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By rochester_veteran
It’s looking like the mid-term elections this coming November could be a disaster for the Democrats. Tea Party activists have made “Remember in November” the battle cry for the upcoming elections and are backing political and economic conservative candidates to turn the tide of big government socialism that’s been brought on during the Obama [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Federal Reserve officials said on Wednesday that high unemployment was likely to stay with us for years to come. From cnbc.com:
U.S. unemployment is likely to stay high for a long time, two Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday, suggesting the U.S. central bank is in no rush to raise its ultra-low interest-rate policy.
The dovish comments, [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Obama, along with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, announced yesterday that the economy is in recovery, regardless of the data, employment figures and how the stock market is performing. From Yahoo News:
President Barack Obama, with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke at his side, insisted the US economy was “strengthening” Tuesday despite foreboding data and [...]

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Even though human induced (anthropogenic) global warming has been exposed as a hoax, the Obama administration will not give up on instituting legislation to tax Americans for it. This from Ben Lieberman of the NY Post
President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.
That’s a Harvard University study’s estimate of [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Bloomberg reported some disturbing news recently on the state of US debt:
President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”
The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product [...]

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There’s been a lot of hoopla lately about Arizona’s measures to reign in their problems with illegal immigration. How do Americans on the whole feel about illegal immigration and border issues? A recent Gallup Poll asked those questions . From CNS News:
A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted May 1-2 shows that 9 out of 10 [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Lorrie Goldstein wrote an informative article in the Toronto Star, “The ‘truthiness’ of those GM ads”. She starts her article explaining the origins of the word “truthiness”:
Political pundits owe a huge debt of gratitude to comedian Stephen Colbert for coining the word “truthiness” on The Colbert Report in 2005.
Because “truthiness,” defined by the [...]

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By rochester_veteran
The Dodd Finance Bill failed to move forward in a test vote last evening. From Michael R. Crittenden and Victoria McGrane of the Wall Street Journal Online:
U.S. Senate Republicans stood together Monday to successfully block lawmakers from moving ahead with sweeping legislation to overhaul U.S. financial markets, a temporary stumble for the Obama administration’s [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Last Thursday (4/15/2010) we received a surprise visit at the Tax Day Rochester Tea Party from Ann Marie Buerkle who’s challenging Dan Maffei for the NY 25th Congressional seat. Ann Marie spoke as a private citizen and here’s the video from her speech:

Tea Partiers have their sights set on voting Dan Maffei out [...]

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By rochester_veteran
I woke up early yesterday (4/15/2010) morning with much excitement in anticipation of the 2010 Tax Day Rochester Tea Party! After I poured myself a cup of coffee, I turned on the TV and tuned it to WHAM TV-13. Mike Deming and Gabe Sukenik were going to be giving interviews. Evan Dawson interviewed Mike [...]

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