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Reuters reports: ”Director Oliver Stone says the U.S. media and government have demonized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leftist South American leaders, and argues in a new film that they were right to stand up to Washington. Chavez, who landed in Venice for the film’s premiere, has earned a reputation for his outspoken criticism of U.S. policy, and in Stone’s “South of the Border” he is sympathetically portrayed as a hero of the people who refuses to be bullied.[…] Stone said he had been in talks with Iran to make a documentary about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but that scheduling...

CNET Reports: ”Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.[…] CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency. The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for...

Reuters reports: ”General Motors Co said on Tuesday it is increasing production for the second half of 2009 after a surge in sales ignited by the U.S. government’s “Cash for Clunkers” incentives program. The No.1 U.S. carmaker said it would build 60,000 more vehicles than planned for the third and fourth quarters by increasing overtime, adding shifts at several North American assembly plants.” Ever hear the one about the restaurant owner who expanded his building and hired a larger staff during the circus? Yeah, well shortly after the circus left the restaurant went under, leaving all at the unemployment line...

Via Bloomberg: ”The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say. “The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes too big of a lift,” Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas said in an interview last week. “I see the cap-and-trade being a real problem.” The resistance by Lincoln and her Senate colleagues undercuts President Barack Obama’s effort to win passage of legislation that would cap carbon dioxide emissions and establish a market for trading pollution allowances,...

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Before I provide this vital information let me be clear - I understand that Obama’s plan does not claim to cover all 47 million uninsured (an inflated number itself). However, the plan will force some to switch from their private plan over to the public option. Meaning, the amount of people on the public option could amount to around 47 million whether that number comes from those previously uninsured or a combination with those forced to switch over. Let’s forget the incentive for illegals to flood in. Here is the population of the United States: 307,558,557 million. Obama, some of...

NASA plans to use $50 million of federal economic stimulus funds to seed development of commercial passenger transportation service to space, agency officials said on Monday. Aspiring spaceship operators will have 45 days to submit proposals, which will be competitively evaluated. Awards for the Commercial Crew Development program are expected to be announced before the end of September. The United States is retiring its fleet of space shuttles next year after seven more missions to complete construction of the $100 billion International Space Station, which orbits about 225 miles above Earth. After that, the United States plans to buy rides...

We appear to be dealing with the biggest argument against Barack Obama - lack of experience. We are told to be in the worst recession since the Great Depression (although some falsely claiming we are climbing out), involved in two wars, and in midst of tension with several world dictators. We need a leader. But what is our president doing? Uhhh not sure: giving the same old campaign speeches, performing in town halls, sending out videos to foreign dictators, and drinking beer to bridge the racial gap. [SNIP] The responsibility of the two largest/impacting bills in recent history is being...

What is a billion dollars? Trillion+ dollar deficits, $787 billion package, gigantic omnibus… the arduous list perseveres. But hey - guess what? We are not stopping anytime soon. The dominating Democrat government thrusts on to pass the two mother-of-all bills: Cap and Trade and universal health care. The price tag on Cap and Trade is uncalcuable. Taxing means of production: fuel, affects all aspects of life. According to the CBO in a Wall Street Journal article, “price hikes from a 15% cut in emissions would cost the average household in the bottom-income quintile about 3.3% of its after-tax income every...

Is it just me or do you want to poke your eyes out every time Barack Obama speaks. I am a little late in response to his recent speech, but see, well, I thought it was a repeat of the one he did months ago which at the time I thought was just a repeat of the one he gave months prior to that one. He seems to give the same speech every time he talks: discussing the inescapable dept he inherited, the ‘fact’ he will cut that dept, and then the need for government-run health care. No wonder he...

Hot dogs may be as American as baseball and apple pie, but an anti-meat advocacy group says they're hazardous to your health and should carry warning labels. The group, called the Cancer Project, wants to force hot dog makers to use warning labels. An offshoot of a pro-vegetarian organization, the Cancer Project filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Superior Court in Newark on behalf of three New Jersey residents. The defendants are Kraft Foods Inc., manufacturer of the Oscar Mayer brand; Sara Lee Corp.; Nathan's Famous; and the makers of the Hebrew National and Sabrett brands. The lawsuit cites a report...

House Democrats pushed ahead Tuesday with sweeping health care legislation that would raise taxes on the wealthy, require Americans to buy affordable insurance and penalize large companies that don't provide insurance to their employees. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top Democrats planned to introduce legislation later in the day that would dramatically revamp the health system and fulfill President Barack Obama's goal of slowing rising costs and providing coverage to nearly 50 million uninsured Americans. The bill would create a government-run plan to compete with private insurers and penalize large companies that fail to offer insurance to their employees....

1. You do not understand that in order to fix a budget you must first quadruple it 2. You deny the fact an ice-age almost occurred in the 1970’s, and we are now undoubtedly on a path of destruction because of man-made Global Warming while you cling to your…. science 3. Your brain cannot not comprehend the intellectual transcendence of the great thinkers of our time: Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Sean Penn, and Janeane Garofalo 4. You think that a person’s history shapes their character and general philosophy 5. You think a Liberal’s mantra is ‘what’s yours is mine and...

Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and energy officials urged the Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation to reduce the pollution linked to the planet's rising temperature. The heads of the Energy Department, Agriculture Department, Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate panel it should pass a bill similar to one the House narrowly cleared late last month. That legislation would impose the first limits on greenhouse gases, eventually leading to an 80 percent reduction by mid-century by putting a price on each ton of climate-altering...

The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in December 2003 was familiar ground for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI agent, where he sought refuge 44 years earlier after taking part in a failed attempt to kill Iraq's president. Saddam also told the U.S. official that he had used telephones only twice in the last 14 years, and moved his locations daily. With troops closing in on him, Saddam returned to the farm outside Tikrit where he hid in 1959 after joining in a failed bid to assassinate...

After following this Cap and Trade bill for awhile it is interesting to see how Global Warming is discussed less and less with taxation coming to the forefront by the liberals. As the science proves faulty they are now appealing to their go to base - those looking for redistributive action.

California lawmakers are pushing a bill to authorize an official day in honor of the late-homosexual activist Harvey Milk. The bill would require California’s public schools to “conduct suitable commemorative exercises” on Harvey Milk Day, which conservative activists see as a means to promote a homosexual agenda to a captive audience in the classroom. “This bill is not about ‘gay rights’ or ‘stopping harassment,’” said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, a pro-family group. “Instead, SB 572 [Harvey Milk Day] is outright promotion of everything Harvey Milk believed in – the entire gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual agenda pushed upon schoolchildren as...

California lawmakers are pushing a bill to authorize an official day in honor of the late-homosexual activist Harvey Milk. The bill would require California’s public schools to “conduct suitable commemorative exercises” on Harvey Milk Day, which conservative activists see as a means to promote a homosexual agenda to a captive audience in the classroom. “This bill is not about ‘gay rights’ or ‘stopping harassment,’” said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, a pro-family group. “Instead, SB 572 [Harvey Milk Day] is outright promotion of everything Harvey Milk believed in – the entire gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual agenda pushed upon schoolchildren as...

House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage, from wealthy Americans and the nation's employers to anyone who pops the top on a soft drink. Also under consideration are higher alcohol taxes, increases to the Medicare payroll tax and a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more. The list of options being weighed by the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, and obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, aims to raise some $600 billion over 10 years to partially pay for President...

Attending a liberal college and living in the very liberal state of New Jersey, I have constantly heard the harmonious cheers for a bilingual nation. As the rate of Hispanic residents increase, so does the coercion to the Spanish language. Those who disagree with this movement are clearly just racist, pompous… and rich, yeah rich, right? Wrong. My mother was talking to me the other day about a company she had called. As she was connected to the company an automated voice message came on starting out in Spanish, then English. When an actual human picked up she complained to...