Items by BD Pisani

• Massive storm buries central US in snow

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  Massive storm buries central US in snow – 09 dec – A massive storm buried much of the central United States in dangerous ice and snow Wednesday, stranding scores of motorists with massive drifts that shut down major roads and defeated plows. Strong winds created drifts as high as 15 [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:23pm EST
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• Another Second Amendment Lesson

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  There are good and bad people, gentle and cruel people, predators and prey. Yesterday, Americans were once again treated to a stark illustration of why the Second Amendment is the aegis of our God-given human right of self defense . . . [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:56am EST
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• Another Leak in Global Warming Balloon

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  Another Leak in Global Warming Balloon -08 dec – What’s that hissing sound? Al Gore’s fuse? Steam coming from Barbara Boxer’s ears? Probably, but mostly, it’s the sound of gas escaping the climate change balloondoggle. Assuredly, there’s no shortage of UN envirocrats ready and willing to plug the holes. And [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:13pm EST
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• Copenhagen: 1,200 Limos, 140 Private Planes

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  Copenhagen: 1,200 Limos, 140 Private Planes – 07 dec – On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. “We thought [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:21am EST
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• EPA To Declare CO2 Public Danger

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  EPA To Declare CO2 Public Danger – 06 dec – Madness. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:21am EST
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• Democrats Vote To Cut Billions From Medicare

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  Democrats Vote To Cut Billions From Medicare – 06 dec – Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Obama planned to [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:13am EST
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• Researcher Says NASA Hiding Climate Data

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  Researcher Says NASA Hiding Climate Data – 05 dec – The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:19am EST
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• Connecticut School Bans Santa and Christmas Trees

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  Connecticut School Bans Santa and Christmas Trees – 05 dec – Yet another wonder “progressive” school. This one is in Waterbury Connecticut, and calls their Christmas celebration the “Winter Celebration.” Walsh Elementary Principal Erik Brown has banned Christmas parties in classrooms and many decorations since arriving at the school five [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:13am EST
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• Say What? Snow Today In Louisiana and Texas?

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  Say What? Snow Today In Louisiana and Texas? – 04 dec – Acadiana residents — especially those in St. Landry and Evangeline parishes — stand a chance of seeing snowflakes Friday night. The National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a preliminary snowfall forecast for Friday night. Areas north of U.S. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:36am EST
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• Sarahphobia on parade

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  The obsession with Sarah Palin by fearful, psychotic progressives and their State-run Media lackeys has not diminished since her departure from elected political life. If anything, the lunacy has accelerated . . .

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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:22am EST
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• WaPo TV Critic Complains West Point Speech Puts ‘Bright Young President in a Dark New Light’

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  WaPo TV Critic Complains West Point Speech Puts ‘Bright Young President in a Dark New Light’ – 03 dec – Media liberals are proving that all their praise for Obama’s eloquence and charisma depends on how liberal Obama sounds. Look no further than Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales, who [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:07am EST
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• Clueless Boxer Wants ClimateGate Leakers Prosecuted

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  Clueless Boxer Wants ClimateGate Leakers Prosecuted – 03 dec – Leaked e-mails undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon. Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:03am EST
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• AP Promotes Copenhagen Momentum, Ignores ClimateGate

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  AP Promotes Copenhagen Momentum, Ignores ClimateGate – 01 dec – An Associated Press article Sunday read like a virtual advertisement for global legislation on climate change: completely oblivious to the ClimateGate scandal and failing to give one drop of ink to anthropogenic global warming skeptics. The piece, written by the [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:36am EST
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• Transcendental family

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  Family is a reality that transcends the here and now, and marriage is only abstract in law books. To survive, each must be allowed accommodation:

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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:02am EST
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• Climategate: CRU Does Quick U-turn On Documents

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  Climategate: CRU Does Quick U-turn On Documents – 30 nov – Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data – dubbed Climategate – have agreed to publish their figures in full. The U-turn by the university follows a week of controversy [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:40am EST
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• Lobo claims big win in Honduras election

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  Lobo claims big win in Honduras election – 30 nov – Conservative Porfirio Lobo has claimed a large win in the controversial first presidential election in Honduras since a June 28 coup — and vowed to form a national unity government. “There’s no time for more divisions,” a beaming Lobo [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:30am EST
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• WaPo: ClimateGate Hurts G-Warming ‘Consensus’

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  WaPo: ClimateGate Hurts G-Warming ‘Consensus’ – 28 nov – Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson Friday called the growing ClimateGate scandal a “major embarrassment for the scientists involved” that undermines the “consensus” concerning man’s role in global warming. Even more concerning to Robinson was that these scientists “seem to be [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:52pm EST
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• Climategate e-mails sweep America

  —the B2Journal

  Climategate e-mails sweep America – 28 nov – Just a few considerations in addition to previous remarks about the explosion of the East Anglia Climategate e-mails in America. The reaction is growing exponentially there. Fox News, Barack Obama’s Nemesis, is now on the case, trampling all over Al Gore’s organic [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:49pm EST
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• Second Amendment Mullings

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  Whilst America suffers economically under the heavy boot of statism, other nefarious goings-on continue apace . . .

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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:45pm EST
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• Rasmussen: Public Health Care Support Falls To All-Time Low

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  Rasmussen: Public Health Care Support Falls To All-Time Low – 24 nov – A Rasmussen Reports national poll conducted from Nov. 21-22 shows that only 38% of voters favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. The poll shows that 56% now oppose the plan. Prior [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:12am EST
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• Corruption Behind Global Warming Scam

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  Corruption Behind Global Warming Scam – 24 nov – “Officials at the University of East Anglia confirmed in a statement on Friday that files had been stolen from a university server and that the police had been brought in to investigate the breach,” the New York Times reports. “They added, [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:07am EST
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• Giving thanks despite misgivings

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  Each of us, even those amongst us with needs, can be thankful for our good fortune — at least in some small measure. There are many things in our lives that cause us to feel this way, to feel grateful for the bounty that graces us despite the hardships life [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:57pm EST
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• The Road Ahead in the Health Care Battle

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  The Road Ahead in the Health Care Battle – 22 nov – While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has secured the needed 60 votes to bring his health care bill to the Senate floor after Thanksgiving recess, there’s still a long road to go until President Obama can sign legislation [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:43am EST
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• Krauthammer on Landrieu’s $100 Million Louisiana Purchase

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  Krauthammer on Landrieu’s $100 Million Louisiana Purchase – 21 nov – Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would “represent a clean break from business as usual?” Not [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:07am EST
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• Damage Control: Pentagon Launches Probe Of Fort Hood

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  Damage Control: Pentagon Launches Probe Of Fort Hood – 20 nov – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a thorough investigation into the Fort Hood shootings to examine if warning signs were missed and to ensure such a rampage never happens again. US Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan has been [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:47am EST
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• Rubio Campaign Gains Traction

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  Rubio Campaign Gains Traction – 20 nov – Pundits may have originally viewed former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate campaign against Gov. Charlie Crist as a long-shot, but a growing list of endorsements from the Family Research Council and other far-right organizations has caused the social conservative Republican [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:41am EST
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• Sarah, fair play, common sense

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  Sometimes it all just boils down to allowing that quaint but admirable American sense of fair play to shine through. We Middle Americans are fond of working things out in our own time, in our own way -- fairly and reasonably . . . [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:27am EST
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• OBAMA LAUGHER! Too Much Debt Could Fuel Double-Dip Recession

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  OBAMA LAUGHER! Too Much Debt Could Fuel Double-Dip Recession – 18 nov – Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. With the U.S. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:37am EST
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• U.S. Public Debt Tops $12 Trillion For First Time

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  U.S. Public Debt Tops $12 Trillion For First Time – 18 nov – The US public debt topped $12 trillion for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed Tuesday, moving past a key barrier that raised hackles in Congress. Treasury data showed Monday’s outstanding debt at $12.031 trillion, up [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:16am EST
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• Lieberman Independence Hinders Democrat Health Scam

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  Lieberman Independence Hinders Democrat Health Scam – 17 nov – Joseph Lieberman was re-elected to the U.S. Senate as a political independent after Connecticut Democrats snubbed him in 2006. Now, he’s living up to that designation as a potential obstacle to President Barack Obama’s top priority, health care. Lieberman, 67, [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:52am EST
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• NYC to Obama: No You Won’t

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  NYC to Obama: No You Won’t – 16 nov – The Obama administration grossly underestimated the response of the American people in it’s decision to try war-field combatants as common thieves in criminal courts handed down this week by Attorney General Holder. The American people were also not impressed that [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:16am EST
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• Concerns Rise Around Obama Trip

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  Concerns Rise Around Obama Trip – 15 nov – Obama arrived in Shanghai late Sunday to press China on issues from climate change to economic restructuring, amid rising concerns that his first swing through Asia as president will yield more disappointment than progress on trade, human rights, national security and [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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• There is no normal anymore

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  Much like the mythical Sisyphus, Americans are challenged by a new governmental philosophy; The philosophy of the absurd. We find ourselves devoid of and searching for a government based upon honor, honesty, and integrity . . . [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:31am EST
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• Marco Rubio Keynoting CPAC

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  Marco Rubio Keynoting CPAC – 14 nov – Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio was announced Thursday as the keynote speaker of the Conservative Political Action Conference, a high-profile platform that marks Rubio’s fast climb as a favorite son of the conservative movement. CPAC Director Lisa De Pasquale made the announcement [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:57am EST
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• Obama Plans Purge OF GOP From Civil Service

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  Obama Plans Purge OF GOP From Civil Service – 13 nov – Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government of Republican civil servants all in the name of purify the federal bureaucracy. It is a typical Washington process [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:56am EST
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• Anti-incumbent sentiment surges

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  Anti-incumbent sentiment surges – 13 nov – Politico is reporting that one year out from midterm elections, anti-incumbent sentiment is approaching its highest level in two decades, according to a poll released Wednesday by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The survey found that 53 percent of [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:52am EST
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• Florida GOP Leaders Demand Emergency Meeting

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  Florida GOP Leaders Demand Emergency Meeting – 12 nov – Concerned Republicans say they aren’t out for the head of Florida GOP Party Chairman Jim Greer. But they do want to talk to him. Behind closed doors. Responding to an embarrassing string of controversies involving the Florida Republican Party, top [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:19am EST
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• Cuba Orders Extreme Cuts In Energy Use

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  Cuba Orders Extreme Cuts In Energy Use – 12 nov – Reuters: Cuba’s energy situation termed “critical.” Some factories, workshops to be closed through December. Most other economic activities to be reduced. Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt “extreme measures” to cut energy usage through the end of the [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:10am EST
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• Abortion Democrat Confident Stupak Amendment Will Be Stripped

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  Abortion Democrat Confident Stupak Amendment Will Be Stripped – 11 nov – A House Democratic leader said Monday she’s “confident” controversial language on abortion will be stripped from a final healthcare bill. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats’ chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:58am EST
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• Hail the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor!

  —the B2Journal

  From Tuns Tavern in 1775 to Afghanistan in 2009, United States Marines have carved out a legacy fighting in places few would know, in conditions no one should ever endure. And throughout its long and sterling history, Corps honor and traditions have been paid for in blood . . . [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:31am EST
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• New York Will Be Broke Before Christmas

  —the B2Journal

  New York Will Be Broke Before Christmas – 10 nov – Governor David Paterson called an unusual joint session of the Legislature Monday to implore recalcitrant lawmakers to close the state’s huge budget gap before New York runs out of money. To some lawmakers it’s nothing more than a photo [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:39am EST
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• Wash Post Warns PelosiCare Could Bankrupt U.S.

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  Wash Post Warns PelosiCare Could Bankrupt U.S. – 09 nov – From The American Spectator – For all the criticism it receives from conservatives, the Washington Post should not be lumped together with the New York Times. While the Times is a consistent shill for the liberal policy agenda, the [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:43pm EST
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• Slick Crist Changes Tune On Stimulus Plan

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  Slick Crist Changes Tune On Stimulus Plan – 09 nov – In a heated race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, Gov. Charlie Crist keeps moving away from his support of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package that the governor called “fantastic” and “remarkable” when lobbying for its passage. Faced with [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:24am EST
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• Election Tables Have Turned On Democrats

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  Election Tables Have Turned On Democrats – 08 nov – Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:59am EST
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• Pelosi Squeaks Through Obamacare At Night

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  Pelosi Squeaks Through Obamacare At Night – 08 nov – In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:46am EST
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• Honoring our best and brightest

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  America's veterans have uplifted hundreds of millions of lives around the globe and provided security for our country and the world. They have repeatedly demonstrated to all people that freedom is the mightiest force on Earth . . . [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:33am EST
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• Buy $15,000 Policy Or Go To Jail Under Pelosi Plan

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  Buy $15,000 Policy Or Go To Jail Under Pelosi Plan – 07 nov – Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:40am EST
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• Unemployment Now 10.2 Percent

  —the B2Journal

  Unemployment Now 10.2 Percent – 06 nov – U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October, government data showed on Friday, driving the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent, the highest in 26-1/2 years. The Labor Department said the unemployment rate was the highest since April 1983 and October’s non-farm [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:40am EST
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• Democrat Senate Approves Democrat Climate Bill

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  Democrat Senate Approves Democrat Climate Bill – 06 nov – Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ignored a Republican boycott and used their majority to approve legislation that would require U.S. industry to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020, from [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:03am EST
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• Tea Partiers Descend On Capitol Hill

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  Tea Partiers Descend On Capitol Hill – 06 nov – The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the party’s members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul. A plan first hatched and heralded on FOX by iconic conservative [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:57am EST
  by BD Pisani