Pat Dollard | Young Americans

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The Coloradoan:
Prosecutors this morning formally charged the parents of Fort Collins balloon boy Falcon Heene, who are set to plead guilty tomorrow in a pre-arranged deal.
Richard and Mayumi Heene will turn themselves in to the county’s chief judge on a personal recognizance bond at 8:30 a.m., said Linda Jensen, a spokeswoman for Larimer County District [...]

CBS:
Richard and Mayumi Heene will plead guilty Friday to charges stemming from last month’s Balloon Boy hoax, the couple’s lawyer said.
The Larimer and Jackson, Colo. county District Attorney offices formally filed charges Thursday.
Mayumi Heene will plead guilty to falsely reporting to authorities, a misdemeanor. Richard Heene’s charge - attempting to influence a public official - [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.
By ANNE GEARAN and STEVEN R. HURST
The White House emphasized that the president hasn’t made a decision yet about troop levels or other aspects of [...]

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Republican Leader:
Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life - not end it.
Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that. On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions [...]

Director Blue:
Hard as it may be to believe, the recommending reading list of the NEA — the powerful, Democrat-controlled teachers’ union — includes instruction manuals for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Two books by radical Communist activist Saul Alinsky advocate violence (”Radicals [must break] the necks of Conservatives”), destructon and revolution.
Incredibly, the following [...]

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What do the auto industry, the health insurance industry, and the higher education industry all have an common? Obama wants to own them all. Duh.
Washington Times:
Once again, the overzealous young Obama administration is pushing politics too far into the federal agencies where it is supposed to be forbidden, this time at the Department of Education.
The [...]

FOX News:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told citizens Wednesday to limit their showers to three minutes because the country is having problems supplying water and electricity.
“Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour,” he said during a televised cabinet meeting. “No kids, three minutes is more than enough. I’ve counted, three minutes, [...]