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Bruce Bartlett talks about why, as an Independent, he considers himself an anti-Republican. If the GOP wants to regain strength, it needs to heed some of Bartlett’s advice: stop pandering to birth certificate crazies (birthers, or nirthers, if you will), extremists and creationists – groups who refuse to budge from entrenched positions. Embrace the...
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The National Endowment for the Arts is actively participating as a propagandist agency for the White House. Sound harsh? In the forty-plus years the group has been around, when was the last time you recall it shilling for issues on behalf of, or in parallel with a President? (In all seriousness. I’d love examples...
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The disgustingly opportunistic way the death of Senator Kennedy has been appropriated by Democrats backing HR3200 and its Senate twin is on par with the Wellstone pep rally some years back. My first thought upon hearing these calls to “Do it for Ted” was this question: Why would I suddenly change my mind...
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Seemingly related stories out of Austin that exemplify the “Let Them Eat Cake” mentality in our elected leaders: The Austin City Council decided this morning to cut the rents for Austin Java and Fit City, two businesses that lease space on the first floor of City Hall. As we explained in a story this morning, Austin...
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From the Houston Chronicle comes two different stories on immigration, illegal or otherwise. The first notes how more and more people are being caught with fraudulent documents: The number of people caught at the nation’s ports of entry with fraudulent, stolen or purchased documents grew from about 23,500 in 2006 to more than 28,000 in...
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Jennifer Rubin pens a look at one of our core beliefs- that advocating strongly for personal liberties should be core to the Republican partys strategy for winning future elections.
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From Politico comes this stunning bit of Friday afternoon news, as the first family heads to posh Martha’s Vineyard for a week: The White House is likely to dramatically increase its projected 10-year budget deficit estimate next week by nearly $2 trillion, senior administration officials said Friday. Obama administration officials have concluded the economy was much...
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How will Gibbs spin this: More than one in every eight homeowners with a mortgage was behind on home loan payments or in some stage of foreclosure at the end of the second quarter, as mounting unemployment aggravated the housing crisis, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday. The percentage of loans that were in foreclosure...
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The Senate draft health care legislation was done as a word cloud & now it’s time to see the House version in this visual manner. The whole bill, minus table of contents, division and section headings and age numbers, was crunched through Wordle’s word cloud tool to create this image: (click on the image to...
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I kicked around the idea a few days ago of crunching the proposed health care reform legislation through a word cloud generator. It seemed like it’d be cool to see what words showed up more than others, so I found Wordle and started scheming. Take the text of the bills, strip the various section...
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It’s time for him to own the problem, line by line, if you will. More nice graphics by gunzip here. It’s a cool take on the CBO’s graph you can see here. (tip of the hat to Glenn Reynolds)
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A look at the constitutionality of proposed health care reform from the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
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