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White House expects budget deal by lawmakers Mon Sep 26Reuters News
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Senate set to vote in budget dispute Mon Sep 26Reuters News
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Special report: Nevada's big bet on secrecy Mon Sep 26Reuters News
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Oil pipeline opponents pin hopes on Nebraska Sun Sep 25AP News
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Obama criticizes GOP over disaster bill Sun Sep 25AP News
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Bob BeauprezA second witness has now come forward, as well. Anthony Russo, director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing told The Daily Beast, that the White House pushed him to alter his testimony to say that "the government's concerns about the project by the firm LightSquared could be resolved in 90 days." ... more
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Rachel AlexanderTwo high-level government officials have revealed they were pressured by the Obama administration to change their testimony to Congress in order to favor a wireless company linked to a high-level Democratic Party donor, and to sound supportive of Obama’s stated goal of bringing high-speed wireless to at least 98 percent of Americans within five years. ... more
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Americans Oppose Burdensome Regulations Starting With Those Enacted By Obama's Labor Board Tue Sep 20Fred WszolekFor some time, we have been saying that Americans are concerned with the overly burdensome and stifling regulations coming from unelected bureaucrats in government agencies more concerned with rewarding special interests than facilitating job creation. This week, two separate polls revealed that voters believe government is getting in the way of business and that there is wide-spread opposition to the actions of the Obama Administration’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). ... more
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Advertising Isn't the Obesity Boogeyman Wed Aug 31Crystal WrightWith nearly one in three American children overweight, it's easy to question why anyone would oppose voluntary government guidelines that would severely restrict which foods can be marketed to children. ... more
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The Clinton Surplus Myth Mon Aug 22Craig SteinerTime and time again, anyone reading the mainstream news or reading articles on the Internet will read the claim that President Clinton not only balanced the budget, but had a surplus. This is then used as an argument to further highlight the fiscal irresponsibility of the federal government under the Bush administration. Here are the facts. ... more
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Time for a Red Tape Rescue Sat Aug 6Ed FeulnerOne of the biggest factors behind whether companies hire or not is regulation. It's expensive to run a business, and if government agencies are saddling you with more and more expensive rules, you're simply not going to have as much money left over to hire additional employees. ... more
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Carl HorowitzThe Service Employees International Union (SEIU) could have written the book on how to get corporations to surrender. In fact, it has written the book. ... more
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John RansomThe SEIU, which has strong ties to the Obama administration, has been accused of using ties to the federal government to harass companies such as Sodexo. The alleged methods include using regulatory or government action to pressure or embarrass the company or its employees. If true, how high does that knowledge in the Obama administration go? ... more
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Marita NoonThe President’s policies have come home to roost. The dismal employment numbers, the loss of businesses fleeing to other countries, and the high energy prices that hurt individual families and hamper the nation’s productivity have come to a head and rating agencies are telling us this isn’t working. ... more
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A Warning From Norway Mon Jul 25Frank Gaffney"The tide is turning in Europe and elsewhere towards freedom, free markets and conservative values. To paraphrase an old folk song, we can’t let a psychopathic deviant – who professes admiration for such principles and their adherents, yet utterly betrays them – to turn us around." ... more
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Frank GaffneyIt's not exactly news that Obama is determined to go to unprecedented lengths to mollify, appease and otherwise pander to the "Muslim world." But at what point do these efforts cross the line from a misbegotten policy to one that is downright anti-American? ... more
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Terry JeffreyIt should surprise no one that a government that will not adequately enforce the immigration laws within its own Energy Department facilities will not adequately enforce them anywhere else. ... more
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Close the door on public-sector unions Wed Jul 13Jeff JacobyMassachusetts government is almost a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, so there was no chance that a law limiting collective bargaining for municipal employees would resemble the recent laws passed in Wisconsin and Ohio. ... more
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Agency Girl Goes Wild Mon Jul 11Katie KiefferElizabeth Warren has literally gone wild. No, she did not strip off her matronly suit on a Girls Gone Wild spring break tour bus. Rather, she appears to be on a mission to strip Congress, small businesses and individual Americans of authority by instituting her own rules for how to play the financial game on both Wall Street and Main Street. ... more
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Austin HillHow seriously are we to take President Obama on economic matters? Is anybody still expecting him to “create jobs?” ... more
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Defacing the White House, America Sun Jul 3Mark BaisleySeveral months after the Bill Clinton staff moved out of the West Wing in 2001, George W. Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer confirmed to the Washington Post that the outgoing liberals had trashed the place. ... more
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Marco RubioThere is a way to drag both Congress and the Obama Administration toward a positive solution to save taxpayers billions of dollars immediately, and it is one that has already received the support of 81 Senators, including 34 Democrats. ... more
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Dems: Greed is Good as a Tax Credit Tue May 31John RansomThanks to Obama’s activist government, we’ve just seen another example of how car dealers, banks, healthcare providers, insurance companies, mortgage servicers and whole host of quasi-governmental bodies can now rip off taxpayers. ... more
