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The AP: Sky is Falling; only Obama can save us

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Two interesting facts regarding the Associated Press: (a) the AP is now charging fees to excerpt even small snippets of articles*; and (b) it has pegged the needle on the bias-o-meter with two of today’s national articles.
• Where’s our can-do psyche? (”Everything Seemingly Is Spinning out of Control”) by Alan Fram and Eileen Putman; [...]

Coburn in the WSJ: $300 billion in annual waste

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) says that Republicans are in denial.
Republicans can tear up the “emergency spending” credit card and refuse to accept any new spending whatsoever, including for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, until Congress does its job of eliminating wasteful spending. The federal budget contains a vast [...]

The roadmap for rebooting the Republican Party

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Think back a few decades.
We, the members of the New Republican Party, believe that the preservation and enhancement of the values that strengthen and protect individual freedom, family life, communities and neighborhoods and the liberty of our beloved nation should be at the heart of any legislative or political program presented to the American people.” [...]