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Pelosi Likes Slaughter Solution Because Her Dems “Won’t Have To Vote” On The Senate Health Care Bil

Pelosi Likes Slaughter Solution Because Her Dems “Won't Have To Vote” On The Senate Health Care Bil

The Democrat push to pass the Senate health care bill in the House without actually voting on it has gotten a lot of attention today. But even so, I can’t help but highlight these comments from Pelosi. Because they’re so appallingly cynical, (...)

17 Mar. 2010 | | Rob Port

Crisis : Handle your business folk

Crisis : Handle your business folk

While many of us walk around oblivious too the serious economic conundrum our country is in, and remain inattentive to the world around us and feel secure in our little niche with our weekly pay checks, it is really a troubling time in our beloved (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Hey! Hollywood! Leave our kids alone!

Hey! Hollywood! Leave our kids alone!

“A very dark, very frightening corporate scheme is being carefully orchestrated around the world with the full and active support and cooperation of governments and public administrations. “The inter-linked, multi-national corporations are (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Jon Newton

Ethanol: maybe less of a neccessity

Ethanol: maybe less of a neccessity

The growth of ethanol production, due to the need first of some countries, mainly Brazil, for energetic independence and second to the fact of ethanol being the next best alternative after fossil energy, has often been blamed for the rise in food (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Bensred

Has Obama Gone Fishing or Gone Mad?

Has Obama Gone Fishing or Gone Mad?

Are you a weekend fly fisher, do you like to take the kids fishing, do you take vacations surrounded by the prospects of reeling in the “Big One” with future stories about how it got away? Or do you like to simply sit with your line in the (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Liberally Conservative

HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

HCR:It is Not Just MSM that has Ignored and Silenced the Concerns of the Medical Community , it is also the Blogger Community-BIG Blogs too.

As a Nurse of over 20+ years I have been very disheartened as the Health Care Battle has dragged on all these Months. I have diligently blogged the Battle, researching and covering Statistics,Data, Interviewing Americans with Nightmare Health Stories, and (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Enigma4ever

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

Climate science: a peace-studies lesson

By Paul Rogers. The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate researchers on the defensive. But the experience of comparable assaults on the discipline of peace studies in (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | openDemocracy

From day one Karl Rove built a Political career on lying he will not change now!

From day one Karl Rove built a Political career on lying he will not change now!

Read about Rove’s career and how he built his career on lying and that is why those aspiring to the Presidency wanted him on their side. He never told the truth and he will not start now. Read the link, the denials and BS lies he fed Matt Lauer (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | James Joiner

In Search of Intelligence in the Multiverse—Not anywhere where Glenn Beck just happens to be

Glenn Beck

During last Tuesday’s fleeting hour, while he was interviewing the very troubled former New York congressman, Eric Massa, Glenn Beck was out of his mind. This was the first time the whining, weeping conservative talk show host sounded, sounded, (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Monroe Anderson

Nancy Pelosi Shocked To Learn That Her Office Was Notified Of Massa’s Ethics Complaints In February

Nancy Pelosi Shocked To Learn That Her Office Was Notified Of Massa's Ethics Complaints In February

Pelosi claimed last week that she hadn’t learned of ethics complaints against Massa until that Wed. As it turns out, her office got a formal complaint in February. Uh oh: a Pelosi aide told POLITICO on Wednesday evening that Massa’s chief of (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Rob Port

Pakistan and India Are Back At the Peace Table

Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries

Islamabad, Pakistan- India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is scheduled to visit Islamabad later this month as both India and Pakistan are back on track to resume their high level diplomatic talks. The discussions between the two so far are (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | Manzer Munir

Tajikistan: Government party claims crushing win as Islamic opposition cries foul

Tajikistan: Government party claims crushing win as Islamic opposition cries foul

Tajikistan’s governing party maintains its monolithic control over the legislature, bolstering the president’s grip on power and provoking cries of foul play from the Islamic opposition. Authorities in ex-Soviet Central Asia’s poorest (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | CA Reporter

Who Owns Data About You?

Who Owns Data About You?

On Saturday, I blogged about a bill before the Utah Senate that would allow law enforcement to use administrative subpoenas to get data about you from your ISP when they suspected you of crimes against children. This would be done without a warrant and (...)

4 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Phil Windley

Why the Euro Might Devolve into Euro1 and Euro2

Why the Euro Might Devolve into Euro1 and Euro2

The euro as presently configured is doomed due to structural imbalances between mercantilist and consumer nations. A "euro1 and euro2" system would allow a face-saving demise to euroland’s single currency. I’ve got a bad feeling about the (...)

4 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Staffjam

The Snitch in Your Pocket

The Snitch in Your Pocket

Counter Surveillance Amid all the furor over the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program a few years ago, a mini-revolt was brewing over another type of federal snooping that was getting no public attention at all. Federal (...)

3 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | J.D. LeaSure

Giving innocent people back their DNA helps rapists, says Gordon Brown

Giving innocent people back their DNA helps rapists, says Gordon Brown

I recently blogged how a shameless Labour party is making Tory plans to remove innocent people’s DNA from police databases, in compliance with the European Court’s ruling, one of their central lines of attack. Now, via Joe Murphy, at the (...)

2 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

Senator Jim Bunning Blocking Unemployment Benefits Expansion, Is My Hero

Senator Jim Bunning Blocking Unemployment Benefits Expansion, Is My Hero

CNN is running something of a hit piece on Senator Jim Bunning, who is single-handedly holding up a “jobs bill” that, um, expands payments to people for being unemployed and does more of the sort of “stimulus” spending that has (...)

2 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Canada : Conservatives Bring Woe to Women

Canada : Conservatives Bring Woe to Women

Stephen Harper has made it public that he’d like the Conservative government to put women’s health issues first, while hosting the G8. Nice, but unfortunately this is coming from someone who’s party has largely worked in the reverse (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Josh Chalifour

Newly Released CIA Documents Indicate Pelosi Lied About Her Knowledge Of Water Boarding

Remember when Nancy Pelosi was accusing the CIA of lying about briefing her about the use of water boarding back in 2002? Well newly released CIA documents indicate that Pelosi was, in fact, briefed about use of the tactics in 2002. Prodded by the (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Pakistani Makes History as Nations First Winter Olympian

Pakistan’s first Winter Olympian

Vancouver, Canada- On Tuesday February 23, 2010, Pakistan will field its very first entry into its very first Winter Olympics. While the nation has won three gold, three silver and four bronze medals in its history at the Olympics since becoming a nation (...)

23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Manzer Munir

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