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StimuLESS

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

From the tenthamendmentcenter.com: Ray LaHood as Santa Claus 05. Mar, 2010 Written by: Tad DeHaven U.S. News & World Report’s columnist Paul Bedard reports that Transportation secretary Ray LaHood told him that it’s fun playing Santa Claus to states and cities around the nation. So let’s take a look at some recent examples of DOT gift-giving with federal taxpayers’ money: DOT’s [...]

Tricky Harry

Monday, March 8, 2010

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From biggovernment.com: Reconciliation Is a Deceptive Distraction from the True Intentions by SusanAnne Hiller Building on a previous post exposing that Harry Reid took the existing House-passed bill, H.R. 3590, entitled the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 and replaced the existing bill language, via an amendment, with the Senate’s version of the healthcare bill–creating [...]

Bunning Explained

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Jeffrey Jena of Big Government.com gives a bit of insight into the No vote by Senator Bunning on the unemployment extension bill. He was the lone Senator to vote against the measure but because of provisions within the bill, his no vote was enough to derail the bill. Much has been made of Bunning playing [...]

Nuclear Option Might Have a Chance

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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Many observers have felt that the Nuclear Option in the Senate would never fly as too many Democrats in the Senate would be fearful of the backlash in the next election. Robert Costa, from National Review Online’s Corner, explores another idea; that they have already given up on satisfying their constituents. Dems to Ryan: ‘Get Ready, [...]

Attempted Suicide

Wed, Mar 3, 2010

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The National Review Online’s Jim Geraghty writes in today’s Campaign Spot of the consequences to House Democrats willing to press forward on the passage of President Obama’s socialized health care bill. He equates a “Yea” vote to political suicide. All indicators from the voting populations across this great country would indicate he is very close [...]

Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?

Tue, Mar 2, 2010

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Not since the Great Depression have Americans taken more from the “system” than they paid in; until now. The Washington Times has published a story outlining the growing dependency on the Federal Government by the American people. A society of people dependent on a larger centralized government is not a free society. The Senate is currently [...]

Aw Schucks

Mon, Mar 1, 2010

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THE Al Gore finally crawled out from beneath the rock of obscurity to profess the trivial nature of Climategate. The former VP has written an Op/Ed piece for the most sympathetic of major circulars in America, The New York Times. His new assertion is that “the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands [...]