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Kristi Noem for Congress – I have spent the last 20 years working with my family in running the family farm. We worked hard to balance the books, thought c…

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Why The Dodd Finance Bill Is Bad For America Here we go again. The latest Job numbers reported that the national Unemployment rate is currently 9.7 percent. All the polls show that America wants the Government to work on (as Joe Biden the SCHMOTUS said) three letters J-O-B-S. Despite this demand from America,  Congress spent much of the last nine months on Obamcare and now have shifted their attention to scape-goating Wall-Street.  Well at least publicly. Much of the the bill is actually a sweet heart deal for the banking…

Tennessee GOP lawmakers blast tax proposal Nashville — More than a week after it was proposed by Gov. Phil Bredesen and pronounced dead by Republican leaders in the State Senate, House Republicans Wednesday denounced a plan to lift the local Sales-tax ceiling on big-ticket, single-item purchases other than cars, boats and manufactured housing. "The Governor is showing a blatant disregard for the challenges Small Business owners and average Tennesseans face," House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower said. The House Republican Caucus…

Nancy Pelosi’s dream of ‘green’ Capitol faces an obstacle with trash bins and janitors A landfill like this one is presumably where part of the efforts to Green the Capitol end up. Members of Congress are used to choosing. Their job is to cast votes about complicated issues that affect millions of Americans. But when Nancy Pelosi took over the House of Representatives, they faced a tough, new decision – which of four trash bins to toss their garbage in. The change was one of the earliest, and most visible, of Pelosi’s earth-friendly push to "Green the Capitol," the name…

The Burqa Bomb On April 17, a Refugee camp at Kohat in Pakistan was struck by two Suicide bombers that disguised themselves with Burqas, the full-body veil worn by some Muslim women to make sure none of their skin is exposed. The attacks, which killed 41 people and injured 62, are sure to heighten the debate in Europe about whether wearing Burqas and niqabs in public should be banned. A parliamentary committee in Belgium has unanimously approved such a ban, with the final vote in the House of Representatives…

5TH LD: Ex-minister Masuzoe quits LDP to form new party Fri.+ Tokyo, April 22 (AP) – (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING) A former popular health minister, Yoichi Masuzoe, tendered Thursday a letter of resignation to the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party to form a new party Friday ahead of this summer’s House of Councillors election. The departure of Masuzoe, 61, who often leads Opinion Polls on the most suitable prime minister, will deal another blow to the LDP, which has recently been deserted by other bigwig lawmakers and continues to struggle…

The Politicization of the Think Tanks This began to change in the 1970s as Stagflation made many conservative economic ideas, such as monetarism, more academically respectable. There was also increasing demand for conservative ideas among policymakers. But they were frustrated by the slow, plodding style of AEI and Brookings, which tended to publish their research in books that often took years to complete.   One of those frustrated policymakers was Ed Feulner, a Republican staffer in the House of Representatives. After a…

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