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Conyers Wants Investigation of ACORN and O'Keefe and Giles

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:50:27 PM

Conyers seeks answers on ACORN

By TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF

WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers – a Detroit Democrat – is weighing into the controversy involving a much-maligned national community organization, asking congressional researchers whether any laws may have been broken by surreptitious recording of the group’s employees.

Just last week, the Democratic-led House followed up on a Senate vote that started cutting off federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, amid Republican-led calls for a widespread investigation into the group and its activities.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090922/NEWS15/90922045/1319/Conyers-seeks-answers-on-ACORN

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WalpinGate Update

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:59:40 PM

Walpin scandal update: Grassley blocks nomination, accuses administration of stonewalling

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
09/21/09 6:39 PM EDT

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley has blocked the ambassadorial nomination of Alan Solomont, currently chairman of the board of the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, in retaliation for what Grassley says is the administration's stonewalling of Congress over documents relating to the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. Specifically, Grassley has sought, and been denied, information relating to the White House's role in the decision to fire Walpin.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Walpin-scandal-update-Grassley-blocks-nomination-accuses-administration-of-stonewalling-60063967.html

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Yea, Why Wait Until We Find Out if it is Actually True, Before Spending Millions

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:13:11 PM

Obama Says U.S. 'Determined' to Combat Climate Change, Despite Senate Delay

A failure to address climate change could create an "irreversible catastrophe," President Obama warns in a speech at the United Nations.

President Obama promised the United Nations Tuesday that his administration is "determined" to do more to address the nation's climate change obligations. 

But left out of the speech to the General Assembly special session on climate change was the political reality the president faces in trying to keep that promise.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/22/obama-climate-change-irreversible-catastrophe-addressed/


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Banks to Bailout the FDIC?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:12:01 PM

F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Banks

By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: September 21, 2009
WASHINGTON — Tired of the government bailing out banks? Get ready for this: officials may soon ask banks to bail out the government.

Senior regulators say they are seriously considering a plan to have the nation’s healthy banks lend billions of dollars to rescue the insurance fund that protects bank depositors. That would enable the fund, which is rapidly running out of money because of a wave of bank failures, to continue to rescue the sickest banks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/business/22bailout.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
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Who's the Leak?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:09:38 PM

A D.C. whodunit: Who leaked and why?


By BEN SMITH | 9/22/09 4:51 AM EDT

Bob Woodward’s Monday-morning exclusive on a 66-page report from Gen. Stanley McChrystal to President Barack Obama about Afghanistan policy was a rite of passage for the new administration: the first major national security leak and a sure sign that the celebrated Washington Post reporter has penetrated yet another administration.

White House officials greeted the leak with a grimace, but none suggested they’d begin a witch hunt for the leaker. Woodward is famous for his access to the principals themselves — he recently traveled to Afghanistan with National Security Adviser James Jones — and leak hunters couldn’t expect with confidence that they’d find themselves disciplining just an undisciplined junior staffer.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27414.html


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McChrystal Might Resign

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:00:44 AM

McChrystal to resign if not given resources for Afghanistan

By Bill Roggio September 21, 2009 4:17 PM

Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal's team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration. According to McClatchy, military officers close to General McChrystal said he is prepared to resign if he isn't given sufficient resources (read "troops") to implement a change of direction in Afghanistan:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/09/mcchrystal_to_resign_if_not_gi.php
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Obama Getting Elected Has Been Bad for Race Relations

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:41:22 AM
5 Reasons Obama's Election Is Bad For Race Relations

Because of our nation's extremely complex history with racial issues, there have never been any "good old days" for race relations in America. We began as a slaveholding nation that simultaneously held the contradictory belief that "all men were created equal," actually fought a civil war in large part over slavery, and eventually we moved on from government mandated discrimination against black Americans for their skin color to government mandated discrimination against white Americans for their skin color.

Because of our tumultuous, knurly history, opinions over race vary wildly. Some people, many of whom grew up with ugly bigotry during the sixties, talk about the country today as if Democrats like Bull Connor and George Wallace were still representative of the views of many Americans. On the other hand, some Americans deny racism exists at all -- although most Americans, quite wisely, fall somewhere in between.

Against this backdrop came Barack Obama with an unspoken promise: elect me as President and America can put race in the rear view mirror once and for all. After all, if Americans elected a black President, how racist could the country really be? Moreover, if, as many liberals claimed, Barack Obama would win the presidency unless America is racist, then didn't his victory mean America isn't racist?

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/22/5_reasons_obamas_election_is_bad_for_race_relations


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That Would be Great News

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:00:29 AM

Biden on 2010: If GOP Succeeds, It’s ‘The End of the Road for What Barack and I Are Trying to Do’


ABC News’ Karen Travers reports:

Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/biden-on-2010-if-gop-succeeds-its-the-end-of-the-road-for-what-barack-and-i-are-trying-to-do-1.html

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Russia is Never to be Trusted

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:59:36 AM

Russia general says missile plan not shelved

Statement comes despite move by U.S. to rethink plans for European shield

ZURICH - Russia's top general said on Monday that plans to deploy missiles in an enclave next to Poland had not been shelved, despite a decision by the United States to rethink plans for missile defense in Europe.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32950202/ns/world_news-europe/

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15 Abortions in 16 Years

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:57:42 AM

Abortion Addict Confesses 15 Procedures in 16 Years

Repeat Abortions Baffle Experts, as Author Irene Vilar Explores Her 'Impossible Motherhood'

By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Sept. 21, 2009


Irene Vilar worries that her self-described "abortion addiction" will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose.

Her book, "Impossible Motherhood," which will be released by Other Press on Oct. 6, chronicles her own dark choices: 15 abortions in 16 years, much of it as a married woman.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ReproductiveHealth/abortion-addict-admits-multiple-abortions-suicide-attempts/story?id=8594347


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Obama Fund-raiser Indicted

Posted by Defend America on Monday, September 21, 2009 8:11:01 PM

U.S. charges Obama fund-raiser in $290 million fraud


By Grant McCool

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58K5A420090921?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true


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September 21st in American History

Posted by Defend America on Monday, September 21, 2009 8:09:46 PM

September 21, 1780

Benedict Arnold commits treason

On this day in 1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army. The plot was foiled and Arnold, a former American hero, became synonymous with the word "traitor."

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=52864


1973 - Henry Kissinger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become 56th Secretary of State. He was the first naturalized citizen to hold the office of Secretary of State.

1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 21, 1989

Powell becomes Joint Chiefs' chairman

The Senate Armed Forces Committee unanimously confirms President George H. Bush's nomination of Army General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell was the first African American to achieve the United States' highest military post.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5363


1998 - The videotaped grand jury statement that U.S. President Bill Clinton made concerning the Monica Lewinsky case was made public.

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Judge Denies New Trial for William "Cold Cash" Jefferson

Posted by Defend America on Monday, September 21, 2009 8:06:41 PM
Judge denies ex-Rep. Jefferson new trial

Susan Crabtree - 09/21/09 02:50 PM ET

A federal judge has denied former Rep. William Jefferson’s (D-La.) request for a new trial.…
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Baucus "Fixes" His Bill

Posted by Defend America on Monday, September 21, 2009 7:26:26 PM
Max Baucus trims tax and expands subsidies in his healthcare bill

Eric Zimmermann

09/21/09 03:53 PM ET

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will redirect about $28 billion in his healthcare bill to make insurance more affordable for middle-class…
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Pelosi Sounds Pretty Confident

Posted by Defend America on Monday, September 21, 2009 7:25:06 PM
Pelosi says health bill will pass within weeks

Michael O'Brien

09/21/09 04:55 PM ET

Healthcare reform legislation will pass out of the House "within weeks," Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday.According to multiple reports,…
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