Sep 3, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNSNews: By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer Health Care Bill Gives Obama Power to Appoint Government 'Commissioner' With Sweeping Power to Dictate Health Coverage The health care bill under consideration in the House of Representatives would give President Obama the authority to name a new federal “Health Choices Commissioner†who would have sweeping power to govern the health insurance ...
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Real Clear Politics: Air America Radio host Montel Williams tells GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann to slit her wrist. He instructed her to go even further and "start right at the collarbone."
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Politico: Most top Democrats, including senior White House advisers, may no longer expect a health care deal out of the bipartisan “Group of Six,†but the senators still plan to talk Friday for the first time as a group in more than two weeks. Don’t expect any major announcements: the group wants to meet face-to-face next ...
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Ventura County Star: A healthcare-reform opponent whose finger was partially bitten off Wednesday during a Thousand Oaks rally said today that doctors could not re-attach the severed section. William Rice, 65, of Newbury Park also confirmed reports that he threw the first punch in the confrontation that claimed part of his left pinky. “When he got in my ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The food stamp program, which helps cover the cost of groceries for one in nine Americans, ...
Continue ReadingSep 2, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Hill: Congress will not pass all 12 spending bills before the end of the fiscal year, according to senior senators. Though the House has passed all of its appropriations bills, the Senate has approved just four of them with less than a month before the fiscal year's end, Sept. 30. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the appropriator shepherding ...
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Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- Recent town-hall uproars weren't just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once. That suggests trouble for the president and his party, and fears of losses in next year's midterm election are likely to shape the Democrats' fall agenda. The uproar at ...
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Best oil rig ever. Bloomberg: Sept. 2 -- BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, reported a “giant†discovery at the Tiber Prospect in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that may contain more than 3 billion barrels, after drilling the world’s deepest exploration well. The well is located about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Houston, the London-based ...
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NLPC: by Ken Boehm NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, ...
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RealClearPolitics: By Sean Trende There’s a myth circulating in the blogosphere and the punditry, and it is threatening the Democrats’ majorities. It goes like this: In 1994, Democrats failed to pass a healthcare bill, and they lost their majorities. Ergo, if Democrats fail to pass a healthcare bill in 2009, they will be at serious risk of ...
Continue ReadingSep 1, 2009 24 Comments ›› Erik Wong
TheSwamp: by Mark Silva Republicans are targeting Democrats in the midterm elections coming up next year, Vice President Joe Biden says, but "if they shoot and miss, this is going to be a changed country - not for two years, but for two decades.'' Biden offered this at a continental-breakfast fundraising reception in Center City Philadelphia today for ...
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AmericanThinker: By John Griffing "A lie told often enough becomes truth." - Vladimir Lenin President Obama's skill as a liar is critical to his success as a Socialist. Considering the zeal with which President Obama has in a very short time remade America, we can conclude that he will not stop until America is completely ...
Continue ReadingAug 31, 2009 23 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NY Daily News: A Floridian biology teacher fired after posing for racy pictures has landed a new career – in pornography. Tiffany Shepherd, 31, made headlines in April after bikini-clad pictures of her on a fishing charter got her canned from Port St. Lucie High School. She turned to doing porn, she told a Florida news outlet, ...
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CQ Politics: Citing the current economic recession -- and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks eight years ago -- President Obama says he will use emergency powers to cut the programmed across-the-board January increase in federal employees' pay from 2.4 percent to 2.0 percent, according to a letter he sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on ...
Continue ReadingAug 31, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) finally faces her constituents on at a health care town hall on August 29, 2009. The event was held in a small, but heavily guarded conference room at the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester, NH. Many of her constituents were turned away from the event due to the space limitations ...
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. WashingtonExaminer: By: Mark Tapscott Want to understand why 2009 has witnessed the eruption of Tea Party and Town Hall protests of unprecedented intensity? Look no further than Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that writes tax law for the rest of us. A parade of steadily more ...
Continue ReadingAug 31, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The is from an email I received via TheVulgarTruth: Interesting how goverment programs start with great promises and strict restrictions,both of which get nibbled away (of course for the good of the country,not for the politicians). Aren't you glad the healthcare reform bill will have ironclad restrictions? ALL AMERICANS SHOULD KNOW THESE TRUTHFUL FACTS: Our Social Security ...
Continue ReadingAug 31, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's next leader Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from a historic election win, faced the task on Monday of forming a government to tackle challenges such as reviving the economy and steering a new course with close ally Washington. Sunday's victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ends a half-century of almost unbroken rule ...
Continue ReadingAug 27, 2009 37 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NY Daily News: President Obama's health care "plan" is going down like a handful of tacks, and the Democratic Party, experiencing the political equivalent of a nervous breakdown, is poised to commence a civil war over health reform that could virtually tear the party's leaders to shreds. The White House has made a series of irreversible blunders ...
Continue ReadingAug 27, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
American Thinker: The Congressional Budget Office came out with an update to its predictions of the federal budget this week. For some reason, the CBO did not title its report "Hell In A Hand Basket." It is difficult to put all these predictions into easily understandable apples-to-apples comparisons. But I will try. One thing ...
Continue ReadingAug 27, 2009 24 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The LA Times Blog: An advertising boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck has succeeded in keeping most major sponsors from running commercials on his show even as the controversial commentator's viewership has grown. Beck attracted 2.81 million viewers Monday, his third-largest audience since his show launched on Fox News in January, according to Nielsen Media Research ...
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