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It’s been reported in the news, that the last committee needed to pass the health care bill before it can go to the floor for a vote is the Energy and Commerce committee. It only takes 7 Democrats to kill the health care bill in committee. The other day, Mike Ross claimed to have ten votes. GOP voters must support the Democrats that are standing up to the pressure tactics of Pelosi and Obama. We need to call the more conservative members on this committee and give them moral support and pledge to help them financially in their re-election if...

RUSH: Here's what happened last night on the immigration bill, as written up by the AP and then I will give you the correct analysis of this. "A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide American employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually. The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Senator Dorgan. The North Dakota Democrat says immigrants take many jobs Americans could fill." Now, why...

May I please apply for illegal-immigrant status for my sister? This is an audacious request, I know, given that she is not ideal immigrant material by America's exacting standards. My sibling is a South-African Caucasian, who speaks no Spanish. Alas, she speaks the language of the American founders (in her defense, her facility with the English language is not nearly as good as theirs was.) Her other shortfall is that she manages to operate a profitable business in one of the most dangerous places on earth, subject to the world's most extreme race-based wealth distribution laws ("Black Economic Empowerment"). If...

Steelers win Super Bowl XL, 21-10 Tribune-Review Sunday, February 5, 2006 Steelers win Super Bowl XL, 21-10 -- their fifth.