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CNS News: A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is “mostly falsified.” That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals. The poll also shows that 58 percent of Americans [...]

The Daily Beast: Copenhagen showed us the new normal: the U.S. has lost influence, China plays spoiler, and tiny nations veto anything they don’t like. Leslie H. Gelb says get used to it. We have seen the future of international politics and it is Copenhagen. That future holds for monster issues like global warming as [...]

The Washington Post: Barack Obama’s quest for historic health-care legislation has turned into a parody of leadership. We usually associate presidential leadership with the pursuit of goals that, though initially unpopular, serve America’s long-term interests. Obama has reversed this. He’s championing increasingly unpopular legislation that threatens the country’s long-term interests. “This isn’t about me,” he [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Tens of thousands of Iranian mourners turned the funeral procession of the country’s most senior dissident cleric into an anti-government protest Monday, chanting “death to the dictator” and slogans in support of the opposition amid heavy security. Giant crowds filled major streets, beating their chests in mourning, waving banners [...]

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NASDAQ: WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud. Republican legislators say the records–due to be opened to the public in early January–could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation [...]

He’s still under house arrest in his lavish mansion though. What punishment. LOS ANGELES (AP) – A California appeals court says it has rejected Roman Polanski’s bid to have his sex case dismissed. The California 2nd District Court of Appeal announced Monday it had denied the petition. The court’s Web site states an opinion was [...]

CNS News: Washington – Six senators, including former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), when asked if it is morally right to take tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for health insurance plans that cover abortion, did not answer the question directly, but instead expressed their thoughts about the Senate health-care legislation. The [...]

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News Busters: When it comes to freedom of speech, liberal journalists are the staunchest of defenders, right? Not so much when it comes to blasting Republican senators opposed to ObamaCare for “borderline sedition” that “comes dangerously close to inciting violence.” That was the complaint of Time’s Joe Klein, who griped today on the magazine’s Swampland [...]

Fox News: SALINAS, Calif. — California police are looking for the gunman who shot a bicyclist as several dozen people held a peace vigil nearby over the weekend. About 50 people had gathered in Closter Park in east Salinas on Saturday night to remember those killed by gang violence. As attendees sang songs and shared [...]

Times Online: A new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship is needed to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gordon Brown will say tomorrow. The UN’s consensual method of negotiation, which requires all 192 countries to reach agreement, needs to be reformed to ensure that the will of [...]