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• The President's Lost Another Columnist

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  The P-G's Tony Norman:The Rock Obama knows something that Barack Obama seems to have forgotten -- that the Republican strategy for regaining power is predicated upon the defeat of the White House's entire domestic agenda -- period.
  
  To say I'm disappointed with Mr. Obama's passivity in the face' [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

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• Poll: Hillary Clinton rates 24 points higher than Obama

  —TONY PHYRILLAS

  Who would have thought that one year later, Hillary Clinton would enjoy widespread popularity and respect while half the nation regrets electing Barack Obama president?
  
  Check out the two links below about new poll numbers on Hillary's rising popularity and Obama's declining job approval numbers.
  
  Clarus Poll: [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:13pm EST
  

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• Teacher who took students to Hooters put on leave

  —TONY PHYRILLAS

  I don't see what the big deal is. The students were probably hungry and Hooters is known for its excellent menu, right?
  
  From The Arizona Republic:A Paradise Valley High School music teacher whose students performed at one of President's Barack Obama inauguration events has been put' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  

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• Foundations help schools pay Roosevelt's $200,000 tax

  —Mark Rauterkus

  Bad decision.
  
  Foundations help schools pay Roosevelt's $200,000 tax: "The board also voted last night to name its new International Baccalaureate school in Shadyside the Barack Obama International Studies Academy. Officials said other cities already have named schools for Mr. Obama." [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 9:48am EST
  

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• Poll: 52% Give Obama Failing Grade

  —THE CENTRIST

  There's nothing scientific about it, but an online poll conducted by The Mercury found 52% of participants giving President Barack Obama failing grades of D or F for his first year in office. More readers (35%) gave Obama an "F" than any other grade. The next highest total (17%) [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:00am EST
  

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• Bye Fred

  —Mark Rauterkus

  One of the last bits of news that would have come to Fred, the Honz Man, was that Pittsburgh Public Schools had a board meeting and is selecting to name a new school after Barack Obama. B.O. High is going to be a part of the landscape of schools.
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:05pm EST
  

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• Poll: 52% give Obama failing grade

  —TONY PHYRILLAS

  There's nothing scientific about it, but an online poll conducted by The Mercury found 52% of participants giving President Barack Obama failing grades of D or F for his first year in office. More readers (35%) gave Obama an "F" than any other grade. The next highest total (17%) [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:25pm EST
  

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• PA GOP: Time to pull the plug on Obamacare

  —THE CENTRIST

  Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason released the following statements the difficulty President Barack Obama and Democrat leaders are having to get their own members to support their government-run health care plan.
  
  "President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Washington, D.C., refuse to listen to the growing" [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:01pm EST
  

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• Grading Obama

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  The Mercury is conducting an online poll, offering readers an opportunity to grade Barack Obama's first year as president. I've already cast my vote. You can vote at the newspaper's Web site.' [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:19pm EST
  

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• Time Names Ben Bernanke 2009 Person of the Year

  —TONY PHYRILLAS

  I guess Time ran out of Barack Obama photos so the magazine gave its "Person of the Year" prize to Ben Bernanke.
  
  TIME Names United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke 2009 Person of the Year [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  

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• Obama Uses Big Words To Sound Smart, Truth Trickles Out

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  In Barack Obama’s attempt to sound big and smart yesterday while announcing that Senate Democrats are close to reaching a deal to take over and ruin the nation’s health care system, he accidentally spoke the truth about ObamaCare. “We are on the precipice of an achievement [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:34pm EST
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• Obama Tries To Pen Pal With Kim Jong Il

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  Embarrassingly naive and weak President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, begging the despot to return to nuclear disarmament talks. Looking over the letter before stuffing it into the envelope, Obama quietly rated the emasculating missive a “solid [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:46am EST
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• Grading Obama's first year

  —TONY PHYRILLAS

  The Mercury is conducting an online poll, offering readers an opportunity to grade Barack Obama's first year as president. I've already cast my vote. You can vote at the newspaper's Web site.' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  

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• Poll: 51% in Illinois Oppose Prison for Guantanamo Terrorists In Their State

  —TONY PHYRILLAS

  If the nightmare election of 2008 never happened and Barack Obama was still the junior senator from Illinois, could we win re-election in that state? Doubtful.
  
  From Rasmussen Reports: Fifty-one percent (51%) of Illinois voters oppose relocating some suspected terrorists from the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba to a [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

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• Guantanamo Terrorists Being Sent To Illinois

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  In a move sure to gain widespread support among terrorists and those who love them, the failed administration of President Barack Obama plans to announce they’re moving some terrorists currently being held at Guantanamo Bay to an abandoned prison in Illinois. Good Solid B+! Top Illinois Republicans [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:06am EST
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• Not Comedy: Obama Gives Self “Solid B+”

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  Failed President Barack Obama gave himself a grade of a “solid B+” for the results of his first year in office.  He wasn’t joking. B+.  Like, right under “A.”  I’m guessing this means he thinks we’re supposed to have 10% unemployment and be on the fast [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:11am EST
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• LCCC Prez Donald Snyder: The Versatile, Nimble, Efficient & Practical Community College

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  As President Barack Obama kicked off a national listening tour about the economy last week in the Lehigh Valley, the setting of his keynote speech communicated volumes about the very institutions that are poised to fuel our country’s recovery.
  
  Lehigh Carbon Community College was [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:01am EST
  by Bernie O'Hare

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• "Inside Obama's Brain"

  —The Pennsylvania Progressive

  Available at bookstores and web stores today is a fascinating new book titled "Inside Obama's Brain."  As compared with the book about Bush's brain which dealt with Karl Rove, author Sasha Abramsky researches Barack Obama's personal history, interviews numerous people from his past and explains to us "what" [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  

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• Liberal PPP Poll: 44% Want Bush Back

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  Liberal hearts are breaking and aching as Democrat-leaning Public Policy Polling reports the results of their latest survey. After 10 months of government run amok led by an inexperienced incompetent, only 50% of voters prefer Barack Obama to George W. Bush.  And, when asked, 44% of [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:12pm EST
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• Slideshow: Obama accepts his prize

  —Bucks County Conservative Examiner

  Related articles Obama: What other awards should he receive? Obama: What has he done for peace? President Barack Obama received the Noble Peace prize amongst controversy about his war strategy and eventhough 61% of Americans think he ... [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:25am EST
  

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• Obama given his "hope and change" prize

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  President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama poses with his medal and diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009.(AP Photo/John McConnico) Related articlesLet them eat cakeObama: What has he ... [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:42am EST
  

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• Republican “Truth Squad” To Crash “Hopenhagen”

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  Failed President Barack Obama’s plan to spread hope, change, pretty ponies and a whole lot of your money around the Copenhagen Climate Change hoaxer convention could melt away like Arctic ice if the Republicans who plan to tag along as a “truth squad” have anything [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:21am EST
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• Reimporting Drugs

  —Booman Tribune

  Getting back to that PhRMA deal that bars the reimportation of drugs... President Barack Obama still supports the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from other countries even though a deal he struck with the drug industry specifically excluded provisions on the controversial measure. Asked by The Hill on Tuesday if Obama backs [...]

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• America should be more scared of Obama

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  President Barack Obama, flanked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., gestures while meeting with Congressional leaders to discuss strategy for repairing the economy and creating jobs, Wed... [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:13pm EST
  

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• Worthless Junk Mail from a Worthless President

  —Brendan Calling

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  Barack Obama and the Democrats think I am retarded:

  We will not back down

  Brendan –

  As we head into the final stretch on health reform, big insurance company lobbyists and their partisan allies hope that their relentless attacks and millions of dollars can intimidate us into accepting the status quo.

  So I have [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:12pm EST
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• Obama Tells GOP To Stop Scaring People

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  GOP tells Obama, “stop making things so damn scary, and we will.” President Barack Obama told House Republican leaders to “stop trying to frighten the American people” even as he and Democrats said they see a possibility for bipartisan cooperation on job creation legislation. Senate Majority Leader [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:59pm EST
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• Obama’s Poll Numbers Hit Historic Lows

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  Numerous public opinion polls show support for failed President Barack Obama plummeting.  Most notable among these is the Gallup poll, which shows support for the President among all adults at 47%, an all-time low for a President in month 10. Polls reflecting “all adults” are usually [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:07pm EST
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• Surprise: Deadbeat Borrowers Still Deadbeats

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  Liberals love to construct Utopian fantasies to explain why things are the way they are,  govern based on their constructed fantasy, and then stand around wondering why all of their programs go down to utter failure. A good example is Barack Obama’s failed Mortgage Modification [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:31pm EST
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• Obama’s Plan: All The Same Stuff That Just Failed

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  Failed President Barack Obama outlined his “new” plan for creating jobs and, unsurprisingly for a man who is out of ideas and over his head, the “new” plan is mainly a new stimulus consisting of more of the things that failed to create jobs as [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:01pm EST
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• Casual Observation

  —Booman Tribune

  I thought we elected Barack Obama and Joe Biden last November and that we kind of endorsed their platform. But it looks a lot like we actually elected Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson, and that we can't do a single thing that doesn't have their permission. If we want to [...]

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