Burt’s Eye View:
Obama’s World and Welcome to It
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Big Hollywood, by Burt Prelutsky
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Posted By: lcl4- 11/27/2009 1:36:18 AM
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Many people were offended to see Barack Obama once again bowing to a foreign dignitary, the Emperor of Japan. For my part, I was actually relieved that at least this latest breech of protocol didn’t involve his kowtowing to one of America’s sworn enemies. As most people are well aware, I have nothing but loathing for Obama’s policies,
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Are Americans Paying Taxes to
Organized Crime Syndicates?
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Men's News Daily, by Roger F. Gay
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Posted By: ketchuplover- 11/27/2009 1:24:41 AM
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They just won’t let it go. Even after exposure of illegal activities, bills show up in Congress to find more ways to give money to ACORN. If there is any silver lining, it could be the awakening of taxpayers to the current reality. Beyond “tax and spend,” there’s the eerie question of where all the money is going.
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Senate civil wars heating up
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Washington Examiner, by Chris Stirewalt
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Posted By: ketchuplover- 11/27/2009 1:14:52 AM
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With a rapidly changing political atmosphere, the 36 Senate seats up for election in 2010 are drawing a big field of office seekers. But before Republicans can try their luck after eight years of Democratic gains, both parties have to settle their own internal struggles.
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Dems' kamikaze mission:
Health care by New Year's
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Washington Examiner, by Byron York
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Posted By: ketchuplover- 11/27/2009 1:08:16 AM
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Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin recently was asked if a national health care bill would pass the Senate by the end of the year. "It must," Durbin responded. "We have to finish it." (snip) The reason the Democratic leadership and the White House are rushing to pass the bill is that they know it is killing them and believe doing it quickly will kill fewer of them than doing it slowly.
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Krauthammer: Pending Climate
Change Legislation a 'Dead Parrot'
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Newsbusters, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: Rufus2007- 11/27/2009 12:38:40 AM
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After the U.S. House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade legislation earlier this year by a thin seven-vote margin earlier this year, the possibility that it could become law seemed like it was a real one. But after the dust settled some, the White House shifted its focused to so-called health care reform. And additionally, leaked emails surrounding the recent event known ClimateGate have put the entire premise of anthropogenic global warming in doubt.
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'Cap and Trade Is Dead'
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Wall Street Journal, by Kimberley A. Strassel
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Posted By: nota bene- 11/26/2009 10:49:42 PM
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So declares Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, taking a few minutes away from a Thanksgiving retreat with his family. "Ninety-five percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they are all in." If any politician might be qualified to offer last rites, it would be Mr. Inhofe. The top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee has spent the past decade in the thick of Washington's climate fight.
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Why Obama Isn't Changing Washington
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Wall Street Journal, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: nota bene- 11/26/2009 10:46:58 PM
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One insight distinguished Barack Obama from the other presidential candidates last year. While he lacked experience or a special grasp of issues, Mr. Obama said he uniquely understood what ails Washington, and what was causing the endless squabbling and bitter stalemate on important issues. If elected, he said he would change the way business is done in Washington, end the partisan deadlock and the ideological polarization. "Change must come to Washington," Mr. Obama said
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Voter Anger Is Building Over Deficits
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Wall Street Journal, by Karl Rove
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Posted By: nota bene- 11/26/2009 10:44:00 PM
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After engineering an unprecedented spending surge for nearly a year, President Barack Obama now wants to signal that he takes deficits seriously. So this week the White House announced that it is considering creating a commission to figure how to fix the budget mess. Eureka! Well, almost. What seems to concern the president is not the problem runaway spending poses for taxpayers and the economy.
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Swarbrick calm in the eye
of Irish storm
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Chicago Sun, by Neil Hayes
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Posted By: repgal- 11/26/2009 10:32:27 PM
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Jack Swarbrick, Notre Dame's athletic director who is wrestling with the biggest decision facing anyone in college sports today, is fascinated by leaders and will be seeking leadership qualities foremost if he makes a change involving football coach Charlie Weis. The system a potential coach runs is important, he said, as are trends in the industry.
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Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead
the way by resigning
in disgust over carbon tax
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Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole
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Posted By: gandolphxx- 11/26/2009 10:02:54 PM
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Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would. ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Overcoming challenges: Local Eagle
Scout triumphs despite disability
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The Daily Times (Maryville, TN), by Joel Davis
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Posted By: Heil Liberals- 11/26/2009 10:02:31 PM
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One very special Boy Scout is proving how high a willing spirit can soar. Jonathan McGee, 21, will receive his Eagle Scout rank on Sunday during a 2 p.m. ceremony at the First United Methodist Church in Maryville. He will join an elite few that only 2 percent of Boy Scouts ever reach.(snip)Jonathan has Down Syndrome, a genetic condition that causes delayed mental and social development.
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Does Oprah Want to
Be Vice President?
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Big Hollywood, by Derek Broes
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/26/2009 9:47:21 PM
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The announcement that Oprah’s ending her show after 25 years came as no surprise. In fact, I have been expecting this sort of announcement since Oprah took the stage with Barack Obama to announce her support for his presidential run. During her first of many stump speeches in Manchester, I heard the crowd chant Oprah! Oprah, and listened to her give a well-crafted speech. I also noticed a transformation
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'Cash for Clunkers,' household edition
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Washington Post, by Peter Whoriskey
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/26/2009 9:44:11 PM
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In U.S. history, there may have been no better time to own a junk car, a rattling old fridge and a leaking dishwasher. On the heels of its ballyhooed "Cash for Clunkers" program for cars, the federal government is expected to finalize details in the coming weeks of another tax-supported shopping extravaganza, known as "Cash for Appliances." Supported by $300 million from the economic stimulus
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Abortion in Health Plan
Tests a Pennsylvania Senator
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New York Times, by David D. Kirkpatrick
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/26/2009 9:39:01 PM
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WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania wants to talk about health care, Medicare, children’s insurance, a public option — anything but abortion. But that is pretty much impossible because Mr. Casey is the country’s most prominent “pro-life” Democrat. He credits his political career in large part to the popularity of his late father, the anti-abortion firebrand Gov. Bob Casey, who challenged Roe v. Wade
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Dubai’s Move on Debt
Rattles Markets Worldwide
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New York Times, by David Jolly and Kate Galbraith
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/26/2009 9:37:13 PM
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Global financial markets swooned Thursday, with London seeing its most precipitous drop in nearly nine months, a day after Dubai stunned investors with the news that it was asking banks to allow its main investment vehicle, Dubai World, to suspend its debt repayments for six months. The announcement — the global high finance equivalent of a homeowner asking the bank to allow six months of skipped mortgage payments
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Network Cameras Followed
White House Crashers
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New York Times, by Helene Cooper, Janie Lorber. . .
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/26/2009 9:35:10 PM
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WASHINGTON — The Secret Service is investigating how a couple aspiring to be reality-show celebrities managed to appear at President Obama’s first state dinner without being on the guest list, provoking questions about security at the White House. The inquiry was begun after a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, slipped past multiple layers of high-level White House security Tuesday night and managed to rub
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Stalemate in Legislature Has
New York Near Its Last Dollar
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New York Times, by Danny Hakim
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/26/2009 9:32:08 PM
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ALBANY — New York State is running out of cash. Without a budget deal, New York will be left with just $36 million in the bank by the end of December, according to current projections. And the money will last that long, officials say, only if the state chooses to fully exhaust its emergency reserves by tapping several billions dollars worth of temporary loans from its rainy-day fund
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A Pence for Your Thoughts
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American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/26/2009 9:30:31 PM
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By all reasonable lights, it is way to early to be lining up behind candidates for president for 2012. But American politics isn't reasonable these days. The permanent campaign is a fact of American political life. And conservatives are right to want to finally have a nominee of their own in 2012. We haven't had one since Ronald Reagan. (Neither of the Bushes, nor Bob Dole, nor John McCain, were movement conservatives; indeed,
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At last, Christians draw a line
in the sand against their PC
secularist persecutors
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Telegraph (UK), by Gerald Warner
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Posted By: nota bene- 11/26/2009 9:23:55 PM
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At long last, Christian leaders have faced up to their persecutors in the secularist, socialist, One-World, PC, UN-promoted axis of evil and said: No more. In the popular metaphor, they have drawn a line in the sand. (Snip) This statement of principle and intent is called The Manhattan Declaration, published last Friday in Washington DC.
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State dinner apparently not
couple's first brush with celebrity
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Washington Post, by Amy Argetsinger & Roxanne Roberts
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Posted By: Liberty7- 11/26/2009 9:18:50 PM
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The aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia who appear to have crashed the White House's state dinner also seem to have staked out prime locations during President Obama's inauguration weekend, posting photos on Facebook that purportedly show them in the first family's glass-enclosed viewing area after a concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
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