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U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase

July 8th, 2010  |  Published in News

$166 billion jump spurs concerns over policy
 

By Stephen Dinan
8:36 p.m., Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The nation’s debt leapt $166 billion in a single day last week, the third-largest increase in U.S. history, and it comes at a time when Congress is balking over higher spending and debt has become a key policy battleground.
The one-day increase for [...]

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Why we must be free to fail

July 6th, 2010  |  Published in News

By MICHAEL GOODWIN | New York Post Updated: Tue., Jul. 6, 2010, 2:01 AM
At first glance, the idea that we are losing the freedom to fail sounds like a reason to celebrate. Losing the chance to fail should also mean we’re guaranteed to win, right?
Wrong. Misguided social perfectionists have given failure a bad rap, and [...]

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RESCHEDULED — TeaParty365 Candidates Forum – Baruch Performing Arts Center, Engelman Recital Hall

July 6th, 2010  |  Published in Uncategorized  |  1 Comment

Posted by TeaParty365
TeaParty365 invites all candidates in the five boroughs for NY Assembly and Senate, all candidates for statewide offices, and Congressional and Senatorial offices to our Candidates Forum. This invitation is extended to candidates in all parties. The forum will provide a unique opportunity for candidates to demonstrate to New Yorkers their desire and [...]

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WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer

July 5th, 2010  |  Published in News

Jul. 04, 2010
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
 

As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, “Obama, there you go again.”
The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 — a [...]

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Politics is in the Numbers; Both Sides of the Unemployment Report

July 3rd, 2010  |  Published in News

Posted By Kelly Chernenkoff On July 2, 2010 @ 6:00 pm In White House
The Washington politisphere can look at the very same set of numbers and come up with vastly different conclusions. You can almost set your watch by it. Take, for example, Friday’s unemployment report:
First, the numbers…
The Labor Department announced today that the nation’s [...]

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6,900 6,899 6,898… Paterson Begins a Veto Marathon

July 1st, 2010  |  Published in News

The Senate wants to talk; the governor says: message received
Updated 6:55 PM EDT, Thu, Jul 1, 2010
 
As the Senate sought to negotiate and further delay a late budget to head off 6,900 promised vetoes, Gov. David Paterson rifled through a 2-foot high stack of the Legislature’s budget bills, voiding them at a rate of one [...]

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Weak economic data suggest recovery is fizzling

July 1st, 2010  |  Published in News

Jul 1, 3:58 PM (ET)
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
 
WASHINGTON (AP) – Fears that the economic recovery is fizzling grew Thursday after the government and private sector issued weak reports on a number of fronts.
Unemployment claims are up, home sales are plunging without government incentives and manufacturing growth is slowing.
Meanwhile, 1.3 million people are without federal jobless [...]

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The Two Faces of the Tea Party – Rick Santelli, Glenn Beck, and the future of the populist insurgency.

June 30th, 2010  |  Published in News  |  3 Comments

BY Matthew Continetti | June 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39 | Published on The Weekly Standard
As a student in the exciting new field of Tea Party Studies, I’ve noticed that no one agrees on what the Tea Party actually is. Is the anti-Obama, anti-big government movement simply AstroTurf fabricated by Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks? Is [...]

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Stocks skid on renewed fears of global slowdown

June 29th, 2010  |  Published in News

Stocks and interest rates tumble on fears that recovery will fade; Consumer confidence slumps
Tim Paradis, AP Business Writer, On Tuesday June 29, 2010, 5:58 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — No matter where they look, investors are seeing economic trouble.
Stocks and interest rates plunged Tuesday after signs of slowing economies from China to the U.S. spooked [...]

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The Angry Man – Back and Forth: Carl Paladino

June 29th, 2010  |  Published in News

Andrew J. Hawkins | Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:43:00
Tea Party supporters across the country were thrilled by Rand Paul’s crushing victory in the Kentucky Senate Republican primary in late May. And none more so than Carl Paladino, the Buffalo businessman running an outsider campaign for governor this year.
Paladino got off to a stuttering start, though, [...]

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