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Is Obama Smart? As thisWall Street Journal column from Bret Stephens (8/9/11) points out, "stupid is as stupid does...Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does."

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Remember the Carter Years? As this Investor's Business Daily editorial (5/26/11) notes, we're in a state of "Obamalaise" that could create another downturn in the economy.

How bad is it? What should we do now? Read the article here.

Conservatives Win One in the U.S. Senate. A Republican filibuster stopped Goodwin Liu's nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Liu is famous for his assertion that the Constitution guarantees the right to "expanded health insurance, child care, transportation subsidies, job training, and a robust earned income tax credit."

As explained in the Washington Examiner article (5/19/11), former Texas state supreme court justice Sen. John Cornyn said "I must have missed that."

ObamaCare - Not Good Enough for Pelosi's Congressional District

That's the message sent by 38 waivers from ObamaCare's provisions granted to businesses in Sweet Nancy's district. An article in Investor's Business Daily (5/17/11) explains that businesses there report that ObamaCare has "devasted" business.

Click here for the full details.

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Slap on Some Sunscreen and Make a Killing. Yep, it's true, there's a lot of money to be had at Newport Beach, California, just for hanging out at the beach 40 hours per week.

Think we're kidding? Just watch this video from Americans For Prosperity (Time: just 2 minutes and 42 seconds). Of course it might take longer to get your blood temperature below boiling after you see this.

Awww...Bin Laden burial at sea ‘demeans family:’ sons. And get this: the boys said the killing was "contrary to the most basic human sentiment." This is a brief, must-read article (5/10/11) from Dubai's Khaleej Times Online.

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American Idol judge Steven Tyler's Post-Abortion Trauma. Kevin Burke's poignant article (5/04/11) describes Tyler's decline into drugs and anger following the abortion of his son.

And what about the mother of that aborted child? “There were many suicidal calls from (her) ... It was actually a pretty sad time.”

How a $300,000 Government Project Turned Into a $2,300,000 Blowout Christine MacDonald of The Detroit News (4/22/11) reports that the Detroit Public Library will soon sport $1,092 European lounge chairs, but may have to close neighborhood branches.

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TRUMP - Like him? Hate him? Mark Levin put together a series of audio clips of The Donald. Here's a taste:

• Trump in 2011: Obama Has Been The Worst President Ever.

• Trump in 2007: No President can be worse than Bush.

• Trump in 2007: I don't understand how the Dems lost the 2004 election.

• Trump in 2008: Bush should be impeached; I'm impressed with Pelosi.

Listen to the whole tape (4/15/11) then decide for yourself.

FreedomWorks Poll by Frank Luntz shows "likely voters overwhelmingly support balancing the budget within 10 years and taking immediate action to address the impending entitlement crisis while opposing plans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.

"Key findings of the survey include:

• Voters Want a Balanced Budget: 78 percent believe there is “no excuse” for failing to take longer than 10 years to balance the budget.

• No Spending is “Off-Limits”: 78 percent said reforming entitlements is the “right thing to do.” 78 percent supported Secretary Gates’ recommendation to cut $145 unnecessary defense spending.

• Entitlement Reform is Necessary and Urgent: 88 percent believe Social Security and Medicare need to be reformed immediately.

• Eliminate Waste: 64 percent support eliminating HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

• Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling: 69 percent oppose raising the debt ceiling above the current $14.3 trillion level. Support for raising the debt ceiling increases (17 percent to 31 percent) if provisions are included to cut spending and reduce future debt.

• Likely Voters Look to Republicans: 52 percent would vote for an unnamed Republican challenger in an election held today, versus 39 percent who would vote for President Obama.

To see the complete April 2011 survey, click here.

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The liberals' plan: Gut defense and tax, tax, tax. That's Byron York's take on what Obama and his Capitol Hill buddies are likely to offer. Read all about it in The Washington Examiner (4/11/11). Hint: If you're like me, reading their plans required some anti-nausea medication.

What happens when the great fantasies, like wind power or European Union, collide with reality? an article by Christopher Booker in The Telegraph (4/11/11), explains how reality smashes the misguided dreams of the one-world elitists who run most governments.

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John Boehner closes the deal to avoid government shutdown, says this Politico article (4/09/11). And Who Won the Shutdown Showdown? It Wasn't Even Close, trumpets a report by Fox News' Carl Cameron (4/09/11). All in all a pretty good showing for the Republicans in the opening salvo of their attack to take back the government.

The President’s Speech, an editorial by The Washington Times (3/28/11), lists eleven contradictions in the President's Libya speech. The article concludes with the exasperated "what a long strange odyssey the Obama presidency has become."

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Media Matters' War Against Fox - The founder of liberal group Media Matters describes in an interview (3/26/11) their all-out campaign of "guerrilla warfare and sabotage" aimed at Fox News. The group's new strategy, he said, is a "war on Fox."

Geraldine Ferraro Flashback: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position." Former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Ferraro made these remarks on March 7, 2008, during the campaign for the Democratic nomination for President.

She then defended her remarks a few days later against charges of racism, saying that “every time (the Obama campaign) is upset about something, they call it racist ... I will not be discriminated against because I’m white. If they think they’re going to shut up Geraldine Ferraro with that kind of stuff, they don’t know me.”

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Barack Obama: A Management Appraisal, a Frank Burke article in American Thinker (3/11), suggests that Obama's style can be described an an abdicative manager ... showing "a tendency to flee from responsibility and is frequently encounted in situations where he ... never wanted the job in the first place." This is a great piece to help understand our current President and to build the case for not giving him another four years in office.

The Speech Obama Hasn't Given: What are we doing in Libya? Americans deserve an explanation. Peggy Noonan's article (3/24/11) raises the questions Obama needs to answer now! (assuming he's even considered them).

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Anthony (aka Screaming Liberal) Weiner Wants an ObamaCare Waiver for New York, his home Congressional district. Incredibly, in this 3/23/11 Politico report, Weiner cites the administration's granting of waivers to "our friends" as proof of how flexible the law is.

Joe Biden Talks Impeachment for Obama? Well, not exactly. He was talking in 2007 about bringing impeachment charges against George W. Bush if he attacked Iran. Now that he has an office in the White House, the great Pontificator in Chief's justifications for impeachment charges fit precisely the events surrounding President Obama's attacks on Libya.

So, is Biden biting his tongue this time?

Here's the video from 2007. You decide.

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“If we don’t win this, America is going to be done soon,” says long-time Wisconsin resident Marilyn Kruchell (3/11/11) in Robert Knight's report in The Washington Times.

President Obama says "it would be much easier to be the president of China," according to an article in The New York Times. How sad. Writing in The Weekly Standard (3/11/11), William Kristol says that "unfortunately for him and us, Barack Obama is president of the United States."

"It's the government sector worker who's the new elite, the highest-paid worker on the block," says a CNBC report (3/8/11). Looks like people are waking up to the disparity between government workers' benefits and those of private sector employees.

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The California fiscal triple whammy may be coming to YOUR state, according to Mark Landsbaum, writing for The Orange County Register (3/5/11). There is hope, he says, by "keeping government on a pay-as-you-go basis, limiting borrowing to small amounts that can be repaid quickly and not empowering government workers as virtual monopolies by collective bargaining."

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