Washington Times | Obama to Get Do-Over on Keystone Pipeline

Washington Times | Obama to Get Do-Over on Keystone Pipeline Posted on May 05 2012 – 5:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady The Canadian company seeking to build the massive Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline through the U.S. reapplied for a permit on Friday, pushing the politically sensitive issue back onto President Obama’s plate six months before the election. TransCanada announced it has asked for permits to build the pipeline…
Read more...Gloria Borger | Watching Mitt’s Former Rivals Justify Their Endorsement is Painful

Gloria Borger | Watching Mitt’s Former Rivals Justify Their Endorsement is Painful Posted on May 05 2012 – 6:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady (CNN) — As the saying goes about political parties and their candidates: Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. And that’s exactly what Republicans are doing, or trying to do. But after this combative primary season, watching Mitt Romney’s former GOP rivals struggle…
Read more...Felix Salmon | April’s jobs: Americans Aren’t Working

Felix Salmon | April’s jobs: Americans Aren’t Working Posted on May 05 2012 – 7:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady There’s a lot going on in this month’s jobs report. The headline number of jobs created — 115,000 — is miserable: it’s basically just enough to keep up with population growth. That’s the number the markets look at. The number the politicians look at, however, is the unemployment rate,…
Read more...Big Government | Obama Campaign: Women Are Helpless

Big Government | Obama Campaign: Women Are Helpless Posted on May 04 2012 – 9:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady Today, the Obama campaigned launched its Dads Are Unnecessary, Single Women Are Helpless campaign, simply titled “Julia.” It features a faceless composite, which seems to be the type of woman with which the campaign is most comfortable. Under the Obama administration, federal financial support for elective infant death as…
Read more...Free Beacon: Crony Capitalism: John Kerry Sure Has a Lot of “Luck” in the Market

Free Beacon: Crony Capitalism: John Kerry Sure Has a Lot of “Luck” in the Market Posted on May 04 2012 – 10:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady The five-term Senator has a well-documented history of investing in companies that would benefit from policies he supports, as well as making conveniently timed and highly profitable trades coinciding with the passage of major legislation and, in some cases, the dissemination of…
Read more...The Nation | Let’s Make College Free!

The Nation | Let’s Make College Free! Posted on May 05 2012 – 7:00 AM – Posted by: Doug Brady It is long past time for reform. Representative Hansen Clarke introduced a bill that would forgive up to $45,520 in student debt after a borrower makes ten years of payments at 10 percent of income. The Occupy Student Debt Campaign is calling for a write-off of existing debt as well…
Read more...Warming Up to Fight the ObamaCare Exchange in September

Warming Up for September Unless the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the entire structure of ObamaCare (not just the individual mandate), we will have to fight to keep the Brewer Administration from setting up an Arizona ObamaCare insurance exchange. Read more about the exchange fight here: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/050312-fraudulent-claims-about-arizona-obamacare-exchange And here: http://www.arizonahealthcarefreedom.com We are guessing that Brewer, Hughes and Co will wait until after the GOP primary in August to make a…
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