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So not much of an improvement there. >> we keep track of or the government keeps track of credit card purchases. what has it done? >> we just got that data. over the past three months credit card balances dropped $6 billion and about 17% below their pre-recession levels of july 2008. any time we see consumers scale back their credit card usage they are risk adverse. >> a lot of fear mongering going on out there. the president talking about default on the debt. john steele gordon writes about bus...

during the christmas break visiting the sacred grounds of sacrifice for a real cause. on the normandy beaches of d-day we stood where americans, brits and canadians mounted the largest, most ambitious and bloodiest amphibious invasion in history. i stood on the deserted, quiet and peaceful omaha beach with a haunting memory on june 6th, 1944, the sand under my feet was red with the blood of americans or my fathers generation, who if they survived the constant machine gunfire from nazi ...

and beyond the pale and outside the purview of a national party to inject itself into personal decisions. we cannot on the one hand rail against democrats for, you know, wanting to take control through government auspices of our lives and our businesses and the like, but then in the same, you know in the next breath, you know have the kind of conversation we have and see the kind of legislation proposed that people interpret as doing that very same thing. so weve got to get off of that...

Charm offensive. yesterday he was on "the view" on cnn and ended his night with leaderman where he announced the top ten things you dont know about mitt romney. >> top ten things you dont know about this man. number ten. >> mitt is short for mitt-thew. i cant begin my day until i read the "washington post" and kim kardashians tweets. i sent six months in a mexican prison for selling black market pillow pets. do i smell as good as i look? no. >> the nun one thing you dont know about mitt romney -...

unconstitutional. and michael steele faces down his own "daily show" puppet. you dont want to miss this. first, lets get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. the egyptian military is calling for an end to more than a week of demonstrations, demanding embattled president mubarak step down after nearly 30 years in power. president obama also challenging mubarak to immediately begin a transfer of power in a brief statement last night, obama went on to praise those calling for democracy in egypt....

Party looks for support, leadership, inspiration for from rush limbaugh, fox news and other news leaders than they do with john steele or eric cantor. the media people are more prominent and part of their lives than the washington republican elite. theyre not engaged. theyre not enthused by the washington republican elite. >> so that tribalist view is the republican doctrine today. the voices you hear in the midwest or california where republicans get elected not as one of those people is are th...

too fat. c-span: where is pointe de hoc? >> guest: its in between omaha and utah beach. its about a hundred-meter-high vertical cliff. i tied a rope at the top and ran it down to the bottom, and i tried to pretend to be a ranger. i got about halfway up, and i decided that this was a mistake so i came down again. c-span: how many are alive today that climbed pointe de hoc? >> guest: about 260 climbed, and i would expect that about 60 of them are still alive. about half of them never got...