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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p.s. :-)!

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?

No! They Didn't!?

I guess this is what the President thinks of the Dalai Lama...force him out the back door with all the other trash so that China does not get the wrong idea about their meeting. Heaven forbid that we cause a problem with the ChiCom's. But what message does that send to the rest of the world? Now I have to ask the question: Was the President's meeting with the Dalai Lama "real" or just a photo op.? To show the world that he "embraces everyone?" Now consider that no pictures were taken of the President and Dalai Lama together and what do you get? This picture....

Dick Cheney Speeks at CPAC

Sentor Scott Brown (R, MA) Speech At CPAC

Atlanta Police Nab Zebra

Be careful out there people, its a zoo!

"An Atlanta highway turned into a circus Thursday afternoon when an escaped zebra galloped along a busy section of interstate with police in hot pursuit."
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It's Starting: Fed Raises Discount Rate

The Federal Reserve decided Thursday to boost the rate banks pay for emergency loans. The action is part of a broader move to pull back the extraordinary aid it provided to fight the financial crisis.

The action won't directly affect borrowing costs for millions of Americans. But with the worst of the crisis over, it brings the Fed's main crisis lending program closer to normal.

The Fed chose to bump up the so-called "discount" lending rate by one-quarter point to 0.75 percent. It takes effect Friday.

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Gov. Chris Christie (R, NJ) Tells Them How It Is

If only the RNC would figure this out...

An Unholy Trinity Guns For Toyota - And For You

Interesting Read of The Day at RedState.com

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p.s. My thoughts exactly.

No Duh Of The Day: U.N. Watchdog Concerned Iran Is Working on Nuclear Weapon

The U.N. nuclear agency on Thursday said it was worried Iran may currently be working on making a nuclear warhead, suggesting for the first time that Tehran had either resumed such work or never stopped at the time U.S. intelligence thought it did.

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p.s. And their first clue was??? This from the same people who believe in GlobalWarming.

Breaking: Pilot Crashes Plane Into Texas Building Over IRS Woes

A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane Thursday into an office building in Austin, Texas, that houses federal tax employees, setting off a raging fire.

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p.s. Our prayers are with everyone involved.

Jobless Claims, Inflation Jump as Economy Wobbles

The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 31,000 to 473,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That compared to market expectations for 430,000.

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p.s. Obama's stimulus is one year old yesterday...did anyone think increased government control of the markets was going to work? Please. Prediction - Inflation will increase, jobless rate will increase, until government decreases. Just wait and see.

Follow Up: Top UN Climate official Resigning

Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.


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p.s. And the list grows. Who is going to be the first to sue Big Climate to get thier investment money back?

Las Vegas Mayor Goodman Rejects Obama invitation

Mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with President Obama when he arrives in town on Thursday. Mayor Goodman called President Obama a slow learner after he told Americans not to blow money on a weekend in Las Vegas if they were saving to put their kids through college.

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p.s. Thats a mayor that I want!

British threat to Israel over Dubai Hamas assassination

Britain will consider severing its intelligence-sharing agreement with Israel if Mossad agents are proved to have stolen the identities of British passport holders, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

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Special Delvery

A great read by Michael Yon about operations in Afghanistan and the USAF.

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"Climate Gate" Coming To An End - Good News!

Oil giants BP PLC, ConocoPhillips, and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. "quite an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away."

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Hats off to BP, ConocoPhillips, and Caterpillar! NEXT!?