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May 26, 2011
First find several dozen rich political loons....Do the Democrats really have a formula for winning back control of the House?
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May 25, 2011
It's all a conspiracyAs I listen to the Obama is Awesome crowd spin his gaffe-filled trip to Ireland and Great Britain I am surprised this theory hasn't come up.
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May 6, 2011
Print media's last stand: subsidiesThe last reliable advertising revenue stream of print media has come under attack
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May 4, 2011
That Famous Situation Room photoHow to explain Obama's impersonation of a turtle in the photo from the White House situation room.
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April 24, 2011
McDonalds attack started over gender, not raceWhile the media's description of the victim as a 22 year old woman is politically correct it is also anatomically inaccurate
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April 10, 2011
Judge Sumi and the Wisconsin SupremesThe ironic legal tool being employed against the Wisconsin jurist.
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April 10, 2011
Obama's conflict avoidanceNot being able to deal with conflict has to be the ultimate bummer of a personality trait for a POTUS.
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April 7, 2011
The return of the Dust Bowl?As if mortgage foreclosures, misguided government economic policies and growing threats abroad aren't enough for those who like historical analogies here's yet another similarity between recent history and the Great Depression.
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March 27, 2011
Now Obama's just like Ike?Not just Lincoln, FDR, or JFK. Now Obama's like Ike? The media lickspittles continue their bizarre efforts to make Obama look good.
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March 22, 2011
Libyan Policy Known Unkown?"It may very well be that one of the reasons he [Obama] didn't go to Congress was that he didn't know what his goals were or what the mission would be."
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November 3, 2010
State House TsunamiWith all the national media attention focused on the U.S. Senate a big story was overlooked last night. The GOP may now have more power in the state legislatures than at any time since the 1920s.
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November 3, 2010
David beats Goliath in MinnesotaIt takes the close to the perfect candidate to win in a district that has been owned by the other side.
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November 1, 2010
Blaming Bush, Times TwoFour years after they took control of Congress Democrats still like to blame all the nation's problems on President Bush. Recently this habit hit a new milestone of sorts.
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October 31, 2010
Shuler throws another interception?Rep. Heath Shuler's a better chance of being inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame than being elected Speaker.
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October 27, 2010
Odd criterion for an endorsementA GOP challenger to an entrenched Dem incumbent receives an endorsement from the district's largest newspaper for this?
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October 26, 2010
MN Democrats Declare War on Catholics (updated)One of the oddest attacks in an election in which the Democrats' tone has increasingly resembled fingernails on a chalkboard
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October 26, 2010
Walking out on Bill ClintonA noticeable lack of enthusiasm among Democrats in Obama's hometown a week before the county, state and national elections
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October 21, 2010
Oberstar's Odd NumbersMinnesota Democrat incumbent Congressman Jim Oberstar seems to have trouble with numbers
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October 14, 2010
Short CountOne. That's how many individuals from inside Minnesota's 8th Congressional District contributed to incumbent Democrat James Oberstar during last quarter's reporting period
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October 7, 2010
Ag Chair's Foot-in-Mouth DiseaseChairman of the House Committee on Agriculture Collin Peterson (D-MN-7) may have picked a bad time to remind constituents in his Republican district that he doesn't consider them well informed.
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October 6, 2010
Another Sore Loser Coming?A hint that Wisconsin Democrat Senator Russ Feingold may be getting a little touchy about being in the unexpected position of trailing in the polls.
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September 29, 2010
Floggings will continue until morale improvesPresident Obama's carefully crafted get out the vote strategy may not be working as planned.
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August 21, 2010
Stimulating Netflix?In Southwest Virginia, where a veteran Democrat is facing a tougher than usual reelection challenge, your tax dollars are helping his re-election
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August 15, 2010
Once again, it is all about ObamaThe Ground Zero Mosque debate is now the Professor Gates/Cambridge Police Department controversy elevated to the world stage.
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August 7, 2010
Bad news for Dem frontrunner for Byrd's Senate SeatAt the tail end of a week that saw a pile up of bad news for the Democrats on the ballot this fall comes this.
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August 3, 2010
The changing face of gun ownershipGun ownership was once shunned by many Americans, secure in the assumption that we live in an ordered society.
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July 31, 2010
Go Granny, Go!An 84 year old fights back against a traffic camera report that placed her on a high speed midnight motorcycle run.
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July 21, 2010
Forty Acres & a Mule -- Sherrod Style?Shirley Sherrod's quick dismissal from the Obama administration may have had less to do with her comments on race before the NAACP than her long involvement in the aptly named Pigford case
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June 13, 2010
Sour PixelsConservatives may have their own reasons for concern over the surprise victory of Alvin Greene for the Democratic nomination for Senate in South Carolina.
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April 20, 2010
Mr. Dees, meet Mr. BialystockI am trying to figure out how Morris Dees of the Southern Povertly Law Center differs from Max Bialystock in The Producers.
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April 11, 2010
Paradox in Tax Poll"...it is almost beyond comprehension that neither party has seen fit to highlight the basics."
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March 19, 2010
Desperate DemsThe word is out that Democrats have instructions "Do Not Allow Yourself to Get Into a Discussion of the Details" of what the House is trying vote on.
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March 17, 2010
Moveon's empty threatAn obvious comment on the far left's threat to run primary opponents against any Democrat who votes No on ObamaCare state anywhere: The time for that threat passed months ago.
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March 7, 2010
Broadway Bank BluesThe family business of US Senate candidate and friend of Barack Obama, Alexi Giannoulias, is back in the news.
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March 7, 2010
The Tides Foundation's inept voter driveThe Tides Foundation, which seems to exist to launder the source of funding for left wing operations, does not seem too strong when it comes to implementation.
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March 5, 2010
Rep. Delahunt to spend more time with grandchildMaybe it wasn't such a good idea to let Amy Bishop kill her brother without prosecution.
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February 19, 2010
File found, Delahunt still absentExperienced prosecutors know that a series of mind numbing errors and omissions that all favor one party are unlikely to be the product of mere coincidence.
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February 15, 2010
Another Dem in Congress implodes (updated)Congressman William Delahunt (D-MA) may not run for reelection. For good reason.
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January 31, 2010
Minnesota's No-Spin ZoneIt seems two favorite green technologies favored by the coastal elites don't work very well in the harsh conditions in parts of flyover country.
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January 13, 2010
Parallel livesA Board President who had no executive experience and an undistinguished record as a legislator took over Cook, IL two years before America elected Barack Obama president.
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November 20, 2009
What's the right term for David Frum?There may be a term from the 1960s to describe pundit David Frum that has nothing to do with rebuilding a traditional centrist Republican majority
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November 20, 2009
Obama goes from radiant to radioactiveAfter the 2008 election, Obama basked in a triumph of superlatives that would have made a Caesar returning for the barbarian wars blush. No longer.
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September 24, 2009
Obama insults PM Brown againRelationships between President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown seem to be on a downward spiral.
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September 18, 2009
The Misery MapThe Carter years saw the Misery Index, the combination of the inflation rate with the unemployment rate. Here comes the Misery Map
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September 14, 2009
9/12 was a transformative eventWe are witnessing a very rare phenomenon, the genuine, broad based spontaneous political movement with no visible charismatic leaders.
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September 14, 2009
Making it up on volume?The WaPo seems to be trying to make up the startling loss on each paper sold in the sheer volume of their support for Democrat candidates and left wing causes.
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September 11, 2009
Win one by being like the GipperRasmussen reports that all political labels are trending negative except one
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September 10, 2009
Obama's Groundhog DayObama has cast himself as the lead in a remake of Groundhog Day currently unrolling, but will the ending be as happy as the original?
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September 10, 2009
Fox to recommend reforms in chicken coopLook who is handling Obama's tort reform effort.
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September 9, 2009
Democrats and the one-party mentalityThe leaders of this Congress, safely ensconced in heavily gerrymandered urban districts, have plodded ahead with a widely unpopular left wing agenda.
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September 3, 2009
Cleaning upIt seems that Nancy Pelosi's promise to clean up the House was misunderstood. She was using that term as slang, meaning that under her, the Democrats would make large profits for themselves.
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September 1, 2009
Watch out for the Labor Day effectObama's total approval rating has been down each of the last four days. It is now at an all time low of 46%. A similar pattern emerged just before the Fourth of July
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August 20, 2009
Reduce the deficitA new Rasmussen polls shows that by an almost two to one margin, voters say that deficit reduction should be President Obama's highest prioriy.
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August 17, 2009
The city that won't be working todayChicago, the famous "city that works" won't be working today.
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August 17, 2009
We can't spare this woman: she fightsThe entire Republican establishment has lost a large section of the public for some time now.
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August 15, 2009
First, do no harmA new Rasmussen poll suggests that voters want Congress to follow the maxim, Primum non noceres when addressing the issue of health care.
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August 14, 2009
Earmark UpdateAmid all the concern over Health Care Reform and Cap & Trade it is best not to lose sight of the issue that began the current protest against out of control spending -- the earmark process.
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August 13, 2009
Got that mojo workin'The Democrat political edge so talked about a few months ago seems to have dulled.
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July 28, 2009
Feds moving the cash-for-clunkers goalpostsIf car dealers believed the feds' own website "have only themselves to blame".
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July 27, 2009
A rotten apple falls from the treeOn Monday Obama protege, Alexi Giannoulias, 33, scion of the family that owns Broadway Bank. announced his candidacy for his mentor's US Senate Seate.
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July 22, 2009
The Blue State BluesAt the very moment of blue state electoral triumph, it is the blue states that suffer most from the economic downturn, with the worst prospects of recovery.
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July 21, 2009
Unsafe at any screedLook who drives more, gets more tickers, and has significantly more expensive insurance claims!
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July 21, 2009
Dems running into irate constituents over ObamaCareThere should be some first rate political theater in the offing.
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July 20, 2009
About the 'record turnout' for Obama...It appears that a lot of older white people who voted in 2004 stayed home in November, 2008 because they didn't like either candidate.
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July 17, 2009
Pirate this Film!A clueless Hollywood lefty discovers the consequences of the values he embraces. Oh, the irony!
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July 11, 2009
Tight squeezeI have long suspected the media's relationship with Washington political insiders was cozier than it should be for the publc good, but this is ridiculous.
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July 8, 2009
McNamara's gift to meWhoever owns the beer emporium closest to the grave of Robert Strange McNamara is going to be doing a ton of business shortly
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July 8, 2009
Obama presidential approval index slips to minus 5Those who strongly approve of President Obama's performance in office are outnumbered by those who strongly disapprove by a record 5 points
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July 6, 2009
Obama: 'I am not naïve'That brief statement of Barack Obama's last month seems every bit as risible as Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook"
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July 6, 2009
The revolt of the mulesWe have become a nation increasingly divided between a political class of officials and courtiers those who manipulate images or move pixels and the country bumpkins who actually dirty their hands creating concrete objects people have to have to survive.
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June 22, 2009
Fair elections, Mullah-styleIran's Guardian Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, who was speaking on Iranian television on Sunday had this to say in response to a complaint
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June 21, 2009
In Iran, too: Follow the moneyThere are hints here and there that money may indeed be playing a factor in the events unfolding in Iran.
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June 19, 2009
Careless PeopleThe latest member of the Obama administration to have a problem with the IRS is Capricia Penavic Marshall, the nominee for the post of chief of protocol for the State Department.
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June 15, 2009
A disillusioned ex-Obama supporterMartin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic systematcially dismantles Obama's claim that he is a student of history with a bravura display of his own mastery of the subject.
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June 13, 2009
Deja vu all over againAs I read the stories about Obama trying to cajole, beg and bribe other places into accepting prisoners from Gitmo I couldn't help but recall this story from 1987.
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June 5, 2009
O at zeroRasmussen reports the president's net strong approve/disapprove rating is a dead heat
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June 3, 2009
What's wrong with this picture?The president reminisces about something that didn't happen.
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June 3, 2009
New polling on Sotomayor (updated)Quinnipiac just released new polling data showing that Americans firmly reject affirmative action policies based on race.
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May 29, 2009
Identity Politics and the Sotomayor nominationJudge Sotomayor's grammar is as suspect as some of her legal analysis.
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May 28, 2009
Car Czar and Chrysler dealer terminationsWe know that Caesar's wife is supposed to be above suspicion, but what about a Czar's wife, when it comes to terminating Chrysler's dealers?
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May 5, 2009
So much for Obama's 'transparency'The administration that released pictures of detainees and thereby damaged America's reputation abroad has decided some other photos will not see the light of day anytime soon.
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May 4, 2009
Obama's high tech campaign sweatshopThe hypocrisy of calling for a living wage while using the service of a company that runs the cyber version of a sweatshop is obvious.
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May 2, 2009
Just a tad tetchyHispanic members of Congress are demanding an apology from the GOP for a split second image in a 1:24 minute video montage that never mentions the CHC or even Latinos in general.
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May 2, 2009
Obama +1 net approval on day 103Rasmussen's Daily Tracking Poll paints a different picture than all the headlines last week about how popular Obama is.
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April 29, 2009
Swine flu, the lawsuitFor environmentalist and animal rights extremists, the sworn enemies of modern agriculture, swine flu is a potential godsend.
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April 28, 2009
Air Farce One, Obama ZeroPerhaps the best part of yesterday's story about the panic in New York are the reader comments in the New York Times.
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April 26, 2009
823,076 reasons to be skepticalAs we approach the 100th day of the Obama reign the media is full of stories about how popular he is with American voters.
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April 8, 2009
How Congress encouraged vote fraudIt turns out that not only are there are more people registered to vote in Detroit than that city now has residents over age 18, just as the Democrats in Congress wanted.
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April 3, 2009
For Dems, one = threeRemember the door to door campaign to show support for Obama's budget?
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March 19, 2009
The seemingly endless list of Congressional tax cheatsAccording to Bloomberg, yet another Congressman is cheating on his state property taxes.
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March 15, 2009
The price of progressive policiesFor decades, often corrupt politicians in Michigan have pursued viciously anti-business tax policies in the name of helping out the little guy.
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March 14, 2009
Obama & Brazil's President Lula da SilvaAfter watching this my confidence in the future is restored. Unfortunately it is my confidence in the future of Brazil.
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March 13, 2009
How to lose friends and influence people, part IIThe White House has another clumsy blunder on its hands. Is it time yet to declare Obama's personal diplomacy a disaster?
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March 12, 2009
Another one bites the dustI don't know what is more interesting: the news or who is reporting it.
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March 11, 2009
Is Chris's leg still tingling?I wonder how the anchors on MCNBC will handle the results of their own online poll?
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March 6, 2009
Not one deputy in place at Treasury (updated)If the Department of Treasury seems a shambles, there's a good reason. Besides Secretary Geithner, no one who actually has authority to make key decisions has assumed office.
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March 6, 2009
DVDs for the blind?Was Obama's gift to PM Gordon Brown the calculated insult of the malignant narcissist gloating over someone else's weakness?
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March 5, 2009
Obama disses Brit PMThe press does not seem happy with the way President Obama treated Prime Minister Brown during his short visit to Washington, DC.
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March 5, 2009
Not making eye contact with the American peoplePerhaps another sign that the media is restless with the President they helped create is the appearance of stories about how Obama is never without his teleprompter.
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March 4, 2009
CNN's formerly useful idiot?He isn't quite ready to say it is all a mistake, but David Gergen seems to be having his doubts about the Won.
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March 3, 2009
Will those Blue Dogs ever hunt? (updated)Many of the Blue Dogs regularly engage in petty ploys to make it look as if they are not moving in lockstep with House Leadership
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February 13, 2009
Peril in the Stimulus Bill Vote"Don't blame me, I didn't read it before I voted for it," doesn't make a compelling response to the many images of stupid waste lurking within the pages of the Stimulus Bill.
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February 11, 2009
Is child abuse rampant at Chicago Public Schools?One suspects that if a Republican president's Secretary of Education had been in charge of such a school system since 2001 this story would lead every network newscast for a week.
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February 5, 2009
Slop about hogs from a prize boorAppalling Deep Thoughts from an ex-junkie Kennedy.
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February 5, 2009
New meaning of government oversightIt seems yet another would-be member of the Obama administration accidentally forgot to pay taxes.
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January 23, 2009
Geithner's taxes and IRS formsA reader writes, suggesting that no IRS form existed for Timothy Geithner to file self-employment taxes, because he wasn't self-employed
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January 22, 2009
42 million Americans know betterThe Turbo Tax defense won't work for Geithner. Just try to avoid self-employment tax and see what messages such programs give the user.
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January 20, 2009
Obama's fansThere will be almost twice as many private jets in Washington DC for this inauguration as there were in 2004
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January 15, 2009
The Geithner Gross-up Gross-outGeithner's claim of an innocent mistake doesn't pass the giggle test if you know how international agencies handle tax liability for their employees.
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January 6, 2009
ACORN worker indicted in MOAn ACORN worker in St. Louis faces felony charges over voter registration fraud of the worst kind: exploiting the vulnerabilities of the elderly.
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December 30, 2008
Burris comes full circleBlago's appointee to the Obama Senate seat encompasses a lot of history.
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December 18, 2008
Chicago politics: now they believe meDuring the election I found myself trying to explain how corrupt Chicago politicians were to some neighbors, a very devout Christian family that tends to see the best in most people.
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December 17, 2008
Holder' s Selective Memory Syndrome?It seems that Attorney General Designee Eric Holder forgot to list that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to hire him to sort out the state's long dormant casino license on his 47-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire
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December 10, 2008
Blago's win and the GOP default in IllinoisWhile it is true that Governor Blagojevich beat his Republican opponent by 10 percentage points in 2006, he only won 50 percent of the total vote. The Illinois GOP didn't run a strong enough candidate.
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December 10, 2008
Who is Rod Blagojevich?Hell hath no fury like a sociopath who sees himself on the losing end of a power struggle.
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November 26, 2008
Rahm and Freddie MacRahm Emanuel has benefited financially from Freddie Mac, a fact that seems to be overlooked by the media.
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November 8, 2008
If only our current leaders had the nerveSome good advice that probably won't be followed from James G. Wile sabout what the Republicans in Washington should do in the waning days of the Bush Administration.
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November 7, 2008
Reassuring investors about Obama Administration economic policies? -
November 5, 2008
Change wears some familar facesHow interesting that the first name offered by our President elect who ran on the platform of hope and change is a veteran of the Clinton administration who has long been known to be Chicago mayor Richard Daley's eyes and ears in Washington, DC.
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November 3, 2008
So who's the chump?Barack Obama calls the net impact of his proposed tax increases "chump change".
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October 23, 2008
Rationalizing biasPolitico reports that the good news for John McCain is that he's now receiving as much attention from the national media as his Democratic rival. The bad news is that it's all negative.
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October 23, 2008
Set up for fraudThe Obama campaign site appears to have been deliberately set up to accept donations from those who are not legally qualified to make them.
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October 21, 2008
DOJ attorneys in the bag for Obama?Quin Hillyer of the DC Examiner is asking whether we have public servants or stealth political partisans inside the Department of Justice. "In all, DOJ lawyers and staff in the metro area have donated at least $150,000 to Obama. "
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October 21, 2008
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn on the Lights?A journalist writes about how the press has squandered its credibility, first over Iraq and now with Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac as it hypes the prospects of Barak Obama.
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October 21, 2008
Media discovers pay to play is Obama's wayPay to play, that is being required to pony up a campaign contribution in order to get access to political power, has been the Chicago way of politics for decades.
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October 9, 2008
Author, authorJack Cashill's "Who Wrote Dreams of My Father" raises a question that may not be that hard to answer.
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September 21, 2008
What scandal? He's a Democrat!While the New York papers are talking about Congressman Charles Rangel's rent controlled apartments voters in Florida are talking about how Democrat Tim Mahoney, the man who replaced Mark Foley, claims to be living in a barn.
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September 20, 2008
Good news is no newsThere has been very little news coverage about the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, especially when compared to the saturation coverage that followed Katrina.
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September 14, 2008
Land of purple waters?Minnesota, largely written off by the GOP as hopelessly liberal, now is a dead heat between McCain and Obama, according to a new poll.
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September 6, 2008
The peasants are revolting (updated)The national press corps is beginning to get a taste of the anger they have created among a large percentage of the American public over their treatment of Sarah Palin.
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August 30, 2008
No Dan QuayleI was there on the levee in New Orleans when George H.W. Bush rode the Delta Queen into New Orleans in August 1988 to announce his surprising choice of Dan Quayle.
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August 27, 2008
Obama's banking buddyOne of the speakers at the DNC on Monday night was Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, whose speaking slot raised a few eyebrows.
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August 27, 2008
Foot in botoxed mouth diseaseThe MSM has yet to notice the firestorm ignited when the self professsed ardent practicing Catholic Nancy Pelosi's told Tom Brokaw on last Sunday's Meet the Press that Church teaching is undecided on when life begins.
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August 25, 2008
Obama, Biden and the Daley MachineIt is unwritten law in Chicago politics that nobody wants nobody nobody sent. Thus it is no surprise that Joe Biden and Barack Obama have friends in common in the Daley Machine.
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August 22, 2008
Did Michelle Obama funnel contract to big fundraiser? (updated)Michelle Obama's employer, University of Chicago Medical Center, gave a $650,000 contract to Blackwell Consulting. Blackwell Sr. described the genesis of his contract as "really fuzzy."
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August 21, 2008
British TV looks at The Chicago WayBritain's Channel 4 ran an exceptionally thorough feature on Obama's Chicago roots that you can view online.
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August 20, 2008
Brother can you spare a dime?The youngest of Obama's half siblings, the 26 year old George Hussein Onyango Obana, is living in a hut in Huruma, a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi.
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August 17, 2008
The reality behind the Beijing spectacleA carefully planned spectacle masks a very poor nation in which the government is running scared as voices of dissent are starting to be heard via the Internet
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August 12, 2008
Move along -- nothing to see hereLast year Nancy Pelosi's bought stock in the IPO of T. Boone Picken's Clean Energy Fuels Corp., CLNE, This business is seeking billions in both federal and California funds.
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August 10, 2008
Hope this prediction is wrong...A recent popular novel portrays threats to the GOP Convention in St. Paul. Locals are right now focused on a muirder elsewhere.
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August 10, 2008
Celebrities flock to DenverAn unprecedented number of Hollywood personalities and rock stars are being lined up to pay tribute to the Messiah at the upcoming Democrat convention in Denver. Not all Democrats are impressed, however.
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August 2, 2008
Democrats and their losing position on energyI was astounded to hear my North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler pat himself and the Democrat Congress on the back today for standing up to the big oil interests and their obscene profits.
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July 27, 2008
Disappointed in Obama's unfulfilled pledgeIf you believe Obama's promise to bring change, consider Obama's visit to a school in Kogelo. Kenya in 2006 and what he promised locals.
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July 11, 2008
Another Obama fiascoNRO's Jim Geraghty delivers another example of Barack Obama's glib political opportunism and inability to follow through and deliver hope or change,
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July 10, 2008
Campaign of ironiesFirst Hillary becomes the great white hope of Appalachia, now the American wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild calls Obama an elitist.
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June 10, 2008
Seems like old timesThis list of people being named to Obama's campaign makes it look like a full employment act for Democrat spouses, children and long time consultants.
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June 9, 2008
Obama campaign pretends it never existedOn a day when the story around the blogsphere is about the scrubbing of anti-Semitic material from Obama's website, something else is now missing.
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June 8, 2008
The Democrats' frivolous lawsuit tax break (updated)The Democrats' lawyer friends are getting a huge tax break, making big lawsuits cheaper to finance.
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June 8, 2008
The fall of the newspaper industryDebbie Schlussel got quite a jolt when she opened her newspaper Friday morning:
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June 6, 2008
A new fatwaOne problem that Islam has in competing with other cultures in the modern economy is that the requirement to pray five times a day -- after a ritual cleansing -- interrupts the flow of work.
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June 5, 2008
Recycled hacks and reprobatesObama's VP search committee belies his claims of hope and change.
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June 4, 2008
Obama's crowdsAs I watched the Fox news coverage of Obama's speech from St, Paul, Minnesota and looked at the faces behind him on the podium I had to wonder where were all the men in Minnesota on Tuesday night?
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June 3, 2008
More Obama Phony-OpsJames Lewis' article today pointed out the media-generated Phony Ops benefitting Obama. Another example came the evening of the North Carolina primary,
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June 1, 2008
It appears there will be no organic arugula in Denver -While Barak Obama has raised a huge amount of money, those in charge of hosting his coronation in Denver are considerably short of their target
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May 21, 2008
Harlan County takes sidesEvery since the 1930s, the urban and academic left has championed the miners of rural Kentucky to show their solidarity with the working class.
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May 4, 2008
Name that politician"He seemingly appeared out of nowhere, inspired awe with the intensity of his talent, blazed through a single term in the Senate, then disappeared from the radar almost entirely."
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May 3, 2008
Al Franken the tax deadbeatAs a CPA I find the Franken tax situation an amusing lesson.
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May 2, 2008
Mass. legislature looks at taxing big endowmentsCongress has been looking at the incredible growth in college endowments, an event that seems to have resulted in several institutions loosening the purse strings on tuition aid, among other things
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May 2, 2008
The spiritual mentor behind the scenesGuess who counseled Obama and Wright after the National Press Club speech Monday?
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April 13, 2008
Rev. Wright in attack modeRev. Jeremiah Wright made some remarks at the funeral of Chicago judge and civil rights activist R. Eugene Pincham, who was a member of Trinty UCC. Just what the obama campaign doesn't want.
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March 27, 2008
Christian televangelism in the Middle EastA fervent Christian critic of Islam points out the folly of the dead legalism of portions of sharia and then contrasts it with the spiritual appeal of Christianity on satellite TV. He is having an effect.
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March 10, 2008
MSM and McCain - the takedown continuesOn last night's local news my ABC affiliate WLOS ran a long piece on McCain that consisted entirely of what they called bloopers from the past week.
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March 9, 2008
The man who made Obama by R. SmithReporter Todd Spivak relates how Barack Obama screamed at him over the phone in 2004. Therein lies a tale few know of Obama's career in Illinois politics.
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February 6, 2008
The media will turn on McCain more in sadness than in angerMany Republicans who do not agree with him on any number of issues have long been aware that John McCain receives exceptionally good press, and lots of it. It won't last.
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January 27, 2008
Jurassic politicsI thought Bill Clinton displayed a rare moment of truth on the campaign trail when he noted that his wife Hillary and John McCain are "very close". I have been saying that for some time now when it comes to the all-important question of character.
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December 27, 2007
Sham independence of freshmen House DemsIt seems many Freshman Congressman have regularly been voting against approving the House Journal, which are essentially the minutes of the previous day's work in the House.
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December 16, 2007
Vegetarian pets?These days some people are trying to place dogs and cats on a vegetarian diet because they themselves have eschewed meat as part of the human diet.
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December 9, 2007
Mob rule: Homosexual youth executed in Iran19 year old Makwan Moloudzadeh, accused of homosexual rape when he was age 13 by accusers who have since recanted, was executed without warning last week after a stay of execution in response to international pressures had been granted.
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December 3, 2007
Televangelism, Muslim-styleSunday's Washington Post had a story about the rise of TV evangelism in the Middle East.
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December 2, 2007
One cost of global warming hype?Did public officials' acceptance of erroneous global warming hype about hurricanes delay imposition of water rationing in the South?
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November 24, 2007
The Green FolliesIt has been suggested that radical environmentalism is a religion because its believers act more on an unshakable set of beliefs than on skeptical scientific analysis.
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November 8, 2007
Measuring newspapersIn a priceless admission, the President and general manager of the Washington Post reacts to some good news by saying, "but you wouldn't know that to read the newspapers."
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November 1, 2007
Fascinating series on developments within IslamBlogger Ali Eteraz just completed a seven part series in the Guardian on developments within Islam.
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October 27, 2007
The next infernosWe have similar problems in western North Carolina to those described yesterday by Bill Croke, with the anti logging activists and people building deep into the mountains.
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October 17, 2007
Indulgences for the political classRick Moran seems to find virtue in the resolution on Armenian genocide. I do not.
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October 13, 2007
Some inconvenient numbersSteve Hargreaves of CNN/Money writes of Al Gore's planned $100-200 million a year ad blitz for energy conservation.
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October 4, 2007
Daily Kos traffic overstated?Patrick Ruffini has written a much commented-upon analysis suggesting that the number of visitors to the Daily Kos website may be overstated by 60% or thereabouts.
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September 27, 2007
Congress moving to penalize the prudent?Instead of attacking what I suspect was massive tax cheating on the sale of residential real estate in the lower to mid level price range, Congress is now proposing to penalize those who planned ahead and bought their retirement homes early.
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September 27, 2007
Leftist opinion editor gets walking papersThe new owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have parted ways with veteran editorial page editor Susan Albright because she did not want to focus on local issues.
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July 20, 2007
Why the anxiety?The Fortune Washington Bureau Chief Nina Easton looks at why so many Americans are bearish in the face of record prosperity.
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July 5, 2007
Sins of the fatherLike Roger L. Simon, I had to suppress some schadenfreude at the news of Albert A. Gore III's arrest.
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June 26, 2007
Worst newspaper in America taken to courtPowerline linked to this AP article about the court battle going on between the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press about purloined information and non-compete agreements.
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June 18, 2007
Open Field PoliticsConditions may be ripe for one or more third party demagogues to emerge sometime after the nominees are in place next year.
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June 14, 2007
Incompetent, except as a taxi serviceSenate Majority Leader Harry Ried's may have a low opinion of our military leaders, at least when talking to liberal bloggers, but Speaker Pelosi seems to think the military has its uses - as a free taxi service for the adult children of members of Congress.
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June 9, 2007
Hillary's brainOver the years I have sent off a couple of letters to reporters who have quoted various Clinton backers to the effect that either Bill or Hillary had been at the top of their respective Yale Law School class about the need to do some fact checking.
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May 6, 2007
What's the opposite of results-oriented?I was amused last week when my community newspaper contained remarks from my Congressman Heath Shuler about how extremely hard he been working to solve the nation's problems when compared to the corrupt Republican Congress in 2005.
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April 8, 2007
NYT Sunday Mag swings and missesAs a Catholic, I viewed the NYT Easter Sunday Magazine cover story on Pope Benedict XVI with trepidation.
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April 7, 2007
Nancy's game? (updated)While Mike Dukakis might not have realized how silly he was going to look in a helmet when he climbed into that tank, it is hard for me to imagine that the usually stylish Speaker was unaware that few women have ever looked like anything other than servile frumps in head scarves
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April 4, 2007
UN and North Korean counterfeitingA blog item last year noted North Korea's long standing operation to counterfeit U.S. currency. It seems that our friends at the UN knew about the operation for more than a decade and kept their mouths shut.
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March 15, 2007
Dutch youths riotThe Brussels Journal has been following the outbreak of rioting by the non-immigrant residents of a working class neighborhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht
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March 12, 2007
Tennessee Truffles: the good news continuesTruffles may help save a quintessential part of American culture, the small mountain farm.
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February 28, 2007
Liefstyles of the rich and hypocriticalMaybe you thought "hybrid limousine" was a joke?
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February 8, 2007
Congress already wants to go homeOne of the changes initiated by the new Democrat Congressional leadership was to increase the number of days per week that Congress is in session from three to five. It seems that Congressmen and women in both parties are already starting to complain
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February 7, 2007
More on "Personality Matters"I agree with Jennifer Rubin and have another example for her about how we need to heed those personality traits.
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February 5, 2007
Amateurs and prosIt seem that the user generated commercials on the Super Bowl were very well received and they certainly are cheaper to make than some of the professionally generated ads that bombed. Paul
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February 2, 2007
The return of the paper ballotGood news for those of us who have been concerned about the lack of a paper trail with touch screen voting machines.
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January 5, 2007
Newspaper worth even less than thought (updated)It appears that the money-losing sale of the Tribune for $530 million included five blocks of land on the edge of downtown Minneapolis!