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GREGORY: IF REPUBLICANS Bend on the Sequester, They Don’t Deserve Our Support – Forbes
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 1:00 pm
Paul Roderick Gregory, OP/ED | 2/09/2013 If Republicans Bend on the Sequester, They Don't Deserve Our Support I was frustrated by William Kristol’s Don’t Be Seduced by the Sequester. Kristol argues Republicans must be the grown-up party. The sequester cuts will delay the deployment of two battle ships at a crucial time. Per Kristol: Republicans should negotiate ... Go To Article
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OBAMA’S State of the Union to add details to far-reaching agenda – The Hill
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:45 pm
By Amie Parnes - 02/09/13 President Obama will map out the contours of his second-term agenda when he speaks to the nation in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. In a speech meant to build on his second inaugural address — which was directed at the Democratic base and served as a bookend of sorts to his reelection campaign— Obama will put details on ... Go To Article
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GREENFIELD: Should We Keep Trying to Save the United States Postal Service?
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:30 pm
February 9, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield The United States Postal Service began as a reasonable and effective communications solution, but like everything touched by the government, it has become an employment agency, a collective bargaining program and a massive defunct pension fund. It’s the pensions and benefits that make the Post Office unsustainable, but the same ... Go To Article
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CALIFORNIA: Shale oil deposit a possible boon to struggling California, but state wary, enviros opposed | Fox News
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:15 pm
Published February 09, 2013FoxNews.com A vast, untapped oil reserve in California is emerging as perhaps one of the state’s best opportunities to improve its still struggling economy, but exploration and production efforts face resistance from the powerful environmental lobby and Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration that appears not to be fully sold on the ... Go To Article
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BYRON YORK:: With public focused on jobs, Washington fights other fights | WashEx
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:52 am
Byron York -- A new survey on the effects of the economic downturn shows many more Americans than previously reported have been profoundly touched by joblessness and its related hardships. In addition, the survey, by scholars at Rutgers University, shows more Americans than previously thought blame illegal immigration for the problem of unemployment -- more than ... Go To Article
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ANDREW MCCARTHY: Is Hagel Toast? –
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:50 am
By Andrew C. McCarthy, February 8, 2013 -- Powerline’s John Hinderaker thinks former senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Obama’s defense secretary is already dead. He may be right. Andrew’s post from last evening homes in on why. As Senator Ted Cruz pointed out in his superb questioning at the confirmation hearing (which irritated all the right people), ... Go To Article
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PETER FERRARA: The Worst Five Years Since the Great Depression – Forbes
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:48 am
Peter Ferrara, OP/ED | 2/07/2013 -- In February, 2009, I wrote for the Wall Street Journal an article entitled Reaganomics versus Obamanomics. The article explained that the emerging Obamanomics was pursuing exactly the opposite of every policy of the enormously successful Reaganomics, and predicted that it would produce exactly the opposite results. Well, the ... Go To Article
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MICHELLE MALKIN:: The Blame Righty Mob Falls Silent | RCP
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:45 am
By Michelle Malkin - February 8, 2013 -- Question: How many times over the past four years have exploitative liberal journalists and Democratic leaders rushed to pin random acts of violence on the tea party, Republicans, Fox News and conservative talk radio? Answer: Nearly a dozen times, including the 2009 massacre of three Pittsburgh police officers (which lib ... Go To Article
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MAJOR GARRETT: How Republicans Came to Love Automatic Spending Cuts – NationalJournal
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:40 am
By Major Garrett, Updated: February 7, 2013 -- Congressional Republicans work to prove they are tough enough to take the sequester. You know things are upside-down when Republicans quote Bob Woodward more than Ayn Rand. House and Senate Republicans might as well start their own QVC-style network to hawk Woodward’s book The Price of Politics. The GOP fetish ... Go To Article
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THE SEQUESTER and the New Washington Reality | RCP
By MB Snow at February 9, 2013 | 12:35 am
By Ben Domenech - February 8, 2013 -- President Obama insists that he’s prepared for a fight over the sequester with House Republicans. But his remarks read less like a politician scrapping for a fight than one who’s had a troubling moment of clarity: this was a trap, and he walked into it. Senate Democrats are scrambling to come up with an alternate plan. But ... Go To Article
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