Obama Official Criticizes Hike in Anthem Blue Cross Rate | TopNews United States
California insurance regulators have ordered Anthem Blue Cross to delay controversial rate increases of as much as 39% for individual policies, hikes that have landed subscribers and brokers in frenzy.
The Obama administration summoned California’s largest for-profit insurer to pose a justification its rate […]

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Jobs bill: A chance for bipartisanship or election strategy? - CNN.com
Washington (CNN) — As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.
Understand that in CNN’s world, “bipartisanship” has only one meaning - that Republicans should supinely […]

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U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti - CNN.com
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said.
Given that Haiti is one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, my guess […]

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After all it’s only his bag. Staten Island chaplain accused of bringing razors, scissor into jail
A Department of Correction chaplain who lives on Staten Island was arrested today on charges he tried to bring three straight razors and a pair of scissors into a Manhattan jail.
Imam Zul-Qarnain Abdu-Shahid, 58, was taken into custody after the […]

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The open letter to the major scientific journals claims that “papers that are scientifically flawed or comprise only modest technical increments often attract undue profile. At the same time publication of truly original findings may be delayed or rejected”.
Sound like Climatology? It’s not. Stem cell papers blocked
Professor Lovell-Badge said: “It’s turning things into a […]

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The Forfeiture Racket - Reason Magazine
Smelley’s case was no isolated incident. Over the past three decades, it has become routine in the United States for state, local, and federal governments to seize the property of people who were never even charged with, much less convicted of, a crime. Nearly every year, according to Justice Department […]

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Checchi & Company
Despite President Obama’s long history of criticizing the Bush administration for “sweetheart deals” with favored contractors, the Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.
The contract, awarded on […]

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Via Big Hollywood.

U.N. Me
An expose of the UN.

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About That Corporate Takeover of Politics - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
“There is just no good evidence that campaign finance laws have any effect on actual corruption,” he said.
Of course not. Especially when such laws are designed to cripple opponents to incumbents, and empower the media over any other sector - as McCain-Feingold […]

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Court Rulings Erode Spending Restrictions for Elections - NYTimes.com
The United States Chamber of Commerce, the goliath of the lobbying world, is expected to outline its battle plan next week for the midterms. It spent $25 million on advertisements and get-out-the-vote efforts in the 2006 elections and $36 million in 2008, and will spend far more […]

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Ace of Spades HQ
Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, tells National Review Online that House Democrats are planning to use the budget-reconciliation process in order to pass Obamacare. “They’re meeting with each other this weekend to pursue it,” says Ryan. “I’ve spoken with many Democrats and the message […]

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Four arrested after Iran prosecutor assassinated
Four people have been arrested after an Iranian state prosecutor was shot dead outside his home in northern Iran.
Vali Hajgholizadeh, who reports say had a reputation for fighting corruption, was killed in the town of Khoy near the Turkish border.
I was thinking that the Mullahs had simply removed […]

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Dem. Rep. Snyder opts out of Ark. Congress race - washingtonpost.com
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Democratic U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder of Arkansas says he won’t seek re-election to an eighth term.
The 62-year-old says he wants to spend more time with his wife and four young children, including a set of year-old triplets.
He figured he was […]

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Martha’s Greatest Hits: The Things the Democrats Would Like You to Forget About Candidate Coakley
Let’s start with a horrific case that shows Coakley’s inexplicable and appalling lack of judgment:
1. October 2005: The curling-iron toddler rape case. Coakley brings no charges, then lets the rapist out on no bail.
Martha’s Greatest Hits II: Candidate Coakley […]

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Reuters AlertNet - France fears everyone inside U.N. HQ in Haiti dead
Haiti is the most corrupt nation in the world.  In corrupts nations, every government building is substandard, because all are built as part of a boodle payoff to some friend or faction.  Want to bet a French contractor had a lot to do with […]

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At least, that’s what the headline should be on this, I think: Federal Reserve earned $45 billion in 2009 - Unconventional efforts to prop up economy created windfall for government… (From the often depressingly-cheerful Washington Post, of course)
The only slight glimmer of good news involved:
The Fed will return about $45 billion to the U.S. Treasury […]

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America as Texas vs. California « The Enterprise Blog
Like California, the Obama team and their congressional allies seem to think that entrepreneurs and business leaders will simply sit there and take it, doing their “civic duty” by paying new direct and indirect taxes, and complying like obsequious puppies with new regulatory requirements. California provides pretty […]

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AP sources: Obama OKs taxing high-end health plans - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they’ll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.
Now it’s the unions and their solid gold health plans turn in […]

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Pensioners burn books for warmth | Metro.co.uk
Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves.
Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC […]

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Doctor Zero » The Carnivorous Government
Bob Schieffer makes an amusing joke about Obama spin resembling the feeble excuses of Tiger Woods, and observes that spin doctoring “makes it harder to believe anything the government says… Real security is based on trust in government.”
No, real security is based on trust in ourselves, our liberties, and our […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » WILLIE BROWN ON CALIFORNIA’S PROBLEMS:
But at some point, someone is going to have to get honest about the fact that 80 percent of the state, county and city budget deficits are due to employee costs.”
This is pretty funny, considering that Willie in large part hand-built the systems that are eating […]

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New Media leader exposes myth of Obama’s ‘bottom-up’ Internet-driven 2008 campaign UPDATED: More storm clouds gathering on the Left | Washington Examiner
“And this is the big story of 2009, if you ask me, the meta-story of what did, and didn’t happen, in the first year of Obama’s administration. The people who voted for him weren’t […]

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Laboratories of Repression - Reason Magazine
Which brings us back to the Chicago gun case. The Windy City would like to “serve as a laboratory” with the “flexibility” to ignore the Second Amendment. But there’s nothing “novel” about that. It’s just another case of the government violating our rights. And since the Supreme Court would never […]

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Bombshell Eyewitness Revelations: Confirmed FBI Cover-Up Of Flight 253 Attack
What are Obama and the FBI trying to cover up, and why?

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Everything, apparently.
San Francisco News - The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. - page 1
In 2007, the city went back to the voters, asking for another $50 million for libraries — without publicizing that this would fund the five unfinished projects voters had already paid for. Voters approved it. After all, who doesn’t like libraries?

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