FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbor said Friday.
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Gunman 'Mortified' About Deployment to War
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WASHINGTON — Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist.
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Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
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President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.
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The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood had been directing traffic moments before she confronted the gunman and pumped four bullets ...
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The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood had been directing traffic moments before she confronted the gunman and pumped four bullets into him despite being shot herself.
Michellemalkin.com
The massacre at Fort Hood and Muslim soldiers with attitude
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Scroll for updates…7:39am Eastern press conference…Ft. Hood officials disclose that the murder victims included 12 soldiers and 1 civilian…first responder heroine who shot Hasan is in stable condition…witnesses still being interviewed “all through the night”…they confirm that Hasan was wearing his uniform&#
Gawker.com
Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation
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The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.
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Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama
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Conspiracy-theorist Website WorldNetDaily posts the inevitable “connection” between Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, and it possesses the same level of rigor and responsibility we’ve come to expect from the leading source of disinformation that the president wasn’t born an American. Under the ...
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Tragedy at Fort Hood -- By: NRO Staff
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Foremost today is to care for the wounded and the families of those who were lost or wounded. Next week, we must continue to care for those in need, while mourning our losses.� First reports are notoriously wrong. The shooter already has been killed then resurrected by the media. Some media are in a frenzy and so the reports are particularly ...
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Fort Hood Massacre: A Day of Courage And Cowardice.
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A self-described "devout Muslim" who praised suicide bombers opens fire on brave American soldiers — and most people in the mainstream media insist there is no sign of terror.
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Statement on Ft. Hood From Arab-American Military Association
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Here is a statement issued by the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in Military on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s murder of 13 people at Ft. Hood yesterday:
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The Muslim Brotherhood and Fort Hood – by Jamie Glazov »
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Post Pics
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On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
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Shootings at Texas Base Kill at Least 12; Dozens Hurt
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An Army psychiatrist facing deployment to one of America’s war zones killed 13 people and wounded 30 others on Thursday in a shooting rampage with two handguns at the sprawling Fort Hood Army post in central Texas, military officials said.
Killeen Daily Herald
Messages to Fort Hood ...
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"A message to friends, families, and loved ones ... To the Families and Soldiers of the Wagonmaster Team. I am saddened with you over the loss of life on Fort Hood. Let me assure you that the full support of the Fort Hood Community, our surrounding cities, and our Rear Detachment are standing ready to assist your Family in the wake of this ...
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Muslim Group Releases Statement On Fort Hood Shootings
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, released a statement today condemning the shootings at Fort Hood. Here is the full text: We condemn this cowardly attack in the strongest terms possible and ask that the perpetrators be punished to the full extent of the law. No religious or political ideology could ever justify or excuse such ...
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Feds Eyed Ft. Hood Killer for Posts Praising Suicide Bombers
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Before he allegedly killed a dozen and wounded 31 more at Ft. Hood, Maj. Nidal Hasan may have gone online to praise suicide bombers. “If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory,” a commenter named “NidalHasan” wrote on this Scribd.com ...
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Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a Symptom of a Military on the Brink.
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What if Thursday's atrocious slaughter at Fort Hood only signals that the worst is yet to come? The murder scene yesterday afternoon at the Killeen, Texas, military base, the largest in the country, was heart-wrenching. Details remained murky, but at...
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Contradictory picture of Fort Hood suspect emerges
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Obama to address economy, Fort Hood shooting
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is expected to talk about the Fort Hood shootings and the double-digit unemployment figures at the White House later this morning.
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Officer Lauded for Halting Gunman
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FORT HOOD, Texas (Nov. 6) -- A civilian police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage stopped the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said Friday.
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Conservative Says Hasan Acted On Orders Of Muslim Brotherhood: What Do We Know?
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One conservative writer is already declaring -- without citing any evidence -- that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter who killed 13 at Fort Hood yesterday, was acting at the behest of the Muslim Brotherhood. So it's a good time to lay out what we do and don't know about the Fort Hood shooting case and the Army psychiatrist at the ...
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Fort Hood: Crime or terrorism?
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The more we learn about Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the more questions arise. Hasan is an observant Muslim who didn’t want to deploy to Iraq. But Army colleagues also claim he made remarks supporting Muslim insurgents, and the FBI has been tracking Internet postings by a “Nidal Hasan” that spoke sympathetically of ...
Thehill.com
Top GOP recruit says Ft. Hood shooting shows 'enemy is infiltrating our military'
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A top Republican congressional recruit said on Friday that the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas yesterday by a solider allegedly sympathetic to suicide bombers shows that the "enemy is infiltrating our military."
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WND 's Jerome Corsi Claims Fort Hood Shooter Advised Obama
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Nidal Malik
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The gunman in the Fort Hood massacre hollered "Allahu Akbar!" before embarking on a bloody rampage that left more than a dozen dead, an onlooker told investigators.
Killeen Daily Herald
Police raid shooting suspect's Killeen apartment
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Bell County SWAT teams barricaded and evacuated a downtown Killeen apartment complex where Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived before authorities say he killed 13 people and injured 30 more during a massacre at Fort Hood Thursday.
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Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
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WASHINGTON - His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
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The Shootings at Fort Hood
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………very true……a not dissimilar situation from that existing in WW 2 when we had interned large numbers of Japanese Americans while at the same time many Japanese Americans were in the US military
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Suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: Social awkwardness kept with him into adulthood
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of shooting 12 people to death and wounding 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, was the son of Roanoke merchants and restaurateurs, lived in Vinton and graduated from Virginia Tech.
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When Anger Goes Cosmic -- By: Victor Davis Hanson
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We know little so far of the terrible carnage at Fort Hood, though the news media have been airing all sorts of explanations and much of their information has already proven erroneous. Yet I think it is fair to say that the Fort Hood mass murder could be seen in two larger contexts: 1) a disturbing pattern of attacking American soldiers on bases ...
Military Top Stories Center
Fort Hood Suspect Emptied Apartment
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An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbor said. The suspect's motive isn't known, but friends said he may have been struggling with a pending deployment.
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Obama: 'Dont' Jump to Conclusions' on Fort Hood Shooting
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President Obama said Friday he met with FBI chief Robert Mueller and other federal agencies to discuss what may have caused Nidal Malik Hasan to turn on his comrades in Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and 38 wounded.
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Co-Worker: Ft. Hood Suspect Made ‘Outlandish’ Comments Condemning US Foreign Policy
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Wow… whether it is considered poliitically incorrect or not, having a psychiatrist who has converted to be a Muslim, and has publicly expressed his displeasure with Americans being in Iraq and Afghanistan, being happy about that Muslim killing people at an Army recruiting centre earlier this year and at the same time having him counsel ...
Hotair.com
Chris Matthews: We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood
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Well … yes, that’s true, if you think anything short of Hasan sitting up in his hospital bed and declaring “why, indeed, religion was a factor at Fort Hood” amounts to irresponsible speculation. But here’s what we’ve got so far, according to eyewitnesses, colleagues, and friends. He considered the war on terror ...
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Obama's Response to Fort Hood Shooting Under Scrutiny
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Critics say that the tone and brevity of Obama's remarks on Fort Hood 'did not appreciate the gravity of what he represents' while others say he had the right presidential instincts.
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Atlas Shrugs
Muslim Garbed Jihadi Nidal Hasan Screamed "Allah Akbar" as he Mowed Down US Soldiers at Fort Hood, Death Toll Rises
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"Kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. Lie in wait and ambush them, seize and capture them using every stratagem of war. " Koran 9:5 Major Hasan on the morning of his jihad attack on America. Here he is in traditional Muslim garb. Very cool, calm, even seen smiling ....before he went jihad. 13 dead including a policemen, 26 wounded. Screaming ...
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Army hails officer who shot Fort Hood killer
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A police officer who intervened to stop a shooting spree at America's biggest military base was hailed today a heroine as she received treatment for the wounds received in a shoot-out with the gunman.
The Swamp
Obama: Flags half-staff for Fort Hood
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by Mark Silva and updated The president today ordered flags flown at half-staff until Veterans Day in respect for 13 killed and 30 wounded in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. "We don't know all the answers yet, and I would caution jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,'' President Barack Obama said today in a Rose Garden ...
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Obama orders flags lowered to honor Fort Hood victims
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President Obama said Friday that flags at the White House and other federal buildings will be flown at half staff until Veterans Day in recognition of the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama said Friday that flags at the White House and other federal buildings will be flown at half staff [...]
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Democracy Now!
In Worst-Ever Shooting of Its Kind, 13 Dead, 30 Wounded at Ft. Hood Military Base; Suspect Had Reportedly Complained of Anti-Muslim Bias
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In the worst mass killing at a military base in the nation's history, thirteen people have been killed and another thirty wounded at Fort Hood, Texas. The suspect, Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had reportedly complained of being harassed for being a Muslim and had tried to leave the military. It was the second such attack in the past ...
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Outside The Beltway
Update on the Fort Hood Massacre
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The picture that is emerging of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the American-born Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others at Fort Hood yesterday is of a deeply troubled and conflicted individual: As authorities scrambled to figure out what happened at Fort Hood, a hazy and contradictory picture emerged of this son of [...]
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Sen. Cornyn: Don't jump to conclusions over Fort Hood shootings
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(CNN) - Before making judgments about the shootings at Fort Hood, a thorough investigation needs to take place, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Thursday. "It is imperative that we take the time to gather all the facts, as it would be irresponsible to be the source of rumors or inaccurate information regarding such a horrific [...]
Mgutierrez
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U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings
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PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov 6 (IPS) - While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident "brings the war home".
CNN.com
Inside Fort Hood center, where horror unfolded
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The CNN Special Investigations Unit drills down on the causes and the impact of the Fort Hood shootings, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN TV. Washington (CNN) -- I was in the building at Fort Hood, Texas, in June where 43 people were shot this week.
POLITICO.com
Hutchison in Fort Hood spotlight
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Kay Bailey Hutchison has emerged as the most visible official in the wake of the shooting at Fort Hood.
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Army psychiatrist blamed in Fort Hood shooting rampage
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The suspect, stable after being shot himself, is accused of killing 13 and wounding 30 at the Texas Army base. It's not clear whether he is the author of inflammatory comments on the Web.
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Think Progress
Ft. Hood murder suspect alive and in stable condition.
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At a press conference moments ago, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone , commanding general of the Army’s III Corps and Fort Hood, revealed that contrary to initial media reports, the suspected shooter in the Ft. Hood murders is not dead. The suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan , is reportedly “in stable condition” and his death is “not imminent.
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Political Punch
President Obama Attempts Reassurance on Ft. Hood Shootings, Unemployment
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On a chilly morning, President Obama came to the Rose Garden Friday morning to try to offer reassurance in the wake of both the Fort Hood shootings and dismal economic news, suggesting -- regarding the latter issue -- that he was considering even more economic stimulus measures.
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NewsBusters.org
ABC Frets: Plight of Muslim Soldiers Toughest Since Japanese-Americans in WWII
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ABC doubled the length of its evening newscast on Friday night and World News used its second half hour to suggest an exculpatory reason behind Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan's mass killing at Fort Hood -- as anchor Charles Gibson reasoned “treating the mentally wounded can be stressful” -- then to devote a story to the plight of Muslim ...
The Dallas Morning News
Heroes were at every turn during Fort Hood shootings
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FORT HOOD, Texas – From the first frantic 911 call that a shooter was rampaging through the Soldier Readiness Center on this sprawling Army base, it took police officer Kimberly Munley just four minutes to get there.
Military Families Speak Out
The Fort Hood Killings: MFSO Offers Condolences
The Bombs of War Also Explode at Home
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A press release regarding the killing of 13 and the wounding of 30 others at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009.
Yahoo! News
Details emerge about Fort Hood suspect's history
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AP - He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.
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Today's Most Popular Stories
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Each day, Ashley Estill surfs your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for November 6, 2009: Washington Post: Suspect, devout Muslim from Va., wanted Army discharge, aunt said Washington Times: Sniper's ex-wife speaks out on abuse Washington Examiner: Democrat trap: Pelosi's wrath or voter backlash USA Today:
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Republican congressional recruit: ‘Enemy is infiltrating our military’
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One of the Republicans' most favored congressional candidates -- a former commander at Fort Hood, Texas -- said Friday that the "enemy" had infiltrated the US military after a Muslim Army psychiatrist allegedly massacred at least 13 at the Texas military base. According to the Hill, the comments were made by GOP candidate Allen West. Allen West [..
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Twelve of the Thirteen Dead at Fort Hood Were Soldiers
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Yesterday afternoon there was breaking news that 11 people were dead and 31 wounded at Fort Hood, which is near Killeen, Texas. That death toll now stands at 13, with many others in critical condition. Twelve of the dead are reported to be soldiers; the suspected shooter is not among them. Major Nidal Hasan, M.D. M.P.H. did not die at the scene ...
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‘Left, Right & Center’: GOP Scores; Unemployment Up; Fort Hood Fallout
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Unemployment reaches 10.2 percent—do we need a bigger stimulus? What do the GOP victories in Virginia and New Jersey mean for both parties? Will the House’s historic health care bill pass, and, if so, why wait till 2013 to implement it? READ THE WHOLE ITEM
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NewsBusters.org
NBC Analyst Unsure Ft. Hood Shooting Was Terrorism
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Appearing on the Dr. Nancy program on MSNBC Friday, NBC News terrorism analyst Roger Cressy warned against labeling the mass shooting at Ft. Hood as terrorism, despite the apparent radical views of the shooter: “We’ve heard some family references that he was being criticized for his Muslim faith, that’s all we know right now.... It’s ...
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Michelle Malkin
The massacre at Fort Hood and Muslim soldiers with attitude
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I was traveling to Wichita for a speaking event/fundraiser (which I’ll tell you more about later) when news of the Fort Hood massacre broke. Please continue to pray for the 12 murder victims and their families, and the 30 wounded and their families.
The Dallas Morning News
Fort Hood shooting poses complications for Muslims in the military
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Army Spc. Naveed Ali Shah was at his base in Iraq when he got a disturbing e-mail. His wife, Angela, said she and their toddler son were in lockdown at Fort Hood because of a shooting rampage.
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Raw Story
Obama remarks on Ft. Hood shooting and unemployment
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Statesman
Suspect reportedly upset about deployment
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, trained by the Army to help soldiers deal with the stress of war, was weeks away from heading for war.
Baltimoresun.com
Fort Hood, surrounding community mourn victims of deadly on-post shooting in Texas
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base.
Confederate Yankee
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The Victims of Fort Hood
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My latest article is up at Pajamas Media....
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AmSpecBlog
"It's Shocking"
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A friend stationed at Fort Hood posted the following on Facebook last night: found it hard to sleep last night. Fort Hood is a special place to me, sort of a bastion against the trials...
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THE TENSION
Pentagon: Army Major Declared Sole Suspect in Fort Hood Shooting
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N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2009 -- U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is believed to be the lone shooter of some 43 people on Fort Hood, Texas, and he survived being shot by a civilian police officer, the base commander said. In a televised press briefing tonight, Army Lt Gen. Robert Cone corrected earlier reports that said Hasan and ...
The Swamp
Obama: Flags half-staff for Fort Hood
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by Mark Silva and updated The president today ordered flags flown at half-staff until Veterans Day in respect for 13 killed and 30 wounded in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. "We don't know all the answers yet, and I would caution jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,'' President Barack Obama said today in a Rose Garden ...
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Austinist
News Bits!
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Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood shooting suspect. Blood donations needed after yesterday's attack at Fort Hood. Obama to sign homebuyer, jobless bill assistance. Families of the missing seek answers amid carnage in Cleveland. TABC to change way it investigates use of excessive force. State orders Hays County jail to close kitchen; two ...
Slate Magazine
Can you carry a concealed weapon on military bases? And other Fort Hood questions answered.
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Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the only suspect in Thursday's lethal spree at the Fort Hood, Texas, military base, reportedly killed 13 people and wounded 30 before a civilian police officer shot him four times. The incident raises many questions, a number of which we try to answer here. [ more ... ] Fort Hood - Military base - Army - ...
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ACLU
The hero of Fort Hood
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With all the talk of the Fort Hood shooter, I think it’s important to also recognize someone else. She’s the hero of Fort Hood, a civilian who showed incredible bravery and strength under pressure, and certainly saved the lives of countless more people by stopping Nidall Malik Hasan. She is Sgt. Kimberly Munley , the hero of Fort Hood,
AMERICAN DIGEST
The Hero of Fort Hood
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Kimberly Munley, the police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman, with the country singer Dierks Bentley. "Prayers and thanks flooded the apparent Twitter feed of Sgt. Kimberly Munley, the civilian police officer hailed as a hero for stopping the shooting rampage at Fort Hood. "One admirer sent a “bear hug.” She “is one outstanding brave ...
Steven Moyer
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THE TENSION
Pentagon: Army Sends Support Teams to Aid Fort Hood Soldiers, Families
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N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2009 -- Resources to help those affected by the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas, are flowing to the post, Army officials said today. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan killed 13 Fort Hood personnel and wounded another 30 during a shooting spree at the post’s Soldier-Family Readiness Center yesterday. Hassan was ...
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News Hounds
Fort Hood Shooting Brings Out Racism And Death Threats In Fox Nation Comments
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I can't fault Fox Nation's coverage of the awful Fort Hood shootings but where is their moderator? Some of the comments are not just racist but threatening. (H/T William T.) Screen grabs after the jump. The home page is reasonably measured, as is the report it links to: But why have the moderators allowed these comments? "Ash" is a non- ...
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Armchair Generalist
Twelve Dead at Fort Hood
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There's just not much to say about the tragic news yesterday - twelve 13 dead and 30 injured as a result of a "lone gunman," now identified as an Army major. MAJ Nidal Hasan was a psychiatrist who had graduated...
Msnbc.com
Profile of Fort Hood suspect emerges
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The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.
Burnt Orange Report
President Obama's Proclamation: Honoring the Victims at Fort Hood
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President Barack Obama released the following proclamation today: Our Nation's thoughts and prayers are with the service members, civilians, and families affected by the tragic events at Fort Hood, Texas. The brave victims, who risked their lives to protect their fellow countrymen, serve as a constant source of strength and inspiration to ...
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Sweetness
Fort Hood Murderer Is A Devout Muslim
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From those defenders of the faith at the Washington Post (partners with Newsweek): Suspect, devout Muslim from Va., wanted Army discharge, aunt said By Mary Pat Flaherty, William Wan, Derek Kravitz and Christian Davenport Friday, November 6, 2009 He prayed every day at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, a [...]
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AfterDowningStreet.org
The Tragedy at Fort Hood
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The Tragedy at Fort Hood By Stephanie Westbrook When I read of the tragedy at Fort Hood in my home state of Texas, where a soldier killed 13 of his fellow troops and wounded 30, I couldn't help thinking of my brief experience at the base. It was the summer of 2006. I was in Crawford, Texas, home to Bush's ranch and Camp Casey, the activist camp ...
Msnbc.com
Military hails 2 heroes in Fort Hood rampage
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The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer and an army nutritionist for their heroism during the rampage.
On Deadline
FBI sends team to Fort Hood to re-create shooting
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USA TODAY correspondent Kevin Johnson sent us this report on the dispatch of an FBI team to Fort Hood:
On Deadline
Army bio for Fort Hood shooting suspect
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Doug is an unrepentant news junkie who loves breaking news and has been known to watch C-SPAN even on vacation. He has covered a wide range of domestic and international news stories, from prison riots in Oklahoma to the Moscow coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Doug previously served as foreign editor at USA TODAY. More about Doug
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Fort Hood: How Many Shots
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Pilgrim at the always feisty SayAnything blog takes a look at some details regarding the Fort Hood murders. He wonders if everything we're being told really adds up . Buried underneath the horrific senselessness of this entire, hideous episode is one little thing that isn’t clicking. We have the report that the shooter, who we now know was ...
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The State is an Accomplice in the Fort Hood Killings
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A fter Obama calls the Fort Hood shootings "horrific", I’d like to note 3 things: There are gun control rules on military bases. In particular, concealed carry is not permitted. So, in a situation like that at Fort Hood, the victims who obeyed the rules had no way to defend themselves. The murderer, of course, ignored the rules. ...
PhillyBurbs.com
Report: Fort Hood victims include NJ soldier
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A New Jersey soldier was among those wounded in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood.
Michael Moore
Gunman in Fort Hood shooting, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted 'Allahu Akbar' before deadly attack
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The gunman in the Fort Hood massacre hollered "Allahu Akbar!" before embarking on a bloody rampage that left more than a dozen dead, an onlooker told investigators. "We do have a witness who reported that," Col. John Rossi said Friday morning. "Allahu Akbar" means "God is great" in Arabic. At the morning briefing, Rossi also praised Officer ...
American Thinker
Medical response to the Fort Hood massacre
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A report from a physician at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center writing of "best damn mass casualty drill that could be imagined, made so by extraordinary efforts in the face of a mountain of awful human carnage."
NPR Topics
Suspected Fort Hood Shooter Saw the Toll of PTSD
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As an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan heard the horror stories of war on a daily basis from the soldiers he was treating for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Right Mind
Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted `Allahu Akbar'
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I’m really surprised that the AP is reporting this. It’s insensitive and profiling (tongue implanted firmly in cheek). From the Associated Press : Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" -- an Arabic phrase for "God is great!"
NPR Topics
Remembering The Fallen At Fort Hood
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The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago and a newlywed who had served in Iraq.
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Pajamas Media
Fort Hood Horror All Too Familiar
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What are we to make of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's rampage? (Also read Phyllis Chesler: The Jihadist Is Always the Victim.)
Yahoo! News
Motive probed in Fort Hood shooting rampage
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Reuters - Investigators searched on Friday for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.
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Gawker
Did The Fort Hood Shooter Sign This Anti-Iraq-War Petition?
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As a kind of addendum to the Nidal Hasan documents trawl of last night, here's an anti-war petition [ PDF ] signed by someone named... Nidal Hasan . The evidence this is him is circumstantial: the timing - around 2003 - fits with reports that after the death of his parents in 1998 and 2001 he became disaffected with the military and tried to ...
Deborahgyapong.blogspot.com
David Horowitz asks: "Is everybody out of their mind?"
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And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. He did not want to be deployed. He wanted to be discharged. But despite his identification with America’s enemies, the army ...
Steven L. Taylor
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PoliBlog
An Appropriate Response to Fort Hood
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"It is imperative that we take the time to gather all the facts, as it would be irresponsible to be the source of rumors or inaccurate information regarding such a horrific event." "Once we have ascertained all the facts, working with our military leaders and law enforcement officials on the ground, we can determine what exactly ...
ScienceBlogs Channel
Correcting some of Chris Matthews Misunderstandings: More on the Fort Hood Shootings
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The amazing amount of uninformed speculation that's coming out of the mouth of Chris Matthews right now is mind numbing. Speaking as someone who lives and works on a military post, I have absolutely no doubt that I have a better understanding of the dynamics of the military base than he does. I'm just going to hit some of the major issues. 1: In ...
Military Top Stories Center
Army Says Civilian Officer Shot Gunman
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FORT HOOD, Texas - The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post.
Michael Moore
Fort Hood shooter may have been Army psychiatrist
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WASHINGTON — The Army major suspected of opening fire on soldiers as they were preparing to deploy overseas at the massive Fort Hood military base in central Texas Thursday may have been an Army psychiatrist who recently completed training in disaster and preventive psychiatry at Walter Reed Medical Center in the nation's capital. A military ...
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A Hero's Salute
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I believe that this young man is a medic with someone's blood on his shirt. Words do not describe the pride I feel or the gratitude that we have such people in our military: A first responder to a lone gunman's attack at Fort Hood Nov. 5 renders honors at retreat after aiding his fellow soldiers. U.S. Army photo More photos of the incident below ...
Slate Magazine
If women can defend Fort Hood, they can defend America.
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Fort Hood, Texas, hosts tens of thousands of men who are trained to fight for their country. But none of them stopped Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as he blew away 13 of their colleagues Thursday afternoon. It was a civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who shot him. For her trouble, Munley took a bullet in her leg. Maybe the president will ...
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Presidential Proclamation - Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas
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Click here to download PDF THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 6, 2009 Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas - - - - - - - By The President of the United States of America A Proclamation Our Nation's thoughts and prayers ...
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AP trafficks in innuendo over Ft. Hood shootings
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AP reporter Brett Blackledge should be ashamed of this lead: WASHINGTON (AP) -- His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients. Soon after Nidal Malik Hasan ...
The Seattle Times
Details emerge about Fort Hood suspect's history
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He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.
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Update on the Ft. Hood Shooter
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According to this Washington Post report, the shooter at the Ft. Hood massacre, Major Nidal M. Hasan was an American citizen born in Arlington, Virginia of Palestinian American parents. He had never married, and was a devout Muslim by all accounts. He had also allegedly asked for a discharge from the military for several years after suffering ...
Statesman
Fort Hood aftermath, how to help
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President Barack Obama on Friday saluted the courage of the victims of the Fort Hood shootings in a proclamation ordering flags at all federal facilities in the U.S. and abroad to be flown at half-staff until sunset Tuesday.
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President Obama delivers remarks from the Rose Garden on the Fort Hood shooting
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SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Good morning. I want to begin by offering an update on the tragedy that took place yesterday at Fort Hood. This morning I met with FBI Director Mueller and the relevant agencies to discuss their ongoing investigation into what caused one individual to...
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Ft Hood shooter was on Homeland Security task force offering advice to incoming administration
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Caught this little nugget at the end of Scott McCabe's Washington Examiner profile this morning of Ft Hood shooter Malik Nadal Hasan: In April 2008, Hasan was a participant in George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute task force that...
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Political Correctness In The Military: How Did The Ft. Hood Shooter Become A Major?
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One thing that has bothered me about the Ft. Hood massacre since I heard the first reports has been the rank of the shooter: Major. I’m no expert on things military, but my impression is that becoming a Major in the Army isn’t no mean achievement. It takes years of hard work to be promoted to Major, even in the non-combat side of the ...
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Ft. Hood Tragedy
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I have avoided posting about the tragic event in Ft. Hood up until now, because the reported details keep changing rapidly (i.e. shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan originally reported to...
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Weekly Address: President Obama Extends Condolences to the Fort Hood Community
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WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama expressed his sadness for the tragedy at Fort Hood and praised the selfless valor of those who came to the aid of the wounded. While we mourn the heartbreaking violence, we should honor the heroism of the soldiers and civilians who rushed to help their comrades. That is the ...
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Flags at half-staff in Montana for Fort Hood victims
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Gov. Brian Schweitzer today ordered that all flags in the state be flown at half-staff until Veterans' Day to honor the Fort Hood shooting victims and their families.
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More On Fort Hood
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Patterico watches the LA Times squirm. The Captain ponders the emerging portrait of the shooter. And from yesterday, Hot Air has an emerging, frequently updated blow-by-blow. Inshallah. MORE: Maybe our Commander-in-Chief could hold off on the shout-outs when addressing the...
Reuters
Motive probed in Fort Hood shooting rampage
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KILLEEN, Texas (Reuters) - Investigators searched on Friday for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.
Military Families Speak Out
The Fort Hood Killings: MFSO Offers Condolences
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As the nation was stunned by the horrific tragedies that left 13 dead and 30 wounded on Ft. Hood yesterday, Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and Gold Star Families Speak Out (GSFSO) would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to our fellow Military Families and those who love them. Upon first hearing about such attacks, our stress as military ...
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The Jawa Report
Muslim group "outraged" at Ft Hood shooting justified Hezbollah suicide bombing that killed 241 Marines
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This video below features Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) president Salam Al-Marayati expressing his "outrage" at yesterday's shooting at Ft Hood. That would be the same MPAC that in 1999 published a counterterrorism policy paper that justified the Hezbollah suicide...
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RedState
Barack Obama’s ‘My Pet Goat’ Moment
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On September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush, while reading a book to children in Florida called “My Pet Goat,” found Andy Card whispering in his ear that America had been attacked and we were at war. Not wanting to drop everything and flee lest he scare the children, the President calmly finished the book, then left to a ...
Weekly Standard Blog
Obama Searching for the Root Causes of Ft. Hood Massacre
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It looks like the man who killed 13 soldiers and police at Ft. Hood was a Muslim radical who hated America, resented our occupation of Muslim lands, would not be photographed with women, and chanted "Allahu Akbar" before he launched a one-man terrorist attack, but according to CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller, Obama wants to know what ...
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Fort Hood, post the first.
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I wasn't ignoring the story last night, our internet connection was slower than John Kerry in Cambodia, and I gave up trying to get email to open and realized that the news coverage was just ad hoc crap.It has been interesting (and instructive) to watch the story morph, and how people felt the need to jump on it with all sorts of bullshit ...
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Home Fires: Surviving Fort Hood
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The killings at Fort Hood are a reminder of our failure to deal with the psychological wounds of war.
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CAIR Defends Islam: Fort Hood shooter murders in name of Allah?
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by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook CAIR came out with their excuse for Muslim shooter, Nadal Malik Hasan: he is heinous, and Islam condemns his actions. No comment from CAIR spokesman Nihad Awad that the murders may have been committed in the name of Allah. Awad didn’t mention that there is a name for murders committed in the name of ...
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In the Last 24 Hours …
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The massacre at Ft. Hood. A pipeline explosion in the Texas Panhandle. A grain processing plant explosion in western Missouri. What the hell? I’m certainly not suggeting these events are related; nor am I suggesting the explosions are comparable to what happened at Ft. Hood — not at all. It just seemed to be a disproportionate [...]
The Seattle Times
Suspect's cousin talks to FBI, mortified by attack
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The cousin of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says family members have met with the FBI and answered all their questions.
The Swamp
Obama: Walter Reed tour today
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by Mark Silva President Barack Obama plans a stop today at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where some of the most wounded casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated -- and where the Army psychologist accused of killing 13 and wounding 30 at Ft. Hood, Texas, worked for several years before reassignment in Texas. The visit ...
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The Legacy of Major Nidal Malik Hasan
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The murder of thirteen US soldiers and the wounding of thirty others at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday is an unprecedented even in the history of the US military. It marks the first time in the history of the republic that a commissioned officer in the Armed Forces has turned his weapon on American troops. Probably the closest thing the US Army has ...
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Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in attack at Fort Hood
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From the Associated Press : An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States. The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive in a hospital ...
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Praying for the families of the fallen at Ft. Hood
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Yesterday in Fort Hood, the unimaginable occurred. The lives of twelve American soldiers and one civilian were tragically ended, and some thirty others wounded, in a senseless shooting spree by a fellow soldier. These are men and women who have selflessly committed their lives to fighting for our country in the most dangerous situations ...
Crunchy Con
Ft. Hood killer's Islam matters -- but how?
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We now know that the Fort Hood shooter, Hasan, was a Muslim, and fancied himself a devout one. We know that he shouted "Allahu akbar!" as he executed American soldiers. We are informed by a retired Army colonel and co-worker...
The Economist
The tragedy at Fort Hood
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And questions about the shooter OFFICIALS at Fort Hood just held their last press conference of the evening pertaining to today's horrible shootings at this sprawling military base in Killeen, Texas. A few of the facts, just updated: after interviewing about 100 eyewitnesses, they now believe there was a single shooter, Major Nidal Malik ...
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Mudville Gazette
Ft Hood: the view from Iraq
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From one of the many deployed soldiers with family at Ft Hood:I've been deployed to Iraq for the past four months, and I've figured out how to cope with the stress that comes from being thousands of miles away from my family. But I wasn't prepared for what happens when violence intrudes on my loved ones, who are supposed to be safe at home while ...
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Fort Hood shooting: Maj Nidal Malik Hasan could be executed
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Maj Nidal Malik Hasan could become the first person to be sentenced to death by a military court in almost 50 years. The US Armed Forces has a death penalty – lethal injection – but there have been no executions since 1961 when an army private, John Bennett, was hanged for rape and attempted murder. The military can also impose a ...
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Chris Matthews: We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood
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Hmmm.
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"Allahu Akbar!"
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It's the new "cry for help". According to the suspect's cousin, Hasan was also harassed after 9/11 because of his ethnicity, and was called a "camel jockey." Well said: Horrific Outbreak of Stupidity h/t Jason Update: Not all are equally...
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Fort Hood Shootings
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I'm waiting and seeing. I see that right-wing blogs are in an intense anti-Muslim hate frenzy. This is a terrible tragedy. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit Seeing the Forest at for full links, other content, and more! ]
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Ft. Hood
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I don’t have much to say about this other than my thoughts and best wishes are with the families of all involved. It is a horrible tragedy and I hope everything possible is being done to help the families and the victims, as I am sure it is. Part of the reason I don’t have anything to say is that I don’t know anything right now.
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New West Notes
Non-Random Notes
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Ex-neighbors of the Army psychiatrist reported to have shot 13 people to death at Fort Hood, Texas recall him as a nice and giving person. ** CALIFORNIA 2010: THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD HAS BEEN CLEARED. Lloyd: What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and a girl like me… ending up [...]
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BBC
THE ELEPHANT IN THE FORT
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Yes, so I've been listening to the BBC's coverage of the act of mass murder at Fort Hood carried out by Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Just one thing missing - the fact that he was a Muslim who apparently entertained dreams of Jihad. Maybe that's not news? Best to focus on US foreign policy and how it enraged him.... Click through to read and ...
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On Fort Hood shooting, Obama says: Do not jump to conclusions
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He wouldn't be the first doctor to commit mass murder -- By: Tom Gross
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Some commentators on television are expressing amazement that the army major, Nidal Malik Hasan, suspected of murdering 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas today was a doctor of many years standing. It is too early to tell whether this is an act of domestic terrorism but if it is we should not be surprised that the shooter was a doctor. As I ...
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Mudville Gazette
The fallen
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***** From a story on one of the soldiers wounded at Ft Hood: "Lunsford is in stable condition at the hospital in Temple, Tex., where hundreds waited in line to give blood for the wounded." First responders use a table as a stretcher to transport a wounded soldier to an awaiting ambulance at Fort Hood Nov. 5, 2009. U.S. Army photo. Staff Sgt. ...
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Of the Troops, For The Troops....
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I work with quite of few former infantrymen, and I get quite a bit of crap from them. Yesterday though, I only heard one thing from them as they watched the news coming from Fort Hood. Thank God for the Military Police Corps... There are going to be recognition of the heroes and inevitable recriminations from what happened at Fort Hood. The US ...
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The number of unemployed rose to 15.7 million in October, as 190,000 nonfarm jobs were lost, the government said, and economists do not expect relief until next year.
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The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October
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Obama Signs Bill Extending Jobless Benefits as Unemployment Rate Skyrockets
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Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs, the Labor Department said Friday, pushing the unemployment rate over 10 percent for the first time since 1983.
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Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher. The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. The rising jobless rate could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers' confidence and makes them more cautious about ...
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Unemployment Passes 10 Percent
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More bad news on the labor market front: Takeaways: One, people need to stop worrying about inflation. Two, the federal government should deploy more aid to state and local governments. Three, instead of easing up on the easing of monetary policy the Fed needs to ease even more, probably by taking some advice from Scott Sumner [...]
Hotair.com
Unemployment hits 10.2%
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Unemployment hit double digits for the first time in 26 years as more than 558,000 lost jobs in October. The jobless rate went from 9.8% to 10.2%, a leap that quadruples the increase from August to September and indicates a rapidly-worsening situation for American workers:
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U.S. unemployment rate climbs to 10.2 percent
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October, the Labor Department said Friday. It's the first time the unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent since 1983. Full story from CNNMoney.com
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Unemployment Hits 26-Year High of 10.2 Percent in October
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The Department of Labor announced on November 6 that the US lost another 190,000 jobs in October, resulting in the unemployment rate reaching a new peak of 10.2%, a 0.4% increase from the 9.8% September figure, and the highest number of jobless workers in the US in 26 years.
Baltimoresun.com
Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83
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The nation's unemployment rate surged to 10.2% in October, reaching double digits for the first time in 26 years, the Labor Department reported today.
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Friday employment snapshot
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National unemployment rate hits 10.2%. Economists had forecast an increase to 9.9%. Since December 2007, employers have shed 8.2 million jobs, sending the unemployment rate up 5.3 percentage points. The ratio of job cuts to losses in gross domestic product, or GDP, in this recession has surpassed the historical norm. Recovery to pre-recession ...
Truthout
Unemployment Hits 10.2 Percent, Economy Sheds 190,000 Jobs
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The strong wage growth reported for October was probably an aberration. The unemployment rate crossed 10.0 percent for the first time since early 1983, hitting 10.2 percent in October. The establishment survey showed the economy losing another 190,000 jobs, with most of the job loss in construction and manufacturing. The October unemployment ...
Hyscience
Labor report: Unemployment Edges Toward 10 Percent
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The government releasew its monthly employment report today and the AP reports that the nation's economy probably lost a net total of 175,000 jobs in October, pushing the unemployment rate to 9.9 percent. Ah, the wonders of Obanomics and Hopenchange. But puhleese, don't question Dear Leader's competency . Update: Fox News just reported that ...
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Atlas Shrugs
A Failed President Blames Bush almost a year later UPDATE: UNEMPLOYMENT HITS 10.2%
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This asshat is pathetic. How fondly we will recall the Bush years when America was America, when the President was a patriot, and when we were proud. Cry, Marxist, cry. I long for the days of� less than 5% unemployment, American hegemony and robust American pride. One year on Obama cites struggle with Bush legacy MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - A year ...
The Swamp
Unemployment surpasses 10 percent
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by Don Lee The nation's unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October, reaching double digits for the first time in 26 years, the Labor Department reported today. The unexpected sharp increase, from 9.8 percent in September, came as employers dropped 190,000 workers from their payrolls last month. That was larger than the 175,000 job ...
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Right Mind
U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent in October, the highest rate since April, 1983. Job losses total 190,000.
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From CNN : “U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent in October, the highest rate since April, 1983. Job losses total 190,000.” Doesn’t that make you feel better about all those trillions of dollars in stimulus money?...( read more )
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The Plum Line
GOPers: Unemployment Numbers Show Need For More Bipartisanship
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Republicans, not unexpectedly, are seizing on the news of the 10.2% unemployment rate to fuel the meme — first initiated by Tuesday’s electoral results — that independents are preoccupied with the economy and will continue to desert Dems lest they slow down on health care reform and other priorities. The GOP responses also have ...
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Unemployment hits 10.2%
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Psychological threshold.
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Obama Considers New Steps on Economy, Signs Unemployment Bill
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President Barack Obama on Friday said he is considering additional steps to boost the economy including new spending measures and tax cuts as the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate has risen to 10.2 percent.
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Roll Call Daily News
GOP Seizes on Double-Digit Unemployment Figure
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House Republican leaders on Friday seized on October's double-digit unemployment rate as proof that Democrats' economic stimulus legislation has failed and their proposed $1.3 trillion health care overhaul will further sink the economy.
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Gawker
Ugh, Dreaded Double Digit Unemployment Is Here
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The official unemployment rate is now 10.2%, higher than analysts expected, according to Bloomberg.
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Let's talk cause & effect. Is it because of a "weak Dem in power" or is it because the prior Republican administrations eroded gun laws thus allowing unstable idiots ready access to fire arms? And perhaps Dems then limit gun access thus protecting the succeeding administration from similar massacres?
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Orlando office building gunman on the loose
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Officials said at least eight people were hurt in a shooting at a downtown office building Friday and a gunman was on the loose. People streamed out of the high-rise building around lunchtime and some told local television stations they had barricaded themselves inside their offices.
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2 Dead, 6 Injured In Orlando Shooting
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- wo of eight people shot inside an Orlando high-rise building late Friday morning have died and police are still looking for a gunman. Orlando fire officials all those transported from the Gateway Center on Legion Place near Lake Ivanhoe just before noon Friday had life-threatening injuries.
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Downtown Orlando shooting: 1 dead, 5 injured
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THIS IS SO OVERBOARD PEOPLE ARE DYING FOR GETTING FIRED OR NOT WANTING TO GET DEPLOYED TO IRAQ,WE ALL NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET TO A PLACE SO WE CAN HELP EACH OTHER SO THIS WONT HAPPEN,WE CAN BE THE NEXT ON IN A MASS SHOOTING WE NEED TO THINL ABOUT ALL THE LIVES WE LOST ON 11/05/09 AND 11/06/09 YOU GUYS ARE BEING REALLY SELFISH TO THOSE PEOPLE THAT ...
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Orlando gunman caught after mass shooting in high-rise
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A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others. Jason Rodriguez, 40, surrendered about three hours later, after officers saw him through the window of his mother's home and asked him to come outside, [...]
Weekly Standard Blog
Shooting in Orlando Office Building Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Injured
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The suspect is at large: Eight people have been shot, two of them fatally at an office building at 1000 Legion Place in dowtown Orlando. Police are looking for a suspect wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans. A witness tells FOX 35 the shooter is a former worker who was employed in the building. He is 40-year-old Jason Rodrigues, driving a Silver ...
Yahoo! News
Laid-off Orlando engineer kills one, wounds five
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Reuters - An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.
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The Moderate Voice
8 Shot In Orlando Florida Highrise
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Is there something in the water, is this a coincidence…or what? Yet another mass shooting…this time in Florida: One person was killed and at least seven others were wounded in a shooting incident inside a downtown Orlando high-rise building Friday morning, authorities said. Quoting emergency dispatchers, NBC station WESH-TV of Orlando ...
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Orlando Update
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Details are still sketchy and the numbers keep changing. But it seems that at least six people were hurt in the Orlando office shooting. The suspected shooter is reportedly Jason Rodriguez, 40. He allegedly opened fire in the office of Reynolds Smith & Hill -- in the building where he used to work. Rodriguez is still not in custody.
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Talking Points Memo
Apprehended
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Orlando's police chief has just confirmed that the suspected gunman in the Orlando office shooting has been apprehended. She also confirmed that at least one person was killed in the shooting.
Little Green Footballs
Mass Shooting in Florida
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At least 8 people have been shot in the Gateway Center office building in Orlando, Florida. Not many details available yet…
Reuters
Laid-off Orlando engineer kills one, wounds five
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.
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Shakesville
Another Shooting in Orlando
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[Trigger warning.] Orlando office building gunman on the loose : Officials said at least eight people were hurt in a shooting at a downtown office building Friday and a gunman was on the loose. People streamed out of the high-rise building around lunchtime and some told local television stations they had barricaded themselves inside their offices.
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Shooting in an Office Building -- By: NRO Staff
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by Peter Nicholas At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration. Political consultants are a staple of ...
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White House: FOX off-limits -- strategist
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by Peter Nicholas At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration. Political consultants are a staple of ...
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Fox hosts call for Muslim screenings
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In the wake of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by a military psychiatrist of Middle Eastern lineage, the hosts at Fox News have begun suggesting that all Muslims in the military should be treated as potential threats.
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Democratic civil war update: MoveOn raises $3.6 million to attack party moderates
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A few days ago, the left-wing activist group MoveOn.org began sending out emails seeking contributions to fund primary challenges against any Democratic senator who does not fully support "health care reform with a public option." Now there's an update: MoveOn executive director Justin Ruben says the group has raised $3,578,117 for the ...
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Today’s Qs for O’s WH –
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TAPPER: Kind of a -- a theoretical question, but what -- at what point does an attack become considered a terrorist attack, even -- even if it's a domestic terrorist attack?
TAPPED
Conservatives Complain About The Oppression Of White Men On The Bench.
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Dave Weigel reports that the conservative Committee for Justice is complaining in the aftermath of the nomination of one Latino and one African American to the federal bench, that President Obama 's judicial nominees aren't diverse enough because there aren't enough southern white men among them. Does President Obama or his advisors believe that ...
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White House warned Democratic strategist: No Fox
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At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration.
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Time to Stop This Fight
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On Tuesday evening, the disparity between Fox News' ratings and those of its cable news competitors was remarkable: More people watched Fox News than all of its cable news competitors combined, and CNN came in a dismal fourth. CNN's ratings have been in a tailspin. Shockingly, CNN finished October out of the list of the top 30 cable channels. Fox ...
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GOP: White House 'falling short' on jobs
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Republicans quickly responded to the latest jobs report Friday. Washington (CNN) - The top Republican in the House of Representatives says the White House is "falling short" when it comes to battling unemployment. "The president has said that job creation is the ultimate measure of economic performance. Today's report is yet another reminder ...
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Karl Frisch: Media Matters: The right-wing media's election analysis just ain't that good
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Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant . Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance. Fox News contributor Dick Morris said at the time, "[I]f you have a Republican president, people are going to vote Democrat, and if you have a Democrat president, they're going to ...
Media Matters for America
Fox News advances false claim that "House Call" protest was "spontaneous"
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Fox News has repeatedly advanced, and in Sean Hannity's case adopted, Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) false claim that her November 5 House Call protest in opposition of health care reform was "organic" and "spontaneous." In fact, the protest was organized by House Republicans in collaboration with conservative activist groups, and was promoted ...
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Buried: NY Times Plunks GOP Protest In Middle of A-15 Story Titled 'House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote'
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While the Washington Post ran a full news story by Philip Rucker on the conservative Capitol Hill rally on page 4 on Friday, The New York Times buried it with just six paragraphs – smack dab in in the middle of a story on A-15 headlined "House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote." The story by Times reporters Carl Hulse and ...
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NewsBusters.org
Olbermann Suggests FNC Discriminates Against Non-White or Muslim Employees
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On Friday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann suggested that Fox News is a racist organization that would hold race or religion against its employees in awarding promotions, as he used the show’s "Worst Person" segment to slam Fox and Friends co-hosts Brian Kilmeade, Gretchen Carlson, and Peter Johnson, for raising ...
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Capital Eye
Gay Democratic Fund-raiser Says Money Should Only Support Candidates Who Back Equality
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A well-heeled Democratic fund-raiser is calling on donors to stop the "gay ATM" to politicians who don't fully support equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. Once named the most powerful gay man in America by Newsweek , David Mixner is angered by the hands-off approach of President Barack Obama and the Democratic National ...
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President to Formally Back House Democrats' Health Care Bill
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The White House will today issue a Statement of Administration Policy today endorsing the health care reform legislation from House Democrats. It will not be a signal that the president favors the House bill over the one from Senate Democrats,...
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"Fox and Friends" suggests screening Muslim soldiers
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It was only a matter of time before the right-wing media really sunk their teeth into the fact that the alleged Fort Hood shooter was a Muslim and jumped to what, in their minds, could be the only logical conclusion: It’s time to consider whether Muslims in the military should be subject to special screenings. On "Fox and Friends" Friday ...
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Newark students helping with White House ornaments
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Students at Newark's Chancellor Avenue School will send some artwork to the White House.
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The End of an Era That Never Began -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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I t’s all so terribly sad. To listen to liberals and the White House spin election results, you’d think all was well with the world. Barack Obama is still personally popular! The evil right-wing extremists lost in New York’s 23rd congressional district and a Democrat (who was arguably more conservative than the Republican nominee) won. Virginia ...
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Sunday Show Preview
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Big Hollywood
‘Washington Post’ Endorses Plagiarism to Defend Obama
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Yesterday, the White House announced that it was removing Alma Thomas’ plagiaristic piece “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from its walls. The White House announced that the painting was moved “because it didn’t fit the space right.” The Washington Post pointed out that posters at FreeRepublic.com had examined the similarity between “Watusi (
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White House Statement of Support of House HCR Bill
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The White House just issued this statement. The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system. H.R. 3962 will provide needed insurance reforms for Americans with insurance, expand coverage for ...
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Tuesday’s results on top and down ballot: The closer you look, the worse it was for Democrats
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The more one digs into Tuesday’s election results, the worse they look for Democrats. Let’s start by reviewing once again the three high profile races: New York’s 23 rd Congressional District special election, and the gubernatorial in New Jersey and Virginia. The Democrats have to know that NY-23 was a fluke – they can’t count on ...
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Polling and Political Wrap-Up,
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You might have noticed as of late that the Wrap-Up has taken on a very predictable cadence. The polling news comes first, with numbers and analysis. Then, in bullet form, the political news of the day soon follows. Well, there is good news and bad news on this Friday afternoon/evening. The bad news: near as I can tell, there is no new polling to ...
Weekly Standard Blog
Does the House Bill Fulfill Obama's Pledge to Bar Abortion Funding? Gibbs Won't Say
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During his address to the joint session of Congress, President Obama declared: "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions." Does the current House bill's language conflict with Obama's pledge? At today's White House press briefing, Robert Gibbs wouldn't say. Obama is endorsing the House bill, which Nancy Pelosi wants to ...
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The Myth of '08, Demolished -- By: Charles Krauthammer
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S ure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. In the aftermath of last year’ ...
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Squirmer of the House Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Have the Votes... Yet
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I picture Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) writhing and twisting in frustration; with all those Democrats, surely she can scrape together 218 to vote for SqueakerCare! Surely not , at least not yet: House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, ...
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How Many Losses For The Democrats In 2010?
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Historically the party that holds the White House almost always loses seats in its first midterm election. When one party holds the White House, the House and the Senate, the losses tend to be bigger. If the economy doesn't turn around, it will be a very difficult election year for Democrats.
WSJ.com
GOP Poll: N.J., Va. Voters Wanted to Send Obama a Protest Message
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Republicans are touting a new poll as evidence that voters were indeed sending a protest message to the White House in Tuesdays elections.
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Kansas City Star
Amid intense lobbying, House faces health care vote Saturday
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WASHINGTON | Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation. Leaders were weighing fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns over the bill’s treatment of illegal immigrants.
Weekly Standard Blog
Who's Really Sweating?
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The Jerusalem Post reports that Netanyahu will be in Washington all next week. Guess who he won't be meeting with: As of press time, the Prime Minister's Office said no formal meeting had been scheduled with US President Barack Obama during the visit, which could last through the week. No departure date has been set. Netanyahu and Obama last met ...
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Think Progress
Fox And Friends Muse About ‘Special Screenings’ And ‘Special Debriefings’ For Muslims In The Military
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After news broke yesterday that the suspected gunman responsible for the “horrific outburst of violence” at Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was Muslim, some commentators began assigning “collective responsibility for the actions of one man” to the Muslim community as a whole. On Fox and Friends this morning, Geraldo ...
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POLITICS: U.S. Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet
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WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch his fraudulent reelection, ...
The Swamp
Health care: Public option, more time
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by Mark Silva As the House prepares to take the first vote Saturday on the health-care legislation that President Barack Obama is seeking by year's end, most Americans say they'd be happy with Congress taking more time to either work out minor problems or major changes in the bill. A slim majority - 53 percent - also say they oppose the president'
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Hot Air » Top Picks
WH to Dem strategists: Stop making Fox so … balanced?
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Shouldn't they want more of them on?
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House Republicans to Participate in Saturday Tea Party on Health Care
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Several House Republicans on Friday called on tea party activists and supporters to join them at the Capitol on Saturday for a third protest of the Democratic health care reform bill and the Obama administration's agenda.
Michael Moore
Pelosi: No House vote on 'single-payer' plan
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The House will not vote on a liberal Democratic plan to have a fully government-run "single-payer" healthcare plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday. Pelosi (D-Calif.) declined to pursue a single-payer plan in the healthcare overhaul. But Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) secured a commitment from leadership in July to have an "up-or-down ...
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The 'Forgotten' President -- By: Victor Davis Hanson
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In his remarks yesterday to Native American leaders, the president said, "I know what it means to feel ignored and forgotten, and what it means to struggle. So you will not be forgotten as long as I'm in this White House." I don't quite know what "ignored" and "forgotten" means in this particular context (apparently it was not a reference to the ...
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The Most Important Question No One Is Asking about 'Stimulus Jobs' -- By: NRO Staff
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Those dissecting the White House claim that the $200 billion spent on the stimulus has created or saved 650,000 jobs have focused on the arithmetical errors in counting the hirings. They are ignoring a much more fundamental issue. Before Congress could inject $200 billion into the economy, they had to borrow $200 billion out of the economy. So ...
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Obama Moves Meeting with House Democrats to Saturday
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President Barack Obama will meet with the House Democratic Caucus on Saturday instead of Friday to make a last-ditch appeal for health care reform, according to the White House. The White House gave no reason for the change, but the House is expected to vote on the health care bill later in the day or evening on Saturday.
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This piece in the Times emphasizes something that comes up a lot regarding the McChrystal report, and many other approaches to Afghanistan: Whether or not a given strategy is a good idea, the ability to actually implement it in a reasonable time is simply nonexistent. This goes for the "civilian" surge, which is severely delayed; troop ...
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The Difference Between Reality and Expectations: Afghanistan.
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This piece in the Times emphasizes something that comes up a lot regarding the McChrystal report, and many other approaches to Afghanistan: Whether or not a given strategy is a good idea, the ability to actually implement it in a reasonable time is simply nonexistent. This goes for the "civilian" surge, which is severely delayed; troop ...
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Won’t Somebody Think of the White Men?
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From the conservative Committee for Justice, a key player in judicial nomination fights, comes this reaction to the nominations of one Hispanic and one African-American judge to circuit court slots.
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Krakauer: McChrystal shouldn't be in charge in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Best-selling author Jon Krakauer sharply criticized Gen. Stanley McChrystal for his handling of former NFL player-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death, in an interview with CNN scheduled to air Saturday. Tillman was killed by friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. Krakauer, author of "Where Men Win Glory: The ...
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NATO Reports 2 ISAF Servicemembers Missing in Afghanistan
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D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 6, 2009 -- Two International Security Assistance Force servicemembers were reported missing Nov. 4 from a routine resupply mission in western Afghanistan. Afghan and coalition forces are currently involved in an extensive search for the servicemembers. "We continue exhaustive search and rescue ...
Truthout
2014 or Bust: The Pentagon's Building Boom in Afghanistan Indicates a Long War Ahead
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In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, reporting that this year's Recovery Act not only saved jobs, but also was "the largest investment in infrastructure since [President Dwight] Eisenhower built the ...
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Wire: At Least 25 Wounded in US Troop Search in Afghanistan
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O ff the Wire: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2009 -- Newswire services this evening reported that more than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said. The Taliban claimed the two missing soldiers were dead and it had recovered their bodies. A statement ...
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Brown warns Karzai over corruption
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Gordon Brown warns Hamid Karzai he will lose international support if he fails to improve government's performance Gordon Brown today denounced the Afghan government as corrupt and warned the president, Hamid Karzai, that he would lose international support if he failed to improve its performance. In a speech to the Royal College of Defence ...
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UN Pulls Out Half Its Afghanistan Staff and Threatens Total Withdrawal
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UN pulls out half its Afghanistan staff and threatens total withdrawal | Times On Line The United Nations today temporarily pulled half its international staff out of Afghanistan and threatened that a complete and permanent withdrawal could follow. Amid an atmosphere of increasing gloom in Afghanistan, the UN Special Representative in Kabul, Kai ...
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2 coalition service members missing in Afghanistan
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AP - Two American soldiers disappeared in western Afghanistan after a routine resupply mission, and more than 25 NATO and Afghan security forces members were wounded during the search mission for them, the alliance said Friday.
Yahoo! News
Taliban turns screws on UN in Afghanistan
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AFP - The Taliban on Friday levelled a stinging attack on the United Nations, ratcheting up pressure on the world body as it relocates 600 foreign staff in Afghanistan and reassesses its position in the country.
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In Afghanistan, Troop Numbers Should Be Based on Strategy
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Guest post by Jared Stancombe Jared Stancombe is a 2009 graduate of Indiana University, where his studies focused on peace and conflict studies in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. His other academic interests include counterinsurgency and complex military operations. He is currently an analyst for a U.S. government agency ...
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Afghanistan: Bringing proper sanitation to rural children
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KABUL, Afghanistan, 16 October 2009 – The second Global Handwashing Day was celebrated yesterday in Kabul and 34 provinces of Afghanistan, shining a spotlight on the importance of handwashing with soap and water as one of the most effective and affordable interventions to save lives.
UNICEF
Afghanistan: Maternal Waiting Home programme aims to save the lives of mothers and newborns
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, 23 October 2009 – Maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan are among the highest in the world. In the southern region, 1,600 women out of every 100,000 die in childbirth.
Reuters
At least 25 hurt in U.S. troop search in Afghanistan
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said.
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Obsidian Wings
You Understand Less As the Pages Turn
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By Eric Martin Back in 2006, a wise man said this: It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war. And yet, three years...
Military Families Speak Out
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Making the Case to End the War in Afghanistan
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Military Families Speak Out suggestions for how to make the case for ending the war and pulling US troops out of Afghanistan now.
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Forgetting the Fall -- By: An NRO Symposium
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P resident Barack Obama has RSVPed “nein” to Chancellor Merkel’s invitation to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. National Review Online asked a few experts what this snub reveals about our current president. DINESH D’SOUZA I’m glad Obama is not going. Of course it’s a stupid move for him politically, but I’ ...
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Dueling Leaks On Afghanistan
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The duel of leaks frokm the Administration continues on Afghanistan. In the latest installment, we learn that the training of Afghan security forces is difficult and behind schedule, calling into question the plausibility of McChrystal's plan: WASHINGTON — A series...
L.A. Times
In Afghanistan, troops attacked while searching for U.S. soldiers
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More than 25 international and Afghan troops are injured in the fighting. The two American paratroopers have been missing since Wednesday. More than 25 members of international and Afghan security forces were injured Friday in firefights in northwestern Afghanistan during a large-scale manhunt for two missing American soldiers, military officials ...
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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer still expects the House to approve its sweeping health care bill Saturday, but conceded the vote could slip until Sunday or even early next week.
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The 11/3 Project
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Jason Jones repeats House Republican objections to the health care bill. Jon fears for Glenn Beck's internal organs, and Susan Rice talks about America's improved reputation at the United Nations.
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Michele Bachmann Urges People to 'Pay a House Call' on Congress to Protest Health Care Bill
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So nice to see Sean Hannity isn't too concerned about ClusterFox being seen as an arm of the Republican Party with this latest hackery. On his Friday evening show on Fox he brought on Michele Bachmann to help promote her call for people to come protest the halls of Congress against the health care bill--as though they don't have enough problems ...
Www.openleft.com
Hey Kissell, can we have our $485,795 back?
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With a vote looming on Saturday night, the whip in the House for the health care bill remains very close. According to the whip count at The Hill, 43 Democrats are no, leaning no, or undecided. With 258 House Democrats, if every Republican votes "no" then 41 Democratic defections will defeat the bill.
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First thoughts: The race to 218
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** The race to 218 -- or more: Tomorrow night, the House is expected to vote on the Democrats' health care bill. And from now until then, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's goal -- as well as President Obama’s -- will be this: getting at least 218 votes. The next 48 hours are going to be ...
News.firedoglake.com
Latest Whip Count On House Health Care Bill
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Adler, Baird, Boren, Bright, Childers, A. Davis, L. Davis, Gordon, P.Griffith, Herseth Sandlin, Kissell, Kosmas, Kratovil, Marshall, Massa, Matheson, McMahon, Melancon, Minnick, Peterson, Skelton, Stupak, Tanner, Taylor, Teague
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Health care vote may slip
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Washington -- Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, offering fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.
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Dems Make Final Push for Health Bill Votes
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By Friday evening, it wasn’t clear whether Saturday’s scheduled vote on the famous health care reform bill would happen on time in the House of Representatives, but Democrats were busy wooing any remaining potential supporters among their congressional ranks. —KA AP via Google News: “We’re very close” to having enough votes to prevail,
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Heart-Ache: Hoyer Says Health-Care Vote May Be Delayed
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It's a flash from MSNBC, with no details yet: Dem leader says House health vote may be delayed due to lack of support Update: A House leader says Democrats haven't yet lined up enough votes to pass their health care overhaul bill. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland says the vote that House Democrats had scheduled for Saturday could slip to ...
WSJ.com
WIRE WATCH: Obama Huddles With House Dems, MoveOn Targets Toyota, T-Paw in Iowa, Barbour vs. Rendell
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All In: President Barack Obama will head to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue today to huddle with House Democrats over the health care overhaul heading for a floor vote on Saturday. With no Republicans onboard, Democratic leaders may need some presidential muscle to get over the 218-vote hurdle.
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House Nears Vote for Health Care Overhaul
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Bob Schieffer spoke with Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) about the upcoming health care reform vote on the Senate floor. Plus; The stars come out for Bill Cosby, who received the Mark Twain Prize for Humor at the Kennedy Center.
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Medical News Today
Reid Pushes For Vote On Appeals Court Nominee Hamilton Before Veteran's Day
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that he intends to force a confirmation vote by Veterans Day on the nomination of U.S. District Judge David Hamilton to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, CQ Today reports (Perine, CQ Today, 11/4). President Obama nominated Hamilton in March (Women's Health Policy ...
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The Caucus
Gibbs on Protests, Jobs
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Jewish groups and others have criticized some of the posters and characterizations invoking the Holocaust or depicting the administration as Nazis used by protesters during Thursday’s demonstration against the health care bill on Capitol Hill.
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Minnesota delegation split on health care bill
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Firmly in favor: McCollum and Walz; may vote "yes": Oberstar and Ellison; solid "nos": Peterson and the GOPs.
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Wash Post Politics
Abortion, immigration are factors in health-care reform vote
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House Democratic leaders were struggling Thursday to contain uprisings on the hot-button issues of abortion and immigration that have left them little margin for error as they attempt to push through a massive health-care reform bill this weekend.
Taegan Goddard
Health Care Vote May Slip
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said "that he expected the House to pass sweeping health care legislation on Saturday evening. But he acknowledged that Democrats were still trying to corral the necessary 218 votes, and that what he called Republican delaying tactics could push the vote back to Sunday or early next week," the New York ...
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AmSpecBlog
Hoyer: Vote on Health Care Bill May Be Delayed for Lack of Votes
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has said Democrats may have to delay a health care vote scheduled for Saturday until Sunday or early next week, according to the Associated Press, because...
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Vulnerable Democratic freshman abandon the health care bill
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There are a dozen first-term Democrats representing districts that Republican presidential nominee John McCain won last year. So far, six have announced that they will vote against their party's health care bill.
FOXNews.com
Hoyer: Lack of Support May Delay Health Care Vote
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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland says the vote that House Democrats had scheduled for Saturday could slip to Sunday or early next week.
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Firedoglake
AFL-CIO Threatens to Cut Aid to ConservaDems Who Don’t Vote for Health Care
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I can only guess that the House didn’t vote on health care before the election because (as Pelosi has signaled) they didn’t have the votes. Which is crazy, because if Rahm really cares about a “w” you have to wonder why the White House wasn’t whipping for the bill regardless of what it said just to [...]
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Ahead Of Debate, Health Care Battle Lines Drawn
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Democratic House leaders are keeping lawmakers in town over the weekend to work on their health care bill. President Obama is expected to rally support on the Hill on Saturday. With every step this legislation takes toward becoming law, the fervor — on both sides — gets stronger.
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TPMDC
Blue Dog Rep. Tanner Opposes Health Care Bill
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Rep. John Tanner (D-TN), a member of the Blue Dogs, has announced his opposition to the current health care bill from the House Democrats: "After careful review of the current legislation pending in the House and the Congressional Budget Office's analysis, I believe the bill will not help control the long-term costs of health care and puts in ...
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Owens Supports House Health Care Bill
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Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) on Friday ended speculation about whether he supports the House Democratic health care plan: He does.
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House Dems Are Not Sleeping -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
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as Steny Hoyer tries to play down abortion.
FOXNews.com
Obama Pressures Undecided Dems to Vote for House Health Care Bill
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Rep. Jason Altmire, a second-term Democrat from western Pennsylvania, said he received calls during the day from the president, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Tennessean.com Top News
Dems clear impasse on health-care vote
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WASHINGTON - Capping months of struggle, House Democrats cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote on sweeping health-care legislation late Friday and officials expressed optimism they had finally lined up the support needed to pass President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
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First Read
Health vote could slip to next week
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From NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, Luke Russert and Domenico Montanaro The House is coming on tomorrow for what was supposed to be a rare Saturday vote on health care. But signs are pointing to a delay to Sunday or possibly next week due, in part, to unresolved issues over abortion and illegal immigration -- as well as the possibility for Republicans ...
Baltimoresun.com
House members face decisive vote on Obama health care plan; president to meet with Dems
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
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Hoyer: Health Care Vote Could Slip to Sunday or Beyond
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is warning action on a health care overhaul could slip past a planned Saturday evening vote into Sunday or even Monday or Tuesday if House Republicans employ delaying tactics.
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Say Anything
Remember When Obama Promised Not To Sign Bills Without Posting Them Online?
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Earlier today I posted about Nancy Pelosi refusing to post the finalized House version of the health care bill online before forcing a vote on it. That’s depressing news given that these Democrats campaigned on bringing transparency and ethics to Congress. If they’re really in favor of transparency, why can’t they post the bill ...
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Personal Democracy Forum
Health Care Reform>Obamacare: The Tide Has Turned
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With the House about to vote on the Democratic health care bill tomorrow, I thought it would be interesting to check in on the pulse of the online debate over health care reform. This is of course an unscientific look at the public zeitgeist, but the popularity of certain key words on Twitter suggests that the tide has turned and anti-heath ...
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Wash Post Politics
Democrats round up health bill votes
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House Democratic leaders pushed with mounting confidence Friday toward a historic vote on expanding the nation's health-care system, and President Obama joined an intense last-minute lobbying campaign to pick up the last few votes needed to secure the measure's passage.
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Think Progress
Rep. Foxx: ‘All of us want all Americans to have health insurance and access to good health care.’
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During this afternoon’s Rules Committee hearing to determine which amendments would be introduced during floor debate of the House health care bill, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) announced that everyone can agree that Republicans want “all Americans to have affordable health insurance and good quality health care”: FOXX: I think we ...
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House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote
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Vote counters say they are confident they will have the numbers when the House floor vote begins Saturday.
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2 top TN Dems to oppose health bill
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WASHINGTON - Two of the four Middle Tennessee House Democrats who are part of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition will oppose a health-care reform bill the House might bring to a vote today.
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Health Care Bill: The Nail In Its Coffin?
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Given Obama's track record when he gets personally involved - from the Olympics, to New Jersey and Virginia, even if the one didn't watch the returns, does this mean we can relax in knowing the health care bill will be killed ? Organizing for America's Mitch Stewart Says the Health Care Vote Tomorrow Will be Close Obama Will Be Lobbying for ...
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Just One More Thing
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The Dems say: We just need one more thing to pass the Health Care Bill. More Taxes on the Pharmaceutical Industry. Boq
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GrassrootsPA Stories
Casey Won’t ‘Draw Line in Sand’ on Abortion-Funding in Health Care Bill…
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Casey Won’t ‘Draw Line in Sand’ on Abortion-Funding in Health Care Bill…
The Seattle Times
House votes to strengthen chem plant security
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The House approved legislation Friday aimed at making chemical and water treatment facilities less vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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AmSpecBlog
The Whip Job Ahead of the Democrats on the Way to 218
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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has posted a useful list of 69 Democrats who have expressed opposition to the speaker's health care bill, with quotes. With zero Republican defections,...
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Hot Air » Top Picks
Breaking: Hoyer admits Dems don’t have the votes for Pelosi Plan
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Vote will be delayed.
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Steny Hoyer's Nonsense on Stilts Regarding Health-Care Reform and Competition
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One of the biggest problems with our current health care system is the fact that insurance companies can't sell coverage across state lines. This results in monopolies that cause undue inflationary pressures on the cost of health insurance for consumers. One obvious -- and widely-proposed -- solution to this problem would be to allow insurance ...
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The Plum Line
Dems Seize On Cantor’s Vow To Tea Partiers
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Dems are seizing on Eric Cantor’s pledge to the tea party rally yesterday that no GOPers will back the health care bill, hoping to use it to put moderate GOPers on the spot by casting a No vote as doing the bidding of extremists. The DCCC, looking to elevate the nastiest side of yesterday’s festivities, is [...]
TAPPED
The Flawed Logic of Banning Immigrants from the Insurance Exchange.
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Should illegal immigrants be able to purchase private health insurance within the newly created federal exchanges if they use their own money? That question, as I noted yesterday, is one of the biggest sticking points in the fight about immigration in the health-care bill. The Senate supports such a prohibition, while the House hasn't done so. ...
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The Mahablog
Republican Health Care Still an Oxymoron
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Recently Senate Republicans put forward another Republican health care bill. This isn’t the first one; GOP lawmakers trot out bills from time to time that are mostly word salad meant to serve as props at press conferences. The newest one is supposed to be a real health care bill. As I understand it, provisions include limits on medical ...
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Obama Administration Supports H.R. 3962
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This will come as no surprise, but the official Statement of Administration Policy on the House health care bill is below the fold. They “strongly support” it: The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform ...
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The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins:
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Obama calls job's report 'sobering'
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Obama called the latest jobs report 'sobering.' (CNN) - President Obama called the latest jobs report indicating the unemployment rate has jumped to 10.2 percent "sobering," and pledged Friday to "not rest until all Americans who want work can find work." "I just signed into law a bill that will help grow our economy, save and create [..
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Obama takes heat for skipping Berlin Wall anniversary
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Obama is taking heat for skipping the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.' (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is taking aim at President Obama's decision not to travel to Germany next week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the latest in a string [...]
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Obama’s trap
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Back in the first few months of the current administration, when I was writing piece after piece urging the new administration to adopt a more aggressive economic policy, what I had very much in my mind — and wrote about on a few occasions — was the possibility of a sort of political economy trap. If unemployment continued to rise, I ...
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Obama delays Capitol Hill pitch on health care
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is pushing back a trip to Capitol Hill aimed at discussing the proposed health care overhaul with lawmakers.
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Obama to Sign $24B Economic Stimulus Bill
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(AP) President Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.
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Jobless Report: Something for Both Republicans and Democrats
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Today's employment report may not have provided any clear signal as to when the U.S. economy might start creating jobs, but it did have something to offer for politicians of just about any stripe.
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Analysis: 10 percent jobless is Obama's new world
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AP - For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent.
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Obama signs bill assisting homebuyers, jobless
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AP - President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump.
BBC News
Obama praises army base heroism
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President Barack Obama praises the "valour" of those who responded to the deadly attacks at a US army base in Texas.
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Obama Can't Tell Difference Between Congressional Medal of Honor and Congressional Gold Medal
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The person President Obama gave a "shout-out" to in his banter before his "address" to the nation regarding the Ft. Hood attack yesterday was Joe Medicine Crow. Obama wanted to thank that "Congressional Medal of Honor winner" for showing up...
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RNC Distributes 'Obama Agenda' Push Poll To Raise Money
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The RNC recently sent out a fundraising letter that includes a "survey" about President Obama's "agenda" that the Washington Post is calling a dishonest push poll. "Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?" one question on the 15-question survey reads. TPM obtained a copy of "2009 Obama Agenda ...
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Obama Awards Two Purple Hearts To Soldiers During Walter Reed Visit
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President Obama spent nearly two hours this afternoon meeting privately with soldiers and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. While there, he awarded two Purple Hearts, the White House said. No press was allowed to witness the visit, but an administration staffer told the pool which accompanies the president when he leaves the ...
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Obama in Feb.: Without Stimulus Bill, "Unemployment will approach
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Here's what President Obama wrote when pushing the economic stimulus bill in a February Washington Post op-ed titled, "The Action Americans Need": And if nothing is done, this...
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Obama Doesn't Like Gay People
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Remember the fiasco over the wedge that appeared between liberal constituency groups blacks and gays over California's Proposition 8 voting? I'm shocked that Avarosis wouldn't be thrilled that for once Obama finally delivered for his real base , as opposed to simply pandering to them as he so often does. Just do the Math. It isn't only ...
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Obama Plans Joint Library with Bush
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As President Obama marked the one-year anniversary of his election by blaming his predecessor for the failure to convert the promise of “hope and change” into legislation and policy, a top White House official reported ongoing talks with associates of George W. Bush about “presidential library co-location.” [READ THE REST ...
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Unemployment Surges to 10.2 Percent, CNN Asks About Second Stimulus
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President Obama lobbied for government stimulus almost as soon as he took office. In order to gain passage of that $787 billion spending spree, Obama warned of economic " catastrophe " including double-digit unemployment. Roughly 9 months later, we now have proof that those billions of taxpayer dollars spent didn't stop the ...
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Riehl World View
Obama Forecasts A Bankrupt, Unemployed America
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You can view them in the horrendous graph via this link : Obama's forecasts with and without the stimulus versus the reality Americans now struggle with everyday as unemployment jumps above 10%. The liberals were warned this would happen. They were told by economists the disastrously ineffective nature of bringing back economic policy destined ...
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Sorry, I'm still laughing my ass off at Tom Tancredo's little baby hissy fit. (Mean old blogger...you made former congressman cry.) While I regain my composure, please...enjoy some late night snark: "Voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That’s right---people ...
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Newsweek.com Skips Obama’s Snub of Berlin Wall, Pretends He’s Already Been There
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A Newsweek.com article on Tuesday celebrated historic speeches by U.S. Presidents at the Berlin Wall, somehow ignoring the fact that Barack Obama has decided not to go to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism. At the same time, the piece, by Anita Kirpalani, pretended that President Obama has made such a trip. ...
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Politico: Jones Went Way Off Script at J Street
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Ben Smith comes up with some pretty good stuff this morning comparing General Jones's prepared remarks for the J Street conference last week with the remarks as delivered. Jones pledged then that the administration would send a representative to all future conferences held by J Street. It was the best received line of his speech, and it was also ...
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Obama to sign jobless benefit extension today
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President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law today a bill that extends unemployment benefits for workers in Michigan and other hard-hit states as well as expands a popular tax credit that could boost home sales.
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Obama to Indians: 'I'm on your side'
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WASHINGTON — Telling Native American leaders "I'm on your side," President Barack Obama issued an order Thursday instructing federal agencies to do a much better job of consulting with tribes on numerous policies affecting Indian Country.
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Atlas Shrugs
Muhammadan or Racist? Or both?
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Obama on Major Muslim. Born in Virginia, sent to medical school by the U.S. Army, the psychiatrist was disciplined for proselytizing to his patients about Islam. Asked his nationality, he didn't identify himself as an American but as a Palestinian. He spoke approvingly of the shooting death of a Little Rock Army recruiter in June and reportedly ...
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Thank God Obama "Saved" Jobs
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Too few have looked critically at the 640,329 jobs the Obama White House reported as “saved or created” by the Stimulus. Those who looked have been left incredulous by the many examples of ...
Blue Mass. Group
Weekly Joke Revue
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Daniel Kurtzman: "President Obama said that his economic plan has saved or created one million new jobs. Well, one million and two if you count the new jobs he's created for governors of Virginia and New Jersey." -Jay Leno "One year ago today, ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama was elected president one year ago today. One year later, we're ...
CNN.com
Valerie Jarrett balances roles of friend, official adviser to Obama
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Valerie Jarrett is fiercely loyal to Obama, as one of his closest friends. But she also advises him as president and is one of the White House's ultimate insiders.
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The Caucus
Obama Quietly Visits Wounded Troops
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There were no television cameras trailing President Obama on Friday afternoon as he visited wounded soldiers and family members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The Seattle Times
Obama to sign homebuyer, jobless bill assistance
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President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.
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RedState
Another Czar Bites The Dust
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In the flurry of news this week, you may have missed another body tossed under the insatiable Obama bus : Internet Czar Susan Crawford. The Obama administration has faced a vocal and growing opposition to the radical so-called net neutrality advocated by folks like Crawford and FCC Chair Julius Genachowski. Bi-partisan opposition , I hasten to ...
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Right Wing & Settler Press in Israel Denounce Peace Process, Goldstone
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The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases statements from the right wing and settler Israeli press Highlights: Review of Israeli Right-Wing, Settlement Commentaries 16 Oct-3 Nov 09 The following are highlights of reports in right-wing and settlement news websites carried by the Israeli media between 16 October and 3 November. Israel --
Weekly Standard Blog
Obama's Underfunded Military
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Let's take a look at Obama's near-term grand aspirations for his "Overseas Contingency Operations." He wants to remove 90k troops from Iraq while at the same time increasing Army and Marine end strength by 22k troops. Presumably the president also plans to increase troop strength in Afghanistan, though by how many troops remains...unclear. All ...
The Seattle Times
Obama to sign extension of jobless benefits
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President Barack Obama is set to sign a bill extending jobless benefits 20 weeks and prolonging the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit.
Domenico Montanaro
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Obama agenda: Peace, out?
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Peace, out? “President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, citing dismay over the progress of US-brokered peace initiatives, said yesterday that he does not want to run for reelection when his term ends in January, potentially upending the Obama administrations strategy for the region. But advisers and analysts said it was possible he ...
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Dan Savage: "President Obama is a fierce advocate of gay rights the same way I'm a ladies' man. He isn't, and I'm not."
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Wow. Dan went on Olbermann last night, and was absolutely amazing. Interestingly, the first part of the segment shows Marc Mutty, the chairman of the anti-gay forces in Maine, who also works for the Catholic church up there. Had I met Mutty as a stranger on the street, I'd have been absolutely positively convinced that he was gay. I'm not saying ...
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Obama set to announce US target for cutting emissions at summit
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President Obama is preparing to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global deal on climate change by announcing a target for cutting US greenhouse gas emissions. The US is the only developed country yet to propose an emissions target. Poorer nations, including most of Africa, are threatening to walk out of a UN summit in Copenhagen next month ...
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NBC: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting -- A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama
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After a year of the Obama-mania, the mainstream media is finally doing its job — reporting the news. And this from Chicago, no less! From NBC News : President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a ...
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Are You with Us or with Them? -- By: Mona Charen
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P resident Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though, ten months on, it remains open) to advertise the new administration’s disdain for George Bush’s war-fighting tactics. And at every opportunity since, he has stressed that his ...
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The Myth of 2008 -- By: NRO Staff
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Krauthammer today : Exactly a year later comes the empirical validation of that skepticism. Virginia — presumed harbinger of the new realignment, having gone Democratic in ’08 for the first time in 44 years — went red again. With a vengeance. Barack Obama had carried it by six points. The Republican gubernatorial candidate won by 17 — a 23-point ...
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Obama Going to Camp David After Meeting With House Democrats Saturday
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After addressing the House Democratic Caucus late Saturday morning, President Barack Obama will travel to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, where he will spend Saturday night.
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The End of the Era That Never Was -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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From my column this morning : In fact, what is sad is not the spin war. This happens after every election. The partisans and pundits race for the election results like kids charging the disgorged contents of a piñata, claiming convenient facts like candy and shouting, “Mine!” It’s always an unseemly process. No, what’s sad is how far Obama’s ...
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Y2Kyoto: The Chicago Way
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Restoring science to its rightful place - is there nothing that Obama can't do? In the blame game, the Obama administration isn’t about to stop with Fox News. Instead, it’s moving on to lowly scientists. Last month, President Obama gave...
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AMERICAblog Gay
DNC Treasurer blames Aravosis for gay community anger at DNC/Obama
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DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias joined in the comments section last night of John's latest post about the DNC's, and White House's, growing gay problem. And he wasn't very happy. The post is about a leaked email from Tobias to DNC funders, in which Tobias admits that the DNC intentionally included Mainers in a mass email blitz to help NJ Governor Jon ...
Michael Moore
In fight over credit rules, she wields a plan
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CAMBRIDGE - Her critics portray her as an ivory tower elitist intent on disrupting the American Dream. But to her legions of fans in the Democratic Party, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren is the nation’s leading economic David, fighting to protect middle-class families from corporate Goliaths. Her critique of the lending practices of big ...
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Obama's 'Lost And Dislocated' Jobs
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The bailout is hurting--not helping--employment. The White House announced last week that the $787 billion stimulus package has "saved or created" more than 1 million jobs. Yet on Friday we learned that unemployment increased to 10.2%, and the number of unemployed Americans rose by 558,000 in October. If you factor in workers who gave ...
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Video: Obama says to wait for facts before reaching conclusions
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And ... he's right.
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Still "50-50 nation"?
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The unemployment rate has jumped to 10.2 percent according to figures released today, three days after the 2009 election. This is the highest rate in 26 years. It is also almost exactly one-third higher than the unemployment rate on election day 2008. I don't blame Obama, except for over-promising. However, I suspect a great many voters blame him,
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The one-time candidate for Vice President of the United States will speak at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Friday. Former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin comes to Milwaukee, but with restrictions. No video or still cameras, no audio recording devices, no cell phones, no laptops, and no interviews. Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate says ...
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Sarah Palin: Gridiron-ready, Frank too
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by Mark Silva Those East Coast media who are always "making things up'' may not be the best friends of Alaskan Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, but Palin is expected at one of the Washington media's most elite gatherings: A winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, that invitation-only assembly of Washington journalists ...
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Palin's "Going Rogue" tour will stick to friendly territory
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The itinerary for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s much anticipated “Going Rogue” book tour has some glaring omissions: The liberal bastions of New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle have all been snubbed. Instead, Palin has opted to visit a group of 25 smaller cities in the heart of what she might ...
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More Kirk/Palin fallout
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* The Mark Kirk hearts Sarah Palin story has prompted an editorial in today’s Sun-Times entitled “Moving right might cost Kirk election“… Rep. Mark Kirk has long been a voice of reason in Illinois. A moderate Republican with an independent streak, Kirk isn’t known for pandering. In our endorsement of Kirk for re- ...
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Riehl World View
Sarah Palin To Enter The Lion's Den
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Via Fire Andrea Mitchell with a Politico item. Hmm. Think she'll have a large number of fans in that room? Not only that, look whose footsteps she's following in. She may as well, she looks as if she could more than fill his shoes at this point. Still, it's a shame his suits are so overly thin these days, given that they're already empty and ...
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The Election Night Speeches Sarah Palin Never Gave
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A new book reveals for the first time the drama that unfolded on election night 2008, when McCain campaign staff battled Sarah Palin over a concession speech she planned to deliver. An excerpt published in The Daily Beast includes both the victory and concession speeches Palin had prepared to give, depending on the election outcome. The McCain ...
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It’s on: Palin vs. Barney Frank at the Gridiron Dinner
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Romney, Huckabee, and Pawlenty must be thrilled. Gridiron Club President Dick Cooper told club members earlier this afternoon that Palin accepted an invitation to speak at the black-tie affair, according to a member of the club’s executive committee. Meg Stapleton, a spokeswoman for Palin, confirmed that Palin planned to address the dinner ...
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A few minutes ago on The Ed Show, Tom Tancredo tried to make the case against government health care by claiming that the Veterans Administration is unpopular with U.S. military veterans. The only problem for him was that he was up against Markos...who is one of those veterans, unlike Tancredo, a pro-Vietnam War chickenhawk who got a 1-Y ...
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CNN Poll: Public wants Congress to keep working on health care
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Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress to continue working on health care reform bills that have been passed through various committees, according to a new CNN poll. Washington (CNN) - Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress to continue working on health care reform bills that have been passed through various committees, according to a [...]
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Think Progress
Government health care rescues protesters at anti-government health care rally.
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Thousands of protesters came to Capitol Hill yesterday for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) protest against health care reform, capping months of fear-mongering about the dangers of so-called “socialized” medicine . However, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notes that at one point, one of the protesters had a heart attack .
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Raw Story
Ex-GOP Congressman storms off when confronted over healthcare
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Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo attempted to argue against Democratic plans for health care reform on Friday by claiming veterans were dissatisfied with their government-run health care. He was confronted by blogger Markos Moutlitsas, who unlike Tancredo is a veteran himself, and reacted by stalking off the set of MSNBC's The Ed Show ...
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Firebrand Tancredo puts policy over party line
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He speaks on talk radio and cable television as often as 15 times a week, warning that illegal immigrants are stealing jobs, destroying American culture and killing police officers.
Amanda Terkel
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Think Progress
Tom Tancredo storms off the set of MSNBC during debate with DailyKos’ Markos Moulitsas.
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Today on the Ed Show, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo tried to argue that all veterans are unhappy with their health care under the Veterans Administration — as proof of why government-run care doesn’t work: Every veterans group I ever went and talked to complained about the Veterans Administration and the way it was a ...
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Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health Care, Gitmo
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A major national ad campaign is set to launch tomorrow tying the Obama administration's failure to provide the flu vaccine on time and in quantity to fears of a government takeover of healthcare. The American Future Fund has produced and plans to put significant money behind the ad that is set to appear on both CNN and Fox News, and to play ...
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Decision day for health care in the House
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AP - President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
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Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources For Health Care But Unlimited Money For War?
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Kucinich: Why is it we have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War? | Press Release Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war? “The inequities in ...
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Protesters: Kill health care plan
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Washington -- Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol on Thursday against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan, labeling it a government takeover of the nation's medical system.
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CNN/Opinion Research Poll – October 30 – Health Care
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TOPICS: Health care Full results (pdf)
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Kratovil announces opposition to health care legislation
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But Democratic congressman says he could support 'a better bill' in future But Democratic congressman says he could support 'a better bill' in future
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The GOP Health Care Plan - At Least It Has Numbers!
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Remember earlier this year how the GOP was absolutely sure that President Obama's budget would lead America to utter ruin? Remember the GOP's alternative budget proposal that would supposedly prevent everlasting economic doom? It had no numbers! Imagine that — a budget proposal with no numbers!
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Markos Crushes Tom Tancredo on MSNBC
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We're still waiting for the video to be clipped, but folks watching MSNBC earlier this hour saw what will undoubtedly be an instant Youtube classic: Markos hitting Tom Tancredo so hard in response to Tancredo's attacks on the Veterans Affairs department that Tancredo scampered off set. Here 's what Markos had to say that set Tancredo into flight:
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Firedoglake
Health Care: Jim McGovern Sets Them Up, Knocks Them Down in the Rules Committee
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Jim McGovern’s statement in the Rules Committee session on health care should be echoed by every Democrat in Washington. He rebuts a number of points: • Republicans have been whining about how there’s been no committee hearings on this bill, which is nonsense. They’re getting off on a technicality, as the House leadership has [.
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GOP Health Care Gives Us All Munchausen Syndrome
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Going into the House health care debate today, it pays to keep in mind what the Republican party has identified as the real problem with American health care. Steve Benen in the Washington Monthly sums it up succinctly, quoting former Congressman Dick Armey, the guru of the tea party crowd: “The largest empirical problem we have in health ...
Jon Walker
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Firedoglake
Liveblogging the House Rules Committee: HR 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act
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The Rules Committee will meet today at 2pm to discuss the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962. It will be aired live on C-SPAN 2. [Ed. Note: FDL News Desk will also be covering this Rules Hearing.] 2:06 – Rep. Charles Rangel begins by reading on opening statement in support [...]
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Americans for Prosperity
AFP Congressional Health Care House Call Video
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AFP President Tim Phillips joins Glenn Beck to discuss the Card Check provision being pulled from the Employee Free Choice Act. However, now Congress is replacing it with another terrible provision which calls for a Fast Track Election.
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Political Animal
Thank goodness for government-run health care on Capitol Hill
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THANK GOODNESS FOR GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE ON CAPITOL HILL.... About 20 minutes into yesterday's right-wing rally on the Hill in opposition to health care reform, one of the protestors suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, as Dana Milbank reported, medical professionals...
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Rep. Dingell: The House's Link To Health-Care History
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The health care legislation in the House is named for John Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan. He is the longest-serving member in the history of the House, and he was there when Medicare was passed. Dingell's father first introduced a bill calling for universal health coverage in the 1930s.
The Seattle Times
Decision day for health care in the House
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President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
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Liberal Values
Bartlets Urge Support For Health Care Reform Bill
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Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing who played President Jed Bartlet and First Lady Abbey Bartlet on The West Wing urge support for passage of the health care reform bill tomorrow (video above). Somehow I don’t think there’s much of a chance that Crazy Pete will change his vote if I call his office.
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Murtha: Health care overhaul not until 2010…
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Murtha: Health care overhaul not until 2010… Callers ask Murtha about abortion, Medicare, 219…
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Health-Care U -- By: Father Thomas D. Williams
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I f you were to ask the proverbial person on the street what the Catholic Church thinks about health-care reform, the answer would sound pretty much like this: Catholics have serious problems with the surreptitious inclusion of abortion in the current health-care proposal, as well as with the absence of genuine protection for conscientious ...
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Sierra Leone: UNICEF responds to lack of health care for mothers and newborns
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KOINADUGU, Sierra Leone, 27 October 2009 – Lack of access to affordable health care is one of the major contributing factors to pregnancy and childbirth-related deaths in Sierra Leone.
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Markos Makes the Going Great
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Armed with nothing more than a bug-spray can of unscented TRUTH and a deceptive joviality, the cunning mastermind behind Daily Kos leaves an empty chair where Tom Tancredo was sitting, until he fled like a ferret in the night.* And is Tancredo going for that fashionable "Duck look" from Mad Men? I wouldn't put anything past this opportunist. *No ...
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Talking Points Memo
Bachmann's Fight against Terror Health Care
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On the one hand it seems funny that a bunch of GOP Reps. would blow off a vote to strengthen the Patriot Act so they could hang out and speak at Michele Bachmann's Capitol Hill tea party event. On the other hand, since you have Republicans saying health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism, maybe the whole thing makes sense?
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Matthew Yglesias
Your Statement of Support on Health Care
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It’s worth mentioning that if you have time to read political blogs, you have time to pick up the telephone and call your member of congress and tell his or her office whether you support or oppose the health care reform bill. Members of congress, for good or for ill, take this kind of constituent [...]
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Political Memo: On Health Care, Democrats Play Down Election Results
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Even politically vulnerable Democrats in Congress said the party’s losses in two governor’s races this week were not big influences on their decision on health care.
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‘Kill the Bill’ : Protestors Target Health Care
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has postponed his plan to visit the capitol Friday in order to lobby Congress on health care reform. Instead, he’ll visit the hill on Saturday when House lawmakers are planning to vote on a $1.2 trillion health care bill. The president’s decision comes one day after thousands of Americans showed up ...
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Delaware Democrats Press Rep. Castle On Health Care
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Though they don't yet have a candidate for the Senate, Delaware Democrats are beginning to train their fire on Republican Rep. Michael N. Castle , who has the early edge in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Ted Kaufman . The Democratic National Committee on Friday organized a conference call that was intended to pressure Castle into ...
Eye on 2010
Owens Already a Target Over Health Care
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Rep. Bill Owens was sworn in as the newest member of Congress just hours ago but already he's drawing heat from Republicans for his policy stances. Owens announced Friday afternoon that he will vote in favor of the Democrats' health care overhaul proposal, which is expected to come to a vote on Saturday. "This legislation will reform the ...
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CBO Cost Estimate for H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act
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H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act - November 6, 2009: Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on...
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The Plum Line
OFA Unleashes Twitter Health Care Attack On Members Of Congress
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Here come the tweets. In the latest frontier of new media mobilization for health care reform, Obama’s political operation is now calling on supporters to deluge members of Congress via … Twitter. Organizing for America has just rolled out a new device that allows you to enter your address and get directed to your Representative’ ...
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Flopping Aces
Can We Trust The Government To Run The Health Care System?
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H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act?
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H.R. 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" contains thirteen new tax hikes. Here they all are, with description and page number (PDF version): This list is from Yahoo! Answers : Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee’s health premium (65 percent of a ...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Pelosi still dealing as vote nears
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conjured up plenty of old ghosts since launching the health care fight back in July, invoking Democrats who laid the foundation for this year’s push — like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
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Pelosi Faces Competing Pressures on Health Care
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi raises funds in part to help re-elect her most vulnerable members, many from Republican-leaning districts leery of liberal health care proposals.
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Obama Calls Holdouts on Health Care
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. listens to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md. during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Why the Hurry?
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The reason Pelosi wants a vote on Obamacare tomorrow : The House is in the final rush toward passage of a national health care bill, and there’s one thing Speaker Nancy Pelosi absolutely, positively does not want her Democratic lawmakers to do: Go home. “You meet constituents and get an earful from them — that’s the last ...
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About Those Arrests...
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Yesterday TPMDC's Christina Bellantoni witnessed the arrests of 10 people in and around Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the Capitol Hill Tea Party. We've got video of the arrests here . Today, Capitol Police tell TPMDC that 12 arrests were made -- but that none of the people arrested were Tea Partiers. Turns out they were anti-abortion ...
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The Left Coaster
Tuesday's Exit Polls: Voters Want Democratic Health Care Reform
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Sometimes, political dynamics are so simple that even the simple can't figure them out. Much of the reporting has focused on the facts that independents went largely for the Republicans, in Tuesday's two gubernatorial races. That's supposed to tell us something about next year's Congressional races. That Democrats won Tuesday's two Congressional ...
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Tea Party activists hit the Hill, arrested outside Pelosi's office
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Tea Party activists hit the Hill, arrested outside Pelosi's office. Washington (CNN) - GOP leaders and thousands of Tea Party movement protesters gathered on Capitol Hill Thursday to call House Democrats' health care reform bill a full-blown government takeover of the nation' health care system. "My colleagues and I last week were wracking ...
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CNN
House health care vote may be delayed, sources say
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Sharp differences among Democrats over abortion and immigration have raised questions over whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi currently has the 218-vote majority needed for passage of the bill. Washington (CNN) - A hotly anticipated health care reform vote by the full House of Representatives may be delayed until Sunday, according to two Democratic ...
Media Matters for America
Right-wing media falsely claim Pelosi broke pledge to post health care bill online 72 hours in advance
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Right-wing media are claiming Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke a pledge to post the "final" House health care bill online 72 hours before it comes to a vote, echoing a Weekly Standard blog post that claimed amendments allowed by the House Rules Committee the day prior to the vote will change the bill. However, Pelosi's office posted both the text of ...
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RedState
U.S. Chamber House Dem Whip List on Health Reform
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UPDATE by Erick: This list was actually prepared by the House GOP Whip’s Office. ————– Don’t wait for orders from HQ, you know what to do. Call 202-224-3121 or go here to get the direct dial number of your Congressman. WHIPPING LIST 1. John Adler (D-NJ) 2. Jason Altmire (D-PA) 3. John Barrow (D-GA) 4. ...
FOXNews.com
House Dems Reach Deal on Abortion Impasse
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The plan emerged from hours of meetings presided over by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and involving lawmakers on both sides of the abortion issue and officials from the U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops.
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RedState
Pelosi’s Trillion Dollar Government Takeover of Health Care a Bad Prescription for America
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The debate over health care has reached a fevered pitch in our nation’s capital. Over the last several months, millions of Americans have spoken out at town halls, have called and written in to the White House, and have even made personal visits to their members of Congress to express their strong opposition to government run health care. ...
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Pro-Life News
Anti-Abortion Activists Arrested At Pelosi's Suite
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a dozen anti-abortion activists outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after a massive protest against the Democrats' health care bill. The charges ranged from unlawful conduct to disorderly conduct and unlawful entry in...
WSJ.com
A N.J. Democrat Says No to Health Bill
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The decisions of the final holdouts on the House health bill are beginning to come in. Rep. John Adler, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey, said today hes voting no, criticizing the bills cost.
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Rep. Weiner Folds on Single-Payer; Pelosi & Conyers Cheer; Sen. Sanders Steps Up to Plate?
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Rep. Weiner withdraws single payer amendment | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com Representative Anthony Weiner | November 6, 2009 Rep. Weiner Withdraws Single Payer Amendment from Current Health Care Debate |Press Release Today, Representative Anthony Weiner (D - Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the House Energy and Commerce ...
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Right Mind
Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out why Nancy Pelosi would mind putting the Health Care Bill online for her the taxpayers to review. From The Weekly Standard . Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the ...
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Right Mind
Congress Will Vote Tomorrow to Fund Abortion in Health Care
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See: Call/Email Your Member of Congress and ask him/her to oppose the "Rule" if it does not allow a vote on the Stupak anti-abortion funding amendment From the FRC : On Saturday, Congress will vote on the massive health care legislation which currently will spend your money on all elective abortion! Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health ...
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Some House Dems that Might Be Persuaded to Vote No on Obamacare
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-By Warner Todd Huston Ken Marrero over at Blue Collar Muse reminds us that there are a few Democrats that could possibly be persuaded to vote against House Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare bill. Word has it that Pelosi is going to try and strong-arm her bill to a floor vote this Saturday, so if you want to stop this bill, call the following ...
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David Corn from Mother Jones read an incendiary quote from yesterday's Capitol Hill Tea Party to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs this afternoon during the press briefing. Gibbs used the question as an opportunity to lament the state of discourse in the U.S. Here's the Gibbs exchange: Corn: "Yesterday at the rally on Capitol Hill, ...
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King rallies with “tea party” activists in D.C.
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Republican Congressman Steve King spoke to the thousands of “tea party” activists who rallied outside the U.S. Capitol yesterday to protest the health care reform plan Democrats are advancing.
Yglesias.thinkprogress.org
Scenes From a Tea Party
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There are all kinds of nutty people in the world, but these kinds of things are the wages of a conservative leadership and media that’s consistently tried to drum-up opposition to health care reform not by opposing things that are actually in the bill, but with demagogic opposition to completely fabricated provisions.
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Think Progress
Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs
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One of the most disturbing images from yesterday’s Tea Party rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill was a protester’s gruesome sign showing a pile of dead Holocaust victims. The banner — captured by ThinkProgress here — read: “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945.” Another sign ...
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TPMDC
Watch: TPMDC's Videos From Tea Party Scene
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Over the last 24 hours we've written a lot about the Capitol Hill Tea Party extravaganza. Make sure to check out TPMDC's photo slideshow from yesterday's events here. We also took lots of original video throughout the day - from musical protests against communism to tea partiers heckling police as some anti-abortion protesters were arrested and ...
Christina Bellantoni
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TPMDC
Michele Bachmann's Stock On The Rise After Her 'Super Bowl Of Freedom'
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Whether you call it a rally, press conference or "House Call," Republicans think Thursday's Capitol Hill Tea Party was a success -- and they are crediting Rep. Michele Bachmann for having the pizazz to increase turnout and press coverage. "We didn't know what to expect, we didn't know what kind of energy would be there, but this thing took a ...
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Pajamas Media
Michelle Bachmann’s Capitol Tea Party
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Dozens of moms from Minnesota sported sweatshirts with a parental threat aimed at Congress that most everyone would recognize. Our elected representatives have done just that — they made us “come up there,” from as far away as California, leaving jobs and families and spending hefty sums to make what Rep. Michele Bachmann called �
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Instapundit
OFFERING ROBERT GIBBS A LITTLE HELP. He can always use it!…
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OFFERING ROBERT GIBBS A LITTLE HELP. He can always use it!
Msnbc.com
Obama will push health bill in Sat. Hill visit
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President Barack Obama still expects to have a health care overhaul bill to sign by year's end and plans to personally lobby for it in a visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday, the White House said.
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Greatfallstribune.com
'Tea Party' protesters wary of health care reform
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Thirty area residents protested Thursday against federal health care legislation the U.S. House of Representatives may consider Saturday.
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Talking Points Memo
Let's Go To The Tape
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TPMDC's video coverage of yesterday's Capitol Hill Tea Party.
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‘Pittsburgh tea party’ takes view to DC…
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‘Pittsburgh tea party’ takes view to DC… Valley area protesters join rally outside Capitol…
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NewsBusters.org
Tea Partiers 'Stormed' Congress, But Pro-ObamaCare 'Activists' Simply 'Staged a Sit-in'
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Word choice can be a subtle but effective way in which the media colorfully editorialize on the news, skewing the perceptions of readers in one direction or another. Take Washington Post's Philip Rucker, who did masterful job in skewing his 19-paragaph-long page A4 story "Activists bring 'tea party' to Capitol Hill" in favor of ...
Ben Frumin
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Talking Points Memo
Numbers Game
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Yesterday's Tea Party on Capitol Hill drew thousands of protesters from across the country. But how many exactly? Depends who you ask. MSNBC reported yesterday that a Capitol policeman said there were 3,000 to 3,500 people there. Our reporters on the scene estimated the crowd size at no more than 8,000 or so. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the ...
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White House.gov Press Office Feed
Bills Signed Into Law by the President,
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 6, 2009 On Friday, November 6, 2009, the President signed into law: H.J.Res. 26, which proclaims Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously; H.R. 1209, the “Medal ...
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President Obama took another pass at commenting on the Fort Hood massacre in the Rose Garden this morning: This morning I met with FBI Director Mueller and the relevant agencies to discuss their ongoing investigation into what caused one individual to turn his gun on fellow servicemen and women. We don't know all of the answers yet, and I would ...
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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Right-wing blogger Zip at Weasel Zippers, reacting to President Obama's comments on the Fort Hood shooting (emphasis in original): That he would call yesterday's horrific act of violence an 'outburst of violence' validates that he deserves no respect. It is times like this that I REALLY miss President Bush.
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Like Robert George, I was a little thrown when I saw President Obama giving a "shout-out" to somebody in the audience, moments before he discussed the Fort Hood shooting. Like Jonah, I'm not sure this is something worth making too much fuss about; Obama will do worse things during his presidency than make some off-key remarks right before ...
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Obama says don't jump to conclusions on shooting
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings.
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Political Punch
President Obama to Visit Walter Reed Friday
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White House officials tell ABC News that President Obama will visit with wounded soldiers tomorrow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The trip was scheduled before the incident today at Fort Hood, officials said. President Obama visited wounded troops at...
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Doug Ross
Look up 'faux pas' in the dictionary...
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...look up faux pas in the dictionary and you'll see this speech by President Obama on the Fort Hood massacre.Please, everybody have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who ...
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MoJo Blog Posts
The Economy's Future—and Obama's
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Photo by flickr user Tony the Misfit used under a Creative Commons license. When it comes to electoral predictions, I'm kind of old-fashioned: I think that most elections are determined by the economic situation, and that if the economy is bad, people tend to want to throw the bums out. Whoever the bums are at a given moment isn't particularly ...
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Oliver Willis
Let’s Hear It For Kimberly Denise Munley
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Link The police officer who brought down a gunman after he went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here was on the way to have her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report of gunfire at a center where soldiers are processed before being sent overseas, the authorities said [...]
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White House.gov Press Office Feed
President Obama Taps Cassandra Butts to Serve as Senior Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation
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WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced that he will name Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Q. Butts as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. President Obama said, “I am honored to appoint my dear friend and trusted colleague Cassandra to serve in this ...
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Mudville Gazette
Aftermath
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According to ABC, President Obama will make his first visit to Walter Reed as Commander in Chief tomorrow:White House officials tell ABC News that President Obama will visit with wounded soldiers tomorrow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The trip was scheduled before the incident today at Fort Hood, officials said. President Obama visited ...
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White House.gov Press Office Feed
Remarks by the President in the Rose Garden
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11:33 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I want to begin by offering an update on the tragedy that took place yesterday at Fort Hood. This morning I met with FBI Director Mueller and the relevant agencies to discuss their ongoing investigation into what caused one individual to turn his gun on fellow servicemen and women. We don't know all ...
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TalkLeft
The Latest In Obama As Ineffectual: Obama As 1938 Czechoslovakia?
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With defenders like Jon Chait , President Obama needs no enemies: Krugman's column employs a pretty good World War II analogy. Let me use another: imagine a scathing column about the 1938 Munich accord that devotes most of its energy to castigating Czechoslovakian President Edvard Benes for his ineffectual efforts to gain the support of Britain ...
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Officials were not prepared to say whether the attack was the act of a lone and troubled man or connected to terrorist groups, foreign or domestic.
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The upstate New York Congressional race just got more interesting. This is the place where a Republican from a usually safe Republican district went to the Cabinet and a very liberal person got the Republican nomination. So liberal was she that she garnered an opponent running on the Conservative ticket. Newt Gingrich for party tactical reasons ...
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Why wasn't Hasan Investigated?
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Federal law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed homicide bombings and other threats. The officials said they are still trying to confirm that he was the author.
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TPMDC
Reid Continues To Target Republican Obstruction
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is on a kick. Personally frustrated, and under pressure from the left, Reid has decided to take direct aim at Republican obstruction, and he's doing so in angry terms. "For anybody watching, what's taken place the last three years knows the Republicans have become experts in wasting time, the American taxpayers' ...
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Open Left
In Barcelona, UN climate talks reach danger zone
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Hi – I’m writing from Barcelona, where the final round of negotiations prior to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen came to a close on Friday. It’s been a tense five days here, with time running out for world leaders to get their act together. I want to share some of my reactions to what’s going on here—and in ...
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Liberal Values
The Republican Losing Streak
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Politico points out how bad the Republican losing streak is in special elections: Lost amid the Republican euphoria surrounding Tuesday’s elections is this inconvenient fact: The GOP just got its clock cleaned, again, in another high-stakes House special election. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise, since Republicans have lost 20 of the ...
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The House of Representatives is expected to vote on health-care reform Saturday. But the days before a big vote are rarely calm ones, and this week has been no exception. Democrats don't expect a single Republican to cross over to vote for health-care reform. That is to say, the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, which got eight Republican votes ...
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Talking Points Memo
The Freak Show We Live In
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It's a pretty unhappy commentary that it has to be reported as news that people are taking issue with the use of pictures of the Dachau death camp as an illustration of the horrors of health care reform. But, alas, such is the world we're living in. Today Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) criticized Rep. Bachmann for the Holocaust imagery --- and really, ...
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The Left Coaster
Stepping Up
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For months, there had been speculation about what the administration was and wasn't doing, behind the scenes, on health care reform. Opacity ruled, which I thought was a bad strategy, on both the policy and the politics. Well, that's finally over with. It's crunch time, and the administration is stepping up....
The Seattle Times
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House Democrats clear impasse over abortion holding up vote on health care legislation.
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The Caucus
Two New Lawmakers Join House Democrats
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Bill Owens became the second of two new Democratic congressmen in the House of Representatives early Friday afternoon.
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Hit
In Washington, It's Always Opposite Day
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Unintended consequences seem to be the order of the day: In addition to Martin Feldstein's piece positing that health-care reform might actually incentivize people to drop their insurance until they get sick (thus shrinking the risk pool and increasing premiums), former Bush budget official James Capretta has a useful post explaining how the a ...
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Flopping Aces
Congressional House Call
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After receiving no answer from emails requesting a town hall health care meeting, I took up Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s call to make a house call on our congressional representative. Despite less than a week’s notice, up to 50,000 Americans from across the country gathered at the steps of the Capitol Building yesterday to send a ...
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Americans for Prosperity
Best Blog Coverage of Nov. 5 Congressional House Calls
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ABC NEWS, the Note, Tea Service: Energy served in unequal portions, as health care vote approaches The Foundry, 10,000 Rally Against Obamacare Washington Times, The Grassroots is Growing read more
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Hit
Higher Premiums, Less Coverage?
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Could health-care reform actually lead to fewer people being insured? Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein argues that the answer is yes : A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. The new coverage would start immediately, and the ...
Josh Marshall
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Talking Points Memo
You Betcha!
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Is it appropriate for Tea Partiers to use images of concentration camp victims to illustrate the horrors of health care reform? "You bet," says former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO). Late Update : I went back watched the video in question several times. And though Tancredo said "you bet" to the "appropriate" question, it seems to me that he got ...
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Roll Call Daily News
Phone Problems Reported in Capitol
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Problems with the Capitol's phone system were reported on Friday afternoon, just as interest groups and citizens scrambled to lobby their legislators on the eve of a likely House vote on health care reform.
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Firedoglake
ACTION: Treat Patients, Not PhRMA Tricks
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Help Medical Students Fight PhMRA for affordable generics with their POP video: 1) Click here to automatically Tweet about this video 2) Post to your Facebook Page 3) Copy and paste this to your FB status: Beat PhRMA! Votes on health care tomorrow. Watch this video and share: 4) Rate and [...]
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More of Pelosi's Millionaire Tax -- By: Veronique de Rugy
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On Wednesday, I wrote about the surtax of 5.4 percent on individuals making $500,000 and couples making more than $1 million that the House bill has in mind to pay for the high cost of the health-care reform. Among other things, I said that this surtax, which wouldn't be indexed to inflation, reminded me of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). It ...
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Balloon Juice
Dropping the Ball
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Look, I know unemployment is over 10%, there was a shooting in Texas and another in Florida, the Republicans just staged a hatefest on the Capitol steps, and Afghanistan is still an issue, and Health Care reform is moving forward slowly, but what happened to all the hard hitting journalism we are used to? There are serious questions that need to ...
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Roll Call Daily News
CRS Memo Raises New Questions About Legality of HHS Web Site
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A new Congressional Research Service legal memorandum is raising fresh questions about the legality of a Health and Human Services Web site that asks visitors to show their support for President Barack Obama's health care reform effort, saying it could violate several federal statutes.
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The $1.5 Trillion Fraud -- By: Michael F. Cannon
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I f House Democrats hold a vote on their health-care overhaul this weekend, they might as well vote on abolishing the Congressional Budget Office too. It would be no more audacious -- and much more honest -- than their current strategy for hiding the true cost of their legislation. Never mind the everyday budget gimmicks House Democrats have used,
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Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served a search warrant at the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office.
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Post Office Returns 107,831 Tax Refund Checks to IRS Due to Faulty Addresses
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The IRS announced yesterday (IR-2009-101) that it has received 107,831 refund checks totaling $123.5 million (an average of $1,048) from the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. The number of undeliverable refund checks is up 16% this year. If you are awiting a refund check, you can update your address at Where's ...
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State agents seize computers from N.O. ACORN office
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NEW ORLEANS – State agents seized computers and other related equipment from the New Orleans ACORN offices Friday morning, according to Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell.
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Detnews.com
ACORN offices raided in New Orleans
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New Orleans -- State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans.
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NewsBusters.org
AP, Covering ACORN La. Raid, Acts As If Only One Office Was Videotaped by O'Keefe and Giles
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Did you know that activist filmmaker James O'Keefe and partner Hannah Giles made only one undercover video showing ACORN employees willing to assist them in illegal and human rights-violating activities? Absent prior knowledge, that's the impression you would have upon reading the Associated Press's coverage of the latest development in the ...
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Doug Ross
RED ALERT: ACORN Headquarters Raided: 'This is an investigation of everything'
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Just received several text messages and emails:in new orleans today acorns office files and computers were seized Red Ink is reporting:Only minutes ago the Louisiana Attorney General's office issued a statement that the Elysian street offices of ACORN in New Orleans was raided today and all of their computers and records were seized in a ...
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Wizbang
Knock Knock Knocking on ACORN's Door
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Where are the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys? ACORN operates in multiple states and is being investigated in multiple states for Voter Fraud, which makes it a criminal conspiracy operating across state lines...
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Right Mind
Breaking: ACORN’s New Orleans Office Raided by Louisiana Attorney General
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From Breitbart : In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney’s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN’s offices in New Orleans. ACORN’s New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association. News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ...
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Acorn Offices in New Orleans Are Raided
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Louisiana officials say that an investigation into the community organizing group is examining new allegations about a decade-old embezzlement case.
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After months of contentious battling over Referendum 71, Washington voters have approved the measure, keeping a law that expands state benefits for registered same-sex and some senior domestic partners. The vote tally to approve appears insurmountable.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann has been one of the top speakers and a co-master of ceremonies at today's Capitol Hill Tea Party, an event that she herself heavily promoted.
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POLITICO.com
Bachmann's healthy prognosis
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Rep. Michele Bachmann stood alone at a podium at the foot of the Capitol Thursday, blowing kisses and waving to the fawning crowd of thousands she had assembled.
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Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a career soldier with some 20 years experience, who had trained as a psychiatrist and treated troops returning from combat. He is also reported to be a devout Muslim, who attended daily prayers at a mosque and was seen on the morning of the shooting wearing traditional Arabic dress as he shopped for groceries.
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Newsrealblog.com
Our Brain Dead Country
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A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under ...
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US investigators search for motive in Texas army massacre
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Investigators on Friday searched for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US Army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.A spokesman at the base said the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a lifelong Muslim born in the United States of immigrant parents.
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