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I thought I just heard Joe on Hannity say something about having eligibility/citizenry in some bill...I very well could have heard wrong but, did anyone else catch what he was saying and can you expand on it?

To highlight abusive practices, Mr. Obama referred to an Illinois man who "lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about." The president continued: "They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it." Although the president has used this example previously, his conclusion is contradicted by the transcript of a June 16 hearing on industry practices before the Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The deceased's sister testified that the insurer reinstated her brother's coverage following intervention by the...

Sept 10, 2009 — In slapstick comedy, the fall guy gets the pie in the face when the clown in front of him ducks. It’s funny because most of us instinctively duck when we see something coming. But two recent experimental studies are revealing new automated capabilities built into the eye and brain that are quicker and more automatic than our reflexes or the brain’s visual center. A team from the Canadian Institutes of Health, publishing in PNAS,[1] ran experiments on a subject that had damage to the visual cortex. They were surprised to learn that the subject could still...

The Reverend Jesse Jackson has told a S.C. audience that the federal bailout has failed to create jobs in America. ...

New Tool To Fight Syphilis? Wal-Mart Gift Cards N.C. health officials try financial incentives to halt disease's climbing rates During times of economic downturn, people are more likely to turn to unhealthy behaviors that contribute to the spread of syphilis, such as trading sex for money, experts say. Here, a 1947 bulletin board shows pictures of girls infected with venereal disease. By Brian Alexander Sept. 14 It just keeps coming back. For more than 60 years, syphilis was largely on the decline. But in recent years, the venereal disease has been on the rise again — particularly in the post-recession...

BULLETIN -- NEW YORK POLICE AND FBI RAID HOMES IN QUEENS IN TERRORISM INVESTIGATION.6 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters

NEW YORK (AFP) – President Barack Obama bluntly warned Monday that some Wall Street bosses were ignoring lessons of the financial crisis, as he demanded a new age of prudence after bloated years of unchecked excess. "The old ways that led to this crisis cannot stand," the US leader said, in an outspoken address delivered in the shadow of US finance firms he blamed for unleashing global contagion. "History cannot be allowed to repeat itself." A year after Lehman Brothers failed, triggering the meltdown, Obama also called on Congress to act this year on regulatory reforms he hailed as the...

Toronto - US filmmaker Michael Moore on Monday urged supporters of President Barack Obama to champion his proposed health care reforms and not let a vocal opposition minority steal the debate. "I feel bad for President Obama and what he's going through ... trying to bring help to people who have a hard time getting help," Moore said. "All those tens of millions of people who voted for him, where are they? Who's got his back? "I see the minority out being vocal," he said. "But where's the majority? Where are the people that voted for Obama? Where are the...

Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, one of the few Republicans you can count on to stab her own party in the back more than John McCain, has issued a dire warning to the White House. Snowe insists that there is "no way" a government run healthcare system will ever pass the Senate. Sayeth the thorn, “I’ve urged the president to take the public option off the table,” adding "it is universally opposed by Republicans," leaving many wondering if she was risking her "maverick" status at the New York Times by oddly including herself in the word "Republicans". Remember, this is the...

U.S. Sen. John Kerry is making personal calls to on-the-fence lawmakers today asking them to support an interim U.S. Senator as national Democrats ramp up pressure for the measure. State Rep. Martin Walsh (D-Dorchester) spoke to Kerry on his cell phone this morning. “He made some good points. He talked about how constituent services would be hurt,” Walsh said. “I’m still uncommitted.” Many state legislators are leery of the bill, which would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint a temporary senator, because they voted to strip the governor of appointing powers in 2004 to prevent Gov. Mitt Romney from appointing...

During the president's speech on Wednesday, Congressman Joe Wilson stunned a nation already on tenterhooks trying to figure out what the hell Barry was talking about. After the president claimed that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal aliens, Mr. Wilson decided he had had enough. "You LIE!", became the shot heard 'round the world, and Congressman Wilson had fired it. Since then, the good congressman (pictured below shouting the president down) has apparently raised $700,000. Not bad. But Joe wasn't the only Republican out there disgusted by what he heard. He was only the loudest. Congressman Louie Gohmert of...

A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings and IRS audits of ACORN following the release of three videotapes that show the group's employees offering advice to a "pimp" and a "prostitute" on how to skirt the law. Rep. Steve King, R-IA, said a video released Monday that shows filmmaker James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, getting advice from ACORN employees in Brooklyn, N.Y., on how to launder their earnings and avoid detection while running a prostitution business is "another reason to turn it up" on ACORN. Four ACORN employees -- two in Baltimore and two...

The vast right-wing conspiracy has struck again!!! Twice in little more than 24 hours, in fact. Gah-lee, the liberals must be absolutely quaking in their boots thinking of who the next victim of "gotcha journalism" will be. For now I'm content with ACORN, but some intense journalistic undercover type stuff could probably expose some absolutely hillarious things about other government laugh riots. Like AmeriCorps. Anyway. In this segment of "Bend Over America: ACORN Loves Loose Women", we are taken to the ACORN headquarters in Washington, D.C., a headquarters brought to you by....YOURSELF! That's right, through your generous giving of mandatory...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Law enforcement agents have raided residences in New York City as part of a terrorism investigation, and are preparing to brief Congress about the investigation. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne confirms that searches were conducted in the borough of Queens on Monday by agents of a joint terrorism task force.

By now, most of us have heard about the new Osama bin Laden tape which surfaced. In it, the al-Qaeda mastermind – or a clever imitator – calls President Barack Obama “powerless” to end the Afghan war (“Bin Laden Calls Obama ‘powerless’ in New Tape,” FOX News, September 14, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549780,00.html). Whether the voice actually belongs to bin Laden isn’t as important as the challenging statement. The truth is that Obama isn’t powerless, but rather, that he’s chosen to water down the power of our American government and military to advance his foolish pacifist dreams. Foolish because nobody Obama tries...

Memorial Gathering Sees 200 Pro-Life People Mourn Slain Advocate Jim Pouillon Owosso, MI -- More than 200 people gathered on Sunday afternoon in this small Michigan community to mourn the shooting death of Jim Pouillon. He was shot on Friday by a pro-abortion man unhappy with the fact that he would protest abortion outside a local high school. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4417.html

Timeline video, + Here is the Drudgereport headline from exactly one year ago: Sept 14th, 2008 (Screenshot)

The picture that the state controlled media do not want you to see.

On April 15 when Americans held TEA Parties across the country, President Obama said he really didn’t notice them. Knowing that there was a large rally planned for Washington Saturday, rather than repeat his feigned ignorance of the April 15 rally, the president decided it was better “to get out of Dodge”.So, rather than staying in Washington to find out what 2 million people thought about his health care plan, the president determined it was better to leave Washington to push his agenda on a friendly audience. This time his “pep rally” was in Minnesota, before an audience of 15,000.