Reducing the influence of money in Washington was supposed to be part of the change that Barack Obama promised. Looking back, no one should have expected that would happen. After all, Obama surpassed all fundraising records in his race for the Presidency. Now in office Obama has thanked those who contributed with plum political positions. [...]

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Nevada politicians seem to be a thin-skinned bunch.
Last year, Barack Obama said that federally bailed out companies should not take a trip to Las Vegas “on the taxpayer’s dime.”
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman did not like Obama’s comment then, and he does not like the one Obama made now.
“Responsible families don’t do their budgets the [...]

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Although South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson promised to be on his best behavior during last night’s State of the Union address, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was not.
Wilson was the Congressman who called out “You lie” to President Obama during his last address to Congress.
Wilson said that people had been chiding him to keep quiet [...]

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This is one of the oddest comments that I have ever heard  from a political activist to the President of his own party. It was not intended disparagingly, either.
“Charles Manson could beat Barack Obama here right now. Thousands of miners out of work, the entire local economy in the tank. But he’s got a couple [...]

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This is supposed to be a picture of John Kennedy on board a yacht around 1956. At first, TMZ said that it consulted a number of Kennedy and photography experts and the picture appears genuine, but now it has backed off from the steamy photo.
Playboy claims the photo is from a 1967 article “Playboy’s Charter Yacht [...]

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This really is a story about nothing. However, for some conservatives it is more evidence that Barack Obama is trying to subvert the American way of life.
Eight hundred Christmas ornaments were sent out to community groups to be decorated. Three came back with “offensive themes.”
One had the image of drag queen Hedda Lettuce. Another had [...]

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It’s hard to see how the White House is going to come out well by picking a battle with Fox News. Declaring them not a news organization makes the White House look petty. Besides, if the Obama administration can’t handle a few journalists, or whatever they are called, how is it going to do against [...]

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I don’t know what this is worth, but it is odd, interesting…or something.
Researchers at Duke University studied testosterone levels in voters during last November’s election. Those who cast ballots for Barack Obama, John McCain and Libertarian Bob Barr had their testosterone levels checked after voting and at periods later that evening.
For women voters there was [...]

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Threats on the life of the President are up 400% since the inauguration of Barack Obama.
The virulent hatred of Obama is unprecedented in modern politics. Yes, many hated, really hated George Bush. Others hated Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon. Yet, the death threats for these men never reached the levels Barack Obama faces.
In the story [...]

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Increasingly, Barack Obama is starting to look like Lyndon Johnson. Both inherited a war from their predecessor and both possessed ambitious domestic agendas.
Unfortunately, things are going about as smoothly in Afghanistan for Obama as Vietnam did for Johnson. Just as Johnson did, Obama has escalated the American troop presence. It appears that he has plans to [...]

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