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Most polls, Rasmussen excepted, continue to show that neither presidential candidate is pulling away from the other and that close Senate races have shifting leads. Primary elections, however, are showing a very different situation — and it is voters who turn out in elections, not random Americans called by pollsters, who determine the winners and [...]
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It seems as if Newsweek may have jumped the shark with its latest cover implying President Obama isn’t just a supporter of gay marriage, but that he is actually gay himself. The news-magazine, which hits stands today, is using the shock factor of labeling the straight, married, father-of-two President to draw attention to itself. President [...]
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On Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, a former MSNBC contributor and author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” echoed the sentiment he voiced on last weekend’s “The McLaughlin Group,” about President Barack Obama’s newfound gay-marriage position. But this time he voiced his disappointment that the Republican Party [...]
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Lawmakers are reviewing legislation to amend a century-old law that led to a raid by armed federal agents at the Gibson Guitar Company in August 2011 at its Nashville and Memphis factories and, in a separate case, to the imprisonment of two Americans for importing improperly packaged lobsters. Critics of the Lacey Act say it [...]
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The week began here on Swampland with Mark Halperin’s optimistic dispatch from Chicago, “Why The Obama Campaign Is Confident About Beating Romney.” So perhaps it is appropriate that the week get bracketed by a report by William Galston, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Walter Mondale, among others. His [...]
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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s name appears on the Internal Revenue Service’s quarterly list of people who chose to give up their U.S. citizenship as of April 30. Renouncing his citizenship could potentially save Saverin millions of dollars in taxes on his 4 percent stake in Facebook when the company goes public later this month. Saverin, [...]
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A little political catnip to ease you into your weekend. Look — it’s May. Polls don’t matter yet. But this is still fun: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney earning 50% of the vote and President Obama attracting 43% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party [...]
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One pro-lifer finds it interesting that pregnant mothers must register their preborn babies before taking a tour of the White House, considering the fact that the current occupant of the White House is pro-abortion. A recent e-mail newsletter distributed by Ellie Schafer, director of the White House Visitors Office, provides specifics about the information required [...]
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM -9.28% , the last bank on Wall Street with any semblance of industry dignity for how it managed and comported itself in the financial crisis, on Thursday became the latest confidence-shaking bank on Wall Street to get waylaid by today’s financial system. It’s a system that by now is [...]
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The Democrats’ top leader in Congress said Thursday that the party’s platform will soon include a plank calling for the legalization of gay marriage. “The president’s in favor of it — I’m sure it will be [included],” said Reid. Delegates to the Democratic National Convention will meet in Charlotte, N.C., to vote on the party’s [...]
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Though an anti-porn organization reports that a boycott against an online “daily deals” company appears to be working, the boycott continues. Morality in Media (MIM) has been calling out Groupon for its support of two porn producers, Kink and Playboy (see earlier story). The disputed ads have since been removed from the company’s website, as [...]
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Yesterday we learned that the SEIU, a union with heavy ties to President Obama, is paying $4,000 per month for office space in downtown Washington D.C. What is the office space for? Occupiers to organize and meet. President Obama supports Occupy Wall Street. So yesterday, I decided to take a trip down to the Occupy [...]
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Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago, [...]
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The House Wednesday evening voted overwhelmingly to prevent the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds to lie to Congress. The vote came in a Wednesday evening series of amendments to a bill, H.R. 5326, funding the Justice Department for 2013. Members approved the language in a 381-41 vote; all 41 “no” votes came from Democrats, [...]
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President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex “marriage,” ending months of equivocation on a subject with powerful election-year consequences. (See reaction below from pro-family spokespersons) President Obama has declared his unequivocal support for “gay” marriage, becoming the first president to endorse the politically explosive idea. The move injects a polarizing issue into the 2012 [...]
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