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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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THE ISSUES  
   
Taxes & Economy
Health Care
 
ObamaCare Loses in Two Courts, not Just One
“Once you explain what’s in the bill, the American people of course like it.” ~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada) “It’s going to be very, very exciting.  But we have to pass…
   
 
 
Energy & Environment
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Constitution & Legal
   
John Lott: More Guns, Still Less Crime
“I would ask gun control advocates one question:  name a single place in the entire world where murder rates fell after gun control…
 
Employment & Labor
Campaign Finance
Homeland Security
   
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Eric Holder
Attorney General Eric Holder has a morally serious job.  He must; he heads the only cabinet department named after one of the four cardinal…
Media Issues
Some four decades ago, this writer and several of his journalist colleagues working for a now-forgotten magazine prepared to go to jail for refusing to reveal confidential sources regarding a criminal act about which we had published more than the authorities…
Foreign Policy
Given the public’s distemper at the sight of the President, it’s not surprising that the Commander-in-Chief is developing a taste for delivering major addresses to a solitary camera in the Oval Office. Yet even that doesn’t quite explain…
Legal Reform / Tort Reform
Imagine a baseball game that appears almost over, but then goes into extra innings for almost 15 years. With that image in mind, one can begin to understand the nature of Marshall vs. Marshall, the endless Anna Nicole Smith inheritance litigation, which…
State of Affairs
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…
Education
When it comes to the creeping socialism stretching from President Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C., Texas Governor Rick Perry has a three word response, “No, thank you.”  On January 13, Perry announced that Texas would not participate…
Health Care
“Once you explain what’s in the bill, the American people of course like it.” ~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada) “It’s going to be very, very exciting.  But we have to pass the bill so that you…
Immigration
The Obama Justice Department’s decision to sue Arizona for copying federal immigration law is more than just the latest example of political calculations trumping sound legal reasoning.  Combined with its refusal to press charges against members…
Technology & Telecom
A lot has changed since that not-so-halcyon year 1934.  So why are the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and “Net Neutrality” advocates attempting to regulate the Internet under laws drafted for the technology of that era? …
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?