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**Written by Doug Powers The barbecue for which Charlotte, NC is famous (unbeknownst to Charlotte, NC) is evidently so good that other factors were overlooked when choosing a site for the People’s Convention this year, such as that only 3.2 percent of North Carolina workers are union members. Some aren’t happy: In picking North Carolina [...]

**Written by Doug Powers It’s been announced that Charlotte, North Carolina will be the host city for next year’s Democratic Convention. Michelle Obama just personally informed me in an email — I feel so special: Doug – I am thrilled to make sure you are the first to hear some very exciting news. Charlotte, North [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The State of the Union address & congressional prom night is just a couple of days away, and the kids are getting giddier by the day: Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the chamber, told “FOX News Sunday” that he and newly elected Republican Sen. Mark Kirk from his [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Over the weekend, Congress will be consumed by the important national business that will no doubt involve sending their colleagues text messages that say things like, “OMG, I totally heard that he’s going to ask you to go to the SOTU with him!” Back when this idea was first floated, there [...]

**Written by Doug Powers A recent poll found that the general public knows more about the Constitution than elected officials, and one Congressman is on a mission to validate the poll’s findings: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) believes the Constitution justifies Obamacare’s mandate that people must buy health insurance. According to him, the Constitution’s reference to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Sadly, there are still politicians who are trying hard (and succeeding in too many instances) in forcing a national rollout of the brilliant liberal political model that pounded Detroit into the ground: Detroit’s Ombudsman says a snafu in the finance department has created anxiety for homeowners. WWJ Newsradio 950′s Florence Walton [...]

After decades of indulgent public floggings and ideological fishing expeditions led by chief congressional inquisitor Henry Waxman (see here here here here for starters), Democrats are suddenly worried about abuse of investigative powers. Let’s all let out a hearty New Year’s snort: The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is warning GOP leaders against [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If you were on the receiving end of this letter, it must have been a little like getting a plea for reinforcements from Custer the day after Little Bighorn: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an outgoing New Year’s Eve wish, asking House campaign supporters to give money to fight back against “shameful [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In the past month, story after story after story has been published mentioning how the 111th Congress is the “most productive in decades.” What a nice spin on an absolute disaster. These people would have reported the Titanic sinking as “Ocean-going public bathing more than ever.” To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Consistent with the claim that Democrat setbacks have been a problem with messaging rather than voters rejecting their policies, it’s being reported that Nancy Pelosi is turning to Hollywood for (more) help: Midway through Philip Rucker and Paul Kane’s story about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s transition to minority leader [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The 2010 Census data may prove to be a final verdict on the undeniable failure of the all-too-lengthy liberal experiment, because Americans are fleeing traditional Democrat strongholds like Tokyo residents from Godzilla: WASHINGTON – The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans [...]

Taxpayers ask Sanders the same question

**Written by Doug Powers Isn’t it horrible when a bunch of bureaucrats make you leave the town where your home is and where your kids have gone to school for the past couple of years in order to fly to another city just to prove you live there? I hate when that happens: Rahm Emanuel’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers A mere year or two ago, this kind of thing would have been blasphemy of the highest order, punishable by several lashes with the MSM’s “racist” tag and a prime time “Worst Person in the World” badge of honor from Olbermann — and that’s just for Tea Party types. If a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Yet another item to add to the Obamacare “unintended consequences” laundry list: In an unintended consequence of the new health care law, drug companies have begun notifying children’s hospitals around the country that they no longer qualify for large discounts on drugs used to treat rare medical conditions. As a result, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The House voted 333-79 to make Charles Rangel the first Representative in 27 years to be censured. In congressional terms, a censure is just one notch below expulsion and a half-notch above having to write “I will not be corrupt and I will pay all the taxes I owe” 500 times [...]

Longtime readers of this blog are familiar with how open-borders lawmakers in both major political parties use special congressional legislation to grant amnesty to individual illegal aliens seeking to evade deportation orders. Review my special reports from 2003 and 2007 on how the private relief bill process works. You can see the more than 100-plus [...]

**Written by Doug Powers James Carville and Sarah Palin have found common ground on an issue. From Politico: Speaking to reporters Thursday, Democratic strategist James Carville dropped this one-liner: “If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he’d have two.” [video link at end of post - DP] The quote [...]

Tough to swallow

Drain the swamp? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Corruptocrat Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) faces his delayed House ethics trial today at 9am Eastern — though reports say he may not show. Stay tuned for updates. CSPAN-3 is supposed to carry the proceedings – online stream is here. Rangel is expected to stand alone before the panel without a defense [...]

The Republicans are in charge

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**Written by Doug Powers It’s hard to believe it’s been over ten years since I established PETAB, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Alec Baldwin — and the cheap website still somehow remains. Maybe that’s a sign. PETAB was established, if memory serves, in the late 1990′s as a way of saying, “Hey Alec, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers What Democrat staffer riding a wave of Hope & Change into Capitol Hill after the 2008 election would have guessed that a mere two years later they’d need to be offered access to grief counselors? From Politico: A staffer for a congressional Democrat who came up short on Tuesday reports that [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Hey, you know what would help Obama reconnect with the voters? Some lunatic murdering 168 people like when Clinton was president! From Mediaite: Mark Penn, Democratic strategist and former chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, let out the kind of doozy, on last night’s Hardball, that must be seen to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama in late January of 2009: Challenged by one Republican senator over the contents of the [economic stimulus] package, the new president, according to participants, replied: “I won.” [...] With those two words — “I won” — the Democratic president let the Republicans know that debate has been put to [...]

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