Redstate...
Might Someone Please
Educate Fox News and the Rest of the Media? by Erick
Erickson
Monday, January 31st - Fox News has an article on its website about
John Boehner’s remarks on raising the debt ceiling. But in this
objective report there is a great and dangerous falsehood. The article,
which has no author attached to it, reports in order for the debt
ceiling to rise, Congress must approve taking on more debt, which
currently is growing by more than $4 billion per day. If it doesn’t
approve raising the ceiling, then the U.S. will default... read more
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Newsmax.com... Newsmax Egypt
Source: Obama Out of Touch
Sunday, January 30, 2011 - The Egyptian people are increasingly tired
of the Obama administration’s tepid response to the international call
for President Hosni Mubarak to step down, a Newsmax source in Cairo
says. “If the U.S. is claiming to be the leader of the free world, now
is the time to side with the Egyptian people,” said Ahmed, who lives in
Cairo and has been speaking to Newsmax via landline since protests
began six days ago. “Now is not the time for diplomacy... read more
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Redstate... President Obama’s
Big Diplomatic Test - Egypt - by Brian Darling
Sunday, January 30th - It is clear that the Obama Administration is
facing a big diplomatic test in dealing with the fast developing
situation in Egypt. On one side is the Obama Administration’s
interest of promoting freedom and democracy for the people of
Egypt. On the other side is the national security interest of
maintaining a strong pro-Western U.S. ally in the Global War on Terror
in Egypt. These are very difficult interests to balance... read more
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Who Lost Egypt?
By Dick Morris
Published on DickMorris.com on January 29, 2011 - In the 1950s, the
accusation “who lost China” resonated throughout American politics and
led to the defeat of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections
of 1952. Unless President Obama reverses field and strongly
opposes letting the Muslim brotherhood take over Egypt, he will be hit
with the modern equivalent of the 1952 question... read more
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Human Events... Old Rules Won’t
Determine GOP Presidential Candidate, by Michael Barone
The weakest part of our political system, by a considerable margin, is
the presidential nominating process. It tends to exclude from
consideration those with the greatest experience in what is uniquely
the president’s responsibility, foreign policy and military strategy.
It tends less strongly to exclude members of Congress, particularly
House members but also senators, whose extensive... read more
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Reason Alert January
28, 2011
State of the Union: We Can’t Win the Future By Repeating the Past,
President Obama, China, and High-Speed Rail, Education and the State of
the Union. State of the Union: We Can’t Win the Future By Repeating the
Past. Reason's Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy write, "Rebranding
unrestrained spending as investment may be smart politics, but the
effect on the nation’s balance sheet is unmistakable. Using 2010
numbers, the government is at or near... read
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Obama Speech Shows
He’s Out of Touch, By Dick Morris
Henry Kissinger, in his memoir of the Ford administration, Years of
Upheaval, articulated the central rule of governing: “It is a
statesman’s duty to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and
his vision. If his vision gets too far out ahead of his nation’s
experience, he will lose his mandate. But if he hews too close to the
conventional, he will lose control... read more
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Townhall.com... Why History
Matters, by Linda Chavez
For years, conservatives have rightly decried the distortion,
misrepresentation and downright ignorance of American history that has
sometimes infected left-wing rhetoric. We’ve complained that public
schools do a poor job of teaching our history and an even worse job of
transmitting American values. History matters; as the philosopher
George Santayana famously said: “Those who cannot remember... read more
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Human Events... And The Debt
Bomb Ticks On - by Patrick J. Buchanan
With his approval rating moving up to 50 percent and higher in some
polls, the pundits are all agreed. President Obama has turned the
corner. He is now the winter-book favorite in 2012. How, two months
after his “shellacking,” did he do it? First, by taking the wheel from
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, cutting a deal to extend the Bush tax
cuts, bringing aboard Bill Daley... read more
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The Columbus Dispatch... Gov.
Kasich enlists business people to lure business to Ohio
With his JobsOhio proposal, Gov. John Kasich seeks to put in place the
elements to revitalize Ohio’s economic-development efforts: a focused,
nimble entity with the single mission of creating jobs, and plenty of
business savvy on-board to direct it. The bill introduced yesterday to
create JobsOhio spelled it out: The nine-member board, with the
governor as chairman... read more
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Townhall...
Obama Orders Study
on Socialism - By Chuck Norris
Under the radar this past week was President Barack Obama’s
executive order for a review of government regulations in hope of
showing that bigger government isn’t bad news for economic growth and
business. Of course, the president didn’t word it that way. In his
op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Obama wrote that he just wants
to “make sure we avoid excessive, inconsistent and redundant
regulation... read
more
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CNN...
Transcript: Bachmann’s
response to State of the Union
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, cites the battle of Iwo Jima as an
example of Americans pulling together. Rep. Michele Bachmann responds
to speech from Tea Party Express headquarters. Bachmann calls for full
repeal of “Obamacare”
Bachmann says, “We need to start making things again in this country”
Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, responded to
President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night... read
more
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Congressman Boehner
on the State of the Union & Republican Address to the Nation
Boehner: “Adding to our debt and pushing us closer to bankruptcy
for the sake of more ‘stimulus’ spending will not make our nation more
competitive.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West
Chester) issued the following statement following the State of the
Union and the Republican Address to the Nation: “We were honored to
receive President Obama in the people’s House tonight for his State of
the Union address... read
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Redstate...
The Bachmann Speech
- Posted by Erick Erickson
Much has been made of Michelle Bachmann’s “Tea Party” response to the
State of the Union. For days the media has been playing this up as a
major conflict within the Republican Party. In fact, a number of
Republican leadership aides pulled out all the stops trying to get the
networks to ignore Michelle Bachmann. Kudos to CNN for its... read
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Libertarian response
to State of the Union and Republicans
WASHINGTON - This evening, Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes
Benedict spoke in response to the addresses from President Barack Obama
and Congressman Paul Ryan. A transcript of Mr. Benedict’s speech
follows:
Good evening and thank you for your interest in the State of our Union.
My name is Wes Benedict. I’m the executive director of the Libertarian
National Committee here in Washington, DC... read
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Redstate...
The Sputnik Moment
- Posted by Erick Erickson
“Barack Obama did not jump the shark; he sputniked.” Barack Obama’s
“Sputnik Moment” sums up his speech best. In fact, there is no reason
to fully dwell on his speech in light of the sputnik moment. What do I
mean? Consider this: Barack Obama declared that “This is our
generation’s Sputnik moment.” His reference was to the mobilization of
the United States after the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite.
President Kennedy mobilized the United States... read
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Townhall...
7 Non-Political
Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives - By John
Hawkins
People who don’t follow politics tend to believe that conservatives and
liberals are just flip sides of the same coin. In other words,
conservatives are pro-life, pro-gun, and fiscally conservative while
liberals are pro-choice, anti-gun, and want to tax and spend, but
otherwise, there are no real differences. However, if you follow
politics closely, you’ll find that there’s a gulf as wide as the ocean
between the average politically active conservative and... read
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Politico...
Left laments Obama’s
move to center - By Meredith Shiner and Maggie Haberman
President Barack Obama plans to play up a bright future with
congressional Republicans by channeling his 2008 campaign message of
post-partisanship in his State of the Union address — but the liberal
wing of his party isn’t quite seeing the light. As the president touts
spending austerity, deficit reduction and extension of the Bush-era tax
cuts, some Democrats worry Obama will pivot too hard away from the
party’s core principles and concede... read
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Politico... Farm subsidies test
GOP pledge, By: David Rogers
Rep. Jim Jordan's Ohio district ranks among the top 50 recipients of
farm subsidies. As eager as they are for a fight with the White House,
Republican budget cutters have a problem in their own back pasture:
what to do about a system of farm subsidies that’s still pumping
billions into GOP districts at a time of record income for producers...
read more
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Townhall…
Federal Government
Unions Looting American Taxpayers - By Lurita Doan
Lines are being drawn and the fight to reduce overly generous pay and
benefits to government employees at the federal, state, and local level
is underway. Not too surprisingly, public employee unions are gearing
up, rallying government employees, and exerting pressure to maintain
the generous pay and benefits that has loaded government with
unsustainable debt. Public employee unions are, even now, pressing the
Obama Administration for additional benefits and power... read
more
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Townhall… House Health Care
Repeal More Reality TV than Theater - By Star Parker
Democrats who are calling the House's decisively passed repeal of
Obamacare -- the so-called " Patient Protection and Affordable Health
Care" act -- theater are hallucinating. Perhaps it was theatrical to
include in the name of the repeal act "job killing", though that is
what it is. But I prefer melodrama to dishonesty. Calling Obamacare --
government mandates, subsidies... read more
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Redstate…
How To Repeal
ObamaCare - By Michael Hammond
To listen to the liberal media, you would think conservatives had won
the first and only battle on ObamaCare repeal –- but already lost the
war. The Washington Post, echoing the almost universal media theme
(including Fox), called the vote “largely symbolic.” Over and over
again, we have been told that ObamaCare... read
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Has Anyone Checked to See if Glenn Beck is
Still on the Air? Posted by Erick Erickson
In light of the Keith Olbermann news, we might want to check to see if
Glenn Beck is still on Fox News. After all, the lefties had a boycott
of him going to try to get him canned. Oh. What’s that you say? Glenn
Beck is still on the schedule? Oh. Okay. Thanks for letting me know. As
far as Olbermann goes... read
more
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Townhall.com… Why the shock, Why
the outrage, Why now? - By Kevin McCullough
The grand jury's indictment read as one of the most disgusting litanies
of murder we've seen in all of western culture. For over two decades
Kermitt Gosnell illegally sold prescriptions by day, and on the side,
induced early delivery in expectant, indigent, and immigrant mothers.
When those induced deliveries did not kill the child off, Gosnell would
then either snip the spinal cord with a pair of scissors... read more
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Townhall.com...
Fear of a Red Planet
- By David Harsanyi
Have you heard that Hollywood is remaking the '80s classic -- yes,
classic -- "Red Dawn"? Rather than Nicaraguan and Cuban forces invading
the heartland with their godless socialism, a Chinese incursion will be
the focus of the remake. And once again, a ragtag band of high-school
students will do what hundreds of billions in Pentagon spending
couldn't do: save... read more
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Townhall… Every Dollar Has a Sponsor
The chatter around Your Nation's Capital among the cognoscenti, the
intelligentsia, and smarty-pantses over the past 24 hours was: Is there
any real meaning to the House vote to repeal Obamacare? That may not be
as poetic as Paul Simon's lyric from his 1966 song Dangling
Conversation: We speak of things that matter;
With words that must be
said:
"Can analysis be worthwhile;
Is the theater really dead?" But,
there you are... read
more
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Townhall… Antidote to Government's Education Monopoly
- By Kyle Olson
Americans are beginning to understand that the government-run
assembly-line education system is not working. As I point out in the
upcoming "Kids Aren't Cars" film series, thousands, of not millions of
kids are being failed by a system that is geared more towards
satisfying adults than educating children. See the trailer by clicking
the link below. How else can a recent Detroit Public Schools graduate
be unable to read her own diploma? How else can tenure - the job
security... read
more
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Will “Centrist” Obama
Win? By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Jan. 21, 2011 - On this, the second anniversary of his inauguration,
President Obama is clearly showing a determination to change his image,
replacing his hard left dogmatism with a seeming flexibility and
openness to the views of the center. Will it work? Will it
lead to his re-election? Are we only one-quarter of the way
through a two term Obama presidency? If the Republican Party... read more
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Townhall… Peace in Our Time?
- By Janice Shaw Crouse
"Can we all get along?" - Rodney King. In these times when irrational
hatreds erupt in such terrifying tragedy, Rodney King’s nearly
20-year-old question re-echoes. Hard experience answers: No, not
really. Not in this fallen world. Neither in ancient times (Hebrews and
Philistines, Athens and Sparta), nor recent times (Korea, Viet Nam,
Iran and Iraq). Not between semi-literate tribes (Hutus and Tutsis),
nor... read more
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Townhall... Restoring Economic
Freedom
Suppose a quiz show host were to ask: “What country enjoys the most
economic freedom?” Most Americans probably wouldn’t even hesitate
before answering, “The United States.” They’d be wrong. In fact,
according to the 2011 “Index of Economic Freedom,” the U.S. isn’t even
in the top five. We come in at number nine -- right below Denmark,
Ireland and Canada... read more
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Townhall… A Solution at Obama's
Fingertips
On Tuesday, the president will deliver his State of the Union message.
The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will continue his "move to
the center." The quotation marks are necessary because some people
think he really is moving to the center, while others think he just
wants to appear like he is. Either way, this undoubtedly... read more
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Human Events… Media Banished
From Democrats’ Retreat
The House Democrats have banned reporters from the hotel where they are
holding their annual retreat for three days this week. The Democratic
Members of Congress are staying at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay
Golf Resort, Spa and Marina in Cambridge, MD. The media, however, are
staying at the Holiday Inn Express, which is almost two miles away... read more
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Townhall… Why We're a Divided Nation, By
Walter E. Williams
Some Americans have strong, sometimes unyielding preferences for Mac
computers, while most others have similarly strong preferences for PCs
and wouldn't be caught dead using a Mac. Some Americans love classical
music and hate rock and roll. Others have opposite preferences, loving
rock and roll and consider classical music as hoity-toity junk. Then
there are those among us who love football and Western movies, and find
golf and cooking shows to be less than manly... read more
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From Sojourners… After Tucson, the State of the Union
In Tucson, Arizona, President Obama spoke to the state of the nation’s
soul. Next Tuesday, January 25, he will speak to the state of the
union. But these two topics are not as separate as they might seem.
Presidents often use the State of the Union as a moment to talk about
who we are, who we are not, and who we can be as a nation. Democratic
Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Tom Coburn will sit next
to one another during the president’s State of the Union... read more
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Could Offshore Drilling Reduce the Deficit?
By Robert Bluey
Republicans press White House for data on the government's offshore
drilling revenue - Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) wants the Obama
administration to provide Congress with data on the federal
government’s offshore drilling revenue — information that would show
just how much President Obama’s anti-drilling policies are impacting
the budget. Based on recent projections from the U.S. Energy
Information Administration, production in the Gulf of Mexico is
expected to drop... read more
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Townhall... Obama Isn't Fooling
Anyone - By David Harsanyi
President Barack Obama penned a witty Wall Street Journal op-ed this
week, titled "Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System." In it, he
extolled the virtues of a free market system. And to prove that his
admiration of capitalism has nothing to do with naked political
expediency, Obama signed an executive order that will "root out
regulations that conflict, that are not worth... read more
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Libertarian chair "sort of" commends
Obama's Cuba decision
WASHINGTON - Mark Hinkle, Chairman of the Libertarian Party, sort of
commends President Obama for his decision to just barely ease travel
restrictions and restrictions on sending private financial assistance
to the people suffering under the socialist government of Cuba.
Hinkle
said, "The president has shown less-than-tremendous courage here. I
suppose it's a tiny positive step that our government will permit
Americans to send $500 to a Cuban... read more
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Mud Libel
- by Ann Coulter
01/19/2011 - The same people who had blamed Sarah Palin for the
massacre at the Tucson Safeway and then taunted her for her “silence”
were enraged when she responded. Last Tuesday, the night before Palin
responded, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann mocked Palin’s silence throughout
his show: -- “And why is the ever self-promoting Miss Palin so quiet?”
- “And it’s quiet, isn’t it?” - “It’s too quiet"... read more
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1,968 Reasons to
Repeal - by Newt Gingrich
If you had any doubt about the importance of repealing the health
reform law, a new chart from the Center for Health Transformation will
give you 1,968 reasons to repeal the bill. The chart, titled “The New
and Expanded Secretarial Powers in the Health Reform Law” reveals the
ways in which the 2,700-page health reform law grants 1,968 powers to
the Secretary of Health and Human... read more
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Politico… Repeal vote is just Republicans' first step
on health care, By Carrie Budoff Brown
The highly anticipated vote Wednesday to repeal the health care reform
bill will make headlines and count as a promise kept by House
Republicans. But in the end, it’s really just for show. The real work
begins immediately afterward, with Republicans using every legislative
and political tool at their disposal to wage a two-year campaign
against the overhaul. And there won’t be anything subtle about this
slow-drip strategy as Republicans aim... read more
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Redstate... The Secret Ballot Protection Act: It’s Time
to Make it Law
Jan. 17, 2011 - Let’s put this whole debate about card-check to bed
once and for all. It’s time to pass the Secret Ballot Protection Act.
On Friday, the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board
threatened to sue the states of Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota
and Utah, if any (or all) of them attempt to enforce the recent
voter-approved measures in their states that guarantee workers the
right to a secret-ballot election... read more
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Townhall.com... Contrasts in
Black and Red - By Cal Thomas
The contrast between what Illinois Democrats did last week and what
Republicans have done in Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Virginia and New
Jersey, could not be clearer. In Illinois, Democratic legislators and a
Democratic governor pushed through a massive 67 percent personal income
tax hike (and a 46 percent boost in corporate taxes), claiming an
accompanying "cap" would mean no new spending... read more
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Columbus Dispatch... Snooping on journalist's family is new low
for Democrats
A general rule of politics is that families are off limits. Criticize a
political opponent, go after a public official but leave spouses and
kids alone, unless there are special circumstances that expose them to
scrutiny. Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern broke that code
on Nov. 11, nine days after Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland lost
re-election. Redfern personally signed a public-records request with
the city of Cleveland... read more
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Townhall.com…
School Choice Offers
Opportunity for the Teaching Profession, By Gary Beckner
2011 is gearing up to be the year for education reform in America. With
the education debate making headlines daily, it’s clear that we will be
seeing major changes in the year to come. School choice, the call for
an education system that allows parents to choose the learning
environment that is best suited for their child, has become the
cornerstone of the education... read more
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Townhall.com... Uniting Congress, By Linda
Chavez
The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the murder
of six others in Tucson have transfixed the nation for the past week.
But as horrific as those events were, Congress has little choice but to
move on. There is little Congress can do about what happened in Tucson
-- or ensure something like it won't ever happen again. It is hubris to
believe otherwise. What members of Congress owe their fallen colleague
-- and the American people... read more
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Townhall.com...
No Off Button on
Sarah Palin, By Debra J. Saunders
This is a free country. If Sarah Palin wants to run for president in
2012, she is free to try. But she will not win the GOP nomination
because Republican voters are not going to choose a middle-aged version
of Britney Spears -- a figure whose most evident talent is to attract
attention to herself -- to challenge Barack Obama. It's this simple:
Republicans... read more
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Townhall.com… Same as the Old Boss? By John
Stossel
Last year, I reported that the United States fell from sixth to eighth
place -- behind Canada -- in the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street
Journal's 2010 Index of Economic Freedom. Now, we've fallen further. In
the just-released 2011 Index, the United States is in ninth place.
That's behind Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand,
Switzerland, Canada, Ireland and Denmark. The biggest reason for the
continued slide? Spending as a percentage... read more
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Townhall.com… The Tab Comes Due in 2011
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and both the elder and younger George Bush
all found the third and fourth years of their presidencies harder than
the first and second. The nation and the world tired of speechmaking.
The novelty of a new commander in chief faded; poll numbers went south.
The same thing is now happening to President Obama on a variety of
fronts. Democrats assured voters that we would love ObamaCare once the
new federal health... read more
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Newsmax... Obamacare and the Deficit: Facts Fast and
Loose, By Henry J. Reske
Jan. 13, 2011 - Claims that Obamacare will reduce the deficit, expand
it, or is a job-killer amount to silly, over-the-top, hypocritical
political rhetoric. An analysis of Republican and Democratic assertions
about repeal of the measure concluded that both sides are playing fast
and loose with the facts, The Washington Post said.
House Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, has attacked Congressional Budget Office estimates of
cost savings... read more
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Redstate... The President’s Speech and Killing Sarah
Palin, by Erick Erickson
Thursday, January 13 - What was billed as a “memorial service” in
Arizona last night was more of a pep-rally and celebration of life. It
was complete with sloganeering, bumper stickers, and t-shirts. It is
what was needed. What’s more, Mr. Obama gave a stunning rebuke to his
own base who’ve engaged in a horrific blame game all week... read more
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To Save the States: Let ‘em Declare
Bankruptcy, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published in the New York Post on January 12, 2011. Facing huge budget
difficulties, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been showing other
states how to survive -- namely, by taking on the government-employee
unions. Christie’s battles with the teachers unions over the past year
have produced countless YouTube hits. And last month, he got a law
passed to limit wage hikes from labor arbitrations between the state
and... read more
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Townhall.com…
Poisonous Politics,
By Pat Buchanan
Jan. 11, 2011 - On Feb. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a
loner, fired his .32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of
Miami. Five feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the crowd. So, he
stood on a folding chair and was piled on after the first of five
shots. He wounded four people, including Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago.
In two weeks, Zangara, who... read more
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Townhall.com…
The Constitution,
Yes, But There's More, By Star Parker
Jan 9, 2011 - I salute the Republicans of the 112th Congress for their
initiative to restore the U.S. Constitution to its legitimate place of
prominence in our public discourse. Reading it aloud at Congress’s
opening session and requiring members to cite Constitutional authority
when introducing new legislation are great ideas. It will help
highlight that the real debate is about the underlying defining
principles of our nation that the constitution exists to protect... read
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Townhall.com...
Explaining Evil,
By Cal Thomas
In the aftermath of the senseless wounding of Representative Gabrielle
Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, and the murder of six others, including
U.S. District Judge John Roll and 9-year-old Christina Green, there
will be many who will use this tragedy to advance their own political
agendas... read
more
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Townhall.com…
The Internet Is
Threatened By Government Regulation - By Romina Boccia
The Internet is the most marvelous and open information highway
humanity has yet experienced. You are likely reading this column on a
screen on your laptop, desktop, or mobile handheld device. To reach
you, this piece traveled over a broadband network that connects this
web site's server to your device. If you are in the United States, the
network you are using is a part of an overall Internet infrastructure
that is owned and managed by more than 1500 providers... read
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Redstate.com…
I’m going to make a
political point now - by Erick Erickson
Jan. 10, 2011 - For those still attacking Sarah Palin for daring to use
the word “targets” and maps against Democrats, including Gabrielle
Giffords, please note that the DLC and DCCC, the D is for “Democratic”,
also had maps with targets in earlier years. Likewise Markos Moulitsas
of the Daily Kos targetted Gabrielle Giffords himself. The self-serving
attack over the use of maps and the word “target” is both dumb and
hypocritical... read
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Townhall.com…
The Constitution Did
Not Condone Slavery - By Ken Blackwell
Jan. 9, 2010 - “There’s nothing new under the sun,” said President
Harry Truman, “there’s only history we haven’t learned yet.” The
history we haven’t learned yet was on display on page one of the
Washington Post. Post writers Philip Rucker and David Farenthold
reported on the reading of the Constitution by newly sworn-in Members
of the 112th Congress. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) led the novel
exercise and defended the decision not to read those portions .... read
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Dick Morris Reports… There are
no Politics in Murder - By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Jan. 10, 2011 - The conventional wisdom of the media establishment that
strident and outspoken political debate catalyzes violence is an
absurdity! Telling people to “kill pigs” as the sixties radicals
did, in fact, encouraged violence. But vigorous political debate
and strongly or even passionately held views have nothing whatever to
do with the decision of some nut... read more
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From
Townhall.com… Contempt of
Constitution - By David Stokes
Do all those who seem to be so enamored of a so-called “Living
Constitution” really want the document to live—or are they actually
trying to kill it off as a relevant part of our national life? It is
hard to actually believe that something as seemingly and
prototypically American as a public reading of the U.S. Constitution by
people recently sworn to uphold it could be at all controversial. For
that matter, it is even harder to believe that such an exercise.... read
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From
Townhall.com… The Diversity
Police Are At It Again
An alarm has been sounded for Republicans who advocate big-government,
abortion, gay marriage, and gun control: Take heed! The GOP is being
taken over by (gasp!) actual conservatives! Offering a review of
Monday's debate between the four individuals vying for the mantle of
RNC chair, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank first belittled, then
bemoaned, the lack of ideological diversity among the candidates... read
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From
ThinkProgress… Obama Created
More Jobs in One Year Than Bush Created in Eight
Jan. 7 2011 - Yesterday morning, the Labor Department released its
employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the
year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment
rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest rate
since July 2009... read
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From
truthout.org… News Briefs
- Saturday 08 January 2011... click here to read
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From
Townhall.com... For the 112th
Time: New Congress, Same Challenges, By Paul Greenberg
Jan. 8, 2011 - It’s the way every new Congress begins -- with pomp amid
familiar circumstances. Once again, the Outs have become the Ins, and
the opposition now becomes the majority, at least in the People’s
House. Change places, allemande right, do-si-do and off we go. Or maybe
just march in place to much ado. If this change proves only ceremonial,
the other party may soon enough get to call the next dance. Or as John
Boehner, the incoming speaker of the House... read
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Townhall.com... Let it Snow, but Clean it Up,
By Bill O’Reilly
Jan. 8, 2011 - One of the signature moments of the Bush administration
came when the federal government failed to immediately react to the
carnage caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. As you’ll remember,
President Bush seemed lethargic about the death and destruction, and
the media buried him because of his lackluster posture. But we now know
that the president could not have seized control of the situation
because he was not asked in by... read
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No Debt Limit Expansion without Spending
Cuts! By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Jan. 8, 2011 - Every Republican member of Congress should sign the
following pledge,
being promulgated by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform: “I
promise not to vote for any expansion of the federal debt limit unless
it is preceded or accompanied by significant cuts in federal spending.”
We all know that the reason the federal government debt is exploding is
the reckless spending policies of the Obama Administration. From
the time George Washington took the oath... read
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From
Politico.com… DCCC Chairman
inherits money mess - By John Bresnahan & Alex
Isenstadt
Jan. 7, 2011 - Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is not exactly vowing to win
back the House
in 2012, but he still insists “the House will be in play” next year.
Yet Israel is inheriting a mess as he takes over the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee this cycle. The DCCC is nearly $20
million in debt, the electoral map may be even more daunting in 2012
after redistricting, and fundraising even tougher as the party competes
for money during a presidential election cycle... read
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From
Townhall.com… Conservative Legal
Team from Obamacare Case Fighting EPA - By Ken Klukowski
Jan. 7, 2011 - On Dec. 30, a federal appeals court froze new EPA
regulations on
greenhouse gases. The team representing the State of Texas in this
appeal is also the team managing the largest Obamacare lawsuit in
America, led by a lawyer from the Reagan administration. This appeal is
the latest reminder that America good judges to uphold the rule of law
and stop President Obama’s ongoing power grab... read
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From Human Events… Fundamental Questions
About Job Creation - by John Hayward
Jan. 7, 2011 - There are reasons we’re stuck with persistent high
unemployment. House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is
planning to study the impact of government regulation on job creation
in his first hearing. In a memo outlining his agenda for the
first months of the new Congress, Issa said “we need to start by asking
a very fundamental question: why hasn’t the economy created the
private-sector jobs the president promised?”... read
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From Townhall.com... True or False - By
Walter E.
Williams
So many statements we accept as true, plausible or
beyond
question; but are they? Let's look at a couple of important ones:
global warming and U.S. manufacturing decline. In 2000, Dr. David Viner
of University of East Anglia's disgraced Climatic Research Unit
advised, "Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare
and exciting event." "Children just aren't going to know what snow is."
Britain's Meteorological Office said this December... read
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From Townhall.com… Kids
Aren't
Cars; Schools Shouldn't Be Assembly Lines - By Kyle
Olson
As "Waiting for 'Superman'" so eloquently points out, the industrial
assembly-line model of America's public schools, created decades ago,
isn't working. In fact, it's setting us further and further behind our
global competitors. Today, it is essential that our children graduate
high school and college prepared for the fierce competition they will
face in the global marketplace. Their economic survival will be
determined by their ability to compete with countries... read
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From
Townhall.com… New
Year's Resolutions for State Legislators
- By Phyllis Schlafly
The biggest news of 2010 was the gain of 690 state legislative seats by
Republicans and their capture of both state houses in 26 states. Here
are some New Year's resolutions for laws they should consider passing
in 2011. HEALTH CARE: "Out-of-pocket medical expenses shall be tax
deductible" and "self-paying patients shall not be charged more by a
hospital than what it charges insurance companies for the same
services." Explanation... read
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From
Townhall.com… Constitutionalists
vs. 'Interpretationists'
- By Cal Thomas
The new House Republican leadership is smart to inaugurate their return
to power by reading aloud the U.S. Constitution on the House floor.
Recalling America's founding principles is never a bad idea. To some on
the left, though, the Constitution doesn't mean what it says, but is to
be interpreted by judges and politicians. To liberals, this means the
document is useful only when it advances a "progressive" economic,
political and social agenda. Otherwise... read
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From
Townhall.com… Post-Census
Party Pooping - By
Jonah Goldberg
It's a festive time: singing on the sidewalks, good cheer erupting at
home and the office. I'm of course referring to the revelry that
descends on the library carrels and fluorescently iridescent cubicles
around Washington when the census data comes out.
Particularly giddy these days are the Republicans who've picked up a
few more seats in Congress and a few more electoral votes for the
presidential election, thanks to the demographic tide pulling out... read
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From Truthout.org… 2011: A
Brave New Dystopia
- by Chris Hedges
The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s
“1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those
who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was
right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive
surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of
control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by
entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology... read
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