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Courrielche wrote: It sounded, how should I phrase it...unusual that the NEA would invite the art community to a meeting to discuss issues currently under vehement national debate. I decided to call in, and what I heard concerned me.... Throughout the conversation, my inner dialogue was firing away questions....Is this truly the role of the NEA? Is building a message distribution network, for matters other than increasing access to the arts and arts education, the role of the National Endowment for the Arts? At the beginning of the second conference call, last Thursday, Modi informed us that "unfortunately our colleagues...

President Obama will meet Tuesday afternoon with Democratic Congressional leaders to plot strategy, a day before his scheduled speech to the nation on health care, an address billed as the most important of his presidency so far. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, are to meet with Mr. Obama at the White House. In the morning, a leader of a key group of House Democrats, Representative Mike Ross of Arkansas, said that he could not support creation of a public insurance plan in any bill to overhaul the health care...

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A young mother's premature baby died in her arms after doctors refused to help because it was born just before 22-week cut-off point for treatment. Sarah Capewell, 23, gave birth to her son Jayden when she was 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy. Although doctors refused to place the baby in intensive care, Jayden lived for two hours before he passed away at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, last October.

Developing countries like China and India must accept curbs on their greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to agree a new climate change treaty this year, British government ministers said on Tuesday. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there was a real risk that talks in Denmark in December to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol will fail as politicians focus on the economic downturn rather than the longer-term threat of climate change. "There is a real danger that the talks scheduled for December will not reach a positive outcome and there is an equal danger that in the...

If you were to say that the Obama White House and its Justice Department, vis-à-vis Attorney General Eric Holder, et al., were attempting to prosecute those involved in the successful extraction of information from captured terrorists – which has saved American lives and protected American interests – in an attempt to ultimately charge former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush as well – you would be correct. But don't stop there. Another reason Obama, Holder, et al., are attempting to bring down the Justice Department is because terrorists are like a family of cockroaches, ergo when...

FOR every woman expecting the earth to move, there are two with more practical motives. From relieving boredom, to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have sex for many reasons but romance and passion come rather low on the list, a new book has revealed. One woman even admitted to having sex just so her husband would put the rubbish out. "Research has shown most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all," Why Women Have Sex authors Cindy Meston and David Buss said. Having...

We hear it over and over from the Democrats in Congress and the President that, the current Health Care Reform bill (HR 3200), has language that says illegal aliens will not receive health care benefits under the legislation. There are no enforcement provisions in the bill, so the no illegal immigrant language is meaningless Last Tuesday, the bi-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), the "research arm" for the United States Congress, issued a report saying that illegal aliens would be able to receive benefits under the House health care reform bill. The report, Treatment of Noncitizens in H.R. 3200, states definitively,...

       In the 2006 November election cycle, Republicans lost control of the Minnesota House, the Iowa House, the Wisconsin Senate, as well as three U.S. House seats (MN-01, IA-01, WI-08). When the country under FDR was broke, and people were living in cardboard boxes he distributed stimulus money in the form of WPA and AAA projects to those of his Democrat allies for New Deal legislation. FDR was reelected by over 90% of the electoral vote. Wake up Republicans in Congress and smell the coffee!         BHO is using the same playbook authored by FDR. The New York Times reports...

Obama has forgotten about 9/11. He hired a confessed 9/11 truther and someone who said that the US deserved the attacks, Van Jones. After Obama had gotten rid of his pastor, who said the SAME THINGS, he hired on this man for his green jobs tsar. Further more, Obama KNEW that the Lockerbie bomber was going to be released and he did nothing about it (Some sources say that Obama encouraged the release!) We shall never forget, as history seems to repeat itself.

HE: One focus of your book is countering the predictable demonization of conservative politicians by the left-wing establishment. Horowitz: To solve it, take away the target. My advice to Republicans is, You have to go over the heads of the media, because the media hate us. You have to do something that in one stroke makes it difficult for them to say, "These people don't care about black people, they don't care about Hispanics, they don't care about poor people." In their minds, we won't spend a dime on them, so you have to spend money, too. That's important. It...

Nightline correspondent Vicki Mabrey profiled self-described “financial terrorist” Bruce Marks on Friday, painting his actions in a religious light as a “revival of spirits” and “hopes.” Co-host Cynthia McFadden began the show by rhapsodizing, “The financial terrorist. He’s on the front lines of the foreclosure front using guerrilla tactics on a crusade to restore the American dream.” She continued, “And he’s taking dead aim at the big banks. Is there anything he could do for you?” Mabrey did offer Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) CEO Marks a few tough questions, noting that his organization, which tries to help homeowners...

(CNSNews.com) - The “corrected” lesson plans the U.S. Department of Education is suggesting that schools around the country use to turn President Obama’s speech to students today into a “teachable moment” still call for teachers to read books about Obama and to post quotations from Obama in large print on classroom walls. The Department of Education created two “menus of classroom activities” for use with the president’s speech. One is designed to guide Pre-K through 6th grade teachers, and the other is designed to guide 7th through 12th grade teachers.

Via the BBC's media monitoring service, a Palestinian MP has told Al-Jazeera.net that Arab leaders are studying details of a written Obama plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to the MP, the plan, which has been shared with Arab leaders, would have Obama attend a special peace conference in Sharm el-Shekh Egypt at the end of the month. The alleged U.S. plan, as described by Palestinian MP Hasan Khurayshah to Al-Jazeera, "includes 10 key clauses." Among them: 1. Deploying international forces in the Jordan Valley and some areas of the West Bank. 2. Placing some areas in east Jerusalem...

Is there anything funnier to most high school kids than farts? Discomfiting noises accompanied by tear-inducing odors -- nothing induces teen hysterics more easily than flatulence. So you have to admire the simple genius of the recently formed Alliance for Climate Education, which has concocted an appealing formula to reach youth for their cause: 1. School assemblies that get them out of class; 2. Twenty-something educators articulate in teen-speak; 3. Hip, amusing animation; 4. Farts.

Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh talking about Obama's speech to students today. Limbaugh said Obama's speech today was not the "original intent." He went on to say the "the original intent of the speech was a dear leader kind of thing," and "right out of the pages of Kim Jong Il." (Watch Video)

The biggest winner from the the whole Van Jones affair is Glenn Beck. After all, it was Beck that lead the charge against Van Jones. Beck was ahead of this story from the beginning, but it was this latest week that he put Jones in his own crosshairs.

How can you tell that we’ve gone from a Republican to Democratic administration? Reading the New York Times provides readers an instructive guide for unemployment coverage. Gone are the snarky references to “McJobs” in a Republican recovery, when unemployment was at 5.4%, or political criticism disguised as pseudointellectual etymology when it was at 5.8%. Now, the NYT highlights the blessings of unemployment when it reaches 9.7%, especially to community organizers-cum-politicians (h/t Geoff A) The work is often mundane: Investment research analysts are now making cold calls to voters, and headhunters are handing out leaflets at subway stations and supermarkets. But...

With Gold topping and hovering around $1,000 today, a good explanation of events from in this video from Peter Schiff. Inflation + Devaluing Dollar = Gold Rush

Otis McDonald wore an Army uniform and served with distinction. He then moved home to Chicago were he began a family. Meanwhile, he busied himself during the days with work at his local union. Eventually, he led the effort to integrate his union and ended up as president of the union. In recent years, McDonald looked around Chicago and decided that he could do something about the shadowy areas of the city outside the bright lights. He went into impoverished, crime-riddled neighborhoods as a community activist. Yet his work inevitably meant he crossed paths with shady characters — drug dealers...