by Bill O'Connell on February 28, 2012
As a member of the European parliament, Daniel Hannan represents the United Kingdom to that body. Should America be heeding any warnings from the European Union?
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by Bill O'Connell on February 23, 2012
We know that Tim Bishop hates outsourcing. He has gone so far as to introduce new legislation to prevent outsourcing of call center jobs. Tim Bishop may be a very big oursourcer himself.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 21, 2012
As the Democrats bid a tearful farewell to using abortion as a winning campaign issue, they need to manufacture a replacement. So they have come up with contraceptives and how those mean Republicans want to restrict a women’s access to them. It’s a lie and they know it, but hey, elections are at stake.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 20, 2012
Congress passed yet another extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. The Republicans did it to take the political issue off the table for the election. Tim Bishop and the Democrats passed it because they think it is good governing.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 15, 2012
What do you do when you can’t run on your record? If you watch the Democrats you will find out. The answer is to manufacture bogus issues out of thin air and try to anger and scare people into voting against dismal Democrat policies.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 13, 2012
President Barack Obama has a new budget. So it’s time to suspend reality and listen and nod your head and pine for four more years.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 12, 2012
Rick Perry at CPAC 2012
At CPAC this week, Rick Perry visited the Blogger Lounge and while there spoke briefly about the Keystone Pipeline.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 11, 2012
At the conclusion of Newt Gingrich’s speech as CPAC a colleague and I discussed the Republican chances for the White House. That day we heard from Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt and we both agreed that winning in the fall should not be hard. But a couple of conditions had to be met.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 11, 2012
We’ve heard the fawning of the mainstream media over the Occupy Wall Street movement. We’ve heard the leaders of the Democratic Party, who lambasted the Tea Party with the most vile and vitriolic language, dreamily coo over the OWS people as being true grass-roots, not AstroTurf. What is the truth? The truth can be very disturbing.
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by Bill O'Connell on February 10, 2012
To many conservatives Mitch McConnell is a sellout. To me, he is a parliamentary master who held off a filibuster-proof majority by his fingernails until reinforcements arrived in the person of Scott Brown. He kicked off his address to the crowd with a little humor.
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