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Mar 9th, 2010 |
By Thomas McKee
The Obama administration states it has created or saved 640,000 jobs based on data of those who received loans or grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This data is obviously overstated by thousands of jobs. The unemployment rate is 10.8% despite a $787 billion economic stimulus package pushed through Congress in February. The Associated Press review found counts as high as ten times the actual number of jobs created due to stimulus money.
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Jan 14th, 2010 |
By Thomas McKee
Scott Brown is sitting at the kitchen table in Kris and Jack Farren’s log-cabin home, cradling a mug of hot chocolate with whipped cream, nibbling at a plate of Pepperidge Farm cookies, and talking taxes. Income tax, marriage-penalty tax, energy tax, death tax. Jack Farren, a printer who has endured multiple layoffs, looks ashen.
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Oct 19th, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view, one week after the administration fired its initial salvo to try to isolate the news network by accusing it of being a GOP mouthpiece.
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Oct 15th, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
Someone once said that he hoped the President failed. It was back on September 11, 2001, just a short while before the terrorist attacks when those words were uttered, by James Carville, at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. Of course, because of the date, and because what happened that morning, his remarks might have been missed by some. But not by all.
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Oct 13th, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
1) There will be transparency in the law-making process. For the past month, the Senate Finance Committee has been debating health care. But, much to the surprise of many Americans, they haven’t been debating an actual bill. They have been debating and amending a 262-page description of health care reform. It’s essentially a summary of
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Oct 10th, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
This is completely bizarre. President Barack Obama has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. It is unclear why. For making peace, of a kind, with Hillary Clinton? For giving up the missile shield and cheering up the Iranians? For delaying a surge of troops and weaponry in Afghanistan?
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Sep 25th, 2009 |
By Brent Ryan
People make the right decisions far more often than the government ever has, does, or will. I think that the best form of government is one that encourages, facilitate, and empower the individual citizen to make their own individual choices on how to live their lives.
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Sep 23rd, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
An official at the White House Office of Public Engagement told a group of handpicked artists that they would receive “some specific asks” during a controversial conference call that encouraged production of artwork supporting the administration’s agenda in the name of service, a transcript of the call reveals.
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Sep 21st, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
In an interview airing Sunday, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos pressed the president on his plan to require people to purchase health insurance.
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Sep 20th, 2009 |
By Thomas McKee
Anyone who follows the media could see this coming a mile away. You could practically count down the days until the liberal media organized itself into a full court press on Glenn Beck.
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