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Palin in Milwaukee

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Palin showed up for a brief fund raiser for Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund on Friday night. 

In a personal and passionate speech, Palin lauded the state’s anti-abortion movement for legislative advances achieved over time.

“We were told to sit down and shut up,” Palin said. “Wisconsin, you went rogue.”

She used President Barack Obama’s mantra of [...]

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I’d be offended, but I guess I’m too stupid to know better

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Is it just me, or is there a very disturbing trend that is beginning to appear with this administration…

For me, it kind of began with the little girl in the audience of the town hall meeting Obama was at.  You know, the one who

asked President Obama a question at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in [...]

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In response to concern about the Stimulus, Obama says, Chillax dudes

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Obama’s weekly radio address was used in large part to try to deflect some of the mounting concerns over why, exactly, all this money was spent and we’re seeing exactly zero results.  Looking over his radio speech, he seems to want us to think things are cruising along exactly as planned. 

“As a result of the [...]

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New plan to pay for health care by… you guessed it! Taxing the rich

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The Dems are mulling over different ways to pay for the enormous Orwellian health care reform we are all supposedly so anxious for.  There were also some proposals to add fees onto employers, taxes onto soda, and other equally foolish plans.  None of these ideas will be able to generate nearly enough money, of course, [...]

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Yes, tax on soda will fund health care reform!

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It’s old news, but it’s good to get these bad ideas circulating as much as possible, so everyone can see them. 

I was having a discussion with someone I consider to be fairly well-informed, and she was surprised there was even any talk of a soda tax, so while it’s in the news we might as well [...]

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Rasmussen: 54% oppose higher taxes for Universal Health Care

Usually the way these things go is that a general idea gets support, but when the actual specifics come out, popularity begins to sink.

Not so, apparently, with the idea of health care reform, where 54% of Americans are opposed to having their taxes raised for it right out of the gate.  I would have assumed [...]

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