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A new Gallup poll on Obamacare was released this morning and it showed that there is still a great deal of Division in America regarding the health care issue. More than anything the divide is along party lines with democrats supporting the plan, independents and Republicans opposing. Members of Congress should pay heed that Americans, especially the bill's opponents, will use the Obamacare vote as a key factor in determining who to vote for in the 2010 elections.

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In 2008, Spain accounted for half the world's new solar-power installations in terms of wattage, thanks to government subsidies to promote clean energy. But late last year, as the global economic crisis worsened, the government dramatically scaled back those subsidies and capped the amount of subsidized solar power that could be installed. Factories world-wide that had ramped up production of solar-power components found that demand for solar panels was plummeting, leaving a glut in supply and pushing prices down. Job cuts followed. "The solar industry in 2009 has been undermined by [a] collapse in demand due to the decision by...

How Will We Judge the Korean War in a Century? [...] What I am arguing is will this be the consensus twenty years from today (or forty years after this article was written). I mean, yes, most ordinary South Koreans enjoys such material prosperity that probably only a select few and I mean a very select few in North Korea could only begin to dream about. I am saying that had the Korean War run its course without intervention from the United States (or equivalently had Harry S. Truman not settled on a policy, the Truman Doctrine, where not winning...

In the midst of all this, one day while setting her DVR to record the television programs that she did not want to miss, she noticed something funny about the way The Glenn Beck Show appeared written out on the screens programming schedule. Now I am not a fan of Glenn Beck. I have nothing against him but for as dramatic as I can often be, I find him overly dramatic. Still I find that there is little that he states which can be disputed from a constitutional perspective, the only perspective that a federal government should have and my...

The controversy over President Obama’s school speech is mostly about race. (?!?!) And those parents are teaching their kids exactly the wrong thing. “I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement,” Brett Curtis, a parent in Texas told the New York Times last week. He said he would keep his three children home from school rather than have them listen to President Barack Obama’s speech to the nation’s school children. Jim Greer, the Republican Party chairman in Florida, said he “was appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology,” according to the...

As Americans become more aware of Obama's thirty-four Czars, each one is being looked at more carefully than before the Van Jones background was exposed. Next to come under the radar is John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar. His views on families and population control is raising some eyebrows.

Megan Fox talks about her "mental problems" in a new magazine interview - and even believes she has bouts of mild schizophrenia. The 23-year-old star of the Transformers franchise says her mental instability could result in her ending up dying young like one of her icons, usmagazine.com reports.

With states across the country facing huge budget deficits and potential devastating cuts to services, the time has come to start charging parents tuition for their children’s public school education. If parents of the 47 million students in the United States who attend kindergarten through 12th grade were billed $360 per child per year — that’s $2 a day for each of the 180 days of instruction — nearly $17 billion would be generated. Can half of America’s parents afford $360 per year for each of their children? For the price of a cup of coffee, a child can get...

The study measured brain function in 40 male heterosexual student volunteers, who were asked to perform a standard memory test in which they were shown a stream of letters and had to quickly say if each was the same as the previous letter. They then spent several minutes talking to either a man or an attractive woman and then repeated the test. The researchers found that even a few minutes with the attractive woman was enough to make the students slower and less accurate on the test. The more attracted they were, the worse their results. They also studied the...

“The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my keen and firm Strength in Whom I will trust and take refuge, my Shield, and the Horn of my salvation, my High Tower.” Psalm 18:2 Amplified Bible

BATON ROUGE -- More than a year before Louisiana voters head to the polls in what promises to be one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races in the country, the rhetoric already is heating up between incumbent Republican David Vitter and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville. The standard political playbook says incumbent politicians should ignore their opponents as long as possible, as mentioning them by name only gives them free publicity. But Vitter, who is seeking a second term after becoming Louisiana's first Republican senator since Reconstruction in 2004, turned that theory on its head during...

This is a big week for the president's teleprompter. He's first taking it across the Potomac for a speech urging schoolchildren to wash their hands, study hard and stay in school. Good advice for everyone, no doubt, and maybe the advice will stimulate the sale of soap to people who really need it. Politicians particularly should take to heart a presidential admonition to keep their hands clean. Who can argue with that? Democrats everywhere are looking for places where the applause will be at least polite, with no yelling, screaming and waving of hands. The Secret Service, which never sleeps,...

Unexpected Impact on Jupiter Explanation: Two months ago, something unexpected hit Jupiter. First discovered by an amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 2009 July 19, the impact was quickly confirmed and even imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope the very next day. Many of the world's telescopes then zoomed in on our Solar System's largest planet to see the result. Some of these images have been complied into the above animation. Over the course of the last month and a half, the above time-lapse sequence shows the dark spot -- first created when Jupiter was struck -- deforming and dissipating as...

No one reads about the long snapper until he flubs the snap on a critical field-goal attempt or sails one over the punter’s head in a tight game. If the starting snapper is obscure, that makes the third-teamer nearly invisible. But South Carolina’s Matthew Grooms has a story that goes beyond football. It started on a dirt road in Marlboro County, wound through the deserts of Kuwait and included a stop on the new sod at N.C. State’s Carter-Finley Stadium, where Thursday night the 26-year-old walk-on and Iraqi War veteran stood on the sidelines for the Gamecocks’ opener. Grooms made...

This is what Barack Obama does. Back him into a corner, get the press all wee-weed up, send his polls ratings plummeting and the aging basketball player responds again and again with the same move: he delivers a major speech. And why not? It keeps working. It's the thing that first introduced him to the nation, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It is what extricated him from the Jeremiah Wright mess during the campaign. It has become the central method of his foreign policy push, in Prague, Cairo, Moscow and Accra.

Here is video from the Friends of America Rally held in Holden, West Virginia yesterday, where 100,000 people were expected to attend. This video shows Hank Williams Jr. performing. At around the 1:50 mark of the video, Williams points to a flag in the crowd and says he has a flag like that at his house and on his cars which say, "Don't Tread on Me." Williams then said, "Don't Tread on Us, Barack." . . . (VIDEO)

...Whenever I think of our shifting political landscape, I'm reminded of something I heard on late night TV a few years ago: "Today is the anniversary of the Watergate break-in, when the Republicans ordered a break-in of Democratic National Headquarters. To give you an idea of how long ago that was, that's back when Democrats actually had ideas worth stealing." —Jay Leno You see, Republicans and the Democrats were not always enemies as much as they were rivals. Once, their ideas were similar enough that Republicans even got caught "cheating" -- trying to peek at the Dems' plans. Arguably, the...