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Mike Shedlock
Posted: 4/29/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
A pair of recent Gallup Polls shows distinct loss of confidence in the US economy. The first poll shows Americans' Economic Confidence at the 2011 Low. A second poll shows 55% still think the economy is in a recession, or worse.
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Paul Greenberg
Posted: 4/28/2011 3:11:00 PM EST
It's no secret that the messianic hopes Barack Obama once inspired have steadily given way to disillusion, and an ever-deepening sense of unease about the direction the country is heading.
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Mike Shedlock
Posted: 4/26/2011 12:01:01 AM EST
The medical system is geared toward reducing competition as described by Dr. Schmitt, but also to produce absurdities like Nancy Pelosi's statement "We have to pass the health care bill to see what's in it."
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Jeff Jacoby
Posted: 4/25/2011 1:00:00 PM EST
Underwhelmed by the way the 2012 presidential contest is shaping up? With more than 18 months remaining before Election Day, sensible Americans have better things to dwell on than the next race for the White House. But if you are contemplating the upcoming electoral marathon, "underwhelmed" probably overstates your level of enthusiasm.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 4/25/2011 9:04:00 AM EST
Gasoline prices are continuing to rise and it's all Obama's fault. Ok, that was just to get your attention, but let's look at the numbers.
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Paul Driessen
Posted: 4/23/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
OSU tries to expel PhD candidate-children of the scientist who ran against Congressman Peter DeFazio.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 4/21/2011 4:19:00 PM EST
President Barack Obama seems to have trouble giving the Libyan rebels what they need most in their life-and-death struggle to topple Moammar Gadhafi's repressive dictatorship: weapons.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 4/20/2011 9:17:00 AM EST
To succeed in America - to truly succeed in America - you have to be more than excellent at what you do.
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Michael Barone
Posted: 4/18/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
Barack Obama is a politician who likes to follow through on long-term strategies and avoid making course corrections. That's how he believes he won in 2008, and since then he's shown that he's not much into details.
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J. T. Young
Posted: 4/13/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
In 2010, Democrats lost ground across America’s electorate. They saw declines in all racial groups – including losing white voters (who comprised 77% of 2010 voters) by 23%. They lost both male and female voters – replacing what had been a 14% advantage among women in 2008 with a 14% deficit among men in 2010.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 4/13/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
Speaker John Boehner extracted more budget concessions from President Obama and the Democrats than was at first evident when the deal was announced last week.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 4/7/2011 6:19:00 PM EST
Americans are getting hit on all fronts nowadays. Wages are flat or falling. Income tax bills are due by April 18. Food prices are rising. And gas prices, which are soaring toward $4 a gallon, now threaten to reverse the nation's economic growth rate.
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Hugh Hewitt
Posted: 4/6/2011 11:11:00 AM EST
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's fiscal blueprint for 2012 and beyond has rightly been hailed as an enormously important development in the budget wars.
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Star Parker
Posted: 4/4/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
As negotiations in Washington on this year’s budget (already halfway into the year that this budget is for) come to a head, the rumor mill points to a Washington-as-usual result. That is, split the differences down the middle.
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Ken Connor
Posted: 4/3/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
As the Iowa caucuses loom, potential contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are jockeying for position, each eager to establish themselves as the person best-suited to take on Barack Obama.
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Caroline Glick
Posted: 4/1/2011 5:27:00 PM EST
According to mountainous survey evidence, the American Jewish community writ large remains deeply supportive of Israel.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 3/30/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
President Obama's address Monday in defense of his military intervention in Libya may go down in the history books as one of the most artful speeches ever given in the midst of retreat with both guns blazing.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 3/23/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
In the first two years of his presidency, Barack Obama replaced Teddy Roosevelt's well-advised admonition to "speak softly and carry a big stick" with "be friendly and carry an olive branch."
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Kevin Glass
Posted: 3/21/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
Despite a lengthy debate that concluded last year with its passage, new details trickle out seemingly daily about the destructive impact of Obamacare.
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Star Parker
Posted: 3/21/2011 12:01:00 AM EST
The facedown in Congress on the federal budget must be about principles as well as absolute spending. No drunk will sober up if he only thinks about how much he drinks and not about why.
