Top Republicans to White House: Alleged Facts in Your Sestak Memo Appear to Document Lawbreaking

Three top House Republicans sent a letter to the White House counsel Wednesday saying they believe that a memorandum the counsel released purporting to explain the administration’s actions in offering to appoint Rep. Joe Sestak (D.-Pa.) to a federal position present a set of facts that appear to violate the law. 

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Stretched U.S. Military Stops Reef Cleanup Project

 West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) – Military divers are being pulled off a project to clean up an artificial reef off the coast of Florida that turned into an environmental disaster.
 
The divers have spent the last three summers pulling up thousands of tires a mile off the beach at Fort Lauderdale.

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The Green Police Take Over the Country

The most interesting element of the Super Bowl wasn’t the Super Bowl. It was an advertisement for the Audi A3 TDI.

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Poll: More Than Half of Americans Say Health Reform Is Not Worth Increasing the Deficit

A Quinnipiac University poll found that fewer Americans approve of how the president is handling the health care issue and fewer believe health care reform is important enough to warrant increasing the deficit.

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Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist,’ Despite Ties to Yemen

“This incident, like several that have preceded it, demonstrates that an alert and courageous citizenry are far more resilient than an isolated extremist,” President Obama said on Monday. But was the would-be bomber an isolated extremist?

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Napolitano Now Says Airline Security System Failed

A day after saying the system worked, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said her words had been taken out of context.

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Napolitano Announces Obama Administration Plan to Give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.”

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Fox News Channel, Obama Administration Talking

The meeting came a day after Fox anchor Shepard Smith apologized for a “lack of balance” following a political report where the Republican candidate for New Jersey governor was interviewed and the Democratic incumbent wasn’t.

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Stimulus Jobs Overstated by Thousands

An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.

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Pledges, endorsements fly in Crist v. Rubio

By Bill Cotterell

Both Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate have now taken Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge.

Gov. Charlie Crist’s campaign announced this morning that he was the first candidate to sign the “taxpayer protection pledge” of the Washington-based group Americans for Tax Reform. Hours later, ATR announced that former House Speaker Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, had sent in his pledge, too.

By signing, they promise to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses … and oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar-for-dollar by further reducing taxes.”

Norquist, the nationally known president of ATR, has been offering politicians the pledge since 1987. So far, 34 senators and 172 House members have signed, along with six governors and over 1,100 state legislators.

But the governor also pulled off a bit of one-upmanship with another headline — announcing that Sen. Mel Martinez, the man they both want to replace, will serve as a co-chairman of his campaign, along with former U.S. Sen. Connie Mack, the man who gave Crist his start in politics as an office aide more than 20 years ago.