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  • Obama greets muslim pilgrims

    11/25/2009 2:36:06 PM PST · by La Enchiladita · 126 replies · 2,651+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | 11/25/09 | Foon Rhee
    President Obama continued his outreach to the world's Muslims today, sending greetings to pilgrims to Mecca. .... "Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the world’s major religions," Obama said in a statement. "During Hajj, the world’s largest and most diverse gathering, three million Muslims from all walks of life – including thousands of American Muslims – will stand...
  • BREAKING: Charges filed in Ken Gladney case

    11/25/2009 2:31:59 PM PST · by Justaham · 54 replies · 2,620+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 11-25-09 | Jim Hoft
    CHARGES WERE FILED TODAY IN THE KENNETH GLADNEY CASE!! Details coming. A confidential source just told me the news. Kenneth Gladney was beaten and stomped on by SEIU thugs outside the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in August.
  • CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered

    11/25/2009 1:03:51 PM PST · by Smogger · 98 replies · 3,071+ views
    American Thinker ^ | 11/25/2009 | Marc Sheppard
    As the evidence of fraud at the University of East Anglia's prestigious Climactic Research Unit (CRU) continues to mount, those who've been caught green-handed continue to parry their due opprobrium and comeuppance, thanks primarily to a dead-silent mainstream media. But should the hubris and duplicity evident in the e-mails of those whose millennial temperature charts literally fuel the warming alarmism movement somehow fail to convince the world of the scam that's been perpetrated, certainly these revelations of the fraud cooked into the computer programs that create such charts will. -snip- One can only imagine the angst suffered daily by the...
  • Judge blasts bad bank, erases 525G debt (tries to kill mortgage system)

    11/25/2009 6:02:11 AM PST · by GreaterSwiss · 245 replies · 6,074+ views
    NY Post ^ | 11/25/09 | By KIERAN CROWLEY, RICH WILNER
    Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present -- canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying to toss them out on the street. Suffolk Judge Jeffrey Spinner wiped out $525,000 in mortgage payments demanded by a California bank, blasting its "harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive" acts. The bombshell decision leaves Diane Yano-Horoski and her husband, Greg Horoski, owing absolutely no money on their ranch house in East Patchogue. Spinner pulled no punches as he smacked down the bankers at OneWest -- who took an $814.2 million federal bailout but have a record...
  • University of East Anglia Statements

    11/24/2009 9:09:51 PM PST · by 4horses+amule · 89 replies · 3,783+ views
    University of East Anglia website ^ | Nov. 24, 2009 | Professor Trevor Davies
    The University of East Anglia has released statements from Prof Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Prof Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, and from CRU. Statement from Professor Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research The publication of a selection of the emails and data stolen from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led to some questioning of the climate science research published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation...
  • Doug Hoffman's will not press for recount in NY 23

    11/24/2009 6:10:11 PM PST · by SeattleBruce · 98 replies · 3,513+ views
    Doug Hoffman for Congress ^ | 11/24/2009 | Doug Hoffman
    Dear Friends, Today, Tuesday, November 24, 2009, it is with a heavy heart that we declare this election over. We will formally end this election and not ask for a recount. This was a difficult choice to make because so many people have put their faith, hope and aspirations into our campaign. Yes, there seem to have been many vote counting problems, missed vote counts and, as was recently reported by the Gouvernour Times, software problems in the computerized voting machines. Despite these incidents, I do not believe the voters of NY-23, or New Yorkers in general, would be well-served...
  • Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents (Captain Obvious!)

    11/24/2009 6:05:47 PM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 35 replies · 1,296+ views
    Foxnews ^ | 11/24/2009 | Staff
    President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's. That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion...
  • Judge orders New Haven to promote firefighters (SCOTUS reverse discrimination lawsuit)

    11/24/2009 6:01:50 PM PST · by Brugmansian · 36 replies · 2,490+ views
    The New Haven Register ^ | 11/24/09 | William Kaempffer
    NEW HAVEN — A U.S. District Court judge, under instruction by the Supreme Court decision, today issued an judgement finding the city violated the civil rights of a group of white firefighters when it threw out two promotional exams in 2004, and ordered the city to promote 14 of them.
  • AZ-Sen. 2010: Hayworth raises money, toys with race against McCain (is gearing for battle)

    11/24/2009 3:40:31 PM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 60 replies · 1,520+ views
    The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2009-11-24 | Eric Zimmermann
    Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) emailed supporters today to say he's considering a primary against John McCain and to ask for funds to pay off his 2006 campaign debt. "You have contacted me with words of encouragement following the release of a Rasmussen Reports Poll which finds me in a statistical dead heat with John McCain for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 2010," Hayworth wrote, referring to this poll. "Miss Mary, our children, and I will do a lot of praying and a lot of talking in the days ahead, as we determine the best course...
  • Lawmakers propose "War Tax" to pay for Afghanistan

    11/24/2009 8:47:20 AM PST · by NMEwithin · 58 replies · 1,886+ views
    FOX News Broadcast | 11/24/2009 | FOX News
    <p>No link for this as I just heard this being reported on FOX News. It appears that some liberal lawmakers, Charlie Rangel, David Obey and a couple of others may be proposing a "War Tax" on the wealthiest of Americans to pay for any upcoming troop surge in Afghanistan.</p>
  • Democrats push $150B stock tax on Wall Street

    11/24/2009 10:15:30 AM PST · by AngelesCrestHighway · 71 replies · 2,196+ views
    TheHill.com ^ | 11/24/09 | Silla Brush
    A House bill still being drafted aims to raise $150 billion each year to pay for new jobs. Under a bill being drafted by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures would face a 0.25 percent tax. The bill, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, is titled the “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009.”
  • Republicans considering ideological purity test for candidates

    11/24/2009 2:09:55 PM PST · by Dallas · 85 replies · 1,981+ views
    (1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill; (2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare; (3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation; (4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check; (5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants; (6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges; (7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate...
  • (Gallup) Obama's Approval Slide Finds Whites Down to 39%

    11/24/2009 1:33:06 PM PST · by markomalley · 131 replies · 3,938+ views
    Gallup ^ | 11/24/2009 | Jeffrey M Jones
    Since the start of his presidency, U.S. President Barack Obama's approval rating has declined more among non-Hispanic whites than among nonwhites, and now, fewer than 4 in 10 whites approve of the job Obama is doing as president. Obama last week fell below 50% approval in Gallup Daily tracking for the first time in his presidency, both in daily three-day rolling averages and in Gallup Daily tracking results aggregated weekly. (snip) Blacks' support for Obama has averaged 93% during his time in office, and has been at or above 90% nearly every week during his presidency. Thus, part of the...
  • Catholic Advocacy Groups Ask for Pro-Abortion Catholic Lawmakers to be Held Accountable

    11/24/2009 1:30:56 PM PST · by austinrepub · 5 replies · 440+ views
    Christian Newswire ^ | November 24, 2009 | Catholic Families for America
    MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Saturday the U.S. Senate voted to send a health care bill to the floor for debate that directly threatens human life and dignity. Eighteen Catholic Democrat senators voted for the bill that includes federal funding for abortion -- without their votes it would have failed. The Catholic bishops have made the Church's teaching abundantly clear -- Catholic lawmakers "have a grave and clear obligation to oppose any law that contradicts humanity's fundamental right to life." The pending Senate bill is fundamentally flawed. The U.S. Bishops Conference reports that not only does the...
  • Pelosi says Americans could 'absorb' increased deficit if it means more jobs (WHAT???????)

    11/24/2009 1:18:43 PM PST · by markomalley · 45 replies · 1,308+ views
    The Hill ^ | 11/24/2009 | Michael O'Brien
    Americans could be ready to "absorb" increases to the deficit if it means higher employment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday. As the Congress prepares to put together a new spending package focused on creating new jobs in the U.S., the Speaker said that while it's a "false choice" to pose the situation facing lawmakers as a balance between jobs and increased deficits, Americans would rather have jobs. "So if somebody has the idea that the percentage of GDP of what our national debt is will go up a bit, but they will now — and their neighbors and their...
  • Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

    11/24/2009 11:45:09 AM PST · by Terrence DoGood · 604 replies · 15,369+ views
    Fox News ^ | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | By Rowan Scarborough
    Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And for their trouble, three of the SEALs, members of the Navy's elite commando unit, are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com. The three have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and requested a trial by court-martial. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it....
  • Egyptian Muslim Mob Attacks Thousands of Coptic Christians in Egypt

    11/24/2009 11:26:51 AM PST · by BeAllYouCanBe · 68 replies · 1,558+ views
    Christian News Wire ^ | November 24, 2009 | Ihab Aziz, Executive Director, Coptic American Friendship
    Egyptian Muslim Mob Attacks Thousands of Coptic Christians in Egypt Contact: Ihab Aziz, Executive Director, Coptic American Friendship Association (CAFA), 703-337-5217, Coptic.American@yahoo.com MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- As of Saturday, November 21, 2009 the Egyptian town of Farshoot, located 300 miles south of Cairo, and the neighboring villages of Kom Ahmar, Shakiki and Ezbet Waziri, have been the scenes of massive Muslim mob attacks against Coptic Christian inhabitants. The mob looted, vandalized and burnt Coptic properties estimated for six million Egyptian pounds (over one million dollars), while Copts are still hiding indoors fearing for their lives. There are...
  • Daily Presidential Tracking Poll November 24, 2009(Obama at -15)

    11/24/2009 6:20:58 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 133 replies · 3,641+ views
    Rasmussen Reports ^ | November 24, 2009
    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).
  • Germany wants no part in potential 9/11 execution (Obama Lied!)

    11/24/2009 9:31:56 AM PST · by Tigen · 31 replies · 2,146+ views
    Koenig ^ | 11-24-09 | Headline
    A legal team is going to New York to prevent the use of evidence provided by Germany in seeking a death penalty. Berlin wants to ensure that promises made by the US are kept if the suspects are found guilty. Germany, which does not have a death penalty, provided evidence for the trial on the condition that it could not be used to support a death sentence. Several members of the al Qaeda cell that planned and executed the attacks of September 11 were previously based in the northern German city of Hamburg.
  • US, Israel lack 'courage' to attack: Iran leader

    11/24/2009 12:40:57 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 57 replies · 1,923+ views
    AFP ^ | 11/24/09
    US, Israel lack 'courage' to attack: Iran leader (AFP) – 6 hours ago BRASILIA — Visiting Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said Monday that US and Israeli military threats against Iran were a thing of the past, and that, in any case, "they don't have the courage" to attack Iran. "The age of military attacks is over, now we've reached the time for dialogue and understanding. Weapons and threats are a thing of the past," the Iranian told a joint press conference with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, closing his one-day visit. Ahmadinejad's visit was greeted Sunday in Rio de...
  • Obama Will Send 34,000 U.S. Troops to Afghanistan

    11/23/2009 8:13:54 PM PST · by kristinn · 141 replies · 4,836+ views
    McClatchy ^ | Monday, November 23, 2009
    President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy. Obama is expected to announce his long-awaited decision on Dec. 1, followed by meetings on Capitol Hill aimed at winning congressional support amid opposition by some Democrats who are worried about the strain on the U.S. Treasury and whether Afghanistan has become a quagmire, the officials said. The U.S. officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized...
  • Inhofe Says He Will Call for Investigation on "Climategate" (UN IPCC included!!)

    11/23/2009 10:22:42 AM PST · by milwguy · 121 replies · 4,625+ views
    senate.gov ^ | 11/23/2009 | senate.gov
    Senator Inhofe: Well, on this thing, it is pretty serious. And since, you know, Barabara Boxer is the Chairman and I’m the Ranking Member on Environment and Public Works, if nothing happens in the next seven days when we go back into session a week from today that would change this situation, I will call for an investigation. ‘Cause this thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with. Melanie Morgan: So what will you be calling for an investigation of? Senator Inhofe:...
  • Breaking: Emergency injunction filed to stop hospital from discontinuing baby's care

    11/23/2009 12:24:50 PM PST · by moonpie57 · 150 replies · 4,774+ views
    Jill Stanek ^ | November 23, 2009 | Jill Stanek
    <p>The Alliance Defense Fund just filed an emergency injunction and restraining order in response to the decision a couple hours ago by an "ethics panel" at East Tennessee Children's Hospital to discontinue care of 9-month-old Gabriel Palmer.</p> <p>Baby Gabriel was born prematurely with a genetic abnormality, club foot, and narrow airway, but he flourished when he went home from the hospital in June, where he grew, played, and received physical therapy while going to regular doctor visits. He was fed through a tube and received some oxygen and medications.</p>
  • Army asks Palin not to give speech at book signing

    11/23/2009 8:11:49 AM PST · by Dacula · 221 replies · 7,893+ views
    The AP ^ | 9:05 a.m. Monday, November 23, 2009 | The AP
    <p>FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promises to limit her enthusiasm during her visit to North Carolina's Fort Bragg.</p> <p>The former Republican vice presidential candidate planned to sign copies of her new memoir at a post store Monday. Army officials say Palin will not make a speech, pose for photos, or personalize notes in the books she signs.</p>
  • Congressman No Moore (Democrat throws in towel...possible R pickup?)

    11/23/2009 7:37:16 AM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 80 replies · 5,791+ views
    KC Star ^ | 11/23/09 | STEVE KRASKE
    U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, a Democrat who confounded the GOP by winning six consecutive elections in a heavily Republican district, will not seek re-election next year, key Democrats said Sunday.
  • Iran Funding American Professors(What will lad zero say about this?)

    11/22/2009 11:41:21 PM PST · by Tigen · 29 replies · 1,759+ views
    INN ^ | Nov/23/09 | Reported
    (IsraelNN.com) The New York Post has revealed that Iran is using Islamic charities in the U.S. to fund pro-Iranian professors in American colleges. According to the newspaper, Iran has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to universities such as Columbia in Manhattan and Rutgers in New Jersey, to fund the employment of lecturers who support and sympathize with the Islamic Republic.
  • IPCC Researchers Admit Global Warming Fraud

    11/22/2009 8:19:04 PM PST · by dila813 · 94 replies · 6,400+ views
    New American ^ | MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2009 00:00 | REBECCA TERRELL AND ED HISERODT
    Global warming alarmists are scrambling to save face after hackers stole hundreds of incriminating e-mails from a British university and published them on the Internet. The messages were pirated from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) and reveal correspondence between British and American researchers engaged in fraudulent reporting of data to favor their own climate change agenda. UEA officials confirmed one of their servers was hacked, and several of the scientists involved admitted the authenticity of the messages, according to the New York Times. The article opined, "The evidence pointing to a growing human...
  • President Obama Didn't Impress Asia (he labeled himself "America's first Pacific president")

    11/22/2009 2:57:06 PM PST · by La Enchiladita · 124 replies · 4,313+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Nov. 22, 2009 | John Bolton
    Barack Obama's first visit to Asia since his inauguration was one of the most disappointing trips by any U.S. president to the region in decades, especially given media-generated expectations that "Obamamania" would make it yet another triumphal progression. It was a journey of startlingly few concrete accomplishments, demonstrable proof that neither personal popularity nor media deference really means much in the hard world of international affairs. The contrast between Asia's reception for Obama and Europe's is significant. Although considered a global phenomenon, Obamamania's real center is Europe. There, Mr. Obama reigns as a "post-American" president, a multilateralist carbon copy of...
  • White House: Gitmo transfers mean jobs (in Illinois)

    11/22/2009 2:40:25 PM PST · by SolidWood · 63 replies · 1,459+ views
    UPI ^ | Nov. 22, 2009 | UPI
    THOMSON, Ill., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Thousands of jobs would be created in Illinois if the U.S. government purchases a nearly empty prison there to house terror detainees, a study indicates. The study, performed by the Obama White House Council of Economic Advisers and obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times, asserted that 2,290 to 2,960 jobs would be created in and around Thomson, Ill., in the first year after its conversion to house some of the prisoners now held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, the newspaper reported Sunday. Local residents in the Illinois-Iowa border town would be "good candidates"...
  • Lawyer: 9/11 Defendants Seek Platform For Views (Will Use Court to Put U.S. on Trial)

    11/22/2009 8:48:47 AM PST · by kristinn · 95 replies · 2,668+ views
    CBS News ^ | Sunday, November 22, 2009
    A lawyer for one of the five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial venue to express their political views. Attorney Scott Fenstermaker said his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but will tell the jury "why they did it." He said that the men will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy." Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but said...
  • Afghan soldier fires at US troops, injures several

    11/22/2009 5:45:39 AM PST · by Cardhu · 47 replies · 1,942+ views
    Press TV (Iran) ^ | Nov 22nd 2009 | RZS/SC/DT
    A number of US troops have been injured when an Afghan soldier opened fire at their convoy in Khost province, the third such accident in less than two months. Local officials in eastern Afghanistan announced on Sunday that an Afghan soldier opened fire on a US convoy injuring several US troops late Saturday, IRNA reported. The officials who wanted to remain unnamed added that the Afghan soldier was also injured during the incident. However, it was not clear whether he was shot by the US soldiers or himself. This is the third time such an accident has happened in the...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 22 November 2009

    11/22/2009 5:09:14 AM PST · by Alas Babylon! · 287 replies · 6,503+ views
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 22 November 2009 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Kit Bond, R-Mo., Arlen Specter, D-Pa., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y.THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla....
  • Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle (60-39 vote to advance bill)

    11/21/2009 5:56:28 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 224 replies · 7,918+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/21/09 | David Espo - ap
    WASHINGTON – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare. The 60-39 vote cleared the way for a bruising, full-scale debate beginning after Thanksgiving on the legislation, which is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it, crack down on insurance company practices that deny or dilute benefits and curtail the growth of spending on medical care nationally. The spectator galleries...
  • Heads up Senate is about to vote to advance Health Care Bill (Update: Passed)

    11/21/2009 4:58:18 PM PST · by The Magical Mischief Tour · 199 replies · 8,030+ views
    11/21/2009
    ON Fox News now, Vote is underway!!!
  • President Obama seeks $500,000 for ads to rebut Palin

    11/21/2009 9:41:35 AM PST · by rface · 228 replies · 8,219+ views
    St Louis Examiner ^ | 11.21.09 | Matthew Cook
    Another e-mail from info@barackobama.com hit my inbox yesterday. The subject: Sarah Palin. It begins: "Right now, Sarah Palin is on a highly publicized, nationwide book tour, attacking President Obama and his plan for health reform at every turn." The mail goes on to say "It's dangerous. Remember, this is the person who coined the term "Death Panels" -- and opened the flood gates for months of false attacks by special interests and partisan extremists.""Whatever lie comes next will be widely covered by the media, then constantly echoed by right-wing attack groups and others who are trying to defeat reform." "So...
  • Investigation under way into threat on Fort Benning

    11/21/2009 1:20:41 PM PST · by La Enchiladita · 30 replies · 2,066+ views
    Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | Nov. 21, 2009 | Christian Boone
    Few details emerged Saturday on a reported threat at Fort Benning. Thursday a solider found a suspicious package and a note threatening a massacre similar to the Nov. 5 attack at Fort Hood, Texas, Elsie Jackson, post spokeswoman at Fort Benning confirmed Saturday. The anonymous note and package -- reported by The Army Times as a box of 20 hollow-point bullets -- were found Thursday morning outside a motor pool area at Fort Benning, located near Columbus. "There may be an update Monday," said Jackson Saturday. "But at this time there is an ongoing investigation of the incident." The discovery...
  • Sen. Lincoln's Support for Health Care Debate Gives Dems 60 Votes

    11/21/2009 12:53:31 PM PST · by Reeser · 197 replies · 5,458+ views
    Democrats on Saturday clinched the votes needed to advance the Senate's version of President Obama's health care overhaul to the floor for a historic debate scheduled to begin shortly after 8 p.m..
  • Live Thread: Senate Debate and Cloture Vote on Motion to Proceed to Debate ObamaCare

    11/21/2009 9:43:50 AM PST · by kristinn · 602 replies · 17,539+ views
    Saturday, November 21, 2009 | Kristinn
    C-SPAN 2 is carrying the Senate floor debate live this afternoon.The Democrats control the floor right now. Earlier, Republican Senators Judd Gregg, Kit Bond, Jeff Sessions and David Vitter gave good speeches and dialogues on the budget-busting effects of ObamaCare.Maria Cantwell is speaking now. Mary Landrieu is excpected to speak shortly.The cloture vote is scheduled for 8 p.m. EST tonight.
  • Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science

    11/21/2009 5:31:48 AM PST · by PapaBear3625 · 210 replies · 7,574+ views
    Telegraph UK ^ | Nov 21, 2009 | James Delingpole
    Like the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal, this is the gift that goes on giving. It won’t, unfortunately, derail Copenhagen (too many vested interests involved) or cause any of our many political parties to start talking sense on “Climate change”. But what it does demonstrate is the growing level of public scepticism towards Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. That’s why, for example, this story is the single most read item on today’s Telegraph website. [...] But in the case of “Climate Change”, the MSM has been caught with its trousers down. The reason it has been so ill-equipped to report...
  • 31 dead, 82 trapped after China mine blast: media

    11/21/2009 1:03:51 AM PST · by myknowledge · 10 replies · 676+ views
    AFP (hosted on Google) ^ | November 21, 2009
    BEIJING — An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said, the latest deadly incident to hit the industry. The blast happened at 2:30 am (1830 GMT Friday) at a mine in Heilongjiang province, according to a statement issued by the State Administration of Work Safety. A total of 528 miners were working in the pit, near Hegang City, when the blast occurred, the state administration said. The previous toll given by CCTV was 15 dead and 114 trapped. The mine is owned by the...
  • U.S. guidelines call for fewer Pap tests for women

    11/20/2009 8:06:07 PM PST · by Grig · 75 replies · 1,652+ views
    The Associated Press ^ | Friday Nov. 20, 2009 10:18 AM ET
    WASHINGTON — First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin...
  • BREAKING: Full List of Tax Hikes In Senate Democrat Health Bill

    11/20/2009 12:42:27 PM PST · by U of IL Conservative · 149 replies · 7,037+ views
    Americans for Tax Reform ^ | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Ryan Ellis
    Read the full billRead the tax revenue score from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Read the budget and tax score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) PDF of this DocumentIndividual Mandate Tax (Page 324/Sec. 1501/$8 bil): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the following schedule (capped at 8 percent of income): ==============> Check out this important piece, at ATR.org...
  • Missouri National Guardsman charged with terror threats at Sedalia high school

    11/20/2009 3:26:37 PM PST · by darrellmaurina · 42 replies · 2,180+ views
    Pulaski County Daily News ^ | 11/20/2009 | Darrell Todd Maurina
    FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Nov. 20, 2009) — A Missouri National Guardsman in training to become a military truck driver faces charges of making a terrorist threat in a school near Whiteman Air Force Base. According to court records, the trainee, Pfc. Michael John Frederick, 19, went into a Sedalia high school during a Saturday evening event and told the superintendent that the Army had told him to warn area schools that escaped prisoners might be trying to kidnap students. Frederick was wearing his military uniform when he made his warning about escaped inmates. However, there were no escaped inmates...
  • MAN-BEAR-PIG Is Dead!… Emails Prove Global Warming Junk Science Conspiracy (Updated)

    11/20/2009 2:11:19 PM PST · by American Dream 246 · 175 replies · 7,469+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/20/09 | Jim Hoft
    GLOBAL WARMING JUNK SCIENCE PROVEN A CONSPIRACY—- ManBearPig Is Finally Dead! I’m serial! Recently “discovered” classified emails and files prove that the junk scientists behind the global warming movement knowingly perpetrated a fraud on the global community. The files were posted on the internet– HERE. The Telegraph reported: If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka...
  • [Fort Hood Shooter] Hasan Aware of Charges, Next Steps

    11/20/2009 1:06:04 PM PST · by Lazamataz · 54 replies · 1,768+ views
    CNN | 11/20/2009
    Heard on CNN: Hasan conversant and aware of his charges, coherent. Paralysed from waist down. Targeted only soldiers, passed over civilians. Shot one soldier 3 times until he fell, then shot him 3 more times. Soldier survived.
  • AZ-Sen. 2010: McCain's back yard (Rasmussen poll shows McCain 45%, Hayworth 43%)

    11/20/2009 9:50:30 AM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 138 replies · 3,484+ views
    John McCain's problems inside his own party were hardly overcome by his place as its nominee, Rasmussen reports. The new poll shows McCain up just two points, 45% to 43%, in a hypothetical contest with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, now a popular local radio talker, who's mulling a bid.
  • Orthodox Christian Priest Who Converted Muslims Murdered in Russia

    11/20/2009 9:46:15 AM PST · by ezfindit · 65 replies · 1,736+ views
    RIA Novosti ^ | 11/20/2009 | OrthodoxNet
    A Russian Orthodox priest, Fr. Daniel Sysoyev, who carried out missionary work among immigrants from ex-Soviet republics, many of them Muslims, received over a dozen death threats before his murder on Thursday, a Russian paper said. Fr. Daniel of St. Thomas Church in Moscow foresaw his death, writing in his internet diary that he had received telephone threats from Muslims. Fr. Daniel’s evening ‘talks’ for inquirers included several especially designed for Muslims.
  • Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index : President Obama at -14 for Third Straight Day

    11/20/2009 9:30:51 AM PST · by Justaham · 24 replies · 2,120+ views
    President Obama's approval rating in the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index is now at -14, the third straight day it has been at that number. That is equal to the lowest rating recorded during the Obama Presidency. The "Presidential Approval Index" is figured based on those who "strongly approve" of the job Obama is doing, minus those who "strongly disapprove" of his performance. Today, that stands at 27%-41%. Obama's overall approval rating is at 47%-52%.
  • Obama drops below 50% in Gallup Poll [for the first time]

    11/20/2009 9:10:34 AM PST · by johnnyd0422 · 48 replies · 1,896+ views
    Stealth Fusion ^ | 11/20/2009 | Stealth Fusion
    Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50% for the first time... Collection of various articles
  • New cervical cancer screening guidelines: report (Start at 21, every 3 years)

    11/20/2009 8:07:42 AM PST · by markomalley · 96 replies · 1,536+ views
    AFP ^ | 11/20/2009
    Days after controversy erupted over new breast cancer screening guidelines, a US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test. The New York Times reported Friday that the American College of Obstetricians is now advising women to wait until age 21 to get their first Pap smear. The advice is intended to cut down on unnecessary testing and reduce the risk of harmful invasive procedures to remove non-cancerous lesions that may show up on tests but often disappear if left alone, the group said. The new recommendations overturn previous guidance, which suggested women...