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Over the last 50 years, we have seen a remarkable transformation of the American electorate. The percentage of people identifying as Democrats has been cut nearly in half — from 51 percent in 1961 to 30 percent in 2011. Republicans have seen some gains from this, but the biggest jump has been in the number of people who identify with neither party, which according to the most recent Gallup poll is 46 percent.
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Now that Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Jon Tester, D-Mont.; Jim Webb, D-Va.; Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; and Joe Liebermann, I-Conn. have either voted against President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act, or said they would if it came up for final passage, it is safe to say that the chief executive’s second stimulus program is dead.
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When President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. on Sept. 21, he knew he would be followed on the dais the next day by Iran’s madman president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Republicans are often accused of being ideologically inflexible. But President Barack Obama stubbornly refuses to budge on his belief that Americans must be forced to stop using fossil fuels such as oil, gas and natural gas as soon as possible and instead begin depending on clean energy. In his own words, this policy means “electricity prices must necessarily skyrocket.”
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Take a good look at the USS Carl Vinson as it sails through the Golden Gate on its way home today — the ship is about to undergo a radical makeover for a historic basketball game.
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Both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went to graduate school. Obama got a degree at Harvard Law School. Cain did his graduate work at Purdue and Burger King University. That doesn’t tell you all you need to know about the difference between Obama and Cain, but it explains a lot.
Obama and Cain are African-Americans, but there the likeness ends. Obama is a liberal, Cain a conservative.
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By:
Jay Carafano
10/03/11 10:52 PM
April 1980: As U.S. special forces abandoned their staging base deep in the Iranian desert, tragedy struck. A Marine helicopter hit an Air Force C-130 loaded with fuel. The giant fireball killed eight. The attempt to rescue 50 American hostages in Tehran collapsed in failure and humiliation.
The secret mission had stretched the Marine helicopters to the limit. They were not the best tool for the job, but they were the best the military had.
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Ken Klukowski
09/29/11 10:08 PM
Monday marks the start of the annual term for the Supreme Court of the United States. Most of the court’s docket was set as of this week’s preterm conference, painting a picture of what to expect this year.
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