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Cao Votes for “Life”; Achieves Legislation to Protect the Health of All Americans

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:14:43 +0000

Tonight, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (LA-2) voted in favor of the comprehensive health reform bill, H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Of his vote, Cao said: “Tonight, I voted to keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortion and to deliver access to affordable health care ...

Talking Points Memo found this 14 hours ago on josephcao.house.gov

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Fort Hood Twitter Atrocity

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:49:52 +0000

Paul Carr’s righteous TechCrunch contrarian rant is wary of ‘citizen journalists’ with cell phones and Twitter. His case in point, the Fort Hood shootings. A snippet: [T]he first news and analysis out of the base didn’t come from the experts. Nor did it come from the 24-hour ...

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Fort Hood massacre: Guess who’s tied to a 9/11 imam

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre ...

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Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:46:41 +0000

Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies to the tune of six pounds per American per year . That’s a lot of estrogen. More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in ...

Daily Kos found this 6 hours ago on nytimes.com

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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Barack Obama standing in front of the American flag: Nobel Prize: Ten famous peace prize winners

Gates of Vienna found this 14 hours ago on telegraph.co.uk

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The (not-too) private life of Corporal Hodge

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:03 +0000

Hey, what's this half naked model doing here ? Why, that's Katrina Hodge, runner-up in this year's Miss England competition. But the story doesn't start or end there... You see, she's also a Corporal in Her Majesty's Armed Forces ... ...and here's how she got that ...

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Napolitano Warns Against Anti

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:46:26 +0000

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, the agency's chief said Sunday. The comments by Homeland Security Secretary Janet ...

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East Germans lost much in 1989 | Bruni de la Motte | Comment is free

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:50:19 +0000

On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the country in which I was born, grew up, gave birth to my two children, gained my doctorate and enjoyed a ...

The Corner on National Review Online found this 3 hours ago on guardian.co.uk

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Understanding Fort Hood: Nothing ‘Sudden’ About ‘Sudden Jihad Syndrome’

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:43:05 +0000

The horrible massacre should have come as a surprise to no one.

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Bishops endorse the bill

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:29:28 +0000

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops delivered a critical endorsement to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday by signing off on late-night agreement to grant a vote on an amendment barring insurance companies that participate in the exchange from covering abortions. ...

Suburban Guerrilla found this 28 hours ago on politico.com

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Laparoscopic War Strategizing

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:16:51 +0000

O's advisors are working up three options Afghanistan troop options. Glad to hear he's still working on that. I was a little concerned that, like some other federal agents, his eye was off the al-Qaeda ball. Here's the status of the last three months of war strategizing, via NYT. Sounds ...

Vodkapundit found this 72 minutes ago on julescrittenden.com

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Combat Barbie: Soldier is new Miss England as Linford Christie's niece hands back crown after nightclub 'brawl'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:03 +0000

By Antonia Hoyle Last updated at 1:01 PM on 08th November 2009 Corporal Katrina Hodge was sitting in her barracks in Surrey wearing regulation combats, hair scraped back and face devoid of make-up, when the telephone rang. The call was from the organiser of the Miss England competition, ...

Mudville Gazette found this 4 hours ago on dailymail.co.uk

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Joseph Cao, The RINO Traitor!

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:36:09 +0000

Behold the face of betrayal! Joseph Cao RINO Traitor! This, of all people, is the RINO traitor that voted for the Bill, that flies in the face of liberty. Yes, I know what I wrote about him on Twitter last night . I was quite angry. I also find it ironic that the same liberals who ...

Patrick Adkins posted 53 minutes ago from politicalbyline.com

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Facts Leak Out

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:31:48 +0000

Reporters are interviewing friends and acquaintances of Nidal Malik Hasan, and troubling facts are beginning to come out . Troubling, but frankly not very surprising: His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing ...

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Playing Dumb

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:49:35 +0000

There is something both pathetic and infuriating about the head-scratching and obfuscation going on in the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre. “What could be the motive?” mull the chin strokers in the Washington Post forum. The editors caution that we shouldn’t be “jumping to ...

Swampland found this 24 hours ago on commentarymagazine.com

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Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:45:42 +0000

By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a ...

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Obama will not Attend Berlin Wall Celebrations

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:16:00 +0000

This Monday November 9, 2009 represents the twenty year anniversary of the first time the Berlin Wall was opened in Germany. On that glorious day, it marked a significant step in the destruction of the Soviet Union and the end to the long and brutal cold war. America emerged as the lone super ...

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China brands US ‘protectionist’

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:29:00 +0000

China brands US ‘protectionist’

Booker Rising found this 37 hours ago on ft.com

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Dissing Free Speech

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:54:12 +0000

Here’s Obama’s “media diversity czar,” Mark Lloyd: It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a ...

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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who…

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:40:27 +0000

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who dares fly the official military Gadsen flag on the domestic terrorist watch list, a real terrorist was spouting off online, glorifying suicide bombings and our mission in Iraq. I mean, I’m ...

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