In another danger sign for Democrats, most Americans extremely concerned about 10 of the issues say they will vote for the Republican candidate in their local House race. Only those highly interested in the environment lean toward the Democrats.
RealClearPolitics - Politics - Aug 31, 2010 - AP-GfK Poll: Most attuned voters tilt toward GOP.
While the recession has at least bottomed out and appears technically to have ended, the recovery, by historic standards, has been anemic. Within two years of the start of every one of the three previous recessions, GDP had rebounded significantly—to 4 percentage points above where it was when the downturn began. But 31 months after the start of the current recession, GDP was still below its starting point. The employment situation is even worse. In the nasty recession of 1981-82, the economy had regained the jobs it lost within just 26 months. This time around, we still have 5 percent fewer jobs than at the recession’s start in December 2007.
The Failure of the Liberal Economic Experiment?.
John Stossel has a good piece on how uncertainty is hindering the recovery.
Independent Women’s Forum - A Bigger Enemy of Growth than Big Government?.
They call it the Beltway Blinders—a common disease that hits when so-called insiders to Washington politics lose sight of the priorities, challenges, and fears that matter in “real” America. Those inside the Capital Beltway, the roughly 60-mile interstate loop around the city, are vulnerable to the highly contagious disease, losing perspective on what the rest of America is saying even as they pretend to represent it.
WORLD Magazine | Working-class blues | Edward Lee Pitts | Sep 11, 10.
That’s why it’s great that an organization like the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) has created an award to recognize the best teacher of the year. They have just announced that the inaugural National Teacher of the Year Award will go to Jeremiah Young, a science teacher from Beaufort High School in South Carolina. The award will be given this week in a ceremony in Washington D.C.
The high price of college textbooks is getting a lot of press. Legislators are considering bills to bring down costs, such as requiring professors to use the least expensive “educationally sound” option. As I have read articles about the burden of textbook costs, I have done some soul-searching about the cost of the books I choose for my students. I conclude that the textbooks I use are a good value compared to the alternatives.
Back to School, Back to the Books: The Value Behind Textbooks.
I’ve got great news for you - Tim Huelskamp has been endorsed in his race for Congress by the House Conservatives Fund. House Conservatives Fund is an organization that seeks to elect true conservatives to the U.S. House. I can tell you that they look for men and women of conviction who will stand for the principles of our founding: limited government, strong national defense, and traditional values. (more…)
Greetings Moran Fans!
Thank you all for your hard work and dedication in making Jerry the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate-but our work is far from finished. We now have a general election campaign against yet another Democrat who supports the policies of President Obama and Nancy Pelosi, higher government spending, and more debt. There are only 63 days until the general election and we need your help. There are still community events across the state and many opportunities to continue to spread the word about Jerry’s positive message and his record working to create jobs, eliminate wasteful spending, and reduce our massive national debt.
Please see what lies ahead on the campaign trail below: (more…)
It would be difficult for any strong partisan to admit that such an accomplishment was so deeply unpopular. Yet the polling is pretty unequivocal on the relationship between the Democrats’ fortunes and the health care bill. It was during the health care debate that the essential building block of the Democratic majority - Independent voters - began to crumble. It was evident in the generic ballot. It was evident in the President’s job approval numbers. It was evident in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - Health Care Reform Has Endangered the Democratic Majority.
As we slept, as it were, our federal minders awarded themselves impressive pay/benefits increases that average out to $123,000 per year, compared with $61,000 in the private sector.
Government Pay: Now For The Really Bad News - Forbes.com.
“ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.
Education secretary urged his employees to attend Sharpton’s rally | Washington Examiner.
President Obama’s administration recently submitted a report to the United Nations on human rights in America. The 29-page report shows the nation badly flawed but fortunate to have a Nobel Prize winner as its leader. The report is billed as “a partial snapshot of the current human rights situation in the United States, including some of the areas where problems persist in our society.”
Obama tells the U.N. how great he is | Washington Examiner.
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The suit against the Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) over the state’s new immigration law. It also comes as the department is investigating Joe Arpaio, the sheriff in Maricopa County, who is known for tough immigration enforcement.
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For far too long our colleges and universities have been allowed to ignore their chartered responsibilities to educate rather than indoctrinate. Instead of providing a forum for the free exchange of ideas, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz argues that they intimidate students into ideological submission to leftist professors rather than pursuing meaningful research and that they proselytize for radical causes.
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Recently I told you about President Obama’s shrill, negative attack on AFP and our 1.2 million grassroots activists - folks like yourself.
In case you missed it, you can hear an audio recording of the President’s attack in AFP’s new Internet ad below:
We are aggressively fighting back against these vicious attacks from the Left and need your immediate help. Here are three things that you can do to help:
2) Volunteer for our November is Coming efforts by signing up to knock on doors, distribute literature, or call your friends and neighbors to educate them about the radical policies that are destroying our nation.
3) President Obama raised $985,000 at his fundraising dinner where he attacked AFP. Please help us match the President’s total by contributing $10, $25, or $50 to combat the Left’s effort to demonize hard working Americans.
Let’s keep up the fight!
Tim
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Peter Newman, THE TAX MAN, is having his annual “Personal Enrichment Series” seminar at the Polsky Theater, Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College on September 1, 2010 (Wednesday evening) at 7 PM with Refreshments.
Peter Newman will cover a variety of very important financial issues including the FairTax. The other subjects include an unusual investment opportunity with High Rates (up to 24%) with low risk, referred to as “Tax Lien Certificates”.
This is another opportunity for FairTaxers to learn from the most knowledgeable tax authority in the country and the most articulate about our destructive Federal Income Tax system. Don’t miss this once a year opportunity. I will be there. EARL LONG
Additional information can be obtained by internet links to http://video.jccc.edu/polsky.htm
Peter Newman’s web site is http://taxmankc.com
His program will also be shown on CableTV channels in Johnson County
Sundays from 7 - 10 PM and Wed 8 - 11 PM
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Nearly half, 47 percent, of illegal-immigrant households consist of parents with children. This proportion is more than double that of U.S.-born households, where just 21 percent are parents with children. Over the years, the number of children of illegal immigrants has increased significantly.
I read in the Kansas City Star that the best thing about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the mandate that individual Americans buy health insurance. Never mind that this part of health care reform is at the center of the more than 20 district court challenges to the constitutionality of the PPACA… The Kansas City Star says the mandate is what makes the reform great.
Mrs Moore,
You attacked your opponent as one who publically opposed the FairTax while secretly promising to our organization he would adopt it. This has now been corrected. (more…)
In two actions Thursday, the City Council voted to usurp power - first from the Mayor’s office, then from the citizens of Kansas City.
“It’s not every day the City Council gets to violate both the U.S. Constitution and the City Charter,” the Mayor said. (more…)
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The Gingrich revolution fizzled, in part because congressional Republicans mistook a popular mandate for moderation as a license to undertake radical change, and in part because they grew complacent and corrupt in the corridors of power.
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Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced, rose at an annualized seasonally adjusted rate of 1.6% from April to June, the Commerce Department said Friday.
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While 55% of voters who identify themselves as pro-choice support government funding of stem cell research, 83% of pro-life voters are opposed.
In March of last year, 52% of all voters agreed with President Obama’s decision to lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, but 38% were opposed. A federal judge this week blocked that decision, but the Obama administration intends to appeal the ruling. The issue at hand is whether the research destroys living human embryos.
Reid Wilson, our former colleague and now the editor-in-chief of the Hotline On Call, had an interesting column today explaining “why Democrats will keep the House.”
He offers four reasons.
(1) Democrats have so far raised more money.
(2) Money facilitates turnout.
(3) Money facilitates opposition research.
(4) Democratic voters will come home, as they did in PA-12.
Each of these points has some validity, but in each one Wilson is over-stating his case. Let’s take them in turn.
Conspicuously absent from those declarations were facts that Obama would prefer to omit because they are — well, inconvenient. But those facts did not elude U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who on Monday said the revised policy violates federal law.
What facts? A restriction approved by Congress in 1996, and repeatedly renewed, says federal money may not be used for “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed.” But the point of Obama’s new policy was to pay for experiments using stem cells harvested from embryos that are killed in the process.
House Republicans are measuring the drapes in preparation for big gains in the lower chamber, convinced that Minority Leader John Boehner is going to become the next Speaker of the House. On a macro level, that wouldn’t be a bad guess — Democrats are saddled with bad polls and unpopular leaders, and the national mood wants a change from the status quo. But the Democratic apocalypse isn’t guaranteed just yet. In fact, senior Democratic strategists say they’re not only likely to keep the House, but they believe the GOP won’t come close to gaining the 39 seats they need to take over.
