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Grover Norquist Solves Warren Buffett's Tax Dilemma
Tweet Share on Facebook September 30, 2011 Comment (16)You have to hand it to Grover Norquist: He knows how to make a point.
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Obama’s Jobs Plan Will Guarantee Full Employment--For Lawyers
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2011 Comment (12)Anyone familiar with the full text of President Barack Obama's American Jobs Act will understand why he is in such a hurry for Congress to pass it. He doesn't want anyone to read it first.
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Obama Wants Your Healthcare Records
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2011 Comment (28)Is privacy an illusion?
For years we have been hearing about "the right to privacy" emanating from the penumbra of rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and the legal protections that flow from it. This is particularly true in the area of medical care, where the bond between a doctor and a patient is treated in roughly the same terms as that which exists between penitent and priest.
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To Keep Jewish Votes, Obama Must Stand With Israel at the U.N.
Tweet Share on Facebook September 23, 2011 Comment (3)The world wants to know if the United States is still a reliable friend to Israel or not.
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Obama's Attack on Boehner and McConnell Falls Flat
Tweet Share on Facebook September 23, 2011 Comment (1)With the election just about a year away Barack Obama is in full campaign mode—and he's playing hardball with Republican leaders who, in his mind, are standing in his way.
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Obama's 'Tax the Rich' Class Warfare Is Bad Economics
Tweet Share on Facebook September 22, 2011 Comment (16)The president has a new tax plan, a program designed to raise revenues for the beleaguered U.S. Treasury by raising taxes on what he says are the wealthiest Americans—who, he and his ideological allies contend, need to pay their fair share.
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Obama's Tax Plan Fails Basic Math
Tweet Share on Facebook September 20, 2011 Comment (24)If you ask me, Barack Obama needs to go back to school.
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Poll: Obama Losing Crucial Latino Votes
Tweet Share on Facebook September 16, 2011 Comment (7)It's been a particularly bad week for President Barack Obama.
His new jobs bill seems to be going nowhere fast despite his stumping the country in support of it. The Democrats lost two special elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives—one of which they had held since the Coolidge administration—in what was widely seen as a referendum on the job he is doing as president. Newspaper headlines are screaming that some members of his party are ready to push the panic button, and the bankruptcy of a so-called "green energy" firm that received heavy financial backing from Obama's Department of Energy—and which involves at least one of the president's major campaign contributors—is taking on all the earmarks of an emerging scandal.
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The 'Common Man' Response to 9/11 Shows American Exceptionalism
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2011 Comment (2)Before we completely turn the page on 9/11 and return to daily life in America, it is appropriate to reflect a bit on the ways that terrible event changed us all.
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GOP NY-9 Victory Should Have Democrats Worried
Tweet Share on Facebook September 14, 2011 Comment (5)Republican Bob Turner's upset win in New York's Ninth Congressional District has some Democrats tearing out their hair.
