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NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/
The National Tea Party Federation today flatly rejected the NAACP’s unfounded accusations that condemn “racist elements” in the Tea Party movement.
Tea Party and citizen group leaders from across the nation came together to respond to the outrageous and untrue accusations promoted by the NAACP and their political allies on the Left.
The [...]

By ANDY BARR | 7/14/10 1:11 PM EDT
 

Some African-American tea party candidates are displeased by a resolution that the NAACP approved on Tuesday calling the grass-roots conservative movement “racist.”
“I have not experienced the charges of racism that the NAACP is touting,” Vernon Parker, an African-American tea party congressional candidate in Arizona, told POLITICO.
Parker, former mayor of [...]

By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 14, 2010; A04

One thing is clear as the NAACP gathers this week for its 101st annual meeting: The civil rights organization is intent on being seen as still relevant.
Even former Alaska governor Sarah Palin sent out a Twitter message about the group Tuesday, helping to make the NAACP [...]

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jul 13, 7:28 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Republicans in the Senate are backing a plan to shave $20 billion from President Barack Obama’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
The cuts amount to about a 2 percent trim from the $1.13 trillion requested by Obama for agency budgets [...]

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 12, 2010; A02

BOSTON — The co-chairmen of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation’s fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer “that will destroy the country from within” unless checked by tough action in Washington.
The two leaders — former [...]

Politico | By: Abby Phillip | July 10, 2010 05:38 PM EDT
For many liberals, it is the summer of their discontent.
Already disappointed with President Barack Obama’s ability to deliver on campaign promises, they now contemplate a slowing economic recovery and a good chance of Republican gains in November. Such developments would make enacting Obama’s agenda [...]

by John Avlon | July 8, 2010 | 10:57pm
More than 80 days after the BP oil spill, John Avlon dissects the political idiocy that prevents a coherent energy policy. Plus, the 13 politicians who keep us addicted to crude.
With the BP oil leak passing its 80th day and tar balls washing up on every Gulf [...]

BY Fred Barnes | July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41
For Republicans, the Road Map authored by congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. It’s not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, it’s also [...]

Reuters | 10 Jul 2010 | 12:02 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy will lose steam as the year progresses but will not slide back into recession, even though unemployment is unlikely to fall significantly, according to a survey released on Saturday.
The Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey of private forecasters found analysts increasingly glum [...]

By Walter Alarkon – 07/08/10 10:46 AM ET
 

The federal deficit in June surpassed the $1 trillion mark for the second straight year, but it’s on pace to be slightly lower than last year.
The deficit was $1.005 trillion at the end of June for fiscal year 2010, which is $81 billion less than it was after [...]