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Senator Reid wants to talk about history
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American Thinker, by Bill Claydon
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Posted By: nobamaplease- 11/28/2009 8:20:39 AM
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On the evening in which 60 Senators who caucus with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) voted to move forward with debate on the 2,074 page "health care" bill, Senator Reid pointed to this as a historical moment: What happened just now has never happened in the long history of the United States Senate. Through congressional town hall meetings, tea parties, and other rallies, Americans have made clear that they oppose this particular
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Obama's Medical Monopoly
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American Thinker, by Scott Lazarowitz
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Posted By: nobamaplease- 11/28/2009 8:08:38 AM
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If there's anything worse than a private sector monopoly, it's a government-run monopoly. The difference is that, in the private sector, everyone is free to compete and remove the monopolist's monopoly status, while a government monopoly forbids competition and compels the citizenry to patronize the government's operation. It is still illegal, for example, to start a business competing with the United States Postal Service, as 19th Century
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Sarah Palin's Visit with Billy Graham:
Dinner, Prayer and a Photo-Op
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Politics Daily, by David Gibson
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Posted By: GaGardener- 11/28/2009 8:01:08 AM
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Sarah Palin has been to the mountaintop -- that would be the mountaintop in western North Carolina where Billy Graham, "America's Pastor," is spending his waning years. (Snip) He may also have burnished her thin foreign policy credentials, though only with the slice of the American electorate that reads the Bible looking for End Times scenarios. Franklin said Palin quizzed Graham what the Bible says about Israel, Iran and Iraq. It's no
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Justice Department Says Acorn
Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts
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New York Times, by Charlie Savage
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Posted By: RightWingGranny- 11/28/2009 7:48:54 AM
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The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp
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New dangers for Dems in 2010
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Chicago Tribune, by Clarence Page
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Posted By: GaGardener- 11/28/2009 6:55:30 AM
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Are storm clouds brewing on the horizon for Democrats? That’s the bad news for Dems from a source that usually prefers news that makes Republicans look bad. When voters were asked if they will “definitely vote” or not in next year’s congressional elections, the latest weekly tracking poll commissioned by the decidedly liberal Daily Kos shows a growing enthusiasm gap in favor of Republicans. It breaks down like this. The first number
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The Pathology of Evil in Politics
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American Thinker, by Andrew Thomas
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Posted By: GaGardener- 11/28/2009 6:47:25 AM
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Do purely evil individuals exist who can hide their true nature from the rest of the world? And are these individuals drawn into politics as a conduit for dominating an unsuspecting and acquiescent populace? (Snip) The question is how do we recognize and ferret out the sociopaths and narcissists currently in power in both political parties? This is an inherently difficult task due to the ability of these psychopaths to disguise their disease. I believe it
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Less of a Catholic
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New York Post, by John Wilson
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Posted By: MissMolly- 11/28/2009 5:34:33 AM
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News broke this week that Thomas Tobin, the Catho lic bishop of Providence, RI, had in 2007 asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to refrain from receiving Communion because of the congressman's support for legalized abortion. The ensuing howls of protest almost universally missed the point. Some Catholic writers charged that Tobin was sowing division within the church and "politicizing" the sacrament. On the pro-choice left, Tobin was flayed for everything from "religious blackmail"
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Tiger Woods said Elin Nordegren,
not car crash, scratched face &
chased him with golf club: report
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New York Daily News, by Rose Davis
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Posted By: MissMolly- 11/28/2009 5:30:10 AM
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Tiger Woods, bolting his Florida mansion after a reported late-night fight with his wife, was found dazed and bleeding Friday after plowing his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree. The world's No. 1 golfer was pulling out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. when he double-bogeyed the getaway in his 2009 Cadillac Escalade, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Wife Elin Nordegren heard the crash from inside the couple's $2.4 million home and went to her
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Property Owners Get Dunked On
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 5:25:42 AM
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New York judges served up what basketball fans call a facial on Tuesday, when an appellate court ruled that the state may seize homes and small businesses in Brooklyn for the benefit of a private developer and the New Jersey Nets. The decision represents a backward step for the effort to protect property rights at the state level since the Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. New London.
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Is Obama's civil liberties
record understandable?
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Salon, by Glenn Greenwald
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 5:18:52 AM
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Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where he's not doing what [he] expected is in the area of detainee and civil liberties issues." (Snip)It's interesting how what was once lambasted as "Constitution-shredding" under George Bush is now nothing more than: Obama's "civil liberties record hasn’t been exactly what I would have wanted."
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Ethanol: Washington's
unmeetable mandate
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Washington Examiner [DC], by Timothy P. Carney
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 5:14:55 AM
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One of Barack Obama's favorite lines of attack on John McCain last election was to criticize McCain for regularly voting against "renewable energy." If you check the 23 votes Obama's campaign cited for this criticism you'll see that largely, Obama was attacking McCain for opposing ethanol subsidies and mandates. Indeed, Obama wanted to require all new cars made in the U.S. to run flex-fuel -- another mandate forcing ethanol on U.S.
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Obama, China’s Straight Man
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National Review Online, by Chris Horner
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 5:09:19 AM
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First the Europeans suckered Al Gore into that phony 1990 baseline for the original Kyoto Protocol, giving them an assumed pass and nailing us. Now it seems the Chinese have suckered a panicked Barack Obama into trading our economy to China for a bag of magic beans. BBC's reliable alarmist Richard Black tells us that the path has just been cleared for Obama's nervous lurch to commit the U.S. politically to Kyoto II energy-use reduction
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Christian leaders' stance on
civil disobedience is dangerous
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Los Angeles Times, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 5:03:21 AM
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sPhilosophers have argued for centuries over whether it is ever justifiable to break the law in the service of a higher cause. The question acquired a new complexity with the advent of societies such as the United States, in which laws were enacted by elected representatives and not decreed by a monarch or dictator. Few today would criticize civil rights activists, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for participating
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Obama going to Copenhagen
too early: Sarkozy
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/28/2009 4:54:56 AM
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday questioned US President Barack Obama's decision to attend the start of upcoming negotiations on global warming instead of the decisive final days. "We can't allow the presence of one single head of state to stymie the world's affairs," Sarkozy told reporters ahead of the Copenhagen conference which opens on December 7. "The decisive moment is December 17 and 18.
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Republican blasts ACORN reprieve
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Boston Globe, by Foon Rhee
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/28/2009 4:52:10 AM
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A top House Republican today blasted a ruling by the Justice Department that allows the Obama administration to pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress passed a law banning the community advocacy group from receiving taxpayers money. Republicans have been on the warpath against ACORN since its voter registration efforts came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Justice Department Questions Retroactive
Ban on Federal Funds to ACORN
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ABC News, by Jake Tapper
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 4:43:15 AM
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The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel this week posted a legal opinion saying that the Obama administration may continue paying the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for contracts signed before Congress in September passed -- and President Obama in October signed -- legislation banning federal funds from going to ACORN. The opinion was written on Oct. 23 by Acting Assistant Attorney General David Barron
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What's NASA and Team
Alarmism so Afraid of?
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American Spectator, by Chris Horner
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 4:40:01 AM
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The alarmists' reaction to CEI's Notice of Intent to Sue NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for withholding data now for nigh on two years has been particularly shrill as regards my FOIA inquiry into the clearance and other deliberations over the non-official activities for the nasty, deceptive, third-party advocacy blog RealClimate.org by one GISS spokesman Gavin Schmidt on official, taxpayer-funded time. When considering that apparently unacceptable Request for transparency
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The GOP's suicide pact
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Washington Post Writers Group, by Kathleen Parker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 11/28/2009 4:35:14 AM
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Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Obama's hope-and-change agenda, are considering a "purity" pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party. Just when independents and moderates were considering revisiting the GOP tent.
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University bubble bursting?
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Scripps Howard, by Jay Ambrose
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/28/2009 4:30:28 AM
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University students are going crazy in California - and yes, I know, that's hardly news, seeing as how the affliction traces back to the 1960s at the very least. But recent angry protests - including the takeover of a building at Berkeley - just may signal something hugely significant, much like the burst of the housing bubble. Let's call it the burst of the university bubble, and let's look at why it might happen -
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White House: State dinner
crashers met Obama
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Associated Press, by Larry Margasak
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/28/2009 4:20:36 AM
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WASHINGTON – This time, the picture is the story. After the Secret Service insisted that President Barack Obama was never endangered by a security breach that allowed a couple to crash his first state dinner, the White House has released a photo showing that not only did the pair get close to Obama, they actually shook hands and talked to him. As the White House was disclosing that the Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi,
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Police to talk to Woods about accident
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Asociated Press, by Doug Ferguson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/28/2009 4:18:07 AM
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There are plenty of vivid details from the car crash that sent Tiger Woods to the hospital: His SUV hit a fire hydrant and a tree; his lips were cut and he had blood in his mouth; his wife smashed a rear window with a golf club to get him out; he briefly lost consciousness. There are also plenty of questions, among them: Where was he going at 2:25 a.m. Friday?
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