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Christie Wins NJ Governor's Race Defeats Corzine

Former U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie has defeated Gov. Jon Corzine in his bid for re-election.

NJ Dems Admit Funding Pro-Daggett Robocall

The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset County voters that slams Republican Chris Christie and promotes independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett.

Conservative Revolt Good News For Republicans

Hoffman, a successful accountant from White Plains, N.Y., sought the GOP nomination to run for the seat left vacant when Obama tapped eight-term Republican John McHugh to be secretary of the Army.

Why Corzine Is In Trouble

"At one point I told him, 'Just stop it,' " said state Senate President Richard J. Codey, a Democrat who preceded Corzine as governor and remains popular.

Reid's Big Miscalculation

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lost the first floor battle of the healthcare reform debate Wednesday when 12 Democrats and one Independent joined all Republicans to defeat a bill to halt Medicare cuts affecting doctors.

Romney Reboots

Romney's strategy in the last campaign was not to run as the social conservatives' candidate. It was to run as the movement-conservative candidate….

NJ: Christie Says Corzine's Attack Will Fall Flat

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, joins the Morning Joe gang to discuss the increasingly bitter fight for the state's top job.

NJ Gubernatorial Q Poll: Chris Christie +1

With independent candidate Chris Daggett increasingly seen as a potential spoiler, it's noteworthy that only 39 percent of his supporters say they're mind is made up, compared to 80 percent of Christie voters and 75 percent of Corzine backers.

Obama As Whiner-In-Chief

As for the Obama administration, whether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing.

Will Obama Veto Obamacare?

With the Senate Finance Committee poised to pass health care legislation, the final contours of the bill that could come out of Congress are starting to come into focus. The bill will contain new taxes on the middle class. It will add to the deficit.

Obama's Bias Toward Unions Is Bad for the Country

The costs of a heavily unionized workforce outweigh the benefits. Organized labor often politicizes the workforce and hinders economic efficiency. Once a workplace is unionized, it's more difficult to fire unproductive workers, and thus a lot harder to hire good ones too.

Obama Snubs Dalai Lama to Appease China

The last time the Dalai Lama visited Washington, President George W. Bush presented the exiled Tibetan leader with the Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. Now the Dalai Lama cannot even get a private meeting with President Obama.

LA AG: ACORN Embezzlement $5MM, not $1MM

Louisiana's attorney general has broadened the scope of an investigation of ACORN to include a possible embezzlement of $5 million a decade ago within the community organization, five times more than previously reported

Obama's Cynical Afghan Ploy

But here's what Obama should be blamed for, and severely: Virtually every fact about Afghanistan that is discouraging him now was known to him (or anyway, told to him) 15 months ago. He extended the commitment anyway, repeatedly and emphatically.

Sarkozy's Contempt For Obama

The contempt with which the president of France regards the president of the United States was displayed in public last week.

Newsvine Lowers Bar For Civil Discourse: A Rebuttal

On September 9th, a shout rang out in the chamber as President Obama addressed a joint session of congress on healthcare.

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Pres Didn't Know Acorn Received Alot of Fed Funds

Obama: "I Didn't Know Acorn Was Getting A Lot Of Federal Money." Video Linked.

Strangers To Dissent, Liberals Try To Stifle It

It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President Obama in his Sept.

Obama Beginning To Look Out of His Depth

Regimes in Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran simply pocket his concessions and carry on as before. The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter.

House Votes To Defund Acorn

WASHINGTON – The House has voted to deny all federal funding for ACORN, the community organizing group that has been caught up in several scandals.

Obama's Dissolving Credibility

This is what Obama's supposed gift for rhetoric amounts to: the ability to tell a smoothly polished bald-faced lie.

Obama's Savings Won't Pay For Health Plan

Despite President Barack Obama's insistence that his $900 billion health care plan won't increase already-huge federal budget deficits, experts say that it would - unless he raised more taxes than he's suggesting he would.

NRO: Joe Wilson Is Rude But Right

Representative Wilson could use a visit from Miss Manners. But he is telling the truth, and President Obama is not.

Van Jones Could Stir Trouble For Obama

Jones' exceptional past is reminiscent of associations noted during the presidential campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama doggedly fended off claims that he was tied to radicals and overzealous activists.

Obama's Next Big Speech, High Risk, High Reward

Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod is promising a far more detail-oriented approach next week — although he's not saying what those specifics will actually be, especially when it comes to the hot-button "public" option proposal dividing liberal and conservative Democr …

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  • ACORN New Orleans Office Raided by Louisiana Attorney General

    In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney's General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN's offices in New Orleans. ACORN's New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association.

  • Uproar as Firms Get Swine-Flu

    BY BETSY MCKAY The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged health officials around the country Thursday to ensure swine-flu vaccine is getting to high-risk groups, after criticism erupted over distribution to some Wall Street firms.

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    Interesting words from fellow Chicagoians.

  • Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP

    Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage.

  • Trouble Ahead For Democrats

    Ayear after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape.

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