WHO: Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., a co-sponsor of The Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check)
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With all the attention paid to the health care battle, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and the president's "Full Ginsburg" appearances on five Sunday talk shows, few people noticed a hearing with an exceedingly boring title -- "Proposals to Enhance the Community Reinvestment Act" -- held last week in the House Financial Services Committee.
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“Obamacare is to Medicare what ACORN is to [Child] Protective Services.”
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Leave it to our esteemed House of Representatives to get it backward in the matter of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson.
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President Barack Obama promised a new day in foreign affairs. The president’s vision would inspire bold initiatives to take the world beyond the false choices — and resulting quagmires — of the past. Friend and foe alike would see the U.S. in a different light and, riding our newfound popularity, we would reshape the world.
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The Democrats, led by certain members of Congress and former President Jimmy Carter, have developed a new tactic to dismiss growing displeasure with President Barack Obama’s policies. As his approval ratings continue to drop, hesitancy over health care has snarled the plan’s progress and tens of thousands marched on Washington this past weekend, the left has decided the entire opposition can be dismissed by the obfuscating charge of racism.
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Wealthy and well-connected developer Bruce Ratner wants to bulldoze an old neighborhood in Brooklyn and turn it into high-rise apartment buildings and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets. Many locals — including the hipsters who live in Park Slope and the firemen who work at FDNY Squad No. 1 — don’t want this steel hulk, named Atlantic Yards, casting a shadow over their neighborhood and filling their streets with traffic.
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It’s hard to know who should be more embarrassed by revelations about the radical group ACORN — the mainstream media or the politicians who have funneled taxpayer dollars to the group for years?
It took two amateur 20-something filmmakers to do what ABC, NBC and CBS couldn’t or wouldn’t: expose an ongoing, taxpayer-funded criminal enterprise.
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Proving once again that police chiefs are like baseball managers and school superintendents — no matter how many losing teams they lead, they still land other job offers — word out of Washington, D.C., is that Heather Fong, the recently retired head of our own tarnished cop shop, is up for a top slot at the Office of Community Oriented Police Services, the federal grant-awarding agency that funds police departments.
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Even before this week’s report of a jump in retail sales and industrial production, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the recession is “very likely over.” This has central bankers around the world mulling possible exit strategies — ways to begin to withdraw cash and support from the economy and various players. And now, President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are figuring out what policy modifications a nascent recovery requires.
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