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House Resolution 615 Over the past few weeks, members of Congress and the American people have come to know the details of the Administration's proposed health care plan. Call it whatever you like, I believe this proposal is nothing more than government-run health care. As a physician, I am amazed at the number of bureaucrats in this House who are quick to claim a government-run health care plan is the reform this country needs. In response to this, I have offered a resolution that will offer members of Congress an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is, and...

The general who led military relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is denying a report that he may challenge Louisiana Sen. David Vitter in 2010, calling it "speculation and rumors" Sunday.

Officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. didn't agree with a sign a protester carried at Jim Moran's town hall in Reston, VA last week. Cheeks told the protester he would charge him with trespassing (of all things) if he didn't take down the sign because it had a picture on it. When the protester questioned the officer, Cheeks responded, "If I told you once to take it down and you put it back up then I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with." The protester didn't back down, saying, "This is America. This used to be America." Officer...

In the musical city of Austin, Texas, a group of smelly, pug-faced crooners is hoping to woo some females with surprisingly complex tunes. That's the finding of a new study of Brazilian free-tailed bats, which now join songbirds and whales as some of the only animals known to use a kind of musical language during courtship. Also known as the Mexican free-tailed bat, the species is quite numerous in Austin and around the Texas A&M University football stadium in College Park. Based on recordings of the animals from both locations, the researchers found that the bats' songs contain definite phrases...

1. Wilt Chamberlain 2. Bill Russell 3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 4. George Mikan 5. Shaquille O’Neal 6. Hakeem Olajuwon 7. Moses Malone 8. David Robinson 9. Bill Walton 10. Patrick Ewing

Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled to make an announcement this afternoon about special election to fill the US Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Patrick is scheduled to make the announcement in the press briefing room at the State House, according to his staff. No details were released about the substance of the announcement. [Snip] It is an election that has considerable national implications, as Democrats try to maintain a 60-seat majority in the Senate. State lawmakers are also still trying to weigh one of Kennedy's final wishes: He wanted the governor to have...

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Means and Ends in the Age of Obama One of the stranger things about this eerie first eight months of the Obama administration is how brazenly its supporters have been about the noble ends justifying the disreputable means. Taxes for Thee Take taxes. I thought the mantra was that the Bush tax cuts — equal percentages of cuts to all involved, an even greater number of households excused from the tax rolls altogether — were supposed to be cruel and proof of conservative selfishness. Candidate Obama once in an interview seemed to agree that greater revenue ensued for the federal...

A Web site for local news hopes to fill the growing void in professionally reported local news by recruiting citizens armed with iPhones as reporters. The site, Fwix, will release an iPhone application this week that enables its users to file news updates, photos and videos, live from the field. The items will appear on Fwix’s year-old Web site, which also collects links to local news articles from newspapers and blogs in 85 cities. “We believe we are the real-time local newswire,” said Darian Shirazi, Fwix’s 22-year-old founder. Many local news Web sites are sprouting up, relying on sources like...

Rep. Ron Paul’s proposal to fully audit the Federal Reserve system by the end of 2010 appears likely to find its way into legislation in some form. Mr. Paul and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank plan to meet with other lawmakers in the coming weeks to determine how the Government Accountability Office would conduct the audit and what information would be released. What does the GAO audit now? The GAO’s oversight of the Fed system is limited to areas outside of monetary policy. That includes everything from bank supervision to consumer issues to payment systems. The Fed’s annual...

In a crowd of peaceful anti-ObamaCare folks, one belligerent moron walks in with a sign and starts yelling, commits a battery on a bystander, and is escorted out by the police. After he gets outside, he tells the reporter what a "white, angry mob" it was, and of course, we can see with our own eyes that it was not white, angry, or a mob.

“Social justice” is the end that justifies the means. This is the “change” that Barack Obama promised to bring to the United States of America. This is the “change” that 56 million American voters voted for last November, whether they knew it at the time or not. And this is the “change” that the international left has invested billions of dollars in, including hundreds of millions in illegal foreign campaign contributions through “bundlers” – responsible for placing a freshman senator with a blank résumé in the most powerful office in the world. International Socialists invested more than $1 Billion to...

You have to wonder when you see statistics like this (through 9:30 this morning): Remove SPY, ETFC and LEHMQ (none of which trade on the NYSE) from the list and you get 606 million shares. How many shares have traded in total with one hour in? 1.491 billion. Forty percent of the volume is comprised of four used dogfood stocks, just as we've seen for the last couple of weeks - all people passing shares back and forth among each other, many of it being "computer HFT games." The other used dog-food stocks (LEHMQ and ETFC) are really no better;...

Competition to supply planes to India sets up fierce bidding war By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun August 31, 2009 The Indian Air Force began flight trials last week of the six combat jets competing for a $12-billion contract to supply New Delhi with up to 186 multi-role advanced fighters. Competition is fierce to grab what is one of the largest arms deals to surface in the post-Cold War era. And, as always seems to be the case with arms deals and especially those involving India, the project is already mired in scandal and controversy. The focus of much speculation is...

I’ve shown you what happens when liberals protest Republicans. Despite their use of obscene language in public, their signs weren’t confiscated or destroyed. Although we may find that speech objectionable, we recognize their right to verbalize and express that speech.

...The horrific accident (that killed Diana) illustrated the difference between the French and U.S. approaches to emergency care -- a relatively small piece of the French medical system, but deemed by some people to be the best in the world and often cited as a model for U.S. health care overhaul. When rescue workers arrived, Diana was conscious...although she had suffered internal injuries, she did not arrive at the Parisian hospital for 110 minutes -- too late for the surgery that some speculated could have saved her life. Her last hour -- in cardiac arrest and bleeding to death --...

<p>The Tea Party Express is in Las Vegas this morning for an 11:00 am Tea Party, then it's on to Flagstaff for a 6:00 pm rally!! CNN and FOX News networks will be covering our Las Vegas Tea Party!!</p> <p>Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!!</p>

I was taken by the desire to share some further brief thoughts from the Christian East, picking up from our consideration of last week on the holy Icon and the depth of theological meaning to be found there in its various regards. I turned to a set of books published as part of the Cistercian Studies series, The Spirituality of the Christian East by Tomas Spidlik, SJ. I began with a consideration of various paragraphs and sections, but I determined to simply instead present a few very brief quotations from those books, that might serve as a point of some...

Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says Posted: August 31st, 2009 11:34 AM ET From CNN's Elaine Quijano WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney had his facts wrong when he blasted Attorney General Eric Holder last week for launching an investigation into past CIA interrogation techniques, an administration official asserted Monday. Holder's decision to review waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques was politically motivated, Cheney claimed in remarks broadcast on FOX News Sunday. Cheney made clear in the interview, conducted last Friday, that he believes President Barack Obama directed Holder to launch the review in response...