U.S. Senate panel set to advance healthcare overhaul
Fri Oct 2, 2009 2:57am EDT
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Friday wrapped up debate on a massive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system and prepared to vote on the legislation next week.
“We can be proud of what we’ve done here,” Committee [...]
U.S. Senate panel set to advance healthcare overhaul – Reuters
October 2, 2009 By
Chicagoland – IDB Editorial
October 2, 2009 By
As his hometown turned into a killing field, Obama remained silent until the Albert video inconveniently went viral in the middle of his and the first lady’s courtship of Olympic honchos. Now he expresses belated shock through a spokesman.
Maybe there’s a reason for his silence. As a local legislator, Obama was soft on violent gang [...]
Senate blocks move to bring McChrystal to Hill | Washington Examiner
October 2, 2009 By
Senate blocks move to bring McChrystal to Hill
By: SUSAN FERRECHIO
Chief Congressional Correspondent
10/01/09 4:37 PM EDT
The Senate defeated on a party-line vote a move by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz to set a Nov. 15 deadline for the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and other military brass to testify before the Senate about the need for additional [...]
Michael B. Mukasey: Don’t Weaken Our Terrorist Intelligence-Gathering Capabilities – WSJ.com
October 1, 2009 By
OPINION OCTOBER 1, 2009, 10:44 P.M. ET
Intelligence Averts Another Attack
Why do Democrats in Congress want to change key laws that have helped to discover terrorist plots?
By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY
One would think that the arrests last week of Najibullah Zazi, charged with plotting to bomb New York City subways—and of two others charged with planning to [...]
Unemployment rate to rise, could hit 10 percent – AP
October 1, 2009 By
In this Sept. 25, 2009 photo, Khaliha Adger, from left, Gregory King, and Fred Jenkins fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. he Labor Department said Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, first-time claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected last week, a sign employers are reluctant to hire and [...]
Marc Lamont Hill: If There’s Smoke There’s Fire…
October 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Cliff Kincaid over at Accuracy in Media has unearthed additional bombshells in his investigation of the radical ideology of Fox News Contributor Marc Lamont Hill:
In the same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial background and writings, over the [...]
Female Genital Mutilation, Islam and Leftist Silence
October 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My recent NewsReal blog on Naomi Wolf and female genital mutilation (FGM) – also posted at Frontpagemag.com and Jihadwatch.org — has triggered a heated debate in the blogs’ comments sections on all three sites. The key arguments in these three sections personify some of the Left’s key tactics in its romance with tyranny and [...]
Who are You Gonna Believe, Jimmy Carter or Your Lying Eyes (and Ears)?
October 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Remember this?
JIMMY CARTER, FMR. U.S. PRESIDENT: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he‘s African-American. I live in the South, and I have seen the South come a long way and I have seen the rest [...]
Obama’s French Lesson by Charles Krauthammer – RealClearPolitics
October 2, 2009
Obama’s French Lesson
By Charles Krauthammer
“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.” — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24
WASHINGTON — When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Just how low we’ve sunk was demonstrated by the [...]