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Poll: Spending, Deficits Are Biggest Threat to Freedom
Tweet Share on Facebook June 30, 2011 Comment (3)Out of control spending and rising federal deficits are the biggest threat to freedom Americans see as they ready for Independence Day, according to the latest Washington Whispers poll. Down at the bottom: overregulation and gun control.
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Moody's Zandi: Manufacturing Importance Overstated
Tweet Share on Facebook June 30, 2011 Comment (2)If economist Mark Zandi, one of President Obama's faves, is right, American manufacturing power is shifting from Rosie the Riveter to Sammy the Seamstress. The Moody's Analytics frontman tells us that cars, steel, and ships are no longer the driver of U.S. manufacturing.
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Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing
Tweet Share on Facebook June 30, 2011 Comment (1157)Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend's July 4th parades. A new Harvard University study finds that July 4th parades energize only Republicans, turn kids into Republicans, and help to boost the GOP turnout of adults on Election Day.
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Van Jones Joins Pushes 'American Dream' for MoveOn.org
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2011 Comment (18)Van Jones, fired as a top Obama environmental adviser for past political activism, is back to helping President Obama's revived attacks on the rich and corporate tax scofflaws. Jones has joined MoveOn.org to help with the group's "American Dream" project set up to assail wealthy Americans.
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Laura Ingraham Hits Facebook, Fat People, TSA
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2011 Comment (3)Facebook, TSA pat-downs, Presidents' Day, plump women, forced TV cohosts, and all sorts of male habits are under fire from conservative talk radio's emerging grouch Laura Ingraham.
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The Fourth of July, Made in China
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2011 Comment (7)Now even the Fourth of July isn't safe from China's cheap labor exports. New government trade figures show that China has almost taken over the U.S. fireworks market. Worse, the communist nation is starting to push Betsy Ross aside to sell Old Glory.
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Utah Tea Party Targets Orrin Hatch
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2011 Comment (17)Sen. Orrin Hatch's rightward political shift over the past two years hasn't worked to soothe Tea Party critics who today joined to defeat him. National Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks teamed with the Utah Tea Party, the state's Tea Party umbrella group, at the end of a weekend training conference in Washington. [See political cartoons about the Tea Party.]
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NRA Boss: Obama's Gone in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2011 Comment (73)The National Rifle Association has a rich history that goes back to shortly after the Civil War, when in 1871, Union veterans created it to train city-slicker troops who couldn't hit the side of a barn with their musket shots. But as the 4 million-strong group readies its fight to oust President Obama in 2012, it has to go back only 11 years for a battle plan. That's when the Second Amendment advocates mounted their biggest political effort ever to defeat then Vice President Al Gore by targeting key pro-gun Democratic states he needed to beat George W. Bush, like Arkansas. "We actually knocked out a presidential candidate," says new NRA President David Keene.
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Obama to Afghanistan-Bound Troops: 'I've Got Your Back'
Tweet Share on Facebook June 24, 2011 Comment (5)President Obama may have announced a 30,000 troop withdrawal from Afghanistan this week, but some are still headed to the war zone and the White House today is heralding his words of reassurance to some of them.
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Rove Group to Hit Obama With $120 Million
Tweet Share on Facebook June 24, 2011 Comment (5)Providing further proof that the 2012 elections will the most expensive in history, the conservative-leaning American Crossroads group, advised by Karl Rove, plans to raise and spend at least $120 million in the 2012 elections to truth squad President Obama's campaign, the group's chairman said today.
