Aug 3, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Human Events: Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the House home on Friday after giving each of her 256 Democrats a little card with the talking points she thinks they’ll need to sell the awful House healthcare bill. House members went home after the Energy and Commerce Committee wrestled four Blue Dogs to the ground and passed ...
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The Hill: Senate Democrats will await a bipartisan healthcare reform bill but are looking past it, and around it, in the meantime, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Monday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has been overseeing painstaking bipartisan negotiations with five other senators — three Republicans and two Democrats — for months. Baucus has set ...
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Continue ReadingAug 3, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
When a predator senses weakness, he moves in for the kill. This is a move of deception, pure and simple. Watch as the Great America Deceiver is duped by the Great Muslim Deceivers. Watch him cower away from the fight like the leftist little witch he is. Hope and change, peace and understanding my ass. ...
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The LA Times: Nearly 1,000 service members and their families at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland got to see something Friday night that very few people in Hollywood have seen -- "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," the last big-budget action movie of the summer. Paramount Pictures gave the movie its homeland premiere at the base ...
Continue ReadingAug 3, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Media Matters: Washington, D.C. -- Media Matters for America today announced the launch of a television ad campaign calling for CNN to credibly address its Lou Dobbs problem. The ad, set to air this week on Dobbs' CNN program as well as on Fox News and MSNBC, demonstrates how CNN has repeatedly allowed Dobbs to promote ...
Continue ReadingAug 3, 2009 16 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
I've been saying over and over again that Obama's primary interest in the health insurance issue, is the same one he has for every other area of American enterprise: he wants the revenue streams that flow into private sector businesses to flow into the federal government instead. He doesn't want you, me, or any ...
Continue ReadingAug 3, 2009 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Post: In the days before President Obama's last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top. Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel ...
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York State President and National Liason Officer Steve Mastrandrea had participated in a counter demonstration to ACORN about a week before he shot this video. ACORN was holding a pro-Obama Care rally at Chuck Schumer's local office, and had alerted the local TV station. The station showed up, and although there were ...
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
As far as Barack Obama goes, if we do jobs, the August will be the last month before The Fall. Enter ACTIVISTS
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2009 16 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Convenient. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at ...
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"an industry that consumes nearly one-fifth of the nation's economy" Thugocracy Racketeering: He who owns the health insurance industry, owns America. Washington Post: From the start of his presidency, Barack Obama made clear that his plan for enacting comprehensive health-care reform came down to three words: fast, broad and bipartisan. That was then. Now, as lawmakers begin to flee Washington ...
Continue ReadingAug 1, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: Charles Manson follower ends her silence 40 years after night of slaughter The 1960s, the decade of love, came to an abrubt and bloody end when Charles Manson's 'family' murdered actress Sharon Tate and her friends. Now, accomplice Linda Kasabian, tells the full story of that awful night for the first time, reports Robin McKie They ...
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BRISTOL, Va. (AP) - At times, it seems like Barack Obama has time-traveled back to last summer when he was simply a Democrat running for the White House. Only now, he's the president, and he's facing a more complicated objective and opponent as he campaigns to overhaul a costly health care system. Yet, there he was last ...
Continue ReadingJul 31, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
TrueSlant: As confirmed by recent polling data, Obama’s pitch that the country’s existing health care system is in need of radical alteration has fallen upon deaf ears. The more people learn of the details of Obama’s plan, the less they like it. One of the reasons Obama’s health care initiative is now badly floundering is that ever ...
Continue ReadingJul 31, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - Hope and jobs are in short supply in Ohio eight months after President Barack Obama won the recession-battered state in the 2008 election with promises of a better future. "People were looking for a savior to get us out of this mess and that's why they voted for Obama," said Jeff Fravor, ...
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Gov. Paterson lives it up at Taj with BET exec Rhonda Cowan (left) and a guest -- hours before he revealed massive deficit growth yesterday. The New York Post: ALBANY -- What's Gov. Paterson got to celebrate? Just hours before delivering news of soaring budget deficits and lagging revenues from the recent millionaire's tax, the ...
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STLToday: America needs a public service academy BY Melissa Goldberg In the early 1800s, when the United States recognized a need for military leadership, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of West Point, a school uniquely crafted to address those needs with a specially designed curriculum like none other in the country. Two hundred years and four more ...
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