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Shaking off a summer of setbacks, President Barack Obama summoned Congress to enact sweeping health care legislation Wednesday night, declaring the "time for bickering is over" and the moment has arrived to protect millions who have unreliable insurance or no coverage at all. Obama said the changes he wants would cost about $900 billion over decade, "less than we have spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and less than the tax cuts for the wealthiest few Americans" passed during the Bush administration. In a televised speech to a joint session of Congress, Obama spoke in favor of a provision...

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Can hundreds of stock-selling insiders be wrong? The stock market has mounted an historic rally since it hit a low in March. The S&P 500 is up 55%, as U.S. job losses have slowed and credit markets have stabilized. But against that improving backdrop, one indicator has turned distinctly bearish: Corporate officers and directors have been selling shares at a pace last seen just before the onset of the subprime malaise two years ago. While a wave of insider selling doesn't necessarily foretell a stock market downturn, it suggests that those with the first read on...

Supporters of the President have been bragging all day about the CNN poll which claimed that among people who watch the Health Care speech there was a 14-point gain in support for the plan read the report below.. pay extra special attention to the final paragraph:

After Ms. Pelosi gave Joe Wilson the stink eye, she said something to Biden and picked up a sheet of paper. As she read the paper, she had a full body spasm of some type, similar to the p-p shiver that men sometimes get. It was in stark contrast to her botoxed woodenness and was hysterically funny. It was also evident that Pelosi and Biden were in some type of blinking competition.

Michael Ledeen does what few other commentators are doing by joining up the dots – and thus correctly assesses the true and terrifying reality of the threat facing the free world: There is a mounting body of evidence of a global alliance directed against the United States, running from Moscow to Tehran, Damascus and Caracas. United by hatred of America, funded by oil and narcotics revenues (including our own), and unanimous in their contempt for free societies, the leaders of Russia, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia publicly declare their intentions and demonstrate their resolve. Manhattan District Attorney, the...

I just got off the phone with an ACORN insider who provided some much needed perspective on this video. First, here again is the video the whole news world is talking about.

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Gaming News Hands on: ATI Eyefinity review Now you can run six monitors in HD from a single graphics cardSix monitors enough for you?AMD is looking to expand your horizons with its Eyefinity technology, allowing you to run up to six monitors in HD from a single graphics card – and TechRadar has had the chance to play with the latest in graphics tech. Although you'll have to wait and see how ATI is bringing the technology to our homes, Eyefinity is close to release and looking rather stunning. Essentially, the technology allows you to run multiple monitors in high...

I want to make good on sending him a check.

Dem leadership wants formal apology from WilsonBy Molly Hooper - 09/10/09 02:10 PM ET Despite Joe Wilson's personal apology to the president for heckling him as a liar during his address to Congress last night, there is growing discontent within House Democratic leadership ranks over Wilson's refusal to officially apologize on the House floor. According to officials sitting in on a leadership meeting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office Thursday afternoon, Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn (S.C.) told his colleagues that he approached Wilson - a fellow South Carolinian - three times during a vote earlier today asking Wilson to formally apologize...

Outsourcing the U.S. Constitution by: AIA Staff, September 10, 2009 Accuracy in Academia will feature George Mason University law professor Jeremy Rabkin in a special Constitution Day author’s night at the National Press Club on September 17, 2009 from 6-8 PM. Dr. Rabkin, who has written extensively on national sovereignty, will address the topic, “Are we outsourcing the U. S. Constitution?” in the event which will be held in the Murrow Room at the Press Club. “Academic and political elites seem to view the Constitution as a quaint artifact in a display case to be visited every now and then...

On September 8, 2009, United States District Judge Bruce D. Black of the United States District Court for New Mexico entered summary judgment in a civil case for damages against Alamogordo, NM police officers. The Judge's straight shootin' message to police: Leave open carriers alone unless you have "reason to believe that a crime [is] afoot." The facts of the case are pretty simple. Matthew St. John entered an Alamogordo movie theater as a paying customer and sat down to enjoy the movie. He was openly carrying a holstered handgun, conduct which is legal in 42 states, and requires no...

Jefferson County Sheriff defends soldier's funeral procession JEFFERSON COUNTY — The Jefferson County sheriff has offered a stern response to a woman complaining she was inconvenienced by a procession accompanying a soldier's casket. ... Boyer is a Vietnam veteran. He said Thursday he didn't intend for the e-mail to be widely released. -------------------------------------- The original email was sent to Sheriff Glenn Boyer on Thursday, August 27. Below is the citizen's email followed by Sheriff Boyer's response. I tried to call you earlier this morning, but was unable to obtain your extension from the voice mail system as I was not...

The fact that all politicians know is this: 1. Allow Insurance companies to sell health insurance across state lines 2. Eliminate the fees to convert cars to natural gas 3. Drop the capital gaines tax to 5% for 2 years jobs created, new markets and processes, better and cheaper services, Big influx of Capital Bingo

A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor.Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a  village in rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs.The young inventor says hair is easy to use as a conductor in solar panels and could revolutionise renewable energy.

Toronto - Air Canada is suing the Obama administration over a directive that bars the carrier from flying the Toronto Raptors, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Canada's other NHL teams between U.S. cities. In a letter from August 11, the U.S. Department of Transportation required that Air Canada cancel its season-long sports charters. The letter, which was filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., referred to concerns of "cabotage" -- what it calls the prohibited carrying of passengers or cargo by a foreign airliner. Air Canada said this directive has caused confusion and concerns among hockey teams, given that...

Some Freepers are already at the Sheraton. We are at the computer kiosk, which is called LINK AT SHERATON, which is next to the bar. We've taken over the tv and have it on FoxNews for Glenn Beck's show. We are starting a meet & greet group.

(snip) SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Well, I thought the president is eloquent. I thought he had a lot of passion. (snip) MCCAIN: I hope he gets a bill. I hope we can sit down together and do the things that all of us agree on. And there are a number of things that are -- that we can agree on. And I think the American people, obviously, want that. I don't know what the administration and the Democrats will insist on. Facts are stubborn things. The bills so far have had no bipartisanship associated with it. They were drawn...

Did President Obama's speech Wednesday night detailing more about his health care plan change your mind?

If there's room in your home for just one more, the animal rescue group All About Rescue and Fixin’ Inc. is holding an adoption of black animals Saturday in Putnam County.