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The Supreme Court’s ruling that states cannot be penalized if they refuse to expand Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul has left an opening for legislators who have assailed the health care act as a crippling budget-buster. Legislators in many states, from tiny New Hampshire to Texas, say they are inclined to resist the expansion of Medicaid that is intended to provide coverage for 17 million uninsured people. Before the high court’s decision on Thursday, states that did not comply had been threatened with the loss of all federal Medicaid funds, which have covered an average of 57 percent...

After the election in 2008, I had high hopes that our country was crossing a milestone, a giant leap that had the promise to bring an end to many deeply held taboos.. Our new President, Barack Obama, had all of the prerequisites to clear the way to a new understanding between the cultures, Race, Youth, Socioeconomic, Political Parties, and Classes. This articulate young man, charismatic to the extreme, said all of the right things to set the tone for a new beginning in the body politic.. I had my fears though, coming from Chicago, I knew the threats posed by...

DESPERATION! Winning at what cost; Will President Oboma, sacrifice American lives to win? We were told, in 2008, that Candidate Oboma represented a bridge to a future reconciliation of the races in our nation. That was then, and this is the reality.. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Oboma administration has, almost from the start of his term in office, purposely chosen to fracture our nation down race, gender, religious, and socioeconomic lines.. RACE Most recently, the administration has, with the aid of his loyalist in the mainstream media, and a cadre of the usual suspected race-baiters, elevated...

Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker, fighting a recall election, against his challenger Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, face-off June 5, 2012, in one of most important contests of our generation.. Background noise? Not even close..Make no mistake, this pesky little contest will determine the momentum, on both sides, and serve as a preamble of the major General Election this November.. All of the important Democrat lifeblood constituencies are at stake, and are being challenged, and hanging by a slim thread, thanks to a true hero, GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER. He and the fighting spirit of his fellow Wisconsinites, dared to touch...

OK Pres. Obama, SHOW ME!DAY ONE The countdown begins.. I'm waiting... Everything has changed.. Whew.. I can't wait to see the world economy to turn around.. I can't wait to see fairness in the mainstream media.. I can't wait to see racial relations to finally be settled without the need of any affirmative action.. I can't wait to see our sworn enemies to lay down their arms and embrace our common goals of, "PEACE IN OUR TIME".. I can't wait to see national employment explode.. I can't wait to start drilling off our shores.. I can't wait to see our...

Global Meltdown? Don't act yet!! Something like this happened to me and I have all the answers.. My 3 1/2 step program..I call this "MURPHY'S LAW" and I learned it when I was 12 years old..Murphy was a big Irish Chicago cop who walked the beat in our shabby Chicago neighborhood.. He told me and all of my friends that if we screwed up and broke the law, he would throw us in jail.. Yep, it was that simple, and I knew he meant business.. Our parents reconfirmed this, and so did our friends parents, neighbors, as well as our...

More than 40 million tune in to Palin’s speechBoth Palin and Obama reached about the same number of viewersLOS ANGELES - Barack Obama apparently isn’t the only “rock star” in presidential politics this year. After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her. The huge audience for Palin’s acceptance speech rivaled that for Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention six days earlier, and set a tough standard for the top of her own ticket. John McCain was...

OBAMA PANIC The Obama forces then realized the foreboding Revelation that appeared before them..behold, a Palin horse: and she that sat upon him, her name was Death THE LIBERAL NIGHTMAREA real fear has invaded the Democrat political machine, with the introduction of the McCain choice of Sarah Palin, as his running mate, the landscape has abruptly changed.. Her unique persona exploded on the scene, and instantly took the oxygen from their rarefied air.. The pros and con artist, in the Obama camp realized at once, that this single masterful stroke, could hold an omen..  With this bold move, they recognized...

    YOU MAY BE A RACISTLiberal, Media, GLOSSARY White = lacks sufficient melanin, pathologically racist, unavoidable funding mechanism Men =  genetically predatory, mean spirited, stupid, clown, stumbling block, intolerable funding mechanism Middle class = unworthy, classless, trapped funding mechanism Lunch pale = actually works, fool who can't figure out how to fleece the government, unhealthy funding mechanism Blue collar = non academic, neck larger than a pencil, bullying funding mechanism Catholic =  bible thumper, moronic moralist, unenlightened, believes bedtime stories, judgmental funding mechanism Ethnic = birth father identified, unavoidable funding mechanism Elderly Women = outlived usefulness, undiagnosed dementia, uniquely disqualified...

AFFIRMATIVE REACTION.. THE ENTITLEMENT SHOWDOWN.. Coming home to roost.. Oh Boy.. Buckle up folks.. This is going to be a bumpy ride... The showdown between the most crucial voting blocks within the Democrat Party, Blacks and Women, are facing down one another in this historic election cycle..  More than a few key strategist huddling deep within the Obama's inner sanctum, would say the divisions between these narcissistic behemoths have already reached a critical mass, threatening not just this election, but the ultimate future of the Democrat Party.. Which carefully crafted victim/entitlement block, will be ceremoniously dumped at this convention, and...

Temps Top 100 in West From Heat WaveJul 5, 7:52 PM (ET)By REBECCA BOONE (AP) Tourists walk in the shade to avoid the sunlight in Las Vegas, Thursday, July 5, 2007. A heat wave...   BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Sweltering residents across the West headed for lakes and rivers on Thursday, seeking relief from triple-digit temperatures expected to set records through at least Friday. (Snip) Around Las Vegas - where temperatures reached 109 degrees before 1 p.m. Thursday - transformers were overheating and causing electrical pole fires because of all the people switching on their air conditioners, said Scott Allison...

  Happy Father's Day Fathering a child is truly a blessing from God.. It answers a primal calling, as it memorializes a man as a virile instrument fulfilling his destiny by passing his unique genic bloodlines on to the next generation. Fatherhood thus, offers a man a level of respect, and is universally recognized as one of his most important achievements.  However, is it really that much a personal accomplishment? Proof of true masculinity however, is not to be found simply in the act of procreation, if you are looking for a title that carries some real weight, ...try being...

  Mironov Tells Kyoto Experts The World Is Getting CoolerBy Simon ShusterStaff WriterSergei Mironov ST. PETERSBURG -- It was a failure from the start. Russia's biggest conference on the Kyoto Protocol, which aims to fight global warming, began with a speech from a top official who denied that global warming even exists. "In reality, the scientific basis for the protocol is fairly weak," Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov told a crowded opening session of the two-day conference Thursday, which drew more than 200 environmental experts and carbon market participants from around the world. "In the opinion of many experts, the...

May God Bless and thank you Rev. Falwell I wish to thank you for your courageous, unselfish, and unyielding, life of service, to all of us, not only those of faith, but from an entire nation.. Your leadership and moral guidance through times of tumult and tragedy has raised the bar, and served as an example to all men of good will.. Your sage advice will be surely missed, and your faith in God and your fellow man has left us all in your benevolent debt..

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY, remembering Mom...Could it have really been 30 years since I kissed my Mom good night? How could that be, it seems like only yesterday?Her memory is still fresh, her warm, wonderful smile is vivid in my mind. I can still feel the tenderness of her kiss on my cheek, and I can recall everything she whispered to me as I held her close... Could it have been so long ago?...I still remember you Mom... each and every time I say good night to the kids\... I kiss them once more just for you...I still remember you Mom......

Young Swedes lack knowledge about communismPublished: 9th May 2007 11:57 CETLess than fifteen years after the last Soviet troops pulled out of the Baltic States, a new survey has shown that young Swedes are still in the dark about the fate of its neighbours behind the Iron Curtain. A poll carried out by Demoskop on behalf of the Organization for Information on Communism (Föreningen för upplysning om kommunismen - UOK) found that 90 percent of Swedes between the ages of 15 and 20 had never heard of the Gulag. This can be contrasted with the 95 percent who knew of...

"Alarming rates of unsafe sex among HIV-infected British gays: study May 1 03:13 AM US/Eastern More than a third of British homosexuals who are infected with the AIDS virus continue to have unprotected sex, according to a survey published on Tuesday. The investigation was carried out in 2003 and 2004 among 2,640 men in London, Manchester and Brighton who filled out questionnaires. Most of the volunteers also provided a saliva sample for HIV testing, and the results showed that among those with the AIDS virus, only a third knew they had been infected. Thirty-seven percent of HIV-positive men said they...

Diets damage health, shows biggest ever studyBy FIONA MacRAE - Last updated at 00:24am on 10th April 2007Most people pile the pounds straight back on after dieting The world's largest study of weight loss has shown that diets do not work for the vast majority of slimmers and may even put lives at risk. More than two-thirds pile the pounds straight back on, raising the danger of heart attack, stroke and diabetes. Indeed most dieters end up heavier than they did to start with, the researchers found. They warn this type of yo-yo behaviour is linked to a host of...

Numbers Drop for the Married With ChildrenInstitution Becoming The Choice of the Educated, AffluentBy Blaine HardenWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, March 4, 2007; Page A03PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census. As marriage with children becomes an exception rather than the norm, social scientists say it is also becoming the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent. The working class and the poor,...

Hundreds Line Up for Hepatitis A ShotsThousands may have been exposed recently to hepatitis A at a Pappasito's Cantina on Houston's north side, and shots are being offered to those who may have been infected.By KTRH News StaffTuesday, February 20, 2007Because hepatitis is contagious, the Harris County Department of Public Health is offering free shots of "immune globulin." However health officials say the shot only works for those who've come in contact with hepatitis within the previous two weeks. After that, anyone possibly exposed should watch for symptoms of fever, nausea, vomiting, exhaustion. Anyone who experiences such symptoms should see...