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It was just like any other day for me as a college student. I woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast and went to school. Today, however, was not destined to repeat the normal pattern. With about a little over an hour before my next class I decided to stop by the financial aid office as I was told the other day on the phone that that was the only way to cancel my school loan application. Every other time I had walked by that office, it seemed 30 or so people crammed themselves into a line to wait their turn...

From New York, London to Israel Integrating SEO, PR Creates Potent Marketing By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Tel Aviv, Israel ---- September 9, 2009 ..... Once upon a time, when you wanted your business products and or services to be known one would either hire an advertising or PR agency. Having full color print display ads appearing in general and trade magazines and editorial stories placed about your services was the only route. The ad agency would send out an insertion order and the public relations agency in New York, London or Israel would fax news releases. Yes, there...

Poll; President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday night to pass health care reform. "The time for bickering is over," the president said in a televised speech before a joint session of Congress. "The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action." What did you think of Obama's speech? Thumbs up Thumbs down Did Obama's speech change how you view the issue? Yes No Do you support Obama's health care plan? Yes No I don't know what it entails Do you think Congress will pass health care legislation this year? Yes No

If history is a guide, presidents who devote a joint session of Congress to a single domestic issue gain a bump. The drama of taking the center stage of American politics increases both attention and support. President Carter’s 1977 energy speech resulted in a nine-point rise in the percentage of Americans who thought the nation had a serious energy problem. After President Clinton delivered his health care joint session in 1993, 79 percent of Americans agreed that the health care system needed fundamental changes or should be “completely rebuilt.” Neither speech, however, changed the fundamental political dynamic in Congress. And...

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U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare speech Wednesday earned a big bump in support for his reform plans, a poll indicated. Among Americans who watched the address to a joint session of Congress, the percentage favoring his plans rose from 53 percent before the speech to 67 percent after, a national CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found. Whether the bump will last remains a big unknown, said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Bill Clinton got similar numbers after his 1993 (healthcare) address to Congress, but five months later, a majority of the country no longer supported his plan," Holland said. CNN...

Summonses have been issued in the case of an Army captain seeking to stop her deployment by questioning the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency, court records show. The summonses, issued Wednesday, are for defendants in the civil complaint of Capt. Connie Rhodes, who claims the president is “an illegal usurper” and “an unlawful pretender” and that she cannot lawfully act under his authority. Defendants include Obama, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Thomas MacDonald, Fort Benning garrison commander. The complaint, filed Friday in the Columbus division of U.S. District Court, is similar to the July 8 suit filed by Maj....

The Van Jones story isn't about another radical federal employee or even about President Obama's addiction to executive authority (he has appointed over 30 czars with whom he meets regularly, but he has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration). The Van Jones story is about our president: a man who fills the void in his emotional past with "authentic" black men who have no interior struggle for definition. President Obama has incessantly injected himself into racial matters that require no clarification (see Henry Louis Gates Jr.); he has turned every debate into a racial debate (see his 2008...

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel and Obama’s Health Policy Adviser, announced a new “Complete Lives System” for selecting which sections of the population should be killed, in his article “Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions.”. His writings were published Jan. 31, 2009 in the British medical journal Lancet…11 days after President Obama’s inauguration. On March 19, Emanuel was appointed to the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, to begin the design of a Federal system for withdrawing care from those chosen for death. Dr. Emanuel provides a preview of how such a system will get started…...

Here is video of Rick Santorum talking with Greta Van Susteren about Obama attacking Sarah Palin and Death Panels as a "Lie" during his speech to the Joint Session of Congress. Greta actually read from the bill where under "Advanced Care Planning Consultation" there is a mandatory provision where people will have a "review" every five years, and if your health status changes the "review" can be accelerated. (Watch Video)

The God's Partner Zero dollar is out and available for download, printing and passing out. take them to DC with you for the rally! For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Zero Bill Archive"

The Tea Party Express people announced Ann Coulter is getting on board to help promote their big protest on Saturday in the capital. From the press release: Conservative author and pundit, Ann Coulter, has confirmed her participation at the Tea Party Express rally in Bridgeport, CT this Friday, September 11, 2001 at 1:30pm. The rally will be held at Baldwin Plaza (behind the courthouse) located at 1061 Main Street in Bridgeport, CT. Let’s be sure to have an extra-large crowd on hand, so that the media can see that the momentum for the Tea Party Express continues to grow. I...

US President Barack Obama drew heavily on his oratory skills in delivering his high-stakes pitch for healthcare reform in Washington. Taking regular jabs at critics and the insurance industry, President Obama today explained his $US900 billion proposal to revamp America's $US2.5 trillion health care system, a bold set of changes first proposed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The healthcare debate provoked outrage in town halls across the US last month and has driven Mr Obama's approval rating down five points to 50 percent since July, according to an Associated Press-GfK out late yesterday. His speech aimed to revive his flagging...

A camera in Brooklyn points through a chain-link fence at black smoke pouring from one skyscraper, while a plane pierces another. Papers fly through the sky; some of them end up in the filmmakers' hands. That evening—Sept. 11, 2001—another camera finds firefighters trudging through dust-caked streets, carrying their helmets or a spare pair of shoes. The spindly facade of the World Trade Center is before them. The new views of the terrorist attacks—one of the most recorded events of all time—are among hundreds of hours of amateur videos, images and stories gathered by the foundation building the memorial. The National...

After all the rhetoric is put aside, one principle ran through President Obama’s speech tonight: that increased government involvement in health care can solve its problems. Many Americans fundamentally disagree with this idea. We know from long experience that the creation of a massive new bureaucracy will not provide us with “more stability and security,” but just the opposite. It's hard to believe the President when he says that this time he and his team of bureaucrats have finally figured out how to do things right if only we’ll take them at their word. Our objections to the Democrats’ health...

Obama Projects $900 Billion To Fix Health Care President backs ‘public option’ but only as limited part of larger plan Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Republicans wave copies of their health care bill in objection to President Barack Obama’s proposals Wednesday during a joint session of Congress. At one point, a Republican lawmaker shouted, ‘You lie!’ at Obama. By Alex Johnson Declaring that he is determined to be the last president confronted with reshaping health care in America, President Barack Obama proposed a 10-year, $900 billion plan Wednesday night to overhaul a system that he said had left the country...

After all the rhetoric is put aside, one principle ran through President Obama’s speech tonight: that increased government involvement in health care can solve its problems. Many Americans fundamentally disagree with this idea. We know from long experience that the creation of a massive new bureaucracy will not provide us with “more stability and security,” but just the opposite. It's hard to believe the President when he says that this time he and his team of bureaucrats have finally figured out how to do things right if only we’ll take them at their word. Our objections to the Democrats’ health...

Fighting for Israel, But Why? by Ari Bussel and Norma Zager "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.” Attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A senior minister of the Israeli Government is in Los Angeles this week with a message for Americans (Christians and Jews) to relate to the Administration: The Settlements are not the issue. The head of opposition from Israel, Israel’s foreign minister until just a few months ago, is arriving in LA toward the end of the week. She is coming with a completely different message than her counterpart, asking the...

The number of car-to-house-sized meteoroids whizzing through the Earth’s neighborhood is about 10 times higher than Earth-based telescopic surveys suggest, a new study reveals. That finding, reported online August 28 and in an upcoming Journal of Geophysical Research–Planets, comes from analyses of recently declassified data on infrasonic waves in the atmosphere detected between November 1960 and April 1972. The network of instruments collecting the data was originally designed to detect low-frequency sound waves produced by aboveground nuclear tests, says Elizabeth Silber, a planetary physicist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. But during the 13-year period, the instruments...

What do you think of Rep. Joe Wilson's decision to shout out 'You lie!' during the president's speech? It was completely inappropriate. There's never an excuse for bad manners. It revealed the frustration of House Republicans who feel powerless. He was completely within his rights.