"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
"If the United States moves ahead by itself [on cap-and-trade]... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than one percent."
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.
During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."
Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II -- more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.
ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."
Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day."
"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war.”
Under the "Cash for Clunkers" program, "all we've got to do is ... go to a local junkyard, all you've got to do is tow it to your house. And you're going to get $4,500."
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."
"Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it."
"Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration."
"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."
Oil money from federal leases "can only be used to clean up the mess and damages from drilling."
In Texas, "the No. 1 name for new male babies — many of whom will vote one day — is Jose."
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