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Tea Party Movement Loses Steam

By | 07.03.09 | 6:00 am

While South Carolina’s political establishment wrestles with the fate of Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), Ron Parks has already moved on. He’s one of the organizers of a July 4 Tea Party in Charleston, a rally that will celebrate America and protest the way that President Barack Obama is governing it. More…

Obama Tells the Muslim World That ‘Mutual Respect’ Really Does Have to Be Mutual

By | 06.04.09 | 8:56 am

There’s so much to say about President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today. But for now, I want to focus on the aspects of it that conservatives insisted wouldn’t exist. Sean Hannity, for one, blasted the exercise yesterday as an “apology tour,” and while the facts of the More…

Europe: Still Smelly

By | 04.07.09 | 12:27 pm

Rasmussen Reports gins up the “does President Obama hate America and love Europe” controversy — which doesn’t seem to be, er, denting Obama’s improving poll numbers — by asking whether Americans think they’ve been too arrogant with Europe. Surprise!

Thirty-seven percent of American voters agree that in

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Blaming Obama for the Dow

By | 03.03.09 | 2:34 pm

The Republican National Committee emails reporters President Obama’s comment that “the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics” and that people should fret about it. The RNC writes:

Please note President Obama’s comments at today’s media avail that he is not spending much time “worrying about

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The Rest of the CPAC Straw Poll

By | 03.02.09 | 10:46 am

The headline was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 20 percent plurality in the presidential preference question, but I think the rest of the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll was rather more interesting. Here were CPAC attendees choices for “favorite conservative media personality.”

Rush Limbaugh – 26 percent
Glenn

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