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In his speech tonight, the president introduced a new number in the health care debate. Remember all those statements from Democrats, including Barack Obama himself, that 47 million Americans are without health insurance? That's no longer the operative number. "There are now more than thirty million American citizens who cannot get coverage," the president said in tonight's speech. But on August 10, at a town hall meeting, Obama referred to the "46, 47 million people without health insurance in our country…" And on July 23, he said, "This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don't have any...

(IsraelNN.com) Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom told IDF Army Radio on Wednesday that only military action can prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capabilities and it's doubtful that the United States would approve such a step. When asked if he had reached the conclusion that only a military strike could stop Iran's drive toward nukes, the ex-Mossad head said "yes, I have reached that conclusion." The "world needs to understand - an Iranian bomb poses a risk to its safety," said Yatom, adding that he could not see "a U.S.- led world ready to take risks involved in striking Iran's...

Exploring the ‘Haunted’ Premiere of Destination Truth Season 3 by Nadya Vlassoff After two seasons of traveling the world and exploring supernatural oddities, host Josh Gates and his Destination Truth crew continue their quest to uncover the reality behind more unexplained mysteries. In the September 9 SyFy premiere of Destination Truth called "Haunted Forest/Alux", Gates and company begin their explorations in the Hoia Baciu Forest in rural Romania since there have been a slew of mysterious paranormal sightings by villagers for over five decades, with some claiming to have seen everything from ghostly apparitions to a photograph of something that...

After more than a decade of separation, Hugh Hefner is seeking an official return to his bachelor status. The Playboy founder filed for divorce on Friday from his wife and former Playmate, Kimberly. Hefner is asking a judge to order him to pay Kimberly Conrad Hefner $20,000 a month in spousal support. That would be half of the $40,000 a month that the Playboy founder has been paying her since they separated in 1998, the records state. He wants the monthly payments to end in two years, or after a trial on the couple's divorce is held, whichever comes...

Well, that's assuming they walk in and announce they are in this country illegally and want to participate in the program......., but if they have a fake ID there is NOTHING in the bill(s) that would allow anyone to determine the validity of the identification someone offers as proof of citizenship. Once again, Mr. Obama, you are being misleading to the point of again being a liar.

Undercover investigation featuring prostitution, sex trafficking, tax evasion, and money laundering. Video at site. http://www.stealthfusion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4629

You don't understand, Mr. President. It's not about pre-existing conditions or people without coverage or the price of health care. It's about the proper role of government, and that's about freedom. The answer is, "No." We don't want you to save us, we don't believe in your plan, we don't trust you to do it for us. We'd rather be free. That's what they don't discuss on the evening news. Amidst all the sob stories about expensive pills and death panels, completely overlooked is the principle involved -- and that is that government should not compete with or replace private...

Sen. Chris Dodd is banking on Banking. And as its still-chairman, getting something done there could determine whether he will be a senator, much less a chairman, in 2011. Faced with the most difficult reelection bid in the Senate next year, the three-decade senator rolled the dice Wednesday and opted to stay where he is as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He had considered taking control of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) panel following Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) death. Neither committee offered great political prospects, but both provided strong opportunities for Dodd (D-Conn.) to accomplish something big....

I do not think this has been posted previously, it is very much on target.

Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the IRS and how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents. In the videotape on BigGovernment.com, made on July 24, James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named "Kenya" who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN's office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business. On the videotape,...

It is difficult to create credibility within a speech when you begin that speech by manipulating the facts surrounding a health insurance companies right to cancel coverage and the application of Pre-existing conditions. Last night, President Obama did both and within two minutes of the start of his speech he set the stage of a statistically inaccurate and misleading presentation of the facts surrounding health care. The President and congressional leaders have continued to create the perception that evil health insurance companies will cancel your coverage if you have sizable claims or are suffering from ongoing health problems. Yet, the...

<p>ACORN officials offered to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents, according to an audiotape acquired by FOXNews.com.</p>

While much of the public debate surrounding the Democrats’ healthcare plan has focused on the massive costs to be paid by American taxpayers, another flaw has stayed under the radar — until last week. That’s when the National Council of La Raza and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus pushed to include illegal immigrants in the president’s healthcare effort. Despite statements to the contrary, the Obama administration could force the American people to pay for the healthcare of millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. The Democrats’ bill in the House, H.R. 3200, contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to...

I wanted to send Joe Wilson a note of support, but his web site at the official U.S. Congress location is offline "for maintenance". Are they trying to take him down? Does anyone have a phone number for Joe Wilson so that I can phone him my support?

I was perusing my Obama photo album as I'm wont to do, when I noticed a curious coincidence. Our leader has been kidnapped by evil forces and replaced by Cardboard Obama. When you view this photo montage, tell me if I'm wrong? I've documented this phenomenon right up to the present moment. Here's a small sample:

OTTAWA -- The Bank of Canada indicated Thursday it has become more confident about the economic recovery in this country and abroad, adding growth in Canada in the second half of this year could exceed previous expectations. However, the central bank warned "persistent strength" in the Canadian dollar remained a risk to growth, and it retained "considerable flexibility" through monetary policy to deal with a high-flying currency if necessary. The upwardly revised outlook was delivered in the Bank of Canada's latest interest-rate statement, in which it, as widely expected, left its benchmark rate unchanged at 0.25% and said the rate...

By my count, they fact-check 7 of his statements last night and find that he was lying or obfuscating on 5 of them, which means he was telling the truth 28% of the time.

GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition...Dashing from boulder to boulder, diving into trenches and ducking behind stone walls as the insurgents maneuvered to outflank us, we waited more than an hour for U.S. helicopters to arrive, despite earlier assurances that air cover would be five minutes away... U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes...

There has been a huge surge in the influence of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News. Beck has become one of the airwaves' premiere conservatives. Be gratified that there lives such a patriot among us. There is no doubt about it: Mr. Beck handed America a victory when he almost single-handedly forced a radical communist to resign from the Obama administration. Personnel is policy Beck's nightly program on Fox is to be highly commended. Both Beck and his investigative staff keep "We The People" informed about those with whom President Barack Obama has surrounded himself. Beck has told his...

There's some breaking economic data. The weekly jobless claims came in and they fell substantially. The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week to 550,000, according to a government report on Thursday that also showed the number of those collecting long-term aid tumbled.