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Thursday, November 19th
Sen. Reid’s Government-Run Health Plan Requires a Monthly Abortion Fee
What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run health plan. It’s right there beginning on line 11, page 122, section 1303, under “Actuarial Value of Optional Service Coverage.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account – and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services.
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Man arrested for 'anti-Christian' mall disturbance
Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center.
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House panel OKs granting of bank breakup power
The proposal by Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa.) would allow regulators to break up such big companies before their failure becomes imminent. It goes beyond the powers requested by the Obama administration to seize large firms on the brink of failure should their collapse threaten to damage the wider financial system.
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Senate to Vote Thursday on Appeals Court Nominee Who Said Judges Can Amend the Constitution with Judicial ‘Footnotes’
(CNSNews.com) – U.S. senators on Thursday will debate and vote on the nomination of Judge David F. Hamilton, President Obama's first judicial nominee.
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Reid Introduces Senate Health Bill That Mandates Federally Subsidized Abortion
(CNSNews.com) - Senate Majority Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) late Wednesday published the final text of a Senate health care bill that would mandate federally subsidized abortion
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Push is on Around the World to Legalise "a Broad Array of Private Killing": Anti-Euthanasia Expert
LONDON, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The push is on around the world to legalise "a broad array of private killing" no matter whether it is being called "assisted suicide" or outright euthanasia, US lawyer and anti-euthanasia campaigner Wesley J. Smith told an audience in London last night.
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Wednesday, November 18th
Obama ‘Reaches Out’ by Naming ‘Devout’ Muslims to Security Posts
(IsraelNN.com) U.S. President Barack Obama continues to “reach out to Muslims” by appointing them to key security posts amid charges he wrongly ignored internal Muslim terror. One recent appointee was harshly criticized for appearing on a British-based television station whose host is a member of a radical Muslim group.
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Biblical Open Borders?
Pushing for open borders is the latest fad for the Religious and Evangelical Left. The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), National Council of Churches (NCC) and United Methodist Council of Bishops have all recently chimed in, essentially endorsing New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s effort to revive the failed 2007 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIR) offering higher legal immigration and eventual amnesty for existing illegals.
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Obama encourages illegals
If we were to listen to the complaints about the Obama administration by advocates of amnesty for illegal immigrants, you might think our nation's immigration laws were actually being enforced. To the contrary, the administration has systematically taken steps to weaken enforcement and encourage even more illegal immigration. The amnesty advocates should be happy.
Consider the facts:
This administration rescinded the "no-match" rule that provided simple steps for employers to follow if an employee's name did not match the Social Security number they provided when hired. These steps made it easy for employers to follow the law and protect themselves from lawsuits. Without this protection, many employers will continue to employ individuals they know are illegal and are taking jobs that should go to citizens and legal residents.
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What Americans Need to Know About the Copenhagen Global Warming Conference
Abstract: In December, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen to work on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. U.S. negotiators should refuse to sign any climate change treaty that does not include meaningful participation by China, India, and other major developing nations or that would harm the U.S. economy or threaten U.S. sovereignty.
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Copenhagen deal should have immediate effect -Obama
BEIJING, Nov 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that climate talks in Copenhagen next month should fix a new deal which has "immediate operational effect", even if an original goal of a legally binding pact is out of reach.
Obama's remarks came after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, who has pushed for a strong outcome at Copenhagen and refused to back a proposal to rekindle stalled negotiations by aiming for a scaled-down political deal.
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Gov't Said To Waste Over $98 Billion
(CBS/ AP) More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year.
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How the Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas
For the perfect Nazi Christmas you had to hang glittering swastikas and toy grenades from the pine tree in the living room and, in your freshly pressed uniform, belt out carols urging German women to make babies for the Führer rather than worship the Jewish Baby Jesus. Then came the moment to light the pagan candle-holders — hand-made by labourers at Dachau.
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IMF Says "Baskett" of Currency Should Replace Dollar
BEIJING -- The imperative of greater global currency stability means the world can no longer rely, as it has done since the end of the gold standard, on a currency issued by a single country, the head of the IMF said on Tuesday.
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US Wants China to Buy into Its Small Banks
Chinese and U.S. regulators are negotiating a pact aimed at encouraging Chinese financial institutions to buy into small and medium-sized banks in the United States, bankers briefed on the plan said on Tuesday.
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Lou Dobbs: My downfall at CNN started when Barack Obama became President
Former CNN veteran Lou Dobbs suggests his form of advocacy journalism fell out of favor when President Obama was elected and his ratings began to decline.
Dobbs, who had come under fire from watchdog groups because of his on-air, anti-immigration stance, told Bill O'Reilly Monday on the Fox News Channel that he never heard directly from CNN management that he made the network look bad - but there was a tonal change when Obama became President.
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The Perspective Of A Russian Immigrant
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was taught to believe individual pursuits are selfish and sacrificing for the collective good is noble.
In kindergarten we sang songs about Lenin, the leader of the Socialist Revolution. In school we learned about the beautiful socialist system, where everybody is equal and everything is fair; about ugly capitalism, where people are exploited and treat each other like wolves in the wilderness.
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Tuesday, November 17th
U.S. troops' continental insignia bears U.N. colors
NEW YORK – Troops in the United States' USNORTHCOM ranks appear to have adopted a shoulder patch showing a North American continental design, with an emphasis on United Nations colors, giving evidence of the strength of a plan to integrate North America.
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Surveillance State, U.S.A.
(CBS) Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of A Question of Torture, among other works. His most recent book is Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (University of Wisconsin Press) which explores the influence of overseas counterinsurgency operations throughout the twentieth century in spreading ever more draconian internal security measures here at home. This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
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Wall Street's 2012 meltdown sweepstakes
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- It's coming in 2012: Another, bigger meltdown of Wall Street's "too-greedy-to-fail" banks. No, this is not another fanatical warning about that Dec. 21, 2012 end-of-days prediction based on the Mayan calendar, though you may well ask "Who will survive?"
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Monday, November 16th
World leaders deal major blow to Copenhagen climate change deal
A key element of the international plan to address climate change is in jeopardy after several of the most powerful nations failed to confirm a previous commitment to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum, which includes the US, China, Japan and Russia, deleted the commitment from the final version of the official communiqué issued after a two-day meeting in Singapore. The commitment had been made by G8 leaders at L’Aquila in Italy in July and the decision to remove it is a retrograde step.
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Economic uncertainty means business is booming for Swiss gold smelters
As the temperature in the furnace rose to 1,200C, a broad-shouldered worker prepared to melt the gold rings, chains and bracelets — which constituted a lifetime’s memories for countless families.
They had been given for births, christenings and weddings, but in this hot, dark workshop on the southern edge of Switzerland, love had been stripped away to leave a value that investors say is more durable — that of precious metal.
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Central banks to buy up gold supply
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Central banks will be net buyers of gold this year as they diversify away from the U.S. dollar, global commodities investment fund BlackRock said on Monday in comments that helped drive bullion to fresh record highs.
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Axelrod Signals Obama Will Try to Strip Abortion Language From Health Care Bill
The amendment, authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., went beyond preventing the proposed government-run plan from covering abortion to restrict federal subsidies from going toward private plans that offer abortion coverage. David Axelrod says the amendment changes the 'status quo,' something the president cannot abide.
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Obama urges Congress to put off Fort Hood probe
Washington -- President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
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Napolitano Announces Obama Administration Plan to Give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens
(CNSNews.com) –Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.”
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Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control
Gun rights supporters are up in arms over a pair of moves the White House made last month to reverse longstanding U.S. policy and begin negotiating a gun control treaty with the United Nations.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first announced on Oct. 14 that the U.S. had changed its stance and would support negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty to regulate international gun trafficking, a measure the Bush administration and, notably, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton opposed for years.
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MILLION HIT BY 'PLAGUE WORSE THAN SWINE FLU'
A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine.
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