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Proposed Health Care Plan: $1.2 trillion dollars * Current Federal Deficit: $1 trillion dollars ** Obama’s defeat in 2012: Priceless * **

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With a new plug-in for the blog, each blog headline will post to TesslerPT Twitter account. This is a great new feature of the blog

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Maybe she is qualified to be a member of SCOTUS, after all mediocrity has never been a bar to sitting on the High Court. But in listening to these Senate hearings, I’m becoming more convinced she’ll engage in Identity Politics in her future decisions on the Supreme Court. I think she’ll be confirmed. But the

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I’ve wondered many times if the “undisclosed sources” within the Republican Party that attack Sarah Palin aren’t really supporters of Mitt Romney. After all, she comes in 2nd to him with PAC raising money ($700,000 + to his $1.4 million) The only people within the GOP that would benefit from tearing Governor Palin down would

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July 7, 2009: “A new poll found that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has dropped by 13 percentage points from two months ago in Ohio, traditionally a critical swing state in presidential elections. “The survey by Quinnipiac University released today showed 49 percent of Ohio voters approved of Obama’s job performance, down from 62 percent

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Michael Jackson was a thoroughly entertaining perfomer. I liked his songs. I like his dancing. I liked his videos. But this obsessive adulation by the media over his death and subsequent memorial service is over the top. Enough is enough

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Click the Roger Stone link for a great analysis on Sarah Palin’s resignation. He writes, in part: “Palin’s stunning move guarantees an outsider strategy in which Palin is a ‘movement’ but not a ‘party’ candidate. No decision on running should be made until 2011 and focus must be on image repair. This is a woman

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Progressive Thinking in Today’s World: It will become clear that the thoughts and opinions expressed here will be considered progressive when compared to today’s politically correct responses