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• Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2010

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  "As the most prominent national GOP gathering until the 2012 Convention you can expect the top conservative leaders in the Country to be at the conference. All speakers are listed as invited."
  
  Tim Pawlenty
  Sonny Perdue
  Governor Rick Perry
  Governor Bob Riley
  Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
  Governor Arnold [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:45pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Gibbs on Party Crashers

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:05pm EST
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• Comments on Huckabee's pardon

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:04pm EST
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• Nancy Pelosi spends $2,993 on flowers - Jake Sherman and Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com

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  Read Here: Nancy Pelosi spends $2,993 on flowers - Jake Sherman and Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent $2,993 in taxpayer money on flowers
  between June and October. House Majority Whip James Clyburn has a thing for
  Chantilly Donuts, spending about $265 at the Virginia" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Stopping ObamaCare: Who Has The Courage?

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  From Big Hollywood:
  Last Saturday night, in what was mostly a procedural vote, the Senate approved
  moving forward with debate on the health-care reform bill. The vote was
  60-39, the barest minimum necessary for debate to start in the Chamber. To
  listen to Harry Reid and his cohorts after [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:56pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• 3 boys arrested for Calif. 'Ginger Day' attacks

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  From the AP: Three boys have been arrested for investigation of bullying red-haired students
  after a Facebook message promoted "Kick a Ginger Day" at a Southern California school. ...Los
  Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve
  Whitmore said Monday that two 12-year-olds were arrested for suspicion of
  misdemeanor battery, and [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:54pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Keeping the heat on ACORN

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  From the Boston Globe:
  The world's attention on Tuesday will be on President Obama's speech on Afghanistan. ...But in a corner of Capitol Hill, Republicans will be doing their best to keep alive the controversy over ACORN, the community advocacy group.....Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• New Jersey Teachers Union's Electile Dysfunction for Corzine Explained

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  From Big Government: An interesting document found its way to my inbox last weekend. It was a
  PowerPoint presentation of an analysis done by the New Jersey Education
  Association, regarding its efforts to re-elect Democratic Gov. Jon
  Corzine.
  The document can be found at NEAexposed.com....Citing “Electile Dysfunction,” meaning [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:36pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Accuracy in Media - Did White House “Gatecrashers” Have Ties to Obama?

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  " Of paramount interest is the possible connection of Tareq Salahi to Khalidi―a connection that could have been a factor in his entry into the White House"
  
  From Accuracy in Media:
  While the major media have bought the official storyline about the so called White House gatecrashers, could [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:48pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Taking the private jet to Copenhagen - Times Online

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  The Ties Online: Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most
  enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than
  eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting
  green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Nelson, Specter must wrestle with anti-tax pledge in health debate - TheHill.com

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  From THE Hill: The Senate healthcare bill presents a tricky political challenge to Sens. Ben
  Nelson (Neb.) and Arlen Specter (Pa.), the only two Democrats in the Senate to
  have signed anti-tax pledges.Americans for Tax Reform, the group which persuaded
  Nelson and Specter to sign the pledge, will press both [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:39pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• War tax proponent Obey calls expected troop surge a 'fool's errand' - TheHill.com

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  From the Hill: The chief architect of a bill to increase taxes to pay for the Afghanistan war
  said he didn't believe adding troops would yield much benefit. "The problem
  is you can have the best policy in the world but if you don't have the tools to
  implement it" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Why Copenhagen won't be enough and why is US press being stopped at Oslo

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  From the Gaurdian:
  Only the other day Barack Obama was being applauded for breaking the deadlock at the Copenhagen climate change summit. The White House confirmed last week that Obama would commit to reducing America's greenhouse gas emissions, and would drop in on the meeting on his way to [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Health Reform: Kill the bills and do it right | Richmond Times-Dispatch

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  From the Times Dispatch: The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its
  inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the
  2,074-page Senate health care bill (as with its 2,014 page House counterpart) is
  that it wildly compounds the complexity by [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• How is this different from the Previous President ? Can Obama pull off Commander-in Chief role

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  From Politico: As President Barack Obama prepares to make
  the case for sending more troops to Afghanistan, some allies are urging him
  to return to a line of argument little heard since the Bush years: the United
  States has a moral obligation to protect the Afghan people, particularly women,
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:09am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• 7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told

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  From Politico:
  Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline,
  voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a
  picture that is already neatly framed in their minds....No one understands this
  better than Barack Obama and his team, who won
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:59am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Leaked emails won't harm UN climate body, says chairman

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  From  The Gaurdian:
  There is "virtually no possibility" of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN's top global warming body, its chair said today...Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate scientists [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:20am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• EDITORIAL: Barbie converts to Islam - Washington Times

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  From The Washington Times: "the clash of civilizations as Barbie dons the burqa. Burkha Barbie, by Italian
  designer Eliana Lorena, will be among the dolls auctioned by Sotheby's in a
  benefit for the nongovernment charity Save the Children. The message to little
  girls worldwide: Abandon all hope. Barbie has long" [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:02pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Obama Nation

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  Read Here: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hudlash/2009/11/29/obama-nation-free-thinkers/ [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:18pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• U.S. eyes Afghan drawdown starting by 2013: report | Politics | Reuters

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  From Reuters:
  "The United States should be able to begin scaling back its troop presence in Afghanistan from a post-surge peak by 2013, according to an assessment by the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan.
  U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal gave his assessment to a delegation of U.S." [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:15pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Russia, U.S. likely to miss deadline on arms pact | Politics | Reuters

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  From Reuters - The United States and Russia are unlikely to finish a pact to cut Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons by a December 5 deadline but still aim to close the deal by year-end, Russian and U.S. sources said Friday.
  Diplomats from the two biggest nuclear powers have [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:13pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Bernanke Says Limiting Fed Independence Would ‘Impair’ Economy - Bloomberg.com

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  From Bloomberg: "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said curbing the central bank’s authority to supervise the banking system and tampering with its independence would “seriously impair” economic stability in the U.S.
  “A number of the legislative proposals being circulated would significantly reduce the capacity of the Federal Reserve" [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:09pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Creepy - Virginia Man Nabbed for Kissing Joggers

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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:22am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Obama's agenda runs into economic angst in Congress | Politics | Reuters

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  Read Here: Obama's agenda runs into economic angst in Congress | Politics | Reuters: "President Barack Obama is paying a price for a recession that began before he took office, and fellow Democrats have started to balk at his legislative agenda and demand greater efforts to create jobs.
  Some" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:19am EST
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• South Korea launches WTO dispute against U.S. | Politics | Reuters

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  Read Here: South Korea launches WTO dispute against U.S. | Politics | Reuters: "South Korea has launched a dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over U.S. measures to raise prices on imports of steel, a South Korean embassy official said on Thursday.The move by Seoul" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:18am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• World's patience with Iran is limited: White House | Politics | Reuters

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  Read Here: World's patience with Iran is limited: White House | Politics | Reuters: "The world is losing patience with Iran's behavior over its nuclear program and Tehran will be responsible for the consequences if it fails to meet its obligations, the White House said on Friday.
  Robert Gibbs," [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:17am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Washingtonexaminer.com | Beltway Confidential | Opinion Articles - Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner

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  Read Here: Washingtonexaminer.com | Beltway Confidential | Opinion Articles - Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner: "As you sit down for Thanksgiving with your family, be thankful for President Obama. He is such a great leader that, in his hands, just $500 is enough to create or" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:16am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Washingtonexaminer.com | Beltway Confidential | Opinion Articles - Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner

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  Read Here: Washingtonexaminer.com | Beltway Confidential | Opinion Articles - Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner: "Janet Foran of MDOT’s Office of Communications said “The stimulus funding calculation for jobs created is one job for each $92,000 invested, making, if the calculation is accurate, three hundred sixty-four" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:15am EST
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• Washingtonexaminer.com | Beltway Confidential | Opinion Articles - Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner

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  Read Here: Washingtonexaminer.com | Beltway Confidential | Opinion Articles - Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner: "A new Rasmussen Reports survey shows that Americans have become dramatically more satisfied with the U.S. health care system, even as President Obama and Democrats in Congress run it down rhetorically.[...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:14am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Ethanol: Washington's unmeetable mandate | Washington Examiner

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  Read Here: Ethanol: Washington's unmeetable mandate | Washington Examiner: "One of Barack Obama's favorite lines of attack on John McCain last election was to criticize McCain for regularly voting against 'renewable energy.' If you check the 23 votes Obama's campaign cited for this criticism you'll see that largely, Obama'" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:13am EST
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• Damn the deficit: Full speed ahead on health care | Washington Examiner

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  Read Here: Damn the deficit: Full speed ahead on health care | Washington Examiner: "Double-digit. That hyphenated adjective has been used most often recently to describe October's 10.2 percent unemployment rate. But it can also be used to describe the federal budget deficit as a percentage of the gross" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:12am EST
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• Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind | Reuters

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  Read Here:Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind | Reuters: "Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States.
  Despite a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations and assurances last week by President" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:12am EST
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• Big Government » Blog Archive » Whatever Became of ACORN’s ‘Internal Investigation’?

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  Read Here:Big Government » Blog Archive » Whatever Became of ACORN’s ‘Internal Investigation’?: "On September 29th, when ACORN is under full public scrutiny in the aftermath of the undercover video sting, it announced with great fanfare that it was launching a thorough and independent review of its operations. It" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:11am EST
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• White House Party Crashers Cause a Hangover - WSJ.com

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  Read Here: White House Party Crashers Cause a Hangover - WSJ.com: "President Barack Obama asked for a full review of how a Virginia couple vying for a spot in the cast of a reality-TV show was able to crash Tuesday's state dinner for the prime minister of India, a" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:10am EST
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• Republican blasts ACORN reprieve - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com

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  From Boston.com: A top House Republican today blasted a ruling by the Justice Department that allows the Obama administration to pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress passed a law banning the community advocacy group from receiving taxpayers money....Republicans have been on the warpath against ACORN since [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:24pm EST
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• Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts

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  From the New York Times: The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group....The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• On Thanksgiving eve, Obama issues special Hajj message to world's Muslims

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  From the LA Times: On Thanksgiving eve, Obama issues special Hajj message to world's Muslims: Statement by the President on Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, as provided by the White House...Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Sesame Street and FOX News - Spill O'Reily

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  Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:21pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Fed Audit still in Jeopardy? More info (Thanks to Michael McPadden)Share

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  Thanks Michael McPaddenFed Audit still in Jeopardy? More info (Thanks to Michael McPadden)Share
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  Fed Audit in Jeopardy
  http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/notes/shaun-griffin/fed-audit-still-in-jeopardy-more-info-thanks-to-michael-mcpadden/181152522682
  Below I have listed an entry from Mish's blog about the "Audit the Fed" bill in Congress. I have always said that if the Federal Reserve [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:07pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Birth of the U.S. Constitution 1777-1787

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:04pm EST
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• 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

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  The book that started it all for me and many conservative/Libertarians Ayn Rand's classic novel "Atlas Shrugged" is becoming more fact than fiction. From the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore: Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:49am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• For your Holiday viewing pleasure - Bohemian Rhapsody, Muppet style

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:15am EST
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• Voting For Obamacare Will Not Help Save Democrats' Majorities

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  From RCP.com: There’s a myth circulating in the blogosphere and the punditry, and it is threatening the Democrats’ majorities. It goes like this: In 1994, Democrats failed to pass a healthcare bill, and they lost their majorities. Ergo, if Democrats fail to pass a healthcare bill in 2009, they will [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:31am EST
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• How Unemployment Affects Midterm Elections

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  From Real Clear Politics: It’s become something of an article of faith within the lay punditry that high unemployment and a weak recovery will seriously weigh down the Democrats’ performance in the 2010 midterm elections. People vote with their pocketbooks, the adage goes, and their pocketbooks are likely to be [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:29am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• We Pay Them to Lie to Us - John Stossel

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  From Real Clear Politics: When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician....President Obama insists that health care "reform" not "add a dime" to the budget [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:27am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Obama Adinistratio resumes arms sales to Taiwan

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  From Reuters: The United States plans to resume arms sales to Taiwan and warned of a build-up of missiles aimed at the island by China, a top U.S. diplomat said Tuesday....Washington has not struck any new arms deals with Taiwan since President Barack Obama was sworn in at the start [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:12am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Didn't work the first time, but the second time I guess will be a charm

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  From Reuters: The Obama administration, facing criticism its economic stimulus plans are failing to halt layoffs, on Tuesday said hiring prompted by the spending would accelerate next year…..Republican lawmakers have heavily criticized the Obama plan, pushed through Congress in February, for doing little to stop the loss of 3 million [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:09am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines

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  From Reuters: President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Department said on Tuesday.......This administration undertook a policy review and we decided that our land mine policy [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:04am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Dennis Miller on Harry Reid

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:46pm EST
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• Cowards cut and run, Marines never do

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox