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House Republicans, besting Democrats, will ban all earmarks

House Republicans said Thursday they will adopt a unilateral, one-year ban on funding requests for all member projects, or earmarks. House Democrats put forward a partial ban the day before.
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Can Nancy Pelosi Get the Votes?

3.11.10 - By MICHAEL BARONE - The Senate bill's abortion language is not the House Speaker's only problem....
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Texas Gubernatorial Election 2010

3.10.10 - Peter Stern - Why would ANYONE want the guy who plans to toll all our roadways for at least the next 100 years and who will take away our private property to do so without reimbursing real value to property owners?...
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Lindsey Graham to President Obama: Time to ‘step it up’

President Barack Obama is summoning two key senators to the Oval Office on Thursday for an update on immigration reform efforts — but one of them, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), thinks Obama should be the one giving the update....
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Pelosi's grip on House slips

er the past two weeks, Pelosi has faced a series of subtle but significant challenges to her authority — revolts from Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Blue Dog Coalition and politically vulnerable first- and second-term members. ...
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RAHM 'WOULD SELL HIS OWN MOTHER' 'SON OF THE DEVIL'S SPAWN'

In his final weekly radio show on Sunday morning, Rep. Eric Massa for the first time detailed the events he believes led to the sexual harassment complaint against him that prompted his resignation from Congress,...
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The end of the road for Obama?

3.8.10 - The President seems unable to face up to America's problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York. ...
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Building Border Walls

3.7.10 - Peter Stern - Maybe it is worth building border walls simply to create jobs for unemployed Americans. Even if the walls fail to keep out the "evil ones", at least we can knock-off some folks waiting on the unemployment lines around the nation....
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Would Reagan vote for Sarah Palin?

3.7.10 - Sarah Palin invokes him. Mitt Romney glorifies him. The "tea party" movement hopes to recapture him. And the Republican Party still can't get over him....
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AXELROD: WHITE HOUSE MESSAGE MAVEN FINDS FINGERS POINTING AT HIM...

WASHINGTON — David Axelrod was sitting at his desk on a recent afternoon — tie crooked, eyes droopy and looking more burdened than usual. He had just been watching some genius on MSNBC insist that he and President Obama’s other top aides were failing miserably and should be replaced....
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WE FIGURED HIM OUT!

3.6.10 - Ben Stein - Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?...
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How Quick the Message Fades

3.5.10 - Frank Salvato - It is stunning to find out that there are still some elected officials in Washington DC especially on the Right side of the aisle who dont fully understand the message being sent by the American citizenry regarding their grotesque spending addiction. ...
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Stupak: 12 Dems ready to oppose health care bill...

WASHINGTON – A congressman who has played a key role in the long-running health care debate says he and 11 other Democrats will vote against the overhaul unless a provision subsidizing abortion is removed....
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Bleed

3.4.10 J. Matt Barber - The U.S. military has always discriminated. There are a host of malignant behaviors such as illicit drug use or habitual criminality that can render a person ineligible to serve. As my father-in-law learned, there are also benign maladies such as vision impairment or flat feet...
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A Tale of Two Governors

What the fates of Charlie Crist and Rick Perry say about the public mood. ...
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Exclusive: RNC document mocks donors, plays on 'fear'

The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism...
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Attention Democrats: When the House Is on Fire, Don't Cower, Grab a Hose

Mitchell Bard - Voters are angry, and while it is illogical that people seem to be looking to break the gridlock in Washington by voting in Republicans who are no better, the anger is based on real concerns....
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Baghdad's Neutron Bomb and America's Nuclear Obama

March 3, 2010 -- Few people have heard of the Battle of Baghdad. They might remember Iraq's information minister, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, warning of a surprise awaiting invading U.S. troops if they attacked Saddam International Airport. Later, al-Sahhaf claimed that the Iraqi Republican Guard had slaughtered U.S. troops ...
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PELOSI CLAIMS NEW HEALTH BILL 'MUCH SMALLER'... DEVELOPING...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer changes to his healthcare overhaul this week, the White House said on Monday, and a leading Democrat said the president was preparing a smaller version of his broad bid to revamp the $2.5 trillion industry....
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ObamaCare: The Threat to Physician Autonomy

3.2.10 - Richard Amerling, MD - The debate raging over ObamaCare has been carried on mostly by politicians, pundits, policy wonks and economists, with little input from those most intimately involved with delivery of health care---medical practitioners...
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