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The Obama administration’s updated budget forecasts--which anticipate that the federal government will run up $9.05 trillion in new debt over the next decade--is predicated on the assumption of a robust rate of economic growth during that entire period, claiming that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow at an average rate of 2.8 percent between 2009 and 2019. If the economy does not grow as much or as persistently as the administration predicts federal deficit spending will be even greater than the administration estimates. The administration predicts that while GDP--a measure of all goods and services produced in the...

Money Quote:No wonder more people are citing "health care" as a major national problem [see chart]: Democrats are trying to make it one with a solution that is worse than the relatively minor problems we need to solve.

The Obama administration told a judge late Monday that it will continue to withhold information regarding past detainee policies for national security reasons, a decision assailed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had been seeking Bush-era documents “including a presidential directive authorizing CIA ‘black sites,’” CIA inspector general records, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel documents about the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques.” In the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York had ordered the Obama administration to either turn over various documents pertaining to...

Almost every Friday since January, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has added more names to its “failed bank list”—84 so far this year, already more than the 26 for all of 2008. America should be proud of this document, which seems an example of the prudent regulation integral to free markets. But the FDIC’s elegant system, which both ratifies the markets’ discipline of bad banks and protects broader markets from depositor panic, has become a tool of the government distortion that imperils our competitive economy.

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Contact: Margaret, Priests for Life, 888-735-3448 ext. 251 STATEN ISLAND, NY, Sept. 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, commented today on the pending Montana Supreme Court case that could establish a so called state constitutional right to assisted suicide."Assisted suicide is an act that violates the victim's dignity," said Fr. Pavone.  "It is a declaration that a person's life is worthless and devoid of respect.  If the Montana constitution states that the dignity of every human is inviolable, then there can be no room in that constitution for the protection of a fabricated 'right' that threatens...

"The White House announced Wednesday that the president plans to tape a presidential address to public schoolchildren around the country to air at noon Tuesday (9/8). Along with advanced word of the speech, the U.S. Department of Education last week distributed a "menu of classroom activities" to teachers that aims to turn the speech into one of Mr. Obama's teachable moments." "Rules For Radicals" explains that if you separate the child from the parent, you can educate(brainwash) the child and then you can win over the parents. Be assured that schools across the state of Texas will be participating in...

We held a drawing including the names of the 27 FReepers who started new monthlies or increased their existing monthlies during the month of August and we have a winner! Woo hoo!! Editor-surveyor, you are the lucky winner of two tickets to our National Convention in DC!! Congratulations and thank you very much!! Hope to see you in DC!!

Note: Photo included. Note: The following blog entry is a quote: NEW ON MEMRI TV : Muhammad Al-Shimari, an Al-Qaeda Terrorist Captured in Iraq: I Was Trained in Syria To view this clip, click here Posted at: 2009-09-02

Via Dan McGrath at Minnesota Majority, even in the liberally-dominated 4th Congressional District there isn't a lot of support for government-run health care. Watch as McCollum scolds Republicans for "killing" reform and the passage of ObamaCare — followed by reasoned, valid points made by calm residents opposing the bill.

Well, the daytime anchors and guests do; doubtless Olby and Maddow find him to be a fresh-faced, charmingly plainspoken truthteller. Ace already destroyed the fallacy at the heart of the new Vanity Fair hit piece and I don’t have much to add, but it’s worth noting that Johnston’s scumbaggery has now reached such gargantuan proportions that you can see it all the way from England: Hang on a minute: this is the grandmother of his son. Whatever you make of the Republican politician, she doesn’t come off worse in this lazy, base ‘exposé’ - Johnston does. And how is he...

Dr. James David Manning wants to know where Obama's library will be placed .

If I had children still in school and objected to the invasion of public schools with propaganda, I would send a note to school with my children that they are to be exempted from participation in this exercise. And if the school gave me any flack, I'd just keep them home that day. Where is the requirement that our children need to be 'inspired' by socialism and guilt trips that is vested in the ideology of Barack Obama?

Here is video of Neil Cavuto in an extensive interview today with "Dr. Death," Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian spent eight years in prison for helping people commit suicide. He said he has no regrets for what he did. Kevorkian said it never bothered him to be called "Dr. Death," that in fact his friends called him that. Kevorkian said religious people's minds are "in straight-jackets." He is absolutely antagonistic toward God and things of faith. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- In one of his first lengthy interviews following eight years in prison for murdering a disabled patient on national television, Jack Kevorkian is at it again promoting euthanasia. Meanwhile, the movie that will glorify his life and his killing of dozens and dozens of people will debut next year. The retired pathologist became the scourge of the nation when he embarked on a campaign claiming to kill more than 125 people in assisted suicides. Kevorkian took advantage of the state of Michigan not having a direct assisted suicide ban and never served a day in jail...

  Russell M. Nelson, “A Treasured Testament,” Ensign, Jul 1993, 61 Adapted from an address given 25 June 1992 at a seminar for new mission presidents, Missionary Training Center, Provo, Utah.The Book of Mormon stands as another testament of Jesus Christ. The power of its message will transform the lives of all who earnestly study its precious pages. Its very reality is an inspiring fact. Many of you are experienced in the difficult task of translating written text from one language to another. I am intrigued, as you are, with the process Joseph Smith used to translate the Book...

If you watch cable news at all, you’ve seen the ads for health care reform, now called health insurance reform. Certainly we have, over and over and over again. They range in content from this blatantly offensive ad from the AARP: ... to the seemingly benign ad from Americans for Stable Quality Care (an astroturf group funded by SEIU, PhRMA, and the American Medical Aassociation -- all big-money Obama supporters): Now, this second ad makes some good points. Insurance companies dropping patients because they get sick is not a practice we support. But notice how the ad conflates that practice...

Well. Not content with an unprecedented four primetime news conferences to date in his young administration, President Obama now needs to address the entire public school system. And not just for a Hey-Kids-Howya-Doin-I’m-Your-New-President-So-Be-Good-In-School-This-Year-Mmmkay? speech. You know, like back when I was a kid and Jimmy Carter would come around and hand out balloon animals at parties. Or maybe those were clowns. I get confused. Anyway. Nope, Obama can’t just say hey to the kiddies and encourage them to do their homework. He has to make this a — what does the Left call it? — a teachable moment. A speech-in,...

The economic illiterates in Washington are so impressed with the "success" of Cash for Clunkers that they're readying Cash for Clunker Appliances. The ludicrous "stimulus" bill gave $300 million to the Department of Energy to provide rebates for 10 types of appliances that have been rated energy efficient.

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