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Reuters/Ipsos poll: Obama at 47% approval

Up from 45% in August.Leads Perry and Romney.  By a bigger margin among all adults than among registered voters.  Which is to be expected.

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Texas unemployment rate at highest level since 1987

So much for "Texas Miracle."http://blogs.wsj.com/...Texas continues to be in the bottom of half of states with the highest unemployment rates.

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Crazy Deadbeat Dad Introduces Crazy Congressional Resolution

Congressman Joe Walsh (Deadbeat-Illinois) has introduced a resolution in the House, with 29 other Republicans, calling on Israel to annex the west bank if the Palestinians continue to push for a UN...

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Netanyahu not interested in peace deal

Not me saying it.  Bill Clinton:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the inability to reach a peace deal that would end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, former U.S....

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Meet the new Republican frontrunner: Herman Cain

That's right.  Nationally, at least.  According to zany Zogby.Pizza for all!  Social progams for none.A new Zogby poll puts Herman Cain  at the top of the Republican field, as the top choice of 28% of...

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Romney ahead in Iowa and Florida

The Willard Express picks up steam.A new American Research Group poll in Iowa finds Mitt Romney leading the GOP presidential field with 21%, followed by Michele Bachmann at 15%, Rick Perry at 14%, and...

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Biggest political news of the night that may have been missed

Forget Palin.  The news is Marco Rubio almost ruling himself out of the VP sweepstakes.Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he's not going to be the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012 because he's focused...

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Freedom's just another word for . . . "dwarf tossing"?

This is what freedom means to me.Ah, Florida.  You never disappointRep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, filed a bill this week to bring back "dwarf tossing," the barbaric and dangerous barroom spectacle...

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Breaking: unemployment rate 9.1%, 103,000 jobs added

Payrolls climbed by 103,000 workers after a revised 57,000 increase the prior month that was more than originally estimated, Labor Department data showed today in Washington. The median forecast in a...

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While you were OWS, WS was ODC

Tons of diaries on OWS, and numerous on the recommended list.  Yet very few, and none of the recommended list, about the victory WS and corporate American had over the people in Washington yesterday....

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Cantor cancels speech for fear of OWS demos

What a wuss.House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) abruptly cancelled a planned economic address Friday at the University of Pennsylvania after learning that the event could be flooded with...

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Unemployment rate 9.0 %, 80,000 jobs created

Unemployment rate for October is 9.0%.  Only 80,000 jobs created.The 80,000 increase in payrolls was less than forecast and followed gains in the prior two months that were revised up by 102,000, Labor...

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Dick Durbin back in Catfood mode

What an appeasin' fellow.He supported the draconian Simpson-Bowles report on the Catfood Commission.  Was a member of the Gang of 6.  And now a member of the secretive, anti-Democratic Gang of 12....

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Central banks move to provide liquidity. U.S. hiring up more than expected

The U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the central banks of Canada, England, Japan, and Switerzland Wednesday announced plans to coordinate their actions to boost liquidity in the...

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120,000 job gain in November. Unemployment rate at 8.6%

Job creation remained weak in the U.S. during November, with just 120,000 new positions created, though the unemployment rate slid to 8.6 percent, a government report showed Friday. The rate fell from...

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Ron Wyden won't stop digging

"When you're in a hole, stop digging."Apparently Ron Wyden doesn't believe in this saying.  After teaming up with Randian Paul Ryan to put forth a proposal undermining the universality of Medicare, the...

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Democrats bash Ryan-Wyden plan to end Medicare as we know it

Democrats are not reacting to kindly to the Paul Ryan-Ron "Useful Idiot" Wyden plan to end Medicare as we know it by making Medicare, essentially, a voluntary program."lipstick on the pig,” says Sen....

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Santorum: Get Rid of Medicare

It's no secret that Ricky Santorum is a big backer of the Ryan plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program.  Which would end Medicare as we know it.  But Santorum wants to go Ryan one better.  He...

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Job gain of 200,000 in December. Rate drops to 8.5%

The Labor Department said Friday that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since February 2009. The rate has dropped for four straight...

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Bill Daley resigns

Halellujah!Bill Daley is stepping down as White House chief of staff, the Chicago Tribune reports. Budget director Jack Lew will take over the post as the President Obama heads into a tough election...

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