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The Slaughter on the Southern Border 3.16.10

Michelle Malkin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:37:30 +0000

At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a “top priority.” How’s that hope and change working out? Drug-related crime is out of control, the State Department is warning spring-break vacationers to avoid the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, and the bloodshed has now reached the U.S. consulate’s office.

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Time To Get A Grip On The Third Rail 3.15.10

Investor's Business Daily — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:04:39 +0000

Unlimited Liability: While the Democratic leadership is trying to force a health care entitlement on a country that doesn’t want it, the mother of all entitlements is in the red. Get used to it. It’s only going to get worse.

While it doesn’t have the voltage it once did, Social Security is still the third rail of politics. Politicians are afraid to touch it out of fear of damaging their careers.

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With ban, GOP calls duel on earmarks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:08 +0000

In a move to break with the GOP’s big-spending past, House Republicans voted Thursday to ban their members this year from requesting earmarks, the pork-barrel spending that directs money to pet projects in home districts. The Republicans, who passed the moratorium by voice vote in a closed-door meeting, said they have now put pressure on the rest of Congress – Republicans in the Senate, and Democrats in both chambers – to follow their lead. “Today, House Republicans took an important step toward showing the American people we’re serious about reform by adopting an immediate, unilateral ban on all earmarks,” said …

Obama now hamstrung on Israeli settlements

THE WASHINGTON TIMES — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

A year ago, President Obama boldly, unequivocally demanded that Israel stop building settlements on the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Today he’s left with little choice but to swallow a stinging and public rebuke from America’s closest Middle East ally. Why? Too much is at stake. The administration has invested too much time, credibility and political capital to throw up its hands and walk away from its hard-fought efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks. An open fight with Israel is the last thing Mr. Obama needs in the midst of domestic political turmoil that has …

Some Democrats pass on Obama rally

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:05 +0000

The Show Me State temporarily became the No-Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they’d rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to push his massive health care overhaul plan. Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, was “already locked in” to meetings in Washington, D.C., on Wall Street financial reforms, said her spokesman, Linden Zakula, who downplayed her absence for Mr. Obama’s visit to St. Charles, just outside St. Louis. “Yes, she could have been there, but she feels …

GOP senators wage war on reconciliation

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:04 +0000

Senate Republicans say they uniformly will oppose all procedural votes on President Obama’s health care overhaul plan – even if they agree with the underlying policy changes – hoping to send a message Wednesday to House Democrats that reconciliation won’t be easy. Democrats, meanwhile, are considering adding student-loan reforms to the health bill, a move that could make reconciliation even more complicated. All 41 Senate Republicans signed on to a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid promising to protest use of the filibuster-busting reconciliation process by opposing every effort to improve the measure, even if they agree with the policy …

BEACH: Relying on government coming to tipping point

The Washington Times stories: National — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:01 +0000

ANALYSIS/OPINION: While conservatives and liberals keep score on who’s winning or losing the latest debate over the size and scope of government, America steadily approaches a tipping point. Our economy will be dramatically less free when we reach that point, our people ever more dependent on government for the basic necessities of life. Anyone willing to look can see the disturbing evidence in the fallout from national policies. In January, the annual Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal revealed the bad fruit of decisions by the Bush and Obama administrations. American economic …

DUIN: Proselytism ‘on the table’

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Is proselytizing an international human right? Does everyone have a right to spread his religion to others? The 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights not only allows believers to publicly “manifest” their religious beliefs but also guarantees a “freedom to change” those beliefs. Or is proselytizing “identity theft,” coaxing the unwary to give up their faith? Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs had a conference on this last week, with speakers ranging from Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention to Salam Al-Marayati of the Muslim Political Action Committee mixed in with pentecostals and Mormons. Unfortunately, …

McDonnell counters Va. atty. gen.’s words on gays

THE WASHINGTON TIMES — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:52:37 +0000

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people, essentially overriding the state attorney general’s advice to colleges. McDonnell’s directive Wednesday came amid a public uproar over Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli’s letter last week telling public colleges they lack the authority to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Cuccinelli told colleges to rescind or change any anti-discrimination policies that include protection for gay people. The Republican attorney general’s letter was denounced by gay-rights groups and Democrats. In the letter, Cuccinelli said colleges can’t include gays in their anti-discrimination policies without General …

CURL: Massa defends himself on Beck

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:07 +0000

Embattled former Rep. Eric Massa sat down for his much-anticipated Fox News interview Tuesday night and deployed the tickle defense. No. Really. Asked by Glenn Beck whether he had inappropriate sexual contact with any staff members, the New York Democrat said, “No – no, no, no.” But asked minutes later about a new report that said he has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, the 24-year Navy veteran scoffed. “Now they’re saying I groped a male staffer. Yeah, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he …