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Public option supporters will get several more bites at the apple: They can offer more amendments on the Senate floor (assuming, as most observers do, that Harry Reid will not include this element in the chamber’s combined bill). Or they can fight for it during conference negotiations, since the House is still expected to include some form of public plan in its bill.
September 30 2009 | Posted in Government, Health Care, Marxism, US Political News | Read More »
The situation in France is even worse for the left. Asked this summer if the party was dying, Bernard-Henri Lévy, an emblematic Socialist, answered: “No — it is already dead.
September 30 2009 | Posted in Europe & UK News, Germany | Read More »
While the rules lay out no consequences for making whoopie within eyeshot of others, Thurler hopes the policy will “empower” students to “bring that issue up” with their randy roomie.
September 30 2009 | Posted in Lifestyle | Read More »
Voters get that an orgy of debt can lead to an orgy of inflation.
September 30 2009 | Posted in Business News | Read More »
Podesta said that though such a tax may be regressive, it can be balanced by exempting some products and using “the money to support low-wage workers.”
September 29 2009 | Posted in Government, Marxism, US Political News | Read More »
Invades Your Privacy – The Baucus bill enforces both its individual and employer mandates by deputizing the Internal Revenue Service. To enforce these provisions, the bill would therefore require individuals, health insurers, employers, and government health agencies to report detailed health insurance information on all Americans to the IRS, adding significant administrative costs and reducing privacy protections.
September 29 2009 | Posted in Corruption, Government, Health Care, US Political News | Read More »
* Adopting the G20 as the new economic steering committee raises questions over the whether or not the Group of Eight, which makes up the world’s industrial countries, will eventually be faded out. Diplomats said the G8 would continue to function but would focus on non-economic issues.
September 25 2009 | Posted in World News | Read More »
“The whole viability of the circuit may be questioned,” circuit director Pierre-Alain Thibaut today told lesoir.be, a Belgian news website. He added, though, that Spa-Francorchamps intends to appeal.
September 25 2009 | Posted in Fascism, Formula 1, Government, Racing, Sports News, US Political News | Read More »
Totalitarian Governments Do Not Want Objections
Did you ever believe the government, “our government, “ would one day bully people and companies to get their way?
“Yeah, GW did it all the time.”
Go find a black helicopter this is serious. If you do not wake up, very soon, you will be watching the bho channel [...]
September 25 2009 | Posted in Fascism, Government, Marxism, US Political News | Read More »
Writing on page 839 of the textbook, the authors state: “The common law and drafters of the U.S. Constitution did not consider a fetus a human being. Feticide was not murder in common law because the fetus was not considered to be a human being, and for purposes of the Constitution a fetus is probably not a ‘person’ within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Thus under the constitution, abortion is apparently not unlawful, although infanticide obviously is.”
September 24 2009 | Posted in Fascism, Government, US Political News | Read More »
Klaus published a book in 2007 on the worldwide campaign to stop climate change entitled “Blue Planet in Green Chains: What Is Under Threat — Climate or Freedom?”
September 24 2009 | Posted in Corruption, Government, US Political News | Read More »
The administration has proposed an overhaul of U.S. financial regulations including oversight of the systemic risk large financial institutions pose to the economy, new ways for the government to dismantle failed companies and a regulator to oversee financial products for consumers.
September 24 2009 | Posted in World News | Read More »
Additionally, the FBI shared NSAC data with the Pentagon’s controversial Counter-Intelligence Field Activity office, a secretive domestic-spying unit which collected data on peace groups, including the Quakers, until it was shut down in 2008. But the FBI told lawmakers it would be careful in its interactions with that group.
September 23 2009 | Posted in Government, US Political News | Read More »
In an echo of last year’s presidential campaign, she criticized government policies that result in what she called a redistribution of wealth. “There is no justice in taking from one person and giving to another,” she said. “History shows it simply does not work.”
September 23 2009 | Posted in Asia News, China | Read More »
“make like a leaf in a windstorm and just fly off in the air.
September 23 2009 | Posted in Political Humor, Video & Photo | Read More »