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• Wall Street’s fingerprints evident on financial reform bill / The Christian Science Monitor

  
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  Since the near meltdown of Wall Street in late 2008, Congress has pledged to tighten regulations on the finance industry. That exercise is now half over, with the House approving a reform package Dec. 11. With the Senate poised to take up the issue early in 2010, the next questions are: How much more money and ...
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• Healthcare Mandate vs. U.S. Constitution - Democratic Underground

  
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  Does the United States Constitution allow Congress to force people to purchase a product (health insurance) from a private corporation, and fine them or tax them if they refuse? The answer is a matter of debate, but there is little dispute that such an act of Congress would be unprecedented. Sheldon Laskin, an Adjunct ...
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• On Individual Mandates by David Sirota

  
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  I agree with with those who note the danger of progressives attacking individual mandates in the health care bill, and how such attacks could be construed to be a criticism of all compulsory policies. Thats the conservative attack on mandates, of course, just like it is the conservative attack on taxes paid into ...
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• Ray McGovern | Break the CIA in Two

  
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  Split Up the Agency So, here’s what can be done: Expunge the one sentence in the National Security Act of 1947 that enables a President to direct the CIA to perform “other such functions and duties related to intelligence.” Make it crystal clear that the sense conveyed by that sentence, whether the sentence ...
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• U.S. financial crisis panel sets first hearings

  
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  A U.S. commission created by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has scheduled its first public hearings for January 13 and 14, more than a year since the crisis shook banks and capital markets worldwide No witnesses were named by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in a statement distributed on Tuesday. ...
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• Anti-Dean Salvo Fuels War on Progressives - "Bushkrieg" Bares Audacity of Arrogance by Robert Becker

  
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  Headline from the Wall Street Journal, "Rahm Emanuel: Dont Worry About the Left," reporting how Obamas chief of staff conspired with Joe Lieberman to dump the public option and Medicare buy-in. The result, according to one "former Democratic official," is White House denial about "how much trouble theyre in" and ...
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• Obama is Evil: Executive Order Allows Interpol to Violate the U.S. Constitution and Operate Above the Law

  
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  Just freakin’ crazy!   Say goodbye to the Bill of Rights: Wither Sovereignty Executive Order Amended to Immunize INTERPOL In America – Is The ICC Next? By Steve Schippert, Clyde Middleton – ThreatsWatch.org Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order ...
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• President Obamas Muse? Melvin A. Goodman

  
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  President Obama often calls Reinhold Niebuhr his "favorite philosopher" and his "favorite theologian." Slate magazine and various editorial writers of the mainstream media termed President Obamas Nobel acceptance speech a "faithful reflection" of Niebuhrs political philosophy. George Packer, in this weeks New Yorker ...
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• Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs by Juan Cole | CommonDreams.org

  
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  By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst ...
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• Probe Confirms CIA Operated Secret "Black Site" Prisons in Lithuania by Jason Leopold

  
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  Lithuanian government officials confirmed that the countrys intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret black site prisons in the country where alleged high-value al-Qaeda operatives were to be rendered for interrogation. The four-month investigation commissioned by President Dalia Grybauskaite and conducted by ...
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• Israeli repression wave targets activists

  
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  When is enough enough? how long can it be defensible for us to support the fascist state of israel, without demanding, really demanding, that it change its ways, really change its ways? "In recent months, since the public push for The Goldstone Report, Israeli authorities have intensified their repression of ...
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• Health Care Profiteers: A Billion-Dollar Lobby

  
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  Whats the real story on health care reform? Its pretty much what you probably suspected. Now ask yourself, progressives, which party is going to take the public fury hit over this in 2010? And why must the progressive movement be tied to that party? "A study by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), ...
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• Obamacare and the Façade of Regulation: How Health Reform was Killed by Triangulation: By James Ridgeway

  
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  Plenty of countries have created excellent health care systems largely through regulation–so why can’t we do the same? The French and Japanese health care systems, for example, do not exclude private industry. They are not socialist in any sense of the word, and even retain a role for private insurance companies. ...
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• Another take on Facebook’s Lack of Privacy

  
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  Another aspect of the friend list controversy has been its impact on political activism in oppressive regimes. In an interview with PC World , Facebook seemed to claim that the new friend list policy would somehow aid dissident movements. A spokesperson said, “We believe that Facebook, as demonstrated during the ...
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• Repeal of health care will need a 2/3’s vote of Congress

  
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  Redstate has a must-read article posted about Harry Reid’s repeated violation of Senate rules as he’s directed the juggernaut of public health care, public be damned.  Included in his “manager’s amendment” is the following: Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be ...
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• How Wall Street Bought Barney Frank

  
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  Barney Frank takes pride in being the Lefts darling, but hes almost entirely funded by Wall Street and his votes show it.   »  noticia original
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• Steven Crowder Goes to the Liberal Utopia of Detroit

  
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  Foreshadowing what America will become with all these Libtards and Lefturds at the helm, this is a MUST WATCH video! H/T – TGUSA Posted in Abuse of Power, documentary, Economics, Economy, Education, Health, human interest, Leftists, Liberals, Obama Sucks, politics, Socialists, video
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• Feingold: Obama Responsible For Loss Of Public Option

  
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  One of the prominent progressives in Congress, Feingolds statement gives voice to the frustration that many Democrats have felt when watching the health care debate unfold. The Obama White House, quite consciously, refused to draw a line around the public plan even as Senate Democrats practically begged for them to do ...
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• LIVE: WATCH Nations largest Health INSURERS Stock Price SKYROCKET! (Somebody get a screen pic!!)

  
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  Right this moment, stock prices for Wellpoint -- the nations largest health insurance company in terms are skyrocketing, reaching a year to date high and shooting for the stars in a straight upward trajectory. LOOK HERE: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:WLP Someone take a screen pic! The stock ...
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• The Seminal » Obama’s Senate Health Care Bill: A “Uniquely American” Idiocy

  
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  With government collusion, the private actors created a system of inhumane rationing that denies insurance to nearly 50 million and hawks fraudulent coverage to tens of millions more. The failure of the insurance system leads directly to the most egregious rationing of actual health care of any industrialized nation. ...
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