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Can 'Young Guns' Ryan, Cantor, and McCarthy Change the GOP?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (10)Take a look at the publisher’s description on Amazon of Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders by Reps. Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy:
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Republicans Should Focus on Fiscal Issues, Not “Liberal Bigotry”
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (1)Last week I wrote about the Democrats’ panic over the looming fall elections and their strategy of demonizing Republican candidates as a way to hold on to power. In his column Friday, Charles Krauthammer talked about “liberalism under seige” and what an ugly sight that is. His evidence of liberals’ panic: the “promiscuous charges of bigotry” that the left uses against those who oppose its positions on everything from spending to immigration to the New York mosque:
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Hysterical Democrats Losing Election 2010
Tweet Share on Facebook August 27, 2010 Comment (10)So maybe Robert Gibbs is a man ahead of his time. Now more and more Democrats are saying privately what he said publicly earlier this summer: that Republicans could win the House, and are within striking range in the Senate. Take a look at this electoral map of Senate races over on FiveThirtyEight.com, and notice how many states are turning red.
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The 'Palin Effect?' Not in Murkowski's Alaska Senate Primary
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2010 Comment (6)There's a lot of talk today about "the Palin effect" in the wake of yesterday's primaries, especially in the Alaska GOP Senate race. Joe Miller, who had been endorsed by Sarah Palin, came from behind and is leading incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (The two are within 3 percentage points of each other, but thousands of absentee votes are still being counted.)
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Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's Ruling Makes Abortions Safer
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2010 Comment (14)Today’s Washington Post reports that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has issued a legal opinion which gives the state Board of Health the ability to write new regulations that would require abortion clinics to be subject to the same health standards as hospitals. (Currently in Virginia, second- and third-trimester abortions are performed in hospitals, and only first-trimester abortions take place in clinics.) The standards include requiring that clinic doctors have hospital privileges and that counselors have professional training. Abortion rights advocates said the regulations could cause 17 of the state’s 21 abortion clinics to shut down, and here are what some of Cuccinelli’s opponents said to the Post:
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What Should Obama Do About Robert Gibbs?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 16, 2010 Comment (4)Maureen Dowd’s column over the weekend, entitled “No Love From the Lefties,” calls for White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to be “yanked” from his job. Once you read through all her arguments (mostly having to do with his comments about the “professional left”) you’ll see she doesn’t really want him fired, she actually wants him promoted:
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Obama Missed the Point With Confusing Ground Zero Mosque Comments
Tweet Share on Facebook August 16, 2010 Comment (17)Over the weekend, President Obama made several statements about the “ground zero mosque controversy, in which a Muslim businessman is seeking to build a $100 million, 13-story mosque for the purposes of “reconciliation” near the site of the terrorist attacks. Last week, New York Gov. David Paterson offered to help the builders find an alternate sight in Manhattan, but the offer was refused.
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It's Obama's Non-Recovery
Tweet Share on Facebook August 14, 2010 Comment (7)A few weeks ago, Chuck Todd, the NBC White House correspondent, tweeted that the most important similarity between Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel is not race, but “entrenched entitlement.” They’re not the only two who share that mindset--the entire Democratic ruling class does. And that attitude of entitlement is not only causing ethics problems for specific members, it is having catastrophic effects as a governing policy.
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Border Security Bill a Good First Step for Democrats
Tweet Share on Facebook August 12, 2010 Comment (18)This just in: Following a similar measure in the House, the Senate passed a $600 million package to improve border security. The funding will pay for 1,500 new National Guard troops along the border, a pair of unmanned aerial drones, and military-style bases on the Mexican border. The legislation is paid for by higher fees on foreign companies who have more than 50 employees here on H-1B work visas, which is a good thing because it means perhaps the Democrats are starting to abide by PAYGO. Politico quotes Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer:
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Are Jurors Deadlocked in the Rod Blagojevich Trial?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 11, 2010 Comment (8)It’s the best-kept secret in town. In fact, no one seems to be covering it at all: Today is Day 11 of jury deliberations in the Rod Blagojevich federal corruption trial in Chicago. The national media seems to have forgotten all about the case, but here’s a snippet from a bored Chicago Tribune reporter blogging from the courthouse lobby:
