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Despite What Democrats Claim, Voter Fraud is Real
Tweet Share on Facebook July 29, 2011 Comment (23)Back in April, in a story that did not receive the attention it deserved, a Tunica County, Miss., jury found Lessadolla Sowers, who have been identified as a member of the executive committee of the county’s NAACP chapter, guilty of 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots in the name of others.
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Big Brother: Obamacare Looks to Collect Private Medical Info
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Obama Plays Hardball with Debt Ceiling Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2011 Comment (12)President Barack Obama may have been the picture of nonpartisan, compromising cool during his speech to the nation Monday night. Behind the scenes, however, he was all Saul Alinsky.
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Obama's Fuel Economy Standards Threaten the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook July 26, 2011 Comment (4)Remember when, in the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promised to launch an assault on needless, duplicative, wasteful federal agencies and regulations? Neither does he.
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Poll: Americans Support GOP Deficit Plan
Tweet Share on Facebook July 21, 2011 Comment (31)A CNN poll released Thursday shows that nearly two thirds of the American people support the "Cut, Cap, Balance" plan that passed the House of Representatives Tuesday, throwing a monkey wrench into President Barack Obama’s plan for a deal of grand design.
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'Gang of Six' Debt Ceiling Plan is DOA in House
Tweet Share on Facebook July 21, 2011 Comment (16)The so-called “Gang of Six” plan has hit the U.S. House of Representatives with a resounding “thud.”
There are a number of problems with it, the least of which is that it is not really a plan at all. Rather, it is an outline of a framework of a concept of a deal, one that would raise taxes considerably without doing very much, if anything, to bring spending under control.
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Murdochs Breeze Through Parliament Hearing on Hacking Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2011 Comment (32)With the exception of a single chucklehead armed with a pie, no one laid a glove on News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in his appearance Tuesday before a Parliamentary committee.
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On Debt Ceiling, GOP Has a Plan
Tweet Share on Facebook July 15, 2011 Comment (17)It is getting harder and harder to take President Barack Obama seriously.
He has failed to show any real leadership as the federal government approaches the statutory limit on its ability to borrow money. Instead, rather than proposing a plan of his own he vacillates, at times whining like an impertinent child and other times hectoring like a Kansas schoolmarm.
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McConnell Changes Course on Debt Ceiling - Will Back Cut, Cap and Balance
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2011 Comment (23)Kentucky Republican and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who earlier this week was pilloried by conservatives when he proposed giving President Barack Obama the authority to increase the debt ceiling unless Congress voted its disapproval, won plaudits from those same critics Thursday when he became a co-sponsor of the Senate's "Cut, Cap and Balance Act."
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McConnell's Debt Ceiling Proposal Draws Fire From Conservatives
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2011 Comment (12)The raging debate over what it will cost President Barack Obama to get an increase in the debt ceiling took a stunning turn Tuesday when Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell blinked.
Up to now the debate has largely been between congressional Republicans—led by House Speaker John Boehner—who have taken the firm position that the solution to the debt ceiling crisis will largely be found in spending cuts, not new revenues—and the president. For his part Obama, as he made clear in his Monday press availability, is committed to cutting entitlements—but only if they have the political “pay for” of higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations.
Enter McConnell, who has proposed a three-part solution that he apparently believes would shift all the blame for increasing the debt ceiling to the Obama and the Democrats in Congress.
