Aug 20, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: In a move some fear is a reprisal for opposing President Obama's health care plan, Democrats sent 52 letters to health insurers requesting financial records for a House committee's investigation. Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., sent a letter warning health insurers that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is "examining executive compensation ...
Continue ReadingAug 20, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ABC: A top Obama ally predicted Wednesday in an interview with ABC News that Democrats will lose their congressional majority in next year's midterm elections if they fail to put a health-care reform bill on President Obama's desk. "I think we're talking losing control of Congress," said Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union. ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 43 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Canada Free Press: “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,†she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service,â€â€” Michelle Obama. We were wrong. Michelle Obama, as we reported on ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 20 Comments ›› Erik Wong
This is f-ing repulsive. I am at a loss for words as to the statement issued herein. All I can contemplate right now is anger.
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 16 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNSNews.com: The health care reform bill approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) would provide federal grants to state and local governments and a “national network of community-based organizations†to "promote healthy living and reduce disparities" and to monitor people's weight, eating, exercise habits and other individual behaviors that affect health at ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNN: Ancient man may have started global warming through massive deforestation and burning that could have permanently altered the Earth's climate, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. The study, published in the scientific journal Quaternary Science Reviews and reported on the University of Virginia's ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Above: Believe it or not, that's one of the women. Daily Mail: Three drunk women chased and viciously assaulted a man they wrongly believed had wolf-whistled at them. Richard Tailby, 22, was walking past a flat in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, with friends when one of the group whistled at a woman dancing by the window. But Vanessa Delaney, 38, Claire ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bloomberg: Aug. 18 -- “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.†-- Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 No institution has been the butt of more government- inefficiency jokes than the U.S. Postal Service. Maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles. The only way the post office can stay in business is ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Media Bistro: Last week we reported on Fox News Channel's primetime programs putting up huge numbers -- three nights in a row beating CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN combined in both Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo. Well now the cable news rankings are out and Fox News was the second most-watched basic cable channel in primetime ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
HARTFORD, Conn. - A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday. Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an "agent provocateur" and was taught by the agency ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
I Hate The Media: Cash-for-Clunkers is so messed up that even a liberal Democrat is calling it messed up. Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action†from President Obama to correct the ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NewsBusters: Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC’s News Live on Tuesday to discuss college football and ended up trashing Sarah Palin. Talking with host David Shuster about a new SEC regulation stopping fans from using social networking sites at games, Zirin frothed that odd sports rules are like "Sarah Palin considering herself a ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX: The White House is blaming the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on viral rumors, "fear-mongering" and "sinister conspiracy theories" even as it acknowledges problems with its online practices. After confirming to FOX News over the weekend that third-party groups could be responsible for official White House e-mails that have been sent to ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bloomberg: Aug. 18 -- Cap-and-trade legislation to limit U.S. carbon dioxide emissions has “gotten out of control†and needs to be scaled back in Congress, said former Democratic Senator Timothy Wirth. “The Republicans are right -- it’s a cap-and-tax bill,†Wirth, a climate-change negotiator during President Bill Clinton’s administration, said in an Aug. 14 interview. “That’s what ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is encouraged by progress in U.S. efforts to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, thanking his Egyptian counterpart for help in working for a breakthrough. The president was responding to a question about reports that Israel had stopped granting permission for new settlements in ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 41 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NEW YORK (Nielsen Business Media) - Some of the nation's biggest advertisers are distancing themselves from Fox News host Glenn Beck after he called President Obama a racist during a July 28 broadcast. Geico has pulled its ads from Fox News Channel's "The Glenn Beck Program." Lawyers.com, which is owned by LexisNexis, also has vowed not ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
I f-ing love my home town. The fact that CNN is even putting this on the news show's it's attempts to demonize the right and their practices. Sure it states in the article that there was nothing illegal about it, but taken into consideration that there is nothing illegal about it makes you wonder why it's ...
Continue ReadingAug 17, 2009 16 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy†claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan. E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The e-mail address you just sent a ...
Continue ReadingAug 17, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Creeping Sharia: Across the country, airport chapels are removing all traces of the most prominent religions, except when it comes to Islam. ATLANTA — Ordained a United Methodist minister, the Rev. Chester Cook has now become a jack of all faiths. On a recent day, Cook welcomed a Christian-oriented Army chaplain, a Muslim family and a Buddhist ticket ...
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