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According to the Washington Examiner, President Obama ventured to Texas in search of more campaign cash. However, while addressing a crowd of donors, Obama actually suggested that the Lone Star State would become a battleground state "soon." On the surface, this seems like a mad thing to say. Texas is about as deep red a state as there is in the union, with all statewide offices and both houses of the legislature in the hands of the Republicans. The last time a Democrat carried Texas, Jimmy Carter was running for president in 1976

On Cavuto now. Judge Napalitano explaining Obama's latest assault. He has ordered Holder to sue every Republican governor, claiming that their states' early voting rules are unconstitutional in that they "confuse minority voters." The judge claims this is a bald-faced move to drain Repub states' funds to defend against this frivolous tyranny. Also expected to make it more difficult for Red states to determine the winner of the presidential election as the count may also be held-up in court by Holder.

A state program that awarded nearly $30 million to Michigan universities for job creation in Competitive Edge Technology sectors has created 153 jobs, a little more than a third of what was projected. The Competitive Edge Technology Grants and Loans program awarded over $100 million to various universities, companies and research firms "to encourage the development of competitive edge technologies to create jobs in the state." Twenty-nine grants totaling over $29 million went to seven Michigan universities in 2006 and were projected to create 411 jobs. A 2011 progress report states that 209 jobs have been created, but 56 jobs...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi was emphatic. Mitt Romney’s refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, she said, makes him unfit to win confirmation as a member of the president’s Cabinet, let alone to hold the high office himself. Sen. Harry Reid went farther: Romney’s refusal to make public more of his tax records makes him unfit to be a dogcatcher. They do not, however, think that standard of transparency should apply to them. The two Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both...

When President Barack Obama hauled off and slapped American small-business owners in the mouth the other day, I wanted to dream of my father. But I didn't have to close my eyes to see my dad. I could do it with my eyes open. All I had to do was think of the driveway of our home, and my dad's car gone before dawn, that old white Chrysler with a push-button transmission. It always started, but there was a hole in the floor and his feet got wet in the rain. So he patched it with concrete mix and kept...

Some of you may remember James Carville’s rather blunt expression of what he understood to be the priory issues in the 1992 election when he said, “The economy, stupid!” This was in response to his view that then-President George H.W. Bush was talking about foreign policy issues more than economic ones, and was intended to serve as a bit of back-handed campaign advice for Bush’s opponent, Bill Clinton. Since then, the expression, in various permutations, has become a trope in American political discourse, intended to convey the impression that its target just doesn’t get it, they just haven’t figured out...

Do you agree with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's decision to decline to certify relaxed regulations for abortion clinics? Yes No Not sure

Without a doubt November is going to bring us the single most important election in the United States since 1860. At that time too the country was on the verge of an irreparable breach, and by the time Lincoln was inaugurated in March of 1861 seven of the eleven eventual confederate states had seceded, with the remaining four gone two months later. I’m certainly not suggesting that the United States is going break apart if Barack Obama defeats Mitt Romney. When citizens go into the voting booth in November they are certainly not being asked to choose between Stars and...

A couple of students have started to camp out in tents and watch over the Joe Paterno statue at Penn State. The sign says "Protect the Paterno statue"

Speech given by anti-Mosque attorney Gavin Boby in Brussels.

The head of Iran’s cultural heritage and tourism organization believes that in addition to economic sanctions, the West is launching another kind of “soft war” on the Islamic republic. Speaking at a ceremony to introduce the nation’s new meteorological department chief, Hassan Mousavi, said that he was “suspicious about the drought in the southern part of the country.” He went on to accuse the West as using “technology” to influence the nation’s climate, saying sand storms, droughts, and other extreme weather were the result of an unspecified method of war. … Last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Western countries...

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Bill, now it’s absolutely ludicrous to suggest, taking the President’s statement, which was in the middle of a speech, that that’s what that said. Mitt Romney’s campaign right now has gone off the deep end, suggesting that they’re reeling in these accusations that they have no answer to. So what they’re trying to do is change the storyline away from his Bain tenure and his investments in foreign tax havens. The bottom line is that President Obama was talking about any business owner, who has been successful, they obviously have pulled themselves up by their boot straps and...

The Episcopals, like many other old guard protesting religions, are in trouble. Jay Akasie tells us that at this year’s annual conclave, the Episcopalian leadership had their most serious discussions about “whether to develop funeral rites for dogs and cats, and whether to ratify resolutions condemning genetically modified foods.” Also “the approval of transgender ordination.” All were approved, naturally. They also issued a sort of “apology to Native Americans for exposing them to Christianity”, and began a chat about how, using “blunt modern language and with politically correct intent” to re-write the “church’s historic” (but now embarrassing) Book of Common...

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The Maastricht Treaty: a disastrous step Thilo Sarrazin is not everbody’s cup of tea. The ex-Bundesbanker and shock-jock critic of Islam in Europe loves to make mischief. But his latest broadside against monetary union in the Frankfurter Allgemeine is spot on. The Maastricht Treaty 20 years ago was a wild lurch into strategic incoherence. Europe’s leaders fell into the trap of Goethe’s Zauberlehrling or Sorcerer’s Apprentice, launching a currency experiment that they could not control. Now the magic word eludes them. They cover up their impotence by deflecting blame onto markets. Mr Sarrazin said EMU has demonstrably failed. Germany must...

An elaborate and illegal camouflaged residence, outfitted with bunk beds and a barbecue patio, has been discovered near a Los Angeles County animal refuge. Eight months ago, Robert Downs, 51, set up a small structure in the woods near the Tujunga Ponds Wildlife Sanctuary in Sunland, Calif. To hide his home from police, Downs, who was previously homeless, sprayed it with camouflage paint and cut down nearby trees, said Johnie Jones, a deputy in the Parks Bureau of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Once again CNN is cheerleading the fight for gay rights, this time within the Boy Scouts. An effusive Starting Point panel welcomed gay activist Zach Wahls on Wednesday and celebrated his cause of pushing the Boy Scouts towards acceptance of openly-gay scouts and leaders. Wahls is no stranger to CNN, as back in May he was lauded as a "very powerful" activist during a soft interview. On Wednesday, the CNN panel oozed admiration for him. "I'm a big fan. I've followed you for a little while," Starting Point regular Margaret Hoover told him. "You're a wonderful spokesman for the effort...

Here we go again. Yet another example of the Obama White House's failed attempt to pick winners and losers and doing so by gambling with our our tax dollars, this time to the tune of $6 million in tax credits and $15.6 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Energy. This company, Amonix, is only 14 months old. How in the world did it qualify for that kind of tax dollar windfall without any kind of track record? Oh: Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., and Gov. Brian Sandoval were among the political leaders who lauded...

While serving 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, William Dillon never thought he'd hear the crack of a bat again, much less sing the national anthem at a big league ballpark. Yet that's exactly what the con-turned-crooner will do Wednesday night in Tampa, Fla. Dillon, who was freed in 2008 after being wrongfully imprisoned for a brutal 1981 murder in Florida's Brevard County, will belt out the Star Spangled Banner at Tropicana Field before the Rays take on the Cleveland Indians tonight. For the budding country singer, who plays with a band made up of exonerated...

To be clear, no one is threatening to deport 20-year-old Lauren Gray. No federal agents have rapped on the door of her family’s home, or at the Lakeview Motor Lodge and Restaurant they’ve owned for 17 years in Trenton. She’s received no phone calls or letters from the Department of Homeland Security telling her she needs to get out of the United States. Yet at 9:30 a.m. on July 31 — if the miracle Gray and her family have been working for does not come through — she will board an American Airlines flight that will take her to Dallas...