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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends).
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 68% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, just 16% Strongly Approve and 51% Strongly Disapprove (see other recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll).
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Last year at this time, Bar ack Obama was fresh off his historic election, riding a honeymoon high that would see him hit 70 per cent approval. Voters gave his party control of Washington, and media acolytes were force-feeding the nation syrupy comparisons to FDR and Lincoln.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, was sent skulking back to Alaska, beaten as well as defeated. John McCain wouldn't let her speak on election night, a final insult in a race where she was ridiculed as a little nutty by the mainstream press and a little slutty by late-night jackals.
What a difference a year makes... [snip]
This flip-flop in fortunes stems from many factors, but generally equal parts push and pull: he's aligned himself with the left wing of his party instead of the ordinary Americans who identify with Palin and his Ivy League eloquence seems tired next to her wrong-side-of-the-tracks passion...
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WASHINGTON - It's the cost, Mr. President. Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says. That's creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the Senate....
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
Republicans pointed to the guidelines as evidence the Democrats' proposals for a health care overhaul would yield limits on mammograms and a rationing of care.
Democrats dismissed those worries and said Republicans were stoking fears without facts....
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The core problem with government-run health care is that it doesn't make decisions in the best interests of patients, but in the best interests of government...
Under ObamaCare, Democrats will control health care spending by imposing a "global budget" on Medicare. This will have radical implications for U.S. medicine, says the Wall Street Journal.
All the various health bills stipulate that Congress will arbitrarily decide how much to spend on health care for seniors every year -- and then invest an unelected board with extraordinary powers to dictate what is covered and how it will be paid for:
- As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission -- all 15 members appointed by the President-- would have to meet certain budget targets each year.
- Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation.
- After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as gross domestic product (GDP), plus one percentage point. [arbitrary, narcicistic limits all]
A breakthrough drug like Herceptin, which is designed for a certain genetic subset of breast-cancer patients, might well be ruled out under such a standardized approach... [snip]
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Harry Reid had two problems. How would he get the health care bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on health care? And, how could he lend a veneer of bipartisanship to a one-party bill?
Harry Reid had two problems. How would he get the health care bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on health care? And, how could he lend a veneer of bipartisanship to a one-party bill?
So he used the bait of a bill with no public option to hook moderate Democrats like Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and the gullible Republican Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.
When the bill emerged from Finance, by a lopsided 15-to-nine vote, it restored the momentum to health care reform that had stalled due to the public outrage so evident during the August recess.
Then, the dexterous Reid capitalized on that momentum to put the public option back into the bill, reversing the commitment to compromise that allowed the bill to clear the committee in the first place.
This tactic of bait and switch offers a foretaste of what Reid will attempt on the Senate floor. He obviously hopes to replicate these tactics in getting the bill through the Senate.
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Minneapolis - Authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Monday against eight defendants they said recruited young Somali-American men to return to their homeland to fight for an Islamist militant group. The charges said men were recruited in Minneapolis mosques to fight for al-Shabaab, which the United States accuses of being al Qaeda's proxy in the Horn of Africa nation.
In all, authorities have charged 14 people with recruiting, training or financing travel for young Somali immigrants...
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Professors with favorable regard for terrorists and a somnolent disconnect from their victims have shown themselves impervious to shame
Raymond Luc Levasseur served twenty years in federal prison for leading the United Freedom Front, a radical anti-government group notorious for its violent "protests" against U.S. foreign policy in the '70s and '80s.
Its members were charged with the murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the attempted murder of a Massachusetts state trooper, several other assaults on law enforcement officers, eight Boston-area bombings, and a series of armed bank robberies.
In spite or even because of Levasseur's heinous acts, academics at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst recently saw fit to include him in its annual Colloquium on Social Change: Radical Democracy and the Moral Economy [whatever that means] on Social Change, an event designed to showcase radicals of '60s vintage. The purpose of this year's colloquium was to "examine how ideas about social justice have shaped American lives with speakers who represent distinctly different radical challenges to American society."
Never mind that Levasseur's notions of social justice cut short the life of state trooper Philip Lamonaco, caused many others great suffering, and visited destruction on various military reserve and recruiting centers... [snip]
Something is horribly wrong in higher education, as the public increasingly grasps. Consider the reaction of Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, for example, to the honoring of Levasseur at UMass:
This notorious killer ... is a guest of the university's faculty to talk to students ... Is that the lesson these so-called teachers want to send? ... Glorifying terrorism and equating it with social change is wrong. The University of Massachusetts should be ashamed of its faculty, which has turned this colloquium into a sick joke. Who will speak at this event next year -- Terry Nichols and Zacarias Moussaoui?"
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Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law, was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton Universities last week, but both events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus.
Remember, we are talking about Columbia University, where Ahmadinejad was welcomed like a returning king... [snip]
Just hours before Darwish was scheduled to speak at Columbia, the groups that had invited her to both universities, the Whig-Clio Student Debate Society and Tigers for Israel, succumbed to demands from student Muslim groups and canceled her speaking event.
'Tigers' for Israel, my eye. Their name mocks them.
The Whig-Clio Society is the oldest debating society in the U.S., founded by James Madison in 1765. These are the students who are supposed to be the leaders of the future.
What a joke.
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Just 35% of New York State voters agree with Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and five other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City rather than before a military tribunal.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 55% are opposed to that decision, which is part of the Obama administration’s effort to close the terrorist prison camp at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
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Washington - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it's a mistake to set a deadline to end American military action, as some liberals have sought, and that a defeat would be disastrous for the U.S. In a stern warning to critics of a continued troop presence in Afghanistan, Gates said the Islamic extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda would perceive an early pullout as a victory over the United States as similar to the Soviet Union's humiliating defeat...
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Washington - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attempted to repair damage done by the Administration's handling of missile defense plans.
"The Americans are clearly trying to cover over the disastrous impression made by the manner in which the Americans presented their change to missile defense on Sept. 17th."
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Moscow - Russian military intelligence is claiming that Georgia might again attack South Ossetia, the pro-Moscow region over which the two countries fought a war last year, a powerful spy chief said Thursday.
Alexander Shlyakhturov, who in April took over command of the military's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), said the situation was strained and accused NATO countries of continuing to supply arms to Georgia...
[Does anyone outside of Washington believe this tripe? It is the nature of geopolitics to fill power vacuums, real or perceived. Some 'reset'.]
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Enough is already more than enough when it comes to the economy, according to most U.S. voters.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 53% of voters worry that the federal government will do too much when it comes to reacting to the nation’s financial problems. This marks a five-point increase from last month and is seven points higher than the week after President Obama took office.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of white voters are concerned that the government will try to do too much to help the economy, but 69% of African-Americans have the opposite worry.
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Lesson one: when green Leftists try to shut down a democracy it isn't because they can defend their arguments, it's because they can't
Although carbon dioxide levels have continued to increase, temperatures have not been rising in the way the computer models all agree they should have done.
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Has this been a trying decade for the average American, or what? It's bad enough that we've have had to cope with stagnant wages and tax increases at just about every level. But in the months ahead, we may have to deal with yet another nightmare: surging gasoline prices.
Factors are lining up that could end up pushing gas prices back over $4 per gallon sometime next year....
[All for no reason whatsoever.]
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"Every day we need more and more energy to run our factories, airplanes, cars, ships, computers and other modern marvels. Some of the energy we now consume comes from burning petroleum that is derived from crude oil. Other major energy sources include coal, natural gas and uranium. Unfortunately, using these materials leads to numerous environmental problems. In addition, none of these energy sources is renewable. In other words, their supplies are limited and become harder to get every day."
Carbon monoxide: -35%.
Ozone: -5%.
Sulfur dioxide: -24%.
Particulates (PM-10): -9%.
Fine particulates (PM2.5): -14%.
Nitrogen dioxide: -20%.
Lead: -6%.
Natural gas reserves as estimated two years ago: 1,321 trillion cubic feet.
As estimated in 2009: 1,836 trillion cubic feet.
Estimated natural gas reserves in terms of US consumption: 100 years.
RNC Remains Silent on Global Warming Scam Emails 
The RNC spokesperson in the press office said (1:20pm Eastern) that he is unaware of any pending RNC statement on the issue...
[Again, the only testicular fortitude in that party is possessed by those in skirts.]
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CRU emails spur lawsuit
The Competitiveness Enterprise Institute sues NASA and Goddard Space Center for withheld information:
Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies' refusal - for nearly three years - to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding "ClimateGate" scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries' freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies. Numerous informed commenters had alleged such behavior for years, all of which appears to be affirmed by leaked emails, computer codes and other data from the Climatic Research Unit of the UK's East Anglia University.
All of that material and that sought for years by CEI go to the heart of the scientific claims and campaign underpinning the Kyoto Protocol, its planned successor treaty, "cap-and-trade" legislation and the EPA's threatened regulatory campaign to impose similar measures through the back door.
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