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CNN has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:50:12 PM

CNN Has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years; Lowest Demo Night in Nearly 9 Years

By Chris Ariens on Feb 16, 2010 05:12 PM

CNN hit new low viewership totals during prime time Friday night (8-11pm) in both Total Viewers and A25-54 viewers.

Up against NBC's Olympic Opening Ceremony coverage, CNN averaged just 85,000 A25-54 viewers during Campbell Brown (8p), Larry King (9p) and Anderson Cooper (10p). An average that low has not been seen since May, 23, 2001. And the Total Viewer average of 382,000 was the lowest since Dec. 23, 2005.

And while all the cable news channels saw reduced viewing levels due to the massive audience that flocked to NBC -- only CNN saw its audience cut in half from Thursday night in both younger viewers and Total Viewers.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/cnn_has_lowest_viewer_night_in_4_years_lowest_demo_night_in_nearly_9_years_152234.asp

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Another Taliban Leader is Captured in Pakistan

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:00:00 PM

Exclusive: Another Taliban Leader Captured in Pakistan

Newsweek

By Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball

Another leader of the Afghan Taliban has been captured by authorities in Pakistan working in partnership with U.S. intelligence officials. Taliban sources in the region and a counterterrorism officials in Washington have identified the detained insurgent leader as Mullah Abdul Salam, described as the Taliban movement's "shadow governor" of Afghanistan's Kunduz province.

Taliban sources told NEWSWEEK's Sami Yousafzai that Salam was grabbed by Pakistani security forces in the city of Faisalabad about a week ago—close to the same time that Pakistani forces, again with American support, captured the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Karachi. The Taliban sources said that Mullah Salam was arrested with three other militants.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/02/17/another-taliban-leader-captured-in-pakistan.aspx
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People Do Miss George W. Bush as Shopping Web Site Reports Spike in Sales of Bush Items

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:57:34 PM

Yes, they ARE missing Dubya! Shopping web site reports spike in sales of Bush items

By Celeste Katz
Daily News Staff Writer

Tuesday, February 16th 2010, 7:53 PM

Apparently someone really DOES miss Dubya.
 
Items featuring a smiling former President George Bush and the question, "Miss Me Yet?" are doing a brisk business as sales of pro-President Obama items lag, reports the Web shopping site CafePress.
 
Demand for the items spiked after a billboard featuring the ex-commander in chief appeared alongside a rural Minnesota highway last week, stirring up buzz.
 
CafePress spokeswoman Jenna Martin said sales of Bush-related products virtually disappeared after Obama replaced him.

But last week, she said, 10 of the firm's top-selling 100 designs were "Miss Me Yet?" items, moving to the tune of up to 500 orders a day.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/16/2010-02-16_yes_they_are_missing_dubya_shopping_web_site_reports_spike_in_sales_of_bush_item.html#ixzz0fmUnOmpR
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Did the AP Cover for Vice President Biden's Gaffe Made Today?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:51:01 PM
Here is the video where Biden talks about the United States leading the way in the 20th century, instead of the 21st century.




Now, the AP reported his quote this way:

"I absolutely refuse to accept the notion that the United States of America is not going to lead the world economically throughout the 21st Century," he said during remarks to supporters on the Delta campus.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DTKHC00&show_article=1
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Video Documenting the Hours Before and After the Assassination of Terrorist Mahmoud Al Mabhouh

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:40:23 PM
I should warn you that there is no sound, but the video is nonetheless fascinating documenting the hours before and after the assassination of terrorist Mahmoud Al Mabhouh and how his killers maneuvered around the hotel and coordinated the murder:



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Clinton Machine will Never Leave the Scene

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:34:46 PM

Clinton Plotting Tea Party Counterattack

by Capitol Confidential

Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘turn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)

Big Government has also learned that James Carville will head up the effort.

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/02/17/clinton-plotting-tea-party-counterattack/
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'Obama's Faith-Based Economics'

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:32:31 PM

Obama’s Faith-Based Economics    [Brian Riedl]

On the stimulus’s first anniversary, keep in mind one number: 6.3 million.

That is the Obama jobs gap — the difference between the 3.3 million net jobs President Obama said would be created (not just saved) and the 3 million additional net jobs that have since been lost.

By the president’s own logic, the stimulus failed. So Obama has shifted his argument. Sure, the economy lost jobs, he now says, but without the stimulus it would have lost nearly 2 million more jobs.

This “it would have been worse” theory is completely unprovable. No one knows how the economy would have performed without the stimulus.

Furthermore, it’s faith-based economics. The White House’s new estimates of “saving” nearly 2 million jobs are not based on observations of the economy’s recent performance. Rather, they are based on the Obama administration’s unshakable belief that deficit spending must create jobs and growth. Specifically, the White House’s “proof” that the stimulus created jobs is an economic model that they programmed to assume that stimulus spending automatically creates jobs.

How’s that for circular logic?

The idea that government spending creates jobs makes sense only if you never ask where the government got the money. It didn’t fall from the sky. The only way Congress can inject spending into the economy is by first taxing or borrowing it out of the economy. No new demand is created; it’s a zero-sum transfer of existing demand.

The White House says the $300 billion spent from the stimulus thus far has financed as many as 2 million jobs. Maybe. However, the private sector now has $300 billion less to spend, which, by the same logic, means it must lose the same number of jobs, leaving a net employment impact of zero. But the White House’s single-entry bookkeeping simply ignores that side of the equation.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmQxMDA3ZDFiZmMzMWE2YWQ2YTQzMTMzNzVlNmU5Yjg=
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Gibbs is Certainly Right in Respects that the Stimulus had an "Undeniable" Impact on the Economy, a Mostly Negative One

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:06:59 PM

White House: Stimulus Had 'Undeniable' Impact on Economy

FOXNews.com

The White House stood its ground on the impact of the economic stimulus package Wednesday, arguing that the bill has given an "undeniable" boost to the economy and that Republican critics are just playing politics.

On the one-year anniversary of the bill's signing, President Obama said the $787 billion package saved 2 million jobs and helped prevent a "second depression." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that while many Americans have soured to the program, the bill is working and taxpayers will "absolutely" have a different outlook once it has had its full effect. 

Administration officials fanned out Wednesday to build the argument that the reason unemployment is still at 9.7 percent on the stimulus anniversary is because the jobs-building aspect of the program hasn't yet come into full force. 

Though the bill was originally pitched as a way to hold down unemployment, top officials now say the first year was meant to grow the overall economy while giving immediate relief to states and taxpayers. They attributed growth in the U.S. economy in the latter half of 2009 to the stimulus but said infrastructure spending in the coming year should help complement that growth with more jobs.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/17/romer-suggests-best-stimulus-come-predicting-little-growth/

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Portman has now a Clear Path

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:02:16 PM

Ganley Switches Races to Challenge Sutton

By Nathan L. Gonzales, CQ-Roll Call

Wealthy car dealer Tom Ganley (R) is dropping out of the open-seat Ohio Senate race and will challenge Rep. Betty Sutton (D) in the 13th district instead, according to a source familiar with the decision.

The Ganley switch is a coup for Republicans because it gives former Rep. Rob Portman a clear path to the GOP Senate nomination and could put another Democratic-held House seat into play. A recent internal GOP poll showed Ganley leading Sutton by 3 points.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003294300&topic=Feature
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Was it Mossad or Not?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:45:40 PM

Assassins had Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in sight as soon as he got to Dubai

Hugh Tomlinson, Dubai

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh took no notice of the two men who joined him in the lift of his hotel in Dubai during the short ride to the second floor on the afternoon of January 20.

One was short and portly with a moustache, the other tall. Dressed in sports gear and carrying tennis rackets, they looked like any other European tourists visiting the Gulf state for some winter sun.

He did not realise that the two men were part of an 11-strong team that had come to kill him. In just over five hours he would be dead.

Stepping out of the lift, al-Mabhouh was escorted to room 230 by a member of staff at the Al Bustan Rotana hotel, near Dubai airport. Unnoticed, the taller man followed him down the corridor, clocking his room number and that of the room opposite, 237. In the hours that followed, room 237 became the staging post for the audacious murder of the senior Hamas official.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7029669.ece

Report: Al-Mabhouh was at top of Mossad's hit list



British columnist Gordon Thomas, who wrote book on Israeli intelligence agency, says recent Dubai assassination of senior Hamas figure 'a classic example of how Mossad goes about its work'

Ynet

Published:  02.17.10, 15:13

In the past year, senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had moved to the top of Mossad's list of targets, "each of which must be legally approved under guidelines laid down over half a century ago by Meir Amit, the most innovative and ruthless director-general of the service," Daily Telegraph columnist Gordon Thomas wrote.

Al-Mabhouh was recently assassinated in Dubai. Hamas claims Israel's intelligence agency was behind the hit.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850586,00.html
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Obama: "There's Never Been A Program As Effective & Transparent As The Recovery Act"

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:43:11 PM
He really has an audacity to lie:



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Reid Does Not Have the Votes for a "Jobs" Bill

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:35:34 PM

Sen. Reid doesn't have the votes to pass $15 billion version of jobs bill

By Jay Heflin - 02/17/10 02:31 PM ET
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lacks the votes to begin debating his targeted jobs bill, according to sources monitoring the legislation.

Reid needs 60 votes to open debate on the $15 billion jobs bill. The vote is scheduled for Monday, when lawmakers return from the Presidents Day recess.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/81667-reid-short-the-votes-on-15b-jobs-bill
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59% of Americans in Favor of Letting States Opt Out of Federal Programs

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:34:10 PM
59% Favor Letting States Opt Out of Federal Programs

Voters strongly believe that a state should have the right to avoid federal programs it doesn’t like, but they draw the line at states seceding from the union.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of likely voters say states should have the right to opt out of federal government programs they don’t agree with. Just 25% disagree, while another 15% are not sure.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2010/59_favor_letting_states_opt_out_of_federal_programs?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell


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Stimulus Money Going to Programs that Obama Plans to Eliminate or Trim

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:31:32 PM
Stimulus funds going to slashed programs
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — More than $3.5 billion in economic stimulus funds are going to programs that President Obama wants to eliminate or trim in his new budget.

The president's budget released this month recommends getting rid of Army Corps of Engineers' drinking-water projects, which got $200 million in stimulus funds, and a U.S. Department of Agriculture flood-prevention program, which received $290 million from the stimulus, a USA TODAY review of stimulus spending reports show.

The administration's budget plan says the corps and USDA programs are inefficient and duplicate similar, more effective work by other agencies. The proposed cuts indicate the programs shouldn't have gotten money from the $862 billion stimulus package, said Tom Schatz of the non-partisan budget watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste.

"It's certainly inconsistent, and it would have been better to have this realization a year ago," Schatz said. "But if inconsistency means they're going to cut the programs, it's OK. It's the other way around that bothers us."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-17-stimulus-funds_N.htm


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CPAC Starts Tomorrow February 18th

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:21:42 PM
Last year I attended CPAC for the first time and I had a wonderful time. It was great because I heard from some real conservatives in a time that did not look so bright for conservatives, but now the tides are changing. I decided not to attend this year's CPAC because of some of the fraudulent activities that have been exposed of David Keene, who is the chairman of the American Conservative Union, the group that runs CPAC. Also, which furthered my decision not to go, was the announcement of the John Birch Society being a co-sponsor. Those are I believe the reasons that I decided not to go this year. But, I will be following the event for all my readers on this blog.
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