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Akron
Beacon Journal… Poll:
Powerful incentive
November 26, 2012 - The Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory recently declared wind “a credible source” of new
electricity generation for the country. Their report noted that wind
power has grown dramatically, prices falling by 20 percent to 30
percent the past four years. Only natural gas has added more
electricity capacity since 2006.
The development of wind power brings benefits in the form of cleaner
energy and a more diverse set of energy sources, among other things
... read
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Townhall
Finance… It's
the Grand
Spending, Stupid!, by Bob Beauprez
Supposedly there are grand negotiations ongoing in Washington in search
of a grand bargain to avoid a grand calamity - pushing the nation over
the fiscal cliff. It appears, however, that whatever discussion is
really happening is focused on how much additional "revenue" to extract
from taxpayers' pockets instead of how strict of a diet to impose on
the federal government.
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP
talks about
... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Poll:
More Americans Blame Republicans For Fiscal Cliff Impasse,
by Bright Knight
Here we go again! Whatever happens benefits the Failure-in-Chief: if it
goes wrong, the Republicans are blamed and if it works the
Failure-in-Chief gets the merit. There is NO chance that Obama will
move one inch toward the Republicans. Why should he? It works perfect
for him the way it is. This is just freaking unbelievable! I mentioned
it before and I finally think it might be the best solution: the GOP
should have a press conference and tell the American people that the
Failure-in-Chief... read
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Redstate…
A
Primer for Rich Donors Who Got Taken by Republican Consultants
By Erick Erickson - November 27th, 2012 - When consultants told rich
donors who were funding them that they were not making money off the
Super PAC’s that the rich idiots . . . er . . . donors funded, they
were being honest. They probably were not. But ad heavy Super PACs
outsourced the ad buys, the mail, the data collection, etc. to other
groups that got commissions and you can be sure that a lot of these
supposedly... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Can
America Handle The Truth?
by Jeff Greenlee
The United States of America is at a tipping point. It is past time we
are told the truth and begin to solve the problems. The time for false
hopes, hugs, and feel-good can-kicking is over. The talk is all about
the ‘fiscal cliff’ and whether or not we can figure out a bipartisan
solution to the economic realities that are going to happen sooner
rather than later. The Benghazi scandal and the true motives of
abandoning our own brave Americans in a time of need are undergoing a
huge whitewash. The number of... read
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Townhall…
Minorities
Disproportionately Worse Off
Under Obama, by Rachel Alexander
Nov 25, 2012 - It is puzzling that so many minorities voted for Barack
Obama over Mitt Romney considering how disproportionately they have
suffered economically during Obama's presidency. Black unemployment
under Obama increased at a higher pace than whites, from 12.7% to
14.1%, ending at almost twice the unemployment rate of whites. Now, one
out of every seven blacks is unemployed. White unemployment barely
increased under Obama... read
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Upstart
Business Journal… 14
tips for dealing with angry customers,
by Young Entrepreneur Council
November 19, 2012 - When addressing online complaints from customers,
members of the Young Entrepreneur Council suggest getting the customer
on the phone and having a kind attitude can help remedy the situation…
Young Entrepreneur Council We have all heard "the customer is always
right"—whether this adage is true or not is up for debate—but we can
all agree customers are not always easy to deal with. We asked the
Young Entrepreneurship Council how they handle angry customers,
particularly... read
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Townhall
Finance… Let's
Tax Matt Damon, by John
Ransom
In the name of shared sacrifice, it’s time to impose a tax on the $7
billion in box office receipts that Hollywood generates. I added up the
domestic box office activity for the week August 26 through September
1st based on figures provided by Variety. The take for the week for
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Our Idiot Brother, Spy Kids: All The
Time In The World, plus 130 other box office leaders was $136 million.
Year-to-date those films... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… How
the public education system has failed
Black and Hispanic students
In America's public high schools, 45% of black students and 43% of
Hispanics (as compared to 22% of whites) drop out before their classes
graduate. Dropout rates are especially high in urban areas with large
minority populations, including such academic basket cases as the
District of Columbia (57%), Trenton (59%), Camden (61.4%), Baltimore
(65.4%), Cleveland (65.9%), and Detroit (75.1%). Of those black and
Hispanic students who do manage to earn a diploma, a large
percentage... read
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Some great puns to groan on,
Sent by a CNO reader
When chemists die, they barium. Jokes about German sausage are the
wurst. A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a
seasoned veteran. I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says
he can stop any time. How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it. I stayed
up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me. This girl
said she recognized me from the vegetarian... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Jobless
Claims Over 400k For Second Week,
by Bright Knight
Don't think even for a minute that this will be getting better soon.
People will learn that elections have consequences. Unfortunately it
doesn't hit just the Obama-voters but everyone is hurt. John Nolte
writes at Breitbart: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic, for
the second week in a row, over 400,000 new jobless claims were filed
across the country. Last week the number was 451k, this week it's 410k,
and as we saw last week, most of the blame is falling on Hurricane
Sandy. Last week the... read
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Townhall
Finance… Higher
Taxes Mean Bigger Government, not
Lower Deficits, by Daniel J. Mitchell
President Obama and other statists in Washington want a big
class-warfare tax hike. They claim the additional revenue is necessary
to reduce red ink. But their ideological crusade is based on some
blatant distortions. They tell us that tax increases are necessary, but
even CBO data shows that the budget can be balanced in just 10 years if
politicians merely limit federal spending so that it grows by “only”
2.5 percent per year. They tell us the “rich” should pay more, but we
know upper... read
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Morning
Briefing… Happy
Thanksgiving from RedState,
By Erick Erickson
11/22/12 - Not even on Thanksgiving morning do I get to sleep in. I
have to get my Big Green Egg up to temperature, smear butter all over a
turkey that I’ve had brining all night, shove a few fruits, vegetables,
and herbs up its rear end, and get to smoking over some hickory and
apple wood. Regular readers of the site know my wife is an excellent
cook. By sundown today we will have gone through 21 pounds... read
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Investors.com...
Is
The Obama EPA Running Its Own Black-Ops
Program?
11/19/2012
Clandestine Government: During his first full day in the White House,
Barack Obama promised he'd brought with him "a new era of open
government." Yet again, we have a promise that hasn't been kept.
Among the administration's many violations of public trust to recently
become public is the Environmental Protection Agency's apparent attempt
to keep some of its correspondence hidden from the light of day through
the use of aliases.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, for... read
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Ronald Reagan
and What I Got Wrong. By Erick Erickson
November 20th, 2012
Every person who talks and writes about politics gets stuff wrong. I’ve
gotten my fair share wrong. But what I think I got most wrong in
Campaign 2012 was the damage Mitt Romney’s “47%” remark would do to
him.
It may seem obvious, but bear with me.
Mitt Romney was talking off the cuff to a supposedly off the record
group of donors and muddled several data points together, ultimately
telling the tale of the 47% who won’t vote for him for... read
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Toledo
Blade… Get
that degree
Editorial - Only 26 percent of Ohio adults have a four-year college
degree, compared with 31 percent nationwide. Each percentage point by
which the state lags the national rate costs the Ohio economy an
estimated $2.5 billion a year. By 2018, a recent study projects, this
state will have nearly a million new jobs that will require education
after high school. If Ohio is to remain competitive in the national and
global economies, it will have to graduate more of its residents from
college, and keep more of... read
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Townhall Finance… How
the Mainstream Media Finally Drove Me Mad. By
Ann-Marie Murrell
Sex. That’s what it finally took to get anyone in the mainstream media
to talk about Benghazi. But of course they’re not talking
about
the brutal murder of four Americans on 9/11/12, nor the potential
cover-up occurring now—nope, it’s all about sex, baby. Yes, I’ve known
for years that the mainstream media news was not only dead but had
never really existed other than as a political tool for the
progressive... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… CEOs
Warn Obama of Dangers Posed by Fiscal
Cliff, by Tony Lee
Twelve prominent CEOs, many of whom have warned against the dangers of
raising taxes on those making over $250,000 and creating more economic
uncertainty, met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to discuss
the looming fiscal cliff. There were no CEOs from defense-related
industries at the meeting, even though sequestration will occur if no
deal is reached on the budget during Congress's lame-duck session. The
group included prominent donors to Democrats and Republicans... read
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Townhall…
Both
Sides Must Give Ground To Avoid Fiscal
Cliff, by Michael Barone
Nov 19, 2012 - In his first formal press conference in months, Barack
Obama showed that getting re-elected can increase a president's
confidence and combativeness. He staked out tough stands on several
issues, especially on the looming budget negotiations. Looking ahead to
the "fiscal cliff" on Dec. 31, when the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire
and sequestration cuts government spending sharply, Obama demanded $1.6
trillion of increased revenues as... read
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Townhall…
The
Obama Recession, by John
C. Goodman
Nov 17, 2012 - Full time work is about to get scarcer. The reason? By
hiring part-time workers who put in less than 30 hours per week,
employers can avoid a mandate dictated by the new health reform law:
either provide expensive health insurance or pay a fine equal to $2,000
per worker. Avoiding the mandate becomes even more attractive for
low-wage employees, since they can get highly subsidized insurance in
the newly created health insurance exchanges. According to the Wall
Street Journal... read
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Winning the Defense Spending
Debate,
by Ken Blackwell
Nov 16, 2012 - With no time to recover from a thorough election day
whooping, Republicans in a lame duck Congress are facing an even worse
budgetary nightmare than last year. And they only have two months to
negotiate a solution with President Obama. Last time, as the Chair the
Balanced Budget Amendment campaign, fellow conservatives and I were
urging Republicans to tie the unavoidable increase in the debt ceiling
to a balanced budget amendment... read
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NPR… A Week Later, Pollster Says: 'I
Was
Drinking That Republican Kool-Aid', by S.V.
DÁTE
November 14, 2012 - If voters were surprised to watch TV networks call
the election for President Obama over Republican Mitt Romney minutes
after polls closed in California last week, perhaps it was because of
earlier statements like these: —"Romney has pretty much nailed down
Florida." —"I think in places like North Carolina, Virginia and
Florida, we've already painted those red, we're not polling any of
those states again." —"Minnesota is very much a battleground state due
to the low... read
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Mail Magazine 24… No
real
solutions - part of the plan? by Bright Knight
There is a reason why Obama doesn't address real problems properly. In
my last column (I want Obama to fail -- so America can succeed) I wrote
that Obama did not address real problems on several big issues, such as
GM and Healthcare reform. With this column I want to write in more
detail about this fact. Generally speaking, you make a problem even
bigger when you do not address... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… What
Are Economists Really Saying About Tax
Rate Increases?, by Salim Furth, Ph.D
Beware of comparing apples to oranges when it comes to tax rate
studies. On Friday, Representative Pete Sessions (R–TX) and House
Speaker John Boehner (R–OH) ran afoul of Glenn Kessler’s “Fact Checker”
blog regarding a study of President Obama’s proposed tax increase.
Before deciding on a tax change, policymakers are wise to look at the
economic impacts of the change. Two Studies: In fact, two studies
released this year predict that raising tax rates on high-income
families and small... read
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Happy
Thanksgiving… The
Turkey Trivia
Quiz
I got this through my usual “email blast” channels and got curious. The
sender said it might be worth checking to see how much you know about
Thanksgiving. “It’s fun and has a couple of surprise answers,” he said.
“Enjoy!” Following are just a sample of the 20 questions you will be
answering. Interested? Go online and take the quiz. There are also
other options to consider for a holiday that is often lost in the
Christmas rush, such as graphics, facts... read
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| Redstate…
NLRB
To Force Companies To Turn Over
Employee Telephone Numbers & E-Mails To Unions?
By LaborUnionReport - November 15th, 2012 - UPDATED: November 15,
2012–Now that the re-election of Barack Obama has taken place, this is
back on the table. President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) is considering a rule that would force private businesses
to turn over their workers’ personal information — such as phone
numbers, email addresses, and work schedules — to union organizers.
While this rule would be intended to make it... read
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Townhall… Best
Foot Forward?
by Mona Charen
Nov 16, 2012 - Our large cruise ship sailed within view of Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, as a gathering of conservatives sponsored by National Review
magazine considered the wreckage of the 2012 election. Most of the
writers and commentators on board agreed with Ralph Reed of the Faith
and Freedom Coalition that the last thing conservatives need to do now
is to form a "circular firing squad." But lessons... read
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Canada
Free Press… The
End of an Empire - The Will of the
People Has Spoken and America Died
Dr. Ileana Johnson PaughWednesday, November 7, 2012
Our Constitutional Republic died a peaceful death on November 6, 2012.
Having reached the point of no return in a comatose state after years
of progressive and illegal immigration assaults, the fabric of
conservative society is now completely unraveled and Uncle Sam’s
America is no more.
The United States of America is now relegated to the dust bin of
history as a “has been” empire. The Shining City on the Hill, the hope
of so many... read
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Townhall…… Senator
Kyl Sees
Higher Revenues Without a Tax Hike
By Larry Kudlow
A federal budget deal to avoid the fiscal cliff can be achieved without
raising tax rates, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl said Friday on the
Kudlow Report.
“Tax revenues can be generated by two ways other than raising tax
rates,” he said. “One is to eliminate some of the deductions, credits,
exemptions, special provisions in the code that end up producing more
revenue but without affecting the rates. And the other is through
economic growth.”
The senator from... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Zero
Romney Votes in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions,
by Bright Knight
Election Fraud? 99% of the votes for Obama in more than 100 Ohio
precincts - These are numbers you usually see in communist countries
and countries under a dictatorship. Look at the numbers that are listed
in the article. Do you think that's real? These results are almost as
unreal as those in Florida. Michael writes at the American Dream
(endoftheamericandream.com): Barack Obama received more than 99% of the
vote in more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Florida
Showing Massive Voter Fraud, by Dr. Richard
Swier
Click on the link below for the official St Lucie County, FL 2012
election results. Only one precinct had less than 113% turnout. The
unofficial vote count is 175,554 registered voters 247,713 vote cards
cast (141.10% ). The National SEAL Museum, a St. Lucie county polling
place, had 158.85% voter turn out, the highest in the county. When
asked about the 141% Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker
stated, “They may have had something like that in Palm Beach County,
but we... read
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Redstate… No.
By Erick Erickson
November 12th, 2012 - For five years I have consistently maintained
that Mitt Romney could not be elected President of the United States.
The only thing that changed was Barack Obama’s terrible debate
performance and I made the unfortunate mistake of going with the herd
toward “he can win now.” A year ago — to be precise, November 8th of
last year — I wrote that Mitt Romney would be the nominee... read
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WND… Did voter fraud swing election?,
By Joseph Farah
Contrary to popular opinion, I am not a "conspiracy theorist." I live
in the real world – always have. I've been a journalist who goes where
the facts lead him all my life – unlike most of my colleagues whose
"facts" are predetermined by their ideology. Bill Ayers… I understand
Barack Obama and Bill Ayers because I was one of them early in my life.
I even met Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda in
the old days. I admired them. If Obama had been old enough during the
1960s and... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Was
it stolen, by Bright Knight
When you add the information about the results in Cleveland and in the
Philly locations, where Inspectors were removed, to the information in
this article, you might question the whole election. Dave writes at
tothepointnews.com: [Note by Dr. Jack Wheeler: We are being asked to
believe that Romney got close to three million fewer votes in 2012 than
John McCain got in 2008. That's not possible. This election is a fraud.
I don't know exactly how - rigging voting machines, hacking tabulation
software... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… The
Election's
Disastrous National Security Implications, by
Erick
Stakelbeck
Last week, I posed five national security questions for the next
American president. We now know that President Obama will remain
Commander-in-Chief. Here are just some of my immediate thoughts on the
implications of the voting public's decision--for America's security,
the Middle East and beyond. And remember, now that reelection is
secure, there are no restrainers for the Obama administration foreign
policy agenda over the next four years... read
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Bangor
Daily News… Veterans
Day 2012
The recent war in Iraq and continuing war in Afghanistan give Veterans
Day special urgency. The nation is encountering new types of warfare
and its consequences, which include several deaths of soldiers from
Maine this year. Today we recall with new respect the veterans of wars
past and present. Congress voted for Armistice Day as a legal holiday
in 1938, 20 years after the first armistice ended the carnage of World
War I on Nov. 11, 1918. Although the first world war was originally
called... read
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Townhall
Finance… Fiscal
Cliff? Tax the
Rich, by John Ransom
Barack Obama wants you to know that the rich are out of control. And I
partially agree. It’s a matter of fairness. After thinking about it for
a few years, he has finally figured out that our economic problems have
a very simple explanation: There are too many rich people. I know of at
least one too many. The one occupying the White House? Way too rich.
Too many rich people are causing a jobless “recovery.” Having... read
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Washington
Times,,, Election
2012: What really happened? Idea
lost to ideologue
LAS VEGAS, November 8, 2012 – After every election there are
celebrations for the winning side and recriminations for the defeated.
Yet what usually fails to transpire is an actual understanding of what
happened. Recent past elections provided clues to what the Democrats
grasped and the Republicans ignored in this last election. This was a
very close election and recriminations are best left to the side.
Leftists like E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Joan Walsh at
Salon will write their... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… An
Energy Policy Preview of President
Obama’s Second Term
President Obama’s win last night means four more years of ever-more
damaging regulation and ever-increasing difficulties in developing our
oil, coal, and natural gas resources. President Obama announced his
intentions to drive up energy costs in order to reduce energy
consumption before he was elected and there is no reason to suspect
that he will change course now. The one difference between now and four
years ago is that the House of Representatives is controlled by... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Catastrophe,
by Ron Radosh
MM24: “This is one of the best - maybe THE best - articles
about/analyses of the 2012 election and the situation our country is
in, I have read by now. With this article, published at PJmedia, Bryan
Preston hits the nail on the head - very precisely and hard.” Barack
Obama has been re-elected president. Like most on the right, I misread
America. The United States of America faces huge problems... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: The Next President and the
Supreme Court, By Ed Meese
November 5, 2012 - Every vote counts. And this year, it could count
double. One vote could decide both the immediate election and the
course of constitutional law for decades to come. Just ask the senior
federal officials responsible for our security immediately after 9/11
who were sued years later by Javaid Iqbal. During the investigation
into the attacks, FBI officials identified Iqbal as a suspect of high
interest and detained him in New York. He sued alleging that high
government officials, including... read
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Kim
Komando… Make
money online for
gifts
Q. Hi Kim. I love your show and listen every Saturday night here in
California. I have a long list of gadgets to buy this Christmas, but I
don't want to rack up a big credit card bill. Do you know of any ways
to earn some quick pocket money online? -Darlene from Los Angeles, CA,
listens to my national radio show in her hometown on KABC 790 AM - A.
That's a great question, Darlene. It's hard to avoid the... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Look
at who's running America
Just to let you know that when you vote for the man of your choice,
then you also get a staff you have no control over! Appointed without
Congressional approval and quietly changing the US policies. There are
very few of us who know just what all of Obama's Czars do, as they
quietly go about their "work" in the nation's capital. This listing of
their names and job descriptions should be educational to all
Americans, no matter what your political leaning. See who they are and
realize what they want to do... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Cover-up:
Obama Knew Benghazi Attack Was
Terrorist
Very quietly, CBS released yesterday (Nov 4) hidden excerpts of a 60
Minutes interview with Obama, they taped on September 12. We all know,
that the Failure-in-Chief watched the attack live. In the interview he
admitted that the “spontaneous mob turned violent” story was untrue
(but refused to call it terror attack!) and then lied two weeks by
blaming the video - he even sent his UN-ambassador Rice out to spread
this lie. And the Medias (especially CBS) covered Obama's lies. What
exactly is... read
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Redstate…
Who
The Heck
Knows? By Erick Erickson
November 6th, 2012 - Republicans are supposed to be “rah-rah” for
Romney today. Democrats are supposed to be “rah-rah” for Obama today. I
don’t much believe either side at this point. Democrats are supremely
confident right now. Republicans not so much. It is a reversal from
just two weeks ago. Here’s what I do know and do believe. I believe
Mitt Romney will win Florida, Virginia, and Colorado. If he loses
either Florida or Virginia, it’s an early night. If he... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… What’s
Scary: Federal Spending Per Household,
by Emily Goff
On this Halloween, ghastly, ghoulish garb and haunted houses aren’t the
only sources of spookiness in Washington. Americans across the country
have cause for alarm, because the federal government spent a
spine-chilling $29,691 per household in 2012. As The Heritage
Foundation’s “Federal Spending by the Numbers—2012” shows, federal
spending per household has grown 29 percent since 2002, when it stood
at $23,010. Put another way, $29,691 is about two-thirds of the median
household income... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Nine
Economic Facts That May Determine
Tuesday's Election, by Wynton Hall
Democrats and Republicans alike agree that jobs and the economy are the
dominant issues that will drive Tuesday’s presidential outcome. Here,
then, is a look at nine economic facts facing Americans as they head to
the polls: 1. Every fifth man in America is out of a job. Black male
unemployment is now at the highest rate it has ever been since the U.S.
government began collecting statistics on the subject in 1972. Just
56.9 percent of black men over the age of 20 are now working... read
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Townhall
Finance… Obamanamics
Explained,
by Mike Shedlock
In the following video (click link below), Porter Stansberry explains
the difficulties facing small business owners using an easy to
understand example of an Obama "offer" to create a partnership with
business owners. Porter says "You'll see why there are no jobs in the
U.S." Not quite. Jobs are soaring now because of Obamacare, just not in
a way anyone should brag about. Businesses are reducing part-time hours
across the board from 30-34 hours to 25... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Obama
gets the credit -- and the blame!
by Bright Knight
I'm sorry Mr. Empty Chair (and all the cheering Lib-crowd out there)
but here comes the inconvenient truth (actually, for the first part,
the Libs might love me - for the second... not so). Let's first go back
to May 2, 2011. The Failure-in-Chief is sitting in the White House,
together with a bunch of his incompetent crowd, and is watching live,
how the Navy Seals got Osama Bin Laden. Of course, the failure-in-Chief
wants to get credit for this action and ok, let's give it to him. Joe
“the brain” Biden... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Friedman
Foundation Looks at Administrative
Bloat in Public Schools
By Lindsey Burke - October 24, 2012 - The Friedman Foundation has
published an excellent report detailing the administrative bloat
plaguing our nation’s public schools. The School Staffing Surge:
Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools shows dramatic
increases in teaching and non-teaching staff over the past five decades
despite modest increases in student enrollment. As we detailed in a
recent report on growth in non-teaching positions in public schools
across... read
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The
2012
Electoral College Map: States Sized By Votes, Not Geography
By Danny Sullivan - October 23, 2012 - It drives me crazy to see news
outlets with US maps showing the states estimated to be either going
for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election based
on the geographic size of those states, rather than the number of
Electoral College votes they carry. There are better maps they could
and should use. Below, a guide to some you should... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… The
Benghazi Scandal, by Nonie
Darwish
Americans need answers as to why the Obama administration had no
response to the eight-hour terror attack on the US consulate in
Benghazi and who was involved in the decision not to go to their aid
despite their repeated requests for help. And why is the producer of
the "Innocence of Muslims" video still in a California jail cell,
allegedly for violating his parole, while none of the people who
refused to rescue Ambassador Christopher Stevens and these immensely
courageous former Navy SEALS has... read
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Townhall…
The
Uncool
President, by Victor Davis Hanson
Nov 01, 2012 - In 2008, Barack "No Drama" Obama was the coolest
presidential candidate America had ever seen -- young, hip, Ivy League,
mellifluous and black, with a melodic and exotic name. Rock stars vied
to perform at his massive rallies, where Obama often began his
hope-and-change sermons by reminding the teary-eyed audience what to do
in case of mass fainting. Money, like manna from heaven, seemed to drop
spontaneously into his $1... read
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Thought
to
ponder, by Mona Lease
Attention voters: Concerning the upcoming Presidential Election and all
the mudslinging we've been listening to and reading… "outsourcing" -
jobs and the like, is a choice. It is available to any corporation or
independent person that chooses to use this avenue to make money, have
a product made, etc. As with all choices; there are good consequences
and bad consequences. At the polls next Tuesday - take a deep breath.
We rushed in with the election of our current president. We judged by
the 1960's style of dress his "followers" wore, the peace signs, etc.
Do not be deceived by what you "feel" or think you see. Ever Toodles!!
MONA.
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Heritage Foundation… It
The Specter of Taxmageddon Rises
On
this Halloween, a truly frightening specter is looming.
No amount of garlic, crosses, or exorcists can help us—only Congress
and the President can chase this ghoul away.
It’s Taxmageddon.
A horrifying combination of expiring pro-growth tax policies from 2001
and 2003, the end of the once-temporary payroll tax cut, and just a few
of Obamacare’s 18 new tax hikes, Taxmageddon will be the largest tax
increase EVER to hit... read
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Finance… Mitt
Romney Is Tough On China, Weak On Reality, by
Jerry Bowyer
Mr. Romney, here is the low point of your participation in this week’s
foreign policy debate: SCHIEFFER: Well, Governor, let me just ask you.
If you declare them a currency manipulator on day one, some people are
— say you’re just going to start a trade war with China on day one. Is
that — isn’t there a risk that that could happen? ROMNEY: Well, they
sell us about this much stuff every year, and we sell them about this
much stuff every year. So it’s pretty clear who doesn’t want a trade
war. And there... read
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Townhall… It
Could Still Go Either Way, by Rich Galen
Oct 26, 2012 - From Kiev, Ukarine - The answer to the question is: I'm
here to be an official observer of the Ukrainian national elections on
Sunday to select a new Parliament. I'll be back in the U.S. on Tuesday
to unofficially observe our own elections. Speaking of our own
elections ... Romney's bounce in the polls since the first debate
remains stubbornly in place. According to the Real Clear Politics
average of... read
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