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Upset? Christine O’Donnell is trailing Rep. Mike Castle by only 2% among voters most likely to turnout in the Delaware Senate GOP primary, according to a Tea Party Express poll. The poll, obtained by...
View ArticlePrayers for the Rubio family
RIP, Mario Rubio, Marco's father. This came through a little while ago from the Rubio campaign, via Val Prieto: Surrounded by family and loved ones, Marco Rubio’s father, Mario Rubio, passed away...
View ArticlePoll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
A Plastered Poppins by any other name ... It”s time once again for the Obamateurism of the Week, in which we help Barack Obama take credit for his, er, accomplishments. After all, we don’t want to...
View ArticlePaul up 15 in new Survey USA poll
Into the turn. Let’s put this in Kentucky Derby terms. Democrats backed the best frontrunner they had and hoped Jack Conway would take the inside track against newcomer Rand Paul. However,...
View ArticleNFL final preseason week: Open thread
Opener on Thursday. The most wonderful season of the year has finally arrived, and no, it’s not the election season or Back To School, either. The NFL opens its season on Thursday, when Brett Favre...
View ArticleIran paying Taliban $1000 per American soldier killed?
Bounty hunter. This story can’t possibly be true. After all, as we all know, the Shi’ite theocracy in Iran would never support a Sunni organization like the Taliban or al-Qaeda, or vice-versa … right?...
View ArticleFor Glenn Beck, his own Cross of Gold
Responsibility. Standing before the Democratic National Convention in 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered what would be the most important speech of his life. For years he’d argued that American...
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Panic. As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim...
View ArticleDid Obama WH use the wrong seal for Oval Office rug?
Not really. Last week, we noted that the White House didn’t do very good research on one of the quotes woven into the new Oval Office rug, attributing it to Martin Luther King, Jr, instead of Theodore...
View ArticleObama to propose $50 billion in infrastructure spending for stimulus
Porkulus II: The Next Flop. What happens when over a hundred billion dollars in borrowed cash gets plunged into infrastructure spending and it fails to kick-start the economy? According to this...
View ArticleGOP gains in generic Congressional ballot with CNN, Rasmussen
Don't choke. As if Democrats didn’t have enough trouble in this midterm cycle, it appears now that Republicans have actually picked up more momentum heading into the general election. As candidates...
View ArticleShocker: Democratic donors from 2008 going GOP in 2010
Including ... Tony Podesta? No, it’s no shocker that Democrats have big problems in fundraising after their record from the past two years. It’s not even a shocker that Wall Street donors have shifted...
View ArticlePraise With Faint Damning
Trade-off. In a Friday night post, Allahpundit followed up a dose of pure rotgut Alan Grayson insanity with a little milk of magnesia from the Atlantic Wire. It seems “many liberals” are “rejecting”...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
Consistency. When the latest jobless report came out on Friday, Barack Obama decided he had to talk about it right away — especially since he’s been on vacation for the previous several weeks and...
View ArticleWaPo/ABC poll puts GOP up by 13 in generic Congressional ballot
Obama at 46/52. Whenever a new Washington Post/ABC poll gets released, I’m a bit like a kid on Christmas morning: I can’t wait to unwrap it. Well, all right, I’m usually more like a really cynical kid...
View ArticleWSJ/NBC poll has GOP riding the wave of Wreckovery Summer
Gnarly, dude. As if the Post/ABC poll didn’t deliver enough bad news to Democrats this morning, the usually sympathetic WSJ/NBC poll hits them again, and hard. Barack Obama’s approval level has fallen...
View ArticleSolis: Jobs are out there ….
It's your fault you're unemployed. I missed this over the weekend, but it’s too good to let slide. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis wrote an essay for USA Today in which to defend the Obama...
View ArticleWill midterm loss send Obama in regulatory direction?
Power of the purse. The polls this morning show the Democrats in danger of losing the House and possibly the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. How will Barack Obama govern? Will he emulate...
View ArticleICE considering changing catch-and-release to just … release
Law nonenforcement. Why not? The Obama administration has made their disinterest in pursuing prosecution for illegal immigration known well enough by now. Why not have ICE just instruct law...
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