JULY 8, 2011 Beyond Minnesota Nice Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty brags that as governor he stared down Democrats on taxes and spending, but can he sell it to conservative voters? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Ask Mitt Romney to opine about his time managing a blue state, and the former Massachusetts governor will mostly take
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Thanks to a young Republican, Brady Nemeth, for sharing these two educational links. These are two great videos that just came out today. They’re both short and to the point (the first is just 1 minute, the second is roughly 5 minutes), and leave out any politics, which means that they are great for sharing
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Queen of the Tea Party The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann Matthew Continetti July 4 – July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to
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Burning down the house By George F. Will, Published: July 1 “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the more the financial system tottered. Who were they? Most explanations of the financial calamity have been
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NEWSMAX.COM Friday, 01 Jul 2011 By Jim Meyers For Rep. Michele Bachmann, staunch support for Israel is a personal matter: Teenage Bachmann spent a summer working on a kibbutz in Israel. The 55-year-old Minnesota Republican, founder of the House Tea Party Caucus and a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, went to Israel
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June 30, 2011 A Dangerous Point of View…Indeed Russ Vaughn Congressman John Conyers, Democrat, from Michigan has just served up the money quote regarding his party’s true position on doing something about our nation’s budget woes: “This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of the Congress, my colleagues,
JUNE 30, 2011 Mitt Romney has adapted her ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ slogan, but would he emulate her steely leadership? By ANDREW ROBERTS In 1978, with the British economy in crisis and unemployment hovering at 1.5 million, or 5.1% of the working-age population, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party turned to its advertising gurus, Charles and Maurice Saatchi,
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JUNE 30, 2011 Thomas Dewey tried to run out the clock on Harry Truman. It didn’t work. By KARL ROVE High unemployment, anemic growth, defections in key groups such as independents and Hispanics, and unpopular policies are among the reasons President Obama is unlikely to win re-election. But likely to lose is far from certain
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June 30, 2011 Accusation that Voter ID Is Racist Demeans Blacks By Dennis Prager 6/7/2011 While dining out last week, I periodically looked up at one of the television monitors to see the score of the first game of the NBA finals. As there was no sound on to interrupt diners’ conversations, the monitor was
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