For months David Axelrod, President Obama’s longtime senior strategist, has argued with evident anticipation that Mitt Romney offers a glass jaw when he boasts that his business record sets him apart as a presidential candidate. Now Mr. Romney’s Republican rivals have beaten the Obama team to the punch, and Democrats could hardly be more pleased. [...]
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Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what. Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, [...]
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Its called the Enemy Expatriation Act. It is probably going to be signed into law. But first, let’s review. In America today, the politicians have convinced most of us that in order to keep us all “safe” we must give up many of our rights and move toward becoming a totalitarian police state. In the “new [...]
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The struggling US city of Detroit is on track to run out of money in May instead of April after spending changes made by city officials, Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon said on Tuesday. Dillon addressed media following a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with a team that is looking at Detroit’s financial picture and trying to assess whether [...]
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The parents of a Florida university drum major killed in a hazing incident plan to sue the company that owns the bus on which he died, they said on Tuesday. Robert and Pam Champion are filing the lawsuit against Fabulous Coach Lines to force witnesses to testify under oath about what happened to their son [...]
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U.S. taxpayers are in line for a big payday, but it is not quite what it seems. The Federal Reserve is out with its year-end tally of net income Tuesday, and the central bank says it expects to return $76.9 billion to the U.S. Treasury. While that may seem like a windfall for Uncle Sam, [...]
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An estimated 400 people have been killed in Syria since an Arab League mission arrived in the country to monitor the uprising against the government of President Bashar Assad, a top U.N. official said Tuesday. United Nations political chief B. Lynn Pascoe provided the latest figures in a closed-door report to the 15-member Security Council [...]
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Twenty-seven members of Congress, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), have signed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the entire Obamacare law if it finds that the individual mandate provision is unconstitutional. The Family Research Council filed the amicus curiae in the case challenging the constitutionality of the [...]
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The government’s actions in a dispute between the Environmental Protection Agency and a husband and wife targeted by the agency when they bought a residential lot in Idaho and started building their dream home are both “outrageous” and “very strange.” There were comments today from justices on the U.S. Supreme Court about the Environmental Protection [...]
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From Fox News, The White House is pushing back against claims from a new tell-all book that staff kept an extravagant, Hollywood-created Halloween Party under wraps due to fear it would create imaging problems. . . . In her new book, “The Obamas,” author Jodi Kantor wrote that the White House was more than just a [...]
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Obamanomics has been described as Robin Hood economics, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Actually, Robin Hood took back from the king (and in some traditions of the story from corrupt clergymen) what had been taken from the people by the government. In terms of popular culture’s understanding of Robin Hood, mostly through [...]
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At a town hall in Meredith, N.H., Sunday afternoon, the libertarian-oriented phenomenon from Texas doesn’t need to raise his voice or rhetorically shape-shift to keep several hundred voters hanging on every word. He delivers the tried-and-true, small-government Paul message: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are bankrupting the country with bailouts. [...]
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Presidential candidate Gingrich made his bold pitch on his last full day of campaigning before Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary. It was in answer to a question about Las Vegas gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a longtime friend and supporter, donating $5 million to Winning Our Future, the pro-Gingrich but ostensibly independent group buying political ads in [...]
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Mitt Romney said today his remark that he likes “being able to fire people” is being taken out of context, explaining that he was trying to make a point about people having choices in health care. Romney took questions from reporters in Hudson, N.H., to deal with the backlash from his GOP rivals and Democrats [...]
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The Obama administration banned new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years, a move hailed by conservationists on Monday as key to the president’s environmental legacy but slammed by opponents as a job-killer. The decision puts more than 1 million acres of public lands outside the Grand Canyon National Park [...]
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