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Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, on Monday offered a strong endorsement of Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda, calling for robust international support for military operations in Afghanistan as well as backing the US president’s calls for a nuclear-free world. Mr Singh, 77, who will hold talks with the US president in the White House on Tuesday morning and was the guest of honour on Monday night at the first state dinner since Mr Obama took office, also dropped clear hints that India would qualify as a more natural “strategic partner” for the US than China. Mr Obama, who visited China...

Some interesting battles breaking out on Twitter this AM, even if I say so myself - having played a big role in fueling them! No need to link all the back and forth, but it amounts to a discussion about what works. The problem as I see it, is too many inside the Beltway Republicans have convinced themselves that they are all that. For some reason, they fear and look to shut down the Joe the Plumbers (who I personally feel has been over-played by now) and the Jackies from the recent Palin book signing dust up with Nora O'Donnell....

From: Joe Wierzbicki - Our Country Deserves Better Date sent 11/23/2009 07:11:52 pm Subject: Convicted Felon Martha Stewart Attacks Sarah Palin In case you haven't heard, convicted felon Martha Stewart Saturday launched into an attack on Gov. Sarah Palin in an interview with CNN Headline News' "Showbiz Tonight" program.  Stewart called Palin "boring," "very dangerous," and "a real problem" among other things.This is where things stand in America - where the news media propagates attacks made by liberal Hollywood or New York celebrities against any meritorious conservative who poses a threat to their political agenda.  And yes, Martha Stewart, Gov. Palin is...

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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is set for a stoush with the ACT Government over territory laws allowing same-sex civil union ceremonies. Mr Rudd has told caucus that although informal discussions had been held with ACT Government, no decision had been made yet about whether to veto the laws. But ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said the Federal Government had already demanded the laws be reworked, and had indicated a willingness to intervene. Mr Stanhope met with federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday to discuss the new legislation. "They are prepared to intervene to overturn the recent amendments to the civil union...

"Cookie," the unofficial mascot for the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, sits inside a Soldier's backpack at Combat Outpost Jeleran, Afghanistan, Nov. 20, 2009.

NOVEMBER 24, 2009 Abortion to Be New Flashpoint in Senate Bill Activists Aim to Keep Curbs Out of Final Health-Overhaul Measure After Being Caught Off Guard by Amendment in House NAFTALI BENDAVID WASHINGTON -- Abortion-rights groups, acknowledging they were caught off guard by a last-minute amendment toughening abortion restrictions in the House health-care bill, are mobilizing to ensure that doesn't happen in the Senate. A protester in Los Angeles Friday opposed an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak toughening abortion restrictions. Activists hope to flood Washington to lobby against such restrictions on Dec. 2 as Senate floor debate begins. Activists hope...

Frank Rich is one political pundit who takes Levi Johnston’s empty threats against his former future mother-in-law Sarah Palin seriously. Though to most observers Johnston’s threats sound like false bravado, Rich’s Sunday hit piece on Sarah Palin's hit book suggested the former VP candidate is scared of what family secrets Johnston might spill. "Equally revealing is the one boldfaced name conspicuously left unmentioned in the book: Levi Johnston, the father of Palin’s grandchild. Though Palin and McCain milked him for photo ops at the Republican convention, he is persona non grata now that he’s taking off his campaign wardrobe. Is...

A former British policeman is using his Scotland Yard training to help the Birthers, a group of conspiracy theorists, in trying to unseat President Barack Obama. Neil Sankey, who has almost 20 years experience serving in Special Branch and the Bomb Squad, is now devoting his energies to proving that Mr Obama is not a natural born US citizen.

On the Warmergate scandal, the Settled Scientists seem to be settling on Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit, as the designated fall guy. George Monbiot in The Guardian: It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them... There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject...

King Solomon said in the Book of Ecclesiastes there’s nothing new under the sun. Women have killed or attempted to kill their unborn babies throughout human history, way before 1973, when the Supreme Court found a long-hidden, deeply buried “right of privacy” in the U.S. Constitution to have abortions. Roe v. Wade made the act legal and culturally acceptable. This Generation X-er can’t recall a time when abortion was as high-profile as it’s been in 2009. This year, a nut murdered George Tiller, a man nationally known for performing partial-birth abortions. Several months later, another nut murdered pro-life activist Jim...

From the people that brought you The Story of Stuff, a new video telling The Story of Cap & Trade is set for release from Free Range Studios and Climate Justice Now on December 1st. Here's the teaser:

November 23, 2009 Senate’s Women Could Sway Health Bill DAVID M. HERSZENHORN When Senate Democratic leaders first went behind closed doors to complete the health care legislation, the only women in the room were either committee staff members or officials from the White House. The senators there — Harry Reid of Nevada, Max Baucus of Montana and Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut — reflected the Senate’s predominant history as an old-boys’ club. But to move the bill forward for full debate, the Democrats’ last two crucial votes came from women: Senators Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of...

AP source: Palin book sells big in first week By HILLEL ITALIE (AP) – 44 minutes ago NEW YORK — Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming a million-selling author. "Going Rogue" sold 700,000 copies — a number that includes pre-orders — in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska governor. The official was not authorized to release the sales figure and asked not to be identified. Palin's memoir came out Nov. 17 with a first printing of 1.5 million copies. On Friday, publisher HarperCollins announced that the printing would...

This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights. The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the “global warming” fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Pennsylvania lawmaker defended Rep. Patrick Kennedy on Monday against a bishop who has acknowledged asking the Rhode Island congressman not to receive Holy Communion because of his support for abortion rights. "We don't legislate at the orders of the Vatican, we legislate what is in our conscience and what we think is good for our country," said Rep. Patrick Murphy, a pro-choice Democrat and Catholic like Kennedy. Murphy spoke at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where he received a John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award from the late president's daughter, Caroline Kennedy. *** "It's been disheartening...

At least three youngsters in Calabasas have fallen victim to violence by fellow middle-school students after a Facebook group urged people to beat up redheads, authorities said Monday. The first reported incident occurred Friday morning when a 12-year-old redheaded boy was kicked and hit by a dozen of his classmates at A.E. Wright Middle School, Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators said. Detectives took reports of two more assaults, targeting a 7th-grader and an 8th-grader that day at the middle school, said Lt. Scott Chew. Investigators are trying to determine whether there was a fourth attack, officials said. The students who...

    ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, GeorgiaNaval Submarine Base Kings Bay is a base of the United States Navy located adjacent to the city of St. Marys in Camden County, in southeast Georgia. It is the Atlantic homeport for US ballistic missile submarines armed with nuclear weapons. The submarine base encompasses about 16,000 acres, of which 4,000 are protected wetlands. Military and civilian personnel, including contract personnel, number more than 9,000. In 1954, the Army began to acquire land at Kings Bay, on which it planned to build a military ocean terminal...

Health Care: The closer the Democratic Congress' radical health package gets to enactment, the less popular it becomes. The American people smell a rat. 'It's not going to be a perfect bill, but it's going to be a very important starting point," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said on CNN over the weekend after 60 senators voted to open debate on radically transforming the U.S. health care system. That fact is what is increasingly spooking the American people, as well it should, is: Where will this massively expensive "starting point" lead us? The Democrats' health care revolution, which right now...

‘Rogue’ or ‘Rouge’? Many Are Mixing The Two Up Major media outlets have confused Palin’s memoir with book critical of her "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin has been confused with "Going Rouge," an anti-Palin book compiled by editors of The Nation magazine. Harper via AP file; OR Books Nov . 23, 2009 That old saw “you can’t judge a book by its cover” is taking on new meaning: Two Sarah Palin books that look alike on the outside but are very different inside have some of the public — and the media — seeing red. Or should that be rouge?...

Junk Science: Hacked e-mails from Britain's Climate Research Unit are only the latest evidence of climate fraud. Just ask NASA's James Hansen about the faking of climate data or EPA employees about the suppression of climate fact. For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being on the take, their research tainted and funded by grants from Big Oil and other fossil-fuel interests. Now, it turns out, it's the warm-mongers who are fudging the numbers and concealing the inconvenient truth. We don't know who "Deep Throat" is. But according to an interview in Investigate Magazine's...

Scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), hailed the development as a "great achievement" and a major step towards mimicking the conditions that followed the Big Bang to unlock the secrets of the universe. The low-energy collisions came unexpectedly after researchers managed for the first time to circulate two beams around the 27-kilometre (16.8 mile) tunnel 100m beneath the Franco-Swiss border for the first time on Monday. After 14 months of repairs, the giant machine was restarted on Friday evening and the first beam started circulating in a clockwise direction around the tunnel about 10pm. By Monday,...

Schumer Says Failure Not an Option on Health Care ASSOCIATED PRESS November 23, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Failure is not an option on health care, a leading Democratic senator said Monday, even as Republicans turned up the heat on moderates who hold the fate of the legislation in their hands. ''We're not going to not pass a bill,'' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. With or without Republican support, Democrats will get it done, Schumer said, because a health care system that leaves nearly 50 million uninsured and spends more than any other is clearly broken. Republicans wasted no time Monday...

One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. We have become a society that invests in its past and disfavors the future. This makes no sense for the nation, but as politics it makes complete sense. The elderly and near elderly are better organized, focus obsessively on their government benefits and seem deserving. Grandmas and Grandpas command sympathy. Everyone knows that the resulting "entitlements" dominate government spending and squeeze education, research, defense and almost everything else. In fiscal 2008 — the last "normal" year before the economic crisis — Social Security, Medicare...

George Watkins worked through the weekend on his Eagle Scout project. His project was to place pavers that were donated as a fundraiser for the Historical Soldiers Memorial Cemetery section at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista. He placed more than 4,000 pavers, a job that took two days to complete with the assistance of several Scouts and adult leaders. Photo by Mark Levy, Herald/Review

Justice: Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try five 9/11 plotters by a civilian court in New York rather than a military tribunal at Gitmo is already paying dividends — for the terrorists. The five terror suspects want to use their "not guilty" pleas as a chance to voice their hate-filled beliefs and grievances against the West. In short, we're giving them a prime-time soapbox in the most important city on Earth from which to spout their hate and recruit new adherents to their murderous cause. We know this because Scott Fenstermaker, the attorney for terrorist suspect Ali Abd al-Aziz...

Barack Obama to host first state dinner in huge tent A huge tent has been pitched on the White House lawn to accommodate 400 guests at Barack Obama's first state dinner. By Toby Harnden in Washington Published: 10:43PM GMT 23 Nov 2009 An invitation to the event on Tuesday evening has become the most sought-after ticket in the US. The event, in honour of the visiting Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, is a chance for Mr Obama and his wife Michelle to welcome the Washington elite - and a smattering of Hollywood celebrities - into their new home. Whereas President...

During this morning’s American Spectator breakfast with journalists, Carly Fiorina, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in California, fielded a friendly question about whether Sarah Palin would back her over her 2010 GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore. “I have no idea,” said Fiorina. “You’ll have to ask Sarah Palin. She’s on a mega book tour right now — that’s exciting to see. I share Sarah Palin’s values, and I suspect, I hope, that Sarah Palin thinks it’s important to win. That’s up to her.” Audio is here, if the link below does not work.

University of North Texas students have voted down a referendum that would have allowed same-sex couples to be elected as the school's homecoming court starting in 2010. The University of North Texas Student Government Association released the results Monday on its Web site. The referendum was defeated by a vote of 2,836 to 2,059, with 13.5 percent of the student body casting ballots. Get Denton County news and resources If the referendum had passed, UNT would have become one of the first universities in the country to allow same-sex couples to run for homecoming court beginning in 2010. Unlike some...

Over the weekend, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas offered an intriguing insight into the MSM’s approach to the liberal health care bill slowly rolling its way through the Democratic-controlled Congress. After conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer accurately pointed out how the Senate bill only pretends to be “deficit-neutral” by front-loading the tax collection process while delaying the payouts, Thomas agreed: “Charles is right. This bill is a fiscal fraud.” But he quickly added: “I’d still vote for it.” (Video here.) NPR’s Nina Totenberg attempted to defend the Senate bill as one that “actually tries to do something about costs.” But...

Killeen, Texas native, Sgt. Chester Temple, unloads water filters during the stocking of a humanitarian aid warehouse on Camp Taji, Nov. 21. The unit, along with their counterparts from the 37th Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, will distribute water filters and blankets to Iraqi residents in the coming months. Photo by Pfc. Adam Halleck, 1st Cavalry Division. CAMP TAJI — In an effort to provide local Iraqi residents with supplies and extra comforts during the winter months, U.S. Soldiers here are stocking warehouses full of humanitarian aid items. For troopers from 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat...

Senior citizens in Maine have greeted over 900,000 US troops at a tiny local airport. For the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. Take an intimate look at three of these greeters as they confront the universal losses that come with aging and rediscover their reason for living. Link to video

KIRKUK — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Gulf Region District, Kirkuk Resident Office is seriously delving into the road construction business. The Kirkuk office is serving as construction design manager for the Kirkuk Ring Road project and the manager of “Village to Market” road repair project. The $130 million, two-year Kirkuk Ring Road project is an aggressive 31-kilometer highway extension, designed to create a southern access bypass road from the Sulamaniya Interchange to the Taza Road Interchange. The three-phase project is being funded by oil revenues from the provincial government. USACE, through the Economic Support Fund, provided $4.3...

Air Force Capt. Kacey Grannis, 721st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron Mi-17 pilot, talks with an Iraqi Air Force pilot after a mission, Nov. 5. Grannis is the first female Mi-17 instructor pilot for Iraqi Air Force pilots at Camp Taji. Photo by Senior Airman Alyssa Miles, U.S. Air Forces Central, Baghdad Media Outreach Team. CAMP TAJI — A U.S. Air Force officer here is serving as the Iraqi Air Force's first female Mi-17 instructor pilot, a job she describes as one of a kind. "My primary duty as an air advisor is to train, advise and assist their pilots by...

As Americans gear up for the holiday season, they're fine-tuning wish lists, digging out unfortunate Christmas sweaters and bracing for the onslaught of holiday advertising campaigns. This year adds a new contender to the long list of groups vying for attention, and it comes with a twist. The American Humanist Association today launched its first nationwide "godless holiday campaign." Its slogan: "No God? ... No Problem!" The ads, which show smiling people in Santa hats, will appear first on Washington, D.C., buses and subway trains over Thanksgiving weekend. In early December the campaign will expand to Los Angeles, San Francisco,...

CALABASAS - As many as four redheaded students at a Calabasas middle school were assaulted by classmates as part of "kick a ginger day," an Internet spoof apparently inspired by an episode of the "South Park" cartoon show, a sheriff's lieutenant said Monday. The attacks occurred Friday at A.E. Wright Middle School, 4029 Las Virgenes Road, said sheriff's Lt. Scott Chew of the Malibu-Lost Hills Station. The first reported victim was a 12-year-old boy in the seventh grade, Chew said. Three other students also may have been attacked, Chew said. Detectives investigated if the assaults were related to "kick a...

11/23/2009 - KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers conducted quality assurance training for more than 30 Afghan contractors, foremen and engineers at the Civil-Military Operations Center in downtown Khost, Afghanistan recently. The engineers conduct monthly training to address issues found during project site audits throughout the 12 districts and one municipality of Khost. This training, the third session held by the PRT, concentrated on brick masonry, material storage and project administration. Previous topics included concrete preparation and processing, and plaster and mortar finishing techniques. "We are addressing recurring quality issues in our training sessions," said U.S....

But he's not "us." I won't go so far as to say that "he's 'them'," because that always degenerates into a discussion of who "them" really are, but Simpson did a nice job of helping clear up the identification. "President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact. ... Obama and the Democrats are overwhelming political opposition to their plans with a flood of apocalyptic legislation. Their ultimate goal is to leave us so discouraged, demoralized, and exhausted that we throw our hands up in defeat. As Barney Frank said,...

LifeNews.com Note: The following is an excerpt from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life. © Sarah Palin 2009. The book is published by HarperCollins and available at online booksellers and most retail outlets.A couple of years ago I began to notice some peculiar yet familiar physical symptoms, like the smell of cigarettes making me feel more nauseated than usual. For a few weeks, I brushed these aside. Then I began to suspect something. There was no way I could buy a home pregnancy test in Alaska. I was the state governor. The supermarket cashiers would know, the...

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STRASBOURG, France, November 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new draft resolution from the Council of Europe aimed at legally limiting the freedom of medical doctors and health care providers who object to abortion has life and family defenders in Europe deeply concerned.  The new draft Resolution is the latest initiative undertaken by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to promote abortion and restrict freedom of religion and conscience. The resolution, sponsored by Sweden's Carina Hägg, is entitled "Women's access to lawful medical care: the problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection."The resolution has two main objectives: the...

23 November 2009 "SOME POINTERS FOR THE PERSISTENTLY PERPLEXED As regards "Spy Agencies' Quest: What Makes A Terrorist?"" SNIPPET: "I would like to submit the following for consideration: * Terrorism is about killing." SNIPPET: "* Motivation is not enough. Association, motivation, and opportunity must combine in order for someone to make good on their terrorist ambitions."

Ryan Nettleton was serving his second tour in Iraq when he learned his police officer brother Trevor had been shot and killed Thursday in Las Vegas. Without sleeping or showering, the 26-year-old specialist from Tacoma flew to Kuwait, then Washington, D.C., then Washington state. Upon landing Saturday, he headed straight to Fort Lewis to pick up his dress blues so he could honor the older brother who inspired him to join the military. Ryan Nettleton will wear his formal uniform Wednesday at a Mass for Trevor in Las Vegas. Family members rallied to raise money for him to fly to...

Another reason to VOTE THE TURKEYS OUT IN 2010! The Preventative Services Task Force released it’s findings on the proper protocol for breast cancer screening, which suggested that mammograms be conducted semi-annually only after a woman reaches 50. The Democrats would have you believe that they are just recommendations … but if the Reid Bill were to become law, these recommendations would be law as well. Death Panels? You decide. Below Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) details how the Task Force guidelines would indeed become law, despite what the Democrats will tell you and she has chapter and verse to...

WASHINGTON - -- What's the hottest ticket in the nation's capital? An engraved invitation to Tuesday's White House State Dinner, the first hosted by President Barack Obama. He and the first lady will honor Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister -- in a big way, and in their way. In a departure from the most traditional venue, the elegant, high-ceilinged State Dining Room, the Obamas instead will gather with a few hundred VIPs in a huge, heated tent on the South Lawn. The guest list for the black-tie gala remains a closely guarded secret, so there's heavy speculation about who may...

President Obama's bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito in Tokyo earlier this month ignited anger from some conservatives who complained, in the words of blogger Donald Douglass, that the United States "now willingly prostrates itself before the rest of the world." Now the president is responding – kind of. The Atlantic quotes "a US government official who was on the trip" who says the president was left "speechless" by the controversy. "Obama's attitude was, this is an elderly gentleman in a country where this kind of greeting is customary," said the official. "It does not seem extraordinary to show this kind...

In a time of massive layoffs, there are some jobs that nobody in Puerto Rico wants. Puerto Rico has the highest unemployment in the U.S., at 17 percent, and that number will go higher if the government carries out plans to lay off 30,000 employees. At the same time, coffee plantations are desperate for workers. When the governor recently suggested people pick coffee, many considered it an insult. The coffee plantations are struggling to get enough workers, even after throwing in free transportation and meals. Plantation owners are now using convict labor, with buses taking the prisoners to the fields...

'Necessity' Defense In Abortion Doctor Killing? Attorney for accused killer doctor doesn't close door to strategy WICHITA, Kan. - Seemingly contradicting his own public statements, an attorney for the man accused of gunning down a Kansas abortion provider has argued in court documents that his client has an "absolute right" to present a defense that argues the killing was justified to stop abortion. A defense motion made public Monday seeks to thwart prosecutors' efforts to ban the so-called necessity defense from Scott Roeder's murder and aggravated assault trial. A hearing on the issue is set for Dec. 22. "For the...

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Two days before former vice-presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is to stop in northeast Florida to promote her new book, "Going Rogue," dozens of people were already in line to get autographs