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Crying ‘Mediscare’ won’t fix anything

By: By Yuval Levin 05/25/11 6:47 PM
Do House Republicans want to kill the elderly? If you listen to the left these days, you would certainly think so. Last week, a liberal advocacy group called The Agenda Project — which claims to advance “rational, effective ideas in the public debate”— released an ad showing a look-alike of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan pushing an old woman in a wheelchair off a cliff. Read More

In defense of rapper Common — who’s not a misogynist thug

By: Gregory Kane 05/25/11 6:42 PM
As a curmudgeonly conservative Republican who’s pushing 60, I have to fess up: I like rap music.Hey, rap music helped kill disco. I feel I owe rap and rappers a debt I can never repay. One of the rappers I like is that guy named Common.His moniker might ring a bell because Common’s the rapper who was invited to “An Evening of Poetry” at the White House a couple of weeks ago. Common’s invitation caused quite a few conservative noses to get twisted out of joint. Read More

Newt's Knots

By: Nate Beeler 05/18/11 10:05 PM
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Trump'd

By: Nate Beeler 05/16/11 6:15 PM
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The Two Mitts

By: Nate Beeler 05/13/11 1:13 AM
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US-Mexico border safety is not a laughing matter

By: SF Examiner Editorial 05/12/11 9:00 PM
It’s not uncommon to find wide disparities between the conventional wisdom among Washington elites and the reality experienced daily beyond the west bank of the Potomac River. There is, however, a Grand Canyon’s worth of difference between Washington and the rest of the country on the matter of border security with Mexico. Read More

Do contracting officers need to know if a contracters gave money to National Right to Life?

By: Conn Carroll 05/12/11 12:51 PM
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrel Issa, R-Calif., had wanted Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew to testify on President Obama’s draft “Disclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors” executive order, but the White House declined to provide him. Read More

Newt Returns

By: Nate Beeler 05/10/11 10:03 PM
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Big majority says cut off federal funds to 'sanctuary cities'

By: Mark Tapscott 05/10/11 8:23 AM
This can't be good news for self-proclaimed "sanctuary cities" like San Francisco and Montgomery County, Maryland, the suburban Washington, D.C. region jurisdiction that actively invites illegal immigrants to live within its borders, then resists enforcing federal laws against harboring such individuals. Now Rasmussen Reports finds 59 percent of those surveyed in the pollster's latest national survey support cutting off federal funding for such santuary jurisdictions. Read More

Has a new epidemic of RDD broken out on Capitol Hill? UPDATED WITH CAMP RESPONSE

By: Mark Tapscott 05/05/11 1:38 PM
Not familiar with RDD? It stands for "Republican Defeat Disease" and its symptoms only appear on those rare occasions when congressional GOPers hold heavy leverage against Democrats in the public opinion war heading into the next election. Read More
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