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In an attempt to deny us our right to participate in the dialogue part of the American poltitical process, first the Joker and his mercenary army tried to claim we didn’t exist when we were showing up at Town Halls, then they tried to claim we were paid agents of the insurance industry, and then [...]

Politico: CHICAGO – Minnesota GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty took an aggressive line against President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul Friday and insisted that a rejection of the Democratic plan could usher in a Republican resurgence. “It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in [...]

The Missouri post at the top of the Featured Stories is a perfect example. ACTIVISTS are travelling all across the country on special operations. We are meeting and planning with resistance leadership throughout the union. We are working behind the scenes in ACTIVE planning for the broader strategy needed for the next two months. We’re [...]

From Prison Planet. Police and media outlets in Florida are hysterically characterizing the placement of Obama Joker posters as some kind of assault on the people of Clermont, creating “victims” and leading to demands for arrests and criminal charges, a shocking indictment of the state of free speech and the evisceration of the first amendment [...]

Fox News: The White House on Friday was looking over a list of names submitted by FOX News of people who say they received unsolicited e-mails on health care from the White House, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign or his political organization, Organizing for America. After a testy exchange Thursday between FOX News’ Major Garrett and [...]

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time, it wasn’t pirates who launched the attack—it was Egyptian fishermen who had been held hostage for four months and who killed two brigands and took others captive as they [...]

FOX News: BELGRADE, Mont. — President Obama on Friday finally had to face a challenge at a town-hall-style meeting about the bottom line of his health care plan. A Montana man asserted that Obama would have to raise Americans’ taxes to pay for his plan to overhaul the health care system. Obama agreed that he [...]

Phoenix Business Journal: A marked drop in Phoenix-area crime coincides with the recession and a drop in the number of illegal immigrants in Arizona. Phoenix has seen a 25 percent decline in the number of crimes during the first five months of 2009 compared to the same time period in 2007 when the economy began [...]

InfoWars: Government health officials in the Czech Republic have refused to buy H1N1 flu vaccines from US pharmaceutical firm Baxter International, citing safety concerns. According to a report by the Czech News Agency CTK, one of the largest English language news outlets in the country, the Czech Health Ministry has halted talks with Baxter citing [...]

The conservative movement in Missouri is quickly learning that when push comes to shove, ACTIVE is there. ACTIVE has been working closely with the Tea Party coalition and other groups to ensure a physical as well as video presence at local events. This was brought about by the SEIU beating of a conservative man in [...]

Washington Post: With polls showing rising concern over the government’s grim financial situation, key Republicans and a growing number of Democrats say it will be hard to push an ambitious health reform bill through Congress unless it reduces projected federal spending on medical care and begins to bring the national debt under control. “It’s not [...]

Just One Minute: The always-reliable NY Times probes deeply into the question of why these death panel rumors swirl around Obama, helpfully likening them to the rumors about Obama being a Muslim or not an American: False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots By JIM RUTENBERG and JACKIE CALMES WASHINGTON — The stubborn yet [...]

News-Leader: Those convinced that the earth is warming — and that such warming is going to trigger catastrophic disasters — have jumped on to the latest eco-scare that just isn’t backed by science, said Marc Morano who runs a Web site called Climate Depot. Morano was among the speakers Thursday at a one-day conference called [...]