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Obama Bungles Budget Line

Posted on February 23, 2011

President Barack Obama messed up one of his favorite talking points about his 2012 budget proposal at a small business forum in Cleveland.  The president claimed that "I’ve designed a budget that freezes spending for five years and will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade …
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Hoover, Truman & Ike: Mass Deporters?

Posted on July 9, 2010

Q: Did Eisenhower deport 13 million illegal immigrants? Did Hoover and Truman use mass deportations to open jobs for U.S. citizens? A: No. Nothing close to 13 million persons were deported during any administration. All three of these presidents wrestled with a rising tide of illegal immigration, but a long-running …
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