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Wallstreet Journal online:Ex-soldiers don't need to be told they're a burden to society.By JIM TOWEY If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that

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• Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.ANALYSIS/OPINION:Master politician that he is, Barack Obama is a lousy calculator. He spectacularly misjudged the American public's appetite for a government nanny. Or maybe he miscalculated the power of his slippery tongue to sell government snake oil.His apparent willingness to abandon the attempt - for now - to nationalize the

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Compulsory abortion and sterilization aren't youthful indiscretionsWhen it comes to having past views that should frighten every American citizen, Ezekiel Emanuel (see above editorial) has nothing on the president's "chief science adviser," John P. Holdren. The combination of Mr. Holdren with Dr. Emanuel should make the public seriously concerned with this administration's moral compass

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Jon Voight, the Academy Award winner has been cogitating about the state of America, the Washington Times reports in a column today."There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?" Mr. Voight tells Inside the Beltway."We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is

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Washington Post:President Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of a proposed public health insurance program, a firestorm that has left the White House searching for a way to reclaim the initiative on the president's top legislative priority.Administration officials insisted that they have not shied away from their

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Vancover Sun:Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200

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Daily Mail:A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child.But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.Her

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AP:WASHINGTON – A member of the House Republican leadership says he doesn't think the $787 billion economic stimulus program the Obama administration pushed through Congress earlier this year has worked as advertised.House GOP Whip Eric Cantor of Richmond said Tuesday that no one should be touting the benefits of stimulus — as Vice President Joe Biden has — at a time when national unemployment is

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USA TodayUpdatedPresident Obama addresses a town hall-style health care event in Washington on July 28, as AARP's president, Jennie Chin Hansen, listens. A spokesman for AARP said Monday the group had lost 60,000 members for its support of health care overhaul.WASHINGTON (AP) — About 60,000 senior citizens have quit AARP since July 1 due to the group's support for a health care overhaul, a

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from the NY Times:Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a

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Houston Chronicle:Energy workers rally against climate plan“It's a dangerous piece of legislation,” says James Hackett, chairman and CEO of Anadarko Energy, which is busing employees to the event.Local energy workers jammed a downtown Houston theater today to protest climate change legislation that the U.S. Senate will take up in the coming weeks.The Energy Citizens rally, promoted by some major

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Gallup Daily: Obama Job ApprovalShared via AddThis

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FOX News Offers White House Examples of Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform - Political News - FOXNews.comPosted using ShareThis

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We had a smoking booth at the Carver County fair this year!Instead of countering our fun poke at liberal Democrat policies at the recent Carver County Fair in Waconia, the Democrats seem unable to debate and defend their policies we believe are harming the nation.The Carver GOP is the voice of the grassroots. We are elected by the people to fight ineptitude, foul play, and bad policy in

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Here are the photos of those who wanted to attend President Obama's recent townhall at Portsmouth High School, but were kept out (from Boston.com, the Chicago Tribune and Unionleader). Questions have been raised as to whether the President stacked his audience with supporters, and orchestrated the event with questions penned ahead of time to favor his view. Links:Was Julia Hall an Obama plant?

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From MN Independent:Hubbard sues Ramsey County: In June, Hubbard Broadcasting — owner of KSTP, KAAL and others — filed a data practices request to see all uncounted ballots in the protracted Norm Coleman/Al Franken Senate contest. Now, after Coleman conceded defeat and with Al Franken serving his fifth week as Minnesota’s second senator, the company has filed suit against Ramsey County to get

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From Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll at http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove

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From the AP:Foreclosures rise 7 percent in July from JuneThe number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes rose 7 percent from June to July, as the escalating foreclosure crisis continued to outpace government efforts to limit the damage.Foreclosure filings were up 32 percent from the same month last year, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. More than 360,000 households, or one in every

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From kristiesclips82:Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee talks on the phone as a woman asks a question at her town hall event.

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A letter from Congressman John Kline:Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported a loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the month of July.At 9.4 percent, the employment report is a somber reminder that American families are hurting; it’s also a clear sign that the President’s game plan – in close coordination with Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid – of taxing, borrowing, and spending is

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By executive order, and without much media coverage, President Barack Obama ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza.The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed on Jan. 27 and appeared in the Federal Register

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DrudgeReport.com is reporting the following quote from the president duringhis townhall meeting to redeem his healthcare plan today:OBAMA 'UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems'... Developing...

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On Health Care, 51% Fear Government More Than Insurance CompaniesMonday, August 10, 2009When it comes to health care decisions, 51% of the nation’s voters fear the federal government more than private insurance companies. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 41% hold the opposite view and fear the insurance companies more. Seven percent (7%) are not sure who they fear

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We live in unbelievable times, this was sent via email from the White House:From: David Axelrod, The White House [mailto:info@messages.whitehouse.gov]Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 8:12 AMTo:emailSubject: It's time for a reality check Dear Friend,Anyone that's watched the news in the past few days knows that health insurance reform is a hot topic — and that rumors and scare tactics have only

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