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In a letter delivered after his death, late senator Ted Kennedy called for 2009 to be the year of long-awaited US health care reform, President Barack Obama said. Obama told US lawmakers he had received the letter just a few days ago after Kennedy died on August 25 having lost his 15-month battle with brain cancer. The Democratic lion had voiced confidence that this year "that great unfinished business of our society", which he worked for during almost five decades in the US Senate, would be passed, Obama said. "He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our...

Police say 20-year-old Stephfon Bennett was among three men who robbed a couple late Sunday. Columbus police Sgt. Sean Laird says the woman recognized Bennett as one of the robbers when he returned to ask her out. She had a relative call police. Police say Bennett was arrested in front of the home.

The liberal idiots are at a Facebook page for Wilson attacking him, this needs some serious freeping! http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=congressman+joe+wilson&init=quick#/group.php?gid=27779867562 They are also piling on him on Twitter, go get em!

Iran "is now either very near or in possession" of enough low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday, as he offered some of the toughest remarks by an Obama administration official on Iran's nuclear ambitions.

AP: South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" after Obama had talked about illegal immigrants. It wasn't the only interruption during Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives. Earlier, Republicans laughed when Obama acknowledged that there are still significant details to be worked out before a health overhaul can be passed.

Okay, Conservatives, we have a Congressman in Washington, Joe Wilson (R-SC) who had the courage to speak up publicly on national TV against the lies spread by Obama. "You lie!" might just become the new "shot heard around the world." It's not just enough to chuckle and say, "Amen, brother!" This man will likely become the new whipping boy and target of the most vile and evil campaign ever, right up there with the one against Sarah Palin and her family. This week, put a check in the mail for his campaign fund. We clamor for our representatives to truly...

We've released this music video based on II Chronicles 7:14. Would really like to find a way to get it to Glenn Beck or Mike Huckabee. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help us get past the other 10,000 emails they receive every day? Thanks for any ideas If My People

This could be America's greatest failed presidency. It's been a long time since James Carville said the most famous thing he ever said: It's the economy, stupid. That famous phrase was in fact part of a sign hung in the Clinton campaign headquarters in 1992. There was a sense among the electorate in the fall of 1992, not entirely accurate, that the economy was foundering under George H.W. Bush. Bush lost control of the public's perception of the economy, and then he lost the presidency. Why with unemployment heading above 10% was Barack Obama on TV last night draining a...

In California, a petition is circulating that would hike taxes to 74% and claim 55% of your assets if you move out of the state. Once the feds get a notion to do this... watch out!

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Democratic leaders are calling on Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) to apologize for heckling President Obama as a liar. Wilson shouted to the president "you lie" after Obama said illegal immigrants would not benefit from health insurance coverage from the reform bill. Obama glared disgustedly in the direction the remark came from, as did Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Vice President Joe Biden. House Democratic Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) called Wilson's outburst "embarrassing," while McCain said it was "totally disrespectful" and that there was "no place for it in that setting or any other." McCain said...

President Barack Obama’s address to Congress this evening was moving along fairly smoothly until he pledged that there was nothing in the legislation that would provide health care to the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the nation. A cry of “You lie!” was audible from the Republican side of the aisle. The Associated Press reports that the heckler was South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson. “It’s not true,” the president responded to the outburst, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seated behind the president, offered her mother-of-five glare towards the Republican side of the chamber. First Lady Michelle Obama was...

The diplomatic ties between Iran and Venezuela go back almost 50 years and until recently amounted to little more than the routine exchange of diplomats. With the election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, the relationship dramatically changed. Today Mr. Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez have created a cozy financial, political and military partnership rooted in a shared anti-American animus. Now is the time to develop policies in this country to ensure this partnership produces no poisonous fruit. Signs of the evolving partnership began to emerge in 2006, when Venezuela joined Cuba and Syria as the only nations...

I'm hoping buyer's remorse on Obama will finally cause a Jewish shift to the right. One of the most extraordinary features of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain was his capture of 78% of the Jewish vote. To be sure, there was nothing extraordinary about the number itself. Since 1928, the average Jewish vote for the Democrat in presidential elections has been an amazing 75%—far higher than that of any other ethno-religious group. Yet there were reasons to think that it would be different in 2008. The main one was Israel. Despite some slippage in concern for Israel among American...

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WASHINGTON - A new government survey finds the vast majority of the country reporting economic activity is stabilizing or improving, as the worst recession since the 1930s appears to be over. The Federal Reserve's snapshot of economic conditions backs predictions by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and most other analysts that the economy has started to grow again in the current quarter. In the new survey, all but one of the Fed's 12 regions indicated that economic activity was "stable," showed "signs of stabilization" or had "firmed." The one exception was the St. Louis region, which continued to report that the...

Here is complete video of President Barack Obama delivering his major address on Health Care tonight to a Joint Session of Congress. Obama said he intended to be "the last President" confronted with redoing America's Health Care system. He called for a 10-year, $900 Billion plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. . . . (VIDEO)

Rising tensions between Russia and Georgia over shipping rights to a breakaway Georgian region have opened a potential new theater for conflict between the countries, a little more than a year after they went to war.

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Red-state Democrats are being asked to risk their seats. Millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama's speech last night to a joint session of Congress. Much of it was familiar, having been delivered in at least 111 speeches, town halls, radio addresses and other appearances on health care. But his most revealing remarks on the topic came on Monday, at a Labor Day union picnic in Cincinnati.

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