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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.
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....
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?...
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....
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. ...
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,...
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. ...
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....
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....
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....
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?...
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. ...
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....
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...
A Tale of Two Governors
What the fates of Charlie Crist and Rick Perry say about the public mood. ...
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...
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....
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 ...
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....
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...- Fed agencies seize toys, call them 'machine guns'
- SNOOP: Federal regulator weighs 'black box' requirement for all new vehicles...
- NY CONSIDERS 'SALT' BAN IN RESTAURANTS...
- National ID Card Being Considered By Senators
- Labour targets a new 'public menace': Mothers with baby buggies on the bus
- Group Work = Group Think
- Parents protest new student bake sale policy with 'bake-in'
- In Defense of Political Anonymity
- Corker, Bailouts and a New Federal Bureaucracy: One Indisputable Fact
- BIG SIS UNLEASHED: Homeland Security program digs 'into all Internet communications'...
- Newspaper Industry Bailouts
- Kyle Olson: Heads Up Talk Radio: The President’s Foot Soldiers Have Your Number
- Kennedy Yells: Media Doing 'Despicable' Job Covering Afghanistan!
- Targeted: Does this photo of Barack Obama go too far?
- VARIETY Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics as 'Cost Cutting' Measure...
- First Amendment be damned . . . Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'...
- Michael Walsh: ‘He Couldn’t Sell Watermelons’ — Dan Rather and the MSM Strike Again
- Humberto Fontova: Hey MSM, Obama Fans — About that Che Guevara Fetish of Yours…
- Ron Futrell: Constitution? The MSM Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Constitution!
- Larry O'Connor: The Left and Its Cheap ‘Racism’ Charge — the Last Refuge of Scoundrels and ‘Media Matters’
- Teaching Social Justice at Wheaton College
- They can't read, can't write and think the world owes them a living: Tesco director's damning verdict on Britain's school-leavers
- The jury's out on lawyers for pets
- School twinning schemes with Third World countries creating 'neocolonialist' children
- Restaurants now adding 'Health' charge to restaurant bills...
- GOP dismisses military study on gays as biased
- Politically correct MPs are bullying Christianity out of public life, claims Lord Carey
- What a load of rubbish! Neighbours' disgust as hoarder wins 'human rights' fight to keep garden eyesore
- Thomas Del Beccaro: How Republican Can Stop The Health Care Bill in 3 Steps
- We Simply Can t Afford Another Entitlement Program
- Susan Swift: In Health Care Battle Royal, It’s the ‘300′ v. the Obama/Media Hordes
- SusanAnne Hiller: If Pelosi Has the Votes, Then Why Does the House Need the Slaughter Solution to Pass ObamaCare
- If only men would doff their hats and duel for my affections
- Bill Whittle: Is the Declaration of Independence Still Relevant?
- Obama's failed argument
- Primary challenges could give some Democrats pause
- Republicans Still Not Serious
- Warner Todd Huston: For the Left, Cheap ‘Moral Equivalence’ Is Their Stock-in-Trade42
- McCullagh: Why no one cares about privacy anymore...
- Britain voted worst place in developed world to bring up children (while Australia is the best)
- Minority Births on Track to Outnumber White Births
- Teach for the World
- Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ and Historical Accuracy, Part II
- Pope Benedict: Justice is not enough
- Michelle's gown now part of history
- Indonesia: Forced church closings spike
- I lost my Focus on the Family
- Mr. President, Congress: The Time for Immigration Reform Is NowClarissa Martinez De Castro, 03.07.2010
- A 'fair dinkum' deal on terrorism
- Surprise! Guess who's biggest Islamic threat
- Ratboy's former lawyer now works in 'Justice' Dept. repping terrorists!
- Study abroad with Al Qaeda
- Internet aids terrorist recruiting, radicalization, Pentagon says
- `Jihad Jane' arrested in Texas for intoxication
- Custodian of U.S. mosques
- Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America...
- Obama, Gates not always eye-to-eye on new nukes
- Terrorists could 'steal' Aussie planes
An Interview with Glenn Scoggins: Teaching at an International School
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Schwartz
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2010-03-12 16:54:48
***The ultimate goal of federal officials is to exert pressure on L.A. Unified and other school districts to close the achievement gap that separates white, ...
Darleen
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2010-03-12 15:54:14
I believe the term you are referring to is "Sinicization", or "Sinification", or even "Sinnovation", but not Chinnaovation.
Barry Stern
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2010-03-12 15:25:51
Amen! Lifelong learning starts at the family dinner table, and when the parents are learning, the kids will, too.
Doug Potts
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2010-03-12 13:43:52
I am a Kindergarten teacher and the standards for Kindergarten make sense are doable and are not a political statement (as they are in California). ...
Wendy Young
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2010-03-12 11:49:31
It brings tears of joy and excitement to my eyes. I pray for the very best for each young man and all students everywhere. ...
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is a retired public school English teacher and staunch unionist.
is a retired public school English teacher and staunch unionist.
