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Angle defends conservative positions

Posted on August 19th, 2010

RENO, Nev. — Sharron Angle strode to the microphones here and made a vigorous defense of her fiercely conservative positions, renewing her calls for the elimination of the Education Department and signaling that she still supports a Social Security system that will eventually be “transitioned out.” Speaking to supporters here at the Atlantis Casino before a [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on July 13th, 2010

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CNN poll: Majority disapprove of Obama for first time

Posted on March 23rd, 2010

Washington (CNN) – For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 51 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama’s job performance and 46 percent ap Obama’s approval rating has dropped steadily each month since December, [...]

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Predictions

Posted on March 20th, 2010

Our future under Obamacare. The crystal ball is still far too cloudy to predict whether or not Obamacare will pass, but it is not too soon to make some predictions about what the future will look like if it does pass. The bill will cost more than advertised. It won’t be long before Congress is [...]

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Exclusive: House Minority Leader John Boehner on the Health-Care Vote

Posted on March 19th, 2010

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. John Boehner (R., Ohio), the House minority leader, tells National Review Online that as of late Thursday afternoon, Democratic leadership “still doesn’t have the votes” to pass their health-care bill, and that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) is “prepared to sacrifice her members, and her speakership, so that she can plant [...]

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Obama delivers health care pitch in St. Charles, St. Louis

Posted on March 11th, 2010

By:  Jake Wagman, Blythe Bernhard, Mark Schlinkmann President Barack Obama brought his health care road show to the St. Louis area Wednesday, announcing a crackdown on waste and fraud in hopes of persuading a gridlocked Congress to pass sweeping health insurance reform. After delivering a speech in St. Charles, Obama appeared at a downtown St. [...]

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Calvin Woodward of AP Debunks #SOTU

Posted on January 28th, 2010

Calvin Woodward the chief AP  debunker has gone over Obama’s claims during last night’s State of The Union address. By CALVIN WOODWARD WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama told Americans the bipartisan deficit commission he will appoint won’t just be “one of those Washington gimmicks.” Left unspoken in that assurance was the fact that the commission won’t [...]

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Colleen O’Connor: Obama’s oh-so-faculty lounge

Posted on December 28th, 2009

By Colleen O’Connor, SDNN The Obama Administration has created about two dozen czars, but not one Faberge’ egg. The old political retort, “Where’s the beef?” has now morphed into, “Where’s the genius?” Lee Atwater, the late Republican strategist, used to hang out in bowling alleys to “field test” his campaign messages. President Lyndon Johnson, after [...]

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President Obama: Federal Government ‘Will Go Bankrupt’ if Health Care Costs Are Not Reined In

Posted on December 17th, 2009

ABC’s Karen Travers reports from Washington: President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.” The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails. “If [...]

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Holy Fools

Posted on December 16th, 2009

The article below could also be titled: “The Circular Firing Squad.” ~~John Cronin~~ http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGMwMDk4YmIzZjYyOTMwNDRlMTA5YWE4NDEyZWVjZDM= NRO By the Editors Sen. Harry Reid has been a kind of reverse Houdini with a talent for getting into traps. To appease Democratic moderates, he proposed to drop the public option, which made liberals furious. To get back in their [...]

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