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Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

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September 02, 2010 • 10:42 am

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An American Communist and a Soviet Defector Offer Different Interpretations of Obama at Beck Rally
By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, August 31 2010
Though Glenn Beck’s August 28 “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington, D.C. was decidedly not political, that didn’t stop attendees from expressing their own views about President Barack Obama’s agenda.  Mark, a middle-aged native of Russia who emigrated to America in the 1970s, came to Beck’s rally because he’s heard President Barack Obama’s shtick before.  “When I was growing up in the Soviet Union, going to school, I heard the same rhetoric, saw the same policies.  I lived in a socialist country; I know how bad it is for people. …
 
While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns
Today’s labor movement claims to hold its individual members’ welfare paramount.  So…
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John Boehner is Right; Obama’s Economic Policies Have Failed the American People
In a speech to the City Club of Cleveland, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called on President…
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Obama Should Address the Nation on Iran, Not Iraq
Given the public’s distemper at the sight of the President, it’s not surprising that the…
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Obama: “Driving Us Out of a Ditch,” or Setting the Car on Fire?
Remember the summer of 2002, when President Bush  conducted the midterm Congressional election campaign…
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Tea Party Must be an Intellectual Movement First, a Political Movement Second
Eighteen months after it was born on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange during an impassioned…
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Pasadena Patriots Show Republicans How to Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
Sometimes it takes a libertarian to show Republicans how to run an effective campaign organization. …
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Why We’re Boiling Over: Federal Salaries Now Twice That of Private Sector

Former Reagan Administration speechwriter and current Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan…
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Message to Congress: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Thank God for forsaking Washington D.C.  If our nation’s capital were blessed with the summertime…
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Investment Fund Shows That Betting Against Congress is a Great Way to Make Money
With Congress out of session for its August recess, one innovative fund manager is busy making money…
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2010: A Time for Choosing
In the logic of Washington, every election cycle is “one of the most important of our lifetimes.” …
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Question of the Week   
Until 1947, the Air Force had been most closely associated with which of the following service branches?
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Quote of the Day   
 
"The Obama administration's 'summer of recovery' has morphed into a summer of economic discontent amid anxiety over the weakening economy. The greater than 4% growth and less than 8% unemployment envisioned by the president's economic team are nowhere to be seen. Almost everything that is supposed to be up -- the economic growth rate, the stock market, bond yields -- is down. And almost everything…[more]
 
 
—Michael Boskin, Economics Professor, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman
— Michael Boskin, Economics Professor, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you agree with House Minority Leader John Boehner that Pres. Obama should fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers for their handling of the economy?