Nov 21, 2009 -
According to researchers, there's a magic number—and it's 40 percent. In a slightly hilarious study, scientists from the University of Leeds found that showing 40 percent of your skin attracts the most men. Exactly how did they nail down this figure?
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Nov 21, 2009 -
by Patrick J. Buchanan
11/20/2009
As George W. Bush famously asked, "Is our children learning?"
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Nov 03, 2009 -
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/02/latest-round-up-of-obama-poll-ratings-by-state/
Latest Round-Up of Obama Poll Ratings by State
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11/2/09
Filed Under:Barack Obama, Guns, Polls, Obama Administration, Poll Watch
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Here's our latest sampling of recent polls that tested President Obama's job approval or favorability ratings at the state level. It's not a scientific or necessarily representative sample, just a roundup of what's available. Updated states are: Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Nov 19, 2009 -
Reid's fuzzy math
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'Reform' bill's true cost is twice advertised price
By JEFFREY H. ANDERSO
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as past versions: 99 percent of the costs don’t kick in until the fifth year of that “10 year” period.
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Nov 19, 2009 -
Although she made her name as Posh Spice in the Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham was in anything but posh surroundings earlier this month during a two-day trip to Clay County, Kentucky. Visiting on behalf of Save the Children USA and accompanied by her 10 ½-year-old son Brooklyn Joseph, Victoria was on hand to gain a better understanding of childhood poverty in the United States.
By her own account, the trip was both eye-opening and inspirational.
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Aug 20, 2009 -
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1297.xml?ReleaseID=1367
President Barack Obama gets a 47 - 48 percent approval rating from Florida voters, down from 58 - 35 percent June 10, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This is President Obama's lowest approval in any national or statewide poll conducted by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University/
Voters approve 55 - 35 percent of the protests against health care reform and reject 79 - 14 percent the argument that these protests are un-American.
Floridians also reject 59 - 37 percent enacting health care reform if it "significantly" increases the federal budget deficit.
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Nov 14, 2009 -
PRO 1
Our government was based on religious principles from the very beginning. The 10 Commandments are the foundation of our moral government.
CON 1.1
Having religious principles does not mean that they wanted to use the government to force religion on the country.
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Nov 13, 2009 -
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too.
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Nov 11, 2009 -
12 reasons unemployment is going to (at least) 12 percent
Posted by: James Pethokoukis (Reuters)
Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg, formerly of Merrill Lynch, thinks the unemployment rate is going to at least 12 percent, maybe even 13 percent. Optimists, Rosenberg explains, underestimate the incredible damage done to the labor market during this downturn. And even before this downturn, the economy was not generating jobs in huge numbers.
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Nov 12, 2009 -
Closed Shop
By Kevin Mooney on 11.12.09 @ 6:07AM
Non-union construction workers could be locked out of new federal projects thanks to an executive order President Obama signed back in February on the sly as part of a payback to organized labor.
The election of Republican governors in Virginia, and especially New Jersey, who are both opposed to union-only favoritism in contracting, could complicate the administration’s efforts, at least on the state level. The loss of New Jersey must be viewed as a particularly acute setback, given how active labor bosses and White House operatives were in their failed effort to secure re-election for a long-time ally.
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