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Former Republican Sen. John E. Sununu announced Wednesday he will not run for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat in 2010, forcing Republicans to continue their search for a top flight candidate. “Representing New Hampshire in the United States Senate is a great honor, but effective public service is much more than just a desire to hold office,” Sununu said in a statement.

FAYETTEVILLE - Under Arkansas law, officials now state Ulmer's unborn child will not count as a "person" in this murder investigation. Officials say this means Ricky Ray Anderson will not be charged with the alleged murder of Ulmer's child. According to the state medical examiner's office, Ulmer's unborn baby was 10 weeks old. And Prosecuting Attorney John Threet says since the unborn child still had two weeks to go before Arkansas law recognizes "it" as a person, Anderson cannot be charged with the murder of Ulmer's unborn child. "If the unborn child is less than 12 weeks, then there's not...

The Federal Reserve is lying about the nation's money supply (M1). The current figure for money supply is being given as $1.6 trillion. The actual number is $2.34 trillion. The reported number is equivalent to an increase of 16% over the past year. The actual number is equivalent to an increase of 70% over the past year. This compares with the nation's high money-supply increase of 16.9% in 1986. Astute observers of the Federal Reserve have noticed that, since the large infusion of money of last autumn, the monetary base has exceeded the money supply: Figure 1reported monetary base ($1.8...

Note: The following text is a quote: Congress > Legislation > 2009-2010 (111th Congress) > H.R. 2344 Text of H.R. 2344: Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 Show this version: Download PDF Full Text on THOMAS Go to Bill Status Compare to this version: Show changes: Side-by-side Highlighted Expand all sections Collapse all sections Link to this view This version: Enrolled Bill. This is the final text of the bill or resolution as approved by both the Senate and House, as it is sent to the President in the case of a bill. This is the latest version of the bill...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Congressman Henry Waxman, the powerful chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after fainting in his district office, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Michelle Bachmann gets it.

For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. If this nominee were a white male, would this not raise questions about whether he should be elevated to a court that has found his previous decisions wrong two-thirds of the time when those decisions have been reviewed? Is no one supposed to ask questions about qualifications, simply because this nominee is Hispanic and a woman? Have we become that mindless? Qualifications are not simply a question of how...

<p>ALBANY (AP) - The Republican-dominated faction claiming control of the New York Senate says a Democrat-appointed legislative staffer doctored the original, official minutes of the session three weeks ago to delete the GOP-staged coup to seize the majority.</p> <p>"The Senate journal - and they (Republicans) know this, they were in the majority for 40 years - is a living, breathing document that changes through the course of the week," Grainger said. "The resolution was passed once adjournment occurred. This is what was cleaned up in the final journal."</p>

The western mass 912 group will be attending the Boston tea party on July 4. We will be meeting in Palmer at the intersection of 181 and 20 (Flamingo motorcycle) at 9:00 AM and carpooling caravaning down to the Riverside "T" station in Newton around 10:30 or 11:00. We are making a day of it, we will be attending the fireworks afterward. All are welcome. Contact me for any more information and suggestions.Noon to 2:00PM at Boston Common for the tea party3:00PM - 6:00PM at speakers at the wharf north of the aquariumfireworks and pre ceremony at 8:30, we will...

Pakistan) ICC Report: “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan” – ICC reports: “This morning 100 Christian houses and churches were set on fire by local Muslims in the city of Kasur South, east of Lahore, Pakistan” – “The riots were incited by broadcasts from local mosques” – “This incident is similar to a February 1997 attack when thousands of Christian houses and churches were burned and hundreds of Christians were injured” – “So far 9 burned women and 4 children have been transferred to Lahore for further medical treatment” – “All of them have been injured by...

A group of House Republican lawmakers want all future aspirants for the White House to produce a U.S. birth certificate to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president. The legislators this week waded into a controversy that has roiled the conservative talk-show and blogging fringe since the hottest days of the presidential election campaign -- when the validity of the citizenship of both Barack Obama and John McCain were questioned. McCain was born to U.S. citizens on a military installation in the Panama Canal Zone. Obama was born in Hawaii, the son of an American mother and a Kenyan...

A few months ago, we pointed out 18 Sci-Fi Twitter Feeds You Should Be Following, which included a lot of well-known Tweeters that you've probably read about elsewhere. Since then, the number of sci-fi luminaries on Twitter has grown tremendously, so we've put together a new list of interesting people you should be following, including both newcomers and some overlooked gems:

The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought. Neither the voting rights case out of Texas nor the affirmative action hiring case out of New Haven, Conn., said that explicitly. But the link between the two is the assumption or assertion that this society has largely healed itself and does not need the race-conscious remedies that the previous generation of politicians thought necessary. If that reading of the court's majority...

Last April President Barack Obama said his Administration would "support Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections." In June Obama voiced his support for Iran's civilian nuclear program once more, telling the BBC: "Without going into specifics, what I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations." Here's an idea. Obama should support America's nuclear industry with equal clarity. ~snip~ The "complete cessation" of new nuclear plant construction came as a shock to the nuclear physicists and engineers at EPRI. After all, the radiation was almost completely contained at Three Mile Island, just as the...

The real problem with the Obama economy is that unemployment is showing no signs of abating anytime soon, so consumer spending, which represents approximately 70% of GDP growth, will continue to be impaired and could prevent a sustained economic recovery from occurring anytime soon. Moreover, consumers are saving, not splurging. The savings rate jumped to 6.9% in May, the highest level since December 1993, according to the Commerce Department.

07/01/09 03:04 PM Assembly Democrats refuse to accept Senate Democrat bills By Tom Precious ALBANY - Assembly Democrats have refused to accept more than 100 bills that Senate Democrats insist they legally passed on Tuesday in a session that Republicans say was illegal in the first place. Gov. David Paterson has already said he will not sign the bills if sent to him, but the Assembly has the ability to block them from even being transmitted to his office � saving him some political grief. At issue are about 125 bills Senate Democrats say were legally approved Tuesday when a...

People like John McCain and others who have been part of the self-absorbed, navel-gazing and corrupt Washington environment for a quarter century no doubt resent someone not "of them." But it is indeed odd when Sarah Palin, a bright, shining light for conservatives remains the prime target of the existing machine, while Mark Sanford and other hypocritical liars are serenaded as getting a raw deal by the very public daughter of a defacto leader of the party. For some reason, Meghan McCain, writing in The Daily Beast, seems to think adulterous politicians, like South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, should be...

A struggling Hawaii bank received a $135 million federal bailout last fall two weeks after staff from the office of Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, a big investor in the bank, called federal regulators about the aid application, according to a report in ProPublica Tuesday. Bank regulators had designated Central Pacific Financial as a marginal candidate to receive federal assistance, according to documents cited in the report. But soon after the phone call from Inouye's office, the Treasury directed millions of dollars to bolster the bank's capital reserves. Inouye, D-Hawaii, owns shares in the bank that totaled between $350,000 and $700,000...

Change from Obama's community organizer economics. Roger Altman, "seriously consider a value-added tax..." "Household net worth has fallen more than 20% since its mid-2007 peak. This drop began just when household debt reached 130% of income," yada yada yada, on and on and on. "Mr. Altman, founder and chairman of Evercore Partners, was deputy secretary of the Treasury in the first Clinton administration." Here's the last line: "That's important, because it is no longer a matter of whether tax revenues must increase, but how." Rog, cap and trade is a tax increase. Health care is a tax increase. Everything Obama...

The old-fashioned term "taxpayers' money" has recently resurfaced in Washington — but only to describe some of the TARP funds used in the government takeover of auto companies and financial institutions."Taxpayers' money" is almost never used in Washington to describe any of the other dollars in the $3.5 trillion federal budget. These dollars, divided into familiar categories of entitlement and discretionary spending, are thought of by most Washingtonians as the "government's money." Washington is awash in money — dollars taken by the IRS from the people who earned them and dollars borrowed all around the world. In Washington, success is...