For the first time, The U.S. military is creating a joint military base. The first one is in New Jersey.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger heartily endorsed the recommendation of his tax commission to overhaul California’s tax system. The recommendations included flattening the personal income tax, repealing sales and corporate taxes, but tax a wider range of businesses [...]

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Some of this anti-Obama stuff is going too far. I understand that abortion opponents see it as a critical issue, but  Rep. Trent Franks calling the President an “enemy of humanity” leaves no wiggle room for a meaningful compromise and solution.

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Meg Whitman, a Republican candidate for California governor and former eBay CEO, has come clean on her voting record.
After the Sacramento Bee reported that she only became a Republican in 2007 and could not find any evidence of her voting prior to 2002, Whitman was shamed into making a confession.
“I was focused on raising a [...]

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Here is a politician with a sense of humor. We could use more of them.
Conan O’Brien joked that the mayor of Newark was setting up a program to improve health care for its residents. “The health care program would consist a bus ticket out of Newark,” O’Brien said.
This is Mayor Cory Booker’s response.

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The Vatican wants the world to know that it need not worry about the sexual abuse that has rocked the Catholic Church over the last few years.
In a statement read by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, Vatican officials wanted the world to understand these enlightening facts.

Only 1.5% to 5% [...]

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Sarah Palin’s book’s release date has been moved up from the spring to November 17. It has an intriguing title – Going Rogue: An American Life.
Rep. Michele Bachmann has her own action figure.
Facebook pulled an Obama assassination poll and the Secret Service is investigating.
South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis represents one of the most conservative Congressional [...]

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I would be neglectful if I didn’t post this bizarre video from New Jersey of students singing their praises of Barack Obama. I know its a few days old, but it is so odd and wrong.

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Silvio Berlusconi is gaffe prone. Everyone knows that. The problem is that the Italian Prime Minister is a serial gaffer, repeatedly making the same foolish comments.
After Barack Obama’s election last year, Berlusconi referred to the President as “young, handsome, and even has a good tan.”
After the criticism Berlusconi received for that comment, one would thing [...]

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Sometimes it is not hard to figure out why much of the world thinks Americans are ignorant and disrespectful. First, the Mayor Pro Tem of Memphis, Myron Lowery, fist-bumps with the Dalai Lama. Not once, not twice, not three times, but four times. He follows it up by addressing one of the world’s major spiritual leaders with “Hello, [...]

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It appears that second Iranian nuclear power plant is built underneath a mosque.
China has banned “online activities compromising national security, damaging national and social interests, undermining ethnic unity, instigating ethnic secession and harming social stability.” Basically, they have a new internet law to go after anything they want that is online.
Poland is instituting forcible castration [...]

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