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Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar said it would be hard for 2020 presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden’s initiative to find a cure for cancer because “a lot of cancer is environmentally caused.” Co-host Meghan McCain said, “Vice President Biden said he’s going to promise to cure cancer if he’s elected. It’s one of his big promises.” She continued, “He already had a big initiative that he helped government for brain cancer. This should be at the forefront. I don’t know why curing cancer hasn’t been.” Behar said, “To that statement, I would say that...

In wooing federal employee votes on the eve of the election, Barack Obama wrote a series of letters to workers that offer detailed descriptions of how he intends to add muscle to specific government programs, give new power to bureaucrats and roll back some Bush administration policies.-SNIP-Obama wrote to employees in the departments of Labor, Defense, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs, along with the TSA, the EPA and the Social Security Administration. Defense was the only area in which he did not make promises requiring additional spending, the letters show. -SNIP- His letter to HUD employees suggests a...

The Democrats promised to restore bipartisanship and openness, tighten ethics rules for lawmakers, and reign in pork barrel spending in their "first 100 hours" pledge made after taking control of Congress in November 2006. They haven't kept their promises. In fact, they have actually moved in the opposite direction on several of their pledges. Is this what voters really wanted last November? I doubt it. I would venture that the American electorate was fed up with Republicans controlling Congress too long, and tiring of an Iraq war seemingly spiraling towards disaster. The Democrats have sought to exclude Republicans from decision-making...