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More Than Half Of Democrats Believed Bush Knew

Flashback: 51% of Democrats thought feds were complicit in 9/11

It does, though, offer a bit of context to the suggestions on the left that mass insanity has beset the GOP.


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Video: Has Obama read his own deficit reduction plan?

When Barack Obama gave a much-anticipated speech on the budget and deficit spending last week, it turned into a disappointing mix of ambiguities and demagoguery. Most people couldn’t discern any “plan” at all in the speech, only hazy promises with few specifics. As it turns out, Obama himself doesn’t appear to be aware of even those few specifics he did offer. In yesterday’s Facebook townhall event, Obama not only mischaracterized the scope of the Republican plan to cut deficits, he also mischaracterized his own

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Sacred Cow

Ethanol subsidies targeted for budget savings?

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Read It

The Birther-debunker’s guide to the universe
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The Progressives' Pap

Fresh on the heels of the Republican budget plan unveiled this week by Rep. Paul Ryan, liberals in Congress are preparing to unveil their own. We've glimpsed some of ... More »


On Sunday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan laid out the gist of his strikingly bold budgetary proposal. On Tuesday, he released his well-conceived plan in its entirety. On the day in between, President Obama launched his re-election campaign. Whether Obama acted consciously in ... More »


In 1983, the British Labor Party under the hard-left Michael Foot issued a 700-page manifesto so radical that one colleague called it "the longest suicide note in history." House Budget ... More »
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Information And Opinion

"As in all things, Obama pretends to know more about the oil business than people that do it for a living. He couldn't get one drop of gas to market if his life depended on it."

Chuck Schumer Wants Extremism? Maybe We Should Give Him Some! I guess what we need in Washington are some more extremists, because the "moderates" have given us trillions in deficits.

 
Howard Dean Wants a Shutdown: If Dems want a government shutdown, let's do it.


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Ignorant Or Just Ill-Informed?

Anyone who's ever seen Jay Leno do one of his "Jaywalking" segments on NBC, locating average Americans and asking them factual questions on street corners, knows there are far too many Americans who know next to nothing about just about everything. They can't name our first president or don't know ... More »
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Stop?

Greenspan: Government “activism” killing economic recovery

Tomorrow, former Fed chair Alan Greenspan will go to the Council on Foreign Relations and argue that the main obstacle to economic recovery is the expansion of bureaucratic uncertainy caused by the “activism” of the Obama administration.  Clifford Marks explains his thinking at National Journal, although he clearly isn’t impressed with the argument
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Oof

Poll: Public still has basically no idea what’s driving America’s gigantic budget deficits

Fully 72 percent think reducing foreign aid would produce some sort of “large” savings whereas 51 percent think reducing Medicare benefits would produce savings that are small-ish. To jog your memory about this, we could disband the U.S. military for a year — no funding for defense of any sort — and we would still be only about halfway towards eliminating the annual deficit. Which makes me wonder: Is there any meaningful distinction for most of the public between spending they want to cut and spending that must be cut? Defense is a big chunk of the budget relative to, say, earmarks, and tales of Pentagon waste and the oft-touted stat about how we spend more on our military than the next umpteen nations do on theirs surely resonate when the public’s thinking about trimming budgetary fat. But where, oh where, does the idea come from that foreign aid is some huge fountain of red ink instead of Medicare? It’s chump change. The only explanation I have for that distorted view is that foreign aid is something the public’s willing to cut whereas Medicare, emphatically, is not. Am I missing something here or are we really that deep in denial?

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