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Obama’s Supreme Court Appointee

by Doug on May 29, 2009

in Politics

Conservatives, you need to read Pat Buchanan’s column regarding appellate judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. I only hope the congressional Republican leadership heeds his advice concerning how to approach her confirmation hearings. Read the column.

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Pat Buchanan with the clarion call. Nothing to add here.

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Newt Clarifies Waxman’s Thinking

by Doug on May 4, 2009

in Politics

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich recently testified before a House committee hearing on the “Cap and Trade” bill. (You can understand that bill name to mean “Ration and Tax” and you’ll pretty well have the idea: Energy is going to be much more expensive after Obama, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid get it passed.)
California [...]

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Symbolism Pure and Simple

by Doug on April 20, 2009

in Economics, Politics

President Obama today will conduct his first official meeting of his cabinet on April 20, and is expected to ask members of the cabinet to identify ways that they can trim $100 million from the federal budget.
A natural question would be, is that $100 million per agency or department represented at the meeting? No, this [...]

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Rove is On the Money

by Doug on March 19, 2009

in Politics

Karl Rove is spot on in his WSJ opinion column today. Obama and the Democrats in Congress are making the striking differences in principles between them and the Republicans clearly evident as they work feverishly to push through massive spending bills and other unpopular initiatives. They have managed to accomplish what Republicans could not in [...]

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Treasury Sec. Lies to Congress?

by Doug on March 18, 2009

in Politics

Did Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner give misleading testimony to Congress this week? Sure looks that way.

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Who’s More Popular, Rush or Pelosi?

by Doug on March 18, 2009

in Politics

CBS News polling included both Rush Limbaugh and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in their list for favorable/unfavorable ratings. Results discussed here.

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Give Me Delaware

by Doug on March 17, 2009

in Economics, Politics

Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont writes in today’s WSJ about the contrasting approach to taxation and growth in government spending in the states of Delaware and California, and compares each to the model being followed by the Obama Administration. Tell me there’s an end to the spending spree that Reid, Pelosi, and Obama are [...]

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