For the past few days, conservative circles have been buzzing as GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich try to embrace mandates while denouncing the Obama health plan.  Gingrich also called the new House Republican Medicare reform plan “right-wing social engineering”.  So how are Congressional Republicans reacting to all of this?  Where do most […]

 

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The unemployment rate is 9.0 percent and the real rate is much higher.  Nearly all experts say mall businesses are the key to getting out of this jobs funk.  But what do they need to start hiring?  How is runaway spending in Washington hurting job creation efforts?  And what can Congress do about burdensome bureaucratic […]

 

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The waters of the Mississippi River have severely impacted several states and Louisiana is now next in line.  How is a state with such low elevations bracing for the flooding?  How many people in rural areas will be impacted by efforts to divert the high waters?  Will opening the spillways be guaranteed to save Baton […]

 

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review applaud Paul Ryan’s explanation of why his Medicare reform plan is not radical and how it’s much preferable to Obamacare.  We also rip the blatant politics involved in granting Obamacare waivers - as businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s district account for 20 percent of all […]

 

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