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newsbusters.org - 3 days ago
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After the U.S. House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade
legislation earlier this year by a thin seven-vote margin...
earlier this year , the possibility that it could become law seemed like it was a real one. But after the dust settled some, ...
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Krauthammer: Pending Climate Change Legislation a 'Dead ...
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article.nationalreview.com - 10 days ago
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I n May 2008, Chicago Public Radio teamed
up with National Public Radio (NPR) to produce an...
episode of the show This American Life called “ The Giant Pool of Money .” The episode garnered widespread praise and won several awards for explaining the ...
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Welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- By: Stephen ...
article.nationalreview.com - 5 days ago
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There have been dozens of news reports exposing
tens of thousands of stimulus jobs as frauds --...
David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner put the number of phony jobs at about 75,000. They found more than 100 separate incidents, ...
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Seven Big Lies about the Stimulus -- By: Stephen Spruiell
article.nationalreview.com - 5 days ago
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E d Pound sounded like a man besieged.
For weeks, newspapers across the country had been finding...
exaggerations and errors in stimulus recipients’ estimates of how many jobs their government checks had created or saved. The latest blow to the ...
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Saved, Created, or Fake? -- By: Stephen Spruiell
huffingtonpost.com - 9 days ago
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Stephen Colbert sat down with David Letterman last
night and reminisced about his trip to Iraq ....
He recounted for Dave his visit to the White House where the president taped a segment for Stephen to show the troops. Turns out the president is an ...
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Colbert On "Letterman": Obama Is The Meryl Streep Of ...
sfgate.com - 9 days ago
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Rep. Jackie Speier took one of the biggest
risks of her political career recently -- she agreed...
to appear on "The Colbert Report" --- and the segment aired last night. How dangerous can this be? When Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-Lakewood) appeared on the ...
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Politics Blog : Rep. Jackie Speier tells Colbert she is ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 5 days ago
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I have a couple of pieces on the
stimulus up today. I'm writing as fast as I...
can, but with new reports coming out every day debunking the claims of jobs "created or saved," it's hard to keep up . In its report to the federal government last ...
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Blink and Miss Another 13,000 Jobs NOT Created or Saved ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 13 days ago
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In other GM news, that's how much U.S.
taxpayers will end up spending on the auto bailouts,...
according to a new study authored by professor Thomas D. Hopkins in conjunction with the National Taxpayers Union: To better appreciate the scale of the ...
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$10,000 Per Car -- By: Stephen Spruiell
corner.nationalreview.com - 13 days ago
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Via Memeorandum , SEIU doesn't tolerate scabs :
In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson...
, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know ...
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Is There a Merit Badge for Strikebreaking? -- By: ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 6 days ago
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That's how Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn characterized
the preventative-care sections of the Democrats' health-care bill: BLACKBURN:...
And, George, this is exactly how it happens. If you go to page 1,296 of the House bill, the ...
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"The Bureaucrat in the Exam Room" -- By: Stephen Spruiell
newsbusters.org - 9 days ago
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E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate
a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global...
warming alarmists to falsify temperatures in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, ...
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Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered
corner.nationalreview.com - 6 days ago
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Bad day for Recovery.gov. First, Earl Devaney, the
chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, had...
to inform Rep. Darrell Issa that "the board can’t vouch for the numbers submitted by recipients of stimulus funding." Now, Ed ...
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Dude, Where's My Jobs Created or Saved? -- By: Stephen ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 30 days ago
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The White House has posted 481 visitor records
, covering requested names from the period between January...
and July. But as White House counsel Norm Eisen points out , not all the names belong to the people you think they are: A lot of people ...
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A Tip On Using the White House Visitor Logs, Just Posted ...
angrybear.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
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AIG is bankrupt, but Manchester United still wears
their logo . However, when Dutch bank DSB Bank...
NV filed bankruptcy, Stephen Colbert had to step in to sponsor U.S. Speedskating ? Maybe the Dutch understand Sports Economics and the Americans don't?* * J.C. Bradbury , Dennis Coates , Skip Sauer ...
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A Difference in National Priorities
article.nationalreview.com - 25 days ago
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Saranac Lake, N.Y. I n the end, Doug
Hoffman couldn’t overcome the hurdle that all third-party candidates...
face: Most voters tend to pull the lever for the R or the D. Never mind that in this race, the absence of Hoffman would have left voters with a ...
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Hoffman 2010? -- By: Stephen Spruiell
corner.nationalreview.com - 25 days ago
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Ned Lamont might run for governor of Connecticut:
Dear Stephen, I wanted you to be one of...
the first to know that, this afternoon, I will be filing papers to establish a committee to explore a potential candidacy for Governor of Connecticut . ...
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Blast from the Past -- By: Stephen Spruiell
amazon.com - 24 days ago
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In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote
a scathing review of The Stand in which he...
exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it. The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ...
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The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete ...
youtube.com - 21 days ago
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Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F821DBF3CE3374A3Aired 11-7-09 on BBC WorldIs the Catholic
church a force for good in the world?"It sta......
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The Intelligence Squared Debate - Christopher Hitchens ...
nrd.nationalreview.com - 19 days ago
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Why is the SEIU boss the White House's
most frequent visitor? STEPHEN SPRUIELL T he Friday before...
Halloween, in response to requests from the public, the White House released records of the visitors it had received between January and July. George ...
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Unholy Union by Stephen Spruiell on National Review / ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 18 days ago
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Two top Bush administration officials whose reputations for
strategic acumen were badly damaged by the disasters of...
the Bush years may be about to market their expertise to private-sector clients. In September, the RiceHadley Group LLC was ...
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Rice And Hadley Look Set To Launch Consulting Firm
