your promises, we will leave you where we found you. You have the power. You must use it, or you will lose it."

03 / 12 / 10 - 159 Ways the Senate Bill is a Government Takeover of Health Care
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Where are the jobs?  In big government.  Ask yourself, "why?" Here is a list of new boards, bureaucracies, and programs created in the 2,733 page Senate health care bill, which serves as the framework for President Obama's health proposal:

03 / 08 / 10 - The Pelosi Index - The Complete Chart
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Want to know exactly who voted with Pelosi and on what issues?  Check this chart for both Republicans and Democrats.  Get informed and apply pressure to get America back on track. Email or call your Representatives and let them know where you stand on the issues and why they won't get your vote. Your voice can make a difference!

03 / 04 / 10 - Al Gore's reading of his global warming poem moves Glenn Beck to tears
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Al Gore recently performed a second, more dramatic reading of his Global Warming poem to CBS.  Beck decided to put it to music. Hysterical!

03 / 01 / 10 - Transcript: Rep. Paul Ryan on 'FNS'
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In the health care summit this week, there was one Republican President Obama didn't want to mess with, someone who knows as much about the issue as he does.

02 / 28 / 10 - Democrats will have votes for health bill, Obama aide says
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That Senate vote would take place under a parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation, which requires 51 votes rather than 60.

02 / 28 / 10 - Pelosi Confident on Health Vote
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Nancy Pelosi on Sunday expressed confidence she will have enough votes to pass a health overhaul, but acknowledged it could come at a political cost to lawmakers who back the measure.

02 / 24 / 10 - Senate Votes 70-28 to Approve $15 Billion Job-Creation Bill
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WASHINGTON—With an unusually strong bipartisan vote Wednesday, the Senate approved a $15 billion bill lawmakers hope will spur job creation in the flat employment market.

02 / 20 / 10 - George Will-Conservative Political Action Conference
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A must listen!

02 / 19 / 10 - GOP, Democrats Continue Staking Out Reform Positions, Strategies In Advance Of Health Summit
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The White House is preparing a bill "designed to win passage without Republican support if GOP lawmakers fail to embrace bipartisan compromises" during next week's White House health summit.

02 / 19 / 10 - Pawlenty offers 'four principles' at CPAC
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Pawlenty got down to brass tacks and offered "four ideas that should carry us forward."

02 / 15 / 10 - Iran moving toward military dictatorship, Clinton says
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, ""We see that the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the parliament is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship,"

02 / 12 / 10 - Man Up, Obama, or Make Way for President Palin: David Reilly
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This opinion piece makes so much sense! Reilly says, "President Barack Obama is starting to look like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. If he’s going to avoid that fate, the president had better take radical action -- and fast."

02 / 09 / 10 - 2002 Superbowl Commercial "Clydesdale Salute to 9/11"
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Never forget.  It is good that Americans have the capacity to heal, but to become numb to threat is a mistake.

02 / 07 / 10 - Alana Marie Burke: Civilian trial is wrong venue for terrorists
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Last year, President Barack Obama decided to bring terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of Sept. 11, to Manhattan and try him, and four others, in federal court. This was an illogical and insensitive extension of not human rights, but constitutional rights, to enemy combatants. The plan was a slap to the face of not only those who lost loved ones in the bombing, but to all Americans who are entitled to the rights and privileges afforded by our Constitution.

02 / 05 / 10 - Why are liberals so condescending?
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American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason


02 / 04 / 10 - Obama picks campaigning over leading
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There's always been a disconnect between what Barack Obama says and what he does, but for the last few weeks, the president's rhetoric has been wholly detached from reality.

02 / 01 / 10 - SPIEGEL Interview with Hamid Karzai
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"You have suggested that Taliban leaders should be removed from United Nations terrorist lists in order to allow the initiation of talks with them. But why should the international community allow the same people back into Afghanistan who they sent soldiers into the country to get rid of?"

01 / 28 / 10 - Transcript of Obama's First State of the Union
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If you missed it, here it is.  Parse at will although the words alone cannot convey the arrogance and disdain that was evident on both President Obama's and First Lady Michelle Obama's faces throughout this forgettable, tantrum of a speech.

01 / 26 / 10 - Bogus IQ test with destructive payload in the wild
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Researchers from ESET and BitDefender have intercepted two destructive malware variants (Win32/Zimuse.A, Win32/Zimuse.B/zipsetup.exe), posing as an IQ test, and currently spreading in the wild.

01 / 25 / 10 - White House directed a $25 million no-bid contract to Checchi & Company Consulting, Inc.
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The Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a prominent Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids. Aren't the days of sweetheart deals over? Wasn't that an Obama campaign promise?

01 / 20 / 10 - Does Scott Brown's election doom healthcare?
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The great morning-after question is rippling through Washington like the aftershock of a major earthquake, exposing huge rifts within the Democratic Party. The question: Does Republican Scott Brown's stunning win of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts doom healthcare?

01 / 20 / 10 - Democrats scramble after poll blow. Scott Brown the winner!
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Democrats are conducting an autopsy into their humiliating Massachusetts Senate defeat, which puts President Barack Obama's legislative agenda at risk and underlines the difficulties the party faces in this year's mid-term congressional elections.

01 / 18 / 10 - Google Hack Leaked to Internet; Security Experts Urge Vigilance
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Security experts are urging computer users throughout the world to be highly vigilant until a patch can be developed.(My suggestion? Check out Mozilla Firefox as an alternative to Explorer.)

01 / 17 / 10 - Hope for Obama turns into letdown
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Forget "can," "change" and, above all, "hope." The word echoing in the blogosphere and beyond as Obama enters Year Two: disappointment.

01 / 16 / 10 - Narrow Senate Race Unnerves Democrats on Health Care
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With their party�s candidate struggling in Massachusetts in a race for what should be the safest of Senate seats, Congressional Democrats are growing increasingly unnerved about the political consequences of the health care overhaul even as their leadership closes in on a final agreement.

01 / 16 / 10 - Scott Brown's Push Back
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Scott Brown, speaking to reporters following a stop to a firehouse in Plymouth, pushed back hard on a state Democratic Party mailer that said he wants to turn "all" rape victims away from the hospital, Jonathan Martin reports.

01 / 15 / 10 - American Red Cross Pledges Initial $1 Million to Haiti Relief
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To help, people can make an unrestricted donation to the International Response Fund at www.redcross.org or by calling 1-800-REDCROSS (1-800-733-2767). The public can also help by texting 'Haiti' to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross, through an effort backed by the U.S. State Department. Funds will go to support American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.    

01 / 15 / 10 - Haiti earthquake themed blackhat SEO campaigns serving scareware
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Cybercriminals quickly mobilized following the news of a massive earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, by introducing several hundred compromised domains embedded with bogus content related to Red Cross donations and general Haiti earthquake relief information.

01 / 11 / 10 - Democrats back Senator Reid after "negro" remark
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Reid said "Obama could succeed as a black candidate partly because of his "light-skinned" appearance and speaking patterns "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

01 / 11 / 10 - Sarah Palin signs on with Fox News
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A Fox News executive says the network will shortly announce that the former vice-presidential nominee is signing on as a contributor.



01 / 11 / 10 - Tens of Thousands Sign Petition Urging Holder to Move KSM Trial from New York
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More than 60,000 people,including members of Congress and three former presidential candidates, have signed a petition calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to move the trial of Khalid Shiekh Mohammed (or KSM) from New York City to a military tribunal.

01 / 07 / 10 - Obama OKs taxing high-end health plans
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President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they'll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.

01 / 03 / 10 - DeMint: WH 'distracted by other things,' not focused on security
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President Barack Obama has "downplayed the risk of terrorism since taking office," to the detriment to Americans' safety.

01 / 03/ 10 - Plane attack renews debate over transfer of Gitmo detainees
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The Obama administration made no commitment this weekend to stop the transfer of about 40 prisoners to Yemen this year, as part of its larger plan to shutter the Gitmo detention facility.

12 / 30 / 09 - Sarah Palin�s "Going Rogue" Scores with the Liberals!
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Palin's book is number 3 on the nonfiction bestseller list in California's ultra liberal Bay Area


12 / 30 / 09 - Insane Asylum: Democrats Amnesty Bill
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Raise your hand if you think alien smugglers and terrorists are already adapting their tactics based on this windfall and coaching their clients on how to make plausible-sounding asylum claims.


12 / 25 / 09 - Sen. Ben Nelson�s Deal With Democrats May Prompt Constitutional Challenge
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In exchange for Nelson�s critical 60th vote to cut off debate early Monday morning, Sen. Harry Reid agreed that the federal government would pick up 100 percent of the tab for the planned Medicaid expansion in Nebraska � forever.  Prostitution is alive, well and apparently legal in the Senate.

12 / 25 / 09 - Frazzled Roxbury mom calls the cops on teen gamer
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Mejia said she approves of athletic-themed videos, but as for �Grand Theft Auto,� she said, �I would never buy that kind of video. No way. I called (police) because if you don�t respect your mother, what are you going to do in your life?�  Teaching respect and values should occur way before 14.  Somebody dropped the ball.  Who could that be?

12 / 25 / 09 - Immigration bill dismantles enforcement, increases pressure on American workers
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With some 25 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, CIR ASAP would also make millions of illegal aliens immediately eligible to compete for every available job in the United States.

12 / 25 / 09 - Immigration overhaul bill unveiled in House
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The legislation, which includes a path to legalization, is met with criticism from conservatives and liberals.  At a time when we have an unemployment rate of 10%, do we really need to fast track immigration?  Oh wait, that�s right, what is an illegal alien?  An unregistered Democrat.  Now this is starting to make sense.

12 / 21 / 09 - Obama Calls Test Vote on Senate Health Bill a 'Big Victory'
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President Obama on Monday hailed a successful test vote on health care reform in the Senate hours earlier as a "big victory for the American people," claiming the package making its way toward a Christmas Eve vote will save the country from crippling health care costs.

12 / 16 / 09 - Asked If It's Moral to Make Taxpayers Fund Abortion, Lieberman Says Government Makes People Pay For Things They Think Are Immoral 'All the Time'
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Lieberman said: �Oh, as somebody once said, that�s a hard question to answer on one foot, but it happens all the time because we put money into a general pot and then it goes to things that some people support and some don�t.�

12 / 17 / 09 - Sen. Coburn: �I Don�t Think We Ought to Take Tax Money from Americans to Cover Any Health Care�
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a pro-life advocate in the Senate, said he doesn�t �think we ought to take tax money from Americans to cover any health care� whether it involves abortion or not, and that the problem with the health care system is that the government is already too involved.

12 / 16 / 09 - Health bill held up by single Democrat and GOP tactics
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Reporting from Washington - New obstacles slowed Senate action on the healthcare bill today, as the hunt for supporters narrowed to a lone Democrat -- Ben Nelson of Nebraska -- and Republican delaying tactics brought debate to a temporary standstill.

12 / 16 / 09 - China declares Copenhagen a failure: source
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China has told participants in the UN climate change talks that it sees no possibility of reaching an operational accord this week, an official involved in the Copenhagen talks says.

12 / 16 / 09 - House passes temporary measures to end 2009
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The House pushed through a last-minute flurry of legislation Wednesday including a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill, a short-term rise in the nation's debt limit and an extension of unemployment and health benefits for millions of jobless Americans.