WASHINGTON (AP) – Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country. The data is somewhat better than December, when 43 states reported higher unemployment rates, but worse than November, when rates fell in most states. Still, five states reported record-high [...]
“I’m shocked that the White House vetted this guy … and still put him up for a judgeship.” Washington (AP) – – The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and [...]
Rasmussen: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for [...]
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Snarky Bastard at Feed Your ADHD: We know that. But there’s a good percentage of the American people who don’t. How can they when the Campaigner in Chief has a bully pulpit in TOTUS and keeps sh*tting lies from his mouth like this one from yesterday’s Obamacare Redux campaign stop in liberal Philly: “Every year, [...]
Examiner: RINO Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC running lead on comprehensive immigration reform along with his liberal friend Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, is calling for among other things a national ID card to stem the flow of illegal immigration with comprehensive immigration reform the final goal. They are not alone. On the O’Reilly Factor Tuesday evening, [...]
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Monday on Nigeria to find and punish those responsible for the killings of more than 500 Christians in a wave of sectarian slaughter. “We continue to urge all parties to exercise restraint,” (Restraint? The Mooooslims didn’t show restraint when they massacred five hundred Christian farmers, did they?) [...]
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FOX News: The top Republican on the Senate committee that received an e-mail warning staffers not to visit the Drudge Report said there is no evidence “whatsoever” of an embedded virus on the news site and suggested the warning was a ruse to steer people away from the sometimes-incendiary page. “I suspect somebody was trying [...]
Washington Examiner: TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address was “very troubling” and that the annual speech to Congress has “degenerated into a political pep rally.” Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question about the Senate’s method of [...]
Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens [...]
Excerpt from Pelosi Remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties, posted at witch’s website: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning [...]
Live Pulse: Don’t confuse the House timeline with the White House timeline, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) warned reporters Tuesday. “None of us has mentioned the 18th, other than Mr. Gibbs,” Hoyer said in response to a question about whether Congress can pass a health care package by March 18, the date laid out last [...]
The Hill: A Democrat opposed to abortion rights, who has led the charge against the Senate healthcare bill, softened his tone Monday, suggesting the impasse over abortion funding can be resolved. Rep. Bart Stupak (Mich.), who has repeatedly made threats to whip votes against healthcare legislation if it even indirectly pays for abortion, told the [...]
Fox: Facing dismal poll numbers in his home state, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has devised a re-election strategy: welcome third party candidates who can split the opposition in the uphill battle to hold on to his U.S. Senate seat. Facing dismal poll numbers in his home state, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has devised a re-election [...]
