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Maryland state government promotes Baltimore ACORN office

Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?

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Maryland state government promotes Baltimore ACORN office

Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?

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Maryland state government promotes Baltimore ACORN office

Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?

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Morning Must Reads -- Butter, Then Guns

New York Times -- Obama Facing Doubts Within His Own Party on Afghanistan  

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GOP leader: Obama 'thumbed his nose at the American people;' speech 'remarkable in its arrogance'

I just got off the phone with Rep. Tom Price, the Georgia congressman who heads the Republican Study Committee. Price called the president's last night address to a joint session of Congress a "classic campaign speech" with little new to offer. "He was clearly trying to bolster his folks to vote for a plan that the American people don't support," Price said. "I think he probably helped his cause. I think it will be temporary.

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Obama's speech was full of chronic deceptions

During his health care speech last night, President Obama incorrectly guaranteed that no public money would go toward abortion, and that illegal immigrants could not get coverage under his plan. He cannot make either promise, based on the existing legislation.

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Same Old-Same Old from Obama tonight? UPDATED: Demonstration Projects are for suckers

Excerpts from the prepared text of the President's speech tonight to the nation and Congress have been released by the White House and if these are indicative of the tone and level of detail that will be displayed throughout the address, it will likely come across as just more of the same old rhetoric, evasion, double-talk, and straw-man tactics we've seen for months from Obama. Here's is the excerpt in which Obama provides the specific details of his plan:  

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FROM DC: Same Old-Same Old from Obama tonight? UPDATED: Demonstration Projects are for suckers

Excerpts from the prepared text of the President's speech tonight to the nation and Congress have been released by the White House and if these are indicative of the tone and level of detail that will be displayed throughout the address, it will likely come across as just more of the same old rhetoric, evasion, double-talk, and straw-man tactics we've seen for months from Obama. Here's is the excerpt in which Obama provides the specific details of his plan:  

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FROM DC: The rest of Murtha's Mob

A computer analysis released by the Center for Public Integrity found that three quarters of the members of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee engaged in the same kind of controversial influence peddling that got chairman John Murtha, D-PA, Rep. Jim Moran, D-VA, and Rep. Peter Visclosky, D-IN, in hot water for their dealings with the now defunct PMA Group.

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FROM DC: Union pension plans hurt workers, study shows

Unlike non-union plans, collectively bargained pensions are often underfunded, lack portability and cannot respond quickly to market forces, according to the authors of a new study.

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