READING ASSIGNMENTS 

Obama announced a plan yesterday to double the child care tax credit for families ... earning under $85,000.  He also wants the government to create a system for automatic workplace IRAs.

In Obama's State of the Union address this week, he is going to try and re-connect with middle class voters.  Experts are calling it his "feel your pain" moment.

Here's a great article from the Cato Institute on how ignoring overspending by our imperial federal government is costing us jobs.

The Economist on the backlash against big government.

Someone has managed to turn the issue of healthcare reform into a battle of the sexes.

Princess Nancy blames the Congress' inability to get anything done on the unemployment rate.

How many jobs did Obama's stimulus plan create/save?  No one is his administration can say for certain.

The Media Research Center has a list of all the stories that the lamestream media deliberately failed to cover on Barack Obama.

David Boaz of the Cato Institute asks: How many Libertarian voters are there?

From the Pew Research Center ... what are the people's priorities for our president and Congress?  I'll give you a hint: global warming ranks dead last. 

Problems with temperature measuring stations are slowly coming to light.  It's about darn time.

Have you been following the saga of Ellie Light?

Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California government schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for "oral sex."

A Kaiser poll looks at the net favorability of elements of the health care bill.

PSA: how to use a semicolon.

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