POLITICO By BYRON TAU | 1/25/12 (Jay Westcott/POLITICO). President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address again rated at an 8th grade comprehension level on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test — the third lowest score of any State of the Union address since 1934. The University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics conducted an analysis on the last […]
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Washington Post Fact checking the 2012 State of the Union speech Glenn Kessler 01/25/2012 A State of the Union address is often difficult to fact check, no matter who is president. The speech is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted, so major errors of fact are so relatively rare that they sometimes
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FOX NEWS Executive Branch – POLITICS Published January 24, 2012 | Associated Press WASHINGTON – It was a wish list, not a to-do list. President Obama’s array of plans in his State of the Union speech was light on a key piece of context — namely, that his hands are so tied until after the
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Hour of Newt By The Editors January 25, 2012 12:00 P.M. South Carolina Republicans delivered what former president George W. Bush once called a “thumpin’” to Mitt Romney. Republicans have too many misgivings about Romney — misgivings we share — to give him a shortcut to the nomination. He will have
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper January 24, 2012 10:29 PM Here’s the full text of Mitch Daniels’s response to the State of the Union, as prepared for delivery: “The status of ‘loyal opposition’ imposes on those out of power some serious responsibilities: to show respect for the Presidency and its occupant, to
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JANUARY 24, 2012, 11:18 A.M. ET A contraceptive mandate provokes an unnecessary war. By WILLIAM MCGURN When Barack Obama secured his party’s nomination for president in 2008, one group of Democrats had special reason to cheer. These were Democrats who were reliably liberal on policy but horrified by the party’s sometimes knee-jerk animosity to faith.
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JANUARY 25, 2012 The Gingrich Challenge A test for Romney, GOP officials, and the former speaker himself. Newt Gingrich’s sweeping victory in South Carolina throws the GOP Presidential contest into a useful uproar and poses a challenge for Mitt Romney, what’s left of the Republican establishment, and not least for Mr. Gingrich himself. We’ll see
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Worst White House Aide Valerie Jarrett’s perfect record . . . for giving bad advice. Matthew Continetti January 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 18 If for nothing else, Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas will be remembered for an anecdote from 2010. After he spent hours disputing an allegation in
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http://www.atimes.com ASIA TIMES SPENGLER Failed treasury auction portends Egyptian disaster By Spengler Investors bought less an a third of the 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds (US$580 million) worth of Treasury bills offered to the market on January 22, a red flag warning that Egypt’s foreign exchange position is close to the brink. Yields on Egyptian government
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January 24, 2012 By John Hawkins 1/24/2012 During the practically endless series of Republican debates, we have heard almost every question imaginable asked to Republican candidates – if by every question imaginable, you mean horribly slanted, often irrelevant questions designed to make them look bad and help Obama. We’ve heard questions about contraceptives, religion, Newt’s
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