| January 27, 2012, 1:34 PM |
| The New Laid Back North Korean Govt - CNET: North Korean government labels cell phone users as war criminals |
| January 26, 2012, 10:32 AM |
| Newt Gingrich told House Republicans to vote for statehood for Puerto Rico to win over the Mexican vote. - Sailer: Do Florida Hispanic voters care much about immigration? |
| January 26, 2012, 2:10 AM |
| FL: ROMNEY LEADS OBAMA, 47%-42%; GINGRICH LOSES TO OBAMA, 47%-40% - Suffolk University Poll on Candidates' Electability |
| January 25, 2012, 5:20 PM |
| Romney's Abortion Position - Mitt Romney is “Consistently” Pro-Life, Mass Activist Says |
| January 25, 2012, 2:51 PM |
| "Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm." - TYRRELL: WILLIAM JEFFERSON GINGRICH |
| January 24, 2012, 11:37 AM |
| Jon Stewart on Gingrich's Family Values & Outsider Status - Mediaite VIDEO: Jon Stewart Flips Out At Gingrich’s Nerve In Attacking John King’s ‘Open Marriage' Question |
| January 24, 2012, 10:02 AM |
| In a strange development, the MSM is lying about Romney's tax rate - Newsbusters: Beware False Claims: 'Romney's Tax Rate Is Below That of Most Wage-Earning Americans' |
| January 24, 2012, 12:36 AM |
| GOVT UNIONS SPENDING MONEY TO AFFECT GOP PRIMARY - Wash Times: Public employees union heaps cash into GOP ad attacks on Romney |
| January 23, 2012, 10:06 AM |
| 0.00014 percent of Fla concealed carry permit have been revoked for a firearms related violation - Lott: The rate that concealed carry permit holders are now losing their permits for gun related violations
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| January 23, 2012, 9:31 AM |
| I'm beginning to think you can't trust an adulterer - WSJ: Gingrich of Freddie Mac |
| January 23, 2012, 12:32 AM |
| Plus, the Taxpayer Doesn't Pay for These Jobs! - NB: Media Myth Debunked: 21% of GDP and 11% of Private Sector Jobs Come From Venture Capital |
| January 22, 2012, 1:15 PM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT (Coulter on Fox & Friends) - Coulter: ‘With Newt Gingrich you throw out the baby and keep the bath water |
| January 22, 2012, 2:41 AM |
Degrees in Phys Ed and Women's Studies Aren't Cutting It -
NYT: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
[Apple] relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
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Though Americans are among the most educated workers in the world, the nation has stopped training enough people in the mid-level skills that factories need, executives say.
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Companies like Apple “say the challenge in setting up U.S. plants is finding a technical work force,” said Martin Schmidt, associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| January 21, 2012, 3:42 PM |
| Newt's Immigration Stand a Character Issue! - Kausfiles: Newt's weakest spot |
| January 21, 2012, 5:14 AM |
Obama staffer caught stealing Republican official's identity - Man Charged with Identity Theft after Falsely Implicating Secretary of State in Illegal Activity
"Zach Edwards’ bio on Link Strategies website says he joined the Obama campaign in early 2007 as an intern in Nevada. He was the Iowa Director of New Media for Barack Obama’s general election campaign."
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| January 20, 2012, 11:58 PM |
| Gingrich "unfavorable" to majority of Americans - DC Examiner: America hates Newt Gingrich |
| January 20, 2012, 2:31 AM |
| Class Warfare Given Life by Gingrich and Perry - Krauthammer: The GOP’s suicide march |
| January 19, 2012, 5:47 PM |
| No word yet on whether they lived here for 25 years or were members of the local church. - Expert Says Beheadings in U.S. Look Like Work of Cartels |
| January 19, 2012, 5:41 PM |
| How America Saved Itself From What Europe is Now - WSJ's Daniel Henninger: Bain Capital Saved America |
| January 19, 2012, 5:39 PM |
| If the Cayman Islands are showing up on Romney's tax return, then it's not a tax haven - The Atlantic's Megan McArdle: So What About Romney's Offshore Tax Havens? |
| January 18, 2012, 7:28 PM |
| Excellent, short explanation of what Bain Capital does - DICK MORRIS VIDEO: THE TRUTH ABOUT BAIN CAPITAL |
| January 18, 2012, 5:10 PM |
Gingrich op-ed supporting Harriet Miers for the S. Ct. - "Conservatives should feel confident with the selection of Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court for a simple reason: George W. Bush selected her."
Newt Gingrich: Conservatives can trust in Miers
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| January 17, 2012, 3:37 PM |
Attacking Bain - WSJ: The Truth About Bain and Jobs
National Journal: Private Equity Industry Has Given $17M to Lawmakers Since '07 (mostly Democrats)
Top Ten Recipients of Private Equity Campaign Contributions Since 2001:
*Barack Obama- D*
John McCain -R
Hillary Clinton- D
Chuck Schumer- D
John Kerry- D
Kirsten Gillibrand- D
Chris Dodd- D
Harry Reid- D
Mark Kirk- R
Michael Bennet- D
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| January 17, 2012, 12:07 PM |
GOLDWATER BEATING ROCKEFELLER WASN'T ALL SUNSHINE AND SONG - American Thinker: Romney Denialists
[W]e all know what happened: Goldwater got creamed ... .
It also enabled LBJ to enact Medicare and Medicaid. Those contemplating staying home on Election Day rather than vote for Romney might want to consider the virtual impossibility of repealing either program today and then decide how much they relish the prospect of trying to repeal ObamaCare if Obama is reelected and his signature "achievement" becomes equally entrenched.
Bingo.
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| January 17, 2012, 9:16 AM |
Why is this considered a great zinger? -
Newt in debate last night: “This is typical of what ... I have complained about with Governor Romney’s Super PAC over which he apparently has no influence - which makes you wonder how much influence he’d have if he were President.”
It's not illegal for a president to have influence -- as it is for a candidate to have influence on Super Pacs supporting him. Newt's answer is the sort of glib, meaningless wordplay we have come to expect from brainless liberals, not conservatives.
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| January 13, 2012, 3:09 PM |
| I DEFEND MITT ROMNEY FROM THE HORDES! - Ricochet Podcast #101: Get Your Mitts Up |
| January 11, 2012, 5:42 PM |
Newt Indicts corrupt revolving-door politics by being a product of it. -
"The Gingrich narrative -- that Romney made money by laying off good working men and women -- is breathtakingly simplistic, the sort of thing you expect from an Upton Sinclair or a Dennis Kucinich."
Tim Carney: Gingrich is a perverse product of political system
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| January 10, 2012, 12:12 PM |
| Santorum and other career politicians don’t understand how the private sector works. - Avik Roy: Romney Derangement Syndrome |
| January 9, 2012, 10:09 PM |
| The Magnificent Richard Epstein on the NY Rent Control Case Heading to the S. Ct - Rent Control Hits the Supreme Court |
| January 9, 2012, 7:19 PM |
| NY judge awards prostitute-billing associate $600,000 from firm that fired him. (Overturned.) - NY Law Firm Associate Billed Clients for Escort Services, Porn, Limos |
| January 9, 2012, 12:48 PM |
| Saturday Night Live: Cold Opening - SNL VIDEO: Rick Santorum on Path to Victory After Iowa |
| January 9, 2012, 9:35 AM |
| Romney and the Miracle of Free Market Capitalism - Romney doesn’t need to apologize for his Bain career |
| January 8, 2012, 10:38 PM |
| How Many Black People Live on Pinch's Block at Lincoln Square? - NYT Editorial: Westchester’s Desegregation Battle |
| January 8, 2012, 9:32 PM |
| Tony Blankley Has Died - WaPo: Conservative columnist Tony Blankley dies at 63 |
| January 8, 2012, 1:28 AM |
| At about 10:28pm tonight, Mitt Romney clinched the nomination - Michael Barone's Review of the New Hampshire Debate |
| January 7, 2012, 10:52 AM |
| Rent Control May Go to Supreme Court - NYT: A Landlord’s Uphill Fight to Ease Rent Restrictions |
| January 6, 2012, 1:22 PM |
RICK SANTORUM'S BIG GOVT RECORD -
RedState's got the full list here (with links!)
Immigration
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIH funding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9th Circuit
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against repeal of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
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| January 6, 2012, 12:29 PM |
Obama's Non-Recess Recess Appt is Probably Constitutional (Though Liberals Would Have Gone Nuts if Bush Had Done It) -
John Elwood: Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray Despite Pro Forma Sessions
Summary: These pro forma sessions where no business is conducted, but are intended solely to prevent the President from making recess appointments, are not real sessions under the Recess Appointments Clause of the Constitution because the Senate is not ready and able to "advise and consent."
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| January 6, 2012, 4:04 AM |
The Deadliest Marksman in US Military History Is, Of Course, a Texan - Wikipedia: Chris Kyle
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| January 6, 2012, 2:16 AM |
It's not $1.6 million from Freddie Mac, but this is not good -
"In the years before he lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2006, Rick Santorum worked hard to win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medicare money for hospitals in Puerto Rico. ...
Within months of leaving the Senate, Mr. Santorum joined the board of Universal Health Services, where he collected $395,000 in director’s fees and stock options before resigning last year. He also became a consultant to Consol Energy, after years of advocating drilling and extraction policies helpful to the company, a Pennsylvania gas and coal producer. And he consulted for the American Continental Group, a lobbying firm whose clients won earmarks he sponsored.
-- NYT: After Santorum Left Senate, Familiar Hands Reached Out
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