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Who couldn't like Jimmy Stewart? He gave one memorable screen performance after another. High on the list of most people's favorite Christmas movies is his classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." In that role, Stewart got to do what many of us secretly wish we could do - see what the world would have been like had we never been born. Stewart's character, George Bailey, learns that a lot of surviving servicemen would be dead because his brother - the war hero he envied - wouldn't have been there to save them. He would have died in a childhood accident because...

September 09, 2009 Obama Voted For Infanticide 4 Times... His Nationalized Health Care Plan Will Likely Make It a Policy Last year abortion survivor Gianna Jessen joined Born Alive Truth in a campaign to shine light on Barack Obama's horrific record on infanticide. Gianna, who had survived as a baby after being aborted, pointed out that-- Obama voted 4 times to support infanticide: Already this year, Barack Obama has signed several pieces of abortion legislation including funding foreign abortions. He also signed legislation to use taxpayer money to kill embryos in research. And, democrats are pushing legislation that will force...

The last time Reublicans were invited to talk to Obama about Healthcare was in APRIL. In her press conference following a meeting with the President, Pelosi misleads the public into believing Republicans have been included in recent discussions. Apparently, however, the only bipartisanship going on is between Democratic factions.

A brave Muslim woman has come out in support of France moving forward and banning the burqa. May she stay safe. Muslim woman presses French panel for burqa ban By SYLVIE CORBET PARIS – Her voice trembling with emotion, the leader of an advocacy group for Muslim women and girls urged a French parliamentary panel on Wednesday to press for laws that would ban the wearing of Islamic body- and face-covering veils.

While the Obama administration and its Democratic allies in Congress press to allow private-sector workers to unionize by signing authorization cards instead of voting by secret ballot, the government's legal-aid program for the poor has declared the so-called "card check" strategy "unreliable" and rejected an effort by some of its own workers to organize that way. The Legal Services Corp., a congressionally chartered, taxpayer-funded entity, even hired a law firm to rebuff the efforts of workers in its oversight offices to gain union representation by the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), forcing the workers to conduct a...

Buyers of Huge Manhattan Complex Face Default Risk CHARLES V. BAGLI September 9, 2009 Three years ago, the sale of the 110 red brick apartment buildings at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan amounted to the biggest American real estate deal of all time. Now the buyers are running out of time and money. Jerry and Rob Speyer and their partner, BlackRock Realty, who together paid $5.4 billion for the quiet middle-class redoubt near the East River, have nearly exhausted an additional $890 million set aside for apartment renovations, landscaping and interest payments. Rents are down 25 percent...

On Wednesday, Sept 9 at 1:00 pm at the State House there will be a public hearing on a Massachusetts bill that could change all of America. Bill H656 [see text here] would give the Governor of Massachusetts the ability to quickly appoint an interim successor to Ted Kennedy to serve in the US Senate, until a replacement is elected. The election is scheduled for Jan. 19, 2010. This would effectively reverse the law that many of these same politicians passed in 2004, when the Governor was a Republican instead of a Democrat.

Forming the ‘Leave Me Alone’ PartyPosted By Mike Baron On September 9, 2009 @ 8:33 am In Politics | 38 Comments “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” –Michelle Obama [1]There is a right not specifically spelled out in the Bill of Rights...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's demands to kill off a super-expensive, ultramodern fighter and the way-over-budget, behind-schedule presidential helicopter drew a sympathetic hearing from a Senate panel Wednesday. The F-22 is a next-generation fighter aimed at maintaining U.S. dominance in air combat, but is poorly suited for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The VH-71 is the high-security replacement for the aging fleet of presidential helicopters.

Breaking News Sen. Finance Chairman Baucus Concedes 'Public Option' Can't Pass the Senate

"Taxpayers may not recover all of the bailout money awarded to the auto sector, said Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel in charge of the Troubled Assets Relief Program [TARP]. “When Treasury wants to get tough, it knows how to do so,” she said. “And it did it in the case of the auto industry. Whether that ultimately will be enough to get all of the money for the American taxpayers, I don’t know"

Glenn Beck: "I've done some pretty bad things in my life...if you want stuff on me...just read my books."

The U.S. health care system is in crisis. This crisis is not limited to the 46 million who lack health insurance – it extends to those who have health coverage but are worried about increasing costs. Rising health care costs affect families and American businesses, as health insurance premiums continue to outpace wages and inflation. Between 1999 and 2008, premiums for employer-sponsored health benefits increased 117 percent for families and individuals and 119 percent for employers. And annual health spending growth is expected to outpace average annual growth in the overall economy by 2.1 percentage points in each of the...

By early accounts, the President will today deliver a big speech urging an only very slightly slimmed down version of the big health bill before the House of Representatives. Once again it seems that Barack Obama’s idea of “post-partisanship” amounts to: “Let’s everybody do what I say!” Worse, it’s not even what he says. It’s what the liberal wing of his party in the House says - and what he does not dare to contradict. The Wall Street Journal reports that the president will again endorse a so-called public option, even knowing it is poison to Republicans and many moderate...

Pakistan's nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said that Sri Lankan Muslims based in Dubai were suppliers of nuclear material and equipments not only to Pakistan but also to Iran and Libya. 'Be it Libya, Iran, or Pakistan, the same suppliers were responsible for providing the material through the same third party in Dubai,' Khan has revealed in an interview to a Pakistani news channel. 'It was a company with which we had established links when we could not receive the material from Europe. They were Sri Lankan Muslims,' Khan said in his interview in Urdu, aired in Karachi on...

Crystal Cave of Giants Naica, Mexico - Sept 3 - 6, 2009 Air Temperature of 50C(122F) + Relative Humidity of over 90% = Humidex Value of 105C (228F) !! This is one of the most extreme places on the planet. The Crystal Cave of Giants was accidentally discovered in 2000 by miners working in the silver and lead mine at Naica, Mexico. It lies almost 300 meters (900 feet) below the surface of the Earth and it contains the largest crystals known in the world, by far. The largest crystals are over 11 meters long (36 feet) and weigh 55...

An NHS whistleblower claims that he was subjected to a campaign of bullying and harassment after raising concerns about patient safety and care at a London hospital. Ramon Niekrash, a consultant urologist, says he repeatedly raised concerns about problems at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London which he said were caused by cost-cutting. These included a shortage of senior doctors, too many patients and the risk of hospital acquired infection, such as MRSA. But at one point a senior doctor at the hospital allegedly said that she wished that Australian-trained Ramon Niekrash, was “in chains on a plane in Heathrow...

When mom is away, most dads offer a crying newborn a bottle of milk, a pacifier, a pinkie finger. But a Swedish dad is embarking on an experiment that he hopes will allow him to soothe a baby with his own milk-filled breasts. Ragnar Bengtsson, a 26-year-old student at Stockholm University, is regularly breaking out a breast pump to induce lactation. Bengtsson is the father of a 2-year-old child, but he has no plans to nurse his toddler. Rather he wants to breast-feed future children and inspire other dads to offer their breasts as a way to bond with their...

"They can do it, but it certainly would be a destruction of the legislative process in the Senate," Gregg said during an interview on Fox News. "The purpose of reconciliation is to control the deficits and bring the budgets and spending in line."

Democrats are mounting a last-ditch attempt to broker a bipartisan deal to reform America's health care system as Barack Obama prepares to address Congress. The speech to Congress is seen as so important that it could make or break his presidency. With Mr Obama's poll numbers slipping and public support for his health care overhaul eroding almost by the day, Senator Max Baucus, a fellow Democrat, drew up a compromise plan designed to appeal to centrists across the political divide. Republicans have vigirously opposed a mooted extra tax burden on highers earners to pay for medical insurance for the poor....