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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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Brooks: Obama can't get anything done, so he's a moderate, or something

David Brooks swings so wildly back-and-forth in some of his opinion pieces, I’m surprised his glasses haven’t flown off.  One moment, the liberal commenters on his NYT posts call him a crazed right-winger, and the next moment republican commenters are saying he’s a radical leftist media-type.  I guess to be a moderate, which Brooks is [...]

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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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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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Rewinding the tape and remembering Joe the Plumber

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Via Hot Air headlines, Editor and Publisher does a little interview with Joe the Plumber, where he chats about Palin and McCain and the media and other fun things. 

In a wide-ranging interview with E&P, Wurzelbacher also shared his thoughts on Sarah Palin (he hopes she doesn’t run for president in 2012), Palin’s references [...]

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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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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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