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  California Conservative — Authority: 521
  
  18 hours ago

• The Wrong Battlefield, The Wrong Questions

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Democrats talking about health care keep touting the fact that their bill bends the cost curve down. They point to the CBO reports telling the world that their legislation is deficit neutral. I’ve said it before and I’ll repeat it again: Big whoop!!! First off, the deficit neutrality wasn’t achieved through ...
  18 hours ago

• A Record That Needs More Than A Band-Aid

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 528
  When you read stories like this one from KOMU , it becomes pretty clear why the GOP leadership picked Roy Blunt to lead their Health Care Solutions Group this year: the man has some seriously awful votes in his record that he will struggle to explain away.  KOMU : 7th District Congressman Roy Blunt, a top ...
  20 hours ago

• HR 3962: how the AMA, AARP, and insurers benefit

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 470
  Dick Morris and Eileen McGann describe how the American Medical Association, the AARP, and health insurance companies, benefit from the House Health Reform Bill (HR 3962) at the expense of everyone else. (Well, except for politicians.) The AMA: Politicians promise not to cut Medicare’s reimbursement rates to ...
  1 day ago

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: Will Voters’ Choice Be Outdone by Sponsorship?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  With the most expensive presidential and congressional campaigns behind us, do we really want to see more corporate money free-flowing behind special interests and political elections? In what legal scholars have touted one of the most important First Amendment cases in years, the Citizens United v. Federal Election ...
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• The Tim Walz Myth Is Exposed

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  The myth that Tim Walz is an independent-thinking voice for southeastern Minnesota was laid to rest Saturday night when Tim Walz voted for the biggest expansion of government since LBJ’s Great Society. In voting for the Pelosicare tax- and spend-fest, liberal Democrat Tim Walz scored a ‘trifecta of infamy’, ...
  2 days ago

• QOTD: Tyranny of Special Interests

  
  Federalist — Authority: 103
  The tyranny of Special Interests is a recurring theme on this blog.  Today I decided to create an official category for it. Special interests, even in a democracy, drive a vicious cycle of government expansion to serve themselves at the expense of the majority.  Or maybe it is the government that foments the ...
  3 days ago

• Do As You’re Told Or We’ll Ruin You Financially

  
  California Conservative — Authority: 521
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• Do As You’re Told Or We’ll Ruin You Financially

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  If I was asked to write a caption to the penalties included in Pelosi’s Abomination, I’d write this: Pelosi to America: Do as you’re told or we’ll ruin you financially. Thanks to Rep. Dave Camp’s press release , which includes the Joint Committee on Taxation’s (JCT’s) letter , we now know ...
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  California Conservative — Authority: 521
  
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• AMA Blood Feud

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Democrats were excited to tell the world that AARP and the AMA had endorsed Pelosi’s Abomination, otherwise known as H.R. 3962. This Newsmax article shows that there’s more to the story than Speaker Pelosi is telling us: The American Medical Association (AMA) is facing a rebellion from some of its members, ...
  3 days ago

• Steny Forgets A Few Things

  
  California Conservative — Authority: 521
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  4 days ago

• Pelosi Subverts The Process; Why Am I Not Surprised?

  
  California Conservative — Authority: 521
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  4 days ago

• Pelosi Subverts The Process; Why Am I Not Surprised?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  The Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon wrote that House Democrats are intentionally gaming the CBO system in an attempt to limit the public’s outcry against the bill: Obama budget director Peter Orszag laid the groundwork for this feat. While director of the CBO in 2007 and 2008, he fostered a more ...
  4 days ago

• Roy Blunt Too Good To Shoot Missouris Birds

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 528
  Opting not to shoot his farm-raised fowl at the Ozark Wings Hatchery and Hunting Preserve in Caulfield , Roy Blunt and friends will be hunting for birds Monday morning just outside of DC at an NRSC fundraiser .  Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) promised earlier this week that the NRSC "wouldnt play spend money in the ...
  4 days ago

• Back From the Brink?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  After the unemployment numbers were published this morning, even the NYTimes can’t sugarcoat what’s happening. Also after this month’s unemployment figures were released, Rep. Carolyn Maloney said that, yes, they’d pulled the economy back from the brink but that there’s still a long ways to go. NO ...
  4 days ago

• DFL, DNC Out of Ammunition

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  If there’s anything that’ll prove that politicians or political parties are worried, it’s when they put out ill-prepared statements. Yesterday, I quoted DNC Spokesman Hari Sevugan following the Freedom Rally on the Capitol Hill steps. MinnesotaIndependent is quoting Sevugan in this post . Here’s a ...
  4 days ago

• A Testable Theory

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  When King and I talk about opposing political perspectives, we refer to it as a testable theory, meaning that it represents an opportunity to see which theory is right and which theory isn’t. This morning, thanks to Ruy Teixeira and Michael Graham , we’ve got such an opportunity. First, it’s ...
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• What’s wrong in Afghanistan?

  
  Audacity — Authority: 413
  The recent turmoil surrounding the re-election of President Karzai underscores that the government of Afghanistan has not attained the transparency and stability to win the basic fight against corruption, let alone drug trafficking and other threats to the peace, without help. The U.S. administration has been ...
  5 days ago

• Turning America Red Again

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  The dim one run on a platform of change.    After only a year in office, Barack Obama has delivered change.  Obama has turned Virginia and New Jersey red.  Fausta Wertz, Pajamas Media , swears she talking  about the election results in New Jersey: [Chris] hristie indeed has his work cut out for him. In ...
  5 days ago

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