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• More Controversy in anti-Obama Dissent

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  

• BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal

  From Big Government: On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot...Although ACORN [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:41pm EST
  

• CNBC: The Real Unemployment Rate

  From CNBC: As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed....According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  

• Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low

  From Rassmussen: Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June...The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:36pm EST
  

• Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center

  From the Washington Post: Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.
  The skeptics have seized upon [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:27pm EST
  

• Upper-Bracket Tax May Be Needed for Afghan War Cost, Levin Says - Bloomberg.com

  From Bloomberg: "Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000”" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  

• Tea partiers turn on each other - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com

  Politico: "After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum....The grass-roots activists driving the movement have become increasingly divided on" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:07am EST
  

• Health care issues: Bundling payments - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | 7:48 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

  From the AP: "THE ISSUE: What can the government do to get doctors and hospitals to deliver cheaper medical services?
  THE POLITICS: Medicare's fee-for-service structure means that doctors, hospitals and other providers have a greater financial incentive to provide large quantities of medical services than to provide high-quality medical services." [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:00am EST
  

• Levin: May be more troubling e-mails from Hasan - Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 | 1:57 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

  From AP: "There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.
  The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:58am EST
  

• Gallup.Com - Daily News, Polls, Public Opinion on Government, Politics, Economics, Management

  Gallup: "Gallup Daily tracking from Nov. 17-19 shows President Barack Obama’s job approval slipping to 49% for the first time in his presidency. Among post-World War II presidents, only Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan dropped below the symbolic majority approval level faster than Obama did."
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:57am EST
  

• State, local budget cuts a time bomb for U.S. jobs | Politics | Reuters

  From Reuters: "Budget shortfalls pose a direct threat to millions of U.S. jobs, many in the private sector, as state and local governments lay off workers and cut spending on contracts and other business services, a think tank said on Thursday.State and local governments will have to raise taxes and" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:55am EST
  

• Senate leader at risk in healthcare battle | Politics | Reuters

  From Reuters: Senate leader at risk in healthcare battle | Politics | Reuters: "Other than President Barack Obama, perhaps no one's political future is riding more on the Senate battle to revamp the healthcare system than the chamber's Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid.
  With Reid already in danger of being" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:54am EST
  

• Top House Democrat questions 9/11 criminal trials | Politics | Reuters

  From Reuters: Top House Democrat questions 9/11 criminal trials | Politics | Reuters: "The chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Representative Ike Skelton, cast doubt on Friday about the Obama administration's decision to try the September 11, 2001, conspirators in a U.S. criminal court.Skelton, a fellow Democrat of" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:51am EST
  

• Healthcare bill faces first Senate test | Politics | Reuters

  From Reuters: Healthcare bill faces first Senate test "The U.S. Senate will cast its first crucial test vote on healthcare reform on Saturday, with Democrats close to reaching the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican opposition and open debate...Senators will vote at 8 p.m. EST on whether to start debate" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:50am EST
  

• Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair - Times Online

  Read Here: Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair - Times Online: "The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:48am EST
  

• California Was Among States With Record Unemployment (Update3) - Bloomberg.com

  Read Here: California Was Among States With Record Unemployment (Update3) - Bloomberg.com: "Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida registered record rates of unemployment in October as weakness in the labor market stretches from coast to coast and limits the economic recovery.
  Joblessness rose in" [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:46am EST
  

• Germany warns US on market bubbles

  From the Financial Times: Germany’s new finance minister has echoed Chinese warnings about the growing threat of fresh global asset price bubbles, fuelled by low US interest rates and a weak dollar. ...Wolfgang Schäuble’s comments highlight official concern in Europe that the risk of further financial market turbulence has been [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:45am EST
  

• GOP Sees 2010 Window, Gloat That Dems Who Opposed Health Care Will Take Dual Heat

  From TPMDC: : Much like Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Sen. Ben Nelson, looks like the 39 Democrats voting against the House health care bill Saturday are getting squeezed from both sides....We've been writing about all the left-leaning campaigns going after Democrats on health care, and plenty of efforts to hit' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  

• Inhofe to Boxer - We Won, You Lost, Now Get a Life!

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:19pm EST
  

• Guidelines Ditch Annual Pap Smears - ABC News

  From Good Morning America (something I have never typed before:): Pap smears may no longer be called "annuals" if doctors follow new cervical cancer screening recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ....A new recommendation from experts suggests women need fewer pap smears.The group announced today that women [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:18pm EST
  

• 32% Inflation in UCLA Tuition Causes Near Riots (14 Arrested, 1 Tasered

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:06pm EST
  

• Politico: I think Lieberman is the one going Rogue

  From Politico: Sen. Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who’d like to send him packing in 2012....But Lieberman doesn’t seem worried.....“I don’t think about that stuff,” Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:03pm EST
  

• Matt Spalding on Progressivism's Assault on America's Founding

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:25pm EST
  

• Ethics committee: No punishment for Burris

  From the AP: The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn't recommend any punishment....Burris was appointed by disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich,' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  

• Lonewolf Diaries: Church, State, Jesus and Obama.

  From Big Hollywood - Steve Crowder : It’s no secret that the term “Separation of Church and State” has been bastardized beyond recognition by today’s post-ACLU era. Of course the toolbags of Hollywood have always done their very best to warp its meaning into something more lop-sided than Gary Busy’s [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

• Solving the Kissinger Question ..

  From Reuters: The European Union says it finally has the answer to a question long attributed to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: Who do I call if I want to call Europe?..That answer is simple. The secretary of state phones Briton Catherine Ashton, chosen on Thursday as the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:08pm EST
  

• Audit the FED,.... cuz we have no clue what they're trying to do

  From Reuters: - A U.S. congressional panel on Thursday approved a measure to open the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions to government audits, a surprise blow to the central bank's efforts to shield its independence and a signal of frustration with the central bank....The provision, co-sponsored by Republican Representative Ron [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:05pm EST
  

• Reuters: State, local budget cuts a "time bomb" for U.S. jobs

  From Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Budget shortfalls pose a direct threat to millions of U.S. jobs, many in the private sector, as state and local governments lay off workers and cut spending on contracts and other business services, a think tank said on Thursday....State and local governments will have [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:02pm EST
  

• Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

  From Speigel: Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents....At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:52am EST
  

• Two House Republicans To Treasury's Geithner: Resign - ABC News

  From ABCNews: Echoing comments made by a Democratic lawmaker Wednesday night, two Republican members of the Joint Economic Committee today called for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign...Two Republicans call for the treasury secretary's resignation during hearing."It's been a year since the president was elected," the panel's ranking Republican, Rep. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:47am EST
  

• The $100 Million Health Care Vote? - The Note

  From ABC News: What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
  
  Here’s a case study.
  
  On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” ..The section spends [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:45am EST
  

• Reid uncertain of tally as healthcare bill heads for rare Saturday vote - TheHill.com

  From The Hill: The Senate is headed for a rare Saturday vote to advance its major healthcare reform bill without a guarantee of success, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated Thursday....At a rally with supporters of the healthcare reform bill, Reid would not say he had secured commitments from all [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:43am EST
  

• Senate health vote set for Saturday night - TheHill.com

  From The Hill: Senate Democrats have cleared the way for a Saturday night vote to begin the healthcare debate, a Democratic aide said....Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has agreed to relent on his demand for Senate clerks to read aloud the 2,074-page bill and allow the chamber to take a critical [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:42am EST
  

• First females graduate Police College

  From the Official Website of Multi-National Force - Iraq:First females graduate Police College
  Thursday, 19 November 2009
  
  One of the first-ever female Iraqi Police officers to attend and complete training at the Baghdad Police College proudly poses for a photo following the BPC’s latest graduation ceremony, Nov. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Finally, A Congressman With a Solution: Stop Complaining So Much

  Problem is, whose definition of what complaining means are we going to use here? Like hate speech legislation, "set asides" and governement stimulus checks there is more to the intent here than meets the eye.... What a Pansy... From Big Government: Sure, the economy sucks. Unemployment is at least 10.2% [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:23pm EST
  

• How are the two even related, Reverend? Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man' - TheHill.com

  When are people going to see this guy for the charlatan that he is? Rev. Jackson doesn't care about true reform, or civil rights at this point he has just become a party guy that’s looking out for his friends and his personal interests. From The Hill: The Rev. Jesse' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:04pm EST
  

• Angie Harmon - My Kind of Actress

  From Scared Monkeys:Obama and his socialist policies has nothing to do with race....Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist....“Here’s my problem with this, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

• President Obama Tells Troops, "You guys make a pretty good photo op,"

  From the Washington Post:..Obama did not mention the looming decision in his remarks to U.S. troops, referring to the Afghan conflict only by thanking South Korea for its efforts and expressing gratitude to the American soldiers who have served there...But he did discuss the region in his meeting with South [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• President Obama Tells Troops, "You guys make a pretty good photo op,"

  From the Washington Post:..Obama did not mention the looming decision in his remarks to U.S. troops, referring to the Afghan conflict only by thanking South Korea for its efforts and expressing gratitude to the American soldiers who have served there...But he did discuss the region in his meeting with South [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:38am EST
  

• Silencing Desent

  Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:18am EST
  

• Silencing Desent

  Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:18am EST
  

• No Political Purge for now

  From The American Thinker: There has been a story flying around the internet in recent days that the Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the bureaucracy by using a new federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rule requiring that all applicants for career civil service jobs who held political [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

• No Political Purge for now

  From The American Thinker: There has been a story flying around the internet in recent days that the Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the bureaucracy by using a new federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rule requiring that all applicants for career civil service jobs who held political [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

• Will 2010 be the Perfect Storm?

  From the American Thinker: Seven different indicators suggest that 2010 will be a very tough year for the Obama Administration's plans to turn America into a Socialist People's Republic. If some of these indicators pointed one way and others pointed the other way, projections might be murkier. But all the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

• Will 2010 be the Perfect Storm?

  From the American Thinker: Seven different indicators suggest that 2010 will be a very tough year for the Obama Administration's plans to turn America into a Socialist People's Republic. If some of these indicators pointed one way and others pointed the other way, projections might be murkier. But all the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

• Lindsey Graham vs. Attorney General Eric Holder

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:50am EST
  

• Lindsey Graham vs. Attorney General Eric Holder

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:50am EST
  

• McCain Defends Campaign actions with Palin

  From Reuters: U.S. Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday strongly defended the top advisers from his 2008 presidential campaign in the face of sharp criticism from his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin......McCain, in a telephone interview with Reuters, singled out campaign manager Steve Schmidt and senior adviser Nicolle Wallace [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:21am EST
  

• Change or Status Quo

  Politico: He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors...Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since Obama’s Inauguration, 56 percent were given to political appointees and 44 percent have gone to [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:03am EST
  

• Will Senator Mark Warner vote to create a new Frankenstein Federal Agency designed to strangle business recovery?

  Will the chummy relationship between Senator
  Dodd and Senator Warner create this for the
  Business Community of Virginia and the nation??
  
  Posted by MAXIMUS Senator Dodd's bill is very wide-ranging and makes a number of [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:18am EST
  

• POLITICO Breaking News

  Read Here: Windows Live Hotmail: "POLITICO Breaking News:
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  The Senate health reform bill will not allow illegal immigrants to get benefits and prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion, reports Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad. He said that unlike the House bill, there's no surtax on the wealthy," [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:30pm EST
  

• Senate bill weighs in at 2,074 pages - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com

  Read Here: Senate bill weighs in at 2,074 pages - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com: "In the Battle of the Health Bills, the Senate wins out, bulk-wise – weighing in at 2,074 pages.
  The House health reform bill was a mere 1,990 pages when introduced.
  That means the Senate bill" [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:35pm EST
  

• Three of Eight Principles for Thinking Biblically

  
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  

• Is the GOP really back Congressman Cantor? More importantly, have they learned their lesson…..

  ... about the grassroots running this Party and the price of supporting Rhino Candidates.
  
  From A Line of Sight by Bob Beauprez.com: Voters Show Outrage against Democrat Agenda - GOP is Back
  By Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA), House Republican Whip
  
  On Nov. 3, Republicans scored tremendous victories [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  

• Un-freaking-believable...Six-year jail term for Sears Tower plotter

  Read Here"Six-year jail term for Sears Tower plotter
  
  A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to a man accused of
  plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and allegedly swearing allegiance
  to Al-Qaeda.
  " [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:06pm EST
  

• It's A Simple Answer After All

  Now this is a great orator...
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:51pm EST
  

• Axelrod Claims Obama will remove abortion funding ban, Congressman Stupak says, "not so fast!"

  From LifeNews.com --
  Congressman Bart Stupak, whose amendment to ban abortion funding from the House health care bill, has seen President Barack Obama's call and raised him. He says if Obama makes good on his threat to remove the ban in conference committee that he will effectively kill the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:02am EST
  

• Weekly Republican Address: House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:57am EST
  

• Class Act - No Publicity needed just Compassion

  From the L.A. Times:
  Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood....The Bushes instructed the commander of the mourning military base that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service detail, Bush and his [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:01am EST
  

• Match up between Public Option and Healthcare Providers

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:54am EST
  

• Analysis from Stratford Global Intelligence on Deciphering the Mohammed Trial

  Analysis from Stratford Global Intelligence:
  
  Deciphering the Mohammed Trial
  November 16, 2009 | 2035 GMT
  
  By George Friedman
  
  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in federal court in New York. Holder’s decision was driven by the need for the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:32am EST
  

• Obama's error by trial

  From the NY Daily News: The foolhardiness of President Obama's decision to try the mastermind of 9/11 and four cohorts in civilian court grows ever clearer as the outlines of the proceedings take shape....It is offensive that Obama gave his blessings to designating Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his Al Qaeda [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

• Politico - Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats

  From Politico: Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage...Following serious setbacks with independents in off-year elections earlier this month, White House officials attributed the defeats to local factors [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:22am EST
  

• My Personal (Baby) Jesus :)

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:19am EST
  

• McConnell versus Dodd over Finance Regulatory Bill

  From Reuters: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that a Democratic bill to revamp regulation of the financial industry must be revised to win support from his side of the political aisle..."It's a long way from being ready to go forward on any bipartisan basis," McConnell told [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:08am EST
  

• Irony at it's Best...

  ...Obama talks about to much debt being harmful as he spends more than any other President in the history of our country and increases our debt to over 12 Triilion (debt pace greater than Clinton and Bush combined.)From Reuters: President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:04am EST
  

• Current Total Public Debt Outstanding 12,031,299,186,290.07 !!!

  11/16/2009
  
  Current Debt Held by the Public
  7,632,033,766,420.46
  
  Intragovernmental Holdings
  4,399,265,419,869.61
  
  Total Public Debt Outstanding
  12,031,299,186,290.07
  
  Daily History Search Application
  To find the total public debt outstanding on a specific day or days, simply select a single date or date range and click [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:56am EST
  

• Improper US Government Payments Hit $98 Billion

  From CNBC:
  Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 ...One exception to this rule was fraud connected with improper payments under unemployment insurance, which OMB said added up to around one-fifth of the $12 billion in improper [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:50am EST
  

• HHS has not learned from H1N1 mistakes: senators | Politics | Reuters

  Read This: HHS has not learned from H1N1 mistakes: senators Politics Reuters: "U.S. officials raised expectations too high in handling the swine flu
  vaccination campaign and failed to allocate scarce vaccine effectively, two
  influential U.S. senators said on Monday.
  Connecticut independent Senator
  Joseph Lieberman and Maine Republican Susan Collins" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:49pm EST
  

• Top Republican senator slams Dodd's regulation bill | Politics | Reuters

  Read Here: Top Republican senator slams Dodd's regulation bill Politics Reuters: " U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that a Democratic
  bill to revamp regulation of the financial industry must be revised to win
  support from his side of the political aisle.'It's a long way from'" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

• Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism - Times Online

  Read Here: Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism - Times Online: "Smith & Wesson, the famed American gunmaker once owned by Tomkins, the
  British conglomerate, expects to nearly double its annual sales in the next
  three to five years as demand for its" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• Vote for Jeremy from Virginia and his Smile Makeover

  
  Vote for me!
  Dentistry
  Gingivitis [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  

• General Assembly Picks Caucus Leadership Team- Nixon and Cox remain..

  ...after leading the Republican Caucus for this current session and picking up five seats this past election, one of my favorite legislators Sam Nixon and MY Representative Majority Whip Kirk Cox (along with Rep Griffith and Howell) stay in their leadership positions for the next session of the General Assembly....From [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:40pm EST
  

• How To Survive The Coming Martial Law In America - Is the Warning Premature or Timely

  ...never been much of an alarmist since I believe that our form of government has a way of self correcting so is this article (warning)crazy, premature or timely? Do I need to go to LOWE's this weekend and by a shovel to start my bomb shelter?
  
   
   Dear [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:02pm EST
  

• THEY ALL BOW !?! Secret White House Powerpoint Revealed!! :)

  Funny powerpoint Presentation - H/T Yankee Phillip
  
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  

• More Lies about Stimulus Job Creation - Jobs created in Congressional Districts that don't Exist..

  From CBS News: Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. ....Discrepancies on government [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:20am EST
  

• Don't Drink the Kool-Aid!

  
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• CMS Report: House Bill Will Raise Health Care Costs, Affect Seniors' Benefits

  From Kaiser Health News:
  A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that the health overhaul bill passed by the House will raise health costs by approximately $289 billion in the next ten years. The report was requested by House Republicans and compiled by CMS'' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:41am EST
  

• The Fed Recieves some Good News - Producer Prices in U.S. Increase Less Than Forecast

  ...holding off inflation.  From Bloomberg:
  Wholesale prices in the U.S. increased in October for just the second time in the past four months, indicating inflation will not be a concern for the Federal Reserve....The 0.3 percent increase in prices paid to factories, farmers and other producers was smaller than [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:33am EST
  

• Beijing Questions Obama's Healthcare Plan and it's Impact on U.S. Deficit

  From Reuters:
  Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions....Boilerplate assurances that America won’t [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:23am EST
  

• The Emergence of the Female Conservative Candidate

  From The Gaurdian/The Observer:
  She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the darling of America's right-wing activists who flock to her appearances. She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives....Sarah Palin? Not quite. Meet [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:56am EST
  

• Unemployment may Top 17%

  From NY Daily News :
  Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost in October, when you include discouraged workers and partially employed workers the figure is a whopping [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:42am EST
  

• Promising all things to all People has it's downside; for President Obama, he's beginning to get it from all sides...

  ....with unfulfilled promises to the radical left....
  From Speigel:
  US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:38am EST
  

• Sesame Street changes as unemployment reaches 30%..."I'm getting my cookies one way or another!" states a hungry blue monster

  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:36pm EST
  

• Government - Don't worry, they're just as confused as you are

  
  The saying goes " a picture says a thousand words", this one says it all!! [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:04pm EST
  

• I'm Free!, I'm Free!

  Read Here:Turkey on NJ Turnpike causes havoc, evades capture | Weird News | Idaho Statesman: "Authorities have stopped trying to capture a wild turkey that calls Interchange 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike home. The bird has been causing havoc for toll collectors and motorists as it runs across" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:05pm EST
  

• Can you really 'unconcede' ?

  Read Here:Hoffman 'unconcedes' in N.Y.-23 House race - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: "Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has 'unconceded' in New York's special House election after reports that the vote margin between him and Rep. Bill Owens (D) has narrowed...Hoffman conceded the race on Election Night after learning" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  

• Paterson Rips White House For NYC 9/11 Trial - wcbstv.com

  From WCBS: Gov. David Paterson openly criticized the White House on Monday, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial...."This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:01pm EST
  

• Trial and Terror by Andrew C. McCarthy on National Review Online

  From NRO and my pal Andy McCarthy: The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration. That it is motivated by politics could not be more [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  

• Outgoing Governor Kaine shows Class by insulting our General Assembly Reps in Video

  After Kaine claimed he wanted to prove the critics wrong during the transition to Governor Elect Bob McDonnell, Kaine does this…
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:35pm EST
  

• Seriously? Crying over Dead Trees

  ....when there are actually more trees now than ever....reality versus emotional misperception of the liberal mind is waay out of control... I can't help but laugh at this video and I actually love nature...why don't they cry over our lost soldiers, the unborn or the sick?
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:24pm EST
  

• ABC News Exclusive: Obama Administration Slashed 60,000 Jobs From Recent Stimulus Report - ABC News

  ABC News: The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data," according to a document obtained by ABC News...A document from the Office of [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  

• AP Poll: Americans fret over health overhaul costs

  From The AP: Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says. That's creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the Senate....Although Americans share a [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:46pm EST
  

• Obama's 71 vehicles: Global Warming Hypocrisy

  Twitter news: President Obama has a 71-car motorcade from the Beijing airport, including Chinese greeting vehicles ! - Ed Henry CNN
  
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  

• FireProof", "Facing the Giants," and now "Courageous."

  From CBN News: Four fathers who are all in law enforcement-who protect and serve together-go through a terrible tragedy," Alex Kendrick, church minister said. "They begin looking at their role as fathers and they begin challenging one another to fulfill God's intention for fathers."
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  

• Conservatives oppose Judge David Hamilton's appointment to U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:29pm EST
  

• Obama Nation

  
  
  
  
  
  Read Here: Obama Nation: A Big Mess They Made [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

• Politico - Health reform's hidden land mines

  From Politico: After all the controversy over the public option, people might think that everyone can sign up right away if Congress passes health reform. ...Or that insurance premiums will go down....Or that they’ll be able to shop around for insurance if they don’t like what their company offers.....Think again....When [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  

• NBC's ObamaVision: Will Peacock News Division Expose the Alarmism?

  From BIG HOLLYWOOS: NBC’s ObamaVision: Will Peacock’s News Division Expose the Alarmism?
  by Patrick Courrielche
  “Why can’t we ignore [global warming]? Because it’s the biggest crisis we’ve ever faced.” — Al Gore, April 24, 2009, Testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Climate Change Legislation....Next week NBC [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  

• From Newsbusters.com: Days after announcing another huge ...

  From Newsbusters.com: Days after announcing another huge layoff, Al Gore's Current TV referred to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a "Gun-Ho" and a "TWILF."
  
  These disgraceful, sexually-charged epithets were part of an attack on prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and came in the form [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:59pm EST