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November 21, 2009 09:09 PM EST
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After House Democrats passed a 1,990 page bill that would have the government takeover health care in America, today, in an unusual Saturday session, Democrats in the US . . .
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November 21, 2009 03:25 PM EST
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A fellow-Gatherer produced a post on a website calling itself “ Conservapedia .” She entitled her post “The Trustworthy Encyclopedia.” I couldn’t let that slide… . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:29 PM EST
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WASHINGTON (CNN)– Revisiting some of her campaign trail talking points, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin weighed in on the Senate health care vote, criticizing the Democrats and Majority Leader . . .
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November 21, 2009 03:10 PM EST
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What was achieved on POTUS 44s' eight-day tour
Talks have opened doors which could help create thousands of jobs and open new markets for American . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:38 PM EST
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Malalai Joya: Afghanistan's Bravest Woman
If this [CIA funding war-lords] isn't bad enough, [President Karzai] appointed Izzatullah Wasifi as Afghanistan's anti-corruption chief [in . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:03 PM EST
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The United States Senate is preparing to hold its first vote on a major bill designed to overhaul US healthcare provision.
The vote, which requires 60 out of the 100 Senate votes to pass, will decide . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:38 PM EST
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New T AX IN THE WORKS? HR 4130 Share the Sacrifice Act
An ONLINE VISIT TO David Obey, Chair of the HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS at . . .
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November 21, 2009 01:59 PM EST
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The "big news" is that some emails from a leading British climate research lab (NOT Hadley) were hacked into and somehow they "expose" the "climate alarmist conspiracy" ...yada yada yada.
Sigh.
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November 21, 2009 12:50 PM EST
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White House sources confirmed today that President Obama is so optimistic about passage of a health care reform bill that he has already named his three member Death Panel. . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:03 AM EST
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One should be given combat pay for defending Sarah Palin in Manhattan. The other evening at a lecture, a so-called distinguished author of political tomes reflected on the declining state of conservatism . . .
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November 21, 2009 10:52 AM EST
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He's the recently elected Attorney General of Virginia, the State that I inhabit. Cuccinelli apparently likes to call environmentalists "watermelons". Why watermelons? Because they are green on the outside, . . .
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November 21, 2009 06:07 AM EST
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This is a continuation of my series taking a closer look at the November 17, 2009 Congressional hearings on "Prioritizing Chemicals for Safety Determination." Earlier I gave an overall summary . Today . . .
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November 21, 2009 05:25 PM EST
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Fred Thompson says Obama’s delay in a stated Afghan military policy has already “lost” the war. How he achieved this miracle of strategic military insight, premonition and logic . . .
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November 21, 2009 05:19 PM EST
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Thursday evening, I was watching Glenn Beck rant about the national debt. Naturally, he blamed it all on President Obama. Glenn Beck knows better but, unfortunately, his gaggles of ditto-heads don’t. . . .
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November 21, 2009 03:51 PM EST
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A posting on the Bloomberg.com web site says that the unemployment rate in 29 states across America rose last month, marking an increase of 7 states over numbers reported for September. Michigan has the . . .
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November 21, 2009 03:08 PM EST
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This article by Dr. George Friedman of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is reprinted with permission:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in federal . . .
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November 21, 2009 02:30 PM EST
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House Democrats previously planned to pass a bill toward enacting a permanent estate tax - termed the "death tax" by its opponents - by the end of this year, but may retreat from this plan in the face . . .
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November 21, 2009 01:57 PM EST
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Apparently the cost of one Yea vote on cloture is $100 million . Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has pledged an affirmative vote along with her fellow Democratic caucus to pass a cloture vote on the health . . .
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November 21, 2009 10:07 AM EST
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Reuters reported November 19 that Afghanistan topped a United Nations list of the most dangerous places in the world for a child to be born. The UN list is part of the annual report titled "The State . . .
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November 21, 2009 04:53 AM EST
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BERLIN (Agencies) - The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that Iran has “every reason to be distrustful.”
The remarks by Mohamed ElBaradei came after . . .
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