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As President Obama gets set to address a joint session of Congress on the issue of health care reform Wednesday night, former President Clinton says it's time to forget about the Republican Party's role in the process entirely. "The president's doing the right thing. It is both morally and politically right," Clinton told Esquire magazine in an interview published online Tuesday. "I wouldn't even worry about the Republicans. I'd worry about executing." Former President Bill Clinton thinks Barack Obama may be on the verge of doing what his administration never could: passing comprehensive health care reform. Though it increasingly appears...

KIRKUK — The once shattered windows of the Burhiema Primary School here are now intact, and through them, the children of Burhiema village can be seen smiling as they dig through bags of new school supplies. The school — once abandoned because of its poor condition — is once again filled with life and optimism as children returned from their summer vacations, Sept. 2, to find their local Iraqi Police, assisted by Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, waiting to greet them with a few surprises. The IP and Soldiers distributed 150...

Hitler learns that the Minnesota Vikings have signed Brett Favre.

U.S. Soldiers with the 606th Forward Support Company, 1-377th Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Fires Brigade, conduct civil reconnaissance of the Hartha Water Treatment Plant in Basrah, Aug. 19. Photo courtesy of 17th Fires Brigade. BASRAH — Some citizens of Basrah lived without clean, running water for cooking and hygiene. Following a recent inspection of the Hartha Water Treatment Plant here, the 17th Fires Brigade aimed to change that. The plant, located 12 miles north of Basrah, was working at 30 percent capacity and considered almost non-operational by the time the U.S. contracted the Farden Group to renovate the plant for...

Laguna Beach Unified places emphasis on teaching Spanish.

[The research team from UCONN - UNDEAD REVOLUTION - have published "Part 1" of their exhaustive research on the historical meaning of the "natural born citizen" POTUS eligibility requirement. I am republishing their report here as my first guest blog. Please click through to their blog for the full report. I am simultaneously publishing my analysis of an incredible find by the UR team which firmly establishes that Chester Arthur's British birth was not known to the public while he was President and therefore sets no historical or legal precedent for Obama. Now, for your historical education, the Natural Born...

World will end today... (Well it is 9/9/09 - and the doom-mongers are predicting a disaster) By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 09th September 2009 If you're reading this, then it's pretty safe to say that he world hasn't ended. Today, the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year, was heralded by some doomsayers as the end of the planet. Over the past few weeks, web chatrooms devoted to alien conspiracies, doomsday cults and numerology - the belief that numbers have mystical significance - have been buzzing with talk of 09/09/09. Some warned of an outbreak of killer swine...

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP)--Egyptian border guards shot dead four sub-Saharan migrants as they tried to illegally enter Israel on Tuesday night, a security official said. The men were caught by border guards as they tried to slip past a barbed wire fence marking the border with Israel south of the town of Rafah, he said. -snip-

THE PERFECTION of all motherhood is Mary, the Mother of Jesus, because she is the only mother in all the world who was "made to order" by her Divine Son. No creature can create his own mother. He can paint a picture of his own mother, for, in the field of art, the artist preexists his product; he is a symbol of God the Creator preexisting His creatures. All art is an imitation of the Divine Artist Who, from all eternity, possessed in His Divine mind the archetypal ideas according to which He made the world in time. The most...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a school district's refusal to let a band play a religious piece at a high school graduation, saying the superintendent had reasonably decided to avoid a constitutional controversy by ordering a secular program. The district's veto of an instrumental version of "Ave Maria" by German composer Franz Biebl at the 2006 graduation ceremony in Everett, Wash., did not violate students' freedom of speech or religion, said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

Backdrop to the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, has been displaced by Orangi in Karachi as Asia's largest slum, according to a new development report. The report, compiled by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation with assistance from the United National Development Programme, found that while Dharavi has 57,000 families living in overcrowded huts with poor sanitation, Orangi on the outskirts of Karachi is home to more than a million people living in poverty. Dharavi, in Mumbai, India Since the release of Slumdog Millionaire earlier this year, Dharavi's notoriety has become global, and its inhabitants have been identified with malnutrition, disease, violence, child slavery,...

Glenn Beck on the resignation of Van Jones in which he rightly asks why the only thing that brought down Van Jones was his 9/11 truther background. Why didn't his past as a "rowdy black nationalist" who founded the group "Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement" raise any alarms? Hell, in STORM's manifesto they declare their commitment to the "fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism." Uh....still no alarms? How about his proclamation that he was a Communist? Nope...still no alarms. When Beck started taking the fight against these loons in the Obama administration the MSM yawned. When news came out that...

This is the last video in a three-part series with Sen. Daschle on why we need health care reform. Video at link.

DSEi Some days, the world of military whizz-tech can get to be a bit humdrum. Awesome as missiles, robots etc. are, they can sometimes pall. But today is no such day: today we on the Reg military whizz-tech desk have been interviewing the inventor of an actual, working powered exoskeleton - in his suit, powered up, with hundreds of pounds of armour and other military bric-a-brac strapped onto him.

Ron Kirk returns to Booker T. Washington High for Obama speech 01:27 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 By BRAD WATSON / WFAA-TV KIRK IN DALLAS FOR SPEECH September 8th, 2009 Brad Watson reports. >More WFAA Latest News video * View larger * E-mail clip * More video Related links: * Obama offers advice to America's youth * Obama's address to America's youth * More politics * More by Brad Watson Search Video: DALLAS - Barack Obama's cabinet members traveled to their hometowns to view the president's speech to students. That brought former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk back to...

It was "the cat lady" who took care of more than 100 cats in her Texas home. But when she died in July at 72, what would happen to all of those kitties? Particularly in a town without an animal shelter? The Austin-American Statesman reports on a remarkable effort by the woman's neighbors to take in each of the 110 cats, and to get them fixed and adopted into new homes....

Desperate to pass health care, some of the President's supporters are trying to make the claim that Jesus would favor universal health care. For instance, here's how some of his religious supporters framed the issue. It's one thing to underwrite the lethal use of force against the unborn as part of a nationalized health-care system. It takes a certain moxie, though, to persuade oneself that such plans warm the heart of the Almighty. Yet this is how defenders of the president's agenda, including the president himself, like to talk. Passages in the Bible about compassion, justice, and the plight of...

The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them. The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated. If you go by words, you can be led into anything. No doubt millions of people will be listening to the words of President Obama on Wednesday night when he makes a televised address to a joint session of Congress on his medical care plans. But if they think the words he says are what matters, they...

9/8/2009 - KABUL, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Air Force mentors are developing Afghan hematology knowledge and practices every day at the Kabul national military hospital. "The (medical embed training team) mission strengthens the (Afghan national army's) healthcare system's ability to improve medical care with trained and experienced medical staff," said Army Capt. Kenneth Chapman, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan METT administrative oversight. "Our goal is to bring Afghanistan a higher standard of medical care," he said. This increased training will enhance capabilities the Afghan national army is able to provide their soldiers. The current class of 20 medical laboratory technicians is a...

... PURPOSE OF CONTACT This is a formal complaint of election fraud against Boyd L. Richie, Chair of the Texas State Democratic Party and request for investigation of these charges by the Office of Attorney General of Texas. Specifically, in order to get Texas elections officials to print the name of Barack Obama as the of the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States (“POTUS”) on the state’s 2008 general election ballot, Mr. Richie formally submitted to Ann McGeehan, Director of Elections, Office of Secretary of State, 2 (two) Certifications of Nomination in which he swore that Barack...