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American Bio Medica, one of Columbia County’s largest manufacturers, is fighting the federal government’s attempt to expand its regulation of the company’s products. The company makes drug testing kits for workplaces and government agencies. The FDA wants to begin regulating saliva drug testing kits, which make up about 20 percent of American Bio Medica’s product line. Chris Gibson, the Republican candidate for the 20th Congressional District seat, touring the plant on Smith Street Thursday, told the company’s assembled workforce this was “capricious legislation.” “Twenty percent of your company’s business is at risk,” he said. The saliva tests make up about...

There are murmurs that some Senate Republicans may be reluctant to offer more than token opposition to whomever President Obama nominates to succeed John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are demanding a “thoughtful and civil” confirmation process, a standard that seems to surface only when Democratic presidents are doing the nominating. But if Obama does what everyone knows he will do and nominates a liberal activist judge, Judiciary Republicans should approach their constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of judges as if the future of the country depends on it – because it...

Gallup says independents now favor Republicans by nine points. assing health-care reform could be harmful to the health of congressional Democrats. Just look at how President Barack Obama's standing has fallen as he has pushed for reform. According to Fox News surveys, the number of independents who oppose health-care reform hit 57% at the end of September, up from 33% in July. Independents are generally a quarter of the vote in off-year congressional elections.

Health Care for America Now brings together the most radical elements of the left in an effort to control the health care reform process. The left continues to manage their side of the health care reform debate as though they are the writers, directors and actors of a low-budget sitcom on public access television. No one on the left can seem to remember their lines, prominent members of Congress are ad-libbing when caught off kilter by a media camera, and now – they’ve been caught rehearsing their lines, after numerous public accusations from the lefties of "astroturfing" by those...