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Bombs and Dollars Ranks the Conservative Blogosphere

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:55:00 +0000

Mitchell at Bombs and Dollars has published his own ranking of the conservative blogosphere. Proud though it makes me, it probably needs a bit of tuning, as we turn up ahead of American Thinker, Campaign Spot, Dan Riehl, Gateway Pundit and a host of other big leaguers.The picture at right is ...

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NPR's 'Senior News Analyst' Blames the Internet as 'Complicit' in Fort Hood Massacre

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:43:29 +0000

If someone decided to commit mass murder after hearing hot talk on the radio, NPR "senior news analyst" Daniel Schorr wouldn’t really suggest blaming the talk radio host. He’d suggest blaming the radio itself. That’s the weird tone of his Thursday commentary, titled "Was the ...

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We need to calm down about immigration, conservatives

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:32:04 +0000

On the whole, illegal immigrants are just the sort of newcomers Americans should embrace: self-motivated risk-takers, strivers determined to improve themselves, hard-working men and women willing to take the meanest jobs if it will give them a shot at building their own American dream. Why would ...

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Democratic Sen Michael Bennet: 'I'll Risk My Job For Health Reform' (video)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:53:03 +0000

Freshman Democratic Senator Michael Bennet: 'I'll Risk My Job For Health Reform' - 11/22/09

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Charlie Baker on his Opposition to In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants (video)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:12:10 +0000

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Dear Jeff Jacoby: ideas don't do bad things. PEOPLE do them

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:32:04 +0000

My email to Jeff Jacoby after reading this... Jeff normally you're right on but... Mexico is a third world country, where corruption is considered normal. Mexicans don't value higher education; unlike the Europeans who came before them, they don't have a rich intellectual or ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 7 hours ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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Al Gore AWOL as China's Pollution Devastates Planet

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:42:00 +0000

While Al Gore tries to earn his second billion dollars perpetuating the warmal colding grift in the U.S., China's prolific polluters have somehow escaped his scrutiny.Three months ago, a chemical plant in Hunan Liuyang was shut down after a "cadmium pollution" incident began killing off plant ...

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Michael Bennet: I'll Lose My Seat To Support Health Care (VIDEO)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:08:34 +0000

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a freshman Senator who is fighting to hold his seat in 2010, said he would support health care reform even if it cost him his job. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Colorado Democrat was asked whether he would vote in favor of the legislation even if ...

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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:56:27 +0000

One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song? Dear Associated Press, Holy Joe Lieberman is a man of many parts. He is a sleazebag, a warmongering Neocon, a sanctimonious backstabber, "Armageddon" John Hagee's special ...

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I Can No Longer Sit Back And Allow

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:56:27 +0000

Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious Yuletidey fluids. Begun, this War on Christmas has. From the LA Times: Gap's Christmas cheer makes a boycott backfire The American Family ...

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Re: Get This Woman To The Senate -- By: Mark Steyn

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Kathryn, one of the funniest (in a mordant - ie, death-panel - kinda way) glimpses of socialized health care is Denys Arquand's Oscar-winner from a couple of years back, Barbarian Invasions ( Les Invasions Barbares ). If you're looking for popcorn and a movie to go with your Harry Reid this ...

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Beginning Saturday, at a Senate far from you: health care disaster in the making?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:00 +0000

On Satuday, the the Senate will vote on whether to move Reidcare forward by cutting off further debate on the issue. Senate Republican Tom Coburn, who had promised to read the entire bill into the record before such a vote, has relented and decided that it’s more important that everybody ...

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Watch out for non-indexed taxes

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Remember all the agony that Congress has gone through every year because of the Alternative Minimum Tax that wasn't indexed to inflation. Every year they have to twist themselves into nots to find the money to make sure that people aren't suddenly thrown into having to pay the AMT. Originally, ...

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Spokesman: Schumer Open To Public Option Negotiations, But They Haven't Started

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:25:57 +0000

A spokesman says Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hasn't begun negotiations with conservative Democrats on a public option compromise, though he's not opposed to the idea.

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Reid: 'I Welcome Schumer, Landrieu, And Carper, As They Work On Public Option Compromise'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:25:57 +0000

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated tonight that he'll consider a public option compromise, floated by conservative Democrats.

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The deficit disaster, and then some

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:02 +0000

The Coming Deficit Disaster The president says he understands the urgency of our fiscal crisis, but his policies are the equivalent of steering the economy toward an iceberg. Going forward, there is no relief in sight, as spending far outpaces revenues and the federal budget is projected to ...

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How health care reform could fall apart

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:00:38 +0000

With so many players divided on key issues, there's no guarantee that Reid can pass a bill at all.

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Reid bill: 16M uninsured U.S. citizens pay a penalty tax. 8M uninsured illegal aliens do not.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:24:03 +0000

Under Leader Reid’s amendment , in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per year. About eight million illegal aliens would be uninsured and would owe no penalty tax. Both groups would get their health care through a ...

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Schumer says public option can pass the Senate (AP)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:14:54 +0000

AP - Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says health care reform that includes a public option can pass the Senate.

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From the front page of John McCain's web site:

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:08:00 +0000

The front page of John McCain's web site reads: I remain committed to opposing any bill that puts your health care decisions in the hands of government bureaucrats while adding more than a trillion dollars to our country's deficit. Taxpayers simply cannot afford this government takeover of ...

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The Milli Vanilli of Science: Hacked Emails Unpeel the Global Warming Scam

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:08:00 +0000

The hacked climate research files -- at the heart of the global warming debate -- are now indexed and may be searched. It is obvious from reading through the files that a cover up of the first order was underway from the start.In 2007 I wrote that the UN's climate change panel had engineered a ...

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The Sunday Shows In Five Bullet Points... And Glen Beck!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:13:16 +0000

1. A Senate of Four : Well, there's Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT). He says that the bill will change -- and significantly. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-NE) says that he'd vote to prevent the current health care bill from being taken off the floor -- and has presented a list of demand s to ...

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Sen. Michael Bennet: I'll Risk My Job To Vote For Health Reform (video)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:11:58 +0000

CNN's John King asks freshman Democrat Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado: "If... you are a critical vote for health care reform, and every piece of evi...

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Is The Public Option Un-Un-Dead?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:30:17 +0000

Having underestimated the resilience of the public option before, I'm naturally a bit reluctant to do so again. But with three or four Senators threatening to filibuster a bill that contains a public option, it's time for a review of the landscape. The fundamentals of the public option are, in ...

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Will donor scandals doom Crist's Senate bid?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:35:19 +0000

By Michael C. Bender Palm Beach Post Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE Gov. Charlie Crist has capitalized on huge campaign finance advantages to win three statewide elections in the past decade, and he's off to a quick start in his latest campaign. But could Crist's prodigious fund raising, which ...

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Lieberman holds fast on public option

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:25:29 +0000

Senator Joe Lieberman (Id.-Conn.) is making clear that while he voted Saturday to allow debate on a health care reform bill, he is still firmly oppo

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Lieberman Repeats Claim That Public Option Not Part Of 2008 Presidential Campaign

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:45:30 +0000

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) still says that President Obama did not campaign on a public option.

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Danger Close (2)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:23:47 +0000

( Part one here .) Below: an excerpt from Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan , by Doug Stanton. ***** They turned out of the camp at midmorning and rode down the hill with the sun hot on their backs and the horses ...

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Sen. Lamar Alexander Repeatedly Calls Medicaid A ‘Medical Ghetto’

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:20:36 +0000

Today on the Senate floor, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) railed against Medicaid, the health insurance program funded by both the federal and state governments for low-income Americans, by calling it a “medical ghetto” and blasting Democrats for proposing to expand the program: ...

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Lieberman: 'I Don't Think Anybody Thinks This Bill Will Pass'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:53:32 +0000

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), reaffirmed on Sunday that he will support a Republican filibuster of any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance option. Appearing on the "Meet the Press," the Connecticut independent said that neither he, nor anybody else believed the ...

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Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate Bill Increases Costs (video)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:55:58 +0000

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Wallace Selectively Quotes CBO To Suggest Senate Bill Increases Costs

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:26:42 +0000

This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace selectively quoted the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the merged Senate legislation to suggest that the Senate health legislation would increase government outlays on health care over 20 years and bend the cost-cure upward: WALLACE: ...

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Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:00 +0000

A freshman Democratic senator said Sunday that he will support his party’s efforts to pass health care reform legislation even if that means losing his seat in next year’s midterm elections.

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Bond: Senate GOP 'like a mosquito in a nudist colony'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:25:00 +0000

With ten hours of Senate debate preceding tonight's first procedural vote on healthcare reform, there are bound to be a number of rhetorical flourishes spouted on the Senate floor. Here is a interesting tidbit from Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) on the Senate Republican's attitude toward the Democrats' ...

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Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:47:00 +0000

REID SEEKS PASSAGE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Caucus remains bitterly divided over public option Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Nelson gives Reid list of changes

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:08:57 +0000

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who is uncommitted moving forward, said he has delivered two pages of proposed changes to Majority Leader Harry Reid. "There is not a lot of explanation there. These are just items," Nelson said. What's on it? Public option, abortion, and ...

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Kennedy: Barred from Communion

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:20:53 +0000

01:00 AM EST on Sunday, November 22, 2009 By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin has forbidden Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy to receive the Roman Catholic sacrament of Holy Communion because of his advocacy of abortion rights, the Rhode Island ...

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Blanche Lincoln, Clout Rising, Cements Role at Heart of Health Debate

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:13:52 +0000

“I'm thinking about the 450,000 Arkansans who have no health insurance,” Senator Blanche Lincoln said on Saturday.

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While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To Charity

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:27:19 +0000

The debate over health care reform often takes place in a haze of numbers, cost curves and acronyms. Lamar Alexander lifted the fog for a moment on the Senate floor Saturday evening as the third-ranking Republican lambasted the health care bill for opening up Medicaid to millions more Americans. ...

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Reid pulls together Senate Dems to take huge step on health reform

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:08:28 +0000

The Senate will soon begin a historic debate on healthcare reform after clearing a major hurdle 60-39 on Saturday. Read more...

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Where Does This Leave Us?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:55:38 +0000

The takeaway from today's debate is that the conservative Democratic senators have not budged on a public option. They've been persuaded not to block the bill from going to the floor for debate, but beyond that it doesn't appear any deal has been struck to get their votes on the next and more ...

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2008 Endorsed Candidates

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:05:42 +0000

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Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insurance

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:49:55 +0000

MONTREAL (AFP) Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach. Nathalie Blanchard, 29, took long-term sick leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, ...

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How the Senate Works

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:03:23 +0000

Senator Mary Landrieu agreed to support the cloture vote on the health care bill in exchange for $100 Million in Medicaid subsidies to her home state . Here we see a picture of Senator Landrieu negotiating with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. It wasn't exactly like this, but it wasn't ...

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Webb, Warner vote for health-care debate

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:40:21 +0000

Virginia Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner voted with their fellow Democrats last night to bring to the floor a bill that would overhaul the nation's health-care system. The 60 to 39 vote was on a procedural motion to begin debate, which Senate leaders hope to wrap up by Christmas. "I will only ...

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Arkansas Health Care Clinic Day - Vicky Hansen - Public Option Please (video)

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:50:24 +0000

Arkansas Health Care Clinic Day - Vicky Hansen - Public Option PleaseVisit: http://publicoptionplease.com

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Sestak: Tax drillers instead of I-80 drivers…

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:35 +0000

Sestak: Tax drillers instead of I-80 drivers…

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Specter & Casey vote to advance health care legislation…

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:09:24 +0000

Specter & Casey vote to advance health care legislation…

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The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose: Now Searchable!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:04:25 +0000

The CRU emails are now searchable. Here's one I stumbled across. (Bolding mine, read from bottom up.) From: Keith Briffa To: mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: Re: quick note on TAR Date: Sun Apr 29 19:53:16 2007 Mike your words are a real...

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Lincoln To Vote for Motion to Proceed, But Threatens Filibuster on Public Option

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:00:57 +0000

Mostly just stealing someone else's copy here -- in this case, Politico's : Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said she’d deliver the deciding vote to push forward with a sweeping health reform plan in the Senate Saturday, ending days of speculation over whether President Barack Obama’s signature ...

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