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There are plenty of reasons to vote for Democrats and to support President Obama’s agenda in the midterm elections. Vote for the Democrat if you believe: • Government spends too little. • The national debt and deficit are too small. • The economy is growing too fast. • There are …

Twenty-nine year-old Tiffany Hartley says her husband was shot in the head by Mexican pirates earlier this week while the couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake at the Texas-Mexico border. Claiming her husband fell face first in the water and that she tried to pull him out, Tiffany …

With the dust still settling from Tuesday’s historic election results, the pundits are busy sizing up what to make of it all. The shift of power in the U.S. House, the national gains by Republicans, the impact of the Tea Party and the implications of all of the above are …

There is no rhyme or reason why the debate over where to try a terrorist ever became a “left vs. right” issue. Yet there they are on television — right-wing and left-wing pundits defending their position as if their very political identities depend upon the answer. There’s only one consideration …

I’m sure you’ve heard all about it: Pat Robertson said that Haiti’s founders made a pact with Satan in 1791 and the nation’s ongoing woes are a direct result of that diabolical beginning. Whoops! Um, what’s the Aramaic word for “retraction”? Predictably, the condemnations have been thundering. But let’s be …

Did you know that the census does not distinguish between illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens? It does not, which raises questions such as: Should Arizona win more seats in the House of Representatives because it harbors a large number of illegal aliens? Or, should people who can’t vote decide how …

It is no secret that conservatives aren’t enamored with the state of things in the age of Obama. But while the conservative base marshals against the president’s policies, many liberals are also not ecstatic about what they have seen so far from the president so far, either. How could this …

The debate over how effective — or ineffective — the $787 stimulus package has been continues, but the articles about it are frustrating to read because they allow contradictions of the Obama administration’s defense of it to go unchecked. For example, the administration touts the success of the stimulus for …

“Then there’s the problem of rising costs. We spend one-and-a-half times more per person on health care than any other country . . . . health care represents one-sixth of our economy . . . Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will …

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:00:27 +0000 – By Jon KrausharCommunications Consultant Editor’s Note: To read Part 1 of this post, clickhere. Once Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address, he will officially lay down the initial markers to measure his performance and to subsequently rank him as a leader. In declaring …