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    • Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday.

      Or at least most of them did.

      Kerry skipped the regularly scheduled lunch; his staff said the Massachusetts Democrat “was unable to attend because he had a long scheduled lunch with his interns and pages.”

      Sen. Al Franken managed to make time for the lunch — but then let Pickens have it afterward.

    • The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.

      The bill was approved on a vote of 316-109. House members acted within hours of learning from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood that the program was running out of money.

      Called the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS, the program is designed to help the economy and the environment by spurring new car sales. Car owners can receive federal subsidies of up to $4,500 for trading in their old cars for new ones that achieve significantly higher gas mileage.
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      What a mess!

    • Federal health statistics indicate that around 44 million people in the United States have no health insurance. But 108 million Americans have no dental insurance, and 26 million of them are children. The American Dental Association is trying to solve this problem by adding an oral health amendment to the health-care legislation currently under discussion in Congress.

      "The government is completely separating dentistry and medical health in its proposed overhaul," says Dr. Thomas Connelly, a dentist based in New York. "It doesn't make sense to do so."

      But FOX News Medical Contributor Marc Siegel says adding more to the health-care reform bill is a terrible idea. "We need less, not more. We don't want the government to be able to tell us what kinds of procedures we can and can't have, dental or otherwise."
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      Yeah, so Americans can have a National Health Service Dentistry like Britain?

      No way

      (tags: dentistry)
    • The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed.

      The world’s largest economy contracted 1.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the last three months of 2008, compared with the 0.8 percent drop previously on the books, the Commerce Department said today in Washington.

      “The current downturn beginning in 2008 is more pronounced,” Steven Landefeld, director of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, said in a press briefing this week. The revisions were in line with past experience in which initial figures tended to underestimate the severity of contractions during their early stages, he said.

  • Barack Obama,  Henry Gates,  Rudy Giuliani

    Rudy Giuliani Gives Some Advice to President Obama: Shut Up

    Obama’s “teachable” moment is about 1:00 minute into the video

    Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is always plain spoken and does NOT mince words. Regarding the flap between Harvard Professor Henry Gates and the Boston Police officer and President’s Obama’s Beer Summit, Rudy makes it clear:

    Shut Up

    By the way, Ben Smith the lefty blogger over at Politico misrepresents the context of the “shut Up” remark. But, hell, that is to be expected, right?


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  • Missile Defense

    Ho Hum: Another United States Missile Defense Success

    USS Hopper Aegis Test

    A Standard Missile – 3 (SM-3) is launched from the USS Hopper the latest Missile Defence Agency test

    These missile defense successes are becoming routine.

    The latest US missile defence test, conducted last night in Hawaii waters, was deemed a success as tensions continue with North Korea over that country’s missile programme.

    A short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai and then was shot down by a three-stage interceptor missile from a destroyer, the USS Hopper.

    The test, conducted by the Navy and the Department of Defense’s Missile Defence Agency, marked the 23rd firing by ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system.

    With the latest test, there have been 19 successes, including the shooting down of a dead US spy satellite last year.

    Remember when the Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senators John Kerry, Joe Biden (now the Vice President) and Ted Kennedy wanted to kill the missile defense program – as unworkable?

    DEADLY wrong, now weren’t they?


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  • Barack Obama,  Polling

    Poll Watch: Obama’s Approval Index Still in the Tank

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    Not a good week for President Obama.

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11.

    Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That is the lowest level of total approval yet recorded for this President. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove. A plurality of voters now believe the President views American society as unfair and discriminatory.

    Will Obama use the summer Congressional recess to go on a campaign for Obamacare? Or just a campaign to win favor with the American people?

    Stay tuned……


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  • Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day by Chris Muir July 31, 2009 – Medical Research Sold

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    There is alot about Obamacare that the American public does NOT understand, including members of Congress who will be voting for the 1,000 page plus legislative package after the August Congressional recess.

    However, thanks to New York Democrat Representative Barney Frank, we now understand President Obama’s duplicity and his REAL goal – government run single payor health care.

    Now, what about THAT rationing of senior’s health care?

    It will come with Obamacare – just wait for the analyses and then the spin for this one.

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