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Apparently, at SNL they don't believe the President's protestations that the economy is getting better and all the Democrats' spending has fixed everything.Gee, who would have thought that in the week when Sarah Palin's book comes out and she's all over the place, that SNL would have chosen to ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
We're traveling to SW Virginia today to a tournament so there will be no blogging today. This is the third tournament this month which explains my very light weekend blogging.
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Politico points to all the hard decisions that Congress is facing. Besides spending all their efforts now to craft their massive health care bill, there is still the pesky problem of unemployment. And all the other spending that the government must do. Remember all the appropriations bills to ...
World
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Remember all the agony that Congress has gone
through every year because of the Alternative Minimum Tax
that wasn't indexed to inflation. Every year they have to twist themselves into nots to find the money to make sure that people aren't suddenly ...
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It's long been clear that liberals do not regard someone to be of the designated minority group if that person doesn't fall in line ideologically with their demands. Clarence Thomas isn't a real black man because he doesn't vote like a liberal. Democrats opposed Miguel Estrada's nomination to ...
Congress
Jesse Jackson
Charles Krauthammer takes on the logical holes in Eric Holder's choice to try KSM in civilian court while trying other terrorists in military courts.Finally, there's the moral logic. It's not as if Holder opposes military commissions on principle. On the same day he sent KSM to a civilian trial ...
Law
Eric Holder
Evan Bayh has a column at CNN's site begging for a bipartisan approach to reducing the nation's debt. He's right that this is a problem that needs to be faced and it's a bipartisan problem.Last week, I was joined by a handful of my colleagues at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on strategies ...
Congress
Evan Bayh
Kent Conrad
ABC reveals how much Mary Landrieu seems willing to sell her vote for the Reid health bill. The going rate seems to be $100 million. In Reid's view, that's cheap at the price, especially since it's all just coming out of the taxpayers' pockets.What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote ...
Congress
Harry Reid
Keith Hennessey summarizes the new taxes or tax increases that are in the Senator Reid's bill.1. 40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500 (individuals) / $23,000 (families). Amounts are indexed for inflation by CPI-U + 1% – begins in 2013 – $149 B tax increase 2. Additional 0.5% ...
Congress
Harry Reid
If you want a hint of why the new Senate bill could get a good evaluation from the CBO, consider this.The Senate bill pushes back implementation of major parts of the reform to 2014 -- a change from 2013 under the Finance Committee bill. This is bad news for lawmakers who will need to explain to ...
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Medicaid
NPR has obtained a memo that was written about Nidal Hasan two years ago by a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed who worried about Hasan's professional abilities.Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's incompetence and ...
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U.S. Army
Barack Obama warns of our country's rising debt problem.President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.With the U.S. unemployment ...
White House
Barack Obama
Fox News
Attorney General Eric Holder testified yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee and tried to answer criticisms of his decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York rather than before a military commission. He gave a long statement about what a tough call this was and how he was very ...
Law
Eric Holder
John Derbyshire takes apart Al Gore's assertion that the temperature at the "interior" of the earth is "several million degrees" and thus is an excellent source for geothermal energy. Derbyshire comments,The geothermal gradient is usually quoted as 25–50 degrees Celsius per mile of depth in ...
World
Foreign Policy
Al Gore
Why is the Obama administration blocking a congressional investigation of the Fort Hood shootings. First they refused to send administration officials to testify before a Senate hearing.The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has released the witness list for its hearing ...
Congress
U.S. Army
Jeffrey S. Flier, the dean of the Harvard Medical School, writes today about how the Democratic health care reform ideas are the exact opposite of what our health care system needs.Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives ...
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Health care
Emanuele Ottolenghi highlights these tidbits from the recent IAEA report on Iran's and Syria's nuclear programs.Among the treasure trove to be found in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports on Iran and Syria, there are two slightly underreported elements. Inspectors stumbled upon ...
World
Iran
United Nations
Syria
Now that it's dawned on the Democrats that their huge so-called stimulus bill didn't do much stimulating and the administration's report of how many jobs have been created or saved is the subject of ridicule, Harry Reid is promising a new stimulus bill. Instead of doing more of the same ol', ...
White House
Stimulus Plan
What is so puzzling about Holder's decision on KSM is that he seems more interested in world opinion than over the dangers that he is needlessly risking by trying KSM in civilian courts. As Thomas Sowell points out, Nor was there mention of how many foreign nations and individuals whose ...
World
Homeland Security
United States
Bill McGurn points out to an add anomaly that is the result of Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York, yet try the attackers of the USS Cole in military tribunals. Holder has established the weird situation where those who attack civilian targets in monstrous acts of ...
