Excerpt from Creeping Sharia: When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out,†19-year-old Bibi Aisha of Afghanistan says with chilling candor. “It felt like there was cold water in my nose, I opened my eyes and I couldn’t even see because of all the blood,†she remembers. An act carried out by [...]
Washington Post: The latest estimate of what health-care reform would mean for the government’s finances was such a hot document Thursday that at times the Congressional Budget Office’s Web site couldn’t handle the traffic. But as much as the 25-page “score” of the legislation was treated as holy writ in Washington — Democrats eagerly flagged [...]
The Hill: House Ways and Means Republicans on Thursday assailed a provision in the proposed health care reform bill under consideration this week. Subcommittee on Oversight ranking member Charles Boustany (R-La.) said the IRS provision in the bill “dangerously expands, in an ominous way the tentacles of the IRS and it’s reach into every American [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul bill. For the first time, the Medicare payroll tax would be applied to investment income, beginning in 2013. A new 3.8 percent tax would be imposed on interest, dividends, [...]
America on the brink.
Roll Call: Senate Democrats are planning an aggressive message campaign between now and November focusing on jobs, national security, the immediate impact of health care reform and their party’s efforts to “take on Wall Street.†Hoping to reverse some of their political setbacks over the past 12 months, the lawmakers emerged Thursday from a closed-door [...]
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Fox News: A radical Muslim cleric tied to the Fort Hood shooting suspect can be heard taunting President Obama, applauding the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas and clearly acknowledging a relationship with Maj. Nidal Hasan, in a newly released audiotape obtained by Fox News. The cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, used the tape to [...]
The Hill: Top Blue Dog: Slaughter solution is ‘poison’ The co-chairwoman of the Blue Dog Coalition says that using a controversial “deem and pass” mechanism to pass healthcare reform would be “poison.” In a conference call with reporters today, Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), who is a “firm no” on the bill itself, said the [...]
Obama made it clear that he approves legislation by Presidential dictate, when he told Bret Baier that he didn’t care about the rules, only that health care becomes law. Just what exactly did you think that meant? The Hill: Democrats shot down a Republican effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate healthcare bill
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is postponing his trip to Asia until June so he can stay in Washington for a possible Sunday vote on his health care overhaul plan. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Obama has called the leaders of Indonesia and Australia to express his regret that he will not be [...]
