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I reminded him of his own words, that it is better not to reach a deal then to reach a bad deal," Netanyahu said after the meeting. "The proposal being discussed now is a bad deal, a very bad deal. Iran is not asked to dismantle even one centrifuge, but the international community is easing sanctions on Iran for the first time in many years." According to Netanyahu Iran is getting everything it wants at this stage, and not giving anything in return, and this at a time when Iran is under intense pressure. "I call on Secretary Kerry not...

Louisiana Senate Democrat Mary Landrieu is doubling down on her support for Obamacare. She says, if a vote for Obamacare were held tomorrow, she'd again vote to support the bill. "No more free riders. Everybody has to share responsibility so we can keep a healthy work force and keep it strong. And I can give you more information about it. If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow. There are a lot of good things about this bill," said Landrieu. Landrieu is up for reelection in 2014.

After one of the toughest nights at work I've had in a stone's age I came home to find an email from John McCain in my inbox. How he got my email address I'll never know, probably from some other Republican mailing list I suspect but he couldn't have picked a better morning to send it to me. First read his message and then read the response I sent back to him below it. Trust me; I think you'll agree it's an epic rants.

Edward Snowden's stolen secrets and the dismal failure of the rollout of Obamacare is giving electronic technology a bad name. But blaming high-tech tools is more like blaming the messenger. We have to work harder to master the secrets of the Internet, but the human element remains our biggest weakness. It's hardly news that the screening process for giving Snowden access to sensitive data was deeply flawed. So, too, were the instructions to the National Security Agency that enabled the abuse of the rest of us. For whatever good intentions the NSA might have had, the snoops cost America the...

For those well versed in HTML (as I imagine many here would be) this should be obvious for you.For the rest of the world the </> indicates an end to something in the code...'Nuff said!

SIERRA VISTA — A number of events connected with Veterans Day will begin Friday. At noon Friday, the groundbreaking for a chapel on the Southern Arizona Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery will take place. Funds for the chapel had to be privately raised, as neither the federal government nor the state, which operates the cemetery, could use taxpayers’ funds for the project. The cemetery’s nonprofit foundation was able to raise more than $200,000 in 15 months, meaning if the weather cooperates, the chapel could be dedicated on Memorial Day in 2014. Fundraising to obtain another $50,000 continues in order to furnish the...

We can’t trust those people getting their health plans canceled — they’re just a bunch of wingnuts, and at least some of their cases are poorly documented, right? Well, not really.... [Y]ou should take this story especially seriously, since it comes from a left-wing media outlet, and the cancellation victims are basically your stereotypical high-middle-class white San Francisco liberals...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (CBS Charlotte) - North Carolina’s largest insurer is having its share of problems with the Obamacare website. Internal emails obtained by WNCN-TV show that Blue Cross Blue Shield show that only 1,000 people had filled out applications as of October 15th. In fact, only one person was able to successfully use Healthcare.gov to enroll in the new exchange. But even that single person has not paid, which means the enrollment is not complete. The emails suggest the “payment re-direct option” on government servers isn’t working. Blue Cross Blue Shield found the entire system is so filled with...

Crime News 2 charged with kidnapping cancer patient from St. Louis County hotel by KMOV.com staff KMOV.com Updated yesterday at 7:06 PM (KMOV.com) – Authorities have filed charges against two suspects accused of kidnapping a man with cancer from his hotel room in Bridgeton. Marcus Pratt-Pegues, 24, and Eunique Cooper, 21, were each charged Thursday with kidnapping and first-degree burglary. According to authorities, the suspects kidnapped Thomas M. Nedich, 63, from his room at America’s Best Value Inn at 3655 Pennridge Dr. around 1:30 p.m. Monday. Authorities say Pratt-Pegues threw a chair through the window and demanded money from Nedich,...

Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, triggered a huge political row by announcing that shipbuilding will end at the historic yard at Portsmouth next year, while Govan and Scotstoun on the Clyde remain open. Furious English MPs accused him of attempting to bribe the Scots into rejecting separation, despite his insistence that the defence giant BAE Systems had reached the decision on purely commercial grounds. Both Mr Hammond, and Alistair Carmichael, the Scottish Secretary, gave clear indications that a pledge that went with the announcement - to award the next multi-billion pound naval contract to Scotland - would be reversed in...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove (see trends). The latest figures include 22% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22.

A British solider killed in a suicide car bomb blast in Afghanistan has been named as an experienced Sergeant Major, considered by commanders to be “one of the best of his generation”. WO2 Ian Fisher, 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Staffords), died when a car packed with explosives struck his Warrior fighting vehicle as he returned to base from an operation. Comrades described the 42-year-old father of two as the “epitome of an infantry Sergeant Major” who was “straight talking and obsessive in his pursuit of excellence”. His wife, Emma, said: “Ian will always be the centre of my life,...

According to the document “Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage Relating to Status as a Grandfathered Health Plan Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” hosted on http://webapps.dol.gov/, the amount of change in some people’s pockets could leave them without insurance. While wordy and extremely long, the document provides several examples in which people can lose their insurance. Any increase in an insurance copay above the rate of “medical inflation” plus 15% leads to an insurance provider losing its “grandfathered” status. Normally, the rate was calculated from about 20 to 40% by the government. So, an increase from...

A record-breaking 49.7 million Americans--one in six--now live below the federal poverty line, newly revised 2012 census data shows. The new figures, which take into account medical and living expenses, are three million higher than the government's official number. The Obama Administration instituted the new metric two years ago but has not replaced the original methodology, which has been used for over a half-century. Only Congress could change the government's official calculation method. "When so many citizens are worse off year after year, with food insecurity and health care insecurity, there's no way you can say that's a successful economy,"...

While it’s true that new technology has created an Army of Davids empowered to beat Big Media and Big Government, never misunderestimate the power of OUR Army of Pinnocchios: the little people who are willing to go out there every day and lie for you. They are, by far, our unsung heroes; the hardest working people in Big Media and Big Government.In a show of gratitude Barry himself went on TV last night with Chuck Todd to acknowledge their efforts.After this week’s polling showed that nobody was buying the big lie, or the lie about the big lie, the Big...

Mitch McConnell says Senate Conservatives Fund 'hurts Republicans' BY REBECCA BERG | NOVEMBER 8, 2013 AT 11:52 AM Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican, is leading his party's charge against the Senate Conservatives Fund, an outside group that's targeting McConnell and other incumbent Republicans the group considers insufficiently conservative.In an interview published Friday by the Wall Street Journal, McConnell, R-Ky., pulled no verbal punches against conservative groups that, he said, use the controversies they create to raise money and then "take their cut and spend it on political action that hurts Republicans." He pointed in particular to the Senate Conservatives...

As a Latino myself, I totally agree with Cruz and Rubio. The GOP establishment is making too much over a “non-race” in New Jersey. The Democrat Party didn’t compete for the New Jersey governorship because they want Christie as the GOP nominee in 2016, so that the media can turn around and destroy him. It’s all a set up! Fox News reports while the spotlight shines brightly on Gov. Chris Christie, and more moderate Republicans see a glimmer of hope to winning back the White House, two prominent Tea Party stars are very publicly rolling their eyes – senators Ted...

After Bill Elliott's $150/mo plan was canceled as a result of the ACA, he found himself unable to burden his family with his new $1500.00/mo premium costs. He is choosing to pay the fine and "let nature take it's course".

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Sen. Ted Cruz just brought forward a bill that would award $5 million to anyone who could provide information that leads to the capture of a suspect in the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack that left four Americans dead.His rationale: It’s been 14 months, and the families of the victims still have no idea what occurred Sept. 11, 2012, Fox News reported. And not one person has been held accountable for the tragedy — no arrests, no firings, no major announcements — even though five separate panels in the House have held hearings on the matter.The New York Times reported that...