Jun 27, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bloomberg: By Michael B. Marois and Darrell Preston June 29 (Bloomberg) -- California lawmakers remain deadlocked over how to fix a $24 billion deficit that threatens to leave the state broke in July, after Democrats sought an end-run around a rule requiring a supermajority vote to raise taxes. The Assembly last night began passing a $23 billion package ...
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NewsBusters: By Mark Finkelstein Remember the good old days—when dissent was patriotic? Fuggedaboutit. Dissent isn't merely unpatriotic now. It's downright treasonous. Just ask Paul Krugman. If, like virtually all House Republicans and a handful of Dems, you don't agree with the likes of Henry Waxman on the need to take radical measures on the ...
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TheRightSideOfLife: As I had recently remarked in my “best of†vacation posting, Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) bill on presidential eligibility, HR1503, had 4 cosponsors added to his bill. And as attorney Mario Apuzzo points out, the list has recently grown to 6: The sixth U.S. Congress House Representative has signed on to co-sponsor ...
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AtlasShrugs: Minutes ago: Ghoba Mosque closed, but more than 20,000 ppl around chanting against regime, some clashes, more trying join 12:43 pm Tweetdeck: There are reports of clash between military forces and people Thousands used the anniversary of 7th. tir martyrs memorial at the Ghoba mosque to take to the streets. Continued HERE
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AmericanThinker: Yep. We taxpayers now have "a little Captain in all of us." Too bad it's because our tax dollars went to the rum distiller who makes Captain Morgan rum. Via Crooks and Liars we get the not surprising news that the $750 billion we shelled out in TARP to save American banks ended up lining the ...
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CypressTimes: Bill Turner NOW WILL YOU LISTEN? I have been begging, pleading, cajoling and insisting you get active. Let me clarify the term active for you. Active is more than calling, writing, email and faxing. Active is getting in the street with protest signs. Active is going to your senators and representatives local office and demanding to see ...
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bLOOMBERG: By Joe Carroll and Edward Klump June 26 (Bloomberg) -- America’s biggest oil companies will probably cope with U.S. carbon legislation by closing fuel plants, cutting capital spending and increasing imports. Under the Waxman-Markey climate bill that may be voted on today by the U.S. House, refiners would have to buy allowances for carbon dioxide spewed from ...
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WAshingtonPost White House Weighs Order on Detention Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely By Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects ...
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Townhall: by Jillian Bandes Thousands of union members rallied for Obamacare on Capitol Hill today in a massive display of union outreach that threatened to deliver more votes for a controversial “public plan†option. The rally came on the heels of Obama raising the possibility that unions would be exempt from taxing health care benefits. Obama said he ...
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AmericanThinker: EXCERPT By L.E. Ikenga Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his ...
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Digg: Sen. John McCain continued to rap President Barack Obama for his measured reaction to the crisis in Iran, which McCain said was inadequate in its support for the protestors of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested re-election. Appearing on C-Span's Washington Journal on Tuesday morning, the Arizona Republican said that when it came to Iran, Obama response "has not ...
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NewsBusters: During an interview with President Obama, Harry Smith asked about recent criticism by Dick Cheney and President Bush: "Leon Panetta intimated that the former Vice President was playing politics with national security issues. The former President has intoned his own displeasure with some of your policy changes. I think they feel like some of the ...
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Transterrestrial Musings: This is an email that has apparently been making the rounds in the general aviation community: Excerpt: As the days go by I find myself more and more apprehensive about the drift of America toward becoming what, not to mince words, can be described as a “police state.†To the average citizen ...
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Yeah... This pisses me off too... f*cking low life bastard usurper AmericasRight: JEFF SCHREIBER excerpt I know, I know. I'm not exactly busting apart that "Republicans are a bunch of no-fun white guys" stereotype. Still, there's something about the White House that made me cringe and shake my head when I first saw the photograph of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk ...
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BozemanDailyChronicle: By AMANDA RICKER Chronicle Staff Writer If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, prepare to clean up your Facebook page. As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years, city ...
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Newsweek: By Michael Isikoff As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited ...
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. Breitbart "If you're a male that grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image."
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. Breitbart President Barack Obama is warning critics of his vast financial overhaul plan that he has no patience for debate from hard-line defenders of a system that has exploited bewildered consumers.
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The WashingtonTimes: By Bill Wilson In firing AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin last week, President Obama probably thought he and his wife, Michelle, were the ones "sending the message." After all, dispensing petty political retribution on behalf of one's crooked friends is the "Chicago way," is it not? And the firing of Mr. Walpin would no doubt have ...
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LawCentral: Weird cases: And this week's award for most unjudicial petulance goes to . . . Gary Slapper In Tennessee, a judge is legally required to be “patient, dignified and courteous†with people in court. He is also required, not unreasonably, “to respect and comply with the lawâ€. But not all judges do. The Supreme Court of Tennessee recently ...
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