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Get Your Guns Fast

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:41:31 PM

Many Gun Owners Think Obama Will Try to Ban Gun Sales

Fifty-five percent of this group, and 41% of all Americans, hold this belief

by Frank Newport

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup poll may explain recent reports of increased gun and ammunition sales in the U.S. Majorities of those who personally own a gun (55%) and of those with a gun in the household (53%), as well as 41% of all Americans, believe that President Obama "will attempt to ban the sale of guns in the United States while he is president."


Will Barack Obama Attempt to Ban the Sale of Guns in the United States While He Is President?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/123602/Many-Gun-Owners-Think-Obama-Will-Try-Ban-Gun-Sales.aspx

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Hoyer: We Can Force People to Buy Health Insurance Because of the Constitution's General Welfare Clause

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:53:42 PM
Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
By Matt Cover

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55851
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Hopefully We Won't Have to be Seeing Scozzafava Any Longer

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:45:56 PM
Here she is obviously so desperate that she held a press conference outside her opponent's campaign office. I also should mention that because of Newt Gingrich's support of her, he has no credibility to talk about conservative issues. He used the phrase big tent, but how big does he want the tent to be. Is he for inviting liberals into the party because that is what Scozzafava is. Also, I should mention again as I have before, that Rep. Jeb Hensarling also endorsed her. If you know of any other politician who has supported her, please leave me a comment.



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Government Website Being Used for Propoganda?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:37:45 PM

Grassley Warns HHS Web Site May Be ‘Propaganda’

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 20, 2009, 9:07 p.m.

Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda.

The Web page is accessed through a “state your support” button featured prominently on the HHS Web site and carries a disclaimer that the Web site is maintained by HHS.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/39730-1.html
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Obama Has a Presidential Approval Index Rating of -13

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:36:47 PM
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. That’s just a point above the lowest level ever recorded for this President. It’s also the sixth straight day in negative double digits, matching the longest such streak (see trends).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
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Another Chicago Style Maneuver

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:35:48 PM

Bailed-Out Companies
Ordered to Cut Exec Pay

URGENT: Obama administration plans to force companies that received most money from Wall Street bailout to cut pay to 25 highest-paid executives
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I Thought Things were Improving

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:34:24 PM
23 states report higher unemployment in September
Oct 21 12:31 PM US/Eastern
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rose in 23 states last month as the economy struggled to create jobs in the early stages of the recovery.

While layoffs have slowed, companies remain reluctant to hire. Forty-three states reported job losses in September, while only seven gained jobs, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Some of the states that lost jobs still saw their unemployment rates decline, as discouraged workers gave up looking for work. People who are out of work but no longer looking for jobs aren't counted as officially unemployed.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BFJEQG2&show_article=1


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Medicare for Everyone

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:09:51 PM

House Dems want Medicare for everyone

By Mike Soraghan - 10/20/09 08:27 PM ET

Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.”

House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/64029-medicare-for-everyone
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I Have to Come Up with a More Sarcastic Approach of Being Shocked

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:07:26 PM

Bailout's hidden costs

SigTARP Neil Barofsky, overseer of the $700 billion TARP program, says the cost to taxpayers will be a lot greater than the government is letting on.


By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer
October 21, 2009: 3:44 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The $700 billion bailout will ultimately cost taxpayers billions of dollars, but the government stands to lose much more than the money it's pouring into companies.

Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for Treasury's financial sector rescue, wrote in a report released Wednesday that the bailout has several hidden costs.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/21/news/economy/sigtarp_bailout_report/index.htm?postversion=2009102103
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Is He Dead or Not?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:59:26 PM
First Sky News reported that the Lockerbie bomber has died, even though it was not substantiated by anybody else:

UK's Sky News reports Lockerbie bomber has died


Wed Oct 21, 11:27 am ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has died, Britain's Sky News said on Wednesday, quoting "reports."

The British Foreign Office could not confirm the report and the Scottish government said it was checking the report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091021/wl_nm/us_britain_libya_megrahi_1


Now, comes the report from his lawyer that he is still alive:

Lockerbie bomber still alive, Scottish lawyer says


Wed Oct 21, 11:59 am ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is still alive, his Scottish lawyer said on Wednesday, dismissing a report that he had died.

"It's absolutely untrue," lawyer Tony Kelly told Reuters when asked if he could confirm a Sky News report that his client had died. "He's definitely not dead."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091021/ts_nm/us_britain_libya_megrahi_3


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Well, She Takes Orders from the Top So it is No Surprise that She Still Blames Bush

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:54:16 PM
Nine Months After Obama Took Office, Hillary Clinton Still Citing ‘Inherited’ Problems
(CNSNews.com) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her trips abroad and in media interviews at home, uses the “we inherited” phrase regularly, continuing to blame the Bush administration for problems arising in the Obama administration.

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Another Reversal for Obama and this Time for Missile Defense?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:52:10 PM

Biden, Polish leaders agree on revised missile plan


By Matthew Mosk

UPDATED:

WARSAW -- The Obama administration reached a new agreement Wednesday with top Polish government officials to place a new generation of missile interceptors on Polish soil, a surprising turnabout from just a few weeks earlier when it appeared the United States was ready to abandon its missile defense program in Eastern Europe.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk emerged from a lengthy private discussion to announce that Poland's participation in the missile defense system was, essentially, back on -- though in a new format that involves delivering a smaller number of defensive weapons in 2018.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/21/biden-polish-leaders-agree-revised-missile-plan/


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White House Not Looking at Bioterrorism

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:49:51 PM
Report: White House neglecting bioterrorism

By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is working hard to curb nuclear threats but failing to address the more urgent and immediate threat of biological terrorism, a bipartisan commission created by Congress is reporting today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-10-21-WMD-threat_N.htm
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It is Revealed Who Else was at the Closed Door Meeting with Obama on Monday

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:48:54 PM

Maddow/Olbermann Invited to White House Chat with Obama, But Fox Isn't a News Organization?

By Chris Ariens on Oct 21, 2009 12:58 PM

Here's a curious turn in the White House vs. Fox News fight.

On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/maddowolbermann_invited_to_white_house_chat_with_obama_but_fox_isnt_a_news_organization_140839.asp

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Police Did Not See Any Reason Why Scozzafava Would Call Them

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:48:02 PM

Police called when reporter questions NY candidate

 
By VALERIE BAUMAN, Associated Press
Last updated: 7:45 p.m., Tuesday, October 20, 2009
ALBANY -- Police questioned a reporter from a conservative publication after receiving a call that he harassed a Republican candidate for Congress who refused to answer his questions about her positions on tax and health issues.

Lowville Village Police Chief Eric Fredenburg said officers responded to a call Monday night saying state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava "felt concern for her safety" during questioning by reporter John McCormack of the Weekly Standard. He wouldn't say who made the call.

"I don't believe it ever escalated to anything that would ever be classified as an emergency," Fredenburg said.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=855117#ixzz0UXKM5KSB


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