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    • A San Francisco community college student awaiting deportation to his native Peru won a temporary reprieve Friday when U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation halting immigration enforcement proceedings against him.

      Steve Li, 20, had been due to be separated from his parents and sent back to Peru last Monday, but federal immigration officials pushed back the deportation at Feinstein's request while the California Democrat prepared the private relief measure that would allow him to remain in the U.S.
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      Wonder when Feinstein or Boxer will save Meg Whitman's illegal alien maid, Nicky Diaz?

    • If Sarah Palin does run for president next year, at least one high profile journalist will be forbidden access to the former Alaska governor.

      Speaking to Fox New's Sean Hannity in an interview to air Monday, Palin said she wants nothing to do with Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor who's line of questioning facilitated one of the most memorable political foibles of the 2008 presidential campaign.

      "As for doing an interview, though, with a reporter who already has such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say? Why waste my time? No," Palin told Hannity of Couric, according to excerpts obtained by Time's Mark Halperin.
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      Yeah ti was a set up and then Couric received a USC journalism award for tripping up Palin.

    • Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once-unthinkable scenario: dropping out of the Medicaid insurance program for the poor.

      Elected and appointed officials in nearly a half-dozen states, including Washington, Texas and South Carolina, have publicly thrown out the idea. Wyoming and Nevada this year produced detailed studies of what would happen should they withdraw from the program. Wyoming found that Medicaid accounts for 63% of the state's nursing-home revenue.

      The idea of abandoning Medicaid as a solution is so extreme that even proponents don't expect any state will follow through, but officials are floating the discussions because dire budgetary pressures have forced them to at least look at even the most drastic options.
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      And, now who thinks ObamaCare will work?

      Right!

      Nobody

    • A new poll shows President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a statistical dead heat for the White House.

      The Republican edges Obama by one percentage point, 45-44 percent, in a Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters released Monday. Among other top GOP contenders, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trails Obama 46-44 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is behind by eight points, 48 percent – 40 percent.

      The poll suggests a clear frontrunner has yet to emerge from the GOP field. Palin, Romney and Huckabee, the three leading challengers in the poll, only receive 19 percent, 18 percent and 17 percent support, respectively, from Republican voters.
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      If the economy does not measurably improve within 6 months, no matter who the Republicans nominate will beat Obama

    • A newly discovered exchange of e-mails led the House ethics committee on Friday to delay its trial of Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat accused of helping steer bailout money to a bank in which her husband owned shares.
      The e-mails are between Mikael Moore, Ms. Waters’s chief of staff, and members of the House Financial Services Committee, on which Ms. Waters serves. The e-mails show that Mr. Moore was actively engaged in discussing with committee members details of a bank bailout bill apparently after Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf. The bailout bill had provisions that ultimately benefited OneUnited, a minority-owned bank in which her husband, Sidney Williams, owned about $350,000 in shares.
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      Read it all
    • The London Guardian published a story today titled: “Sarah Palin drops 2012 presidency hint with staff visit to Iowa“. The article included the following paragraph:

      Some of her staff now appear to be putting the pieces in place in case Palin does decide to run. One of the aides, who only eats kosher food, told a local rabbi he was looking into longer term arrangements in Iowa.

      “He was looking to be able to accommodate the needs of those coming down looking to set up shop here for campaigning in the coming years,” said Yossi Jacobson of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Des Moines

      This paragraph is factually incorrect.
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      For now……

      (tags: sarah_palin)
  • Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton Says She Will NOT Run Again for Elective Office

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right) with France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Michele Alliot-Marie at the NATO summit in Lisbon on Saturday. Clinton has acknowledged passenger concerns over new pat-downs at airports seen as too intrusive, admitting she would rather avoid having one

    And, I believe that NOT.

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today she won’t run again for elective office, ruling out a future presidential bid.

    “I am very happy doing what I’m doing and I am not in any way interested in or pursuing anything in elective office,” the 63-year-old former First Lady said on the “Fox News Sunday” program.

    Clinton’s political aspirations have been a frequent topic of speculation since she lost the Democratic presidential nomination to President Barack Obama in 2008 and then agreed to become his secretary of state.

    As recently as last month, Clinton dismissed speculation prompted by a book written by journalist Bob Woodward that she would replace Vice President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket with Obama in 2012.

    “I have absolutely no interest and reason for doing anything other than just dismissing these stories and moving on,” she said at the time.

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  TSA

    Day By Day November 22, 2010 – T & A



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, I am glad I am not traveling/flying this Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The TSA as directed by the Obama Administration has developed some pretty heavy handed techniques in order to keep us safe from terrorism. From what most experts say, their strategy is often misplaced and intrusive.

    In the meantime, President Obama has been either disinterested or disengaged or worse.

    President Barack Obama stood by new controversial screening measures Saturday, calling methods such as pat-downs and body scans necessary to assure airline safety.

    Speaking at a NATO press conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the president called the balance between protecting travelers’ rights and their security a “tough situation.”

    Per the new rules, travelers may be subject to full-body scans at 400 such machines in 69 airports nationwide. Those who voluntarily opt out — as well as those who set off a scanning machine or a metal detector — are subject to a pat-down. Some travelers have likened the pat-downs to groping.

    The president said such methods are needed after what happened December 25, 2009, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria allegedly boarded a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb hidden in his underwear. Abdulmutallab reportedly failed to set off the bomb, which metal detectors didn’t detect, though his attempt led to airport screening procedures that have caused a holiday travel uproar.

    “At this point, the Transportation Security Administration, in consultation with our counterterrorism experts, have indicated to me that the procedures that they’ve been putting in place are the only ones right now that they consider to be effective against the kind of threat that we saw in the Christmas Day bombing,” said Obama.

    This flap is looking like a Jimmy Carter gas line moment every day and for a President with already poor poll numbers this will not help.

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