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VFW endorses … Senator Ma’am?
Really? The VFW has a history of tilting towards liberals, but this seems rather stunning. Barbara Boxer, who dressed down a general in a Senate hearing for calling her “ma’am,” won the endorsement of...
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Ayotte up 7 on Hodes in NH
A Granite State hold? With a unified Republican Party behind her and facing a dispirited Democratic opposition, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte remains on pace to beat Rep. Paul Hodes to succeed the...
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Schakowsky explains Constitutional basis of ObamaCare
Or, rather, doesn't. At least Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) gives it a few tries. First she argued “If we can build national highways,” but Adam Sharp noted that the Constitution does include the...
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Much-hyped GM hybrid even more lemony than thought
Not quite. Remember the promise of 230 miles per gallon and an all-electric drivetrain? Not so much, not so much: First of all, let’s talk about fuel economy. In August of last year, we heard GM’s...
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George Soros: I’m not getting in the way of this Republican avalanche
Abandon ship. The first rule of investing: Don’t put money into a company that’s about to crash. “I made an exception getting involved in 2004,” Mr. Soros, 80, said in a brief interview Friday at a...
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Crisis averted: Man who threw book at Obama was “overexuberant” supporter
Free press. Thank goodness. When I heard about it, I feared that an angry, violent, Obama-hating ultraconservative was responsible. Which is to say, I thought maybe Joe Manchin had done it. Alternate...
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Video: The grimmest “Simpsons” title sequence ever
Aw. To cleanse the palate, the media kerfuffle du jour. Seriously now — is this really that controversial? It’s shocking the first time you watch it simply because it’s so different in tone from the...
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Smearmania: Biden, Axelrod, Tim Kaine still pushing attacks on Chamber of...
Noise. They’re really going all out, huh? Let’s start with Axelrod, just because Tapper ingeniously managed to turn Chamber-gate into a question about … Obama’s birth certificate. If we can’t trust...
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It’s on: Sean Bielat vs. Barney Frank
Debate. More than any other race this year, this one reminds me of the quixotic conservative campaigns against Murtha in 2006 and 2008. That is to say, I’m 98 percent sure we’ll end up having our...
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Dem leaders cut ad funding for three more lost causes in the House
Concessions. Nate Silver noted yesterday that the number of competitive House seats this year is fully double the usual number (and remember, the last two cycles were wave elections in their own...
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WaPo study: Plurality says that Obama’s policies have made economy better
Dude. The most depressing data point from a depressing data set. A new study by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University shows that most Americans who say they...
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Quotes of the day
Values. “‘I unequivocally support gay rights. Unequivocally,’ said Paladino, clutching an American flag and marching up Fifth Avenue in New York’s annual Columbus Day Parade. But Paladino repeated his...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Consolation prize. Thanks to the policies of Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress, the party in power may stand at the threshold of a midterm cycle not seen since 1948, or perhaps even 1894. The...
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Exclusive: Ed Koch endorsing George Phillips in NY-22 race
Boom. Yesterday, Maurice Hinchey had to get Bill Clinton out to Binghamton to try to rescue his re-election bid and save his House seat. Today, Republican challenger George Phillips trumps Hinchey...
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Generic Congressional ballots at Rasmussen, Gallup show wide GOP advantage
Comeback? With three weeks to go before the midterms, both Rasmussen and Gallup have their final peek at the composition of the likely voters that will decide who goes to the 112th Congress, and …...
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New DNC ad doubles down on “McCarthyism”
Fear is all they have left. That verdict doesn’t come from me, at least not this time. David Zurawik, the media critic for the Baltimore Sun and not exactly a man sympathetic to conservatism, blasts...
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Dayton on the run again after legal settlement that put US taxpayers on the hook
Six year anniversary. Mark Dayton finds himself on the run again, six years to the day after he skedaddled out of Washington DC because of a security briefing just before the 2004 elections. This...
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VFW battles VFW PAC over endorsements
Burned. Yesterday, the political world scratched its head over the endorsement of Barbara Boxer — “Senator Ma’am” — by the VFW’s political action committee. It turns out that veterans weren’t very...
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Remember The Cole: 10 Years
Remembrance. 10 years ago today, two Al Qaeda terrorists pulled alongside the USS Cole during a routine refueling in Aden, Yemen and detonated a suicide bomb. It was the deadliest attack on a United...
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Report: Sink authorized convicted felons to sell insurance in Florida
Oops. In a debate yesterday in Florida with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink, Republican Rick Scott surprised Sink with a demand to explain why Sink approved applications for insurance...
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