baseballcrank.com - 2/2/2009
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There are many things - good and bad alike - to look back on from the Bush Administration, as befits only the 12th man in our history, and only the 7th since 1837, to serve a full 8 years in the Oval Office. Whether we like the task or not, conservatives need to continue defending the ...
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bighollywood.breitbart.com - 1/27/2009
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A Go-Green Guide for the Hollywood Community More
than ten years after the Kyoto accords, our planet...
continues to careen helplessly toward certain environmental destruction. The skies are choked with pollutants. Adorable helpless polar bears plunge ...
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Ten Things You Can Do To Save The Planet
betsyspage.blogspot.com - 2/2/2009
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Amity Shlaes, author of the very readable and
informative The Forgotten Man, argues that we are in...
danger of learning the wrong lessons from the New Deal.But Roosevelt the economist is unworthy of emulation. His first goal was to reduce unemployment. ...
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Don't learn the wrong lessons from the New Deal
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You Should Have Gone To Kentucky, Mr. President
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... I noted among my ten lessons from the Bush Administration the importance of the president just physically being there in hard times. Bush’s physical presence was important to New York in September 2001, when he visited Ground Zero three days after the September 11 attacks; his physical absence was felt in New Orleans in September 2005, when he did a floyover two days after Hurricane Katrina hit but didn’t make an appearance on the ground until four days after the hurricane made landfall, by which time his presidency had been permanently damaged. ...
The Case For Not Letting Up On Speaker Pelosi
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Nancy Pelosi has had a very bad stretch over the issue of what she knew, and when, about waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques.” She still seems not to have learned that it’s a bad idea to get in a public spat with people who collect secrets for a living, and her ever-shifting explanations of what she was briefed on and when, culminating in yesterday’s press conference (in which a visibly shaken Speaker repeatedly re-read her prepared statement in answer to questions by a suddenly skeptical press corps) have left her credibility in tatters and her story wholly incoherent. Just as bad for the Left, her ...
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washingtonpost.com 2/17/2009 — We might as well start with Judd Gregg because, in a way, he is at the heart of the problem. The first time I met him was in New Hampshire, during the 2000 Republican primary, when he came into the kitchen of a high school to tell me and another ...
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From NBC's Mark MurrayWith zero House Republicans voting last week for Obama's stimulus and with attention now focused on just how Senate Republicans might support the legislation, it's worth asking if the media and political observers have ...
Obama's first law: The fight for fair pay —
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President Obama hands a pen used to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to Ledbetter, second from left.
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