Jan 13, 2016 – Image from Roxana Gonzalez / Shutterstock Those of you who watched the State of the Union address last night know that President Obama … Here is what they have note: Last year, 72 of the recovered counties were in Texas, the most of any state. … of the Union addressed.…

Jan 13, 2016 – To elaborate: The good: This is the last State of the Union speech that Barack Obama will ever do.   … He has done his last State of the Union, and You. Are. Still. Here. … To sum up: this is the State of the Union address that the country largely deserved, honestly.  …

Jan 12, 2016 – Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was tapped to give the official Republican response to the State of the Union tonight … Which is interesting, because the speech was only incidentally about Barack Obama’s State of the Union.   … The bottom-feeders, professional shills, and other charming partisan remoras* that now orbit the Trump campaign have the right of it…

Jan 12, 2016 – After Obama’s State of the Union, we all deserve a little levity. … The latest installment of the continuing adventures of the nation’s most entertaining political state features Republican Representative … But nothing can change the fact that “Did you just give me the finger?” is now part of the permanent record of Wisconsin.  …

Jan 12, 2016 – Obama’s State of the Union speech was more focused on overarching rhetoric than specific policy proposals. … As Wolf Blitzer noted before the speech began, the timing of Iran’s apparent capture of two of our naval boats makes this an, um, “ … It’s just mind boggling to find him this disconnected from the events of the world.…

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Jan 12, 2016 – job, and the candidate with the best chance of winning the job. … (In an all-male electorate, the Republican Party of that age was composed disproportionately of Union Army veterans). … Marked as a star coming out of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he started off on the traditional path of the elite of the DC bar…

Jan 12, 2016 – For some reason, people watch the State of the Union Address every year. … his push to close Guantanamo in this year’s State of the Union address. … been a staple of Obama State of the Union speeches since his inaugural year.…

Jan 12, 2016 – We’ll talk about his spoof of tonight’s State of the Union speech, his support for Ted Cruz, and the push for states’ rights. … Related Links: Write Obama’s State of the Union Speech Texas State Senator Brandon Creighton Follow Brandon Creighton on Twitter … Follow Brad on Twitter Subscribe to The Transom The hosts and guests of Coffee and Markets speak only for ourselves, not…

Jan 12, 2016 – CNN reports that President Barack Obama has decided to go ‘non-traditional’ for his last State of the Union address; the article even … the last year of his reign. … There is a reason, in other words, why Congress went from one of the most Democratic-dominated ones in recent history to one of the…

Jan 11, 2016 – What apparently provoked Trump’s ire was the Union-Leader’s endorsement of Chris Christie in the Republican primary. … The debate, scheduled for Feb. 6 from the campus of St. … fewer than a dozen members of a union at the station based in Manchester.…

Jan 11, 2016 – lead pastor of a church in the suburbs of L.A.   … We need to win the minds of the next generation of voters with ideas not hate.   … His next “stunt” is that he is going to leave an empty seat at his next State of the Union address in remembrance to all those lost…

Jan 29, 2016 – The initial stories carried overtones on the killing of the thug Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. … In the context of the general temper of the standoff and of Linicum’s own statements, assuming that he had made the decision to go … the Union.…

Jan 26, 2016 – One of the key features of Hillary Clinton’s defense in the metastasizing scandal surrounding her mishandling and compromising highly … Sherman cited the example of Clinton’s September 2011 visit to the United Nations General Assembly, where the then-Secretary-of-State … met with Lady Ashton of the European Union.…

Jan 25, 2016 – You may not be aware that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a bit of a chronic cough problem – one that was on full … that State of the Union address and we’re still hearing about it years later. … You see, back during the Cold War, we had this thing called ‘Kremlinology;’ basically, the Soviet Union was run by a bunch of paranoid…

Jan 22, 2016 – For example, in Pennsylvania, fewer than 1 percent of public school teachers voted for the union representing them. … In nearly every case, the original election authorizing a particular union, usually the Pennsylvania State Education Association or … One of the key elements of that law – the one that the Left fought tooth and nail, right down to the bitter end – was the ending of…

Feb 9, 2016 – of their state. … , Jimmy Settles, Vice-President of the UAW’s Ford department, discussed the effect of Right-to-Work for labor unions. … The bill, having passed both houses of the legislature, now goes to the Governor for either his signature or veto.…

Feb 8, 2016 – Christie joined Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union where Clinton was also a guest.  … And when the two saw each other on set, this happened: Only on @CNNSotu !!! … Chris Christie:  the experienced Democrat schmoozer.…

Feb 7, 2016 – Chris Christie was on Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” show and took the opportunity to crow a bit about last night’s debate and … was a march among some of the chattering class to anoint Senator Rubio. … He also provides the media with a tool to chip away at Rubio and it will accelerate the velocity of the Rubio vs.…

Feb 6, 2016 – The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office has crunched the numbers, and they are predicting record turnout in the Republican … According to the New Hampshire Union-Leader: CONCORD — Secretary of State Bill Gardner is predicting a record 550,000 votes will … He believes about 50,000 people will register the day of the primary, down somewhat from the record of 61,000 same-day registrants.…

Feb 2, 2016 – On the second anniversary of killing the groundhog on Groundhog Day, Bill de Blasio is viewed with a lot of suspicion here in New … As the Post notes, if elected, Ulrich would be the youngest Mayor of New York since 1889. … Ulrich married the Dominican-born Yadira Moran, a Democrat (though he says he is in the process of converting her).…

Feb 1, 2016 – In mid-January, just before the President’s final State of the Union address, Iran took American sailors captive, forced them to … Tehran’s nuclear program, awarded the Fath (Victory) medal to the head of the navy of the Revolutionary Guards and four commanders … But America is full of Obama drones now. Democrats of even as recent as the 80s and 90s are just that, relics of the past.…

Dec 26, 2015 – the first big things that will happen is President Obama’s final State of the Union address. … on the use of any funds to purchase or make ready any prison inside the country for the purpose of housing the terrorists and a ban … on Guantanamo it is entirely probable that come the State of the Union speech Obama will announce that he’s going to use an executive…

Dec 21, 2015 – The choice of the outlet was pretty transparent. … For reasons of craven convenience, the Obama administration is pushing the narrative that ISIS is mostly an insurgency-turned-failed-state … Yes, it has territory but the takeaway from the failure of al-Qaeda is that without the trapping of statehood there is no safe haven…

Dec 19, 2015 – On the whole, the national polls tell us very little we didn’t already know. The state polls are a lot more interesting. … So for the sake of my sanity, I’m going to end the discussion with the top line numbers. … Trump with a strong lead, followed by Cruz, followed by Rubio is in third place, and outside the margin of error, in his home state…