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Romney Adviser Backs Obama Health Exchanges
Post Date: 2011-07-16 22:12:18 by go65
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SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a top supporter and adviser of Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, strenuously backed the core piece of President Barack Obama’s health-care law and urged the states to move forward together in adopting health insurance exchanges. Speaking to a bipartisan group of governors at the National Governors Association, the former Republican governor who served as secretary of health and human services in the Bush administration, called the exchanges where individuals and small businesses can purchase health plans “a very practical solution to a problem that needs to be solved.” He warned governors who are reluctant to ...
Book Probes Historic Roots of Republican ‘Southern Strategy’
Post Date: 2011-07-16 13:12:07 by Godwinson
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Book Probes Historic Roots of Republican ‘Southern Strategy' Released: 6/23/2011 11:00 AM EDT Source: University of Indianapolis Newswise — The national railroad tours made by U.S. presidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are nearly forgotten today, but historian and author Edward O. Frantz uses them as a window on one of America’s most intriguing political shifts: How did the Republicans, party of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, later become the popular choice of white Southerners who resented the civil rights movement? And how did the Democrats, party of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, gain the loyalty of most black ...
Barack and Joe: Taxation
Post Date: 2011-07-16 08:15:42 by CZ82
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Barack and Joe: Taxation By Michael Barry I keep thinking about Joe the Plumber. I went back and read the full transcript of his dialogue with then-candidate Obama, in October of 2008, right when all the awful things had begun to happen to the economy. It is really an amazing exchange of views -- most amazing because no other interviewer or media question-shouter ever got as much out of Obama about his economic vision as Joe did. When Tom Brokaw later complained on Charlie Rose that "We don't really know anything about Obama," he could at least have listened to what Obama told Joe. So -- let's us re-listen. Joe asks: Well, the reason why I ask you about the ...
Barack and Joe: Social Justice
Post Date: 2011-07-16 08:10:31 by CZ82
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Barack and Joe: Social Justice By Michael Barry In 'splaining things to Joe the plumber, then-candidate Obama leaned hard on the unfairness of our current political-economic system: We haven't given a break to folks who make less [the $250,000] and, as a consequence, the average wage and income for just ordinary folks, the vast majority of Americans, has actually gone down over the last eight years. Boy -- is that a commonplace. Before we get to the data, I have to say this proposition, that things have gotten worse (this is in 2008, remember) for the "folks," to me is intuitively false. Is that bias? I don't think so; I may be wrong, but my conclusion is based ...
Senate on record pace for sloth (Good News)
Post Date: 2011-07-16 00:08:14 by Hondo68
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House fares better on measures of legislative activityFrom left: President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, meet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 13, 2011, regarding the debt ceiling. (Associated Press) Big issues are piling up in Congress, but halfway through the year, the Senate is on pace for its least productive legislative session since records were first kept, and the House is also operating at a clip well below normal, according to an analysis of floor activity by The Washington Times.Congressional analysts say the action ...
Leading Trend Forecaster: We Are Not Entering a New Recession
Post Date: 2011-07-15 16:29:16 by Capitalist Eric
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Trend forecaster Gerald Celente, of the Trends Research Institute, in his latest Trend Alert to subscribers, says that media presstitutes continue to sell Americans and the rest of the world the big lie of recovery. It’s nothing more than a cover-up. We never exited the recession that started in 2008. For the second consecutive month, employers added scarcely any jobs in June, startling evidence that the economic recovery is stumbling … The government also revised downward the small gain for the previous month to 25,000 new jobs, less than half the original estimate. (The New York Times, 9 July 2011) “Dismal Jobs Data Rock US Recovery” and “Worries Grow Over ...
Brooklyn Boy Found Dead: Orthodox Jewish Killer Lured Him With Promises of Watching Television
Post Date: 2011-07-15 14:07:08 by Brian S
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Killer Levi Aron was formally charged in a New York court today after he killed a lost Brooklyn boy walking home from day camp. Levi Aron pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping and is being held without bail. Police said that Aron drove Leiby Kletzky to a Rockland County catering hall and that the boy waited in the car. Leiby, a small Orthodox Jewish boy had met his killer, a man with a history of dead-end jobs and dead-end marriages. Leiby met Aron on a sidewalk in Borough Park, a predominantly Orthodox Jewish community, and, as he was lost, he asked the objectively disturbed for directions. Aron then told the boy that he could take him to watch television, ...
Obama camp moves event from Pfizer offices
Post Date: 2011-07-15 02:11:34 by socalv8
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President Obama’s campaign committee moved a fund-raiser featuring Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago from the Pfizer world headquarters to another location in New York City yesterday after the Globe inquired about the propriety of a major pharmaceutical company hosting an event that could benefit the administration regulating it. “This is a general fund-raising event for the campaign that has nothing to do with a specific company and the attendees will not be from any one company or sector,’’ Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. A Pfizer spokesman did not address the change in locale but defended the company’s initial decision to host the fund-raiser ...
Liberty Is at Stake
Post Date: 2011-07-14 19:02:02 by CZ82
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Liberty Is at Stake Jul 18, 2011, By TERRY EASTLAND Last month, a unanimous Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania woman named Carol Bond may challenge a federal law under which she was prosecuted, on grounds that Congress had exceeded its powers and intruded upon the sovereignty and authority of the states. Until Bond v. United States, it was widely agreed that only states could advance such a claim. In fact, the federal government had taken that position in the courts below in Bond, changing course when the case reached the Supreme Court, where it agreed that Carol Bond indeed has “standing” to sue. Now, a case about standing may seem like small beer. Yet Bond is ...
Republican Tax Stand A Bust With Public
Post Date: 2011-07-14 15:05:22 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- House Republicans who refuse to consider tax increases as part of a debt ceiling deal are out of step with most Americans, according to two new polls.That's bad news for Republicans who are betting the farm on resisting Democratic efforts to raise taxes on the rich. When looking to reduce debt, politicians can employ two tactics. The first is to cut spending. The second is to raise taxes. Most budget experts say you need to do both.But House Republicans -- an overwhelming majority of whom have signed a pledge to this effect -- refuse to consider any kind of tax increase, not matter who it hits.Turns out, most Americans don't share their conviction.A full 67% ...
Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate
Post Date: 2011-07-14 14:57:43 by jwpegler
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Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable. Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year. “This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there'll be more and more doctors dropping out and ...
24,000 Pentagon Files Stolen In Major Cyber Breach, Official Says
Post Date: 2011-07-14 14:56:01 by Brian S
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The Defense Department lost 24,000 files to “foreign intruders” in the spring in what appears to be one of the most damaging cyberattacks ever on the U.S. military, a top Pentagon officials acknowledged on Thursday. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, who disclosed the March breach during a speech to roll out the Pentagon’s new cyber strategy, said the files were taken from a defense contractor. He did not describe the nature of the files that were stolen or who was believed to be behind the attack. “It is a significant concern that over the past decade, terabytes of data have been extracted by foreign intruders from corporate networks of defense ...
Many Americans Have Become So Desperate That They Will Do Just About Anything For Money
Post Date: 2011-07-14 14:51:36 by Capitalist Eric
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More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation. When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaking the law, many people are choosing to break the law. These days it seems like Americans will do just about anything for money. All over the country, there are areas where just about anything that is not bolted down is being stolen. A lot of people have resorted to making money however they can - selling drugs, selling their bodies, shoplifting, invading homes, taking bribes, running credit card scams and even ...
Everybody Is Now Calling Obama An Abject Failure
Post Date: 2011-07-14 14:21:27 by no gnu taxes
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Poll: Americans Blame Bush For Bad Economy By Wide Margin
Post Date: 2011-07-14 12:20:46 by Brian S
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By a wide margin, more Americans blame former President George W. Bush for the national economic outlook than they do President Barack Obama, according to a new poll. Numbers out of Quinnipiac University Thursday morning indicated that 54 percent of Americans say Bush is to blame for exploding the federal deficit and swelling unemployment, whereas just 27 percent believe it is President Obama's fault. Those figures are bad news for Republicans, who are hoping to hang the nation's poor economic state around the president to defeat him in 2012. By and large, Americans told Quinnipiac that they trust Obama on the economy more than congressional Republicans, despite a growing ...
The Disappearing Recovery --What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? (Obama is destroying the US)
Post Date: 2011-07-14 11:28:59 by no gnu taxes
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Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would ignite the recovery. But what if it's too late? What if that first-quarter growth rate of 1.8% is a portent of the U.S.'s long-term future? What if below-normal U.S. GDP is, as the Obama folks like to say, the new normal? Robert Lucas, the 1995 Nobel laureate in economics, has spent his career thinking about why economies grow, and in particular about the effect of policy making on growth. From his office at the University of Chicago, Prof. Lucas has been wondering, like the rest of us, ...
Reagan Mythology is Leading US Off a Cliff: uring Reagan's presidency, the US went from a creditor to debtor nation and marked a take-off for financial inequality
Post Date: 2011-07-14 11:21:32 by Godwinson
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Published on Sunday, July 10, 2011 by Al Jazeera Reagan Mythology is Leading US Off a Cliff During Reagan's presidency, the US went from a creditor to debtor nation and marked a take-off for financial inequality. by Paul Rosenberg As things stand today, the US is hurtling toward a budget showdown in less than a month. Either President Obama will once again capitulate to extreme Republican budget-slashing demands, making Democrats seem as much of a threat to Medicare as Republicans, and virtually ensuring a GOP electoral sweep in 2012, or the US will default on its debt for the first time in its history, most likely plunging the world economy back into another five-continent ...
America Is Too Dumb to Know Obama Is Always Right
Post Date: 2011-07-14 11:01:36 by no gnu taxes
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When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an Obama appearance: I turned off the TV. Enough. He is the Man Who Won't Listen to Anybody, so why should anybody listen to him? Tuning out and turning off the president does not fill me with gladness. He cannot be ignored. But for now, I will leave that unhappy duty to others. I am tired of Barack Obama. There's nothing new there. His speeches are like "Groundhog Day." His presidency is a spectacular failure, his ...
Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens
Post Date: 2011-07-14 10:47:41 by no gnu taxes
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Across the country, the income gap between blacks and whites remains wide, and nowhere more so than in Manhattan. But just a river away, a very different story is unfolding.
In Queens, the median income among black households, nearing $52,000 a year, has surpassed that of whites in 2005, an analysis of new census data shows. No other county in the country with a population over 65,000 can make that claim. The gains among blacks in Queens, the city’s quintessential middle-class borough, were driven largely by the growth of two-parent families and the successes of immigrants from the West Indies. Many live in tidy homes in verdant enclaves like Cambria Heights, Rosedale and Laurelton, just ...
Plurality trust Republicans over the biggest spending President in history to handle deficit and debt limit
Post Date: 2011-07-14 09:21:14 by no gnu taxes
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Now why wouldn’t America trust the biggest spending president in history to reduce the deficits? Obama made a campaign promise to reduce the deficit in half by the end of his first term. We know how that’s working out. (CNSNews.com) - A plurality of Americans trust the Republican congressional leadership more than they trust President Barack Obama to handle the federal deficit and the debt ceiling, according to a new Gallup poll. A majority of Americans are also more concerned that the government will raise the debt ceiling without plans for major spending cuts than they are that the government will precipitate a major economic crisis if it does not raise the debt limit. Only ...
Moody's Warns It May Downgrade US Credit Rating
Post Date: 2011-07-13 19:56:24 by Brian S
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(07-13) 16:14 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday threatened to lower the United States' credit rating, saying there is a small but rising risk that the government will default on its debt. The credit rating agency said it will review the federal government's triple-A bond rating because the White House and Congress are running out of time to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit and avoid a default. The government reached its borrowing limit in May. Treasury says the government will default on its debt if the limit is not raised by Aug. 2. A downgrade would raise interest rates on U.S. treasury bonds, increasing the interest paid by ...
Bernanke: U.S. Would Pay Bondholders After August 2, Stop Benefits Like Social Security Payments
Post Date: 2011-07-13 17:21:05 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON | Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:43pm EDT (Reuters) - If the United States fails to raise the debt ceiling by August 2, it will pay creditors first and stop benefits like Social Security payments, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday. The central banker's comments offered the first public indication of how the Obama administration will prioritize its financial obligations after August 2, when the U.S. Treasury says the government would run out of money to pay all of its bills. "The assumption is that as long as possible, the Treasury would want to try to make payments on the principal and interest to the government debt, because failure to do that would ...
Groups File Lawsuit To Stop Texas Gov's Prayer Day
Post Date: 2011-07-13 15:25:11 by Brian S
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(07-13) 11:43 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) -- The Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit to stop the Texas governor's day of prayer and fasting. The organization, which is made up of atheists and agnostics, argues that Gov. Rick Perry is violating the constitutional ban on the government establishing a religion. Perry has invited the Obama administration, the nation's governors and Texas lawmakers to attend the prayer meeting in Houston on Aug. 6. The event is being sponsored by evangelical Christian groups and is explicitly a Christian event. The foundation said Perry should not have organized the event as governor. The suit was filed Wednesday at the federal ...
GOP conservation cuts rile sportsmen
Post Date: 2011-07-13 14:39:24 by Skip Intro
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House Republicans fighting the Obama administration’s environmental agenda are finding themselves making decisions that threaten the party’s carefully nourished relationship with the hook and bullet crowd. Anglers and hunters once courted by President George W. Bush don’t like what they’re seeing in the GOP’s mad dash to cut spending and have made their feelings clear in meetings this month with top aides to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). As the Republican leaders no doubt know, this is not a crowd to mess with. The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation estimates that nearly eight in 10 hunters always vote in ...
[Bobby] Flay to deliver keynote address for Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Post Date: 2011-07-13 14:34:00 by Fred Mertz
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Celebrity chef and Thoroughbred racehorse owner Bobby Flay will deliver the keynote address at the National Museum of Racing's 2011 Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday, August 12, at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) and is open to the public. Flay studied at The French Culinary Institute, where he earned the first "Outstanding Graduate Award" in 1993. After working at several New York City restaurants, Flay developed his unique style of American Southwestern fare. He took his innovative cuisine and opened his first restaurant, Mesa Grill, in 1991. Mesa Grill was honored in 1992 with the "Best Restaurant Award" by New ...
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