Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) Democrats responded Saturday morning to the announcement that Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan would be the vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, attacking Ryan on economic issues. In particular, the attacks focus on Ryan’s budget plan that has passed the House of Representatives the last two years, which included cuts to entitlement ...
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Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(HUMAN EVENTS) The Human Events 2011 Conservative of the Year, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), will be announced this morning as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate, according to early reports. Romney will formally announce his choice at a news conference this morning as early as 8:45 a.m. Reaction from Republicans was swift — and ...
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(THE DAILY CALLER) Barack Obama signed a bill Friday evening that would exempt some senior-level presidential appointees from Senate confirmation. Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and cosponsored by Republicans and Democrats, the bill, now law, weakens the power of the legislature and strengthens the executive branch, critics have warned. The bill skated through ...
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Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) Obama’s campaign has released a 290-page opposition research report on Rep. Paul Ryan, Gov. Mitt Romeny‘s likely pick for vice president. The report is a ready-made dossier for Democrats and a skewed portrayal for reporters, starting with Ryan’s support for reform of the fast-growing Medicare program, and ending with a supportive quote ...
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(HUFFINGTON POST) WASHINGTON -- In remarks later Tuesday, President Barack Obama will slam the Republican budget plan put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as "nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism." "It's a Trojan Horse," Obama will say during remarks at an Associated Press Luncheon, according to excerpts released by the White House. "Disguised as [a] ...
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(WEEKLY STANDARD) Paul Ryan has come to Kenosha to deliver bad news. It’s May 3, 2012, and the United States faces an imminent debt crisis. The federal government is spending too much. Entitlements are out of control. Social Security is going insolvent. Medicare is sucking up an ever-increasing chunk of our tax dollars. There ...
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Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH don't even! (NEW YORKER) If tonight’s reporting is correct, and if Mitt Romney really does announce at 9 A.M. Saturday that Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is his running mate, Romney has made the most daring decision of his political career. After spending weeks looking into Ryan’s history for The New Yorker, visiting his home ...
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(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is coming out swinging against President Obama’s “record of failure” by attacking his belief in the role of government in the economy. “I’m proud to stand with a man who understands what it takes to foster job creation in our economy, someone who knows from experience, that if you ...
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Aug 11, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Mitt Romney has tapped Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, the campaign confirmed Saturday morning. The Romney campaign formally announced the selection via its mobile-phone app. An alert that crossed shortly after 7 a.m. ET said: "Mitt's Choice for VP is Paul Ryan." Word had already gotten out that the Republican presidential candidate had ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's campaign says the presumed Republican presidential nominee will announce his running mate Saturday morning in Norfolk, Va. In a statement issued Friday night, the Romney campaign said the running mate would be revealed at 9 a.m. EDT at the Nauticus Museum. Romney is kicking off a four-day bus tour through swing ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNS NEWS) – Federal and state welfare assistance has grown almost 19 percent under President Barack Obama, according to the conservative Heritage Foundation. All in all, there are 79 means-tested federal welfare programs, at a cost approaching $1 trillion annually, said Heritage Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector. Rector conducted a comprehensive analysis of spending for government ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) A new report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce highlights a striking example of Big Labor’s strength at the local government level: the states of Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Nevada have all exempted unions from the state’s own anti-stalking laws. The report, titled Sabotage, Stalking & Stealth Exemptions: Special State Laws for Labor ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(NEWSWORKS) Presidential campaign events are always orchestrated stage shows, and reporters are used to campaigns doing their best to manipulate the media and control the day’s narrative. But my experience Thursday at a Michelle Obama event in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was a first. Obama campaign operatives barred me from talking to voters outside the event, to the ...
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Limbaugh Tells Romney To Ditch Eric Fehrnstrom and ‘Get Some Real Conservatives As His Spokespeople’
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(MEDIAITE) What’s that, you say? “Hollywood” (shorthand for people who are famous in some way, shape, or form) generally skews in favor of voting for President Barack Obama? Well, do you have evidence… besides all those fundraisers and celebrity endorsements? 90 Days, 90 Reasons, you say? Oh, okay. Here’s what that is: McSweeney’s, the publisher that ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from RED RED HEAD: Yes. This is actually happening. These so called “feminists” are reducing the feminist movement and women to reproductive organs — again. Their cause? The alleged “war on women.” (Yes, they’re stilling running with that.) An email from Code Pink enthusiastically encourages women to “Send Your V to the RNC!” ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WESTERN JOURNALISM) I do believe that I may have stumbled upon something that the mainstream media has missed: a common connection between three mass murderers and the White House. First, let us look at Nidal Hassan. He was the Fort Hood shooter who went on a rampage killing spree against deploying soldiers. Apparently, no one ...
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Aug 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(BIG GOVERNMENT) I have to admit, the Huntsman candidacy for President never made much sense to me. When it began I thought: wait, this guy served in the Obama Administration and now wants to run against him? And I didn't really get any further than that. Maybe, though, it was simply Himalayan-sized political ambition. According ...
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