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Getting the drop on cough medicine

Washington Times - Commentary  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 05:16 PM EST

The Food and Drug Administration, consistently overstepping its food-safety charter to promote itself as enlightened custodian of the masses, has already spent the summer waging a war to further expand the nanny state - e-cigarettes, plastic containers and cough medicines have all become targets for an expanded regulatory regime and ...

Dagong sounds the gong on U.S. debt

Washington Times - Commentary  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 05:16 PM EST

The big three credit-rating agencies that totally missed the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market - Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch - still give the United States a AAA credit rating. But there's a newcomer in the credit-rating game - Dagong Global Credit Rating - which has a very ...

New House Polls Show More Trouble for Dems

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 04:48 PM EST

The Republican-oriented American Action Forum has been polling across the country, in an attempt to gauge where certain competitive House races stand. Their latest round covers districts in the West. The results: -AZ-01: Republican Paul Gosar leads Democratic incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick 47 percent to 41 percent. -AZ-05: Republican Dave Schweikert leads Democratic incumbent Harry Mitchell 50 percent to 44 percent. -AZ-08: Republican Jesse Kelly ties Democratic incumbent Gabby Giffords at 46 percent. -CA-11: Repbulican David Harmer leads Democratic incumbent Jerry McNerney 45 percent to 44...

Best of the Web Today: James Lee's Awakening

Wall St. Journal - Opinion  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 04:42 PM EST

A lesson in the dangers of extremist rhetoric.

Obama, Abbas, Abdullah and Netanyahu at White House Dinner

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 04:07 PM EST

Remarks by President Obama, President Mubarak, His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas Before Working Dinner 7:05 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening, everyone. Tomorrow, after nearly two years, Israelis and Palestinians will resume direct talks in pursuit of a goal that we all share -- two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. Tonight, I'm pleased to welcome to the White House key partners in this effort, along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the representative of our Quartet partners, former Prime...

Speak of the devil: Alarmist scientists issue call for scary scenarios at AGU conference

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 03:55 PM EST

Global warming alarmist scientists Steve Sherwood (University of New South Wales) and Matthew Huber (Purdue University) have asked colleagues to develop scary scenarios for their session at the December 13-14, 2010 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

The Right Needs to Wake up to Net Neutrality

Canada Free Press  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 03:48 PM EST

If you are as worried as I am about the left’s effort to force ever larger amounts of big government onto our lives, then you should be looking into the issue of Net Neutrality. To that end a few times a week I’ll be posting some links and info about Net Neutrality to help you all get your feet wet on this important issue.

Rick Scott Taps 'Barrier Breaker' for Lt. Governor

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 02:46 PM EST

Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott announced on Thursday that state Rep. Jennifer Carroll is his pick for lieutenant governor. Carroll becomes the first African-American Republican woman to run on a statewide ticket in Florida. Calling her 'the embodiment of the American dream,' the Scott campaign highlighted Carroll's compelling biography, noting that she was born in Trinidad before 'legally immigrating' to the United States, where she served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy before becoming a small business owner and state legislator. 'Her conservative...

Daniel Henninger: If Saddam Had Stayed

Wall St. Journal - Opinion  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 02:04 PM EST

Saddam would have joined the nuclear bad-boys club with Iran and North Korea.

Does the New Yorker Even Know What Free Market Think Tanks Do

The Insider Online  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 01:37 PM EST

Last week, a New Yorker article described David and Charles Koch's generous philanthropy toward free-market think tanks as a product of pro-corporate economic self-interest. But if that were really true, as Tim Carney points out, then they would not fund...

Portman Maintains Lead in Ohio Senate Race

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 01:29 PM EST

In one of the most watched Senate races this year, Republican Rob Portman continues to lead Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in the race for retiring Republican Sen. George Voinovich's seat, according to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports. Democrats across the country hope to tie this year's Republican candidates to George W. Bush, and Ohio Democrats see Portman, who served as budget director and trade representative in the Bush administration, as a ripe target. Fisher has been relentless in his attacks on Portman's Bush administration history, but nevertheless trails Portman by six...

Prime Time Obama: Self-Congratulatory and Self-Delusional

Accuracy In Media  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 01:23 PM EST

On Fox News Channel’s top-rated Fox & Friends, host Gretchen Carlson would not allow the White House press secretary to do what his ilk to do best: revise history . Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, during what he obviously believed was  a Tuesday morning spin session, attempted to evade and avoid direct questions about President Barack Obama’s and Vice President Joe [...]

Portman Grows Lead Over Fisher in Latest OH Poll

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 01:22 PM EST

A new poll out this morning in Ohio's open Senate race from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows Republican Rob Portman opening up a lead over Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher. Portman led Fisher 45 percent to 38 percent in the poll of 475 likely Ohio voters surveyed August 27th to 29th. The margin of error was 4.5 percent. Voters have a similar lack of familiarity for both candidates: Forty-four percent said they're not sure what their opinion is of Fisher, and 43 percent said the same of Portman. But Portman's favorability rating among those with an opinion is...

The Hating Game

Wall St. Journal - Opinion  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 12:24 PM EST

California's Boxer and Fiorina made it clear they don't like each other with a series of personal attacks during their debate.

The Crystal Ball's Labor Day Predictions

RealClearPolitics - Articles  | Links  | Related | Sep 02, 2010 12:24 PM EST

For decades I've advised students to let the facts speak for themselves, while avoiding the indulgence of shouting at the facts. In other words, we should take in all the available, reliable information; process it; and let the emerging mosaic tell its story-whether the picture pleases or not. The human (and partisan) tendency to twist facts into pretzels in order to produce a desired result must be avoided at all costs. We've been patient and cautious here at the Crystal Ball as a year's worth of facts has accumulated. We've sifted the polls, cranked up the models, and...