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Speaker Pelosi. Good afternoon. We just had a very instructive meeting with some leading economists about the number one subject on the minds of the American people: jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. It comes at a time when, as you know, job creation is centered at addressing at underlying concerns that people have in their own homes. These are kitchen table issues that we discussed over the Speaker’s table in the conference room. I am going to introduce our experts that were here. You have their backgrounds. They are going to tell you some of their forecasts that they...

As the Obama Creep Show continues, the president just gave a very strange address on TV. He stood there, warning of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, and asked people to cough into their sleeves. He warned that older people may become more ill than younger people. He said that people should be aware of their health. He urged people to get flu vaccine injections. He implied that we are on the brink of a disaster on the scale of the 1918 flu which killed 20,000,000 people. Then, after making everyone's hair stand up, he turned and walked away. With all...

There was a call with 1,000 Rabbis and Obama this week on Health Care: One Rabbi concluded among other things: Obama is really either advocating government control or doesn't understand how insurance works.

Franklin — More than 1,000 Muslim youths from around the nation are expected to attend the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association National Conference on Aug. 7-9 at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex, according to an announcement from the Milwaukee affiliate of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The local community is based at Baitul-Qadir Mosque, 5600 W. Fond du lac Ave., in Milwaukee. It was established in 1948 and in the past few years has organized several interfaith conferences, community cleanups and blood drives in the Milwaukee area, according to the announcement.

SAN DIEGO, July 23, 2009 – Two California teenagers are honoring National Guard parents who have had travel to overseas locations or natural disasters at home in a project they have named “Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs.” BDUs is military shorthand for the battle-dress uniform. The goal of the project -- inspired by the 2005 movie “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” in which four girlfriends develop a plan to stay connected -- is to bring military daughters from across California together to share their experiences as military family members. Moranda Hern, 17, daughter of Air Force Lt. Col. Rick...

And even the mainstream media starts to understand. 12 questions in 55 minutes left plenty of time for President Obama to do what he does best: make a speech. Yet this time, the teleprompter couldn't paste the words up fast enough so the President did what he does second best: ramble incoherently in search of a thought. Along the way he sprinkled in a good dose of disinformation and outright fabrications. And if you think it's just conservatives saying this, you would be wrong. Shortly after Obama finished his monologue, Ben Smith at the Politico penned this: At big moment,...

The White House announced today that President Obama will hold a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, but it made the announcement in a novel way: Posting it to Twitter. "You heard it here first: Primetime presidential news conference at the White House, Wed. 7/22 @ 9PM EDT" the White House tweeted at 4:25 p.m. Obama's last prime-time questioning by reporters occurred April 29.

It was just a few months ago when insurance giant AIG sparked outrage after company executives walked away with millions of taxpayer-funded bonuses. Now, the Social Security Administration is treating its 700 managers to three days at the Arizona Biltmore Resort. But the Agency's Pete Spencer says his group is no AIG. "We get a regular appropriation, which includes money for training, and that's what we're using," says Spencer. The conference is being paid for by taxpayer dollars. Critics say the training session is too lavish and should be scaled down. But Spencer says the Arizona Biltmore was actually the...

SAN FRANCISCO -- First Lady Michelle Obama will be in San Francisco on Monday to deliver the keynote address to the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. More than 4,000 national and international volunteer and service leaders are expected for the three-day conference at the Moscone Center. The event also kicks off United We Serve, a national call to community service from President Obama.

Where can you connect with 200 free-market conservatives from the Midwest, the South and across the Plains at one single event? On June 3 - 4, 2009, in St. Louis, Missouri, the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference (CHLC) will bring together fiscal and social conservatives in a two-day conference focused on Transparency, National Security, Judicial Elections, Messaging and Term Limits Review. We are anticipating a broad group of policy advocates from across the mid-west, south and plains states. As you can see from the tentative schedule here, we have a first class line-up of speakers such as Former Missouri Governor Matt...

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s Surgeon General, Maj. Gen. Samir, welcomed Iraq’s military physicians for a two-day medical conference at the MoD’s headquarters here, May 4. The theme of the two-day gathering was, “working together for advanced military medical services.” The conference covered the achievements of the past year and looked forward to the future of Iraq’s military medical professionals. The doctors discussed many challenges facing the military medical corps, including quality control on medications, allocation of supplies, developing a standard medical history form and recruiting new doctors. “We need more doctors and nurses,” Dr. Samir said. The...

Does he get it, that he's no longer running for president but IS president? He's running around doing town hall meetings is if it were still primary season. He's still speaking in slogans. And in one response to a reporter at his last press conference, he did something I found very telling. I thought I heard wrong until I checked the transcript, but he actually twice referred to his presidency as "this race." All right. OK. Surprised. I am surprised compared to where I started, when we first announced for this race, by the number of critical issues that appear...

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I'm just wondering what happened to "gotcha journalism." I'm trying to decide whether the Press Conference was a complete setup, or rather that the reporters who got to ask questions feared that they not only would not get to ask another question but might lose their WH credentials if they asked a question embarrassing to the acting President. Maybe I missed some questions because I was listening via Mark Levin's show which featured Levin's live, running commentary, and also broke for commercials. But I didn't hear a single question about the NYC flyover. Did the Press Corps suddenly lose interest,...

Just In: FOX, the only one of the Big Four networks that did not carry Pres. Obama's news conference last night, finished first in the 8pm ET hour with a new episode of "Lie to Me." The drama averaged 7.9 million Total Viewers, according to Nielsen overnights. NBC's coverage of the Obama newser came in second with 6.7 million Total Viewers. Overall, Obama's news conference was seen by nearly 19 million viewers across NBC, ABC, CBS according to the early numbers. (Reminder: fast nationals measure only timeslot and not actual program data). Final ratings will be released later today.

(IsraelNN.com) The Israeli delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Ethiopia left the conference on Tuesday over the participation of Hamas delegates. Delegation head Silvan Shalom gave a speech announcing Israel's decision to leave and comparing the presence of Hamas to deciding to invite “Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.”

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2009 – A meeting of chiefs of defense here re-emphasizes the shared commitments of Central Asia and the United States to security and stability in the region, the commander of U.S. Central Command said here today. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus told the defense chiefs from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan that the meeting will help all involved better address their common interests. Combating extremism and the spread of extremism from Afghanistan and Pakistan is at the top of the list of priorities, the general said. “[This means] that all of us have to...

The shear madness of the title should be enough for anyone who pays their mortgage and taxes on time to cringe—or at least those that are “truly” responsible. What does the president mean when he says that “responsible” home owners need to be “assisted?” Common sense would say that someone responsible, in things like how much debt they take on or in estimating the value of a property, need not a “bailout.”

JOINT BASE BALAD — Coalition forces and members of the Balad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) recently hosted Iraqi business investors, future entrepreneurs and local government leaders for the first Iraqi Banking and Finance Conference in this area. Soldiers from 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) and the 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment worked with the PRT to provide a safe environment for approximately 80 economic leaders, including city managers from Yathrib, Ishaki and Dubuiya, to network together and discuss future business opportunities. Amir Abdul-Hadi, the Mayor of Balad district, said to the group there are many profitable projects in the Balad district...

ROME (AP) — Italy said Thursday it is pulling out of a U.N. conference on racism — the latest blow to a meeting seen by many Western governments as marred by Muslim attempts to attack Israel and shield Islam from criticism. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini also decided to postpone a planned trip to Iran in protest over remarks against Israel and the U.S. administration by Tehran's leadership, the ministry said in a statement. Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, Frattini said Italy has withdrawn its delegation from the preparatory negotiations ahead of the so-called Durban II...

Strange goings on surrounding the programme for the first day of Gordon Brown's visit to Washington. No sooner had the Prime Minister's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling Westminster correspondents that the press conference they'd been told to expect had been called off "because of snow". Hours earlier, at around 4pm EST on Monday, a British official had told me that there would be a "press conference" after the PM and President Barack Obama had met in the Oval Office and before they had their working lunch in the Old...

While some politicians in Washington seem to have discovered the issue of “fiscal responsibility” yesterday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has a long and courageous track record of tackling the long-term unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That is why Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner is honored to introduce Congressman Ryan, at 10:00 AM, to the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference today. You can watch the proceedings below...

Continuing a decade-long trend of declining global temperatures, the year 2008 was significantly colder than 2007, and global temperatures for the year were below the average over the past 30 years. The global temperature data, reported by NASA satellite-based temperature measurements, refuted predictions 2008 would be one of the warmest on record. Data show 2008 ranked 14th coldest of the 30 years measured by NASA satellite instruments since they were first launched in 1979. It was the coldest year since 2000. Satellite Precision NASA satellites uniformly monitor the Earth?s lower atmosphere, which greenhouse gas theory predicts will show the first...

Why not ask a question on this topic: "The House of Representatives voted to expand the children’s health insurance program known as S-Chip. Critics say the program will expand coverage to half a million illegal aliens at your expense." - From Lou Dobbs web site

Should Bill Gates be prosecuted?Bill Gates released a swarm of potentially deadly mosquitoes at a technology conference and yelled, 'There's no reason only poor people should get malaria'. What an idiot. While it is unlikely these mosquitoes were malaria carriers, there are a host of other potentially fatal diseases that mosquitoes carry. Among these diseases are various forms of encephalitis and West Nile virus that are common among North American Mosquitoes. My granddaughter got La Crosse encephalitis from mosquitoes a few years ago. She spent several very scary days in pediatric intensive care. Anyone who would deliberately release these potentially...

OP-ED: On Inauguration Day, after it got the United Nations to pass a gag rule on insulting religions, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) told our new president in a New York Times ad that Muslims "have compelling strategic and moral reasons to cooperate and peacefully coexist with the United States in particular, and with the West in general." Many Muslims here and elsewhere want that partnership; but some, jihadists in the name of Islam, disagree violently. In its address to our new president, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (which has permanent status at the United Nations) made...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 30, 2009 – In anticipation of tomorrow’s nationwide provincial elections, Iraq’s Center for Military Values, Principles and Leadership Development hosted a conference here Jan. 27 for senior military leaders on the role of the military in a democracy. The center’s staff develops ethics-training doctrine for the Iraqi army and provides ethics training for the country’s soldiers. The seminar covered the Iraqi government’s constitutional structure and the lawful functions of the armed forces. Like the United States, Iraq has three branches of federal government: executive, legislative and judicial. Each provides checks and balances to the power of the others....

In his first trip as Vice President, Joe “Stand up Chuck!” Biden is off to embarrass himself in front of the Germans…a challenge, but we know Joe is up to it. After issuing his first Vice Presidential apology for insulting the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot of apologies from this guy), Biden will board the Vice-Presidential short bus to attend a conference of like-minded Euro-trash. I’m sure he will be well received, especially among the “few” Germans who keep shrines to the era of National Socialism in their...

Reporting from Beirut -- Black clerical turbans bobbed up from the sea of long, curly hair and fashionable berets. Venezuelan leftists sought an interpreter to speak with Egyptian nationalists. Iranians handed out DVDs celebrating the assassin of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and baseball caps that carried a quote from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: "Israel must be wiped out." Many snoozed during former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's speech about American foreign policy in the 1950s. But all perked up when the Shiite militia Hezbollah's No. 2, Naim Qassem, delivered a fiery keynote speech slamming the United States and Israel's war against...

On December 5, 2008, only ten days before the electoral college votes, the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet in private to review Obama's citizenship status. Leo Donofrio's case, "Leo C. Donofrio, v. Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, United States Supreme Court Docket No. 08A407," regarding Obama's citizenship has reached a new level. The case has been "distributed for conference." This docketing today by the court should send ripples of fear through the Obama camp. Obama has been proceeding at lightening speed to put together a cabinet and take possession...

- - Gov. Sarah Palin took center stage in the last day of a GOP governors conference where leaders asked themselves where the party is headed -- but did not find clear answers. Two roads diverged in the GOP's path toward the future in a meeting of Republican governors in Miami this week -- and Gov. Charlie Crist took the one for a more moderate party. Still struggling with its party's election defeat, the Republican Governors Association tried to represent a unified front, led by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She gave her first national news conference Thursday as she tried...

- - Republican governors meeting in Miami say their party has to shift its emphasis from ideology to voters' everyday issues. The Republican Party, still grappling with last week's election results, should position itself as a pragmatic problem-solver for working people, GOP governors meeting in Miami said Wednesday. Without unequivocally stating that the party should move to the ideological center to appeal to moderate voters, leaders at the two-day Republican Governors Association meeting urged their colleagues to tackle education, energy and the environment to broaden the party's base. Largely absent from their discussions at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami:...

Here is video of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal being interviewed by Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on November 12, 2008. Jindal talks about how the GOP needs to move forward in order to win in future elections. He was talking with Greta from Florida, where is attending the Republican Governors Conference. . . . (Watch Video)

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 11 -- Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich Islamic kingdom that forbids the public practice of other religious faiths, will preside Wednesday over a two-day U.N. conference on religious tolerance that will draw more than a dozen world leaders, including President Bush, Israeli President Shimon Peres and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The event is part of a personal initiative by Saudi King Abdullah to promote an interfaith dialogue among the world's major religions. The Saudi leader agreed for the first time to dine in the same room with the Israeli president at a private, pre-conference banquet Tuesday hosted...

SARANAC LAKE - Powerful generals and admirals from some of the most powerful nations on Earth are reportedly meeting somewhere in the local area this weekend after flying into the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear on Friday. Among the passengers of a large Boeing 757 airplane with "United States of America" printed on its fuselage were top members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and their counterparts from France, Germany and another country, possibly Great Britain, according to Barry DeFuria, a town of Harrietstown councilman and Airport Committee member who was there when the plane landed. A top...

Three different trends in physics each suggest that our universe is just one of many.We usually think of the universe as being “everything there is.” But many astronomers and physicists now suspect that the universe we observe is just a small part of an unbelievably larger and richer cosmic structure, often called the “multiverse.” This mind-bending notion – that our universe may be just one of many, perhaps an infinite number, of real, physical universes – was front and center at a three-day conference entitled "A Debate in Cosmology — The Multiverse," held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics...

Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub CBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups' Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite Reporting Marcia Kramer NEW YORK (CBS) ― Hillary Clinton won't be speaking at Monday's anti-Iran rally at the United Nations -- and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter. The reason? A heated behind the scenes tug-of-war. Sources tell CBS 2 HD that a decision to disinvite Palin from the high profile rally after Clinton pulled out in a huff came as the result of intense pressure from Democrats....

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2008 – The United Warrior Survivors Foundation will host its fifth annual West Coast Survivors Conference Aug. 22-25 in San Diego. “These conferences were established with the unique needs of Special Forces widows in mind, affording them a healing experience and sense of camaraderie and support,” Kelly Chott, foundation administrator, said. The conference brings together Special Forces widows at various stages of bereavement and includes an array of speakers and experts in the fields of military widowhood, bereavement, financial planning, benefits and entitlements, as well as practical classes in self-defense and coping with their children’s grieving...

Good to know that Greyhawk hasn't cut me off yet. Been a while since I've been on here.... Droping by to put out a reminder about the 2008 MilBlog Conference. Panel Number One Panel Number Two Panel Number Three Panel Number Four (just announced) Someone asked me yesterday how we could possibly top last year's conference. For starters, we have Greyhawk and Mrs. G as panelists this year. A really good start, wouldn't you say? Hope to see you in Vegas!

Kris Alingod - AHN News Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Speaking during his weekly radio address on Saturday, President George W. Bush thanked lawmakers for passing a landmark AIDs bill and reiterated his administration's broader goal of fighting extremism around the world by combating hunger and disease. The Senate passed by a vote of 80-16 a $48 billion measure called President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) last week to fight AIDS worldwide. The House passed its version of the bill in April. Bush said the legislation is "the largest international health initiative dedicated to fighting a single disease in...

MADRID (AFP) - Women have historically suffered discrimination in the name of religion, and the world's great faiths must do more to encourage gender equality, theologians told a seminar at a Saudi-organised conference Thursday. "Women have been forgotten and marginalised in religions," Juan Jose Tamayo, director of theology at Madrid's Juan Carlos III university, told a roundtable on the second day of the World Conference of Dialogue in Madrid, aimed at bringing the great monotheistic faiths closer together. "They are organised hierarchically and patriarchically, excluding women in all fields of knowledge and religious matters." Now, at the start of the...

Delegates from nearly 100 countries and organizations are meeting amid tight security outside the Swedish capital, Stockholm, to discuss the rebuilding and development of Iraq. The meeting is the first-annual review of a five-year plan launched last year to help bring economic growth and political stability to Iraq. It comes as the Unites States says violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in more than four years. Issues on the agenda include Iraq’s debt relief, economic reconstruction, elections, corruption, the oil industry, and the refugee crisis. More than 500 participants in the conference also are expected to look into...

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AUSTIN — Maybe Texas’ transportation problems are a lot simpler to understand than recent fights over toll roads make it seem, North Texas leaders told state senators Wednesday. “My first recommendation: You need to provide a lot more revenue for transportation,” Michael Morris, transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, told the Texas Senate transportation committee. That was hardly the only suggestion from Mr. Morris or the many others who spoke to the committee, which is seeking input as it readies an approach on toll roads, TxDOT and more for the next legislative session. But it might...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Organizers hope a gathering of governors this week will be as effective in addressing climate change as a similar event that launched the conservation movement a century ago. As many as 10 governors and leading experts on global warming plan to attend the conference Thursday and Friday at Yale University, and review state programs and develop a strategy to combat global climate change. "I think we have high hope this will mark a significant turning point in a commitment to action on climate change," said Dan Esty, a Yale environmental law professor and director of the...

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2008 – A group of volunteer mental health professionals that offers its services to troops and their extended families will host a conference May 16-18 in Los Angeles for military members who have served in the global war on terror and those who interact with them. Officials of the group, called The Soldiers Project, said the conference theme is “Hidden Wounds of War: Pathways to Healing.” Dr. Jonathan Shay, the first keynote speaker on the conference schedule and a psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Boston, will discuss combat trauma. U.S. Rep. Bob Filner...

AZTEC'S annual UFO Conference is this weekend. Featured speakers are: Stan Friedman Duane Tudahl Timothy Good Ted Phillips Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. Dennis Balthaser ( emcee ) Scott Ramsey Ken Storch James P. Carrion As you can see--there are some HEAVY DUTY HEAVY HITTERS IN THE GROUP. Their bio's follow Title: "Flying Saucers and Science" Brief Bio Nuclear Physicist-Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman grew up in Linden, NJ, spent 2 years at Rutgers University, and then received his BSc.and MSc. Degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a...

[Quix note: More Links are workable at the website. Some URLS I inserted in the doc below. My usual added paragraphing for added white space and bold and color emphases added.] A French aviation expert has come forward to reveal his participation in a secret meeting held at the United Nations New York headquarters that discussed the UFO phenomenon from February 12-14. Gilles Lorant is an attaché to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS- National Center for Scientific Research) which is a government-funded research organization, under the administrative authority of France's Ministry of Research. He is also a...

The University of Pennsylvania marketing professor who has publicly challenged Al Gore to a $10,000 bet over global warming is coming to New York - and he still wants a showdown with the former vice president. Scott Armstrong will be in town for a climate change conference that he hopes will sway public opinion away from Gore's well-known views on the perils of global warming. "He claims to be interested in science," Armstrong, an expert on mathematical forecasting at the Wharton School, told the Daily News. "It would be a good place for him to go." Armstrong first engaged Gore...

This is a joyful religion, one of hope, strength, and deliverance.I still rejoice in the wonderful spirit we felt as we sang together this morning: Now let us rejoice in the day of salvation. No longer as strangers on earth need we roam. Good tidings are sounding to us and each nation. (“Now Let Us Rejoice,” Hymns, no. 3) These words by Brother William W. Phelps are quite a contrast to the world’s tendency to focus on bad news. It is true, we live in a time foretold in the scriptures as a day of “wars, rumors of wars, and...