Feb 19, 2010 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Politico: James O’Keefe, the self-styled guerilla investigative journalist celebrated for his video on ACORN and arrested last month in New Orleans in an attempted expose of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, got a rock star welcome at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. O’Keefe, 25, wasn’t scheduled to do any official events at CPAC, as the conference ...
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Townhall: WASHINGTON -- In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president's own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system ...
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Townhall: Remember "Not Me"? He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper comic strip "The Family Circus." Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the comic pointed their fingers at "Not Me." Today, "Tea Party" is the juvenile left's new "Not Me" -- an all-purpose ...
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) - Days before hosting an intensive health care summit with both Republicans and Democrats, President Barack Obama made a fervent push for his overhaul, calling it critical not just for the millions without insurance but for the entire country's economic well-being. "It is vital for our economy to change how health care works ...
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CNS News: Washington – Saying that America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion ago, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said President Obama should stop blaming his predecessor and the American people for high unemployment and growing deficit and failure of the Democratic health care overhaul proposal. “When it comes to pinning the blame, let’s ...
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10th Amendment Center: by Walter E. Williams The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation’s history. Suppose you suggest to a congressman that given our budget crisis, we could save some money by dispensing with the ...
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Politico: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) urged conservatives Friday to fight to prevent an American “decline†created by the policies of President Barack Obama. In a long and meandering speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference evoking numerous historical references to the American Revolution and the Second World War, Bachmann said that time and again Americans have chosen ...
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Rove.com: The power of the movement is its independence from Democrats and the GOP. There has been a lot of talk about combining the tea party movement with the Republican Party. And on a small scale, that seemed to happen last week in South Carolina after state GOP representatives agreed to create a "Tea Party Republicans" group ...
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Note: The above picture is not of the Atlanta "progressive" newspaper office. Rather, it is of an Atlanta gay bar. The difference is negligible. Creative Loafing: Atlanta Progressive News has parted ways with long-serving senior staff writer Jonathan Springston. Apparently, Springston’s affinity for fact-based reporting clashed with Cardinale’s vision. And, no, that’s not sarcasm. In an e-mail statement, editor ...
Continue ReadingFeb 18, 2010 20 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ABC: ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq -- currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom -- a new name. The new name: "Operation New Dawn." In a February 17, 2010, memo to the Commander of Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the "requested operation name ...
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CNBC: The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 31,000 to 473,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That compared to market expectations for 430,000. Another report from the department ...
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Politico: Since Richard Nixon was president, the Conservative Political Action Conference has provided the American Right with an annual occasion for self-evaluation. On Thursday, when some 10,000 activists gather in Washington for this year’s conference, they will find themselves part of a conservative movement significantly different than it was during the Bush administration, or even in ...
Continue ReadingFeb 17, 2010 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Gateway Pundit: Mary Rose Rybak at First Thoughts reported on the floats in this year’s New Orleans Mardi Gras parade. One float “Experiment of His Own Power†mocked America’s arrogant president. Mardi Gras has become a celebration of vice before forty days of, well, supposed virtue. It’s one of those fun curiosities about ...
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The Daily Caller: Satire has entered the Republican primary for Senate in Florida. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist — who faces a bruising primary race against former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio — released a fake transcript of a speech that Rubio is set to deliver. Rubio is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action ...
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BBC: Three Malaysian women have been caned by the authorities for having extra-marital sex, say officials. They are the first women to receive such a sentence under Islamic law in the country. The punishments come as another Malaysian woman waits to hear whether her caning - for drinking beer - is carried out. Malaysia's majority Malays are subject to ...
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(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has asked Republicans to bring their best ideas on healthcare reform to a televised bipartisan meeting later this month that Democrats hope will help restart the stalled healthcare overhaul drive. Republicans are urging the president to scrap versions of the roughly $1 trillion overhaul approved last year by the Senate ...
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CNN: Washington (CNN) -- To the list of instructions you hear at airport checkpoints, add this: "Put your palms forward, please." The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers' hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives. Previously, screeners swabbed some carry-on luggage and other objects as they searched for the ...
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