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House GOP Puts Dems in a Box With Clean Debt Ceiling Vote
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2011 Comment (12)The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are about to give Democrats, President Barack Obama included, a clean vote on whether or not to raise the federal debt ceiling.
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Don't Base Energy Policy on Faulty Weather Forecasts
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2011 Comment (34)Last week, the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual hurricane forecast for the Atlantic region.
According to NOAA, we can expect anywhere from a “normal” to “above normal” hurricane season. Some people, however, are not impressed.
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Barack Obama, the Imperial President
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2011 Comment (22)Barack Obama is becoming an imperial president.
The term, first coined by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in his important The Imperial Presidency, describes a style of governing almost monarchial in nature. As applied to the likes of Richard Nixon, the longtime Schlesinger nemesis who occupied the White House when the book was published, it is not meant as a compliment. It was, instead, a clarion call for limits on executive power.
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GOP Blows It in NY 26 by Nominating Jane Corwin
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Obama's Israel Policy Makes U.S. Look Foolish
Tweet Share on Facebook May 24, 2011 Comment (23)President Barack Obama’s stunning about-face on U.S. policy toward Israel—saying that it needs to recede to its pre-1967 war borders as the starting point for negotiations to create an independent Palestinian state—could be the beginning of a bold new initiative in U.S. foreign policy.
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Obama Sells Out Israel
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2011 Comment (78)President Barack Obama just delivered a slap in the face to America’s one indisputably reliable ally in the Middle East. By suggesting, perhaps even insisting that any final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem be based on the 1967 borders Obama--and there is really no other way to put it--has sold Israel down the river without even so much as a basket made of reeds.
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Democrats Distort Newt Gingrich's Medicare Comments--Again
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2011 Comment (13)Democrats are taking advantage of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s comments about proposed changes to Medicare to exploit America’s seniors and scare them.
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Obama Leading the Wrong Direction on Gas Prices
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2011 Comment (19)America desperately needs an American energy policy.
Under Barack Obama, it doesn’t have one. What it does have is an ongoing effort to encourage and subsidize the development of so-called alternative sources of energy, but only at the expense of existing fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil.
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Donald Trump 2012 Always Looked Like a Publicity Stunt
Tweet Share on Facebook May 17, 2011 Comment (1)About a month ago, in the midst of birth certificate fever, a close friend of mine became convinced that Donald Trump was going to be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. She was so convinced, in fact, that she offered me a bet: If Trump won the nomination, I had to take her and her daughter to Paris. If he didn't, I got breakfast in bed.
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9 Ways Newt Gingrich Will Create Jobs, Fix the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook May 13, 2011 Comment (68)Former house speaker and newly-minted presidential candidate Newt Gingrich jumped right into the policy foray Friday with a major speech outlining his program to create jobs and put the American economy back on track.
