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Rush is on the radio announced that the vote is taking place now on the House Floor. He said that Issa added an amendment to de-fund ACORN. And he thinks it will pass hands down. Refer to: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2340961/posts?page=80

On the Today Show a guest was complaining about racism in portrayals of Obama. At the 1:26 to 1:28 mark he mentions "Two eyes and a black box" Then we have Jimmy Carter claiming that signs at the Tea Party said bury Obama with Kennedy (1:18-1:24).

President Barack Obama essentially handed Russia a gift on Thursday with his decision to roll back a planned U.S. missile defense in eastern Europe. The Russian government had loudly protested U.S. plans begun by Obama's predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, to deploy an anti-missile system in eastern Europe that the United States insisted had been aimed at defending against a potential missile attack from Iran. Obama's...move drew praise from fellow Democrats and some arms control advocates who saw the Bush plan as aimed at a Iranian missile threat that did not yet exist... But Republicans and missile-defense advocates called the...

I was eating lunch when CNN propped up a teaser about the sweet Acorn videos and their makers.The hook was something like....."Im sure youve seen the ACORN videos about pimps and prostitutes by now BUT what does the man behind them have on HIS agenda?"......I had to go before seeing the actual article and was wondering if it ended up being some kind of hit piece on him....anyone see it? Thanks in advance.

"They slammed me against the hood of the cop car, cuffed me, threw me in the back of the car. So, I'm in my own driveway at this point and time."

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, in an acknowledgment of the extraordinarily difficult challenges facing priests of the Archdiocese of Boston, hosted a dinner last night for 1,630 people paying tribute to Boston’s Catholic clergy. About 300 priests, lay people from 120 parishes, and scores of business, political, and civic leaders, some of whom paid as much as $500 each, packed into a cavernous room at the Seaport Boston World Trade Center to dine on grilled autumn vegetables, char-grilled beef fillet, and miniature red velvet cupcakes. The dinner, although primarily intended as a celebration of priests, also raised several hundred thousand dollars...

Obama Pitches Health Care At College Campus Sept. 17 WASHINGTON - Calling health insurance reform a "defining struggle of this generation," President Barack Obama told thousands of college students Thursday that Congress must resist scare tactics and false accusations to do a makeover. The fight will be difficult, Obama said, but an "unprecedented coalition" of hospitals, doctors, nurses and drug makers support the effort. Some of the most enthusiastic backers, he told loudly cheering students at the University of Maryland, "are the very medical professionals who have firsthand knowledge" of how badly the current system operates. "When I sign this...

From Cosby’s Facebook page: I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama’s speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public display of disrespect. While one Representative hurled the now infamous “you lie” insult at the President, others made their lack of interest known by exhibiting rude behavior such as deliberately yawning and sending text messages ….

My feeling is that we can ensure that Obama is a one-term president using the birth issue. Is this a delusion on my part?

It’s safe to say that the magic of Barack Obama’s personal appearances have completely worn out with the American public. A week after his major address to Congress on health care, Gallup shows Obama’s polls sinking, not just overall, but on a range of policies. In fact, he scores his highest issue rating on Iraq, of all issues, and only at 56%. On the rest, Obama is heading for the deep end of the pool: Of the seven specific issue approval ratings measured in a Sept. 11-13 USA Today/Gallup poll, President Obama gets his highest rating (56%) on his handling...

President Barack Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about. "They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it," the president said in the nationally televised address. In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney...

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(IsraelNN.com) Security camera footage released by Israel Police Wednesday shows a group of eight Arabs assaulting two Jewish men at the Givati parking lot next to Jerusalem's Old City last Friday. During the incident, one of the Jewish men fired shots at the Arabs, lightly injuring two of them. Police arrested him initially and interrogated him. He claimed that he only fired after he and his friend felt threatened by the Arab group. The video appears to corroborate his version of the events.

Even as we watched the Federal Government bail out the banking and housing industries due to the rash of subprime lending that took place, many were speculating that the next industry to be bailed out would be the student loan industry. Well, it's on its way. In something of a sidebar statement over at Patriot Room, Bill Dupray mentions that, while on a blogger's conference call with members of Congress, "there is a debate in the House tonight to eliminate the private student loan industry and have the federal government be the sole source for college tuition." After I pulled...

eputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama's statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Caucasus. DEBKAfile discloses exclusively that the system would be installed at a Russian military base in Azerbaijan. Referring to the Israeli component, he said: "It is already working perfectly." DEBKAfile's military sources disclose he was referring to the advanced American FBX-T radar system deployed last year in Israel's Negev base at Nevatim, which...

BERLIN - An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people’s basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year. The Hamburg-based renewable energy group Lichtblick and its automaker partner Volkswagen say the plants would produce not only heating and hot water but also electricity, with any excess power fed into the local grid. The two firms said the concept of “SchwarmStrom” (literally, “swarm power”) would allow Germany to abandon nuclear and coal power stations sooner and help compensate for the volatility of renewables like wind and solar...

Excerpts: "Before the Court is Defendants’ Ex Parte Application for Limited Stay of Discovery (the "Motion"). The Court finds the Motion to be appropriate for decision without oral argument. FED. R. CIV. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15. After considering the moving and opposing papers thereon, and for the reasons set forth below, the Court hereby GRANTS Defendants’ Motion." *** "The Court hereby GRANTS Defendants’ Ex Parte Application for Limited Stay of Discovery. All discovery herein shall be stayed pending resolution of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, except for any discovery as to which Plaintiffs can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of Magistrate...

Exporting Oil and Ideology by: Sarah Carlsruh, September 17, 2009 An Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) Seminar was held September 10th, the eve of 9/11, dedicated to those that died that day. Sarah Stern, President of EMET, reminded attendees that, out of the fifteen terrorists involved in the attack, eleven were from Saudi Arabia. The conference’s topic, consequently, was Saudi penetration into America’s national infrastructure. The common theme among many of the speakers she invited to attend was oil and Islam. Islam, as former CIA director James Woolsey pointed out, is not inherently a violent religion but Saudi Arabia...

Time unveiled this cover of Glenn Beck this morning on Morning Joe, Video at the bottom of Scarborough's absolute jealousy of Glenn Beck...

I blogged a couple of weeks ago that the Obama administration was about to abandon its plans for Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. I wrote then that “if enacted, this would represent a huge turnaround in American strategic thinking on a global missile defence system, and a massive betrayal of two key U.S. allies in eastern and central Europe. Such a move would significantly weaken America’s ability to combat the growing threat posed by Iran’s ballistic missile program, and would hand a major propaganda victory to the Russians.” It now looks as though the...