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The Democrats takeover of healthcare will be just the beginning. The goal is total control of the national economy...

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Coming from a "guy" who doesn't let his guests get a word in when he disagrees with them or is interrogating them because they oppose The One (I feel obligated to tell you that because nobody watches his show)...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Is Obama protecting Iran?

WASHINGTON — The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel.

Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia.

They said the shipment of 387 smart munitions had been slated to join pre-positioned U.S. military equipment in Israel Air Force bases.

"This was a political decision," an official said.

In 2008, the United States approved an Israeli request for bunker-busters capable of destroying underground facilities, including Iranian nuclear weapons sites.

Officials said delivery of the weapons was held up by the administration of President Barack Obama.

Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems.

Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters, refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E.

"All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010," a congressional source familiar with the Israeli military requests said.

"This is really an embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly."

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Glenn Reynolds also reports retiring Tennessee Rep. John Tanner has been promised a job as Ambassador to NATO if He votes "yes"..

BART GORDON PROMISED A JOB AS NASA ADMINISTRATOR FOR A HEALTHCARE VOTE?- InstaGlenn

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Another round of mind-numbing ROE as the pilot and his gunner can't shoot a Taliban fighter because they can't see a weapon, when it becomes clear he is carrying he's too close to American troops to fire at him. Still a cool video watching the fire-fight in FLIR along with the radio chatter...

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Would essentially turn Congress into a modern day version of the USSR's Politburo...

First thing to pop into my mind, shamnesty...

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Must read...

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation- Aspen Times

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

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Bring your pitchforks...

(Jon Voight/Big Journalism)- I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather on the Capitol steps on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon.

We must come by the thousands.

Speaker Pelosi will stop at nothing to fulfill her corrupt conquests. She will bring all of the corrupt ACORN liars to try to bully all the Democrats that may be having pangs of guilt knowing quite surely what their votes can and will do. If they’re bullied into saying “yes,” it will destroy America.

Join me and Rep. Michele Bachmann in Washington DC at 12 noon EST so we can give all the Democrats who know what the end result will be the courage to say: “No, do not pass this destructive bill.”

I’ll see you there.

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H/T:Jen06

I'm guessing the Obama administration won't freak out like they did when Israel announced its plans during Biden's visit...

Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, promised on Thursday that Moscow would help Iran complete a civil nuclear power station by this summer, drawing criticism from Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state.

His remarks highlighted the continuing differences between the two powers over how to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Mrs Clinton was visiting Moscow on a trip partly designed to increase the pressure on Tehran by showing America’s unity with Russia.

But Mr Putin told a meeting held in Volgodonsk, southern Russia, that work to complete the Bushehr plant on Iran’s Gulf coast would soon be complete. “The first block of the Iranian atomic power station must be launched this summer,” he said.

Asked about Mr Putin’s remarks, Mrs Clinton said it “would be premature to go forward with any project at this time, because we want to send an unequivocal message to the Iranians”.

However, she added: “We have consistently said that Iran is entitled to civil nuclear power. It is a nuclear weapons programme that it is not entitled to.”

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If this was anyone other than a union member Charles Johnson (and the rest of the race-obsessed liberal bloggers) would be pinning this on conservatives...

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.

The effigy was found in the teacher's classroom by Superintendent Frances Gallo, Rhode Island Department of Education spokeswoman Nicole Shaffer told The Associated Press. Shaffer said the department would not have any further comment.

Gallo told the AP on Thursday evening that the foot-tall Obama doll that she saw Monday was hung from its feet from a white board and was holding a sign that said, "Fire Central Falls teachers."

The president of the Central Falls Teachers Union, Jane Sessums, said in a written statement that the teacher, whose name wasn't disclosed, hung the doll "as part of what he described as a lesson plan."

The union has been fighting the firings at Central Falls High School, one of the state's worst-performing schools.

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Since we can't give Pelosi a physical beatdown, verbal ones like this will have to do...

"I have three simple questions Ms Pelosi," said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. “Are you so arrogant that you think you know what’s best for the American people? Are you so ignorant that you are oblivious to the wishes of the American people? And are you so incompetent that you are going to ignore the Constitution of the United States, use tricks, deceptions, bald faced lies to try to ram down the throat of the American people something that they do not want and is going to be absolutely worse for their healthcare?…"

Via GWP

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Shock jock gets shock therapy...

Immoral scumbags, all of them...

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Confession is good for the soul...

Via Breitbart.tv

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Prepare to be shocked! OK, maybe not...

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222 traitors just wiped their ass with the US Constitution...

The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203 (Malkin)

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Heil ObamaCare!...

Via National Review Online

As the health-care debate enters its final hours, the biggest specter for House Democrats may not be Nancy Pelosi, but the Internal Revenue Service.

GOP leaders tell National Review Online that they’ll spend the next few days hammering on-the-fence Democrats for supporting, via the health-care bill, new funds and responsibilities for the much-despised IRS.

“One of the things Democratic members of the House, particularly those in moderate districts who are on the fence about voting for the health care bill, haven’t thought through is the massive expansion of the IRS in the Democrats’ health care bill,” says a House GOP aide.

“Do they really think the American people are going to like a bill giving more power and money to agency as unpopular as the IRS?

This is something that you will definitely hear House Republicans talk more about going forward.”

Press conferences are already scheduled on the topic for later today.

According to the House GOP’s analysis of CBO scores, Obamacare will dole out as much as $10 billion, or about $1 billion per year, to the IRS: New revenue is needed so the IRS can implement the new policies established by the bill and to carry out new responsibilities, including enforcing the individual mandate by reviewing insurance policies held by Americans, employer penalties and other new taxes.

The IRS will have lots to do to implement and enforce the new taxes and mandates included in the bill.

In fact, the Senate Democrats’ bill references or amends the Internal Revenue Code 180 times.

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Gotta love how these forced insurance mandates don't kick in until after Obama's reelection bid in 2012. Bunch of sneaky ass motherfarkers...

(CNSNews.com) – If Congress passes the Senate health-care plan, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, American families will be required by federal law to buy a federally approved health insurance plan that will cost a minimum of $12,000 per year--and, on average, will cost $15,000 per year -- whether their employer or the government helps them with the premium or not. 

Beginning in 2014, the Senate plan would require all individuals to buy health insurance. Anyone who does not obtain insurance through an employer would be forced to buy it out of their own pocket. Families of four that make up to 400 percent of poverty level--currently $88,200 per year--would receive a subsidy from the government to help pay for their premiums. That subsidy would attenuate as their income increased and would disappear when their income reached the 400 percent of poverty level. 

...According to the CBO analysis, the insurance plans the Senate bill would require families to purchase would cost an average of $15,200 per year in 2016.

But even the bare-bones, minimum coverage required by the individual mandate in the bill--known as the “Bronze” level insurance plans--would cost families an estimated $12,000 to $12,500 a year, Elmendorf told Snowe.

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With added assploding irony: He's voting no because the bill will tax the shit out of union health care plans and the unions have responded by picketing his office and launching a robocall campaign against him...

More no-mentum: Lynch says firm “no” from earlier yes on ObamaCare (Hot Air)

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Here comes that clenched fist again...

The Iranian Government has been accused by Afghan and Western officials of delivering tonnes of weaponry to the Taleban, including plastic explosives, mortars, grenades and technical manuals.

Weapons and documents shown to Channel 4 News indicate that more than ten tonnes of weapons have been intercepted at Iran’s desert border with Afghanistan in the past year, with a tonne and a half recovered in the past week.

The reports come as General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iran also provided a base for al-Qaeda operatives. Afghanistan’s intelligence agency estimates that about 60 per cent of the weaponry it has intercepted from Iran has been supplied by the Iranian Government rather than black market dealers.

In a report on Iran’s weapons smuggling to the Taleban — to be aired by Channel 4 News this evening — one Afghan Taleban commander claims that the Iranian border is assuming greater importance than that into Pakistan.

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Obama himself even pimped the system on his Facebook page...

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Nothing pleases Allah more than a headless corpse...

Salah al-Din, 18 March (AKI) -The decapitated corpses of a policeman and an army officer were found in northern Iraq on Thursday, according to unnamed police sources cited by Iraqi media. Gunmen reportedly abducted the two men from their vehicle near the town of Sherquat in Salah al-Din province on Wednesday.

Police found their bodies close to a nearby village where they lived and were combing the area for the men's killers.

Sherquat lies around 110 km north of the provincial capital of Tikrit, hometown of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein who was overthrown by the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

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Why postpone his vacation? Is he nervous about something?...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has postponed his trip to Asia until June so he can stay in Washington for a possible Sunday vote on his health care overhaul plan.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday the president is disappointed and regrets having to delay his visits to Indonesia and Australia but has told the leaders of those nations that health care is a crucial priority.

"The president believes right now the place for him to be is in Washington seeing this through," Gibbs said. Obama had already delayed the trip to Indonesia and Australia, pushing back a Thursday departure until Sunday so he could help Democrats on Capitol Hill rally last-minute votes for the plan.

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Keep in mind HALF the cost "savings" being touted by the Dems come from CUTS in Medicare, nothing less than a sick joke...

The Spectator's Philip Klein

More from Ed Morrissey: Breaking: CBO releases the actual report; Update: Almost all $940 billion incurred in just six years; Update: Preliminary

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Political Super Bowl Sunday...

US Hoyer: Expects House To Vote On, Pass, Health Care Sunday- Market News

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Another Dem who's up for reelection in November sees the writing on the midterm's wall. Vote for ObamaCare, be voted out of office...

(Hotline)- A key House Dem has begun informing party leaders he plans to vote against health care legislation both on the House floor and in the rules committee, on which he sits.
 
Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY), a sophomore Dem who had a tougher-than-expected re-election bid in '08, has told the Dem caucus he will vote against the bill.
 
He becomes the 3rd member, along with Reps. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), to have switched from supporting the first bill, in Nov., to opposing the Senate version.

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The next time CAIR starts stomping its feet and jumping up and down over supposed 'profiling' of Muslims we can throw this back in their faces...

(Daniel Pipes)- The Council on American-Islamic Relations is up to its usual assault on the discussion of Islam.

Its Philadelphia chapter held a press conference on March 17 at which it plans "to announce the launch of a nationwide campaign to challenge anti-Islam bias in a series of children's books that the Washington-based Muslim civil rights group says promote 'hostility toward Islam and suspicion of Muslims'."

In advance of the press conference, it may be helpful to review an incriminating e-mail exchange among the CAIR staff about the series.It took place on December 9, 2009, when Moein M. Khawaja, "civil rights director" for CAIR's Philadelphia office, sent a memo to the CAIR staff. Khawaja reported that he had gone through some of the Mason Crest volumes and flagged materials he disapproved of (such as, "The burqa is a visible symbol of European Muslims resistance to assimilation in society").

Karen Dabdoub of CAIR's Cincinnati chapter replied later that day that she shared Khawaja's concerns.

Many of these authors have names that at the very least sound Jewish and none that sound like Muslim names. While I know we can't judge a book by its cover it still gives me reason to doubt the balance of the information in these books. I also noticed another book [published by Mason Crest] on Islamic Fundamentalism and the glowing review they quote is from the Association of Jewish Libraries.

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 Just the thought of Boxer being booted out of office makes me drool...

Washington (AP) - California Sen. Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign is shaping up as the fight of her political career, according to a Field Poll released Thursday.
 
The survey shows a statistical tie in hypothetical matchups between the three-term Democratic incumbent and two of her potential Republican challengers, former congressman Tom Campbell and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina.
 
Boxer has won by progressively larger margins in each of her previous re-election campaigns, but this year faces strong headwinds from the recession, which has left California with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
 
The poll shows 51 percent of likely voters have an unfavorable opinion of Boxer while just 38 percent have a favorable one.
 
Boxer's standing with voters has crumbled in the past two months, even though it would appear the economy has begun to stabilize.

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Via Drudge

The people have spoken, Tom and Jerry reruns (which my 4-year-old loves) trumps White House propaganda...

(TVNewser)- In total Viewers, Fox News was the #2 ranked cable network last week in primetime, averaging 233,000 viewers behind USA. MSNBC was #26, CNN was #32, and HLN was #37. In total day, FNC was #4, CNN was #29, MSNBC was #33, and HLN was #35.

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Stern pitches a lob ball to Beck who easily knocks it out of the park...

Don't forget: SEIU’s head thug Andy Stern appointed to Obama’s Deficit Commission

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Bush's policy was regime change in Iran, Obama's is regime change in Israel. Something seriously wrong with that...

(JPost)- US President Barack Obama’s administration’s recent pressure on Israel is designed to force Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to add Kadima to his coalition instead of Israel Beiteinu or Shas, influential American columnist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in a story published on Tuesday.

In a column in The Atlantic magazine titled “What Obama is Actually Trying to Do in Israel,” Goldberg, who is close to Obama, said the president wanted to cause a rupture in Netanyahu’s coalition that would necessitate bringing in Kadima. He said he spoke about the matter with officials in the White House.

....Livni’s spokesman declined to comment about the column, but Kadima MK Shlomo Molla, who is her close ally, warned Obama and his advisers against interfering in Israeli politics.

“We don’t need Obama’s help,” Molla said. “But we agree that the current coalition is bad for Israel and for US-Israel relations and that if Livni was working with Obama, there would be much more trust from the White House.

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Good riddance, Canada is a little bit safer today as one potential returning jihadi is taken out of commission...

TORONTO - An Islamic militant group is reporting that a Somali-Canadian man, who went missing two years ago, has been killed in Somalia.

The death of Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim was reported in a short video posted on a jihadist website and found by site Intelligence Group, a U.S.-based group that monitors Islamic militant messages online.

The two-minute video shows Ibrahim in Saudi Arabia explaining the historical significance of the location where the video was shot.

A message accompanying the video tells Canadian youth that Ibrahim "succeeded," saying they should "rejoice in the news of your dear brother and follow his footsteps."

A source close to the family tells The Canadian Press that the man on the video is Ibrahim, a University of Toronto student who had also attended the Abu Haraina mosque.

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It's too bad the Vatican doesn't have an army...

(AFP)- Thirteen Christians were killed by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in an overnight attack on a village in central Nigeria, Plateau State Information Commissioner Gregory Yenlong said Wednesday.

"I can confirm that 13 people have died while six others have been critically injured. They are now on admission at a missionary hospital in Vom," near the state capital Jos, Yenlong told AFP.

UPDATE: Another Allah-approved atrocity...

(AP)- Attackers killed 12 people Wednesday morning in a small Christian village in central Nigeria, officials said, cutting out most of the victims’ tongues in the latest violence in a region where religious fighting already has killed hundreds this year.

The attack almost mirrored the tactics used by those who carried out similar massacres in Christian villages last week when more than 200 people were slaughtered.

...The dead included seven women, four childrenand one man, Lipdo said. Attackers removed the tongues of most of the victims, witnesses said.

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Similar to the Biden incident in Israel, the EU foreign policy chief was touring Gaza when the rocket was fired, she did not condemn Hamas for the terror attack....

(IsraelNN.com)- Hamas terrorists in Gaza have fired five Kassam rockets into Israel over the past two days, and the last one killed a worker from Thailand.

The employee was working in the greenhouses of Netiv HaAsarah, just north of Gaza, when the Kassam hit. A doctor was rushed to the scene, but was left with no choice but to pronounce him dead.

In a manner not unsimilar to that in which an announcement on a housing project in northeastern Jerusalem “caught” visiting U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden in Israel, the fatal Kassam attack “caught” European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton as she was touring Gaza. She criticized neither the leaders of Hamas or Fatah, however, saying only that she “condemns all types of violence.”

The employee was working in the greenhouses of Netiv HaAsarah, just north of Gaza, when the Kassam hit. A doctor was rushed to the scene, but was left with no choice but to pronounce him dead.

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Classic, Biden...

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H/T:HAPundit

Think about this the next time the Obama administration slams Israel for its "obstacles to peace" (which should be any minute now)...

Uncle Hassan: Unfortunately, 'Alloush and dear children, the Arab and Islamic nation is in a slumber. A deep slumber. We must stand up. We must awaken. 'Alloush and dear children – each one of you must tell his father, his grandfather, and the rest of his family that they should all arise as one. They must rise up against the criminal Zionists, who are planning to destroy Jerusalem, and to turn the Islamic waqf into something bad. We must rise against the Zionist criminals, the enemies of Allah, and liberate Jerusalem and all the holy places. We should liberate them. Do you hear, 'Alloush?

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For all the A-10 lovers out there...

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There's a reason the overwhelming majority of doctors refuse to perform abortions kill babies and as everyone knows, it's the Hippocratic Oath...

Washington, DC-- A new poll that should cause significant concerns for backers of the pro-abortion Senate health care bill finds nearly half the nation's physicians would consider quitting if the bill becomes law. The New England Journal of Medicine survey indicates 46 percent of doctors would consider leaving their practice.

The poll finds 46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of a public option will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.

Doctors also seem to understand the impact that will have as 72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.

“While a sudden loss of half of the nations physicians seems unlikely, a very dramatic decrease in the physician workforce could become a reality as an unexpected side effect of health reform," it said

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But..but..but Obama is such a "gifted orator"...

Not sure about you guys but I love 'teleprompter-free Obama'...

OBAMA: That also — I’m giving you an example of one that I consider important. It also affects Hawaii, which went through an earthquake. So that’s not just a Louisiana provision. That is a provision that affects every state that is going through a natural catastrophe.

Now I have said that there are certain provisions, like this Nebraska one, that don’t make sense. And they needed to be out. And we have removed those. So, at the end of the day, what people are going to be able to say is that this legislation is going to be providing help to small businesses and individuals, across the board, in an even handed way, and providing people relief from a status quo that’s just not working.

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Via GWP

I know, it's not that hard to make Eric Holder look like an incompetent ass, but it's always fun to watch...

(Weekly Standard)- Unlike Attorney General Eric Holder, Stanley McChrystal is no fool. He knows that there is a more-than-”infinitesimal” chance Osama bin Laden could be captured alive, and he knows how valuable it would be if one could get him to talk (or even how valuable it would be if his subordinates thought he might be talking).

So McChrystal said todaythat, “If Osama bin Laden comes inside Afghanistan, we would certainly go after trying to capture him alive and bring him to justice. I think that is something that is understood by everyone."

Common sense from McChrystal. And another embarassment for Holder.

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ACLU reportedly devasted upon hearing the news...

(LWJ)- The US killed a key al Qaeda operative involved in the network's external operations during an airstrike last week in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.

Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, who is also known as Ghazwan al Yemeni, was killed during the March 10 airstrike in the town of Miramshah, according to a statement released on a jihadist forum.

Three other al Qaeda operatives, identified as Abu Jameelah al Kuwaiti Hamed al Aazimi, who served with slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi;Abu Zahra al Maghrebi; and Akramah al Bunjabi al Pakistani, were killed with Hussami, according to a translation of the martyrdom statementreleased on March 12 by Abu Abdulrahman al Qahtani, who is said to be based in Waziristan. The statement was posted on the Al Falluja Forum and a translation is provided by Global Terror Alert.

According to Qahtani, Hussami was a protégé of Abu Khabab al Masri, al Qaeda's top bomb maker and WMD chief who was killed in a US airstrike in July 2008. Hussami was in a prison in Yemen but was released at an unknown point in time.

Hussami "was involved in training Taliban and foreign al Qaeda recruits for strikes on troops in Afghanistan and targets outside the region," The Wall Street Journal reported. He "was also on a small council that helped plan" the Dec. 30, 2009, suicide attack at Combat Outpost Chapman that killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence officer. The slain intelligence operatives were involved in gathering intelligence for the hunt for al Qaeda and Taliban leaders along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

You stay classy, Barack Obama. Don't forget, this is the same grandmother he said was a racist...

(CNSNews.com) – In an email message to supporters, President Barack Obama used his dying mother’s experience with insurance companies as an example of why lawmakers should pass the health care reform plan in Congress.
 
“She died of cancer, and in the last six months of her life, I saw her on the phone in her hospital room arguing with insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well and spending time with her family,” (I'd bet my life that's a crock of shit -ed.) Obama wrote in the email.

The president also told supporters about Natoma Canfield, who was battling cancer, but had to cancel her insurance policy after her insurance company kept raising her deductible and premiums.

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The Twitter comments probably came from inside the White House...

CNN's practice of running viewers' Twitter feeds at the bottom of its screen put some jarringly raw anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment on cable during an interview with Wolf Blitzer, a reader pointed out to me today, and the segment above illustrates.

As Wolf Blitzer and Rick Sanchez talked about the crisis in U.S. Israel relations, captions included, "Israel is greedy," and "Jewish lobby runs America."

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One party rule...

(CNSNews.com) – Under the standard procedures of the House of Representatives, Republicans will get only 30 minutes on the House floor to debate the special "rule" being prepared by House Rules Chairman Louise Slaughter (D.-N.Y.) that would deem the Senate health care bill passed in the House without an actual vote on the bill as required by Article I, Section VII of the Constitution.
 
Under Slaughter's plan, the House would pass a special rule governing debate on a budget reconciliation bill being crafted to make "fixes" in the Senate health care bill desired by House Democrats. Under this rule, the Senate health care bill itself would be "deemed" to have passed the House if the full House of Representatives subsequently passes the budget reconciliation bill.
 
A majority of the House would have to vote in favor of the Slaughter Rule and then in favor of the reconciliation bill for the Senate health care bill to be considered passed.  But House members would never actually vote on the 2,074-page Senate health care bill itself or have their votes on that bill recorded in the official record of the chamber as required by the Constitution.

The Slaughter Rule is expected to be brought up on the House floor later this week. In order for the House to take up the reconciliation bill, it must first debate and approve the Slaugher Rule. During that debate, under the normal procedures of the House, Republican members will be allowed only 30 minutes to publicly air their views on the rule and to try to persuade their Democratic colleagues not to circumvent the constitutional requirements for passing a bill into law.

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Obama overheard muttering something about Idahoans being rabid racists who cling to their guns and religion...

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states nationwide.
 
Constitutional law experts say the move is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states. But the movement reflects a growing national frustration with President President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Last week, Virginia legislators passed a measure similar to Idaho's new law, but Otter was the first state chief executive to sign such a bill, according the American Legislative Exchange Council, which created model legislation for Idaho and other states. The Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit group promotes limited government.
 
"Congress is planning to force an unconstitutional mandate on the states," said Herrera, the group's health task force director.

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 The Third Reich lives on in the heart of the Islamic Nation...

Germans are popular in India and Pakistan, but not always for the right reasons.

Many in South Asia have nothing but admiration for Adolf Hitler and still associate Germany with the Third Reich.

Everyday encounters with the love of all things Nazi makes German visitors cringe.

Pakistan is the opposite of Germany.

The mountains are in the north, the sea is in the south, the economic problems are in the west and the east is doing well.

It's not hard for a German living in Pakistan to get used to these differences, but one contrast is hard to stomach: Most people like Hitler.

I was recently at the hairdresser, an elderly man who doesn't resort to electric clippers. All he has is creaky pair of scissors, a comb, an aerosol with water. He did a neat job but I wasn't entirely happy.

I said: "I look like Hitler." He looked at me in the mirror, gave a satisfied smile and said: "Yes, yes, very nice."

I decided not to challenge him, went home and tried to get rid of the strict parting he'd given me. Embarrassing Moments I was glad I avoided the usual Hitler conversation.

Pakistanis always hone in on that topic whenever they talk to Germans.

"We're Aryans too," they say, because there was an Indo-Germanic race, the Aryas.

Besides, Hitler was a military genius, they add.

Sometimes it's better to keep quiet about one's German origins.

It's embarrassing because people here think they're doing you a favor by expressing their admiration for the Nazi leader.

I suspect most Indians and Pakistanis have no idea what this man did.

They see him as the bold Führer who took on the British and Americans.

In the Islamic world, not just in Pakistan but right across from Iran to northern Africa, anti-Semitic sentiment of course plays a role.

Conversations with German visitors rapidly turn to the injustice being suffered by the Palestinians who were robbed of their land.

The Desire to be Swallowed up by the Ground One can try to cut such conversations short, like a German acquaintance of mine did recently.

He told a taxi driver in Iran he should stop talking nonsense because he as a dark-skinned person wouldn't have survived long in Nazi Germany.

The taxi driver looked at him surprised and said: "But I'm Aryan!"

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But there won't be a yes or no vote in the House, then again, Obama says he doesn't care Note: I can't wait for the full interview, judging by this preview O'Shithead is getting flustered by Bret Baier's audacity to ask an actual question....

"I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate. What I can tell you is that the vote that’s taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don’t think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don’t, if they vote against it, then they’re going to be voting against health care reform and they’re going to be voting in favor of the status quo. So Washington gets very concerned with these procedures in congress, whether republicans are in charge or democrats are in charge."

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How could she be a "Palestinian" when there's no such thing as a "Palestinian?" BTW: They forgot to add she was also a Joooooo....

(IsraelNN.com) - Palestinian Media Watch reports that in its official statement in honor of International Women's Day, the Fatah movement listed a group of "Palestinian" women of whom it is proud: Martyrs, fighters, prisoners and the Virgin Mary.

"If we are proud of the holiness of our land, then we are proud and pride ourselves that the first and most important holy woman among the nations and peoples is from the holy land: The Virgin Mary - the woman of love and peace - is of the nation of Palestine, whose roots are grounded in the depths of history. Our movement takes note of its pride in all the women Shahidas (Martyrs), prisoners, Palestinian fighters, who have become a model of sacrifice and a school that teaches the meaning of giving and of sacrifice."

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Every once in as while the AP decides to act like journalists, now it's back to the cheerleading section...

Fact Check: Health Insurance Premiums Would Rise Under Obama Plan- AP

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