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Redstate…
Swingometer:
Gallup Party ID figures predict solid Romney win,
By Neil
Stevens
October 26th, 2012 - We always talk about the independent, swing vote
in elections because those tend to be the persuadables. But party ID
numbers matter as well, because those partisan voters tend to split
better than 90/10 for their party. It is for that reason that Gallup’s
new partisan ID split, one that mimics what Rasmussen has been saying
all along, predicts nothing less than doom for the Democrats, and a
solid, national win for Mitt Romney this year. Ignore Gallup’s
headline. They’ve buried the lede so far... read
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Redstate…
Did
Obama
Refuse To Aid Our Men In Benghazi?, By streiff
October 27th, 2012 - In the month and a half since our consulate in
Benghazi was sacked and our ambassador and three other staffers killed
the Obama regime is no closer to presenting a coherent, truthful
narrative of what happened before, during, and after the incident than
it was when it uttered its first deliberate lies and misdirections on
September 12. Right now we are being treated to the vision of the
highest level of the ongoing criminal enterprise that governs us
playing the equivalent of a game of... read
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Townhall…
Rumbling
Toward
a Knockout, by Suzanne Fields
Oct 26, 2012 - Reporters and pundits writing about politics and
particularly presidential debates can't resist the metaphors of the
ring. And why should they? The metaphors work. "The incumbent fought
with a challenger's aggression, while the GOP nominee mostly avoided
heated disagreement, except to make jabs on the economy," reported the
Hill, the Capitol Hill political daily. "But if Obama looked to lay
Romney out on the canvas... read
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Redstate…
Why
I Think
Obama Is Toast, By Dan McLaughlin
October 26th, 2012 - Barack Obama is toast. This is not something I say
lightly. I generally try to remain cautious about predictions, because
the prediction business is a humbling one. I have never been especially
bullish on Mitt Romney, and I spent most of the summer and early fall
arguing that this was basically a neck-and-neck race that would go down
to the wire. But in the end, two things stand out: One, Mitt Romney has
a consistent, significant lead among independent voters, which
increasingly looks... read
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Salt
Lake Tribune… Tribune
endorsement: Too Many Mitts - Obama has earned another term
Oct 19 2012 - Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been
more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The
Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly
bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for
business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our
largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state But it was Romney’s
singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from
a cesspool of scandal, and... read
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Townhall
Finance… Al
Qaeda is No
"Remnant," Mr. President, By Bob Beauprez
During his interview recently on the Jon Stewart Show, President Obama
continued his established narrative that he has driven al-Qaeda into
the ground sufficiently that only a few "remnants" of the radical
Islamic terrorist organization remain. A "remnant" is a "small group of
surviving people" according to the dictionary. But, remnants
don't grow, multiply, and spread. A remnant doesn't extend across a
significant portion of the planet. In the final debate, the... read
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Magazine 24... The
Battleground States That Will Decide the Election,
by
Arnold Ahlert
Now that the debates are over, the most significant information
Americans will get regarding how the candidates are doing will be from
the polls. If those polls are any indication, it is Republican
challenger Mitt Romney who has been the beneficiary of a bump that most
likely came from his obvious win in the first debate, followed by two
debates in which no clear cut winner emerged. This week Romney moved
above 50 percent in his favorability rating with the voters for the
first time. Yet it is no... read
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Redstate... Cheap
Tricks and One
Night Stands, By Erick Erickson
October 25th, 2012 - If you needed further proof about just how much
the President has cheapened the Presidency, consider his latest ad,
which not only compares voting for him for the first time to losing
virginity, but also ridicules those who might not want to lose their
virginity to just any politician. This is the peer group peer pressure
people across the political aisle have complained about in high schools
for years... read
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Magazine 24… Obama
Gets
Military Tech All Wrong in Debate, by Bright
Knight
That's what actually made the Failure-in-Chief win the debate:
bullshitting around and telling all kind of crap in a way that makes
the people believe he's right. That made him look like he has a clue
what he's talking about and that he's doing a good job in regard to
Foreign policy. If those who actually fell for his arrogant
snake-oil-salesman attitude would know the facts, they would probably
see him for what he really is... AWR Hawkins sets the facts straight at
Breitbart: President Barack Obama ended... read
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Heritage
Foundation… How
Escalating Education Spending Is Killing Crucial Reform
By Lindsey Burke - October 15, 2012 - Abstract: In August 2012, the
White House released the report “Investing in Our Future: Returning
Teachers to the Classroom” to bolster President Obama’s call for
massive new education spending. The report suggests that, absent an
enormous infusion of more tax dollars, the nation’s public schools will
lose teachers and programs, damaging American education. This claim
ignores the fact that over the past 40 years, both teaching and
non-teaching... read
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Verities & Balderdash… HAPPY
HALLOWEEN!
From a CNO Reader and Halloween Humor - Two brooms were hanging in the
closet and after a while they got to know each other so well, they
decided to get married. One broom was, of course, the bride broom, the
other the groom broom. The bride broom looked very beautiful in her
white dress. The groom broom was handsome and suave in his tuxedo. The
wedding was lovely. After the wedding, at the... read
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Magazine 24… Some
Post
Debate Poll Data,
by Bright Knight
The Presidential and Vice Presidential debates are over and IMO it went
well for the Romney/Ryan-ticket. Romney crushed the Failure-in-Chief in
the first debate (which was the most important, because the main issue
and the basis for everything to come is the economy) and didn't lose
ground in the other two. And Joe "the brain" Biden's weird appearance
in the Vice Presidential debate as the Clown of a third-class Circus
doesn't deserve any further comment. The people learned about the real
Romney... read
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Townhall… Greed,
by
John Stossel
Oct 24, 2012 - On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O'Reilly says, "The
recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street
corporations."Give me a break.
Bill's smart. If he believes such things, we who care about freedom
have done a poor job communicating economics.
Blaming problems on "greed" is a mindless cliche.
Yes, Wall Street was greedy -- but that's nothing new. Greed is a
constant. Did you ever turn down a raise? We need a free market
because... read
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A
Peek Inside the Corporate Taxation, From Mona
Lease
This is from Wikipedia. Corporate Taxation is a tax imposed at the
Federal level. Most states tax the corporations, too. Some local levels
want their share, too. This can apply to estates and trusts, as well.
Federal levels are some 15-35%. This is income over $365,000.
(Interesting - that's over a $1.000 a week). Corporations are also
subject to Federal Alternative Minimum Tax AND alternative state taxes.
These are "flat rate taxes." There is a chart for these. For
Corporations, they... read
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Magazine 24… President
Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures,
by Ashe Schow
It is no secret that President Obama’s and green-energy supporters’
(from both parties) foray into venture capitalism has not gone well.
But the extent of its failure has been largely ignored by the press.
Sure, single instances garner attention as they happen, but they ignore
past failures in order to make it seem like a rare case.The truth is
that the problem is widespread. The government’s picking winners and
losers in the energy market has cost taxpayers billions of dollars, and
the rate of... read
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Townhall… Libya
and Lies, by Thomas Sowell
Oct 23, 2012 - It was a little much when President Barack Obama said
that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would
try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has
this man not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the
deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the
first trillion dollar deficit ever, under any President of the... read
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Washington Post… Presidential
debate: Obama tells more about Libya to some guy than to American public
- By Erik Wemple - For the good of the republic, Kerry Ladka must leave
his job with Global Telecom Supply in Mineola, N.Y., and take up
residence in the White House briefing room. Because, as it turns out,
this 61-year-old undecided voter showed great skill in getting some
much-needed candor out of the president on Benghazi. At Tuesday night’s
presidential debate, Ladka stood up and asked about rejected requests
for greater diplomatic security in Libya. “Who was it that... read
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Redstate…
Mene,
Mene,
Tekel, Parsin, By Erick Erickson
October 22nd, 2012 - The whole time during the last Presidential
debate, Mitt Romney looked like the incumbent and Barack Obama looked
like a challenger trying to keep it together. More specifically, Barack
Obama, when he made eye contact, looked like he was seeing and
invisible hand writing “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin” on the wall behind
Bob Schieffer. This was a man who knows the gig is almost up... read
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Magazine 24… Winning
Issue,
by Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Today's rematch of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is likely to be their
first of two in which the incumbent's record as Commander-in-Chief is
going to be a matter of direct debate. If last week's set-to
between their running mates is any guide, there will be opportunities
and perils for the challenger. It behooves Gov. Romney to
maximize the former and minimize the latter if he wants decisively to
defeat the President in these mass-audience settings, and in
November... read
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Verities
& Balderdash… The
dumb
things that people do
From bored.com - Time for a little pre-election humor… Two animal
rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a
slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them,
escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless
protesters to death. A woman came home to find her husband in the
kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from
his waist towards the electric... read
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Political
Humor About.com… Transcript
of Barack Obama's Comedy Roast at Al Smith Dinner
By Daniel Kurtzman - By the way, John, I'm just curious, is Fox News
included in the media? Because I'm always hearing about this love, just
curious. Then at one of these campaign rallies, someone in the crowd
started yelling, No-Bama, announcing to everyone in the room that I
shouldn't be the Democratic nominee because there were far more
qualified candidates. I really wish Joe Biden hadn't done that. But at
least we've moved past the days when the main criticism coming from the
McCain... read
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Real
Clear Politics… Mitt
Romney's Speech at the Al Smith Dinner, By
Mitt Romney
October 18, 2012 - MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Thank you,
thank you. Thank you so much. Your Eminence, Cardinal Dolan, Mr.
President, Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Schumer, Al and Ann
Smith. Thank you for your invitation. Thank you for your extraordinary
warm welcome. Ann and I appreciate your friendship very, very much.
Thank you. (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) Now, Al, you are right, a campaign can
require a lot of wardrobe changes... read
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Upstart Business Journal… "New
economy," entrepreneurs surface in Obama, Romney debate
by J. Jennings Moss - October 17, 2012 - Finally, those of us in the
entrepreneurial ecosystem got to hear the presidential contenders talk
about job creation in a truly 21st century context during their second
presidential debate Tuesday night. The only problem is, neither
President Barack Obama nor former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
went far enough in their second debate... read
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Why
Mitt Romney
is Unlikable!? From a CNO reader
A lot is being said in the media about Mitt Romney not being "likable"
or that he doesn't "relate well" to people. Frankly, we
struggled
to understand why. So after much research, we have come up with a Top
Ten List to explain this "un-likability." Top Ten Reasons To Dislike
Mitt Romney: 1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious,
statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting's #1 choice for
Commander-in-Chief. 2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and
has been... read
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Magazine 24… School
Bus
Driver Tells Student He Should’ve Been Aborted for Supporting Romney,
by Philip Hodges - A woman school bus driver got fired recently for
telling a student passenger that his mother should have aborted him.
This seems like it should be somewhat big news taking into account
what’s considered “big news” these days, until you find out what the
context was. The bus driver had been harassing the student because he
had a Romney/Ryan sign in his front yard. At some point, the subject of
abortion was brought up during their political arguments... read
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Townhall Finance… Student
Savings Plans, by Carrie Schwab Pomerantz
Dear Carrie: I've always encouraged my daughter to work to contribute
to her college costs and she's managed to save quite a bit. Now I'm
told that her savings may actually work against her in terms of
financial aid. Why is this? Is there anything we can do? --A Reader -
Dear Reader: I think it's great that your daughter is saving for
college. To me, having kids contribute to college costs has a double
benefit: It not only... read
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Townhall…
Only
Republican
Gaffes
Dominate Presidential Coverage, by Matt Towery
Oct 18, 2012 - Most political pundits know that presidential debates,
particularly these absurd "town hall" debacles, are more about who
makes a gaffe or has an "oops moment" than about who brings the better
policy to the table.
But before I make my case with regard to the pushing of "gaffes" in one
particular direction, let me disarm the same media I will later take to
task (of course, you can never really disarm them ... they have a
permanent round of journalistic bullets to fire).
I know conservatives and... read
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Townhall... Obama
at Hofstra:
Relatively Alert, Ergo Big Winner, by Ann
Coulter
Oct 17, 2012
- The best question at the second presidential debate came from Michael
Jones, an African-American who said: "Mr. President, I voted for you in
2008. What have you done or accomplished to earn my vote in 2012? I'm
not that optimistic, as I was in 2008. Most things I need for everyday
living are very expensive."
To which Obama said: "Are you my half-brother?"
Actually, all Obama could say was that he had ended the war in Iraq
(while... read
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Toledo
Blade… Power
of the court
During last week’s vice presidential debate, incumbent Democrat Joe
Biden mentioned in passing a critical issue that has been largely
forgotten in this year’s campaign: the power of the U.S. Supreme Court
to bring fundamental change to American society. Mr. Biden brought up
the future of the nation’s top court in the context of abortion and how
Roe vs. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a woman’s right to
make decisions about her own body, might be overturned by a Mitt
Romney... read
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The
Great “Secession” of 2013, Sent by a CNO Reader
Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede
from the Union. (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of
1848.) We Texans love y'all, but we'll probably have to take action if
Barack Obama wins the election. We'll miss you too. Here is what can
happen: 1: Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States, and
Texas secedes from the Union in summer of... read
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Heritage
Network… Nuclear
War Averted, 50
Years Ago This Week
Fifty years ago, the world came to the brink of nuclear war. On October
14, 1962, U.S. policymakers learned that the Soviet Union was building
missile bases in Cuba, which would have allowed Moscow to attack
anywhere in the continental United States within minutes. An
international crisis followed, and while the crisis did not end in a
nuclear exchange, it is important that U.S. policymakers never forget
lessons the crisis taught us. The most important one is that it is very
difficult to manage... read
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Investors.com…
Obama
Administration Dooms Seniors To Painful Aging,
By Betsy
McCaughey
10/12/2012 - On Oct. 1, the Obama administration started
awarding
bonus points to hospitals that spend the least on elderly patients. It
will result in fewer knee replacements, hip replacements, angioplasty,
bypass surgery and cataract operations. These are the five procedures
that have transformed aging for older Americans. They used to languish
in wheelchairs and nursing homes due to arthritis, cataracts and heart
disease. Now they lead active lives.... read
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Townhall
Finance… You
Just Lost the
Presidency: What are you Going to Do?, by John
Ransom
Editor’s Note: I typically ignore columns like this, but this time the
title got my attention. Try to find the relevance in the following to
the title… I couldn’t. Regardless, this turned out to be fascinating
reading, offered for your enjoyment. Be sure to click on the link for
the video and other interesting comments. BR - Doug3370 wrote: There
are natural processes that will, ever so slowly, remove CO2 from the
atmosphere. The sooner and the faster we reduce our emissions, the... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell:
Heritage Experts React to Vice Presidential Debate
By Rob Bluey - October 12, 2012 - Vice President Biden and
Representative Paul Ryan squared off last night for a spirited and
intense 90-minute debate at Centre College in Danville, KY. Topics
ranged from foreign to domestic, touching on serious issues that
Heritage policy experts grapple with every day. While many commentators
were critiquing style, a team of 19 Heritage experts cut through the
malarkey... read
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Redstate…
An
Insignificant Hour
and a Half of Joe Biden Braying Like a Biblical Donkey
By Erick Erickson - October 11th, 2012 - I really do personally like
Joe Biden, but he came across as a braying Biblical donkey tonight on
stage in Kentucky. It was made worse by a moderator who lost repeated
control of the debate. Up front, I have to say I’m hung up on one big
thing. Joe Biden said the intelligence community got it wrong in Libya,
but he says we can trust those very same people on Iran. That’d be a
gaffe, but Joe Biden says he always says what he means. I really
don’t... read
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The Kitchen Cabinet… Deliberate
Or Stupid? By Sonja Eddings Brown
October 12, 2012 - Watching Joe Biden Is like watching ego in motion.
Joe is always JOE. The Obama campaign pulled him out of
travel
and campaigning for SIX SOLID DAYS to prep him for this week’s Vice
Presidential debate. Did it show? Perhaps. There is an old
litigator’s strategy known among legal beagles. If you don’t
have
a good case, no facts to stand on, then INTERRUPT... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Bloomberg
and
Obama Misrepresent Tax Hikes on Small Business,
by Curtis
Dubay
In the recent presidential debate, President Obama said that only 3
percent of small businesses would pay higher rates under his plan to
increase the top two marginal tax rates. The implication was that job
creation wouldn’t suffer, because so few businesses would pay higher
tax rates under his plan. Bloomberg, in an editorial after the debate,
repeated this misleading statistic. This line of reasoning is a red
herring, because the number of small businesses paying the higher rates
is irrelevant... read
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Magazine 24… Top
5
Obamacare Promises to Remember, by Nina
Owcharenko
Remember when former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) told the
American people that “we have to pass the [health care] bill so that
you can find out what is in it”? Well, it’s been over two years since
the enactment of Obamacare, and we’ve found out a lot. Not only are the
provisions currently in place falling short; the promises made about
the health care law look to be broken. Here are five of them. 1. The
law won’t raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year... read
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Magazine 24… Looking
the other
way: President Obama's dangerous foreign policy
by Rep.
Allen West - President Barack Obama has built a foreign policy on
trying to appease
and make friends with America’s enemies, rather than facing them head
on with strength and clear consequences for their actions. The
president’s approach, marked by his belief that he could transition
from a community organizer to a global organizer, has been an utter
failure. The president has diminished our nation’s international
influence and stature, and most egregiously, has put the lives of
all... read
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Magazine 24… Median
Household
Income Down in Nearly Every Battleground State,
by Tony
Lee
In yet another sign of how poorly the economy is doing under President
Barack Obama, the median household income declined last year in every
key battleground state except for Iowa and Wisconsin. The American
Community Survey compiled the data. Nevada and Florida were the hardest
hit, seeing declines of 6% and 3%, respectively. New
Hampshire,
Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri,
North Carolina, New Mexico also saw their median household incomes... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: There Was No Protest, Only a Terrorist Attack, in Libya,
By Amy Payne
October 10, 2012
The Obama Administration’s story on the attack that killed Ambassador
Chris Stevens has changed yet again.
In advance of a hearing on diplomatic security in the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee today, more details have leaked out—and
the State Department is now saying it never thought that the attack in
Benghazi was prompted by a YouTube video.
“The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on
the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya... read
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Townhall… Mitt
Romney,
Big-Government Man, by John Stossel
Oct 10, 2012
President Obama tanked in the last debate. Good.
Now maybe people will listen when Mitt Romney says things like, "The
genius of America is the free enterprise system, and freedom, and the
fact that people can go out there and start a business. ... The private
market and individual responsibility always work best."
They do.
But then Romney responded to Obama by essentially saying: I want big
government, too!
We who hope for... read
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Investors
Business Daily… The
Obama Levee Breaks
Election 2012: President Obama might think sagging polls are his
biggest post-debate problem. But it's really people like Buzz
Bissinger, Stacey Dash and Bill Maher showing it's now acceptable in
polite society to attack The One. In an eye-opening piece Monday on the
Daily Beast, "Friday Night Lights" author and lifelong Democrat Buzz
Bissinger announced he was voting for Romney. The tipping point, he
wrote, "was last week's debate in Denver," which showed Obama out... read
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Common Sense Junction… “George
Will: Romney’s trifecta”
Friday, October 5, 2012 - George Will reviews the debate and highlights
three important things Romney accomplished. Here is one of them: Late
in the debate, when Romney for a third time referred to Obamacare’s
creation of “an unelected board, appointed board, who are going to
decide what kind of [medical] treatment you ought to have,” Obama said,
“No, it isn’t.” Oh? The Independent Payment Advisory... read
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Policymic.com:
Latest Presidential Polls…
Romney
Now
Leads in Rasmussen Polls, Obama Losing Steam Elsewhere
Polls indicate that Romney did see a solid boost from his consensus
total domination debate victory over President Obama last week. The
right-leaning Rasmussen polls is now showing Romney ahead of Obama.
Gallup shows a statistical dead heat. Either way, it is clear that
Romney holds the momentum … for now. The Republican was looking for a
slam dunk in the first presidential debate, and he seems to have gotten
it. Many agree that Obama looked stale, rusty, cold, uninterested,
short... read
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Townhall…
The
Multitudinous Mitt, by Steve Chapman
Oct 07, 2012 - In Wednesday's debate, Mitt Romney said he will "stop
the subsidy" to public broadcasting. That's good to know, because Mitt
Romney's campaign website says he will merely "reduce subsidies for ...
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting." Kill Big Bird or just pluck
some of his feathers? Or neither, in keeping with what often happens to
promises made by politicians? As Ted Kennedy once said of Romney's
abortion policy, "I am pro-choice... read
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Magazine 24… The
Green Job Myth
“We can invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy … to
create 5 million new jobs, new energy jobs, all across [the] country,
jobs that pay well, jobs that can’t be outsourced,” candidate Obama
promised.[i] President Obama spent $90 billion of his stimulus package
on green energy projects, but according to the Labor Department, just
9,245 people landed new jobs in the “green energy” industry by the end
of the third quarter of last year,[ii] well short of the 200,000 jobs
that President Obama... read
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Townhall…Trading
Places,
by Linda Chavez
Oct 05, 2012 - Who was that stiff, out-of-touch guy onstage in Denver
at this week's presidential debate? He looked a lot like Barack Obama
-- but how could that be? It was as if the candidates swapped bodies
before they went out onstage. The president became the Mitt Romney
caricature the Obama campaign has created through millions of dollars
of advertising: an elitist who has no idea what the middle class is
going through. And Mitt Romney became... read
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The
Heritage Network… Heritage
Experts React to First Presidential Debate, By
Amy Payne
October 4, 2012 - During last night’s debate between President Obama
and former Governor Mitt Romney, Heritage’s domestic policy experts
were live-blogging their analysis of the ideas discussed. Below are
some of the highlights of our experts’ reactions to the major points
made. Competing Tax Plans - Most of the time on taxes was spent on
Romney’s tax plan. Romney’s plan, like most tax reform plans, would
lower tax rates and make other changes to the tax code to encourage... read
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Redstate… Bam!
Slam! Pow! Crash!
BOOM! By Erick Erickson
October 4th, 2012 - There was a surreal moment after the debate last
night. On CNN, the polling went overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney among
debate watchers. Basically two-thirds of the American public who
watched the debate claimed Romney won. A majority claimed Romney was
with them on taxes, the economy, healthcare, their views of government,
etc. He dominated. A CBS poll of undecided... read
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Heritage
Network… Morning
Bell: Anemic
Job Growth Continues, By Amy Payne
October 5, 2012 - Job growth continues to sputter—this morning’s jobs
report shows that 12.1 million Americans are still out of work. Going
against other economic indicators, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8
percent. Economists are already looking into the drop, saying it seems
to be a statistical fluke, because it doesn’t match up with the
sluggish job creation and recent downward revision of GDP growth.
Heritage’s J.D. Foster says: One time out of a hundred, the true figure
will be much different... read
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Magazine 24… Global
Taxes
are in Sight, by Luke Powers
The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly has just
convened and there are already devastating power plays going on. One is
in the form of a series of proposals pertaining to global taxes, which
are said to be for “developing” countries. That’s right, the UN is
trying to tax people. These taxes include a tax on billionaires around
the world, a tax on exchanging currency (e.g. changing U.S. dollars to
British pounds at a bank), a tax on the use of fossil fuels,
and
a royalty on... read
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Verities & Balderdash… Different
perspectives of the Political Process,
Compiled by Bob
Robinson
Everyone has heard the phrase, “a picture is worth a 1,000 words.” The
same holds true with cartoons. They offer an artist’s perspective on
thoughts, ideas and events of the day. Today, they are creating
political commentary that can be consumed in a few seconds rather than
reading long-winded rhetoric. County News Online was fortunate enough
to receive some cartoons from the Democrats’ perspectives... read
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Verities
& Balderdash Noah
Today,
Sent by a CNO reader
In the year 2012, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in
Oregon, and said:
"Once again, the earth has become evil and I see the end of all flesh
before me. Build another Ark and save two of every living thing along
with a few good humans." He gave Noah the blueprints, saying: "You have
six months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for
40 days and 40 nights."
Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah... read
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Magazine 24… 'The
Nearest Thing to Eternal Life on Earth is a Government Program!'
by Frank Hill
Federal budgeting can be very confusing at times. But at its core, it
is very simple arithmetic. As in 'addition and subtraction'. No
advanced calculus required, ring theory or Boolean algebra. Just 1+1=2.
Or preferably if you are a spending budget hawk: 100-50=50 as in
'reduce many federal programs by 50%...and hardly anyone would know the
difference'. Take a look at how President Obama's economic stimulus has
been recorded in official CBO documents in the summary... read
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Townhall…
Real
World Problems, by Rich Galen
Sep 28, 2012 - Living and working in Your Nation's Capital I forget,
sometimes, that grand issues are fun to debate on CNN or MSNBC, but
real people deal with real issues. At a fundraiser for Rep. Bill
Johnson (R-Oh) last night, I heard from a nurse anesthetist that there
is a continuing shortage of the basic drug she uses to put people to
sleep for surgery. And that when they have the drug it often has a
label written in some language other than English... read
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Townhall…
An
80’s Remake,
by Tim Phillips
Sep 28, 2012 - With millions of Americans out of work, unemployment is
marching ever higher. Gasoline prices soar, painfully hitting family
budgets with every fill-up. As fall approaches, an incumbent President
holds a narrow lead, intent on gaining a second term. The key to
victory is a relatively small group of undecided voters; a conflicted
electorate who respect the President, but recognize his policies have
failed to lift the economy out of a recession. Do they give the
President a second chance and hope... read
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WND…
When
is
Campaign going to get Nasty? By Joseph Farah
I know Barack Obama is serious about winning re-election. Sometimes I
wonder if Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment are. If this is indeed
the most important presidential election in American history, and if
the contrast between the candidates is so clear, why are the
Republicans so timid about going after Obama? I’ve given away far too
much free advice to Team Romney, none of which was taken, with the
possible exception of his... read
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Townhall
Finance… Benghazi-gate
– Obama
Knew, by Bob Beauprez
In the days following the assassination attack in Benghazi, Libya on
September 11 that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three aides dead it
was appalling to watch the Obama Administration's painstaking efforts
to deny any connection to radical Islamic terror. A
week
later, the White House was forced to admit a connection to al Qaeda
after the Director of the National Counterterrrorism Center, Matthew
Olsen, testified to a Senate Committee that Benghazi was indeed a
"terrorist... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Poll:
Nearly 80%
Think Everyone Should Pay Some Income Tax, by
Bright Knight
When you see all the polls about the issues (not about the candidates -
those polls canNOT be trusted), such as Obamacare, dependency on
Government, the economy, the direction our country is headed, etc., you
must think that the Empty Chair will lose by 30%. So, obviously many
people think "right" but lose their common sense and betray their
values as soon as they are in the voting booth and vote "left". Is it
because they traditionally voted "D" (as Dad did, and Grandpa, and....)
and don't... read
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Townhall…
Al
Gore Versus
'2016',
By Brent Bozell
Sep 28, 2012 - Two weeks ago, Dinesh D'Souza's documentary "2016:
Obama's America" passed Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" for second
place on the all-time box-office money list for political
documentaries. It now has a box office gross of more than $32 million.
But if you're an independent or a liberal who's unplugged from
conservative websites and talk radio, you'd never know. You didn't see
D'Souza on CBS or NBC (although he showed up on ABC's "Nightline" in
late night). There... read
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Heritage.org…
Obama
and
Congress
Are Choosing to Cause a Recession, By Amy Payne
September 27, 2012 - President Obama recently said, “The most important
lesson I’ve learned is you can’t change Washington from the inside.”
That’s demoralizing to hear when a recession is bearing down on the
economy—and it’s an inside job. The Congressional Budget Office has
forecasted a fresh recession to hit next year if Taxmageddon, a nearly
$500 billion tax increase, hits the nation and Congress and the
President drive us off the “fiscal cliff.” President Obama has... read
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