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World Hails Obama’s Rescue of Balloon Boy

by Scott Ott · 40 Comments

(2009-10-16) — Congratulatory messages poured into the White House this morning from global heads-of-state celebrating President Barack Obama’s dramatic rescue of a 6-year-old Colorado boy, whose apparent flight in an experimental balloon yesterday captivated viewers around the world.
While the White House declined to comment on how the president could have flown to Colorado, retrieved the [...]

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Reid Unveils ‘Trojan Horse’ Bill to Contain Health Reform

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(2009-10-13) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ended days of speculation this morning by releasing the text of a so-called “Trojan Horse” bill which he’ll use to bypass Republican filibuster attempts, amending it later to include the full text of the Democrat health care reform legislation.
The “vapor bill” would ban “concealed, or open, carry of [...]

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Tags: Medicine · U.S. News

U.N. Decries Obama’s Preemptive Nobel Peace Prize

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(2009-10-09) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today rejected in the strongest possible terms the deployment of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, which he said was “reminiscent of George W. Bush’s disastrous doctrine of preemption.”
“The Nobel committee, perhaps persuaded by faulty intelligence and a hyped sense of urgency, made an historic [...]

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Tags: Global News · U.S. News

Bill Amended to Cap Emissions & Federal Spending

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(2009-09-30) — In an effort to move climate change legislation past Republican opposition, Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, today announced he had amended the cap-and-trade bill to require that a 20-percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions be matched by a 20-percent cut in federal spending by 2020. Both provisions would use the year 2005 as the [...]

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Obama Threats Force Iran to Destroy Missiles

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(2009-09-27) — President Barack Obama’s tough talk against Iran this week, threatening ’sanctions with bite’ if the regime didn’t ‘come clean’ about its nuclear program, has already produced positive results, the White House said today, forcing the Islamic Republic to begin destroying its short- and long-range missiles.
“When faced with President Obama’s steel-spined rhetoric, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]

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Tags: Global News · U.S. News

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee: Town Hall Phone Call Not Rude

by Scott Ott · 95 Comments

(2009-08-14) — Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-TX, who appears in a viral video making a cellphone call at a town hall meeting while a cancer survivor was trying to ask her a question, today explained that she was not being rude to the voters in the room.
“I didn’t know the answer to the question,” said the [...]

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Tags: Medicine · U.S. News

Pelosi Yanks ‘Un-American’ Slur, Uses ‘Guest Protesters’

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(2009-08-11) — After a gentle rebuke from the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, said today she regrets using the term ‘un-American’ in Monday’s USA Today op-ed to describe protesters at health care reform townhall meetings held by Democrat lawmakers.
“The president is right,” said Rep. Pelosi, “They’re not un-American. The proper term might be ‘guest [...]

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