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Alan Simpson: Social Security Is ‘A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits’ [UPDATE]

C.W. Smith — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:52:09 +0000

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. UPDATE: Friday 2:51 p.m. – The campaign to oust Alan Simpson from President Obama’s deficit commission took a creative turn on Friday, with the launch of StuffAlanSimpsonSays.com, created by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. The site presents readers with a quiz that repeatedly asks readers to guess which [...]

Illegal immigration down sharply; immigration hysteria up sharply

C.W. Smith — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:39:51 +0000

This story is a repost from AJC.com. From the Wall Street Journal: Illegal immigration to the U.S. has slowed sharply since 2007, with the bleak U.S. job market apparently discouraging people from heading north. The influx of illegal immigrants plunged to an estimated 300,000 annually between March 2007 and 2009, from 850,000 a year between [...]

Christine O’Donnell’s Views On Sex And Porn Take Social Conservatism To The Extreme

C.W. Smith — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:02:52 +0000

This story is a repost from TalkingPointsMemo.com. Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell has a robust evangelical outreach program, and she’s appealed to these voters in her Republican primary bid in part with her old-fashioned views about sex. O’Donnell has said, for example, that masturbation is wrong, and that looking at pornography is equivalent to cheating [...]

Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin Brought ‘Drama,’ ‘Panic’ To 2008 Presidential Campaign (VIDEO)

C.W. Smith — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:23:12 +0000

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. In an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), dished about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, her father’s running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign. The younger McCain referred to Palin as “a Republican feminist,” but wouldn’t say whether [...]

Immigration Boosts Wages, Employment And Productivity, Fed Study Finds

C.W. Smith — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:57:19 +0000

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Champions of strict immigration reform, be warned: there may be an economic consequence to tightening America’s borders. Immigration is actually good for employment, wages and productivity, according to a new study from the San Francisco Fed. States that have had a large influx of immigrants tended to produce [...]

Bailed Out and Sitting Pretty

C.W. Smith — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:41:30 +0000

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Bank profits jumped 21 percent last quarter to nearly $22 billion, the highest level in three years, as banks put away less money to cover future losses, fewer borrowers fell behind on payments and lenders paid the least for their funds in perhaps 50 years, a government report [...]

Obama Fans Storm Tax Day Tea Party In D.C. (VIDEO)

C.W. Smith — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:52:43 +0000

This story is a repost fromTalkingPointsMemo.com A group of Obama supporters stormed today’s Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Washington, D.C., creating a brief and nonviolent ruckus among the tea partiers gathered to listen to Grover Norquist and Dick Armey on Freedom Plaza. The pro-Obama group, known as “The Other 95%,” held a counter-rally earlier [...]

Obama: Tea Partiers Should Thank Me for Tax Breaks

C.W. Smith — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:49:32 +0000

This story is a repost from CBSNews.com. While President Obama mingled with Florida Democrats at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Miami Thursday night, thousands of Tea Partiers stood across from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to protest “Tax Day.” Mr. Obama admitted to his supporters that the anti-tax rallies “amused” him. The president went over the [...]

Unified GOP To Block Senate From Debating Wall Street Reform

C.W. Smith — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:46:35 +0000

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Mitch McConnell has rounded up the necessary votes to block Democrats from bringing Wall Street reform to the Senate floor, a spokesman for the Senate Minority Leader said on Friday afternoon. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on Thursday he planned to bring the bill to the [...]

Obama extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners of gays

C.W. Smith — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:45:10 +0000

This story is a repost from WashingtonPost.com President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay [...]