Sunday, August 22, 2010 www.therocherecord.com ABC CHOOSES AMANPOUR. GOODBYE For 29 years I’ve been a loyal viewer of the ABC Sunday morning news talk show, “This Week.” From 1981 – 1996 it was “This Week with David Brinkley,” and I rarely missed a broadcast. David Brinkley, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were a […]
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Barney to Fannie: Drop Dead Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles. Barney Frank has been all over the airwaves this week with a clear and—we never thought we’d say this—perfectly sound message about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: “They should be abolished.” Well, praise be. Two years ago next month, then Treasury
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Deconstructing Harry Reid The Senate majority leader’s inexplicable desire to debate taxes in September. By KARL ROVE Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can say the darndest things. He certainly did last week when he proclaimed: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” That must have thrilled his
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About Senator Burr | Constituent Services | Contact Me | Share with a Friend The last two weeks traveling around North Carolina have been busy, but very informative. Last week, I traveled throughout eastern and central North Carolina visiting Carteret, Cumberland, Wayne, Guilford, Lenoir, Craven, Wake, and Orange counties, speaking with small business owners, touring health
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use Minute BARTLETT & PRY: What if Iran already has the bomb? Better to be prepared than surprised By Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, of Maryland serves as ranking member of the air and land forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee and Peter Vincent Pry, president of EMPact America – August 2, 2010 EXCERPT FROM
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Mona Charen July 30, 2010 12:00 A.M. A Democrat Goes into a Psychiatrist’s Office Democrats can’t run on their records, so they accuse Republicans of extremism. Come in. Make yourself comfortable. What’s that? You’re a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple the national debt; destroy a health-care system that an overwhelming majority
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AUGUST 12, 2010 Washington vs. Paul Ryan What happens when a politician is more honest than his critics. The immune system of the modern body politic is nothing if not resilient, and this summer all of its antibodies seem to be trained on heretofore little known Congressman Paul Ryan. That makes this a particularly instructive
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AUGUST 12, 2010 Illegal Immigrants Estimated to Account for 1 in 12 U.S. Births By MIRIAM JORDAN One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship. Dozens of U.S.-born children and their undocumented parents
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits. In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that
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