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IRS, AP and Benghazi Show the Failure of Obama's Big Government
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2013 CommentThe leadership failures and bureaucratic dysfunction exposed by the Internal Revenue Service scandal should be a wake up call to anybody who believes bigger government can solve this nation's problems.
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Coburn Wants Oklahoma Tornado Aid Offset With Budget Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2013 CommentA massive tornado ripped through Moore, Okla. and surrounding cities yesterday, leaving scores of Americans dead. Photos from the scene show complete and total devastation, nothing but dirt and timber where once whole neighborhoods stood.
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Crowdfunding Zack Braff's Film And Robert Griffin's Gifts Is a Mistake
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2013 CommentIt's understandable that not everyone gives money to the poor. Sometimes people can't spare enough from their own budgets to give to the needy. Some people believe their tax dollars should serve this purpose in a more targeted manner. And there are those who believe that we are all responsible for ourselves and should make our own economic futures.
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Poll Shows Americans Find Obama's IRS Story Barely Believable
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2013 CommentYou don't have to believe in the tooth fairy or that the U.S. government has hidden the bodies of space aliens at Area 51 to think something is fishy in the way the news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had been singling out conservative political groups for special, even extraordinary, scrutiny.
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Do Benghazi, AP and IRS Scandals Reflect Obama’s Leadership Style?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2013 Comment"Remember, a fish always rots from the head down," a colleague of mine would cackle loudly in his Baltimorean accent. He would do this every time he observed an organizational foul-up at the magazine where we worked decades ago. His voice began ringing in my head last week as we watched a trifecta of scandals wash over the West Wing.
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In Marine Umbrella Incident, Republicans Still Deny Obama Is President
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2013 CommentHave we become so obsessive-compulsively, potato chip scarfing-like addicted to scandal that we are really having some sort of national discussion about umbrellas?
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Obama Isn't Nixon, but Needs More Friends in Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2013 CommentPresident Obama survived a terrible week in Washington unscathed in the eyes of the American people. Out there in the rest of the world, his poll numbers are still high.
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Republicans Can't Forget the Economy During Obama Scandals
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2013 CommentThe federal government and the media spent the last week digging through the myriad of scandals that besiege President Obama and his White House. And it is undeniably important to delve deeply into the issues of Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department seizing the Associated Press' phone records. The GOP has been strong in outlining the pattern of government overreach, incompetence and cover-up.
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Amidst Obama Scandals, Republicans Prepare a New Debt Ceiling Hostage
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2013 CommentI hate to interrupt fulminations about President Obama's three incredible shrinking scandals with something as prosaic as concern about the GOP's threatening to sabotage the economy, but a couple of bits of real news emerged yesterday regarding the debt ceiling (yes that, again).
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Benghazi, IRS and AP Scandals Reveal a Clueless President
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2013 CommentLast week, the title for my blog post was the Absentee President. This week the title should be the Clueless President; or is he? President Obama, who is praised for his intellectual and political capabilities, all of a sudden wants the American people to believe that he was unaware of the major scandals that are eating away at his political capital and perhaps his second term.
