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Could Monday be the Day?

Obama could lock in Afghanistan decision Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.

Military officials and others said they expect Obama to settle on a middle-ground option that would deploy an eventual 32,000 to 35,000 U.S. forces to the 8-year-old conflict.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C5HCDO0&show_article=1

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White House Rushed to Find an Excuse After Firing Gerald Walpin

New documents: White House scrambled to justify AmeriCorps firing after the fact

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
November 23, 2009

Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday release of bad news; this time, the new evidence was put out not only at the start of a weekend but also hours too late for inclusion in the report.

The new documents support the Republican investigators' conclusion that the White House's explanation for Walpin's dismissal -- that it came after the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, unanimously decided that Walpin must go -- was in fact a public story cobbled together after Walpin was fired, not before.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/New-documents-White-House-scrambled-to-justify-AmeriCorps-firing-after-the-fact-71483647.html
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Another Liberal Republican that Needs to be Taken Down and Defeated Uses Race and Gender Card

Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava, wields race/gender card against conservative rival

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 23, 2009 11:03 AM

Grass-roots conservatives, your attention, please: The NRCC and GOP dumped $1 million of your hard-earned money into radical Leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava’s NY-23’s campaign — money that was squandered trashing mainstream conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by less than 3,400 votes.

Now, the GOP elite Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, is running against Democrat Barbara Boxer by…trashing mainstream conservative GOP rival Chuck DeVore.

Fiorina’s strongest argument against DeVore? He’s a white man and she’s not.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/23/carly-fiorina-channels-dede-scozzafava-wields-racegender-card-against-conservative-rival/
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ACORN San Diego Involved in 'Document Dump'

BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal

by Derrick Roach

On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.

Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any investigations that followed.

Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club.

Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.”

Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think they really understand what’s going on.”

Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit.

http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/
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A Story that Michelle Malkin was Following that I Posted Last Week

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Another New Low for ObamaCare

Health Care Reform
Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform


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Thank You President Obama and Holder for Giving these Terrorists a Platform

Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views



NEW YORK – The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_us/us_sept11_trial_defendants


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Closer to the "Real" Unemployment Rate?

The 'Real' Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed

By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com

As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed.

According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34040009
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Just Another Excuse to Tax the Rich

Top Dem to Obama: 'There Ain't Going to Be Money for Nothing if We Pour It All Into Afghanistan'

Rep. Obey Warns President Obama He Will Ask Taxpayers to Pay for War, Should More Troops Be Sent

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Rep. Patrick Kennedy Denied Communion

JFK's nephew barred from communion: report

WASHINGTON — The nephew of ex-president John F. Kennedy, a US lawmaker, has been barred from receiving communion at his Catholic church due to his support for abortion rights, a newspaper reported Sunday.

US Representative Patrick Kennedy, son of the late senator Edward Kennedy, was told of the move by Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, according to The Providence Journal newspaper in the US state of Rhode Island.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrHqh9axvidETkOE3_YpbVsK1D3A

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McCaskill Has a Bold Goal

McCaskill still working toward goal of reading the healthcare bill

By Jordan Fabian - 11/21/09 06:28 PM ET
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is still reading the 2,074-page Senate healthcare bill.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/69003-mccaskill-still-reading-healthcare-bill
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Detecting Nuclear Weapons is Not Important Because In Obama's World There will be No Nuclear Weapons

Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs

Published: November 22, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23helium.html?_r=1&hp
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November 23rd in American History

November 23, 1876

"Boss" Tweed delivered to authorities

William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, leader of New York City's corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5543

November 23, 1981

Reagan gives CIA authority to establish the Contras

On this day, President Ronald Reagan signs off on a top secret document, National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), which gives the Central Intelligence Agency the power to recruit and support a 500-man force of Nicaraguan rebels to conduct covert actions against the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. A budget of $19 million was established for that purpose. NSDD-17 marked the beginning of official U.S. support for the so-called Contras in their struggle against the Sandinistas.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2493
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SNL Finally Portrays the Real Obama

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Glenn Beck's 100-Year Plan

Glenn Beck’s Master (100 Year) Plan: Rally In August, End Of Two-Party System

Glenn Beck’s Master (100 Year) Plan: Rally In August, End Of Two-Party System
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Glenn Beck revealed his master plan today in Florida, and also announced a special event in D.C. taking place on August 28, 2010.

Some key parts of “The Plan” – it lasts 100 years, it sounds like a call to end the two-party system…and it’s the title of Beck’s next book. Really.

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