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Osama: More Aid For Pakistan and Africa
Osama: More Aid for Pakistan and Africa img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-19043" title="osama-bin-laden" src="/files/wxrimport/2010-10/osama-bin-laden.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" />Feingold Down 12 Points to Johnson in Wisconsin
Sen. Feingold Down 12 In Wisconsin img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-18497" title="feingold" src="/files/wxrimport/2010-10/feingold.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" />Rick Sanchez: CNN Run By Jews
Rick Sanchez: Media Run By Jews img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-43081" title="Rick Sanchez" src="/files/wxrimport/2010-10/rick-sanchez.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" />AIG Exit Plan Proves Obama's No Socialist
With Obama's plans to sell off the government's majority stake in AIG, GOP rhetoric about his "socialist" policies should go down the drain. Winston Churchill once entered a men’s room where his Labour Party rival Clement Attlee was standing at a urinal. As Churchill moved to the far end of the …Rahm Gets Dead Fish Farewell
Rahm Gets Dead Fish Farewell Gift img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-47724" title="asian carp (1)" src="/files/wxrimport/2010-10/asian-carp-1.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" />Geithner: TARP Losses Less Than $50B
TARP Losses Less Than $50B The New York Times reports: Even as voters rage and candidates put up ads against government bailouts, the reviled mother of them all — the $700 billion lifeline to banks, insurance and auto companies — will expire after Sunday at a fraction of that …
Iraq Breaks Record for No Govt
Iraq Breaks Record for No Govt The Washington Post reports: Iraq on Friday will surpass the previous record for the country that has gone the longest between holding a parliamentary election and forming a government, experts say. The Netherlands had held that unfortunate honor …
Feds OK Tougher Offshore Drilling Regs
Feds OK Tougher Drilling Regs The Washington Post reports: The federal government is adopting a drilling safety rule and a workplace safety rule, imposing stricter requirements on offshore drilling operators, the Interior Department announced Thursday. Energy industry …
Bachmann Raises $3.4M for Quarter
Bachmann Raises $3.4M for Quarter Politico reports: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has raised more than $3.4 million in the third quarter of the year, doubling her haul from the previous quarter, Politico has learned. Exact fundraising numbers will not be available for a …
Dems Kill First Lady's Nutrition Bill
Dems Kill FLOTUS' Nutrition Bill Politico reports: A bloc of progressive House Democrats resisted heavy White House lobbying and an 11th-hour push to broker a compromise on a child nutrition bill, ending chances that the legislation — a pet project of first lady Michelle Obama — …
2012 Hopefuls Not Donating to Tea Party Candidates
2012 Hopefuls Not Donating to Tea Party Candidates The Hill reports: Senate GOP candidates backed by the Tea Party movement have received much less financial support than more established candidates from their party’s leading contenders for the White House. The GOP figures …
Blago's Top Lawyers Want to Quit
Blago's Lead Lawyers Want Out The Chicago Tribune reports: The father-and-son lawyers who tried to turn the summer's blockbuster federal corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich into the courtroom equivalent of a bare-knuckle street brawl officially asked off the case …
York: Can GOP Unknown Beat Barney Frank?
York: Can GOP Unknown Beat Barney Frank? Byron York in the Washington Examiner writes: Sean Bielat, the Republican candidate for Congress in Massachusetts' 4th District, has had just one conversation with his Democratic opponent, Rep. Barney Frank. It was in August, at a …
Failed Talks Could Spur Third Intifada
Mahmoud Abbas is rejecting peace in the hopes of gaining more Israeli concessions later. His misguided strategy though may only help embolden Hamas. That the current negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, which come on the 10 th anniversary of the Second Intifada are likely to fail, …The Lonely Life of a DC Republican
In a town where Republicans number just 29,000 of 444,000 registered voters what, exactly, motivates someone to join the Grand Old Party? My personal voyage from youthful communist empathizer to middle aged, could-be Republican has slowly been taking shape. I’m more inclined towards Rockefeller …Joe Sobran
Joe Sobran has died. A writer of great wit and talent, distorted by terrible prejudices. Joe Sobran has died. A writer of great wit and talent, distorted by terrible prejudices. In life, he did his greatest ill to those who did him most good. May he find a more generous judgement for himself …Post-Katrina: Louisiana Voters Look Past Race
In the years since Katrina, Louisiana has undergone a drastic political change, with voters abandoning racialized, identity politics for cross-racial voting. In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the state of Louisiana has undergone a drastic political change, abandoning racialized, identity …O'Donnell's 2002 Resume Listed Oxford University
O'Donnell's 2002 Resume Listed Oxford University Talking Points Memo reports: One thing we know is true: Christine O'Donnell was a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute in 2002 . The rest, as we've closely chronicled , is all a bit fuzzy. But TPM just spoke with a …
Max Boot: Woodward Offers "No Analysis"
Max Boot: Woodward Offers "No Analysis" Max Boot writes: 'Obama's Wars," Bob Woodward's latest epic of insiderdom, quotes National Security Adviser James Jones telling his deputy, Tom Donilon, that he had made a mistake—"he had never gone to Afghanistan or Iraq, or really left the …