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Rep. Maxine Waters family profiting from mailer biz

9.2.10 - Rep. Maxine Waters has turned political endorsements into a family business, using federal election laws to charge California candidates and political causes to include their names as her personal picks on a sample ballot, or "slate mailer," she sends to as many as 200,000 South Central Los Angeles voters, records show.
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Games Up as Dems seek separation from Pelosi

8.31.10- Some of the Democratic Party’s most endangered lawmakers are taking steps to distance themselves from Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to inoculate themselves from charges that they are beholden to the unpopular House leader and supportive of the ambitious national Democratic agenda. ...
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Tidal wave? 10-point poll edge for GOP

8.31.10 - Democrats thought things couldn't get much worse on the electoral front — and then they went home to campaign. ...
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Stimulus package a public relations lie

8.30.10 - Shocker! Stimulus not about jobs 3 million unemployed under Obama plan. President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan never was about creating jobs, "shovel-ready" or any other kind for that matter....
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The Nazification of the United States

Paul Craig Roberts | September 11 destroyed American liberty, the rule of law and the US Constitution. Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce one of the most important articles of our time, “Obama’s US Assassination Program.” ...
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The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated

8.28.10 - PETER BERKOWITZ - In 2008 liberals proclaimed the collapse of Reaganism. Two years later the idea of limited government is back in vogue...
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GOP wins to trigger wave of W.H. probes

8.27.10 - If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority. ...
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DEMS THINK HOUSE GONE...

8.26.10 - Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day. ...
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'Obama admin's1st term is over'

8.25.10 - Bob Unruh - Poll shows Americans aligned with states against fed intrusion. A new poll indicates that as far as accomplishments are concerned, "the first term of the Obama administration is over" because of the president's far-reaching federalization agenda that has included requirements to buy government-approved health insurance and to forbid enforcement of local laws protecting residents. ...
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Boehner: Fire Geithner and Summers

8.24.10 - JAKE SHERMAN - CLEVELAND — House Minority Leader John Boehner is calling on the Obama administration to extend Bush -era tax cuts, freeze federal spending and fire top economic officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. ...
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For Obamacare supporters, judgment day approaches

8.24.10 - Say you're a Democratic member of Congress. You proudly cast your vote for Obamacare, you cheered when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed it as the achievement of a generation and you scoffed at Republicans who vowed to repeal it. Now you're running for re-election, and a voter asks: What is the most important thing you've done in the last two years? ...
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Ease the burden of Obamacare's paperwork

8.23.10 - Among the first things members of the U.S. Senate should do when they return from their August recess is approve Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns' amendment to repeal Section 9006 of Obamacare.... ...
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Barack Obama: Where's the love?

8.23.10 - Nick Spicer - As he campaigns for members of his beleaguered Democratic party, the US president can no longer fill a stadium with enraptured Americans young and old. ...
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RUNNING SCARED: DEMS SCRAP NEARLY ALL 'TOWN HALL' MEETS...

6.6.10 - BEL AIR, Md. — The reception that Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., a Democrat, received here one night last week as he faced a ...
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Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack...

6.6.10 - Europe still worships him and Washington's Obamatrons remain smitten, but former supporters are turning on the President, writes Toby Harnden. ...
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Guess what part of the Constitution goes next!

Democrats have found yet another way to circumvent the U.S. Constitution: Bypass the Electoral College and elect a president by popular vote without first passing ...
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WHITE HOUSE BACKED RELEASE OF LOCKERBIE BOMBER

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by ...
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Release of Lockerbie Terrorist: Obama’s ‘Needle-Threading’

7.26.10 - William B. Allen - The Australian reports today that the Obama Administration objected, not to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, ...
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Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation

3.27.10 - Gary Hubbell - Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the ...
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Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation

3.27.10 - Gary Hubbell - Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the ...
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Momentum For Senate Filibuster Reform Builds

Momentum is building to reform Senate rules that allow silent filibusters and force a 60-vote requirement for virtually any action, interviews with Democratic candidates and ...
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Michelle Obama, daughter Sasha to vacation separately in Spain -- over president's birthday...

First lady Michelle Obama will travel to Spain next week on a private "mother-daughter" visit.  According to a White House release, they will be accompanied ...
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Palin Takes A Shot At Obama Over 'View' Appearance

JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin is criticizing President Barack Obama for appearing on "The View." The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said Thursday on Twitter ...
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RUNNING SCARED: DEMS SCRAP NEARLY ALL 'TOWN HALL' MEETS...

6.6.10 - BEL AIR, Md. — The reception that Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., a Democrat, received here one night last week as he faced a ...
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Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack...

6.6.10 - Europe still worships him and Washington's Obamatrons remain smitten, but former supporters are turning on the President, writes Toby Harnden. ...
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An Interview with J.B. Schramm: College Summit

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9.1.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - College Summit is the national organization that helps public schools raise their purpose from high school diplomas to college and career success. We collaborate with principals, teachers and the most influential seniors to put every student on the path to higher education.
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