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Despite doctored data, EPA issues new CO2 ruling
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Obama meets with Gore, leader of the Church of Global Warming After a thorough examination of the scientific evidence and careful consideration of public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people. ...22 hours ago -
Remembering Pearl Harbor - Obama vs. Bush
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Appeasing our enemies vs. Protecting on national security On a tranquil Sunday morning, as war raged around the globe, the attack on Pearl Harbor effectively ended American isolation -- thrusting our Nation into action. Japanese airplanes had launched an unprovoked assault on our military with immense firepower, ...2 days ago -
The GOPs Obstruction Manual
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Yesterday, Judd Gregg sent around a memo to his Republican colleagues detailing the procedural tactics they have at their disposal to hold up the health-care bill on the Senate floor. Sam Stein sums up some of the measures that Gregg describes as being at the foundation “the minority party’s rights” in the ...4 days ago -
Al Jazeera notes US Media more interested in Mickey Mouse than the Taliban
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I am not surprised by the US media but found this Al Jazeera story interesting. Youd have been hard pressed to find much coverage of the Obama troop announcement on Wednesdays American breakfast TV. I know this because our North America editors had asked me to watch the US breakfast shows, in case there was a story ...4 days ago -
Obama finds new excuse to escape the Oval Office and fly on AF1
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His "White House to Main Street" photo-op tour will not fix his inept handling of the economy. Under pressure from Republicans and an impatient public to fix the sputtering economic recovery, President Barack Obama is refocusing on this politically potent issue by talking job creation with business and labor ...4 days ago -
USDA says PETA is a terrorist threat
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”Plants have feelings. Be a Carnivore.” Says People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants (PETP). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been classified as a “terrorist threat” in a document created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA created a new “APHIS Facility Security Profile” ...4 days ago -
Epicenter of Mendacity: The Illegal War Against Afghanistan
The Public Record —
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Nobody in the corporate media mentions it, but the war in Afghanistan which President Barack Obama just ramped up by 50 percent this year, with the dispatch, first of 17,000 troops last spring and now with another 30,000 troops, to begin deployment on Christmas, is being fought on the shaky legal basis of a hastily ...5 days ago -
Rifqa Bary to meet parents so they can talk about Islam
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But she will talk to them about Christianity. A government caseworker outlined a plan calling for Rifqa Bary, 17, and her parents to listen to each others views on religion. Bary needs to hear out her parents explanation of their beliefs when she goes home, according to the proposal filed in Franklin County ...5 days ago -
Kudos, Mr. President on Afghanistan
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but a deadline is a big error. President Barack Obama invoked the September 11 attacks Tuesday in calling for the nation to unite behind his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. Obama announced he would send an additional 30,000 troops to the war-torn country on an expedited schedule so that the ...5 days ago -
Daschle active in Senate health bill talks
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As Democrats health reform bill progresses through the Senate, former Majority Leader Tom Daschle has been making frequent trips back to his old Capitol Hill office, now occupied by his successor, Sen. Harry Reid. But Mr. Daschle, former South Dakota Democrat, is no longer a lawmaker. Hes what watchdog groups call a ...6 days ago -
GOP Goes After Quasi-Lobbyist Daschle For Role In Health Care Talks
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Tom Daschle is taking heat from a good government group for his dual role as a participant in high-level health care reform talks and a quasi-lobbiyst for a law firm -- and the Republicans arent missing the chance to take a shot at Daschle as well. A "senior policy adviser" at DLA Piper, Daschle was the only ...6 days ago -
Daschle Has a Seat at Health Care Reform Buffet
Constant Conservative —
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So much for all the kerfuffle over his not paying taxes, etc. It would seem as though he’s unlobbying the government ’cause he’s an expert (on the basis of writing a single book on the topic). Anyway, here’s the latest : The close ally of President Barack Obama was in a strategy meeting earlier this week ...6 days ago -
UK’s national HC cancer rationing by region
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Late diagnosis of cancer causes at least 10,000 premature deaths a year. Thousands of people with cancer are dying prematurely because they live in the "wrong" part of the country, a government report reveals today. Charities and MPs condemned the variations, which mean that sufferers in some parts of the ...6 days ago -
Send Rifqa Bary a Christmas card
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Bary denied visitors including her minister. The authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer Omar, continue to isolate her. She has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa ...1 week ago -
Obama escape the Oval Office again
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He attended a basketball game and fed his face. President Obama attended todays Oregon State-George Washington University basketball game to cheer on his brother-in-law, Beavers coach Craig Robinson. The first lady, Malia and Sasha Obama, and President Obamas mother-in-law Marian Robinson were in attendance as well. ...1 week ago -
Obama’s Thanksgiving dinner has 50 guests
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but no visit to our military – only a couple phone calls. The Obamas are having an equally plentiful meal. In addition to the traditional turkey, the family is having a honey baked ham. There will also be two kinds of stuffing (oyster and cornbread), macaroni and cheese, and six -- yes, six -- different kinds of ...1 week ago -
George Washingtons 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
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Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a ...1 week ago -
Security breach at Obama’s 1st state dinner
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Heard there were cuts to the Secret Service. Tareq and Michaele Salahi appear to have taken a more direct route to fame by allegedly gatecrashing President Obamas first White House dinner on Tuesday night. The US Secret Service is investigating how the couple, who its spokesman, Ed Donovan, confirmed were not on ...1 week ago -
Obama: Disloyal, Ruthless, Cold
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Wednesday’s column by Maureen Dowd , eviscerating President Obama for his shabby treatment of former White House Counsel Greg Craig and supporter Caroline Kennedy, is getting favorable responses from his supporters in the blogosphere. Only a year after he had helped Barack Obama get elected by eviscerating his ...1 week ago -
Planned Parenthood director quits
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A preborn child fighting for it’s life changed her mind. Abby Johnson quit her job. That simple act has become a national news story because Johnson, 29, was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who said she experienced a "change of heart" while participating in an abortion procedure. "I had ...1 week ago
