Like many Democrats over the past 40 years, Barack Obama has hoped that his association with unpopular liberal positions on cultural issues would be outweighed by pushing economic policies intended to benefit the ordinary person.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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NEW YORK -- I confess to having a residual soft spot for Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who is retiring from radio for finally going too far.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a member association representing over 3 million businesses in the United States, both big and small, says the uncertainty in the tax code is killing business in the U.S.
JERUSALEM -- 'Twas a famous victory for diplomacy when, in 1991 in Madrid, Israelis and Palestinians, orchestrated by the United States, engaged in direct negotiations. Nineteen years later, U.S. policy is enabling Palestinians to avoid direct negotiations by engaging in "proximity" talks. The Palestinians talk to Americans, who toil to get them back to 1991 -- to direct negotiations. But negotiations about what?
NEW YORK -- It is hard to imagine that anything has gone unsaid about the so-called Ground Zero mosque, but we seem to be missing an important point.
The mosque should be built precisely because we don't like the idea very much. We don't need constitutional protections to be agreeable, after all.
JERUSALEM -- In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S. population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America's eight years in Vietnam. During the onslaught, which began 10 Septembers ago, Israeli parents sending two children to a school would put them on separate buses to decrease the chance that neither would return for dinner.
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The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 0.4 percent at the end of 2012. While experts expect the nationwide recovery to hasten in the first quarter of 2013, some of the revisions of last years fourth-quarter numbers signaled a decline.
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The queen of the tea party is out of the gates fast for the 2014 elections. Sarah Palins SaraPAC released a new ad Wednesday touting the power of the former governor of Alaska in preparation for the midterm elections.
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Gov. Rick Scott, not exactly known for his charisma, showed a playful side of his personality to the host ofCNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien," one that could take Florida voters by surprise.
Appearing on the morning political and news talk show, Scott touted his jobs numbers and said he wants Florida to be "a better bragger than Texas."
"Governor Perry's always bragging about how great Texas is. Well look, 230,000 people moved here last year," Scott told O'Brien.
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As Florida legislators are poised to add new taxes on Floridians, in the form of an Internet sales tax, could your email be next?
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The National Federation of Independent Businesses is offering a free webinar Wednesday at noon to help small businesses and self-employers survive the new taxes set to begin as part of the federal health-care law.
The webinar will be presented by Kevin Kuhlman, manager of Legislative Affairs.
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The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Tuesday released the next feature in its series Meet Your Oversight Watchdogs, introducing Rep. Ron DeSantis, of Floridas CD 6, to Americans.
This government needs to start behaving responsibly in terms of how it spends taxpayers' money, says DeSantis. Weve seen this administration rack up trillion-dollar deficits for four consecutive years. If we continue on our current course we will have a national debt of $20 trillion when this president leaves office.
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Can the buzz around university teams lift them to NCAA March Madness wins?
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Progress Energy customers in Florida will begin seeing a new name and logo on their bills and service trucks starting in April.
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President Barack Obama is set to appointJulia Piersonas the first female to lead the U.S. Secret Service, the Washington Post reports.
The former Secret Service director,Mark Sullivan, resigned after the agency suffered a prostitution scandal involving more than 10 of its agents during a trip by Obama to Colombia.
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According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, environmentalists -- who had said they agreed with the states new Everglades cleanup plan that was passed unanimously by the Florida House Friday -- made a request in federal court Monday to continue to have a federal judge meddle, and have the ultimate say, in Floridas business.
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