6 hours ago by Johanna Neuman

David Obey came to Congress in 1969, a young Democratic congressman from Wisconsin, opposed to the Vietnam War and mindful of the funding it was draining from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. Thirty years later, he is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and adamant that Afghanista ...

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1 day ago by Gary Gross

There are times when I watch President Obama when I’m forced to wonder question President Obama’s competence. I’m forced to question his competence because he hasn’t done a thing to increase entrepreneurial activity. Just as I’m certain that there’s a certain amount of incompetence involved, I’m als ...

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2 days ago by Marie

The unprecedented increase in unemployment has no doubt effected every U.S. citizen in one way shape or form. If you have not been laid off, then chances are you are close to someone who has been. You probably even have one or more within your family that has been let go in the past year. [...]

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2 days ago by Marie

The unprecedented increase in unemployment has no doubt effected every U.S. citizen in one way shape or form. If you have not been laid off, then chances are you are close to someone who has been. You probably even have one or more within your family that has been let go in the past year. It touches ...

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3 days ago by Johanna Neuman

He could go down as the first Republican to spar with conservative icon Rush Limbaugh and live to talk about it. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told the Hudson Union Society some weeks ago that Republican attacks on President Obama for everything from visiting Dover Air Force Base to opening the ...

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3 days ago by Scotty Starnes

O’l TurboTax Tim knows his head is on the chopping block. Both Republicans and Democrats believe he should step down because the decisions he has made have been failures. Feeling the sharp metal axe on his neck, Taxcheat Tim reached into Obama’s playbook and grabbed a paged that has been played sinc ...

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3 days ago by Steve Padilla

Much like the man who inspires it, the new George W. Bush Presidential Center will be a combination of Texas style and East Coast tradition. That’s the word on the renderings of the 225-square-foot, $250-million center. The plans for the center, to be built at Southern Methodist University in Dallas ...

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4 days ago by Kat

Editor’s Note: This piece was written by our sometimes correspondent Mallory Thompson! When she first joined the White House press corps, not many other women had been given the chance to cover the president. But 57 years and eight Presidents later, Helen Thomas is still there. “I was the man who ca ...

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4 days ago by malsburymichelle

The shooting incident in Ft. Hood should have been a wake up call for ALL Americans. As President Obama so eloquently and sadly said [paraphrase] it is awful to have our brave men and women in uniform killed on foreign soil, but it is unthinkable that the same would/could occur on American soil. Dr. ...

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4 days ago by dekerivers

See them here. From an architectural point of view it is quite impressive. I like the design very much.

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