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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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Oyez! Oyez! Obamacare’s Day in Court
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:36 PM :: 5502 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Heritage’s Robert Alt and Edmund Haislmaier have created a guide to the issues before the Court, potential rulings, and their effects ....
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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Obama Whispers Away America's Security
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:31 PM :: 6489 Views :: National News, Ethics
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North Korea is preparing to launch yet another long-range missile, and Iran is in desperate pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies remain unprotected from the threat of nuclear missiles, and now it appears that Obama wants to cede even more ground to Russia....
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
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Banks to Pay only 20% of Mortgage Settlement
By NCPA @ 2:25 PM :: 6321 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...the incentive structure suggests that banks would prefer to write down more than double the amount of investor principal for the same credits while strengthening their own balance sheets and avoiding increased losses....
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Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Hirono, Hanabusa Vote Against Tort Reform
By Congress.org @ 3:09 PM :: 7701 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- Senate: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
- House: Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011
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Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Obamacare Comes before the Supreme Court
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:31 PM :: 4701 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Rare is the occasion when the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather to hear three days of arguments....
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Sunday, March 25, 2012 |
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Report: Hirono Campaign Funds Enrich Husband's Lawfirm
By Selected News Articles @ 12:06 AM :: 16367 Views :: Ethics, Congressional Delegation
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...$20,291 to husband's lawfirm, and an additional $10,310 paid to Hirono: Grand Total: $30,601....
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 |
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Lawsuits, Workers Comp Claims Detail Violence, Retaliation at State DoT
By Selected News Articles @ 4:17 PM :: 9333 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Labor
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...a total of seven employment-based lawsuits against HDOT presently filed in state or federal court, at various stages of litigation, some involving workplace violence in one form or another. Also, there are Workers’ Compensation claims filed as a result of workplace violence at different stages of that process....
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Saturday, March 24, 2012 |
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Pentagon Budget Slashes Military Construction 29%
By Selected News Articles @ 3:05 PM :: 7896 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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$8.5 billion for military construction, down 29 percent ...
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Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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Obamacare's Dreadful Anniversary
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:16 PM :: 4910 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Two years ago today, President Barack Obama signed into law Obamacare, a 2,700-page bill that will radically alter America's health care system and wreak havoc on medical costs, quality of care, and fundamental rights ....
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Hanabusa: I am not a Loan Shark
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 11092 Views :: Ethics, Politicians
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“Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii) collected more than $31,000 in interest on a $125,000 loan….”
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Study: Medicaid Patients Go to Emergency Room More Often
By NCPA @ 11:02 PM :: 5546 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Medicaid beneficiaries have more difficulty getting primary care and they visit hospital emergency departments more often than those with private insurance....
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Firm Sells Solar Panels to Itself, Taxpayers Pay
By NCPA @ 10:58 PM :: 5037 Views :: National News, Ethics
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A heavily subsidized solar company received a U.S. taxpayer loan guarantee to sell solar panels to itself....
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Case: Hirono Fears Debate, Hides Behind Handlers
By Ed Case @ 10:40 PM :: 8014 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Mazie has accepted none because she fears any public exchange of views or comparison of our candidacies and has been instructed to remain behind a carefully scripted campaign front. That is conduct unbecoming a U. S. Senator."
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Van Jones at Abercrombie State Bank Rally: Obama Opponents ‘Hate Everybody In America’
By Selected News Articles @ 3:34 PM :: 8360 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Disgraced former Obama “green jobs czar” Van Jones made an appearance in Hawaii last night in which he ripped on the “American fantasy” and called for socialistic approaches to wealth redistribution, while castigating Obama opponents as America-haters ....
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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International visitor spending in US hits all-time record of $153 billion
By News Release @ 2:21 PM :: 10171 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The U.S. Department of Commerce today released tourism data revealing that international and domestic tourism spending increased 8.1 percent in 2011....
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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FOCUS Act May Save Fishing Crews from Prison
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:46 PM :: 11049 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Schoenwetter was sentenced to eight years in a federal prison—a term longer than what some violent criminals could spend in lockup—for domestic regulatory offenses that did not even violate foreign law.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Obama Mocks Critics As Gas Prices Go Up
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:25 PM :: 3989 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...gas prices keep going up, with no end in sight. But instead of taking action to bring relief to the American people, the Obama Administration is patting itself on the back for a job well done ....
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
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Rebound Rumble: Robotics Meet to Bring 1000 Competitors to Honolulu
By News Release @ 12:56 PM :: 12192 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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More than 1,000 high-school students from around the world will have the opportunity to showcase their hard work after an intense six weeks of designing and building an original robot....
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
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Socialists Cheer 'Potential Champion' Hirono--Single out her Support for Windfarm Scammers
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 PM :: 7257 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"A potential new champion of progressivism is Mazie Hirono...." -- In These Times
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
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Abercrombie's nervous communist Czar: Cap and Trade, and the cost to Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 6:29 AM :: 19979 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Abercrombie in 2009 asked Hawaii to gamble its entire public-sector and private-sector economy on a promise of “Green Jobs” from a "former" communist Czar whose nervous breakdown was healed by a tree-sitter named “Butterfly.” Now they're teaming up to launch a State-owned Bank backed by your tax dollars.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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GOP's Lingle May Keep Senate Pro-Choice Next Year
By Selected News Articles @ 3:12 PM :: 8069 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Olympia Snowe showed her importance to the Senate's pro-choice firewall when she voted against the Blunt Amendment. After she retires her most likely GOP successor on this issue is Hawaii's former governor, Linda Lingle.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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Faking it for the Feds, Abercrombie Prepares to Impose Another ‘Last, Best, and Final Offer’ on HSTA
By Andrew Walden @ 1:34 PM :: 9670 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The HSTA and the Abercrombie administration have fallen into name calling and finger pointing....This is a sure sign that a deal is in the works and they are both in on it.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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Get on the Path to a Balanced Budget
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:16 AM :: 4288 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, will release his budget blueprint today ....
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Monday, March 19, 2012 |
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Honolulu Joins National Rally for Religious Freedom
By News Release @ 4:34 PM :: 12151 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom is being held Friday, March 23 at noon, outside the Prince Kuhio Federal Building 300 Ala Moana Bl, Honolulu.
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Monday, March 19, 2012 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation: How They Voted March 19
By Congress.org @ 3:14 PM :: 6542 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act - Vote Passed (74-22, 4 Not Voting)
The Senate passed this $109 billion bill that would fund transportation programs and projects for the next two years. It is unclear at this time whether the House will pass a two or five year bill.
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Monday, March 19, 2012 |
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Supreme Court to Hear Obamacare Arguments Next Week
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:37 PM :: 4169 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on its constitutionality, bringing this intolerable act to the forefront of the American mind once again and reminding the country that the issue of Obamacare is by no means settled....
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
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Trans-Pacific Carriers Unlikely to Serve Hawaii and Guam
By Selected News Articles @ 11:59 PM :: 11718 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The Holy Grail for many cargo interests shipping by ocean in the domestic Hawaii and Guam trades is an unrequited generational quest to find a way to take advantage of the existing mainline Trans-Pacific container carriers passing regularly Westbound by the islands ....
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
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Feds Hit Rail over 'Lousy Practices of Public Manipulation'
By News Release @ 11:45 PM :: 11246 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Yoshioka’s statement in the Final EIS, “… traffic congestion will be worse in the future with rail than what it is today without rail …”
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
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Windfall: Documentary Nails a Corporate Scam
By Video @ 10:48 PM :: 11527 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Shown on Molokai March 14 and 15--will this must-see film come to your local theater?
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
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Ackerman Exit Boosts Faleomavaega
By Selected News Articles @ 10:08 PM :: 6022 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Many of Faleomavaega’s antics are recounted elsewhere in this blog but just to give an example, after the killing of Osama Bin Laden Faleomavaega rose up on the House floor to demand that President Obama and then-CIA Director Leon Panetta apologize to native Americans for using “Geronimo” as a code word in the operation. Needless to say, he was ignored. Many think he is nuts.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
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Romney wins 83% in Puerto Rico Primary, Completes Sweep of Territories
By Selected News Articles @ 6:58 PM :: 5633 Views :: National News, Ethics
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At 7:22 p.m. ET, with about 18% of total ballots accounted for, the former Massachusetts governor had a substantial lead with more than nearly 20,000 votes -- or 83% of the votes....
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
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North Korea vows satellite launch, with rocket that could reach Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 PM :: 9662 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The obvious purpose, they say, is for North Korea to test the latest version of a missile with a range that could deliver a small nuclear warhead as far as Hawaii, Alaska – or even the US west coast.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 |
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Chicago Tribune: Romney's "island strategy" pays off in delegate race
By Selected News Articles @ 9:02 PM :: 7512 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is sparing no effort to win votes in the U.S. territories and commonwealths ....
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 |
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York: Why do islands play key role in GOP race?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:28 PM :: 7311 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"Governor Romney's wins over the same period in Wyoming, the Northern Marianas, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and American Samoa have helped expand his delegate lead, pushing closer to the nomination."
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 |
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Djou: What I learned in Afghanistan
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:47 PM :: 13801 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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After having served in Afghanistan, after serving with real American heroes, I know that the problems and issues facing our community and our country can be fixed through solid leadership and by each and every one of us coming together to do our small part.
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Friday, March 16, 2012 |
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The Secret Plan to Defend Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:25 PM :: 4402 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This week, The Heritage Foundation's Rob Bluey obtained a four-page strategy memo that outlines a White House-coordinated campaign to force an unwilling public to accept Obamacare.
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Friday, March 16, 2012 |
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United Technologies Dumps Wind Turbine Business
By Selected News Articles @ 1:02 PM :: 5081 Views :: National News, Ethics
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“We’ve gone into this business with the thought that there was going be a renewable energy mandate in this country and there has not been one.”
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
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Molokai Cheers as US Senate Kills Windfarm Tax Credit
By News Release @ 4:39 PM :: 10242 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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In a big victory for the people of Hawaii, our environment, and all American taxpayers, the U.S. Senate this week killed the Production Tax Credit for industrial wind factories ....
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
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Romney Win in Hawaii Credited to Volunteers' Hard Work
By Dylan Nonaka @ 1:58 PM :: 7822 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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The campaign was full of volunteers who worked for months to identify voters ....
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
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A Budget to Save the American Dream
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:47 AM :: 4420 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The national debt is well on its way to $17 trillion, 13 million Americans are out of work, and the country is stuck in the slowest recovery in the post-war era.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
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Romney Delighted by Hawaii Caucus Victory
By News Release @ 8:14 AM :: 7690 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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“I congratulate Mitt Romney on his victory in Hawaii,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
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Over 10,000 Voters Turn out for Hawaii Republican Presidential Caucuses
By News Release @ 7:54 AM :: 7204 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- Newt Gingrich - 1,034
- Rick Santorum - 2,369
- Ron Paul - 1,712
- Mitt Romney - 4,250
- 847 provisional ballots are yet to be counted.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
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ABA Secretly Declares Obama Court Nominees 'Not Qualified'
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:02 AM :: 4399 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...the American Bar Association secretly declared a significant number of the president's nominees to be "not qualified."
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
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Hirono, Hanabusa Vote Against Hydropower, Inouye, Akaka Vote against Keystone
By Congress.org @ 12:16 PM :: 6740 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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- Senate: Keystone XL Pipeline
- House: Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act of 2011
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
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Obama's New Regulations Cost Billions
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:08 PM :: 4699 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On top of the thousands of regulations the Obama Administration has already implemented -- costing America billions of dollars -- more are on the way, promising to continue to drag down the economy and hamper job growth....
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