Lucianne.com News Forum - HomePage - RSS (http://www.lucianne.com/) http://www.lucianne.com/rssfeed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:38:06 GMT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:38:06 GMT Lucianne.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:36:34 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562284 9B868E688A5AA0E5F5304EE3EEBFF3C594E6CAA733582BA4428AA1EA594681A1 Associated Press, by MIKE STOBBE Posted By: redsox nation- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:36:34 GMT A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants. The small study done in Los Angeles County found that less than two'thirds of home kitchens would get an A or B if put through the rigors of a restaurant inspection. At least 14 percent would fail. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:27:55 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562283 8EABCF580CDC839B26D3B43CFFE06BB559C8676D4D12E9F12BCE6BCBE1A634F0 The Hill [Washington, DC], by Russell Berman Posted By: JoniTx- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:27:55 GMT House Democrats are touting their work during the August recess, claiming their members held 1,800 district events to promote their accomplishments and bash Republicans.The frenzied pace is a response to the growing sentiment among the political class that the Democrats’ majority is in danger this November. The party hopes to argue that the doomsday predictions in Washington do not reflect the reality across the country, where they say their candidates are gaining traction. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:26:23 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562282 FE378CD63FA2E257B2A8A5E47AF66214E1FA2EFF004F9739528F97478A1CC406 New York Times, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg Posted By: Desperata- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:26:23 GMT On his first visit back to the White House after leaving the presidency, George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office with his successor, President Obama, for a briefing on the earthquake in Haiti. It was January 2010 — nearly a year to the day after Mr. Bush left office — and it seemed, at the time, like a door might be opening between the two men. But the door, it seems, has remained closed. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:03:42 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562281 6A6D137B321FAFEBF31A5B9FD829D1EB58BFD57B20D3EB1710CC52C1A1C8A353 The Hill [Washington, DC], by Michael O'Brien Posted By: JoniTx- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:03:42 GMT Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R'Ky.) said Thursday he's confident he will remain in that position when new senators head to Washington next year.McConnell, who's served as Senate GOP leader since early 2007, said he's already locked up enough votes to remain in the top position.(Snip) Still, many of the Republican candidates the party needs to win this fall have unseated some incumbent GOP senators in primaries, raising the fear that those new members might be less loyal to party leadership. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:56:28 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562280 B5995913142B2095685D6C7D90AAB44C0E31A46EFBB365334529E3E838EFFF66 Human Events, by Connie Hair Posted By: Jake32- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:56:28 GMT The Obama Administration reportedly held a special workshop this week to help leaders of controversial Muslim groups acquire “direct access” to taxpayer funding for their activities. The event’s main organizer, the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) has long'established ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which fostered many Islamist terror groups. Some of CCMO’s member groups were unindicted co'conspirators in the successfully prosecuted terrorist funding trial against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). Event organizers said they would dedicate themselves to “cutting through red tape” to provide “direct access” to U.S. taxpayer funding for these terrorist funding'related groups. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:53:42 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562279 BB37887EDE340DEAF15B594213B4888EA448EE7604269D1A0A6323B934BB9F4B Mediaite, by Eric Cunningham Posted By: JoniTx- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:53:42 GMT Last night, Glenn Beck had a textbook Glenn Beck'style address in which he hyperbolically dug into both progressive universities and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius within the same 30 seconds.Target 1: Universities.There was a time not too long ago in this country that we used to walk through walls of fire to make sure we weren’t funding Hamas or Hezbollah. I have news for you: there are a lot of universities that are just as dangerous with indoctrination of our children as these terror groups are in Iran or North Korea. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:48:44 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562278 F5254A50179EBA049C0BE16971F365855107A726B666727F45C84B02D4D395AB Politico, by Keach Hagey Posted By: JoniTx- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:48:44 GMT With stories like The Daily Caller’s JournoList scoops and Big Government’s Shirley Sherrod video, a new generation of conservative news websites have driven traffic this summer, so it didn’t come as a huge surprise that Glenn Beck, fresh from staging a march on Washington, announced he was getting in on the action and launching one of his own. After all, with President Barack Obama’s job approval ratings slipping to the low 40s and Republicans poised to make big gains in November, it’s a good time to be right'leaning on the web. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:27:47 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562277 2BB76AC151AD306C99719768689306D2148880BFE219F1E2FC72E9B1FBCF5BEF Slate, by David Weigel Posted By: GaGardener- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:27:47 GMT With not a lot of fanfare, Glenn Beck booked Anchorage's Dena'ina for a September 11 event with no announced program. When I first heard about the event, it was from Palin'watching liberals who assumed '' correctly, it turns out '' that the former governor would attend the rally. (Snip) Instead, I think you're going to see a sequel to Beck's &#34;Restoring Honor&#34; rally. Like I noted in my article on that rally, it wasn't overtly political for the same reasons that his paid speeches aren't overtly political. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:01:18 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562276 592E23A91AD4FCAA2B84BC6D7104040C9C789B21A4EAD441A864CEA19C66006E Investor's Business Daily, by David Hogberg Posted By: slyscribe- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:01:18 GMT Right now Democrats control 26 governorships while Republicans control 24. That is almost certain to flip to the GOP’s advantage after Nov. 2, probably by a wide margin. Assuming that the Republicans are likely to flip a Democrat'held seat in a race where the GOP candidate has led in the last three polls, then they seem poised to move into governor’s mansions in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:12 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562275 FB4F4EED23E18DF6343197579D78E66AA9066D24E0D5AF4591D3091259587793 CNBC.com, by Jeff Cox Posted By: peedaddy- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:12 GMT Despite all the worry about the sluggish US economy, businesses and investors are finding an even bigger reason to be cautious these days: the political mess in Washington. &#34;Businesses—especially smaller businesses, independent businesses—they don't know what their cost structures are going to be because of government'imposed changes,&#34; David Kotok, founder of Cumberland Advisors, said on CNBC this week. &#34;Half the US economy's holding back because of this great uncertainty that's coming from Washington.&#34; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:50:29 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562274 F8BDD02ED314491D5024C2A71996FCA2A098A8DEBB38E2E7C5047B9B522EB0A6 NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:50:29 GMT Gallup might be seeing an historic spread in the Republicans' favor, and even Mark Halperin is predicting GOP gains of as many as 60 seats. But amidst all the Dem panic and gnashing of teeth, the Pelosi party can still count on one true believer: Bill Press. Former California Dem chairman Press has predicted that when results come in on Election Night, GOP leader John Boehner's office will be a &#34;morgue,&#34; while Pelosi's place while Pelosi's place is &#34;where the party's going to be.&#34; Press proferred his hyper'optimistic prediction on this evening's Ed Show, reacting to the report that Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:39:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562273 1CAE7377ADC7450D62DD1E36246F1E6C92DCDA1D1D8E283E88AC90D5B1550D37 Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:39:21 GMT The stimulus law, signed by President Barack Obama in February 2009, authorized $1.1 billion for research on what medical treatments work best for which people. On Wednesday, the Health and Human Services Department announced that $17 million of that taxpayer money will be used to establish a network of PCOR centers. PCOR stands for “patient'centered outcomes research,” also known as “comparative effectiveness research.” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said patient'centered outcomes research “can improve health outcomes” by developing “evidence'based information” about the effectiveness of different treatments. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:36:25 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562272 069B88209E4FB2D82810D7907BEAE56024F2B1C7E0CDA7CD8B4D6C897E2FE9D0 Times'Picayune [New Orleans], by Bob Warren Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:36:25 GMT The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig on fire &#34;and people in the water'' in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermillion Bay, authorities said. Petty Officer Casey Ranel said the rig is around 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay and that a helicopter earlier today reported that it was in fire &#34;and that there was smoke and there were people in the water.'' Five helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route from Coast Guard stations in New Orleans and Houston, Ranel said. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562271 B492390347213E9F560355F3EC77297B8A0CF11EC77A78D8C3DFED5664CEC0FE NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:21 GMT James Lee, the crazed environmentalist that took hostages at Discovery Channel's Maryland headquarters only to be shot and killed by police Wednesday, was &#34;awakened&#34; by Nobel Laureate Al Gore's schlockumentary &#34;An Inconvenient Truth.&#34; As readers are likely aware, armed with several bombs, Lee took three hostages at the Silver Springs facility. When negotiations broke down, police stormed the building killing the gunman (see Eyeblast reports here and here). Before the incident began, Lee posted the following demands at his website savetheplanetprotest.com: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:29 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562270 C567D8FFCCB3DC66C36C58A85A920880C4FD6D174375C082FC000D36E7604A9F NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:29 GMT Sarah Palin on Wednesday went after impotent, limp, gutless reporters that quote anonymous sources to attack her. Chatting with conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity about a number of subjects, the former Alaska governor was asked how she handles all the negative press she gets. &#34;I hear there's some pretty ugly stuff right now coming out and what we predict, we always see a pattern,&#34; Palin said. In her view, much of it now stems from the success of political candidates she's supportng. &#34;I don't read some of it because...impotent, limp and gutless reporters Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:20:00 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562269 BFCE6C3FB1904A3400C9152CABDB44F3B93A2DC04DA0441121398CFAF7362529 New York Post, by Jennifer Gould Keil Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:20:00 GMT The leader of the Ground Zero mosque got hugely valuable tax'exempt status for a Muslim organization he founded after claiming as many as 500 of its members prayed daily in a small, one'bedroom Upper West Side apartment also listed as his wife's residence, The Post has learned. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf sought &#34;church status&#34; '' an official IRS term for a house of worship of any religion '' for the American Sufi Muslim Association, or ASMA, in 1998. The feds granted the request. &#34;Church status&#34; is more than just an exemption '' Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:14:33 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562268 4E7EC6F8275588D364DD810BCE7DD3930C0BAB817F920D96B95E30E699F3F72F Canada Free Press, by Warner Todd Huston Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:14:33 GMT Remember that iftar dinner the president sponsored? The dinner that got him in trouble because he came out in strong support of the mega'mosque at Ground Zero, support from which he backed away the very next day? Well, it turns out he delivered another blatant lie at that dinner, one that slipped under the radar because his support of the Ground Zero Mosque was so controversial. In his remarks at the iftar observance, Obama claimed that the “first” iftar dinner in the White House was hosted by Thomas Jefferson. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:52 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562267 3E866DD0EE9BE01C61B016911E906A754648B1A5E8A1DF53F1B0B45B6E8D3E52 Washington Post Writers Group, by E. J. Dionne Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:52 GMT WASHINGTON '' By insisting Tuesday evening that &#34;it's time to turn the page,&#34; President Obama was talking about more than the Iraq War, and doing much more than reviving one of his most effective slogans from the 2008 campaign. He was also trying to turn the page on a period in which he has found himself on the defensive, his party in a perilous position for November's elections, and his reputation for political mastery in doubt. Obama's Oval Office speech was resolutely nonpolitical in form but profoundly political in its implications. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:04:51 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562266 BCDEC99DC0D17471DB953A5EABCB412EFE07E7FCBFC87483F869478438BE00D2 Dallas Morning News, by Todd J. Gillman Posted By: SkyTexas- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:04:51 GMT WASHINGTON — Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson broke her silence in a scholarship scandal this morning, insisting that she had no idea the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation had rules against awarding college aide to her own relatives. &#34;I never heard the rules even discussed,&#34; she told KRLD'AM (1080). &#34;I can't really blame anyone. I could have researched them myself. But the rules just came to me. One sheet came last year, which I didn't read well, which was my mistake. They were really very ambiguous rules.&#34; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:04:46 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562265 457B0CBB086E6527A5E54131CACF9E26033F542B86E4238072F76B1CF11300A9 Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Susan Estrich Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:04:46 GMT Gallup is out this week with a new poll showing the generic Republican beating the generic Democrat in House contests by 10 points. The gap, Gallup points out, is the biggest one it has seen in midterm generic polls since it started doing them. It is substantially larger than the gap in 1994, when Republicans took control of the House in the first midterm election of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton. Does that mean it's time for Republicans to start picking the drapes for their new leadership offices? Should Nancy Pelosi be packing up her gavel? Not so fast. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:59:25 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562264 481B3E708CC7783D0BA3277C4985AF3C7CCDE19826AF59FC7430F9229C9FAC49 RealClearWorld, by Daniel McGroarty Posted By: Kevin6497- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:59:25 GMT For the vast majority of us who wouldn't know a line of software code from an Egyptian hieroglyph, we're quite comfortable living lives touched by magic. But our virtual world has real roots in a range of arcane minerals, metals and elements found on the Periodic Chart, and distributed unevenly under the Earth's crust. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:03 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562263 185BD6D0FF14468C1421F3DD4E17756E0E7EE213F9DB29C221A3C9D568CCCBC1 Mediaite, by Colby Hall Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:03 GMT Last night Rachel Maddow turned her attention to a story that she had previously been “gleefully ignoring.” Terence Lakin is an army doctor who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because, as Maddow reports, he “thinks President Obama “is secretly foreign and therefore secretly not really president.” But the story has earned Maddow’s attention because a retired three' star general retired three'star Air Force general named Lt. General Thomas McInerney has now filed an affidavit in support of Lakin. Oh, and McInerney often appears on Fox News. So there’s that. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:46:26 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562262 BFC98EE5DA79BFCD7E391845388E3EBC502717F5A5B1EF16EA82A3628CBF5F35 Canada free press, by Daniel Greenfield Posted By: snowcloud- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:46:26 GMT Obama delivered a speech about a war that he exploited for political advantage during the election, and ignored the rest of the time. A war that he tried to sabotage as a Senator, and neglected once in the White House. Where Bush conducted constant conferences with commanders in the field, Obama has let the clashing egos of former Clinton Administration staffers, and a few imported radicals, determine how the war will be conducted. Of all the charges leveled at Bush over the war, he could never be accused of just not giving a damn. Yet that is exactly the case with Obama. <b>Staff added text Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:43:53 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562261 FD1756A82D54CEF93F028FA6FC7F543940A880FA6A2266135B06E299F1549BC2 Boston Herald, by Edward Mason Posted By: JoniTx- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:43:53 GMT Independent gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill blasted Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday for appearing to suggest he wished America wasn’t as free so that last week’s Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke would never have happened.“It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t, but . . . it’s a free country,” Patrick said on the “Jim & Margery Show” on WTKK'FM. “You know, you got to, you got to respect that freedom.”The comment had Cahill lashing out at his liberal rival.“It’s pretty unbelievable and typical of the far left,” Cahill told the Herald. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:28:33 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562260 2073363856BF81CC6B3D23DC9F7F9F46EF818CC62E253F15DB43486941109941 Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:28:33 GMT Why would the former chairman of the Republican National Committee — he ran the GOP for six years during Reagan’s presidency — endorse Democrat Harry Reid in a dead'heat election? Because that GOP bigwig is from the K Street Wing of the Republican Party. Frank Fahrenkopf is now head of the American Gaming Association, the gambling industry’s lobby. This cycle, like last cycle, Fahrenkopf has funded Reid’s reelection. The Las Vegas Review'Journal reports on a recent Fahrenkopf speech: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:24:25 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=562259 67973880908D6CF03E96B0FBACD8E1FC916B758276A15D35456CC780F5D264F3 Fox News, by Dr. Keith Ablow Posted By: KarenJ1- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:24:25 GMT In perilous times, it is wise to know the demons we face. Some have claimed that James Lee, the gunman and hostage killed by police yesterday at the Discovery Channel building, was a terrorist. They point to his writings about the need to save the planet from global warming and his rage that the Discovery Channel has been airing what he considered frivolous programming, while multiple species on the planet face extinction and others—like ants and squirrels—suffer needlessly. We would be lucky if the terrorists we really face were as chaotic and easily identifiable as James Lee.