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The Underworked
Public Employee
Wall Street Journal, by Andrew G. Biggs and Jason Richwine
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 12/4/2012 8:06:38 PM
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| With state and local governments struggling to balance budgets in a still sluggish economy, government employment has fallen by 562,000 jobs since September 2008, a decline of 2.6%. In response, the Obama administration has called for more federal aid—on top of the $250 billion doled out in the 2009 Recovery Act—to help keep state and local government payrolls near prerecession levels. But supporters of more federal aid implicitly assume that the size of the public sector was optimal before the recession. On the contrary, overstaffing is a serious problem in government, and the best evidence
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 12/4/2012 8:13:23 PM (No. 9048802)
But over paid!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
provide, 12/4/2012 8:23:06 PM (No. 9048810)
With the Rats in charge, the public employee numbers will swell like the Tammany Hall voter rolls.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley, 12/4/2012 8:35:38 PM (No. 9048818)
More serious than overstaffing is gross ineptitude and laziness, neither one of which is reason enough to fire someone.
The feds hire based on several criteria, such as race, sex, disability, veterans points, and previous federal employment. Somewhere way down the list is qualifications.
Find a way to get rid of the dead weight and things will improve immediately.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 12/4/2012 9:02:11 PM (No. 9048848)
It is my opinion based on observation and common sense that at least 50 percent of government employees are "non-essential". Maybe even more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Axeman, 12/4/2012 9:43:31 PM (No. 9048922)
How much does a job help GDP revenue? Like a person, regardless of their wage, is one of ten employees at a place that did 10 million in business, 1 mil per employee. Most gov´t runs in the minus column. I know it´s not a totally a fair comparison but it does show what needs to be balanced.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/4/2012 11:48:01 PM (No. 9049106)
Judging from the DMV and the Court house for jury duty I would say that the wrong people are employed at to high of pay and with pensions the rest of us don´t have plus it must be mind numbing to work at some of those jobs.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/5/2012 12:24:00 AM (No. 9049152)
This waste has gone on for years. Several decades ago I had to hand deliver some paperwork to a government office. It was winter and the" office " was actually two desks in a corner of an otherwise empty airplane hanger. All of the lights were on and it was comfortably warm inside. Obviously money was no object.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/5/2012 4:07:50 AM (No. 9049254)
I´d say 38.4 hours is grossly underestimated. It doesn´t count all the time wasted on socializing and parties.
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What Were Mrs.Clinton´s
Foreign Policy Successes?
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 7:12:45 AM
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RUSH: Let me start with a couple things here. The nuclear threat. The little dictator in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that Iran has gone nuclear. Whether it has or not, nobody knows, but he´s saying that Iran has gone nuclear. Ahmadinejad has ordered officials to speedily start five more nuclear reactors, so it looks like we better try to talk them into a sequester, too. Sequesters seem to be more effective than any sanctions have been.
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Guns: The Left´s True Aim,
and How to Thwart It
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American Thinker, by Lewis Dovland
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:55:47 AM
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We must not lose focus on the end goal of progressives regarding guns. Make no mistake; regardless of what they say, their ultimate goal is confiscation of all guns in America. And a "universal background check" will get them closer to this nirvana than the banning of a few selected weapons ever could. To understand progressive methodology, let´s use another similar issue: the gay marriage agenda. Say the current definition of "marriage" as it has been for thousands of years is represented by "A" on a
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Where´s the Progress in Progressivism?
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American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:51:02 AM
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As we know from the climate change farce, progressives are never deterred by reality´s refusal to fall in line with the theories they use to justify their authoritarian advances. This obstinacy reveals the extent to which, contrary to honest reasoning, their political agenda determines their theoretical framework, rather than vice versa. Nowhere is this more evident than with regard to the most fundamental premise of progressivism itself, namely the repeatedly falsified mythology of "progress." The propensity for what we may call pseudo-theorizing has been at the heart of progressivism from the start.
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Why the United States
is a Dying Country
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American Thinker, by Steve McCann
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:44:52 AM
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Recently Rush Limbaugh opined that the United States is a dying country. For many years that reality has been painfully obvious to those of us who immigrated to the United States having experienced first-hand the suffering inherent in the near total destruction of a nation which inevitably occurs as the end-product of immorality, despotism and radical ideology. This nation is repeating the disastrous evolutionary process that has plagued so many failed nations throughout mankind´s history. This process begins with a society willing to reject the fundamental concept that is necessary for any nation to thrive
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Barack Obama Couldn´t Care
Less about Dead Children
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American Thinker, by Jeannie DeAngelis
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:40:13 AM
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President Barack Obama is firmly committed to pushing an anti-gun agenda. He´s so steadfast in his conviction that he was willing to fly, on his $180K per hour magic carpet, the families of the children and school workers that perished in Newtown, Connecticut all the way to Washington DC. After breakfast, Sandy Hook family members participated in a mini anti-gun-violence, sympathy-fueled arm-twisting session where, in an effort to persuade reluctant senators to sway his way on the issue of gun control, the grieving were exploited.
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Outraged Liberals Say Obama Is
About To Screw Over The Very
People Who Got Him Elected
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Business Insider, by Grace Wyler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 6:35:42 AM
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Liberals descended on Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday to protest President Barack Obama´s decision to include entitlement cuts in his upcoming budget, delivering 2 million petitions demanding the White House back off its support for the chained CPI. As we reported this weekend, liberals have been seething over the inclusion of the chained CPI in Obama´s budget, which they see as a huge betrayal by the Democratic president. This week, progressive groups, including MoveOn, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America, have mounted "emergency" online campaigns against the proposal, accusing Obama of
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The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy
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Wall Street Journal, by Andy Kessler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 8:02:09 PM
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It has been said that an actuary is someone who really wanted to be an accountant but didn´t have the personality for it. See who´s laughing now. Things are starting to get very interesting, actuarially-speaking. Federal bankruptcy judge Christopher Klein ruled on April 1 that Stockton, Calif., can file for bankruptcy via Chapter 9 (Chapter 11´s ugly cousin). The ruling may start the actuarial dominoes falling across the country, because Stockton´s predicament stems from financial assumptions that are hardly restricted to one improvident California municipality.
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The GOP´s Gun Control Misfire
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:57:30 PM
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´This is about these families and families all across the country who are saying, ´Let´s make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down,´" President Obama declared Monday, in unusually demagogic remarks even by his standards. He added, "What´s more important to you: our children, or an A-grade from the gun lobby?" Mr. Obama is lapsing into such crude appeals—support his gun-control agenda or suborn mass child murder—because he knows his real problems aren´t the gun lobby. They´re members of his own party who answer to law-abiding voters who support Second Amendment rights.
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Syrian militant group
unites with al-Qaida in Iraq
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Associated Press, by Ryan Lucas
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:22:44 PM
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BEIRUT -- Al-Qaida´s branch in Iraq and the most powerful rebel extremist group in Syria have officially joined ranks against President Bashar Assad to forge a potentially formidable militant force in the Middle East. The merger of the Islamic State in Iraq and Jabhat al-Nusra forms a new entity that could be an even stronger opponent in the fight to topple Assad and become a dominant player in what eventually replaces his regime. The new group, called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, underscores the growing confidence and muscle of Islamist radicals fighting on the rebel side
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It Takes A Village Idiot To
Say Kids Belong To State
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:19:54 PM
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Family: An MSNBC contributor revisits the statist notion that while you gave birth to your children and feed and clothe them, they are only on loan to you by their true parent — a benevolent and all-knowing government. Melissa Harris-Perry, an African-American professor at Tulane, has endorsed the concept of human ownership by the state, something we thought history would teach her is a bad thing, saying in a promo for MSNBC that "we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their
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Air Force One Becomes
Politicized Gun Control Tool
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:14:23 PM
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Corruption: Flying Newtown victims´ families on Air Force One to lobby Congress is an obvious abuse of presidential power. Can Republicans now give Fast and Furious victims´ families taxpayer-funded flights to Washington? Saul Alinsky disciple President Obama knows well that lies are often an indispensable tool. Breitbart´s A.W.R. Hawkins last week noted that in his book "Rules For Radicals," Chicago´s Marxist father of community organizing wrote of refraining from destroying a politician by revealing embarrassing facts of his private life. "But just when his followers thought there might be something noble about the radical," Hawkins pointed out, "Alinsky instructed them:
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Obama Yearns To Have The
Absolute Power Of A King
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/9/2013 7:06:17 PM
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Imperial Presidency: Rather than celebrate our country´s unique heritage of limited government, the president complains that he´s constrained by the Founders. Here´s a man hungry for raw power. Just so that we won´t be accused of taking his comments out of context, here they are: "The government is us," President Obama said Wednesday in Denver. "These officials are elected by you. ... I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It´s a government of and by and for the people."
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The most shocking news
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/9/2013 11:49:09 AM
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Obama says he´s ´determined
as ever´ for gun bill
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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White House: Planned GOP
gun filibuster cowardly
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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´Mickey Mouse Club´ star
Annette Funicello dies at 70
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Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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Why Is White House
Stonewalling on Benghazi
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Rep, Dana Rohrbacher
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 7:13:10 PM
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More than six months since Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated by terrorists in Benghazi, the Obama administration is still trying to keep a lid on information about the attack. Congress and the American people need to know what happened the night of Sept. 11, 2012. Who did the killing and what was their motive? Why wasn´t help sent? And why did the administration lie about who was responsible? Members of Congress have asked hundreds of questions at hearings conducted by several investigative committees, but many of the most significant have been left unanswered. Information detailing what happened before, during and
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Joe Scarborough: Republicans
that filibuster gun control ´put
rapists´ rights over parents´ rights´
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: sparky86- 4/8/2013 11:05:50 AM
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On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough voiced his agreement with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS questioned those Republicans who are threatening a filibuster on pending gun control legislation. Scarborough said such a filibuster would be an example of the GOP putting “rapists’ rights ahead over parents’ rights.” “[I] tell you what, Richard Haass, I saw John McCain there,” Scarborough said. “And I’m hopeful. Because, you know, there are a lot of guys out there in the Senate and they are going out because it’s a free shot.
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The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher
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Wall Street Journal, by Paul Johnson
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 8:21:53 PM
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Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. "Thatcherism" was the most popular and successful way of running a country in the last quarter of the 20th century and into the 21st. Her origins were humble. Born Oct. 13, 1925, she was the daughter of a grocer in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham. Alfred Roberts was no ordinary shopkeeper.
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Poll: Obama underwater on
guns, immigration, deficit
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Politico, by Donovan Slack
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 10:17:29 PM
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A new CNN/ORC International poll found President Obama´s overall approval rating has ticked up to 51 percent but ratings have fallen on his handling of the key issues on his agenda: immigration, guns, and the deficit. On immigration, 44 percent approve of the way he is handling the issue, down from 51 percent in January. At the same time, disapproval has jumped to 50 percent, up from 43 percent in January. On guns, 45 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove, the poll found. In January, 46 percent approved and 49 percent dispproved. And on the deficit, 38 percent approve
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Obama Responded Faster to Ebert´s
Death Than He Has to Thatcher´s
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Cybercast News Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 4/8/2013 10:49:04 AM
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Update: The White House issued a statement on Margaret Thatcher´s death shortly after 10 a.m., hours after the news broke. The entire statement is printed at the end of this report: (CNSNews.com) - Hours after the BBC reported the death of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Monday, President Barack Obama still had not issued a statement on her passing. But last week, within half an hour of film critic Roger Ebert´s death, the White House tweeted a statement from the president. As of 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, there was still silence from the White House on Thatcher´s death,
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