A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Sen. Arlen Specter's party switch could "end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees never get out of committee."
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on whether Senate Democrats would seat Roland Burris.
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
Says McCain "voted to let governments charge rape victims" for forensic exams.
McCain "still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work."
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."
"I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce."
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
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