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9.7% unemployment good news? Must be a Democrat in office!

From the Hot Air link, we read that columnist Tommy Christopher sees that March jobs reports, which has unemployment holding at 9.7%, is super-duper good!

The headline:

March Jobs Report Good News for America, Bad News for GOP

All right!

Nothing like being a hair under double-digit unemployment to get those happy shivers going down your spine.

White House Press [...]

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The Health Care Albatross and some advice for the Dems

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Old Nancy seems to be limping her way ever closer to her goal of 216.  She swears she’s got the votes to get this done, and probably by tomorrow afternoon, barring some other delay, we’ll know whether it’s still safe to get sick in this country or not. 

But with them so close to their goal, we [...]

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Greece: Our Crystal Ball?

For the past few months, we’ve had the opportunity to watch the people of Greece participate in a near-freefall of their economy and social system.  There’s riots and protests and flaming bottles and overturned cars and heads stomped by horses.  And while I don’t think they’re nice enough to be doing all of this for [...]

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Give us your tired, your poor, your HIV infected....

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This has been discussed for quite a while, and it has of course been controversial ever since its implementation, but thank goodness we’ve finally gotten around to lifting the ban on HIV infected tourists. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together announced the [...]

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Obama frets about Yemen’s economy during radio address

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In his weekly radio address, Obama talked about the Christmas Day terrorist attempt aboard Northwest Flight 253. 

An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

In the address, the [...]

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2009: The year the wheels came off GLOBAL WARMING

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A lot of bad things happened in 2009.  We got Obama.  The economy took a nose-dive.  The best health care system on earth is being obliterated.  The Bears missed the playoffs… again.

But if there’s one good nugget you can take from such a miserable year, it’s that finally, after decades of being the biggest naked [...]

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The Gitmo shell-game continues

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We dropped a few on Palau. 

Shipped some to New York. 

How about if you flatlanders in Illinois get ready for your share now, too? 

The Land of Lincoln may still be licking its wounds–and certain real estate transactions–over Chicago’s losing the Olympics to Rio, but the Obama Administration has delivered up a small consolation prize: the state’s [...]

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The absolute scariest thing I've seen in a very long time...

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You’ve gotta’ hand it to the libs…  they play hardball.  When they step out on to the field, it’s no-nonsense, winner-take-all.  They don’t sweat things like your freedom, or the democratic process that’s served us well for the past, oh, two hundred or so years.  At least not if any of these things are between [...]

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The fun of government micromanagement

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And by fun, I don’t mean, “Ha ha” fun, I mean more like kick you in your crotch, steal your money and burn it in your face fun.

Numbers continue to roll in on the effectiveness of our government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. 

You know, that program that was going to jump-start our crawling economy.  As we [...]

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More stuff from Pence and Fox News Sunday

I’m going to add a little more from what Congressman Mike Pence had to say on Fox News Sunday, but I think it’s worth a separate post, as it goes off in a slightly different direction from our last entry on the health care vote. 

While Pence was telling the Dems to “stop digging,” he made [...]

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