Reid tries to resurrect public option

Ahead of next week's White House health reform summit, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has signed on to a plan to try to resurrect the public insurance option in the Senate and signaled a willingness to use a 51-vote majority if needed to get it through.

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p.s. The Republicans are walking into a trap with this health care reform summit at the WhiteHouse next week. The American people have overwhelmingly rejected government run health care. The Republicans have the chance to stand firm and say, "we hear you and understand." Instead, they are giving ground by meeting at the WhiteHouse with the Dems and President to talk about how to move forward on government run health care! When will they stop and understand we don't want it?! I think they are making a big mistake and its going to hurt. Time to make our voice heard again.

Even Boulder CO Finds It Isn’t Easy Going Green

The city of Boulder, CO is superlative in many ways: It is one of the most educated, most affluent, most liberal and most environmentally conscious cities around. According to an article in a recent Wall Street Journal, though, Boulder is having a tough time converting its citizens’ tree-hugging attitudes into meaningful actions.

Thus exposed is a fundamental aspect of human nature. Whatever we may say we like, People Hate Change. It’s one thing to adopt a self-flattering pose to impress a pollster or to cop a public image, but quite another voluntarily to sacrifice money, time or convenience for a nebulous collective benefit.

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Ken Tomlinson: Can a Hoosier farmer produce another Massachusetts miracle for Republicans?

A notable buzz surrounded youthful Indiana State Sen. Marlin Stutzman as he was escorted around this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by activist Donna Weisner. “Back in Indiana, they say he’s our Scott Brown,” she said proudly.

Stutzman supporters elatedly boasted news of a Rasmussen poll that gives Stutzman a ten-point lead over the likely Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Evan Bayh.

All this is a stunning development for the young farmer and businessman who only four years ago was the youngest member of the Indiana legislature. In Washington power circles former Sen. Dan Coats has been all but anointed the GOP nominee for the Bayh seat.

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p.s. You in Indian need to get behind this man. He is a conservative business men who true principles.

Alexander Haig, former secretary of state, dies at 85

Retired Army Gen. Alexander Haig, who held influential positions in the U.S. military and government and who as White House chief of staff shepherded Richard M. Nixon toward peacefully resigning the presidency, died today at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from an infection. He was 85.

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Australian Airport Staff Involoved In Smuggled

Organized crime syndicates have infiltrated Australian airports, with corrupt baggage handlers, customs officials and airline staff suspected of smuggling drugs and firearms into the country, The Sunday Telegraph of Sydney reported.

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p.s. Anyone surprised? Evil is not brought to an end by tolerance, but by conflict and thereby defeat. Any guess on if this is happening in the US?