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"The president has said in the past that he doesn't believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here. He still believes that, but there are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see," explained Obama's senior advisor, David Axelrod, to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week." Watch Axelrod under pressure.

Researcher: Abortions Double Risk of Premature Birth Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Having an abortion doubles the risk of having a premature birth in a subsequent pregnancy -- that is the conclusion of a European researcher at a medical conference. Several previous studies have shown that abortion hurts women and future children by upping the chance of premature delivery. Full story at http://www.LifeNews.com/int1246.html

It's time for patriots to turn out by the millions to tell Obama and the socialist congress that we're fed up and we're not going to take it any more!! Time for a nationwide TEA Party in every city of every state!! We want our FREEDOM back!! Post your Independence Day TEA Party Rally here and also post a thread in the activism topic: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/activism-news/index?tab=articles Locate and join the TEA Party nearest you! Sheila and I will be at the Central Valley Tea Party on Independence Day at the Tulare AG-Center: http://www.centralvalleyteaparty.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250929/posts Hope to see you there!! DONT TREAD ON...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Police arrested a man they said tried to rob a hotel around 6 p.m. on Sunday with a butter knife. The clerk refused to give the man any money, and he left the hotel on foot.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tried to play the Chavez gambit, even though the Honduran Supreme Court had already unequivocally declared the Referendum (for the President to be able to run indefinitely!) as unconstitutional. The Honduran National Congress, where the majority of its members belong to the ousted president’s own party, voted to remove him in a procedure fully in accordance with the Honduran Constitution. The Honduran Army by detaining and exiling Zelaya was only following the directive of its Congress. Venezuela’s malodorous piece of Devil’s excreta, Hugo Chavez, and Cuba’s Castro felt this action was akin to a coup and...

This year, just like last year, Gay Pride weekend coincided with the feast of Corpus Christi.   Washington, D.C.'s Pride parade was fairly restrained: It featured a cornucopia of Episcopalians, and all the marchers went out of their way to sweetly drape beads over the little elementary-school girls standing in front of me. There were Affirming Baptists; as the parade passed by me, a knot of gay men to my right joked -- in that gay way that is never really joking all the way down -- that maybe they could be Baptists again now. There were strollers, lots...

The deflation vs. inflation debate seems to be settling down, with everyone agreeing that we're seeing both at the same time. The split is: Things we want to see going down are going up (oil, food) and things we want to see going up are going down (houses, wages). In his latest piece, David Rosenberg talks wage deflation: A survey conducted by YouGov for the Economist magazine found that 5% of respondents had taken a furlough this year and 15% had accepted a pay cut (see The Recession and Pay: The Quiet Americans on page 33 of this week’s edition)....

Barack Obama hit the links again on Sunday, making it four straight weeks where the president has worked on his golf game. This week, Obama played at Andrews Air Force Base. Obama's group comprised Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and administration aides Marvin Nicholson and Eugene Kang, according to the pool report. The team played 18 holes, on account of the mostly mild weather. Last week, the president was at Fort Belvoir where he teed off with Vice President Joe Biden

MIAMI — Speaking via telephone from his home in Tegucigalpa on Monday, interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti again defended the actions of Honduran military officials in booting President Manuel Zelaya from power. ''We can't allow that this government take us to communism or socialism,'' Micheletti told a group of reporters at a telephone press conference organized by Honduran Unity, a Miami-based group of Honduran activists who support Micheletti.

Lawmakers in six states are considering legislation to "protect" citizens from a federal health care plan by creating statewide initiatives to vote on whether to opt out of the national program -- even before Congress has created the program

Here's a not so stunning piece of information from the Center For Responsive Politics. Representatives that voted against the climate bill received twice the amount of donations on average, since 1989, from the energy sector than the Representatives that voted for it. (The energy sector includes: Oil, Gas, Mining, Utilities, Waste Managment.) Here's the breakdown for Democrats: Here's the breakdown for Republicans: For the full report visit OpenSecrets.

Rep. Frost (D) is "explaining" ObamaCare. "It would be unfair to pass ObamaCare without a way to pay for it." "Obama's feet aren't set in concrete. It would have been irresponsible for Obama not to go back on his promise not to tax health benefits." "Only rich and upper-class people will have their health benefits taxed. That's fair since they're rich." "We must ensure that great health costs can be paid by everyone."

With the Supreme Court narrowly striking down Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the New Haven fire fighter's case, it emphasizes the importance of a single vote and there are renewed questions about her judgment on race. It brings back into focus not only her comments on the superiority of certain racial groups and women, but when combined with her recent comments on the Belizean Grove club indicate a very selective and self serving decisions on deciding when discrimination is occurring. Judge Sonia Sotomayor can't take back her seven speeches over a decade where she talked about women's (or Latina women's)...

President Barack Obama won many admirers for his pledge to have the most transparent administration in history. (AP photo) Writing and rewriting Michael Jackson’s obituary distracted the media from the latest draft of its preferred death notice — that of the Republican Party.But now that we are down to the sad minutiae of Jackson’s life and death, some of the cameras have swung back around to the tale of the terminally weird Gov. Mark Sanford.Sanford’s midlife meltdown pales in comparison with Jackson’s lifelong soap opera. But for political journalists, the Sanford affair is too perfect to pass up. The...

Despite economical growth, there was much opposition against the Mohammad Reza Shah, and how he used the secret police, the Savak, to control the country. Strong Shi'i opposition against the Shah, and the country came close to a situation of civil war. The opposition was lead by Ayatollah Khomeini, who lived in exile in Iraq and later in France. His message was distributed through music cassettes, which were smuggled into Iran in small numbers, and then duplicated, and spread all around the country. This was the beginning of Iranian revolution. On January 16 1979, the Shah left Iran. Shapour Bakhtiar...

No, the housing market isn't getting better. Some folks out there still seem to think the housing market is bottoming or even turning around. It's not. Freddie Mac is out with its latest housing market update, with a wealth of data on the housing market from its perch. One graph that stuck out for us: total delinquencies near 2.5% are way beyond the GSE's historical norms. When the numbers for things like delinquencies or foreclosures start to flatten or turn around, we can start talking about a turnaround. Granted, like the Case-Shiller series, some will say this particular chart is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Allen Boyd (D-FL) 2nd Congressional district, today voted in support of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), which includes significant investments in renewable energy in Florida, puts America on a path to energy independence, helps create new jobs, and protects North Florida families. The American Clean Energy and Security Act keeps costs low for consumers and reforms our national energy policy without adding to the federal deficit. Among the key components of the American Clean Energy and Security Act is a reasonable new standard for renewable energy usage for Florida utility companies....

POND EDDY, N.Y. - New York authorities say a man was fatally electrocuted early Saturday when he tried to cut through a downed power line with an industrial saw. Authorities say the 64-year-old Pond Eddy man was drunk and ignored repeated orders to stay away from the cable. The accident happened in the presence of firefighters who had been guarding the fallen line. The Sullivan County public safety commissioner says officials chased the man away from the line several times before he fetched the saw from his house. Authorities say the line fell in a storm yesterday and had been...

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Obama prioritizes energy-efficiency standards By Sam Youngman Posted: 06/29/09 02:22 PM [ET] President Obama announced Monday that his administration is prioritizing energy-efficiency standards for home appliances, specifically light bulbs. The president announced that the Department of Energy will accelerate the spending of a "$346 million investment under the Recovery Act to expand and accelerate the development, deployment and use of energy-efficient technologies in residential and commercial buildings." "Between 2012 and 2042, these new standards will save consumers up to $4 billion a year, conserve enough electricity to power every home in America for 10 months, reduce emissions equal to the...