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Unemployment stays at 9.6%
Private-sector jobs up 159,000. Although the jobless rate remained the same in October 2010 at 9.6% as the previous month, the private sector added 159,000 jobs in the best month for the US since...
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Stimulus follies: $535 million down the drain in California in “green jobs”
Incompetence. The Obama administration made Solyndra, a solar-power manufacturing company, a symbol of its “green jobs” push in the Porkulus program. Barack Obama himself toured the factory, as did...
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Did Olbermann violate NBC ethics code by contributing to Democrats?; Update:...
Is this really a big deal? Would it shock anyone to know that Keith Olbermann donated thousands of dollars to three Democrats in the midterms? Two House incumbents from Arizona and Jack Conway, the...
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EPA official who pushed CO2 regulation resigns
Fallout? In the wake of historic midterm losses, people wondered whether Barack Obama would be willing or even able to execute a shift to the center and work with Republicans in the House to find areas...
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Boehner: We’ll make sure ObamaCare “never, ever, ever is implemented”
"Lots of tricks up our sleeves." How much time will Republicans spend on stopping ObamaCare? “As much as it takes,” John Boehner commits during his one-on-one interview with Fox’s Bret Baier. In this...
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Dem pollster: What Obama really needs is an Oklahoma City moment
Excessive punditry, not a wag-the-dog wish. Occasionally, political pundits get so wrapped up in their analysis that they don’t think through all of the implications of their commentary. That happened...
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Bush says he won’t criticize Obama
Obama hardest hit. George W. Bush has come out of his self-imposed media blackout to promote his new book, Decision Points, which goes into full release on November 9th. Oprah Winfrey will air a...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson & the Week in Review
3 pm ET, 90 mins! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will cover the results of the...
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Obama WH finds culprit for midterm debacle
While others blame The One. In the corporate world, fixing blame is an art form, and the usual strategy is Pin the Tail on the Gone Guy. Anything that goes wrong in the weeks following the departure...
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Ryan endorses Hensarling over Bachmann for leadership post
Palin won't endorse Bachmann? It didn’t take long for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s decision to run for Conference Chair in the House Republican caucus to get a reaction from her colleagues. Caucus veterans...
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For NEA, It Could Have Been Worse… But Not Much Worse
A teaching moment. Not to belabor the obvious, but a bad day for the Democrats is a bad day for the National Education Association’s political operations. NEA spent money on safe incumbents, so its...
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Obama suddenly warming to natural-gas exploration?
What a coincidence. Maybe Barack Obama left the country after the midterms to distance himself from … himself. In the latest move to position himself to the center, Obama has expressed a curious and...
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Celebration day: Pelosi running for minority leader; Update: Photo of the day...
Message unreceived. We didn’t get to spray the champagne on Tuesday because, after all, the results weren’t about us. As everyone from Mitch McConnell and John Boehner on down recognizes, the election...
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TV Newser: “Insiders” say Olbermann won’t be back
Heart-ache. Nothing concrete, but scratching an ego this fragile might well cause it to crack and fall apart. Olbermann, who signed a four-year, $30 million contract extension in Nov. 2008, has left...
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Good news: Mrs. Bill Ayers helpfully identifies who the real terrorists are
Nuance. As it turns out, it’s … the Obama administration, I guess. And of course the wingnuts who bring guns to tea-party rallies but never actually hurt anyone. Not on the list, natch: Flower children...
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Matthews: Isn’t it kind of racist to worry about the cost of Obama’s India trip?
Okay then. Is that what the kerfuffle about his India trip was all about? I thought it was the fact that, hot on the heels of Mrs. O’s Spanish getaway and in the midst of what Obama himself frequently...
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Bob Kerrey: Hey, let’s hire someone to run the government for Obama
COO. Why not? Zeus would clearly rather be out doing the stuff he’s good at, like campaigning or playing golf or cooking up increasingly complex metaphors involving cars and Slurpees to explain the...
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Obama: I’m thinking maybe my problem is poor messaging
Think harder. I was all set to lay into him for this, the thousandth repetition of the left’s unified field theory that all their problems boil down to salesmanship, but now that the House caucus has...
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Glenn Beck: Remember when Olbermann said that he doesn’t vote lest he appear...
Nuance. I feel guilty about kinda sorta defending Olby earlier, so here’s my bid to atone. One footnote to the previous post: He’s not the only cable news host to drop a little coin on political...
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Democrats wonder: Could retaining the most toxic figure in American politics...
Hmmmmmmmm. Answering that question correctly is roughly as difficult as solving a Scooby Doo mystery, and yet … they’re not going to solve this one, are they? It’s the equivalent of Shaggy, Scoob, and...
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