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Most significantly, documents unearthed by the investigation highlight companies that are considering dumping employees from their current health-care plans in the face of new costs from the health-care law. President Obama repeatedly promised his health-care law would let Americans keep their current insurance if they’re happy with it. A March 3 internal Verizon memo on the impact health-care law said new taxes on insurance companies and health-care equipment manufacturers will be passed onto employers through higher prices. Facing such increased costs, employers like Verizon “may consider exiting the health-care market and send employees to the exchanges,” the memo says. Under...

Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, has been not-so-quietly waging war with Fox News for years -- and recently he's been turning up the heat. His most recent battle with the News Corp. (NWS)-owned network hinged on an airing of Fox & Friends, which two weeks ago asked (more than once) whether the crescent-moon shaped logo that the White House used during a nuclear security summit was some sort of Islamic image. As the New York Times recently reported, Stewart had his staff call the White House to ask just that, and lo and behold, discovered that...

US President Barack Obama will not be able to attend Sunday's funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski because of the air traffic over Volcanic Ash ...

When she showed up for a private dinner in Palm Beach, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi walked into the home of businessman and Democratic moneyman George Cloutier with a security detail 12 strong, mostly US Capitol Police. There were four additional Palm Beach cops. And two sheriff’s deputies. Oh, yes! Two police boats in the Atlantic Ocean, across the street from Cloutier’s house. And with 18 guests at the dinner last weekend, the wingding had fewer guests than lawmen! I’m told the cocktail party and sit-down dinner for the San Francisco Democrat Pelosi raised $100,000 for the Democratic Congressional...

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JERUSALEM, April 13 (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM: Quote, Profile, Research) may join the exploration race for a new natural gas windfall off the coast of Israel, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. Financial daily Globes on its Web site reported Gazprom, together with Israel's Modiin Energy (MDINp.TA: Quote, Profile, Research), the IDB Group (IDBH.TA: Quote, Profile, Research) and Israel Land Development (ILDC.TA: Quote, Profile, Research), was considering vying for a new tender for exploratory offshore drilling. Officials at both Israel's Infrastructure Ministry and Modiin Energy declined to comment on the report. Gazprom was not available for immediate reaction. U.S. group...

WASHINGTON (March 31) -- Do Democrats need a new "silent majority" to speak up and save them from electoral ruin in November? Does such a group even exist? And, if it does, will the tea party movement prove to be the right-wing mirror of the leftist anti-war movement of the 1960s? These are not idle questions for President Barack Obama, who has seen little bounce from his party's victory in passing health care reform legislation. "The good news for Democrats, after health care passed, was that Democratic intensity levels went up," party strategist James Carville told reporters Wednesday. The bad...

it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to curse, swear, or make use of any indecent or obscene words, or engage in any disorderly conduct in any street, avenue, alley, road, highway, public park or inclosure, public building, church, or assembly room, or in any other public place, or in any place wherefrom the same may be heard in any street, avenue, alley, road, highway, public park or inclosure, or other building, or in any premises other than those where the offense was committed, under a penalty of not more than $250 or imprisonment for not more...

Breaking News Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Concedes GOP Gubernatorial Primary to Gov. Rick Perry

If homosexuals are allowed to serve in the military, they will be recruiting in the showers, having sex in the barracks, and straights will undergo sensitivity training. Before long, the U.S. may be defended by the sex-obsessed and those who can tolerate kowtowing to them. These are the truths that no one will speak. Forget about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ (DADT). The issue is NOT about whether those engaging in homosexual sex are, or are not, asked about their ‘sexual preferences.’ The real issue is whether the federal law against sodomy in the armed forces will be abolished either by...

Senate Democrats spent Thursday night hammering away at Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for single-handedly holding up action in the upper chamber – but he blurted out a message to one of them on the Senate floor: “Tough s—t.” In an unusual display in the normally sleepy chamber, Bunning – without the support of GOP leadership – has blocked efforts to quickly approve a series of extensions to measures that would otherwise expire Sunday, including unemployment insurance and the Cobra program that allows people who lose their health benefits to continue getting coverage. And that has led to a furious exchange...

The media want to avoid a substantive discussion about open homosexuality in the military. Who should be formulating military social policy, trained military professionals and "boots on the ground," or political hacks and pressure groups like the Gay Lobby? In a nutshell, the Left and the MSM want to create a sense of inevitability so that open homosexuality in the military becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Dismiss supporters of current policy and ignore their arguments. Pretend they don't exist and act as though there is absolutely no problem whatsoever with gays serving as gays.

Polls are open. Senate race in Massachusetts comes down to wire Read the article here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mass-senate19-2010jan19,0,6084655.story?track=rss

I have discovered what looks to be Part 2 of the America Rising VIDEO that has been spreading like wildfire across the Internet. Not sure of its origins.

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The Standard website, Nairobi - March 23, 2006 Kenyan-born US senator "exploring ways" of helping home province Illinois Senator Barrack Obama is exploring ways of using his influence in the US to increase funding for various projects he sponsors in Nyanza Province. Obama's foreign policy adviser, Mark Lippert, who toured some of the projects sponsored through Care International, said the senator was particularly keen on the welfare of people in Siaya, where his father hailed from.Lippert disclosed that he had been sent by Obama on a fact finding mission on the success and impact... Purchase Complete Article, of 132 words

Saturday, November 28, 2009 Finally, Israel Gets It! By Joseph Farah For more than five years, I have been conspicuously alone in pointing out the racist, anti-Jewish nature of policies that require the evacuation of Israelis from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and, more lately, the halts on building and repairing homes and businesses owned by Jews in Jerusalem. Finally, someone in Israel has figured this out and called the policies advocated by Barack Obama and the international elite what they are. "Israeli law does not discriminate between Jews, Muslims and Christians or between eastern and western Jerusalem," said Jerusalem Mayor...

On October 30, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009, which will lift the ban on allowing people infected with the HIV virus into the United States after January 1, 2010. Currently, under section 221(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), people with HIV are ineligible for visas or admission to the United States unless specifically admitted for medical treatment, or are otherwise granted a waiver of ineligibility. H.R.3792 would also impose intergovernmental and private-sector mandates by requiring public and private medical facilities to comply. CBO estimates that the costs of the...

Worse Than Dirty Diapers thelastcrusade.org In a prime-time speech Tuesday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Obama is expected to announce that he is sending up to 35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan beginning next year. The figure is short of the 40,000 troops his top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has requested — but remains enough to anger many congressional Democrats, who oppose any potential troop surge, arguing that the mission is too expensive and lacks a clear objective.“I think there will be some disillusionment within his base,” said Paul Kawika Martin, political director for Peace...

This guy is on everything. It's an OBAMA overload!