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DEMOCRATS – THE NEW PARTY OF NO

JANUARY 7, 2011 The New Party of No Majority Leader Harry Reid will soon be blocking, obstructing or deterring nearly all the reforms the Republican House sends to the Senate. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may yet rue the day he helped popularize the phrase “The Party of No.” It never […]

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KNOW THY ENEMY – MOVEON.ORG EMAIL

Dear MoveOn member, “Look, I know MoveOn usually works on national issues, but the Republicans have taken over, and we really need your help.” That was the message I got last week from a leading progressive in the state legislature in my home state of Maine. I could hear the urgency in her voice—and we’re

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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE – I HATE YOU, BRISTOL PALIN

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com David Kahane January 4, 2011 It’s the happiest of New Years: We have another Palin to drive us crazy. Okay, I’ve just about had it with you people. Yes, I’m talking to you, the Palin family of Moosewhack Village, Bumblefork County, Alaska, USA, Earth, Universe. I mean, who in the name

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AN INTERVIEW WITH MITCH DANIELS, GOVERNOR OF INDIANA

January 4, 2011 Budget Hawk Eyes Deficit By DAVID LEONHARDT Indianapolis Of all the Republicans talking about the deficit these days, Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has arguably the most credibility. Congressional Republicans have spent much of the last decade voting for tax cuts and spending increases, all the while giving speeches decrying the

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RULES FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT

JANUARY 4, 2011 The House GOP is making it harder to tax and spend. House Republicans are pledging to cut spending, and one early sign they’re serious is the rules package they are bringing to the House floor tomorrow. More than the last time it held power, the GOP is changing the rules to make

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CONGRESS REDISCOVERS THE CONSTITUTION

JANUARY 4, 2011 The House Republican majority has said it will require members to cite the specific authority for any bill they introduce. By ROGER PILON If the new Congress to be sworn in on Wednesday is the tea party’s cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will come on Thursday, when the first

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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE – DAVE BARRY’S 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW

Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped

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2010 – VOTERS SAW THE LEFT’S AGENDA AND SAID NO

JANUARY 3, 2011 The Liberal Reckoning of 2010 The year voters saw the left’s unvarnished agenda and said no. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a press release last week headlined “111th Congress Accomplishments.” It quoted a couple of Democratic Party cheerleaders calling this the greatest Congress since 1965-66 (Norm Ornstein) or even the

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THE STEALTHY SPREAD OF SOCIALISM IN THE U.S.

January 01, 2011By K.E. Campbell The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama.  It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate.  It isn’t high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and sharia in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states.  These, broadly speaking,

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