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Wrapping himself in the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt's "National Greatness" agenda, President Obama urged the nation to stand strong and unite behind ... his umpteenth regulatory czar. Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat. If Richard Cordray, the stalled White House nominee to enforce the Dodd-Frank financial bureaucracy, is not approved, the wheedler-in-chief warned in Osawatomie, Kan.: "Every day we go without a consumer watchdog in place is another day when a student or a senior citizen or member of our Armed Forces could be tricked into a loan they can't afford -- something that...

Presidential electors met in state capitals around the United States on Monday to confirm last month's presidential election results that will make Barack Obama the 44th U.S. president on January 20. It is a tradition that goes back to the beginning of the U.S. republic and the first presidential election in 1789.... In all but two states, the winner of the popular vote is awarded all of that state's electoral votes. The exceptions are Maine and Nebraska, which award electoral votes both statewide and by congressional district. The electoral vote count in the various state capitals is largely ceremonial in...

The Minnesota Circus By Philip Klein on 11.25.08 @ 5:18PM Earlier today, I spoke to several Norm Coleman campaign representatives to get their perspective on the ongoing recount. Here are some of the things they emphasized: -- They believed the current margin was somewhere in the middle of the 160 to 211 vote range. -- They were confident that Franken did not make the gains he should have in the highly Democratic and populated Hennepin, Ramsey, and St. Louis counties. They said they were basing this claim on the hard count, not on the fact that Coleman challenges were removing...