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House Democrats are Censoring Republicans Who Use the Phrase Government-Run Health Care to their Constituents

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 10:49:13 PM
House Democrats Censure Republican's Use of Term 'Government-Run' Health Care in Constituent Communications
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) made public last week an e-mail from the Franking Commission -- a bipartisan panel that oversees messages from lawmakers -- asking Carter to change the phrase “government run” health care to "public option." The term was part of an audio message recorded by Carter’s staff for a town hall event on health care. The Franking Commission, which is authorized by law to oversee mail and other communications between members of Congress and their constituents that is paid for with federal funds, sent an e-mail to Carter's staff requesting that the wording in the message be changed.
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July 27th in American History

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 10:47:33 PM

1789 - The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by the U.S. Congress. The agency was later known as the Department of State.


1804 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.

1944 - U.S. troops completed the liberation of Guam.


July 27, 1974

House begins impeachment of Nixon

On this day in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommends that America's 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and removed from office. The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be collectively known as Watergate.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=59458

1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.

1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics a pipe bomb exploded at the public Centennial Olympic Park. One person was killed and more than 100 were injured.
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Hoyer Says Friday Vote on Health Care Poses Too Many Hurdles

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 10:43:03 PM
Hoyer: Too many hurdles to meet Friday health vote deadline
By Mike Soraghan

There is no way for the House to meet its Friday deadline for a vote on healthcare, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Monday night. Read more
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Wow That's Fiscal Responsibility

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 8:04:16 PM
Cabinet offers $243M in budget cuts
By Walter Alarkon | Posted: 07/27/09 06:51 PM [ET]
Cabinet members said they could cut their budgets by almost $243 million over the next two years in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Tags: budet   Cabinet  
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Dodd and Conrad Told About their Sweetened Deals

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 7:07:18 PM
AP IMPACT: Dodd, Conrad told deals were sweetened
Jul 27 04:46 PM US/Eastern
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.

Both senators have said that at the time the mortgages were being written they didn't know they were getting unique deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., the company that went on to lose billions of dollars on home loans to credit-strapped borrowers. Dodd still maintains he got no preferential treatment.

"You don't say 'no' to the VIP," Feinberg told Republican investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press.

Dodd got two Countrywide mortgages in 2003, refinancing his home in Connecticut and another residence in Washington. Conrad's two Countrywide mortgages in 2004 were for a beach house in Delaware and an eight-unit apartment building in Bismarck in his home state of North Dakota.

Robert Feinberg, who worked in the Countrywide's VIP section, told congressional investigators last month that the two senators were made aware that "who you know is basically how you're coming in here."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99N143G3&show_article=1


Tags: conrad   Dodd  
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President Obama Doing a Great Job at Protecting the United States and Our Soldiers

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 7:04:10 PM
US released senior Iranian Qods Force commander
By Bill RoggioJuly 27, 2009 1:50 AM

A senior Qods Force officer who led one of the three commands in Iraq assigned to attack US and Iraqi forces was one of five Iranians released by the US military on July 9.

Mahmud Farhadi, the leader of the Zafr Command, one of three units subordinate to the Qods Force's Ramazan Corps, was among five Iranians turned over to the Iraqi government and then subsequently turned over to the Iranians.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/07/us_released_senior_iranian_qods_force_commander.php
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Pelosi Would Have a Big Problem with that Idea

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 5:28:37 PM


DON'T GO THERE:  DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY, HAIR PLUGS
Mon Jul 27 2009 17:18:00 ET

Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, CONGRESS DAILY reports.

 The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10% excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes.

http://drudgereport.com/flashbt.htm
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A Much Awaited Announcement

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 4:22:25 PM
Bunning's not running
By GLENN THRUSH | 7/27/09 4:13 PM
Sen. Jim Bunning has officially dropped out of next year's reelection campaign, citing paltry fundraising.
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Howard Dean Filling in For Olbermann Could be an Interesting Watch

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 3:08:55 PM

Howard Dean to Fill in on Countdown

Tomorrow and Wednesday, former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean will guest host Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Tags: Media   Dean  
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Nebraska Trying to Assert State Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 11:37:39 AM

Nebraska legislators seek to assert state sovereignty

By Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU


LINCOLN — At least three Nebraska lawmakers want to send a message to the federal government:

Butt out of state business.

Next year they will see if a majority of their colleagues agrees.

The senators are working on resolutions asserting Nebraska's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.

http://omaha.com/article/20090727/NEWS01/707279958
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Sessions will Not Vote for Sotomayor

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 11:26:43 AM
He writes an op-ed in USA Today explaining why he cannot support her:

Opposing view: A confirmation conversion

Nominee lacks deep convictions needed to resist judicial activism.

By Jeff Sessions

Elections have consequences: President Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, will likely be confirmed.

But supporters of liberal judicial philosophy might find it a Pyrrhic victory. During three days of careful questioning, Judge Sotomayor renounced the pillars of activist thinking.

At the end of his op-ed piece:


I don't believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism. She has evoked its mantra too often. As someone who cares deeply about our great heritage of law, I must withhold my consent.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/07/opposing-view-a-confirmation-conversion--nominee-lacks-deep-convictions-needed-to-resist-judicial-activism--by-jeff-session.html
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Affirmative Action is a Distraction

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 7:42:52 AM

Affirmative Action Is Just a Distraction

By Shelby Steele
Sunday, July 26, 2009

America's war over affirmative action has gone on longer than any of the country's military conflicts, and over the decades each side of this debate has spawned a vast literature of argument. So I feel some dread in seeing the debate newly enlivened today. Yet the Sotomayor nomination, the Supreme Court's decision in the Ricci case and the election of our first black president make it inevitable.

What is the future of group preferences in America? Doesn't a black president render them obsolete? Or does an incident like the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates -- with its implication of racial profiling -- point to the continuing need for affirmative action?

Unfortunately, this preoccupation with preferences may be a fool's errand. With black youths performing worse on the SAT in 2000 than in 1990, the obsession with affirmative action may only help us avoid the more troubling reality: the ongoing underdevelopment that keeps so many blacks non-competitive.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/24/AR2009072402090.html
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Some Background on Three of Obama's Czars

Posted by Defend America on Monday, July 27, 2009 7:31:34 AM

CZAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACES

THE REAL POWER IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS UNCONFIRMED AND UNACCOUNTABLE

By MICHELLE MALKIN

So far, czars have been installed in at least 35 posts through presidential executive orders that require no Senate approval. No Senate review, no questions. No questions, no problems.

The Obama administration has created a two-tiered government -- fronted by Cabinet secretaries able to withstand public scrutiny (some of them, just barely) and then managed behind the scenes by shadow secretaries with broad powers beyond congressional reach. Bureaucratic chaos serves as a useful smokescreen to obscure the true source of policy decision-making. Energy czar Carol Browner epitomized the secretive dealings of these offices when she advised auto industry executives this month to "to put nothing in writing, ever" about their meetings with her.

While past administrations dating back to the Nixon era have designated such "super aides," none has extended the concept as widely as Obama has. Currently, 35 out of 44 current "czar" slots are presidential appointments. They are among the highest-paid staffers at the White House. Most of Obama's key czars have Cabinet counterparts already in place.

It's not just the unprecedented quantity of White House-appointed bureaucratic commissars that galls. It's their shockingly compromised ethics and integrity. Here are three of Obama's most interest-conflicted, superfluous, and criminal czars and czarinas:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07262009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/czar_wars__the_phantom_menaces_181412.htm?page=0


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Negotiations Will Fail Again Because They are Liars and Don't Care About Stopping the Nuclear Program

Posted by Defend America on Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:11:19 PM

N. Korea Open to New Talks on Nukes

Communist country issues statement suggesting it wants direct talks with U.S., but won't resume 6-nation talks
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Sarah Palin is Gone and I Just Don't Care

Posted by Defend America on Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:40:18 PM

FNC

Sarah Palin tells the media to 'stop makin' things up' and to treat her successor Sean Parnell fairly as he takes office as Alaska's governor.
Tags: Palin  
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