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Conservatism Can Win and Rubio's Tie with Crist Shows a Promising Future for Conservatism

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:01:05 PM
Election 2010: Florida GOP Senate Primary
2010 Florida GOP Senate Primary: Crist 43%, Rubio 43%

Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio are now tied in the 2010 race for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters finds Crist and Rubio each with 43% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/florida/election_2010_florida_gop_senate_primary


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What is in the Omnibus Bill?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:52:17 PM
Business as Usual in Washington: Another Bloated, Pork-Filled Omnibus Spending Bill
by Brian M. Riedl
WebMemo #2728

It is business as usual in Washington. Despite a recession and record $1.4 trillion budget deficit, Congress continues to accelerate runaway spending and pork. While families and entrepreneurs are responsibly bringing their own budgets under control, Congress is spending and earmarking as if nothing has changed in the economy. Congressional leaders are attempting to rush through a mammoth, 1,088-page fiscal year (FY) 2010 omnibus appropriation bill[1] that:


http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2728.cfm
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Allah is OK, But Not Jesus?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:47:31 PM

Second Graders Sing About Allah?

14 December 2009

A battle over religion is brewing in central Indiana after a public school wanted second graders to sing a song declaring, “Allah is God.” The phrase was removed just before the performance after a national conservative group launched a protest.

The principal of Lantern Road Elementary School in Fishers, IN, said they were trying to teach inclusiveness through their holiday production. It included references to Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Las Posadas and Kwanzaa. However, no other deity, other than Allah, was referenced in the show.

http://www.foxnewsradio.com/2009/12/14/public-schoo-kids-singing-to-allah/#axzz0ZgJnGmk0
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Howard Dean on Senate Health Care Bill: "Kill the Senate Bill"

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:51:53 PM

Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill”

In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me.

Dean said the removal of the Medicare buy-in made the bill not worth supporting, and urged Dem leaders to start over with the process of reconciliation in the interview, which is set to air at 5:50 PM today on Vermont Public Radio, political reporter Bob Kinzel confirms to me.

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Forget About Letting the People Decide

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:25:18 PM

D.C. Council approves bill legalizing gay marriage

Bill heads to Fenty's desk, still must survive congressional review period

By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 15, 2009; 4:26 PM

The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, setting off a wave of excitement in the gay community even as opponents vow to continue the fight on Capitol Hill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121500945.html?hpid=topnews
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Now Lieberman in Favor of the Bill?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:05:26 PM

Lieberman indicates support for health bill

ue Dec 15, 12:31 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman says he expects to support the Democrats' health care legislation as long as any government-run insurance plan stays out of the bill.

Lieberman has been a question mark on the health care legislation for months. To win him over, Senate leaders said late Monday they were backing away from a Medicare expansion Lieberman opposed. They already had dropped a full-blown government insurance program.

Lieberman told reporters Tuesday that if the Medicare expansion and government insurance plan are gone, "I'm going to be in a position where I can say what I've wanted to say all along: that I'm ready to vote for health care reform."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul_lieberman_1



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Dems Using Extortion Tactics to Get Senator Nelson of Nebraska's Vote on Senate Health Care Bill

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:40:56 PM

Source: Dems Threaten Nelson In Pursuit of 60

While the Democrats appease Senator Lieberman, they still have to worry about other recalcitrant Democrats including Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. Though Lieberman has been out front in the fight against the public option and the Medicare buy-in, Nelson was critical of both. Now that those provisions appear to have been stripped from the bill, Lieberman may get on board, but Nelson's demand that taxpayer money not be used to fund abortion has still not been met. According to a Senate aide, the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn't fall into line.

Offutt Air Force Base employs some 10,000 military and federal employees in Southeastern Nebraska. As our source put it, this is a "naked effort by Rahm Emanuel and the White House to extort Nelson's vote." They are "threatening to close a base vital to national security for what?" asked the Senate staffer.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/12/source_dems_threaten_nelson_in_1.asp

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Jake Tapper Instead of George Stephanopoulos? Sounds Great

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:09:55 AM

Would You Watch This Week with Jake Tapper?

by Tommy Christopher | 3:45 pm, December 14th, 2009

George Stephanopoulos‘ move to Good Morning America has left open the plum assignment of Sunday morning talk-show host. The This Week gig is not just a big break for the eventual host, but a real opportunity for ABC News to break NBC’s ratings stranglehold on Sunday mornings.

On a very short list of rumored Stephanopoulos replacements sits ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper. While he has been tight-lipped about the job, I think Tapper would be an inspired choice.But don’t just take my word for it.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/would-you-watch-this-week-with-jake-tapper/
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Did You Know that Drawing Pictures of Jesus Can Force Your Kid to Get a Psychological Evaluation in Massachusetts?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:59:01 AM

Taunton second-grader suspended over drawing of Jesus

Father angered by forced psychological evaluation of boy, 8


By Gerry Tuoti, Staff Writer
GateHouse News Service
Posted Dec 14, 2009 @ 10:20 PM
Last update Dec 15, 2009 @ 09:21 AM
Taunton —

 A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.


http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x1903566059/Taunton-second-grader-suspended-over-drawing-of-Jesus
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Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings Promoted Book about Gay Sex Between First Graders

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:43:58 AM
Fistgate VIII: Safe School’s Czar Jennings’ Org Promoted Book Detailing Gay Sex Between First Graders
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:13 AM
Jim Hoft

Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted a shocking report to Gateway Pundit blog back on December 4, 2009. The report detailed the reading list promoted to 7-12 grade students by Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN organization. This material has not been reported in detail at Big Government website. Remember as you read this that Kevin Jennings is today the nation’s Safe Schools Czar.

—-Warning on Content—–

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/


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It is the "Last Chance"

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:11:49 AM

Obama: 'Last chance' for health reform


By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & MIKE ALLEN | 12/15/09 9:18 AM EST

In a provocative argument designed to rescue his foundering health-care plan, President Barack Obama will warn Senate Democrats in a White House meeting Tuesday that this is the "last chance" to pass comprehensive reform.

Obama will contend that if it fails now, no other president will attempt it, aides said.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer told POLITICO: "If President Obama doesn't pass health reform, it’s hard to imagine another president ever taking on this Herculean task. For those whose life's work is reforming health care, this may be the last train leaving the station."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30601.html



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'Warmest Ever, or Getting Cooler?'

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:48:23 AM

Warmest Ever, or Getting Cooler?

By Randall Hoven

You might hear climate change "deniers" saying recent temperatures show global cooling. But then you hear climate "scientists" say that the last ten years are the warmest on record.  Who's right?

They both are.

...That is, if you accept, say, the NASA/GISS Global Annual Mean Surface Air Temperature Change (land-ocean mix) as the "true" global temperature.

(By the way, I do not accept that the NASA/GISS data represent truth. The data NASA provides are not raw temperature readings, or even simple averages of temperature readings. They are adjusted, quality-controlled, homogenized, and fudge-factored in ways we don't know and they're not telling. But for the purposes of the question at hand, let's accept NASA's adjusted and homogenized data.)

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/warmest_ever_or_getting_cooler.html

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Democrats Really Need Lieberman's Vote

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:17:25 AM

Dems Scrap Medicare Buy-In

In a major step toward health reform passage, Senate Democrats drop expansion plan to appease moderates
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How Does Housing Terrorists on American Soil Sound?

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:16:51 AM

AP

President Obama has directed the federal government to acquire a rural Illinois prison to house terror detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a senior official says.
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Blagojevich's Lawyers want Details of Interviews that the FBI had with Obama

Posted by Defend America on Monday, December 14, 2009 11:08:31 PM

Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama

COURT FILING | Defense wants early look at 'notes, transcripts'


BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter nkorecki@suntimes.com

Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor.

In a Friday filing, Blagojevich attorneys also asked for information regarding first lady Michelle Obama. However, a source said late Friday that the FBI never interviewed the first lady.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1935445,CST-NWS-BLAGO13.article


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