Arlen Specter, Democrat

April 28, 2009

Arlen Specter has said repeatedly that Pat Toomey is too conservative to win in the state of Pennsylvania. After his switch to the Democratic Party today, it is a statement which will be definitively put to the test in 2010 in an election sure to mark a defining moment for the Republican Party, and what its future holds.

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Specter to Switch Parties, Run as Democrat in 2010

April 28, 2009

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this morning.

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Thirty Hours of Brownback vs. Hill

April 28, 2009

It could be a good night for pizza delivery at the Capitol. With a cloture vote expected possibly later tonight on the nomination of Chris Hill to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq, an aide to Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) says the Kansas Republican plans to use all 30 hours of debate time allotted to describe […]

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Poll: Obama More Popular Than His Policies (Still)

April 28, 2009

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll suggests that President Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, released Monday, also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.

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Pakistan's President Suggests Bin Laden Could be Dead

April 28, 2009

He said that neither his own advisers in Pakistan nor US intelligence agencies had detected any trace of the al-Qaeda leader since Al Jazeera television broadcast an audio recording of his voice in March.

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Cantor, Obama Trade Sparks on Bipartisanship

April 28, 2009

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor returned from spring break determined to shed the “Dr. No” tag Democrats have hung around his neck — only to find himself in a face-to-face argument with the president over who started this year’s rift with the House GOP. Early last week, Cantor talked like a man ready to make […]

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Taylor: Time to End the University As We Know It

April 28, 2009

GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than […]

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FOX Rejects Obama's Request for Airtime

April 28, 2009

Is the honeymoon over? For the first time since Barack Obama took office, a major broadcast network is refusing to grant the president’s request for primetime coverage. Fox has issued a statement saying it will air regular programming (detective drama Lie to Me) Wednesday night instead of Obama’s 100-day news conference.

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Feinstein Seeks Full Congressional Probe Into Bush Detainee Tactics

April 28, 2009

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee has called for a full congressional inquiry to move forward on controversial George W. Bush-era interrogation and detention methods. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said she hopes that public outrage regarding the memos will soon subside so that Congress can […]

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Remembering Pontiac: GTO Advertising Classics

April 28, 2009

Via Tim Blair, a commercial that reminds one of the grand days of Pontiac. It’s ordinary enough until the end. Then: well, imagine the number of mechanics who lost all bladder control when they popped the hood for the first time.

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