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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sept. 12 that he is willing to support President Barack Obama’s plan to extend tax breaks for the middle-class and increase rates for the wealthiest Americans —but only if that’s his only option. Appearing on the CBS program Face the Nation, Boehner stated that his preference is to extend all of the tax breaks approved by President George W. Bush in 2001. If presented with a bill that doesn’t include continued tax cuts for those earning more than $250,000 annually, Boehner said, "of course I’m going to do that," but added that...

A panel of national security experts who worked under Republican and Democratic presidents is urging the Obama administration to abandon its stance that Islam is not linked to terrorism, arguing that radical Muslims are using Islamic law to subvert the United States. In a report set for release today, the panel states that "it is vital to the national security of the United States, and to Western civilization at large, that we do what we can to empower Islam's authentic moderates and reformers."

This article was updated on Sept. 15 to reflect legislative developments. By OGJ editors HOUSTON, Sept. 14 -- Proposals by the Obama administration to kill two tax provisions important to oil and gas companies would do economic harm worth more than the revenue they would raise for the government, according to a study commissioned by the American Energy Alliance. Louisiana State University Prof. Joseph R. Mason, who conducted the study, concludes that ending “dual-capacity” tax provisions and denying oil and gas companies use of a tax deduction available to other industries since 2004 “could cripple the oil and gas sector.”...

BARNSTABLE - A doctor was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail and was led out of court in handcuffs after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the case of a woman who died after he performed an abortion on her. Dr. Rapin Osathanondh was sentenced in the 2007 death of Laura Hope Smith, 22, of Sandwich. He pleaded guilty Monday. “You, sir, destroyed a precious flower that grew and ... blossomed in our lives, not accidentally, but purposely,” said Tom Smith, Laura’s father, looking at Osathanondh. “No family should have to go through this,” said Laura’s mother, Eileen, who...

Taxes must rise to fight budget deficit: Greenspan 10:32am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taxes must rise while fiscal stimulus needs to be wound down in order to reduce the U.S. budget deficit and allow private investment to expand, said former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan on Wednesday. "I am in favor for the first time in my memory of raising taxes," Greenspan told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York He warned that the deficit, swollen by massive stimulus spending, was crowding out capital investment. We "must find a way to simmer down...

Pro-Life Candidates Defeat Abortion Backers in Delaware, New Hampshire Dover, DE -- Delaware pro-life Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell surprised political pundits Tuesday night by defeating Republican Senate candidate Mike Castle, a longtime pro-abortion congressman whose pro-abortion and pro-embryonic stem cell research funding views clashed with O'Donnell's. http://LifeNews.com/state5459.html

The United States of America is racing towards ruin at breakneck speed and her captain, President Barack Obama, seems blissfully ignorant of the peril he is piloting the nation towards. As Obama traveled the country to beg Americans to vote Democrat last week, new images of the RMS Titanic’s wreck were published. Taken from three miles deep in the Atlantic, the photographs are further testament to a time when technological arrogance and Edwardian pride believed that government and industry could surmount all challenges. When completed in 1911 the Titanic was considered the Eighth wonder of the World. Its captain, Edward...

The day before the Delaware U.S. Senate primary, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) raised money using the name of the eventual winner, Christine O'Donnell.A search of Google News on Monday using the search term "Christine O'Donnell" returned a paid advertisement by the NRSC at the top of the search field soliciting donations. A click through on the ad's link went to the NRSC's donation page. This indicates that the NRSC purchased "Christine O'Donnell" from Google.I did not make a screen grab as it seemed more a curiousity than anything terribly newsworthy at the time. However, with the NRSC letting...

Councilman Matt Schultz won a competitive primary in June to become the Republican nominee for Iowa Secretary of State. Schultz largely credits his success to the fact that he supports a law requiring all voters to show a Photo ID before they vote. Michael Mauro has made several media appearances recently including Iowa Press and the radio show Max World Live where he discusses Photo ID legislation. “Michael Mauro is lying about Iowa law and a Photo ID. Mauro has been telling half truths when referring to Photo ID requirements. He has implied that showing a Photo ID when you...

The death toll from the September 13 anti-Christian rampage in Kashmir has reached 19, according to Vatican Radio. Following false reports that a Florida Protestant minister had proceeded with his plans to burn the Qu’ran, Muslim protestors bombed a Catholic school and attacked two Protestant schools. The bishops of India had condemned the planned Qu’ran burning. “We have suffered no damages to Catholic churches; only Good Shepherd School in Pulwama was hit on the outer walls, by incendiary bombs, but the building is intact,” said Bishop Celestine Elampassery of Jammu and Srinagar. “We feel helpless and powerless in the face...

Ben Smith of Politico noticed that two "influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama" recently floated the notion that as the nation turns rightward and isn't voting with the extreme left, why we've all become "irrational." In the New Yorker, George Packer wrote that we've become a mob of unreason. "Nine years later," he writes, "the main fact of our lives is the overwhelming force of unreason. Evidence, knowledge, argument, proportionality, nuance, complexity, and the other indispensable tools of the liberal mind don’t stand a chance these days against the actual image of a mob…" Packer imagines that our "mob"...

Philadelphia Newspapers Up For Auction Theresa McCabe 09/15/10 - 10:06 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The auction for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News is set for Sept. 23 after creditors missed Tuesday's deadline to complete their planned $139 million buyout. The two newspapers, run by private company Philadelphia Media, have been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since February 2009. In April, a combination of hedge funds including Angelo Gordon and Alden Global Capital agreed to purchase the newspapers out of bankruptcy protection. The sale was not finalized due to unresolved labor contracts with the papers' truck...

So much for draining the swamp. Several sources report that the House will not try Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) until after the November 2 elections. Rangel won the Democratic primary for his seat yesterday, barely achieving 50% of the vote against five challengers. During his House floor speech on August 10 when he was not attacking NLPC, Rangel pleaded for an expedited hearing on the 13 charges leveled against him by the Ethics Committee. This followed months of maneuvering by Rangel to delay the investigation. Earlier this year when Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer were asked about the...

By W. James Antle, III on 9.15.10 @ 6:11AM Win, lose or draw, Mike Castle was always heading into the Delaware Republican primary as a member of an endangered species. Conservative big game hunters like to call them "RINOs." The popular acronym for "Republican in Name Only" has emerged as one of the Tea Party movement's leading epithets of choice,....

For more than a year I've written off an on about the vicious fight between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and offshoot union the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). The NUHW left the SEIU in a huff several years ago when the SEIU implemented a hostile takeover of the California-based NUHW that it had been affiliated with. This month that fight has fallen upon the workers of Kaiser Permanente in the Los Angeles Medical Center where a vote is soon to be taken by KP employees to decide which of the rival unions will represent them. Starting this...

By Joy Tiz | Published: September 15, 2010 Quick, pass the tranquilizer darts, the RINOs are spooked. Karl Rove stomped and pawed the ground in a menacing way with Sean Hannity after Christine O’Donnell’s primary win in Delaware. RINO hunting season is in full swing. The RINOs are prepared to defend their long held turf by way of eating their own. There are, we’re told, issues about O’Donnell’s past about which we are to be concerned. NOW they’re worried about a candidate’s past? Barack Obama has a far more troubling past than O’Donnell’s real or imagined one and the Republican...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

In an address to American students on Tuesday, President Obama told Students: 'The Farther You Go In School, The Farther You'll Go In Life'. He also stressed that nothing is beyond their reach as long as they dream big, work hard and focus on learning. I’ve drafted a version of Obama’s address that merges his political philosophy with the optimistic ideals above. I’m truly honored and privileged to have an opportunity to provide American students with my roadmap to success. I am humbled as look across the auditorium and see so many faces glowing with youthful optimism and hopeful anticipation....

Jim Vicevich gives us a couple of revealing clips from this morning’s Joe Scarborough show after Christine O’Donnell’s upset of Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate primary. Scarborough decides that the reason O’Donnell won was because her campaign used a Dunkin’ Donuts font on her signs, a remarkable observation from a man who can’t get the name on the signs right. He calls her “McDonald” twice in laying out his new political theory

We`ve all heard by now of the upset of the Rino Castle by Christine O'Donnell. We`ve probably heard of the slander being leveled by RINO power brokers and the threat to with hold funding by the NRSC as well. Well now`s the time to show these leftist wanna be pukes what we think of them.