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A Thousand Points of Lightness
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American Spectator, by Jay D. Homnick
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2010 7:37:04 AM
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Milton Berle was at a party in D.C. once and, making conversation over cocktails, he asked a fellow: "Have you heard the latest gag about the White House?" "I beg your pardon," the man sniffed. "I happen to work at the White House." "That's all right," Milty reassured him. "I'll tell it slow." Today's occupants of the alabaster demesne seem hardly swifter.
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NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges
Climate Change Announcement
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The Wall Street Journal, by Louise Radnofsky
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Posted By: SP101_357- 2/9/2010 7:35:08 AM
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As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement. NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to be providing information to individuals and decision-makers through a new NOAA Climate Service office.
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While America Slept
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American Spectator, by Andrew Roberts
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2010 7:35:06 AM
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"I do not think America is going to smash,” Winston Churchill told his American stockbroker in the depths of the Great Depression. “On the contrary I believe that they will quite soon begin to recover…. They carved it out of the prairie and the forests. They are going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.” Churchill’s own belief in the massive regenerative power of the United States
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Albany runs wild amid titillating innuendo
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New York Post, by Frederic U. Dicker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2010 7:31:29 AM
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ALBANY -- The wildest thing about the wild rumors sur rounding Gov. Paterson's supposedly imminent resignation is that everybody in the state Capitol -- indeed everybody in the state political community -- is ready to believe anything about the governor, no matter how bad it is. After a year and a half of Eliot Spitzer and nearly two years of Paterson, New Yorkers have come to expect little from their chief executives --
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President Obama Day 386:
What's happened to him?
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: GaGardener- 2/9/2010 7:31:06 AM
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A favorite story about Chicago politics involves Roman Pucinski, who served six long terms of political apprenticeship in the Washington minor leagues of the U.S. House of Representatives before the Windy City's vaunted Democratic political machine allowed him to step up and serve on the City Council. (Snip) In the last few days at least three major outlets have published well-informed evaluations of Obama's first year in office. All are well worth reading. The dominant
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Dead Stowaway on Delta
Air Flight Spotlights Security
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Bloomberg News, by Mary Jane Credeur
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/9/2010 7:25:03 AM
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A body found in the landing-gear compartment of a Delta Air Lines Inc. jet that flew to Tokyo’s Narita Airport from New York may spur a fresh review of U.S. aviation security. Lack of oxygen or hypothermia may have killed the stowaway, said a police official at Narita, who asked not to be identified because of department policy. (Snip) The case highlights a possible weak spot in the safety crackdown ordered after
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The Secret History of the Birthers
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Daily Beast, by John Avlon
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Posted By: Oblio- 2/9/2010 7:19:40 AM
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The Birthers were back in force at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. WorldNet Daily founder Joseph Farah used his prime-time speaking slot, broadcast on C-Span, to pump up claims that President Obama was not born in the United States—and received enthusiastic applause from the audience. Birther queen Orly Taitz was in the house, making the rounds as a celebrity conspiracy theorist.
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Mitch McConnell's 2010 strategy:
Divide and conquer
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Politico, by Manu Raju
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Posted By: garnet- 2/9/2010 7:17:42 AM
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has settled in on his election-year strategy: Identify issues that unite his caucus but divide the other party, then use them to drive a wedge between the White House and congressional Democrats. At the top of his list: the administration’s handling of terrorism cases. Replicating his pattern of relentless, blistering speeches against President Barack Obama’s health care proposal and his plan to shutter the Guantanamo
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Quote of the Day (So Far!)
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Weekly Standard, by Matthew Continetti
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Posted By: garnet- 2/9/2010 7:02:44 AM
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Arnold Kling: My point here is not to champion Republicans. It is not to champion democracy. My point is that the ones throwing the temper tantrum right now are the Progressives. They think that the 2008 election gave them the right to operate like China's autocracy, and they are lashing out hysterically at those they perceive as preventing them from doing so. On the one hand, the villains are a small minority in the Senate.
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Back to the Drawing Board
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Reason Magazine, by Matt Welch
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Posted By: zoidberg- 2/9/2010 7:02:11 AM
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In just about every speech at their 2008 convention, Democrats promised voters that a change in the White House would, in Barack Obama’s formulation, restore “our moral standing” in the world. Replace the unilateralist cowboy at the top with a humbler multilateralist, and the path would finally be cleared to fix vexing international issues such as curbing carbon emissions and dealing with the mullahs in Iran. Like many of the party faithful’s long-nurtured beliefs
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The McConnell Plan
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: garnet- 2/9/2010 6:52:28 AM
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t claim to have developed an economic stimulus plan of his own. But he does favor a cluster of proposals that, when packaged together, are a simple, sensible program for rejuvenating the economy. I take the liberty of dubbing it the McConnell Plan (without asking the Republican leader’s approval). If enacted, the plan would do a great deal more to boost the economy and increase employment than the “jobs bill”
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A Bronx cheer for the
unemployment rate drop
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New York Post, by John Crudele
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Posted By: colonel53- 2/9/2010 6:04:31 AM
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Whoopee! There was a big drop in the unemployment rate for January.But if you look at the numbers closely the sound you'd hear is more Whoopee Cushion than cheering. According to the official Labor Department numbers, the jobless rate in the US dipped impressively from 10.0 percent in December to 9.7 percent in January.
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The Clinton Voters Jump Ship
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Weekly Standard, by Jonathan V. Last
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Posted By: garnet- 2/9/2010 5:46:02 AM
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The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama’s decline in the polls represents a new, unexpected turn against him. But an examination of the results of the recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts suggests that what we might really be seeing is a return to the skepticism that significant portions of the electorate have showed about Obama from the beginning of his national career.(Snip)The question, then, (Snip) And the answer is: Without enthusiasm.
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Homeland Security Collected Information on
Wisconsin Abortion, Pro-Life Activists
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Associated Press, by Ryan J. Foley
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Posted By: Judy W.- 2/9/2010 5:34:13 AM
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Madison, Wis. - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a threat assessment of local pro- and anti-abortion rights activists before an expected rally last year, even though they did not pose a threat to national security. The DHS destroyed or deleted its copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence-gathering guidelines by collecting and sharing information about "protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security,"
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Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin has
delusions of grandeur if she
thinks she can be President
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N.Y. Daily News, by Mike Lupica - News
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Posted By: DW626- 2/9/2010 5:14:10 AM
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Now Sarah Palin comes right out and says it, that she really is thinking about running for President in 2012. She says it in the same starry-eyed way kids talk about growing up to be astronauts, but actually seems to believe it, that somehow she can go from being this kind of pinup girl for her Tea Party friends to the White House
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The Crooked Judges of Amsterdam
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FrontPage Magazine, by Robert Spencer
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Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- 2/9/2010 5:12:23 AM
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Geert Wilders’s “hate speech” trial in the Netherlands began just a few weeks ago, but the outcome already seems determined. As Robert Spencer discusses in our lead story today, the Amsterdam District Court has refused to allow Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring forward in his defense.
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Poll shows voters abandoning prez in droves
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New York Post, by Geoff Earle
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2010 5:06:32 AM
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama's overall approval rating has sunk to a new low -- and independent voters who propelled him to the White House have gotten downright sick of the job he's doing, according to a devastating poll released yesterday. Obama's job-approval rating has tanked to a dismal 29 percent among independents, the Marist College survey found. His disapproval rating is nearly twice as high -- 57 percent.
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No high hopes for health care summit
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Politico, by Carrie Budoff Brown & Patrick O'Conn
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Posted By: MissMolly- 2/9/2010 5:00:33 AM
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Immediately after President Barack Obama announced a bipartisan health reform summit, Democrats and Republicans made clear they have almost no expectation the half-day meeting can break a bitter yearlong standoff. The two parties are staking out positions that leave them completely at odds even before they sit down. Republicans say they’re open to compromise —
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Keep the hell out: Obama must stop
waffling and move 9/11 terror trial
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New York Daily News, by Editorial
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Posted By: MissMolly- 2/9/2010 4:57:34 AM
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There it was, straight from the top, straight from the mouth of President Obama: The U.S. might bring the masterminds of 9/11 to trial in Manhattan Federal Court after all. Those anonymous White House aides who passed word late last month that the administration had abandoned such folly were, to put the best light on it, premature in assuring that Obama had dropped New York from his plans. Because he hasn't.
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Getting It Backwards
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Weekly Standard, by John Yoo
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2010 4:48:28 AM
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Democratic postmortems on Barack Obama’s disappointing first year in the Oval Office have emphasized, as the president himself did, difficulties inherited from “the last eight years.” Republicans, for their part, credit public opposition to Obama’s overreaching policies. But a full explanation goes much deeper. Obama is failing because he has turned the constitutional functions of the presidency upside down. The 2010 State of the Union address nicely summed up Obama’s topsy-turvy approach to the presidency.
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Rep. Steve Cohen, D, already
chasing Murtha's ambulance
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Washington Examiner [DC], by David Freddoso
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Posted By: StormCnter- 2/9/2010 4:41:12 AM
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In a television interview this afternoon, Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen pronounced judgment on the doctors who were operating on Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., when he died. Cohen, a government attorney before he began his political career, was asked about tort reform in health care when he brought up Murtha's death: "As we speak today, Rep. John Murtha died. And he was my friend, and he served this country for many years...
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