Pelosi Health Bill Sets Stage for Contentious Negotiations with Senate

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Speaking on the West Front of the Capitol surrounded by Democratic lawmakers, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the House's version of a health care reform bill will include a government-run insurance option and extend coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans.

She said the bill will lower patient costs and reduce the national deficit. [Today's insult]

The bill would require everyone by 2013 to sign up through their employer, a government program or a new kind of purchasing pool called an exchange. The plan also calls for a significant expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people. And it would impose a requirement on employers to offer insurance to their workers or face penalties.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released a report saying that the House bill will have a net cost of $894 billion over the next decade. [Not counting the 1/4 Trillion "doctor fix" price tag that has been removed to pay separately, or the fact it calls for increased taxation for years before any benefit is paid out. It's the course accounting deceit they've employed to force CBO to conclude the {utterly false} numbers claimed in the bill result in deficit 'reduction'. ][snip]

"Americans' health care is too important to risk on one gigantic bill that was negotiated behind closed doors,"

said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich.

"Not only will the Democrats' government takeover of health care lead to increased costs, higher taxes, and cuts to Medicare, it also feeds into the emerging narrative that Nancy Pelosi and her puppets are more interested in creating government even if it comes at the expense of creating jobs,"

said NRCC communications director Ken Spain.

"The lasting image coming out of today's press conference is one of dozens of House Democrats standing proudly behind an incredibly unpopular Nancy Pelosi as she prepares to lead them off a political cliff."

[Only if the American people hold them accountable for the maleficence. Meanwhile...]

Pelosi wants to have the legislation on the floor next week -- with a final vote before Veterans Day, Nov. 11 -- which would give President Obama a bill to sign by year's end.

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"OPPOSE ANY/ALL GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE"


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POLL: Most don't see insurance companies as 'villians'

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared last week that health insurance companies are “villains,” and 25% of U.S. voters agree with her.

However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% disagree with the speaker and don’t believe health insurers are “villains.” Virtually the same number (38%), are not sure, a finding which should give insurers pause as the health care reform debate intensifies.

Fifty percent (50%) of Republicans disagree with Pelosi, as do the plurality (45%) of voters not affiliated with either major political party. Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Democrats share her view, with only 19% not.

Still, 80% of those with health insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent. That’s up 10 points from May.

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POLL: 48% Say It’s Too Easy To Sue Doctors, 44% Favor Caps on Jury Awards

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Just 19% say it is too hard to sue for medical malpractice, while 18% believe the current legal situation is about right. Sixteen percent (16%) are undecided.

Perhaps one explanation for the plurality support for caps is that 56% of voters think most money won in medical malpractice lawsuits goes to lawyers rather than the defendants. Only 19% say the defendants get most of the money won in such lawsuits. Nearly one-out-of-four voters (24%) aren’t sure.

Seventy-five percent (75%) say medical malpractice lawsuits are an important factor in the rising cost of health care. Thirty-three percent (33%) say they are very important. Just 16% say malpractice lawsuits are not very important in terms of increasing the cost of health care, and only one percent (1%) says they are not important at all.

[Yet none of the bills before either chamber of Congress address this aspect at all.]

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POLL: Competition Wanted: 65% Favor Removing Anti-Trust Exemption for Health Insurance Companies

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Sixty-five percent (65%) of voters nationwide say laws should be changed so that health insurance companies are subject to anti-trust regulations. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 12% disagree, while 23% are not sure.

Anti-trust laws are intended to prevent companies and other business entities from working together in ways that limit competition.

Support for putting the health insurance companies under the anti-trust umbrella is consistent with another survey finding: 66% say free market competition between insurance companies will do more than government regulation to reduce health care costs. Just 23% believe more government regulation is the way to reduce costs, and 10% are not sure.

Seventy-three percent (73%) also favor another measure designed to spur free-market competition by allowing people buy health insurance across state lines. Just 20% are opposed to that measure.

[Yet none of these aspects are addressed by any of the 'plans' currently under congressional consideration.]

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Hazardous to Your Health

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As U.S. lawmakers mull over whether to restructure the nation’s health-care system via a “public option,” even the biggest advocates of government intervention should be careful what they wish for.

Just look at Europe — not only the widespread health-care rationing, but also the European Union’s new chemicals policy, which was first enacted in 2005.

It promised public health benefits at a reasonable price, but is likely to produce the opposite...

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[Again, the time is now, and silence will be interpreted as consent:


"OPPOSE ANY/ALL GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE"


Senate-Reid: http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
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YOUR Congressman: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

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LET THE MARKETS REGULATE

The uneven playing field, created by Washington, distorts the economy and handicaps a healthy recovery

• The targeted "pay czar" approach gives select financial firms even more insulation from market discipline.
• The marketplace understands that the more intricately entwined the government becomes with these firms, the more the government will support the same firms in the future.
• Lenders, then, will continue to offer firms like Citigroup and A.I.G. money at artificially low interest rates, as they did in the years leading up to the credit crunch, when "too big to fail" was already part of the landscape.
• The firms will continue to have an advantage over other companies and industries, and government-guaranteed failures will crowd out entrepreneurial start-ups.

Washington should be working to make large or complex financial firms more accountable to market discipline by creating a way in which big, complex financial institutions can fail in an orderly fashion...

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His propaganda has seeped into everything

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Remember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy telecast to tell people we should support reform of Social Security before it bankrupted the country?

Neither do I.

Yet when I tuned in to watch "Monday Night Football" this week to check out the Miami Dolphins’ Wildcat offense, I didn’t expect to see President Obama taking the direct snap and trying to pound his political message into the end zone.

Where’s the flag for illegal procedure?

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Not socialism; Gangsterism

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Arguments go back and forth about whether or not the Obama administration is really "socialist" in the sense that they wish to control the means of production, takeover all businesses, and put the "people" (unions) in charge.

Wherever you come down on this issue, there is no denying the straight line from Obama's Chicago roots and ways of getting things done to the White House. I wrote about it a while back when Chrysler dealers were being closed down, in a post I called "Not Socialism: Gangsterism:"

Since I wrote that, the Obama Mob has come down like a ton of bricks on numerous other targets, using tactics not seen since the Nixon administration - and some that Nixon would never have dared to try.

I think a big problem about countering this administration is that most of us are in a state of shock that an American president would use such tactics - and as Strassel says - use them so openly, so brazenly...

Kim Strassel at the Wall Street Journal channels the now familiar dialogue from The Untouchables to explain what the administration is doing...

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HuffPo's New Obsession: Take Down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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Every time the White House has a new enemy, left-wing Web-based media outlets take up the cause to defend the Obama administration.

Earlier this year when CNBC personalities criticized the Obama administration, the Huffington Post and other components of the left-wing noise machine watched every word said on the financial network - an effort that has since petered out. The Huffington Post also asked readers to supply reports to undermine the credibility of the tea party protests that were critical of the Obama administration.

So it should come as no surprise that the Huffington Post is making a call for all hands on deck to aid the White House with its latest feud with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Huffington Post now wants to know who gives money to the Chamber of Commerce.

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CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax

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In a dramatic shift, the Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that it is throwing its support behind climate change legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate.

Only it didn’t.

An email press release announcing the change is a hoax, say Chamber officials.

Several media organizations fell for it.

A CNBC anchor interrupted herself mid-sentence Monday morning to announce that the network had “breaking news,” then cut away to reporter Hampton Pearson, who read from the fake press release....

[They believe what they want to believe.]

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The Nation's Climate Change Solution: 'Make the Recession Worse'

A lefty magazine editor has come up with a list of brilliant solutions to the planet's purported climate change problem: make the recession worse, make goods more expensive, and restrict all intercontinental travel to blimps.

So said Emily Douglas, web editor for The Nation, who, when asked Wednesday how we could "reverse our culture of consumerism," replied immediately "make the recession worse."

She later claimed that her response was a bit "tongue-in-cheek," according to CNS News, but admitted that her magazine "never shies away from doomsday scenarios."

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POLL: Most Americans Doubt Catastrophic Global Warming, Consider Economy More Important

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65% of Americans say creating jobs is more important than taking steps to stop global warming. Fifty-six percent (56%) aren’t willing to pay more in taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming.

The partisan divide is predictable. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Democrats say the U.N. must act to avoid catastrophe, while the identical number (57%) of Republicans reject that view. Unaffiliated adults are narrowly divided.

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China's push for oil in US waters

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Reporting from Beijing - A Chinese company's gambit to drill for oil in U.S. territory demonstrates China's determination to lock up the raw materials it needs to sustain its rapid growth, wherever those resources lie.


The state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, reportedly is negotiating the purchase of leases owned by the Norwegian StatoilHydro in U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of about a quarter of U.S. crude oil production.

[Everyone but U.S.]

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Unscientific American

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Scientific American used to be a great magazine but like any publishing venture headquartered in New York, it has gradually drifted into liberal never-never-land.

Over the years the magazine has run several lead stories encouraging complete nuclear disarmament. At one point it had O.J. Simpson's attorney explaining why DNA technology would never be accurate.

Now it's become a shameless, uncritical cheerleader for a world run on renewable energy, all scientific (mathematic, economic) evidence be damned...

[Too true; former subscriber.]

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Burning the home fires is a crime on bad air nights in Bay Area

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Light a fire at home, pay a $400 fine. Burning wood fires in home fireplaces and stoves on bad air nights in the Bay Area becomes illegal again as of Sunday, when the region enters its second cold-weather season with lighting up banned during Spare the Air alerts. The crackdown, aimed at protecting public health from smoke, has two significant changes this year, the Bay Area Air Quality Management announced Wednesday:

• The district will slap a fixed fine of $400 on second-time violators, who received a written warning the first time they burned on a dirty-air night. Violators last year were subject to an indeterminate fine that could have been in the thousands of dollars. In the end, only person in the region — a Santa Rosa resident — ended up with a $400 fine.

"We don't want to stomp on people's Norman Rockwell experience, but one neighbor's smoke can end up causing another neighbor's visit to the hospital. Smoke can trigger an asthma or heart attack," said Mark Ross, a Martinez city council member on the nine-county air pollution board. "Wood smoke is a public health threat."

The air district also will give the public more advance notice this year of no-burn alerts — 10 hours instead of two hours. [So we should all be grateful.]

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CALIFORNIA'S ENERGY POLICY NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR REDUCED CONSUMPTION

More than 75 percent of the touted benefits of California's costly energy policies are actually attributable to factors other than the policies

A study from Stanford University analyzes factors that lead to California's lower per-capita electricity consumption. Proponents of regulation and cap and trade often point to the "success" California has had reducing per-capita electricity consumption. The study finds that the vast majority of the difference in electricity use is explained by factors other than policy:

• For instance, the mild weather and California's relatively higher use of natural gas for space heating, led to a 15.8 percent reduction in per-capita residential electricity use.
• Differences in household size (more people per household = lower per-capita use) and its higher urban/rural ratio (urban households live in smaller dwellings that use less energy) reduce per-capita residential electricity consumption another 21.4 percent.
• California's different mix of industrial users, by itself, accounts for a 38 percent drop in per-capita industrial electricity use.
• Less commercial floor space per capita reduces per-capita commercial electricity consumption by 27 percent.

When it is all added up, the authors conclude that California's policies account for no more than 23 percent of the difference in per-capita electricity consumption.

Since they haven't even looked at the direct impact of California's 50 percent higher electricity prices, that 23 percent could be grossly overestimating even this reduced policy impact.

The basket-case economy that California has woven for itself is further confirmation that the effectiveness of its energy policies is almost certainly the exact opposite than the dogma being spouted by the political elites that run the state...

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Over half of Mexican nationals polled in a recent survey by Zogby International say that amnesty would create a massive influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico. With Mexico being the major source nation for illegal immigrants, this should serve as a wake up call to those in Congress calling for amnesty. Yet, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and others continue to claim that legalization measures within comprehensive immigration reform are the answer to the illegal immigration problems of the United States. Apparently, the pro-amnesty camp is not worried about letting history repeat itself. For example:

• After the last amnesty bill in 1986, the United States did indeed see a flood of illegal immigrants crossing the border.
• Numbers soared from an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants in the country to 20 million today.

It should come as no surprise that upon seeing those already in the country being handed legal status and a path to citizenship, others sought to come to the United States and simply wait out their chance.

By granting another amnesty, we will not solve the illegal immigration problem, but simply put the country in the same place in another twenty years...

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S.F. to ease up on unlicensed drivers

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Call it sanctuary on wheels: San Francisco is about to give a big break to people, many of them illegal immigrants, who are caught driving without a license. Beginning Sunday, cops will no longer impound cars the first time drivers are pulled over without a license. The reason: Many such drivers are in the United States illegally - and thus unable to get a license - and impounding their cars is an unfair hardship...

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Woman acts like dog to scare off potential burglar in Athens, Georgia

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Athens, Ga. - Athens-Clarke police are investigating after an Athens woman scared off a would-be burglar by acting like a dog. The Athens Banner-Herald reports Monday that the woman scared off the suspect around 11 p.m. Saturday. According to police, the woman got on the floor and began scratching at the door and acting like a large dog when the suspicious man tried turning the woman's door knob.

[Smart dog.]

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MSNBC: Joe Biden is the 'Greatest Vice President of Our Time'

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[You can't make this stuff up.]

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Just in time for Holloween...

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Senate Plan Would Explode Number of Uninsured Americans

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The senate bill would create an incentive for individuals to drop their health insurance and pay the relatively small fine.

[Exactly the plan: 1) destroy private insurers, 2) enslave us to a government run plan, 3) do whatever they want {what will you do when you're told any tax decreases will effect your family's health care?}]

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Health Insurance Company Profits 'Anemic'

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In today's Fact Check ("Health insurer profits not so fat"), the AP writer ripped into what has seemingly been a mandatory talking point any time a Democrat brings up health care: the supposedly excessive profits of health insurance providers.

Woodward found that the Democrats' claim doesn't survive even cursory scrutiny:

Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries.

Nevertheless, Democrats continue to cynically exploit public ignorance about the size of profit margins achieved at companies in general and in the insurance industry in particular.

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Health Care Bill Favors Marijuana and Cocaine Smokers Over Tobacco Users

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Under the Senate Finance Committee version of the health-care bill, health insurance companies would be allowed to charge tobacco users premiums up to 50 percent higher than those of non-users, while marijuana and crack cocaine smokers could not be penalized with higher premiums.

...insurance issuers selling policies to individuals could only vary premiums based on three characteristics: tobacco use, age and family composition.

[Despite the fact that smokers cost our health system less than 'healthy' seniors, who can have their lives extended by nearly a decade - at extremely high cost. Social engineering + junk science = insane policies.]

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The Left’s World of Fairy Tales

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How is one to rationally explain the Democrats’ belief that the government taking over another one-sixth of the American economy is a good thing?

The answer is religion. The left has made its views a form of religion.

Examples of left-wing dogmas that transcend reason are as numerous as any religion’s catechism. One example is the belief that men and women, boys and girls, are basically the same, that the vast majority of characteristics we ascribe to male and female natures are in fact socially induced. This irrational dogma was virtually universally believed and taught by the left-wing faculty when I attended college, and remains so today... [snip]

Dogma explains why it is useless to point out to the left how the left has economically crippled California, once the most prosperous, most adventurous, most successful “country” in the world (it has an economy that would make it about the seventh largest country in the world).

Likewise, it does not matter to blacks what Democrats have done to their cities. As they watch their cities crumble, they will once again vote overwhelmingly for the party that oversaw this destruction.

None of these facts matters because religious-like dogmas are not derived from facts...

[Highly Recommended > ]

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FLASHBACK:

Beware of Ideological Teamism

"Ideological teamism" refers to people's desire to belong to a team representing that they want to believe, which corrupts their judgment in determining what to believe... "
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Leader of Detroit mosque killed, 11 charged in FBI raids

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The leader of a Detroit mosque was shot and killed Wednesday during a series of FBI raids that resulted in charges against 11 and the death of an FBI dog. At least six of those charged were in federal custody late Wednesday afternoon.

A complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit names Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." He was killed in a gun battle during one of the raids, according to a joint statement by federal officials.

Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, was the local leader of a black Muslim group that calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement.

[GWOT]

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Lawyers want admitted al-Qaida member released

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Defense attorneys for an al-Qaida sleeper agent plan to argue at his sentencing this week that his five years spent locked up without charge was enough punishment and he should be immediately released.

Former Bradley University student Ali al-Marri, a 44-year-old native of Qatar, pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

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Guantanamo prisoners to get swine flu vaccine

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Even as some Americans await the arrival of their swine flu vaccines, the Pentagon has decided to vaccinate both soldiers and terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ..

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Paralysis

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The Obama administration’s protracted share session on an Afghanistan troop buildup is turning into a debacle. The commander in chief looks weak and hapless. With Rahm Emanuel making the case for further dithering as Afghan elections get sorted out, and Robert Gates calling for a decision regardless of Afghan leadership, the president’s lauded “team of rivals” is now fractious and incoherent. He has lost the confidence of our allies. He’s losing (lost?) the confidence of his military and, frankly, at cross purposes with his commanders. Consider this:

“A perception that our resolve is uncertain makes Afghans reluctant to align with us against the insurgents.” — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in his submitted assessment of the Afghanistan war

“I’m not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in Afghanistan or saving face or, in some way — you know, sending a message that America — is here for — for the duration.” — President Barack Obama, Meet the Press

Mission accomplished.

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MSNBC: Obama Should Follow Woody Harrelson's Advice on Afghanistan

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Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," invited on former Cheers star Woody Harrelson to talk Afghanistan war policy. The Zombieland actor announced that he was opposed not only to the war in Iraq, but also to the fight in Afghanistan as he compared it to Vietnam and advised that Barack Obama should "pull those troops out," to which Matthews chimed:

"It doesn't look like he's pulling out. He's not gonna follow the recommendation of Mr. Woody Harrelson it looks like...although he might be better off doing that."

[audio available here]

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Muslim student refuses to remove face covering for school

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A burka-wearing student has been banned from enrolling at a college after staff claimed the Muslim garment was a barrier to ‘safety and communication’.

Shawana Bilqes, 18, refused to remove the head-to-toe gown which reveals only her eyes.

She had been asked to show her face as a check to avoid identity fraud in case she was posing as someone else

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Flying Imams Victory

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Homeland Security: A suspect Islamist group is gloating that a cash settlement in the so-called Flying Imams case is a ''victory for civil rights.''

It's a victory for future hijackers...

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‘The Simpsons’, Islamophobia and CAIR: The Price of Freedom

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This past January, London’s Daily Star tabloid announced urgently that an upcoming episode – “the most controversial episode ever”! – of The Simpsons on the Sky1 network “pokes fun at Islam” and “is certain to enrage Muslim fanatics.”

As anyone who morbidly follows this sort of thing (as I do) knows, enraging Muslim fanatics is hardly an accomplishment of Halley’s Comet-like rarity. It doesn’t take much: books, cartoons, teddy bears named Mohammad, posters of puppies, piggy banks, a Burger King ice cream swirl and the Nike logo (both of which apparently too closely resembled the Arabic script for “Allah”), are just a few of the recent Western offenses that have sparked their frothing outrage worldwide.

Yet despite the Daily Star’s perversely hopeful tone, there was no violent reaction in the UK from said fanatics, nor was there one in the United States after the episode originally aired here last Thanksgiving weekend (in a grimly ironic twist, the same weekend as the devastating mass murder and mayhem committed in Mumbai by a band of – wait for it – Muslim fanatics, or as the culturally sensitive media preferred to call them at the time, “gunmen”).

So why no Muslim fury over The Simpsons?

Because the moral of the toon: coming forward to protect your community from a possible terrorist attack by Muslims, even with an abundance of probable cause, marks you as a buffoonish bigot.

So, contrary to the Daily Star’s claim, the episode did not poke fun at Islam, but at Homer. Simpsons creator Matt Groening explained to Sky1:

“Cartoons deal in stereotypes. We try to be sensitive.”

Well, sensitive to the murderous rage of Islamists, anyway, since the episode ridicules the stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists, while stereotyping Homer as an Islamophobic, paranoid, ignorant American... [snip]

“The price of freedom,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is eternal vigilance.”

Not willful blindness, not political correctness, not naive complacency, but vigilance. While the current administration has its hands full demonizing its critics, winning the praise of dictators worldwide, and embracing anti-American radicals and Sharia supporters, radical Islam continues to wage war against us on our own soil.

It’s up to each one of us ordinary Americans, us Citizen Soldiers, to throw off the yoke of political correctness, disregard trumped-up accusations of Islamophobia or racism, and help law enforcement protect our communities and our country from the enemy among us.

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Dismantling America

[HT:LDot: "When Thomas Sowell is alarmed we are in some kind of trouble..."]

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?

How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.

How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.

Does any of this sound like America? ... [snip]

Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up.

Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation....

[Highly Recommended > ]

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Financial Regulator Calls for Crackdown on Facebook, Text Messaging

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Recent problems with the financial system could be used as a reason for regulators to have authority policing social networking sites like Facebook and other types of electronic communication like text messaging. If Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) CEO Richard Ketchum has his way, that's exactly what will happen.

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ABC Worries About Carbon Footprint of Food

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"you're eating oil when you're eating a burger: You need oil to make the fertilizer to grow the corn. You need petroleum to make the pesticides to grow the corn. You need oil to move it all around the country."

"What it tells you is that the carbon footprint of that burger is really big," ... "The result is a product that takes a huge environmental toll and obviously takes a health toll as well."

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Biofuel Production Increases Greenhouse Gases In Atmosphere

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For several years, Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his media sycophants have been telling the nation that a movement away from fossil fuels to biofuels is necessary to save the planet from the Left's bogeyman known as global warming.

A new study by the Marine Biological Laboratory raises series questions about this premise.

According to MBL's Thursday press release,

"Carbon emissions caused by the displacement of food crops and pastures may be twice as much as those from lands devoted to biofuels production."

Nice. So rather than acting as the well-touted global warming panacea, biofuel production is anything but. Given pending cap and trade legislation currently before Congress, one would think this study would be of great importance... [Alas, evidently not...]

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State to launch 'cash for appliances' program

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California's plan to implement a "cash for appliances" program with federal stimulus funds focuses on three meat-and-potatoes appliances used by millions of residents.

The state has been allocated $35.2 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to participate in the State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program.

[I.e., trash more functioning equipment, at taxpayer expense, in the name of the false god of AWG.

Religious dogma + junk science = bad policies.]

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Hoffman Name Unmentioned in NY Daily News Story About NY-23 Race

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Okay boys and girls. A bluebook exam question for you. What is the big excitement all about in the New York 23rd CD race that has captured the attention of the political world for the past week? I'll give you a really strong hint in the form of this observation from yesterday's Washington Post:

"It is now a two-person race between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens with Scozzafava fading badly."

Hmm. So you would think that any recent news story about that race would have to at least include a mention of the Conservative challenger Doug Hoffman who has surged to the lead in a couple of recent polls as the Republican, Dede Scozzafava, plunged to last place.

Well, in the world of the New York Daily News, Doug Hoffman doesn't even exist...

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London Telegraph: Obama's Failed to Defeat Conservatism in U.S.

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Brent Bozell was hardly alone yesterday in touting new polls showing a surge for conservatism in reaction to Barack Obama's forever-lengthening statist agenda. Also making the rounds is Nile Gardiner's blog for the Telegraph (of the UK) suggesting President Obama has failed to defeat American conservatism:

This week’s striking Gallup poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under Barack Obama. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004...

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[I'm on a tight schedule today and have been meaning to have a trash day, so...]

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AS PREDICTED...

As previously predicted, on the very day Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will be introducing a new healthcare proposal which includes a government-run component, NBC will be releasing results of a new poll showing support for such a plan

"at its highest level since the debate began."

What's more, to reach that 'highest level', the numbers had to take a ten point positive swing - in one month.

This will make it perfect for the evening news programs to share details about the Democrats' bill as they try to convince viewers Americans are for it.

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Obama Advisor Tells CNN Fox Is Biased, Won't Comment On MSNBC

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A senior White House advisor on Tuesday told Campbell Brown that Fox News is biased, but refused to comment when the CNN host asked her,

"Well, then do you also think that MSNBC is biased?"

During a taped interview at the Woman's Conference in California later broadcast on CNN's "Campbell Brown," Valerie Jarrett sidestepped this marvelous question and instead haplessly said,

"I don't want to generalize..."

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