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<p>Mom charged with fatally stabbing 2 daughters L.A. woman struggled financially, was hospitalized for stress, report says LOS ANGELES - A mother accused of fatally slashing her two daughters' throats inside their Los Angeles home has been charged with two counts of murder.</p>

Here are a few talking points for dems to use with Republicans: I have fully read the Health Care Bill section concerning the Death Panels, and it is nothing like what Sarah Palin wants people to believe. In fact, it is very compassionate. These Death Panels will not effect the average healthy American. Only people suffering from medical or mental issues will be subject to a Death Panel review. There is nothing wrong with "putting to sleep" a person that is in a wheelchair, suffers from cerebral Palsy, Autism, or, for lack of a better term is retarded.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday unveiled a new carbon tax to help combat global warming, calling it a "fiscal revolution" and overriding strong public opposition to the plan. The new levy on oil, gas and coal consumption by households and businesses will come into effect next year, making France the biggest economy yet to impose a straight-up carbon tax. "It is time to create green taxation," Sarkozy said in an address in Culoz, a town near the French border with Switzerland. "This is a major fiscal shift, an important innovation," he said. "It is the first step of a...

This poll is about to be swamped by reddit.com cretins. Please make them feel like they don't matter. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090910/NEWS/90910001&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

Speech to Congress contains a variety of oversimplifications and omissions Video Obama: 'We will provide you with a choice' Sept. 19: Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama calls for action on health care reform. "Our collective failure to meet this challenge ... has led us to a breaking point," said President Obama. msnbc tv INTERACTIVE Dose of reality Do health care reform headlines leave you saying “huh?” Visit msnbc.com's guide to health reform and send us claims you'd like fact-checked. Health care videos Obama’s plan, the right RX for doctors? Sept. 10: Polls show Americans trust their...

FOR a 16-year-old sailor planning a solo voyage around the world, Jessica Watson's first night at sea delivered a stern warning of the dangers she faces. In the dead of night, just hours after Jessica set sail from Queensland's Sunshine Coast on a 10-day trial voyage to Sydney, her 10.4m sloop Ella's Pink Lady collided with a big cargo ship. But despite the collision, which left her yacht badly damaged, an uninjured Jessica says she will not be deterred from becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and independently around the world. ...

On Friday at 3:00 AM the Western Massachusetts 912 project will be leaving Massachusetts from the location of the end of Daniel Shay's rebellion.Daniel Shay's rebellion was a group of farmers taht got pissed over debt and taxes, stormed the local armory and had to be stopped by militia on their way to the capital.Their problem initiated a call for modifications to the Articles of Confederation and eventually the institution of the Constitution. It is fitting that the Western Massachusetts contingient start off where our forefathers left off. See ya in Washington, Bill

Sarah Palin's op ed yesterday was apparently so good that several of my liberal readers claimed that it was ghost written. I don't know about all that but I thought that it was well written. My problem is that she's been haphazard on the health care issue. She will issue a statement, facebook post, or op ed from time to time, but she isn't getting forcefully into the debate. Well, it's almost as though she read my piece. On cue, she issued a new post on Face Book responding to Obama's speech.

(CNSNews.com) - In his speech to a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama said that his health care reform plan will not insure “illegal immigrants.” The statement instantly became a matter of controversy when Rep. Joe Wilson (R.-S.C.) yelled out in the House chamber, “You lie.” Wilson has since apologized for his outburst. But President Obama’s statement about illegal aliens and health care reform deserves further scrutiny. “There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants,” said Obama. “This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are...

After plugging his latest column in a September 10 post on the magazine's Swampland blog, Time's Joe Klein pegged Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) as "vile" before defending taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants: On this whole question of whether illegal immigrants will be included in the plan, which caused the vile Congressman from South Carolina to shout "You lie" when the President said they wouldn't be covered. Why shouldn't they be? After all, when an illegal immigrant cuts his hand while chopping cabbage and goes to the emergency room, the rest of us pay for it. Isn't the point to...

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Note: Don't miss Coulter's (Part 1), (Part 2)and (Part 3). 12) Only national health care can provide "coverage that will stay with you whether you move, change your job or lose your job" – as Obama said in a New York Times op-ed. This is obviously a matter of great importance to all Americans, because, with Obama's economic policies, none of us may have jobs by year's end. The only reason you can't keep – or often obtain – health insurance if you move or lose your job now is because of ... government intrusion into the free market. You...

“First, do no harm” has been the guiding philosophy for the medical profession since Hippocrates. It still dominates medical science, technology, and clinical practice. That is why I trust my doctor to do his or her best for me, and that is why at times I have changed doctors when I thought they fell short of that standard. That is why the cost of developing one medication to FDA standards is about a billion dollars. Entire technical professions have grown up over the past century, dedicated to finding and developing new medical molecules with remarkable sophistication. They are constantly testing...

Vindication of the effectiveness of Warfare over Lawfare, and a triumph for the Terrorist Surveillance Program.The ambivelent news is that The UK recently managed to convict a group of three terrorists for attempted terrorism: Airline terror trial: The bomb plot to kill 10,000 people Three British Muslims have been convicted of planning a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on transatlantic airliners, which could have killed up to 10,000 people. By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Telegraph.co.ukThe al-Qaeda cell plotted to cause mass murder by detonating home-made liquid explosives on board at least seven passenger flights bound for the US and...

Undercover investigation featuring prostitution, sex trafficking, tax evasion, and money laundering. This is at ACORN offices in Baltimore. ACORN helping a pimp and prostitute set up a fake business. Also giving advice on how to claim 13 underage girls as "dependents".

His own words: HOLDREN: There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so technologically advanced that it can and should do what it wants. I think this strain is misguided. BRIT: Will Americans need to reduce their living standards? Is that politically viable, or will technology [unintelligible] do it? HOLDREN: I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution...

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the restrictions that have been placed on corporate money in politics. The ruling may be one of the Court’s most critical decisions in an age which has seen one Presidential campaign accumulate almost a billion dollars in contributions. When the constitutionality of any far reaching federal law is opposed, it is a matter of national relevance, however, when a law affecting the foundation of the Democracy is challenged, such event should be arousing everyone’s notice and should be at the forefront of all news media outlets. The case in...

To be a bonafide conspiracy, two or more individuals must knowingly conspire, plot or plan an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious act. In politics or law, an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act, is a “conspiracy.” Not in theory, but in reality. Such is the case today!

Two bills in CA require immediate action:    NRA Members' Councils of California    Legislative Info and Contact Tools SB 585 Summary:  NRA and CRPA oppose this bill. Issue:   COW PALACE GUN SHOW BAN (Leno) Description:   SB 585, as amended, Leno. Agricultural District 1-A: firearm sales at the Cow Palace.    Existing law generally regulates the transfer of firearms and divides the state into agricultural districts. District 1-A is the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San Francisco. A violation of statutes governing agricultural districts is a misdemeanor.    This bill would prohibit events at which...

Need more proof that the Dem "health care" reform is more about political power than it is about protecting Americans health?As I reported earlier, the House chamber erupted into laughter when President Obama told the joint session that "There remain some significant details to be ironed out..." It's those details which are concerning more and more Americans: Read the Union Health-Care Label Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals. By Mark Mix Wall Street Journal SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will...