Obama considers national sales Tax

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By Lori Montgomery,Washington Post

Obama wants more of your money

With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage,some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo:a national sales tax.

Common around the [...]

Questions for Sotomayor

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By NEOMI RAO,Wall Street Journal

She faces questions that must be answered

Yesterday President Barack Obama announced his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. She is federal circuit court judge Sonia Sotomayor. What sorts of questions should senators and the American people ask a nominee [...]

Obama Should Keep Detainees Where They Are

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By Sen. James Inhofe,The Washington Times

Guantanamo Bay is the best home for terrorists

Stay the course on closing the facilities. Less than 24 hours after the Senate overwhelmingly rejected the president’s request for funds to shut down Gitmo –mainly because the administration had no plan –[...]

Obama dithers as Korea edges toward war

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By Heejin Koo,Bloomberg

Tensions are high on the Korean DMZ

North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction,and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.

The Hidden Photos of Barry Obama Revealed

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By Mike Boehm,Los Angeles Times

Photos of Barry Obama from College were hidden during the campaign

A public that wants to know everything about Barack Obama can thank Lisa Jack for a glimpse of what the future president was like when he was just another college freshman trying [...]

Sotomayor the judicial activist?

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The Case Against Sotomayor

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by Jeffrey Rosen,The New Republic

A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,Sonia Sotomayor’s biography is so compelling that many view her as the presumptive front-runner for Obama’s first Supreme Court appointment. She grew up in the South Bronx,the daughter of Puerto Rican parents. [...]

Memorial Day Surprises Knock Props from Obama’s Diplomatic Overtures

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By Leo Rennert,America Thinker 

Kim Jong Ill shocks Obama this Memorial Day

President Obama vowed to do a better job than George W. Bush by using diplomacy instead of wielding a big stick in dealing with hostile nations like Iran,North Korea and Syria. It hasn’t worked.

The truth about Sotomayor

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By Ed Whelan,National Review

Information about Sotomayor's dismal court record

I haven’t had time to research and review Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s body of opinions,so I’ll limit myself to a couple additional comments (beyond his Part 1 post):

1.  On those occasions on which the Supreme Court [...]

Sotomayor believes 2nd Amendment not for Individuals

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By Mathew D. Staver,Liberty Counsel

The revenge of George H. W. Bush,judges that disrespect the Constitution

Today President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice David Souter. If confirmed,Sotomayor would become the first Hispanic and third woman to serve [...]