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Brussels, Belgium (CNN) — Belgium's prime minister Herman Van Rompuy has been appointed the first "president of Europe," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday November 19th.Catherine Ashton of the United Kingdom is to become the EU's foreign minister, Brown said.The leaders of the 27 member states of the E (Read More)
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http://timesofearth.com/Worldnews/?NT=0&nid=13802 BRUSSELS - Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium's prime minister, has become the first president of the European Council.Van Rompuy, largely unknown outside his native Belgium, was named after a consensus was reached at a meeting of the leaders of the 27-member European Union on (Read More)
National Review Online:
Harry Reid offers the nation a mephitic Senate health-care bill that retains the worst features of Nancy Pelosiโs creation and adds fresh horrors of its own: It will force Americans to finance abortions and jack up some Americansโ Medicare taxes by 34 percent. On paper, the House bill costs a little more than $1 trillion, t (Read More)
www.redstate.com: Latest blog entries:
In advance of Saturdayโs Senate health care vote, I thought it best to refresh our memories about what is contained in the Constitution. A friend of mine sent this primer on our Constitutional Republic form of government and why America is not a democracy. Itโs a fantastic piece.
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National Review Online:
In the 2008 presidential race, John McCain often dueled with Barack Obama over health care. Over a year later, Obama is in the White House and McCain finds himself back on Capitol Hill. The battle, however, continues. With the president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) making a final push to pass Obamacare (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
Want to know how the left really feels about free speech? ย Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington appeared on MSNBC's Nov. 19 "Countdown" to discuss a report by the Anti-Defamation League that alleges Fox News host Glenn Beck is "the most important mainstream media figure (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
In what could easily be labeled the understatement of the week and probably of the entire month of November, the Washington Post today headlined a page A22 story today "GAO warns stimulus jobs data could contain inaccuracies."The print story is accompanied by a screenshot of Recovery.gov, which the caption beneath it notes (Read More)
DownWithTyranny!:
Will they be celebrating the new Gallup numbers in the White House tonight? Will Master Rahm be inviting Larry Summers and Tim Geithner?by KenOkay, it's official now: Gallup has the president's approval rating down to 49 percent. ("President becomes fourth fastest to slip below the majority approval level.") Question for th (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow.Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her criticisms of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Maddow told viewers of her MSNBC show (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
CBSโs Early Show on Friday completely ignored the grilling Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner received on Capitol Hill on Thursday and the calls for his resignation by members of Congress. ABCโs Good Morning America and NBCโs Today both covered the contentious exchanges. ABCโs Good Morning America provided the most coverage. C (Read More)
www.redstate.com: Latest blog entries:
not so much in those exact words, of course!! But none-the-less Jackson said of Artur Davis (D-AL) โyou canโt vote against Health Care and call yourself a Black man.โ (story here, more) I guess Jackson has forgotten Kingโs (โCanโt we all just get along?โ - oops, wrong King but those work too) wordsโฆ.(h/t: TobyToons, this is (Read More)
DownWithTyranny!:
July 30, 1965, LBJ signs Medicare bill, Truman looks on, Republicans start plotting how to kill the programYesterday the House voted 243-183, only one Republican, Michael Burgess (R-TX) joining the Democrats, to pass John Dingell's Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 3961). The bill will "revise the Medicare (Read More)
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run:
An audit of the Federal Reserve Bank would "substantially castrate the Fed so it cannot do what it was set up to do," Rep. Melvin Watt (D., N.C.) said yesterday, in an effort to tamp down a congressional uprising against the Bush/Obama economic team. This devastating exchange Thursday between Secretary of the Treas (Read More)
National Review Online:
For Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the moderate Arkansas Democrat, the nationโs health-care woes may lead to more headaches than any medicine could alleviate. Lincoln is a pivotal vote on the motion to begin debate on Senate majority leader Harry Reidโs health-care legislation; if the motion passes, she could be the swing vote on th (Read More)