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...thing. But their evidence is almost always mere innuendo. Consider The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, who leads a cottage industry of voter-fraud hyperventilators. The day before the election, Fund laughably tried to tie ACORN, that all-purpose conservative bugaboo, to anticipated wrong-doings in New Jersey: “Philly operatives associated in the past with ACORN may now be advising their Jersey cousins,” he warned. In other words, black people—and, furthermore, black people voting...
...gall to bring the issue up. When the government takes a right away, or makes it harder to exercise, that’s a much more serious offense than an individual’s abuse of her prerogative. So, ignore conservatives’ crocodile tears over voter fraud; New Jersey may be home to money-laundering mayors and kidney-selling rabbis, but it’s not, you know, Afghanistan...
...Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan, whose amendment restricting abortion coverage on all policies sold through the new insurance exchange paved the way for passage of health reform in the House of Representatives, vows that "there will be hell to pay" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation. Senate moderates like Ben Nelson and Kent Conrad have stopped short of demanding the exact Stupak language, but have warned that weak abortion restrictions could force them to vote no on health reform. Abortion-rights advocates, who are still stunned by the last-minute deal that House...
...Stupak in mid-September, after the White House was stunned to learn that the Capps amendment hadn't eliminated pro-life concerns, it was with an impatient message. "Look, try to get this thing worked out among the Democrats," Stupak said Obama told him, according to the New York Times. Others wish Obama had played the role of negotiator himself. "I wish the White House had stepped in," said one Catholic Democrat involved in negotiations. "The President is very good at getting people to talk to each other - we really could have used his leadership on this...
Trade Trade between the U.S. and China has been a heated subject in recent months. After Obama imposed tariffs in September of up to 35% on Chinese-made tires to protect U.S. jobs due to a surge in Chinese imports, China retaliated in October with new levies on nylon imports. This month, the U.S. slapped duties of up to 99% on some Chinese-made steel pipes. China announced soon after that it was looking into imports of U.S.-made cars from manufacturers that received government support. The trend has economists worried about a trade war. But U.S. officials dismiss that...