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Related: Pelosi To End Congress’ Long-Standing Fairness Rules WASHINGTON (AP) – House Democrats unveiled Congressional rules Monday that would end term limits on committee chairmen and make it impossible for GOP lawmakers to offer alternative legislation. In changing how the House operates, Democrats sent a message that they will use the huge Congressional majority they [...]

ORIGINAL STORY: NEIGHBORHOOD REACTION A man is in custody Sunday night after police say he tried to break into a home on St. Joseph County’s northwest side. It happened in the 51000-block of Portage near Brick Road. Police say 28-year-old Cyrus Brown drove off the road and hit a utility pole on Portage. He then [...]

White, non-muslim American supporting Hamas: “It’s appropriate to fly the Hamas flag…but I don’t think it’s appropriate to fly the Israeli flag ANYWHERE in America…that flag represents a terrorist state.” .. Youtube Posters : With the flag of the Hamas terrorist organization flying high over American soil, radical groups ranging from CAIR to World Can’t [...]

Business And Media Institute: Call this one of the newest and innovative ways your government has come up with to battle greenhouse gas emissions. Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse [...]

Times Online: Fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza City yesterday as a Hamas leader warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel’s devastating assault. “They have legitimised the murder of their own children by killing the children of Palestine,” Mahmoud Zahar said in a televised [...]

VIENNA, Austria – More nations must take in Guantanamo inmates once the U.S.-run prison closes, the U.N.’s torture investigator said Monday, insisting that many were held simply because they were “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Manfred Nowak told Austrian radio he hopes more countries will set aside their misgivings and show solidarity [...]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg comforts hospitalized little boy wounded by Hamas rockets in Israeli town of Ashkelon. Jerusalem Post: Major clashes between IDF troops and Hamas gunmen reportedly took place late Monday evening in the northern Gaza Strip. The clashes marked the first time the IDF extended its ground operation into the densely [...]

Drudge Report: **Exclusive Details** The nation’s top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT. “We are just not going to have her on any more, it’s over,” a top network source explains. But a second top suit strongly denies there is any “Coulter ban”. “Look for a [...]

“Panetta, has no direct intelligence experience beyond a two-year stint in the mid-1960s as a U.S. Army lieutenant.” WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to fill the nation’s top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised and alarmed the spy community. Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon [...]

The Swamp: My first thought on hearing that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson had asked President-elect Obama to drop his nomination as Commerce Secretary because of a federal probe into possible pay to play activity in Richardson’s office was “Uh-oh, don’t tell me Obama has some pay-to-play curse that will be following his presidency like [...]

Fake damage to a Reuters truck in phony reporting. From My Pet Jawa: “What is being reported in the press is not what actually happened.” EREZ CROSSING, Israel – Israel scrapped arrangements Monday to allow the first foreign reporters into the Gaza Strip since the military launched its offensive against Palestinian militants, adding to mounting [...]

BAGHDAD – The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever on Monday, in the heart of the Green Zone—and the most visible sign of what U.S. officials call a new chapter in relations between America and a more sovereign Iraq. U.S. Marines raised the American flag over the adobe-colored buildings, which sit on a 104-acre [...]

Motorcross rider Robbie Maddison rang in the New Year with a spectacular world record jump in Las Vegas. 27-year-old Maddison catapulted himself off a 10-meter (35-foot) high ramp to the top of the 30-meter (96-foot) high replica of the Arch de Triomph. After landing safely Maddison then jumped off the monument, plunging 25 meters (85 [...]

NEW YORK – The New York Times, facing falling ad revenue, Monday began to run graphical advertising on its front page. Graphical advertising, known as display ads, on the main front can command even greater prices, given the visibility. “This high-impact placement represents an exciting new opportunity for our advertisers,” said Denise Warren, chief advertising [...]

Human Events: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – First lady Laura Bush has sealed a deal worth millions with Scribner to publish a memoir that will encompass her recollections of personal and historical moments, including her eight years in the White House. The publishing house, in announcing the agreement on Monday, said the memoir is expected to be released in [...]