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All things considered, Congressional job approval leapt from 19% to 31% from January to February. Are we talking about the same US Congress that just drafted this lame excuse for a government growth bill?

Gee, who didn’t this one coming. GM and Chrysler need more of your tax dollars.

Oh goody, here we go again: Roland Burris now acknowledges attempting to raise money for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

We are going to send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan this spring and summer. Afghanistan is now Obama’s war. Good luck with that.

Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released from prison yesterday. They have been sitting in prison for two years, for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler.

Liberal talker Bill Press says that he wants the Fairness Doctrine because, “I want to make money at it, and I want to be heard.”

Here are some more of the details on this Texas financial firm that was invaded by the Feds yesterday, accused of an $8 billion fraud scheme.

And which political party do you think benefited big time from donations from this Texas financier? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with Democrat.

You may not be shocked by this one: Muslim TV network founder who beheaded his wife received an award from CAIR …. He founded his network to show Muslims in a positive light. Yeah … this ought to do it.

Speaking of this Muslim beheading, it looks like women’s groups are actually taking a stand on this one.

Ok, here’s your daily wealth envy story. This one from Southern California: Wealthy cities discovering they’re not recession-proof.

Young people still seem optimistic about their futures in the United States. Too bad that I can’t share their optimism. They are young. They don’t know any better.

A 17-year-old thinks that he can run the city of Centerville, Iowa. Let us know how that works out for you.

A California professor says that he has found Osama bin Laden using the same techniques used to track endangered species. That sounds about right.

Hey, looks like we’ve got a little home grown slave labor situation in Iowa. What’s wrong, were the illegals too expensive?

Nancy Pelosi says that the federal government may spend even more of your tax dollars to help financial institutions. This is beyond the $700 billion in TARP funds.

Would you agree that Rahm Emanuel is the second most important man in the country, after Barack Obama? If that’s the case, we are in for a long four years. As if we weren’t already.

After his first week in the White House, Obama has an approval rating of 68%. Good, but not a record.

Russ Feingold is going to introduce a Constitutional amendment to end Senate appointments by state governors.

We, the taxpayers, have bailed out auto companies like GM, which are now using the money to built electric cars which are predicted to make up a whopping 5% of the market by 2020. Smart … real smart.

On Friday, auto industry supporters in Congress asked Obama to support another $25 billion in federal loans for car companies to make more fuel efficient cars.

Europe may be the recipient of some of our Gitmo detainees.

For the second time in history, it snowed in the United Arab Emirates. Must be all that global warming.

China is going to take a stab at universal healthcare.

Do you have your Pocket Obama? “It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times.”

Hawaii is considering a state-funded program that would provide airline tickets for homeless people stuck in Hawaii to return home.

You’ll enjoy this use of tax dollars … $135,536 to teach government school children in Bethlehem, PA how to ice skate.

For your entertainment .. here are some of the more odd laws on the books in Minnesota.

A story about a man who jumped into a river on a dare and was paralyzed .. now he has been awarded $76.6 million.

A woman in Iowa was arrested after not returning a library book.

A new study found that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop dementia.

Another study out of Great Britain found that divorce makes men richer.

A man in Australia was fired for his “un-Australian” bathroom habits.

Here’s your unemployable parasite of the day.

Spring is just around the corner and we can look forward to ladies showing their navels once again.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com