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Paul Ryan's revolution would finish Reagan's — Is Rep. Paul Ryan's “Path to Prosperity” potentially the most important and necessary piece of economic legislation since President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981? Quite likely. The blueprint embraces free markets and individual choice …
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What Real Leadership Looks Like
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The Achilles Heel Of The Path To Prosperity
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The 2022 Medicare Crisis — Matt Yglesias has a very good point …
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Ryan's Budget Plan Is Ridiculous, But It Could Shift the Debate
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Yes, Entitlement Spending Must Be Cut
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Supreme Court race still too close to call, Prosser has narrow lead — By Larry Sandler and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Justice David Prosser clung to a narrow lead over Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg in the state Supreme Court race early Wednesday …
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Wisconsin judicial race too close to call — The race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court that has become a proxy for the state's fight over public sector unions was too close to call as of early Wednesday morning, and the vote appears headed for a recount.
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Man With Anti-Obama Sign Attacked In San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/ BCN) — A man who set up a table with political literature and a sign opposing President Barack Obama was attacked in San Francisco's North Panhandle neighborhood, police and witnesses said Tuesday.
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Obama to hold Facebook town hall; kicks off campaign fundraising in Bay Area
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Bristol Palin's Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention — In 2009, Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie's Foundation. Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie's Foundation released …
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Bristol Palin's Teen Pregnancy Work Earned Her $262K
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Wasserman Schultz to lead DNC — President Barack Obama has settled on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) as the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, top Democratic sources said Tuesday. — Wasserman Schultz, 44, was chosen for her strength as a fund-raiser and as a television messenger …
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Wasserman-Schultz hits Walker, ‘ultra-wealthy’ in first appearance
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Obama taps Wasserman Schultz to lead DNC
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Wasserman Schultz Picked as D.N.C. Chairwoman
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Boehner: Dems ‘win’ in shutdown — Speaker John Boehner is warning his Republican colleagues that Democrats would “win” a government shutdown and the GOP would suffer a political catastrophe if the federal government runs out of money at the end of this week. — “The Democrats think they benefit from a government shutdown.
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Remarks by the President After Meeting with House Republican and Senate Democratic Leadership …
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Obama, congressional leaders make no progress on budget
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Conservative Opposition To Human Happiness — Adam Serwer reports from Charles Murray's “State of White America” address. Long story short, though, folks have gotten kind of soft: … This put me in mind of Monica Potts' review of Kay Hymowitz: … Hymowitz's argument, essentially …
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Why Aren't You Married Yet? — Apparently, I'm responsible for the jerks I've dated.
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The Seriousness Of Cutting Taxes On The Rich
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Abele defeats Stone for Milwaukee County executive — Chris Abele makes his victory speech at the Historic Pabst Brewery after beating Jeff Stone for the Milwaukee County Executive seat. Abele's wife, Miriam, is at right. — By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel

Jesus groomed his apostles for political office — Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at “Focal Point” — People who say the followers of Christ shouldn't be involved in politics aren't paying attention. And they aren't paying attention to Jesus himself.

Walker demotes son of campaign contributor — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Gov. Scott Walker abruptly reversed course today and demoted the son of a large campaign contributor to his former job with the state Department of Regulation and Licensing.

Fired NPR CEO Rips Sting Artists, Admits Rest of Establishment is ‘Terrified’ — Fired NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke Tuesday at the Paley Center for Media in New York and lashed out at the videographers who exposed the bigotry in her organization, calling the undercover sting an “abomination.”
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French interior minister facing legal action over Muslim comments — Claude Gueant, France's interior minister is facing legal action after declaring that the “growing” number of Muslims in France posed “a problem”. — “It's true that the increase in the number of faithful in (Islam) …
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Crisis Mismanagement — The world's largest insurer was separated from the world's most experienced risk manager at the worst possible moment. — Was the life-and-death crisis at AIG triggered by a false rumor from a New York law firm? That's one of the many questions raised by Roddy Boyd's …
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Time's Up, Qaddafi — IN 2004 I traveled to Libya as the head of a bipartisan Congressional delegation to express support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's decision to give up his country's nuclear weapons program. We met with Colonel Qaddafi, high-level officials and ordinary people …
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Ron Paul to Announce Presidential Bid Next Month — Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Texas Rep. Ron Paul said he will make a final decision within a month on whether he will run for president in the 2012 election. … Alex Jones interviews Ron Paul, April 5, 2011.
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Samantha Power's Power — A member of the president's National Security Council who shares Noam Chomsky's foreign-policy goals? An influential presidential adviser whom 1960s revolutionary Tom Hayden treats as a fellow radical? A White House official who wrote a book aiming to turn an anti-American …
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Surgeons raise alarm over waiting — In England in 2009/10 there were 101,020 hip replacements and 73,378 knee replacements carried out — Surgeons say patients in some parts of England have spent months waiting in pain because of delayed operations or new restrictions on who qualifies for treatment.
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