The Washington Post: After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it. Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a [...]
Washington Examiner: You’ve been hearing a lot this week about the Slaughter Solution, the rule devised by House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter of New York whereby the House would pass an Obamacare reconcilliation bill via a rule that “deems” the chamber to have voted for the Senate version of Obamacare even though no such [...]
Times Online: Parents with twins are more likely to end up divorced, broke and out of work, according to the first national research on the chaos caused by multiple births. This is despite such parents starting out generally better off, older and more likely to be married than those who have their babies one at [...]
Photo courtesy the cretins at the New York Times I don’t even know where to start, really, through this vomitus bizarrus from a cheerleader (“formulating rational solutions to complex problems, for sure”, not to mention the opening statement, dismissing Obama’s policies as his problem, but casting his attitude as the culprit) looking to criticize a [...]
NYT: Slouched against the lectern at the 25th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, a shirtless Iggy Pop snarled, “I am the world’s forgotten boy.†Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”, almost certainly the greatest music video you’ll ever see: No more. After years of being named finalists to enter the hall of fame, [...]
Telegraph: The long-simmering clash between the world’s two great powers is coming to a head. China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for decline, and mistaken its own mercantilist bubble for ascendancy. There are echoes of Anglo-German spats before the First [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with targets and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing [...]
In this photo taken, March 12, 2010, in Chicago, Michael Shea, Executive Director of Affordable Housing Centers of America, CHICAGO (AP) – Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams [...]
Leftist Indoctrination Of Children
From AZRainman: Photoshop Satire Herald-Scotland: Final Destination: Iran Exclusive: Rob Edwards Published on 14 Mar 2010 Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster†bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government [...]
Times Online: Gordon Brown was dealt an embarrassing blow last night when Brussels gave warning that Britain must do more to curb its spiralling debt. The European Commission wants Labour to outline further spending cuts and spell out where the axe will fall. The intervention, a week before the Budget, will electrify the debate over [...]
Israel remains a strategic ally of the United States, the US State Department felt compelled to reaffirm Monday. WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration’s fierce denunciation of Israel last week has ignited a firestorm in Congress and among powerful pro-Israel interest groups who say the criticism of America’s top Mideast ally was misplaced. Since the [...]
The Hill: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving the door open on using a controversial procedure (the so-called “Slaughter Solution”) to move healthcare through the House. The process would allow the House to “deem†the Senate bill passed when it votes on a package of changes to that legislation, perhaps as early as this weekend. [...]
Suffolk News-Herald: RICHMOND — Weighing in on the debate over federal health care reform, state lawmakers have passed legislation declaring that no one can force Virginians to buy health insurance. Both the House and Senate have passed Senate Bill 417, and last week it was sent to Gov. Bob McDonnell for his signature. The bill, [...]
The Washington Times: Nationalized health care is the progressives’ Golden Fleece. It is their obsession, the ultimate prize that was denied to previous administrations but is closer than it ever has been. As the ability of government to take over the health care system draws tantalizingly near, the president and leaders of the majority party [...]
