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These Angry Americans are Just Right Wing Extremists Says the DNC

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:19:30 PM
DNC hammers Republican-backed 'mob rule'
Posted: August 4th, 2009 04:33 PM ET

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee released a sharply-worded statement Tuesday accusing Republicans of colluding with "K Street Lobbyists" to incite "angry mobs" of extremists to disrupt health care town halls in congressional districts around the country.

Full statement as released by DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/04/dnc-hammers-republican-backed-mob-rule/

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I Keep Saying This and This Still Has Not Changed and that is Russia is Not Our Allies

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:06:26 PM
AP sources: Russian subs patrolling off East Coast
Aug 4 07:58 PM US/Eastern
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense officials say two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling in international waters off the East Coast for several days.

The officials tell The Associated Press that while they haven't seen such unusual activity since the Cold War, the military is not overly concerned. They say the Russians have a right to conduct naval exercises and are operating according to international law.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99SCM7O0&show_article=1


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John Bolton on Bill Clinton's Journey to North Korea

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 6:23:50 PM
Bill Clinton rewarding NKorea for bad behavior: Bolton
Aug 4 12:06 PM US/Eastern

The Obama administration is rewarding North Korea for its bad behavior by sending ex-president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang to win the release of two US journalists, the former US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday.

John Bolton, an outspoken hardliner in the previous administration of George W. Bush, told AFP that Clinton's mission to Pyongyang undermines a number of public stands held by his own wife, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

It comes perilously close to negotiating with terrorists," Bolton told AFP when asked about Bill Clinton's trip to secure the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

The pair were sentenced in June to 12 years in a labor camp for an illegal border crossing and an unspecified "grave crime," after they were detained by North Korean border guards on March 17 while working on a story.

"I think this is a very bad signal because it does exactly what we always try and avoid doing with terrorists, or with rogue states in general, and that's encouraging their bad behavior," Bolton said.


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9ec248b23fc108b42c2d92e80c8dc595.3c1&show_article=1

More from Bolton:

While the United States is properly concerned whenever its citizens are abused or held hostage, efforts to protect them should not create potentially greater risks for other Americans in the future. Yet that is exactly the consequence of visits by former presidents or other dignitaries as a form of political ransom to obtain their release. Iran and other autocracies are presumably closely watching the scenario in North Korea. With three American hikers freshly in Tehran's captivity, will Clinton be packing his bags again for another act of obeisance? And, looking ahead, what American hostages will not be sufficiently important to merit the presidential treatment? What about Roxana Saberi and other Americans previously held in Tehran? What was it about them that made them unworthy of a presidential visit? These are the consequences of poorly thought-out gesture politics, however well-intentioned or compassionately motivated.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/04/AR2009080401486.html?hpid=topnews
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August 4th in American History

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:38:54 PM

August 4, 1914

U.S. proclaims neutrality in World War I

As World War I erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States, a position that a vast majority of Americans favored, on August 4, 1914.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=50617


1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.

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Lou Holtz Considers Run for Office

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:56:18 PM
Cue the Notre Dame fight song.

Longtime Irish football coach and ESPN analyst Lou Holtz is seriously considering a Congressional campaign against Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.), first reported by the Orlando Sentinel and confirmed to POLITICO by a senior Republican operative.

Holtz met with National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Pete Sessions last week to express his interest in running for Congress.  The meeting was initiated by Holtz, who flew up from Florida to meet with committee officials.

"It's a lot more than most celebrity-type candidates do," said the operative.

Holtz is expected to make his decision in the next several weeks.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0809/Lou_Holtz_considers_running_for_Congress.html
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Shouldn't the Secretary of State be Over There?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:47:23 PM
Obama administration asked Clinton to go to N. Korea
By Alexander Bolton | Posted: 08/04/09 04:09 PM [ET]
The Obama administration asked former President Bill Clinton to meet with leader Kim Jong-Il to negotiate the release of two American journalists, according to a congressional source briefed on the matter.
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Oregon Offers to Pay for Assisted Suicide, But Says No to Chemotherapy

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:40:28 PM

Letter noting assisted suicide raises questions

A Springfield woman's doctor hoped a new chemotherapy drug would help her but the Oregon Health Plan told her the treatment was not approved. Instead, the state would pay for assisted suicide.  "I'm not ready, I'm not ready to die," the Springfield woman said.

As reported by blog Hot Air, this story is dated, but this is from last year.

 


http://www.katu.com/news/26119539.html?video=YHI&t=a

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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Questions Black Panther Case Dismissal

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:37:49 PM

Panel blasts Panther case dismissal

Jerry Seper (Contact)

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's election, saying the department has offered only "weak justifications."

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

"If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome," he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/04/panel-demands-panther-answers/print/


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Cap and Trade Bill will Pass Taxes on to Consumers and will Not Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:33:34 PM
Climate Bill to Raise Power Costs 20%, EIA Says (Update2)
By Daniel Whitten

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Electricity prices would rise 20 percent by 2030 under climate legislation being considered in Congress, according to a draft study by a U.S. energy agency.

The report, to be issued by the Energy Information Administration, also says that polluting companies would initially meet most greenhouse gas reduction targets by sponsoring forestry and agriculture projects rather than cutting their own emissions. Even with the development of technologies designed to capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, gas and nuclear-fueled power generation will take market share, the report says.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=asfek4pnFOJY
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Gibbs Recognizes Ahmadinejad of Iran as the "Elected Leader"

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:30:39 PM
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Obama's Revolving Door of Journalists

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:28:32 PM

Baskin Becomes 13th MSM Journalist to Spin Through Revolving Door for Obama

Photo of Brent Baker.
By Brent Baker (Bio | Archive)
August 4, 2009 - 01:09 ET

Roberta Baskin, a veteran of CBS News, ABC News, PBS and Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, with a stint at the Center for Public Integrity mixed in, “will join the Department of Health and Human Service's office of inspector general as a senior communications adviser in mid-August,” Washington Post “Federal Eye” blogger Ed O'Keefe reported late Monday. Specifically, O'Keefe related, her job will be “to help drum up media attention for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, an HHS-Justice Department task force aimed at combating Medicare and Medicaid fraud.”

My list of journalists who have jumped to the Obama administration -- plus one who traveled through the revolving door from helping the Obama campaign into a news media slot -- is now up to thirteen. Not counting Baskin: Three each revolved through CNN and the Washington Post; two through ABC News; and one each via the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Time magazine.

http://townhall.com/myblog/Baskin%20Becomes%2013th%20MSM%20Journalist%20to%20Spin%20Through%20Revolving%20Door%20for%20Obama
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Some Reasons Why Obama will Raise Middle-Class Taxes

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:23:21 PM

5 reasons why Obama will hike middle-class taxes

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Posted by: James Pethokoukis
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C’mon, how about some Walter Mondalesque candor from the Obama White House on taxes? Yes, yes, it was 25 years ago this summer that the Democratic presidential candidate self-immolated on the issue at his party’s convention in San Francisco. But surely Americans have become more urbane and sophisticated since then as to what makes for sound economic policy, oui?

[Find out five ways to boost the economy and create jobs]

Nope. If you had any doubt that higher taxes are still poisonous policy in center-right America, all you had to do was listen to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday. He briskly and precisely walked back the White House from the ambiguous statements made by Tim Geithner and Larry Summers on the Sunday chat shows. “I am reiterating the president’s clear commitment in the clearest terms possible that he’s not raising taxes on those who make less than $250,000 a year,” Gibbs said.

But what’s so clear, Mr. Gibbs? “Commitment” in this context is a schemer’s word, the much-weaker-yet-more-conniving sibling of “guarantee.” Did Broadway Joe express a mushy “clear commitment” to winning the 1969 Super Bowl? Clearly not. In any event, feel free to ignore Gibbs or any other White Housespinmeister who gives the impression that President Obama raising middle-class taxes would be the equivalent of playing himself in a Hollywood biopic — so unlikely as to be fanciful. It’s not and here’s why it will happen eventually:

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/08/04/5-reasons-why-obama-will-hike-middle-class-taxes/
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Coast Guard is 219 Today

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:17:01 PM
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Date:  Aug. 3, 2009

Contact: Lt. Cmdr. Chris O'Neil
(202) 372 - 4635

Coast Guard celebrates 219th anniversary

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard celebrates 219 years of service as America's Guardians Tuesday, embracing their history of ensuring the safety and security of the nation's maritime transportation system, while continuing to modernize for the future.

First proposed in 1790 by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton as a "system of cutters" to generate revenue through the collection of tariffs, today's Coast Guard performs 11 vital missions around the world, including:

http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/786/297905/
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Wow Maybe Bill Clinton Should be Secretary of State

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:58:45 PM

North Korea Says Jailed
Journalists Are Pardoned

URGENT: North Korean media reports Kim Jong Il has granted a 'special pardon' to two jailed American journalists, will leave tonight with former President Clinton
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Another Democrat Says There is No Time to Read Every Bill

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:23:55 PM

Hodes: Reading Every Bill “Not Realistic”

August 4, 2009 by Staff Reporter  
Filed under News & Politics

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No time to read the bills

Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes (NH-02) believes reading every bill in Congress “would slow down the business of Congress to a crawl and it would be hard to get done what needs to be done.”

Members of Congress who don’t read the bills they are voting on “is not necessarily the major problem with the way Congress functions,” he said.

Hodes, who is the sole Democratic candidate in the race to replace the retiring New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, made the remarks during a recent editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph.

“Hodes said it’s not realistic to expect members of Congress to read every bill word-for-word, as Congress took more than 2,000 votes in the session that ended in December,” the paper reports.

http://www.nowhampshire.com/2009/08/04/hodes-reading-every-bill-%E2%80%9Cnot-realistic%E2%80%9D/

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