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Our Reactionary President
Victor Davis Hanson, TownHall.com
Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.
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Former DNC Chairman Was #1 Cheerleader For Failed $787 Billion Debacle
National Republican Senatorial Committee
But the fact is, 28 months since Kaine and the Democrats’ stimulus was passed, nearly 1.9 million fewer Americans are employed.
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McDonnell expects surplus of at least $100 million
Richmond Times-Dispatch
McDonnell estimated the surplus for fiscal 2011 in an exchange with reporters after he announced that revenue collections in May increased by 17.9 percent over the prior year. It was the 14th month out of the past 15 months in which tax collections exceeded the prior year’s amount.
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Facebook Users Have More Close Friends [STUDY]
Mashable
A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals some interesting details about social networking users, debunking the myth that people who hang on Facebook a lot tend to have less real-life friends and contacts.
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Born on This Day
1890 – Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965)
1917 – Katherine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
1943 – Joan Van Ark, American actress

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna,
which neither you nor your ancestors had known,
to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but
on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. (NIV)
Deuteronomy 8:3

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