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Obama is trying to use his executive powers to enforce the Dream Act even though Congress couldn’t pass the legislation. – The Right Scoop

“uncertainty about federal policy is diminishing household and business spending and that uncertainty covers a whole set of policies: It covers tax policy, it covers regulatory policy and it covers health policy.”

Our normally reliable Republican source reports that Mr. Perry has surveyed the field and decided to get in the race later this summer, perhaps around the time of the national prayer meeting that Mr. Perry is hosting on August 6 at a Houston football stadium. – WSJ

Maybe after the 2012 campaign is over Obama will actually have a budget plan. Maybe.

[W]hen Democrats talk about “leadership,” what they really mean is more spending and tax increases?

“All politics all the time” Bill Kristol, Editor of Weekly Standard says the announcement of the release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve is purely political and Obama is following “the advice of David Axelrod instead of David Petraeus” in determining what our troop schedule should be in Afghanistan.

The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, helped inspire a terror plot in which two men planned to attack a military recruiting station in Seattle, according to a federal complaint filed Thursday. The men were arrested Wednesday night.

In campaign mode Obama told a Manhattan fundraiser that he “will keep fighting” for gays right to marry.

The survey results exploded two major claims repeatedly made by Obama during and since the conclusion of the health care debate: “If you like your health plan, you can keep it” and “It will not add one penny to the deficit.”

Is there a new candidate in town? Texas Governor Rick Perry is exciting some conservatives. Hear what the Trifecta gang thinks about this pistol packing Texan and his chances against candidates like Pawlenty and Bachmann.