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Breitbart offers $10,000 to Lewis for evidence tea partiers called out...
My story today focuses on the pushback from conservatives who have issued apologies for some far-out behavior by a few activists last weekend. Andrew...
ACORN: Folding but not forgotten
ACORN might be folding, but that’s not enough to convince Sen. David Vitter that the anti-poverty group still won’t find ways to rig the...
WATCH: Biden to Obama on health reform: ‘This is a big...
Well, it just wouldn’t feel like Tuesday unless the vice president dropped an F-bomb into an open mic on live TV. Speaking this morning...
Gingrich walks back civil rights comments
The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping health care...
Twitter fail: Rubio believes half of all doctors would quit Obamacare
Media Matters has debunked the myth that a “New England Journal of Medicine study” found 46 percent of physicians prepared to “leave medicine or...
Government Sachs: Democracy brought to you by Goldman-trained bureaucrats
What do people do at Goldman Sachs all day? They prepare to work at the White House and at the U.S. Treasury Department,...
GOP lawmakers protest ‘government takeover’ of student lending
A group of Republicans this afternoon will meet with reporters to protest the Democrats’ plans to eliminate tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies to private companies that lend to students. The Democrats’ bill would have students borrow directly from the U.S. Treasury, which makes sense to supporters because it’s the Treasury that currently assumes all the risk for those loans anyway — a boon to private companies that assume no risk. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that eliminating the private middleman will save $67 billion over the next decade, most of which will go toward expanding college scholarships to low-income students.
Reducing abortions by expanding health coverage
Last week, Colorado Republicans opposed a bill that would expand health coverage for maternity and contraception partly on the grounds that some contraception terminates...
Plans of attack emerge as Obama considers immigration reform
WASHINGTON-- Pro-immigration reform advocates may be applauding President Obama’s immigration meetings at the White House today, but anti-immigration groups are pushing back hard. The meetings came in advance of a planned March 21 immigration reform rally on the mall and just as several anti-immigration groups have unveiled new campaigns and strategies to obstruct any coming “amnesty” legislation.
Global warming skepticism continues to rise in the U.S.
Americans continue to grow more skeptical of the threat of global warming, with a new Gallup poll showing that nearly half of all Americans...