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This is What Pelosi is All About

Posted by Defend America on Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:58:02 AM

Pelosi: I'm called a 'villain' all the time, so it's okay to use it back

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) isn't much for calling names, but defended calling health insurers "villains" this past week.

"I don't like using words like 'villains,' but people call me a villain all the time, so I figure it's probably okay to use it back," Pelosi said in an interview on Bloomberg News airing this weekend.
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August 2nd in American History

Posted by Defend America on Sunday, August 02, 2009 6:00:10 AM

August 2, 1776

Delegates sign Declaration of Independence

On this day in 1776, members of Congress affix their signatures to an enlarged copy of the Declaration of Independence.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=50678

August 2, 1861

First income tax is passed

The United States Congress passes the first income tax to raise revenues for the war effort. Although never enacted, it was an important fiscal innovation that paved the way for growth of the government in the 20th century.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2270

August 2, 1923

Harding dies before scandals break

In a hotel in San Francisco, President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke at the age of 58. Harding was returning from a presidential tour of Alaska and the West Coast, a journey some believed he had embarked on to escape the rumors circulating in Washington of corruption in his administration.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5226

1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.

1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.

August 2, 1945

Potsdam Conference concludes

The last wartime conference of the "Big Three"--the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain--concludes after two weeks of intense and sometimes acrimonious debate. The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War that would begin shortly after World War II came to an end.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2747


1974 - John Dean was sentenced to 1-4 years in prison for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.

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Holder's Justice Department in Just Six Months

Posted by Defend America on Sunday, August 02, 2009 5:54:41 AM
Eric Holder's Justice Department
It's all politics, all the time.
by Jennifer Rubin
08/10/2009, Volume 014, Issue 44

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"A Liberty Issue"

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:44:16 PM
A Liberty Issue
Government health care would be wrong even if it “controlled costs.”

By Mark Steyn

My conservative friends — and even a few media liberals — are agreed: The bloom is off the Obama rose. He’s not the Obamessiah, just another 50-percent president. He tried to do too much too fast, and his numbers are sinking. The Europeanization of health care is dead. Fuhgeddabouddit.

I wouldn’t be so sure. President Obama has no choice but to move fast, in part because the image he presented during the campaign — a post-partisan, post-racial, post-anything-unpleasant-and-controversial, pragmatic centrist — was a total crock. He has a vast transformative domestic agenda and — because most of its elements are not terribly popular — he has to accomplish it at speed, or he won’t get it done at all.

Health-care “reform”? As we’ve seen this past week in the House of Representatives, put not your trust in “Blue Dog Democrats.” And, as we’ll no doubt see in the weeks ahead in the Senate, put not your trust in “moderate Republicans” whose urge to “reach across the aisle” is so reflexive it ought to be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzlmYWZhMjZjZDAwYjMxOTZkZTNmODI5ZDAyZmExNDY=
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August 1st in American History

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:44:55 PM
1790 - The first U.S. census was completed with a total population of 3,929,214 recorded. The areas included were the present states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia


1876 - Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States.
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