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EPA Head Browner Asked for Computer Files to Be Deleted By John Solomon Associated Press Writer Published: Jun 29, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - The same day a judge ordered her agency to preserve records, then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner asked a technician to delete her computer files, according to testimony in a court case seeking contempt penalties against the government. Browner says she did not know about the court order and simply was seeking to remove some games, which her son had installed on her work computer, before leaving office with other Clinton appointees on Jan. 19. "It didn't...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: John in Altoona, Pennsylvania, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Hey, you know, I hear President Obama calling for civility between the parties -- RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: -- and all Americans, and I just want to know when are we gonna get civility from the other side, these people who accused you and Sarah Palin of causing this tragedy in Tucson. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: When are they gonna apologize? I say that President Obama, you first. RUSH: They're not gonna. That's exactly right. He did not mention his side at...

"When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you, the public, will have five days to look on-line and find out what's in it, before I sign it. So that you know what your government's doing."

CNSNews.com originally published this story in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the question of whether Obamacare was constitutional on Oct. 22, 2009. (CNSNews.com) - When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance--a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill--Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?” Pelosi's press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress...

SIA NEWS Washington DC - The Saudi government burns and desecrates hundreds of bibles its security forces confiscate after raids on Christian expatriates worshiping privately or at border crossings. As a matter of official policy, the government either incinerates or dumps bibles, crosses and other Christian paraphernalia. Hundreds of Christian worshipers are arrested every year by Saudi police in raids on their private gatherings. Bibles, crosses and printed materials are confiscated and later burnt or dumped into trash. Bibles and other Christian paraphernalia found with travelers into the country are confiscated and destroyed. Although considered as holy in Islam and...

From a private meeting of the New Black Panthers in March, 2002. Malik Zulu Shabazz defending Saddam Hussein and attacks President George W. Bush.

Naked Emperor News put out the definitive clip on this topic last month, with then Senator Obama and other leading Democrats railing against the so-called “nuclear option” back in 2005. But with Democrats barreling forward with their strategy to pass healthcare reform using reconciliation, I thought another reminder that the President has not always been in favor of naked power grabs couldn’t hurt.

In March 2009, President Obama called the AIG bonuses an "outrage."

Jan. 30--WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama said he would vote Monday to filibuster Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court, but he conceded the effort would be futile and criticized Democrats for failing to persuade Americans to take notice of the court's changing ideological face.

Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail The press never reported that Democratic strategist James Carville said he wanted President Bush to fail before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But a feeding frenzy ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn't succeed."

RUSH: Miles in Minneapolis, you're next as we go back to the phones here on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Thank you, sir. I appreciate your taking my call. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: Sir, with regard to the article, or the bit you were talking about a while ago about people of color looking at the election and not necessarily believing in it. (sigh) Um, I'm a college professor and I'm a conservative educator which makes me kind of an oddball to start with. (sigh) And just roughly talking to my students, I'm finding out that, yes, there are a...

''This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,'' the state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, who oversees the task force, said in a statement. ''It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring, and now its owners and operators will be held accountable.'' Investigators with the task force came across the ring while looking into the activities of a Gambino crime family gambling operation, the law enforcement official said. They had wiretapped a Gambino-linked social club on Fingerboard Road in Staten Island as part of that inquiry and saw the prostitution ring's leader, Frank Farella, 44, of...

From newyorker77 1-25-06 post: 2002 POLLS SAID: Arkansas - Dem Lead/Toss Up Colorado - Dem Lead/Toss Up Georgia - Dem Lead/Toss Up Iowa - Dem Win Louisiana - Dem Lead/Toss Up Minnesota - Dem Lead/Toss Up Missouri - GOP Lead/Toss Up New Hampshire - GOP Lead/Toss Up New Jersey - Dem Lead/Toss Up North Carolina - GOP Lead/Toss Up South Carolina - GOP Win South Dakota - GOP Lead/Toss Up Tennessee - GOP Win Texas - GOP Lead/Toss Up REALITY: Arkansas - Dem Win Colorado - GOP Win Georgia - GOP Win Iowa - Dem Win Louisiana - Dem Win...

May 20, 2000 marks the 7th anniversary of President Clinton's signing the National Voter Registration Act, popularly known as Motor Voter. The right to vote means nothing if people are not registered. Motor Voter works by reducing necessary and burdensome bureaucratic obstacles to voter registration. The law requires states to provide uniform registration services through drivers' license agencies, through public assistance and disability agencies and through mail-in registration. In 1995, the first full year of implementation, more than 11 million citizens registered to vote or updated their voting addresses under the law. This figure represents the largest single increase...

POLLS SAID: Arkansas - Dem Lead/Toss Up Colorado - Dem Lead/Toss Up Georgia - Dem Lead/Toss Up Iowa - Dem Win Louisiana - Dem Lead/Toss Up Minnesota - Dem Lead/Toss Up Missouri - GOP Lead/Toss Up New Hampshire - GOP Lead/Toss Up New Jersey - Dem Lead/Toss Up North Carolina - GOP Lead/Toss Up South Carolina - GOP Win South Dakota - GOP Lead/Toss Up Tennessee - GOP Win Texas - GOP Lead/Toss Up REALITY: Arkansas - Dem Win Colorado - GOP Win Georgia - GOP Win Iowa - Dem Win Louisiana - Dem Win Minnesota - GOP Win Missouri...

Perhaps you remember Henry Cisneros. He's the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who pleaded guilty in 1999 to lying to FBI investigators during his pre-appointment background check about hush payments to a former mistress, on which it also happens he hadn't paid the requisite taxes. Well, the special counsel report investigating all this still hasn't been made public, thanks largely to procedural roadblocks by Mr. Cisneros's attorneys. And now, all of a sudden, a rash of news stories and editorials are urging Independent Counsel David Barrett to wrap up his investigation forthwith, without releasing his findings.

During the height of the war in the Pacific, at a diplomatic party held in 1944, an American diplomat, though aware that a number of diplomats from unfriendly, to outright hostile countries were in attendance, listening for scraps of intelligence, apparently forgot that the common U.S. Navy man wasn't snacking on canapes. This diplomat later, in his horror, excused himself that too much alcohol was passed his way. Tossing aside implications that the hostile diplomats somehow pried his lips open and forced the bourbon down his throat, we are forced to consider two questions. What did he say, and why...

In storm, N.O. wants no one left behind - Number of people without cars makes evacuation difficult Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) July 24, 2005 Author: Bruce Nolan City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give the poorest of New Orleans' poor a historically blunt message: In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own. In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of...

New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers faces reductionNew Orleans City Business June 6, 2005 by Deon Roberts In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding. It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said. I've been here over 30 years and I've never seen this level of reduction, said Al Naomi, project manager for the New Orleans district. I think part of the problem is it's not so much the...

    ~ Flashback Friday ~ Year: 1991   Welcome to Flashback Friday! Each Friday we will take a journey back in time. We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.This week we're jumping back to 1991.   1991 Questions! We Want To Know 1. Were you in school? 2. Were you in the military? 3. What kind of music were you listening to? 4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1991?   Events that occurred in 1991 - January 16th, Operation Desert Storm begins- February...