President Barack Obama took another dig at Las Vegas at his New Hampshire town hall Tuesday after similar remarks got him into hot water last year. Obama said that people should not "blow a bunch of cash in Vegas" during a tough recession. Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman called for Obama to apologize after he made comparable comments last February.
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Obama backs down from Vegas dig
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chided President Barack Obama Tuesday for making Las Vegas a “poster child” for excessive spending. “I just spoke to the White House and told them that while the president is correct that people saving for college need to be fiscally responsible, the president needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop ...
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The Redhunter
Obama v Bush - Budget Deficits
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Jim Treacher puts numbers and a graph to a conversation I'm familiar with: A simple five-step process for understanding the deficit and people's reactions to it 1) Read a story on the Obama administration's pledge to reduce the deficit. Pay special attention to quotes like this: "We wanted to draw a line in the sand and enforce some discipline ...
Pamela Geller
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Atlas Shrugs
After Statue Removal Threat, Obama Family Trip To Indonesian School Where He studied Islam, To Announce "Partnership" With Largest Muslim Country
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I guess the thought of the Indonesians tearing down the "Obama" statue less than a month after it was erected was too much to take for our narcissist in chief. So off to retrace his childhood steps in Indonesia, children in tow. I mean, really. They threatened to take that ridiculous statue down, and off he runs. Sick. Perhaps he'll address the ...
Gatewaypundit.firstthings.com
Nevada Governor Slams Obama: “Doesn’t He Know That Thousands of Vegas Families Are Suffering Because of His Failed Policies?”
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In a statement issued by Governor Gibbons he said he was stunned that President Obama was so thoughtless and heartless with his recent remarks about Las Vegas. Governor Gibbons said, “Doesn’t President Obama know that thousands of families in Las Vegas are suffering because of his failed economic policies?”
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Battle On for Obama's Senate Seat
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Republican Mark Kirk will face Illinois state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias for a shot at taking Obama's seat from Dems • LIVESHOTS: Brown on Who Will Replace Blago? - Doocy on Bill Ayers Encounter • Primary Races for Illinois Gov. Too Close to Call • Florida State Senator Elected to Replace Wexler
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Pres. Obama Town Hall Meeting in Nashua, NH
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During a town hall meeting in Nashua, NH, Pres. Obama announced his plan to use $30 billion repaid by Wall Street banks under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help community & local banks provide more loans to small businesses. He also talked about tax relief that small businesses received under the Recovery Act. Length: 1 hr. 19 min. ...
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First Lady Michelle Obama Remarks on Childhood Obesity
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First Lady Michelle Obama made remarks after meeting with Cabinet members and Congressional members serving in leadership roles on childhood obesity policy. Agriculture Sec. Vilsack, HHS Sec. Sebelius and others spoke to reporters outside the White House after the meeting. Length: Published: Tuesday at 2:30pm (ET)
Latimesblogs.latimes.com
If not NYC, where else could Obama's administration possibly try the Guantanamo Bay prisoners?
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Now that the Obama administration's Justice Department appears ready to deny the publicity-seeking self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind, his alleged cohorts and their defense attorneys the brightly-lit global stage of Broadway and the Big Apple for the trials, the debate begins over where best to hold them.
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NewsBusters.org
Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks'
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Glenn Beck on Tuesday addressed recent attacks by liberal publisher Arianna Huffington and in so doing thoroughly demolished the proprietor of the Huffington Post on national television. Beck did such a good job that even the left-leaning website Mediaite took his side. As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Huffington went on ABC's "This Week"
Christian Science Monitor
Obama calls for $30 billion loan initiative for small business
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In Obama's proposal, the money would be taken by small banks, which in turn could loan to small business. The program would be separate from TARP and would be aimed at creating jobs.
RealClearPolitics
Obama's Halfway House
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Roger Cohen, New York Times NEW YORK — I had very high hopes for Barack Obama. I still do. He’s smart, curious, informed — and he has a sense of humor, if only he’d display it more. But he inherited a nation in a funk and, one year into his presidency, he’s not found a way to lift the mood. ...
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Rangel: Lawmakers writing compromise health bill
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WASHINGTON – Leading lawmakers hoping to revive President Barack Obama's stalled health care overhaul have started writing a compromise bill, but it's unclear when the legislation will be ready for votes, a top House Democrat said Tuesday.
Newsmax.com
Obama Rips GOP As 'Opportunists'
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President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escalating criticism of the very lawmakers he's urging to work with him.
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The Moderate Voice
Quote of the Day: Was Obama Following the Sorkin Strategy in Meeting With House GOPers?
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Our political Quote of the Day comes from Dick Polman, who notes that President Barack Obama was appealing directly to independent voters in his talk to House Republicans on Friday. Polman wonders if Obama is following a strategy from a popular TV show: If you’re similarly hunkered, go ahead and decide for yourself whether Obama or [...]
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ACLU
Obama Budget Will Increase Your Taxes And Costs
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So says those ultra-far right kooks at ABC News While President Barack Obama is proposing to cut some taxes for companies that hire workers, his budget would raise a host of other taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals. The budget proposal released Monday would extend Obama’s signature Making Work Pay tax credit — $400 for ...
Power Line
Obama Attacks Churches, Charities and Home Values
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These are policies that President Obama has advocated in the past, so we shouldn't be surprised to see them in his 2011 budget. Still, it's hard not to be a little shocked. The budget says, at page 40: Reduce the Itemized Deduction Write-off for Families with Incomes over $250,000. Currently, if a middle-class family donates a dollar to its ...
Hyscience
Hilarity Alert: Obama Says 'We Have Made Historic Strides ... to Cut Wasteful Spending'
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In his budget message to Congress Monday, President Obama said, "Already, we have made historic strides ... to cut wasteful spending." And, as CNSNews points out, Obama had the effrontery to make the comment while presenting a budget proposal that for the second year in a row would fix federal spending at a percentage of Gross Domestic Product ...
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The Moderate Voice
COUNTDOWN TO OBAMA & BIDEN RESIGNATIONS
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If Republicans retake both Houses of Congress this November, President Obama and Vice-President Biden should resign after the new Congress is seated in early January 2011. Following the U.S. Constitution and Federal Law, the person next in line to the Presidency would be the Speaker of the House. If the House were controlled [...]
Hyscience
Inside Look at Organizing for America Part II: ACORN for America?
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Anita MonCrief's must-read article over at TheRealityCheck.org shows how ACORN and its allies helped organize America to make Obama President in this, the computer age. Here's a few excerpts to pique your interest: With ACORN's help, Barack Obama "grew" from an ACORN community organizer and instructor, to an ACORN lawyer and ACORN benefactor as ...
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The Guardian World News
US to review 'don't ask, don't tell'
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Senior defence staff announce review of 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that allows gays to serve as long as sexuality remains hidden The Obama administration today launched the first serious attempt at tackling discrimination against gay people in the US military since the Clinton era. Senior defence staff, giving evidence to the Senate armed ...
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The Corner on National Review Online
Omnibama -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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Remember how whenever John Kerry was in the news, his poll numbers went down? But when he took time off from the cameras, his poll numbers went up? Voters seemed to like the idea of John Kerry more than Kerry himself. It'd be interesting to know if something similar plagues Obama. Would his numbers go up if he just took some time off from the ...
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The Jawa Report
Obama Refused to Get Unemployment Down in 2009 Because It Wasn't An Election Year, Suggests...His Own Budget
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Erik Erickson makes an unsettling discovery in the Obama Budget Proposal on page 9:All told, as of the end of November 2009, about 50 percent of Recovery Act fundsor $395 billionhas been either obligated or is providing assistance directly to...
The Washington Times stories
Obama acknowledges broken C-SPAN promise
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President Obama on Tuesday said he "probably should have" made sure the closed-door meetings on Democrats' health care overhaul were broadcast to the public on C-SPAN — as he pledged during the campaign — and said it's a "legitimate criticism" to hold him accountable for not living up to his promise. But Mr. Obama, answering a high ...
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Speaking of Fannie and Freddie... -- By: Stephen Spruiell
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... the Obama administration would Fannie-and-Freddie-ize America's small businesses by juicing up the Small Business Administration, even though one government report after another has found that the SBA's risk-assessment capabilities rank just above those of the party-favor heir who blew $127 million in Vegas. (The agency’s inspector general ...
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Professor Phil Jones, who was director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Photograph: University of East Anglia
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Change of Climate -- By: Mark Steyn
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You have to assume that America's dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried "environmental correspondents" on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating "scientific consensus" on "climate change"? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese ...
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Change of Climate -- By: Mark Steyn
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You have to assume that America's dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried "environmental correspondents" on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating "scientific consensus" on "climate change"? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese ...
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Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, who, at the heart of the scandal, failed to make a vital correction for 20 years. Photograph: University of East Anglia
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In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better model.
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As I've mentioned before, I'm putting the finishing touches on my new book, American Taliban, which catalogues the ways in which modern-day conservatives share the same agenda as radical Jihadists in the Islamic world. But I found myself making certain claims about Republicans that I didn't know if they could be backed up. So I thought, "why don' ...
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The Republicans' Reagan Amnesia
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Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: Library of Congress / Newscom The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants?Republicans love ...
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Little Green Footballs
Poll: Bad Craziness in the GOP Base, Part 2
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Imagine my surprise that linking to a piece about a disturbing Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans prompted several hyper-emotional meltdowns in our comments, and three hate mails so far today. Apart from the insult-spewers, though, many readers wanted to know exactly which questions were asked, and where the samples came from. Today the ...
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The Moderate Voice
Are Republicans Really This Nutty?
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It’s not easy being a black, gay Republican and when news stories like this come out, it’s even harder. According to a poll done by the liberal website Daily Kos, they interviewed 2000 “self-identified” Republicans and found the following: • 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached. • 63% think Obama is ...
Miamiherald.typepad.com
Poll: Charlie Crist should run as an indy, smack Marco Rubio
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A new poll from Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates shows that Gov. Charlie Crist should consider running as an independent, rather than as a Republican, now that former House Speaker Marco Rubio has opened up a 14-point lead among self-identified likely 2010 Republican voters. A quarter of the voters are undecided. Error margin: 5.6 percent.
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A White House official emails that Rahm Emanuel has acknowledged calling liberal Democrats "retarded" and apologized for the remark. "Rahm called Tim Shriver Wednesday to apologize and the apology was accepted," the official said.
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Should Rahm Emanuel Be Fired For Saying Something Is “Retarded”?
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Sarah Palin thinks so , saying that Emanuel’s use of the term “retarded” is as bad as saying “nigger.” The newly-released mind-boggling, record-smashing $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget invites plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of incurring more and more debt that will drown the next generation of Americans.
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Amazon has backed down from its weekend dispute with Macmillan, agreeing to charge the publisher's higher prices for Kindle editions rather than its preferred $9.99. But the long-term questions about e-book pricing remain.
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Three days of guesting teaches a blogger the value of a palate cleanser, my friends. Indeed, let’s double down with two views of the movie that is about to break the domestic box office record set by Titanic (and to steal a joke, the director of Titanic must be pretty ticked).
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi drew a connecting line yesterday between his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the Iranian nuclear program, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and calls for Israel's destruction.
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Italian PM Berlusconi Compares Ahmadinejad to Hitl...
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Italian PM Berlusconi Compares Ahmadinejad to Hitler... From Weasel Zippers: Ahmahomo takes this as a compliment... (Haaretz) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi drew a connecting line yesterday between his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the Iranian nuclear program, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ...
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The Guardian World News
Iran 'accepts UN deal over uranium'
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President has 'no problem' giving uranium to west for further enrichment, but wants it back within five months Iran is willing to satisfy the UN and send its uranium abroad for further enrichment, the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told state television last night. Iran would have "no problem" giving the west its low-enriched uranium and taking ...
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Ahmadinejad suggests exchange for jailed U.S. hikers
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TEHRAN (AP) -- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested in a television interview Tuesday that Iran would release three jailed U.S. hikers in exchange for Iranians currently serving in American prisons. Ahmadinejad said that there were ongoing negotiations about possibly exchanging the hikers for several Iranians jailed for years in the ...
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The proposal to ban smoking and other tobacco use in Seattle parks is unnecessary and intolerant, writes guest columnist Noël Merino. She argues the Seattle Board of Park Commissioners should reject the idea.
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Instapundit
WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. I think the answer is here.
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Backdoor taxes to hit middle class
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NEW YORK (Reuters.com) --The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
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NoisyRoom.net
Financial News Update – 02/02/10
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Money Market Funds Can Now Prevent Redemptions **REUTERS: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class… (Hat Tip: Steve Schippert) **REUTERS pulls tax story… (Hat Tip: Steve Schippert) Obama budget sets strategy for fall campaign (Hat Tip: Brian B.) Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million (Hat Tip: Brian B.) $30B in TARP funds to go to ...
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ADVISORY: Backdoor taxes story
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The Feb 1 story headlined "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class" is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration's budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no substitute ...
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Police say a roadside bomb has killed six people, including foreigners, near a girls' school in northwest Pakistan.
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Predators pound terrorist camp in North Waziristan
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A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Five unmanned US strike aircraft, likely the Predators and Reapers, are reported to have fired 18 missiles at a camp and vehicles in the village of Datta Khel, a known al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. This is the largest ...
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The Guardian World News
Blast near girls' school in Pakistan
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Foreign aid workers and security officials reported to be among casualties of blast on Afghan border An explosion near a girls' school along the Afghan border in north-west Pakistan wounded several people today, police said. Local TV channels reported foreign aid workers and security officials were among the casualties, but the officials would ...
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Last week, Nobel Laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, traveled to Chicago to endorse a political candidate for governor of Illinois. Who he endorsed doesn’t matter. The fact that he is here endorsing anyone at all should be considered newsworthy. Unfortunately for Chicago residents, and ...
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Atlas Shrugs
The only difference between Hitler and the Mufti is that Hitler was defeated and punished. The slaughtering Mufti went on to spawn Yasser Arafat, inspire Saddam Hussein and work to destroy the Jewish homeland and its people. There is no statue of limitations on genocide. I indict the Mufti and the Muslim world. They were equal partners in mass ...
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Arab Nations Look To Israel To Save Their Asses
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They basically see America as a eunuch, so now they look to Israel. You've got to hand it to them for their pragmatism. From the Belmont Club: The Guardian says President Obama is attempting to set up a missile defense ring around Iran to 1) protect the Sunni allies from possible attack and 2) to disincentivize Israel from attacking Iran. The US ...
Robert Booth
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The Guardian World News
Toyota accelerates into trouble
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Japanese company criticised over 'incredibly dangerous' fault as RoSPA calls for an immediate inquiry Toyota was under pressure today over the accelerator fault that is forcing it to recall 2m cars across Europe as the RAC described the problem as "incredibly dangerous" and urged concerned owners to have their vehicles checked immediately. Amid ...
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Israellycool
The Day In Israel: Wednesday Feb 3rd, 2010
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Following Monday’s discovery on beaches in Ashdod and Ashkelon of explosives-filled barrels, Israel is acting under the assumption that there are more such barrels in the sea off the coast of Israel and Gaza. The police will continue to deploy large forces to look for additional bombs, at least through the end of this week. Yesterday, [...]
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The Dem Base And Health Reform
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Jonathan Chait, The New Republic Since House Democrats remain fairly seized with terror at the political ramifications of passing health care reform, it's worth stepping back and thinking clearly about the Democrats' predicament. The November elections look bad for three basic reasons. First, the Republican base is extremely energized, ...
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Here Comes The Watered Down Health Care Bill
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The health care bill has been toxic for Democrats. They’ve already lost elections because of it. Their poll numbers are down because of it. In a lot of ways, Obama’s entire domestic agenda has been stalled because of the health care bill. So now the Democrats are going to save face and try to pass something along the lines of a ...
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Hell has frozen over. Pigs are sprouting wings. The left-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has removed a moonbat judge from the botched LAX millenium bomber case and ruled that his sentence was too short, unreasonable, and in blatant violation of federal sentencing guidelines.
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It looks like we may not have a GOP nominee for Illinois governor tonight. With 97.1 percent of the precincts reporting as of 12:15 am ET, state Sen. Bill Brady is the surprise leader, edging state Sen. Kirk Dillard by about 2,400 votes. Brady was the only downstate candidate; only Public Policy Polling (D) had him within the margin of error ...
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� Kirk wins GOP race
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U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk easily coasted to victory in today�s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Barack Obama. With 75 percent of precincts reporting, Kirk had 57 percent of the vote, easily trouncing the field of five other little-knowns candidates.
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IL Primary: Giannoulias Wins Democratic Senate Nod
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David Hoffman has conceded the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Illinois to state Treas. Alexi Giannoulias. Giannoulias will now face Rep. Mark Kirk (R) this November. Hoffman, speaking moments ago at his election night headquarters, says Giannoulias has his full support.
Realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com
IL Primary: Hastert's Son Loses In 14th District
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Ethan Hastert, son of the former House Speaker, has lost his bid to reclaim that seat for the family. State Sen. Randy Hultgren (R) will now face off against Rep. Bill Foster (D) in the 14th Congressional District.
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The Moderate Voice
An Easy Expose Of GOP Strategy
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The Republicans in Congress must think American voters are really stupid. During the Bush administration they supported trials in federal court for Richard Reed and dozens of other accused terrorists. Now they don’t. They supported the TARP bailout of banks. Now they don’t. They supported a bipartisan commission to address deficit ...
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It's a cold winter, but Indiana Republicans managed to recruit a top-tier candidate to take on Sen. Evan Bayh: Dan Coats, the former Republican senator from Indiana and ambassador to Germany, now a Washington policy adivser and a lobbyist. Bayh succeeded Coats in 1998. The news of Coats's political comeback was first reported by the Howey ...
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Coats explores Senate run against Bayh
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WASHINGTON – Former Fort Wayne resident Dan Coats, a member of Congress for 18 years and most recently a Washington lobbyist, is forming an exploratory committee to run for the Republican Senate nomination and a chance to challenge Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.
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SCIENCE/POLITICS: Surrender on Autism
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The Lancet, a once-respectable scientific journal, has conceded and retracted a now-discredited 1998 study claiming to show a link between vaccines and autism . Of course, the genie loosed by that piece of junk science can't be so easily put back in its bottle, but score another one for science and a defeat for its left-wing enemies. On a ...
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Editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who ...
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It’s Groundhog Day! If you haven’t seen the movie, watch the trailer first . And now here is today’s Jihad Watch news: 1. Some jihadis somewhere will blow something up and kill some people. 2. In their public statements they will quote Qur’an, invoke Muhammad, and explain that they did it all to advance Islam. 3. ...
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