Fox News:
WASHINGTON — Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle in the full Senate on a party-line vote.
The 60-39 vote clears the way for a historic debate after Thanksgiving on the legislation. The measure is designed to extend coverage to an estimated 31 million Americans who lack it and crack down on insurance [...]
The Wall Street Journal:
Health Bill Poised to Hit Senate Floor as Democrats Gain Key Votes
ASHINGTON—Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a centrist Democrat from Arkansas, said Saturday she would vote to move forward with debate on health-care legislation, giving Democrats what appeared to be the 60 votes needed to bring the sweeping bill to the Senate floor [...]
Fox News:
The community organizing group ACORN mismanaged about $200,000 received from the Justice Department, which failed to track how the allocated money was used, according to a report by the department’s watchdog.
The news is the latest blow to a group whose public image has taken a beating in recent months after some of its employees [...]
Fox News:
More Americans continue to oppose the health care reform legislation than support it, according to a Fox News poll released Friday. In addition, half favor banning the use of federal funds for abortions.
By 51 percent to 35 percent, the public opposes the reform legislation being considered right now by Congress. Last month, a majority [...]
Real Clear Politics:
Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. “After eight years of delay,” he intoned, “those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally [...]
The Hill:
The leading Senate Democrat on military matters said the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could be labeled a terrorist attack.
“It sure looks like that,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program that will air Sunday.
“It probably could be labeled as a [...]
Bloomberg:
Nov. 20 — Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers.
An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000,” could fund more troops, Levin, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) - With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling in line on President Barack Obama’s signature issue.
One of three uncommitted centrists, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, announced he’d vote with his party’s leaders [...]
National Review Online:
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just [...]
Politico:
After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum.
The grass-roots activists driving the movement have become increasingly divided on such core questions as whether to [...]
CNN:
Washington - Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. That’s down 15 points from [...]
“exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit”
The Telegraph:
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker [...]
From Politico:
His approval numbers have bounced down to the 50% mark several times, driven by weaker support from independents and Republicans, but hadn’t crossed it.
The slide is worrying for the White House, but it’s probably not yet panic time. Ronald Reagan’s approval numbers dropped well below 40% during the depths of his first term recession. [...]
The Hill:
Rev. Jesse Jackson backed off his criticism of Rep. Artur Davis Thursday night, issuing a statement saying he has “abiding admiration” of the Alabama Democrat.
“I talked to Congressman Artur Davis today to assure him of my abiding admiration of him as a leader who is engaged in a huge challenge,” Jackson said in the [...]
Fox News:
A coalition of Christian leaders — including New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan — are putting heat on the White House to strike down any provision in the Senate’s health care reform bill that allows abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans.
More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued [...]
CBS News:
It’s been an ugly few years for the United States Postal Service.
The quasi-government agency announced this week that it lost $3.8 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended September 30th. It also delivered less mail - 26 billion fewer pieces less, a nearly 13 percent drop from the previous year. The bad [...]
