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November 4th in American History

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:05:26 PM

November 4, 1979

Iranians storm U.S. embassy

Student followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini send shock waves across America when they storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The radical Islamic fundamentalists took 90 hostages. The students were enraged that the deposed Shah had been allowed to enter the United States for medical treatment and they threatened to murder hostages if any rescue was attempted. Days later, Iran's provincial leader resigned, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's fundamentalist revolutionaries, took full control of the country--and the fate of the hostages.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=7071

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I'd Take Conservative Principles Over Party Anyday

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:54:51 PM

Lindsey Graham warns GOP against going too far right



By MANU RAJU | 11/4/09 12:40 PM EST

The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.

“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29131.html
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CNN Finishes in Fourth on Election Night

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:39:22 PM

Wake Up Call: CNN’s Election Coverage Finishes Fourth

4:38 pm, Wednesday
ratings

Highlighting even further the ratings erosion at CNN in prime time, the “Most Trusted Name in News” finished in fourth place among cable news outlets during election coverage last night.

Fox News was #1 by a mile, followed by MSNBC, then CNN sister network HLN and CNN in 4th place. They were fourth in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic.

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Homeland Security Says that They Must Protect Privacy of Illegal Aliens

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:26:10 PM
Homeland Security Department Gags Local Law Enforcement to Protect 'Privacy' of Illegal Aliens
Friday, October 30, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) –  The Department of Homeland Security is gagging local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens. 

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/56351
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House GOP Releases Their Health Care Plan

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:23:59 PM
House GOP pens 230-page health bill draft
Nov 3 12:48 PM US/Eastern
By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - After months spent criticizing Democrats' health overhaul plans, House Republicans have produced a draft proposal of their own. It's much shorter and focuses on bringing down costs rather than extending coverage to nearly all Americans.

A 230-page draft was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. A spokeswoman for Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said changes were still being made before the bill would be finalized in time to offer as an alternative when Democrats begin floor debate on their bill, possibly at the end of this week.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BO6PQO1&show_article=1


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Green Equals Green

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:21:33 PM

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire

Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.

Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html
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Israel Constantly Being Threatened

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:19:51 PM
Israel: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv

By AMY TEIBEL (AP) – 1 day ago

JERUSALEM — Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel's largest urban center, the country's military intelligence chief said Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee that the rocket could fly 37 miles (60 kilometers), and strike metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD9BO27I05

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It is Looking Like Saturday is the Day for Government Controlled Health Care in the House

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:17:55 PM

House Sets Saturday Vote on Health Care Overhaul

The House is moving toward a floor vote Saturday on its big health care overhaul, after Democratic leaders worked to nail down votes from some of their members who want stronger anti-abortion language in the bill.

House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise M. Slaughter said Wednesday that the rule for considering the sweeping health care legislation will encompass anti-abortion language put forward by Brad Ellsworth , D-Ind.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=cqmidday-000003240601
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Latest Numbers from NY-23

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:15:57 PM
I don't know when all the precincts will be counted, but here are the latest numbers from NY-23:

New York - County Vote Results
November 04, 2009 - 06:00PM ET (i) = incumbent
= winner
= runoff
U.S. House - District 23 - Special General
County Precincts Bill Owens
(Dem) 		Dede Scozzafava
(GOP) 		D. Hoffman
(Con)
Total 581/606 65,908
49%		 7,385
6%		 60,442
45%

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2009/by_county/NY_US_House_1103.html?SITE=NYSAR&SECTION=POLITICS
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Important Win for Conservatives for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:14:08 PM
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: The more restrained candidate wins

Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican, defeated Jack Panella, a Democrat, to win a 10-year term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday. Her margin of victory was 53-47 percent. (Secretary of State's election results page.)

When Melvin takes office in January, the court's philosophical balance will be 4-to-3 for the -- pick the term -- more judicially restrained, conservative, "rule of law," less activist, Republican. The Republican advantage could figure in the decennial legislative redistricting.

http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2009/11/pennsylvania-su-3.php

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Some Interesting Stimulus Numbers

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:56:28 PM
STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job

By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO – 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.

The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMNoef6xDenBbHWO0Im6rIjDmAgAD9BOJH300

 


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This Story Made Me Laugh Because Kirk Wants Palin to Endorse Him After He Voted for the Biggest Tax Increase in American History

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:55:27 PM

IL-Sen: Kirk Seeks Palin Endorsement

Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk penned a memo to Republican poobah Fred Malek hoping to secure an endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his Senate candidacy, according to a copy of the memo obtained by the Fix.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2012/il-sen-kirk-seeks-palin-endors.html

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Some Dems Worried About Their Seats

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:55:25 PM

Democrats feeling angst over 2010

By Alexander Bolton - 11/04/09 06:00 AM ET

Vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want their leaders to skip the party’s controversial legislative agenda for next year to help save their seats in Congress.

In the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections, they don’t want to be forced to vote on climate change, immigration reform and gays in the military, which they say should be set aside so Congress can focus on jobs and the economy.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/66219-democratic-angst-over-10
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Obama Once Again Stands with and Sides with the Brutal Iranian Regime

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:53:10 PM

White House hoping violence in Iran won't spread


Wed Nov 4, 10:39 am ET

WASHINGTON – The White House is calling for an end to violence in Iran as security forces there crack down on anti-government protesters.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Obama administration leaders are following reports of the unrest and "hope greatly that violence will not spread."

In Tehran, Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition's first major show of force on Tehran's streets in nearly two months.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_iran


Tags: obama   Iran  
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They Should Stay Out of All Primaries

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:52:06 PM

Cornyn: ‘We Will Not Spend Money in a Contested Primary’

November 04, 2009 12:00 PM

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: With Republicans grappling with the fallout of an intra-party battle that may have cost them a House seat, the head of the Senate Republican campaign effort is making a pledge that may ease some of the anger being directed at the party establishment.

"We will not spend money in a contested primary," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told ABC News in a telephone interview today.

"There's no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have to look at our resources. . . . We're not going to throw money into a [primary] race leading up to the election."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/cornyn-we-will-not-spend-money-in-a-contested-primary.html


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