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Small businesses create nearly 80 percent of the new jobs in the American economy, and Barack Obama is proposing that the bulk of their job-creating profits should be sent to Washington. Since the mid-1990s, the small business sector has created 78.9 percent of the net new jobs in the United States, reports the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration. Sen. Obama is claiming that his proposed tax hike on incomes over $250,000 will hardly stifle job creation in this key job-producing sector because "98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000." The 98 percent figure might...

Biden had a lot of facts wrong, starting with his Constitutional citation (didn't he learn anything while bullying all those Supreme Court nominees?). He didn't tell the truth when he said Obama never offered to sit down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad, he fibbed about the clean coal line, and Palin, not Biden had the gist of Gen. McKiernan's comments on Afghanistan. But those weren't the real problem. The real issue is that Joe Biden talked, acted, and performed like a guy who has been a senator for 36 years. Palin didn't. And right now Americans hate just about everyone in Washington.

Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate was a winner for the Republican ticket. Depending on your barometer, Governor Sarah Palin may or may not have hit a home run tonight – I say she smacked a two-run triple into the gap – but she unquestionably came up huge, foiling (and probably disappointing) her tongue-watering critics, standing her ground admirably, going toe-to-toe with the time-worn, grizzled sigh-master, Senator Joe Biden. It wasn’t a performance for the ages in the classic sense, but it was one of the most personable and likeable performances I have ever seen in a debate – and it will...

PITTSBURGH – Barack Obama's camp is unloading on Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin after Palin described herself as a "pit bull" and then tore into Obama in a tough convention speech. "There wasn't one thing that she said about Obama or what he's proposing that's true," fumed Obama's strategist David Axelrod, speaking to reporters aboard Obama's campaign plane. Axelrod defended Obama against one of Palin's most biting lines, when she ridiculed a favorite part of Obama's resume, saying: "I guess a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer -- except that you have actual responsibilities." "They...

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