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2nd Amendment Victory Today Handed Down by the Ninth Circuit

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:12:57 PM

Second Amendment extended

Monday, April 20th, 2009 3:21 pm | Lyle Denniston 

The Constitution’s protection of an individual right to have guns for personal use restricts the powers of state and local government as much as it does those of the federal government, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled Monday.  The opinion by the three-judge panel can be found here.  This is the first ruling by a federal appeals court to extend the Second Amendment to the state and local level.  Several cases on the same issue are now awaiting a ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/second-amendment-extended/


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RNC Beat DNC in March Fundraising

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 9:04:08 PM
RNC beats DNC in March fundraising
By Reid Wilson
Posted: 04/20/09 10:52 AM [ET]
Even with the president on its side, the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) fundraising woes continued in March as the party earned fewer individual donations than did its GOP rivals.

The Republican National Committee, under new Chairman Michael Steele, pulled in $6.7 million in March, padding the committee's swollen bank accounts and ending the month with $23.9 million cash on hand. That's higher than the $5.26 million the RNC raised in February, Steele's first month as chairman.
The DNC, which hosted President Obama's first fundraiser since being sworn in in January, posted just $5.57 million raised from individual donors, down from the $6.6 million raised in February. Obama's fundraiser brought in $3 million, a DNC source told The Hill.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rnc-beats-dnc-in-march-fundraising-2009-04-20.html
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Chrysler Rejects Loan

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 7:26:36 PM

  • Chrysler Rejects $750M Loan

    Gov't official says Chrysler refused loan over executive pay limits; car maker says it just doesn't need the money

Tags: Bailout  
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Cheney Says That the CIA Should Declassify Memos That Shows the Success of President Bush's Interrogation Tactics

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 5:16:59 PM
Cheney Calls for Legal Memos to be Declassified
Mon Apr 20 2009 16:20:53 ET

In a two part interview airing tonight and tomorrow night on FOX News Channel’s Hannity (9-10PM ET), former Vice President Dick Cheney shared his thoughts on the CIA memos that were recently declassified and also revealed his request to the CIA to declassify additional memos that confirm the success of the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics:

CHENEY:

“One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort. And there are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified.”

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashcm.htm
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The AP Takes Obama to Task That is Change I Can Believe In

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 5:13:51 PM

SPIN METER: Saving federal money the easy way

SPIN METER: Obama's latest budget-tightening effort hardly makes a dime's worth of difference

  • Andrew Taylor and Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writers
  • Monday April 20, 2009, 4:18 pm EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cut a latte or two out of your annual budget and you've just done as much belt-tightening as President Barack Obama asked of his Cabinet on Monday.

The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/SPIN-METER-Saving-federal-apf-14976290.html?.v=1
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April 20th in American History

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 4:22:11 PM

April 20, 1861

Lee resigns from U.S. Army

Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2179

April 20, 1871

Ku Klux Act passed by Congress

With passage of the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4939

April 20, 1999

Columbine High School massacre

On this day in 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold, 18, and Eric Harris, 17, dressed in trench coats, began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to continue their rampage. By 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded another 23 people. Shortly after noon, the two teens turned their guns on themselves and committed suicide.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=52440
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NY Times Receives Pulitzer Prize for Covering Spitzer Scandal

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 4:21:49 PM
Las Vegas Sun wins Pulitzer, and NY Times gets 5
Apr 20 02:26 PM US/Eastern
By DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The Las Vegas Sun won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for exposing a high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip. The New York Times received five Pulitzers, including one for breaking the call-girl scandal that destroyed Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97MCOM80&show_article=1
Tags: Media   times  
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White House Lawyers Ignore Memo Saying that Uighur Chinese Muslims Held at Guantanamo are Too Dangerous to be Released into the United States

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 11:40:05 AM
The Uighurs and the 'Torture' Memos
by  Jed Babbin
04/20/2009

White House lawyers are refusing to accept the findings of an inter-agency committee that the Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay are too dangerous to release inside the U.S., according to Pentagon sources familiar with the action.

This action -- coupled with the release of previously top secret legal opinions on harsh interrogation methods -- demonstrates the Obama administration’s willingness to ignore reality.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31513
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The Great Cut in Spending in 2009

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:58:06 AM
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Two Year Anniversary of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Saying that the Iraq War is Lost

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:27:33 AM
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More Nonsense About the So Called Theory of "Global Warming?

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:23:39 AM

Energy Secretary Offers Dire Global Warming Prediction

Speaking at the Summit of the Americas in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Steven Chu says some islands could disappear if water levels rise as a result of greenhouse-gas induced climate change.

By Major Garrett

FOXNews.com

Sunday, April 19, 2009

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- Caribbean nations face "very, very scary" rises in sea level and intensifying hurricanes, and Florida, Louisiana and even northern California could be overrun with rising water levels due to global warming triggered by carbon-based greenhouse gases, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Saturday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/19/energy-secretary-offers-dire-global-warming-prediction/
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Tea Parties are "Unhealthy"

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:21:11 AM
Axelrod suggests 'Tea Party' movement is 'unhealthy'
Posted: 11:18 AM ET

From

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday suggested the "Tea Party" movement is an "unhealthy" reaction to the tough economic climate facing the country.

Axelrod was asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" about the "spreading and very public disaffection" with the president's fiscal policies seen at the "Tea Party" rallies around the country last week.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/19/axelrod-suggests-tea-party-movement-is-unhealthy/
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This is Why the United States Needs to Pull Out of the UN Immediately and Stop Funding This Useless Organization

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:19:52 AM

Walkout at UN conference after Iran president calls Israel 'racist'

Western delegates staged a dramatic walkout today as President Ahmadinejad of Iran addressed a major United Nations conference on racism.

The co-ordinated walkout came after Mr Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being a racist regime and left the week-long conference in tatters. Among the diplomats seen leaving the room were envoys from Britain, France and Canada, who had all threatened to stand up and leave if the Iranian president made anti-Semitic statements.

Nine Western countries, including Israel and the United States, had already decided to boycott the conference entirely because its draft declaration mentioned the conclusions of an anti-racism conference in South Africa eight years ago in which Islamic nations pushed through a text equating Zionism and racism.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6132972.ece
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Book Recommendation

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 10:14:56 AM
About a month ago I mentioned a book that all of my readers should read and that book was "Liberty and Tyranny" A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin. I have just finished the book and now I can honestly give a better recommendation. This book is as important to me as the Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Federalist Papers, Barry Goldwater's "The Conscience of a Conservative." It truly is a remarkable book and it is a quick read. I strongly recommend this book to all of my readers of this blog.

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Looking Less and Less of a Tedisco Win

Posted by Defend America on Monday, April 20, 2009 6:41:45 AM

Murphy on track to win special election

With all of the unchallenged absentee and overseas military ballots counted, Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican Jim Tedisco by 273 votes and looks in extremely strong position to prevail in the New York special election.

Murphy has 79,839 votes, while Tedisco has 79,566 votes.

Fueling Democratic optimism is the source of the 1,773 ballots that have been challenged by both campaigns, and left out of the current count. According to a database provided by the Murphy campaign, the plurality of those challenged ballots were cast by registered Democrats.

Of the 1,773 ballots not included in the count, 810 were cast by registered Democrats, 653 were from registered Republicans and 310 were from independent or unaffiliated voters.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0409/Murphy_on_track_to_win_special_election.html?showall
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