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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation Declaring Ronald Reagan Day in California
President Barack Obama, seated, joined by former first lady Nancy Reagan, left, and others, signs the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act during a ceremony in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. From left are, Nancy Reagan, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., the president, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., and Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill.
One of the few things the unpopular California Governor Schwarzenegger has done right.California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that the US state will celebrate Ronald Reagan Day annually on February 6.
Gov Schwarzenegger said the move was to acknowledge the former US president’s life accomplishments and his contributions to California.
Reagan – who was born on February 6, 1911 and died on June 5, 2004 – was governor of California from 1967-1975 before holding the office of president between 1980 and 1988. He was succeeded by George Bush.
Governor Schwarzenegger said: “With this legislation, we celebrate Ronald Reagan’s incredible legacy and his spirit of optimism. Our nation is stronger because of him, and it is important for future Californians to learn about and acknowledge the extraordinary work he did for the state and country he loved.”
On February 6, all public schools and education institutions will be encouraged to engage in exercises remembering the life of the former president, recognising his accomplishments and the contributions he made to California.
The Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission will be tasked with honouring and promoting the celebration of the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s birthday on February 6, 2011.
And, the 100th anniversary should be quite the celebration. Tickets will be hard to obtain but I hope to cover the celebration.
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Day By Day July 20, 2010 – Burger King
I have always thought that Burger King guy was creepy looking.But, President Barack Obama is NOT creepy as much as his policies are damn scary. Obama and his merry court of sycophants may be having it their way for now but change is in the air.
The American people will then have it their way.
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Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign.
Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.
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We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.
Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement.
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As California's whooping cough epidemic continues to grow, health officials are urging women and seniors to get vaccinated.
Department of Health officials said the number of whooping cough cases have climbed to 1,496 cases as of July 16 statewide. This figure is five times the number of cases logged the same time last year
In 2010, five California residents have died from the disease. All were Latino babies under 3 months old who were too young to be immunized. Also, a sixth infant death is under investigation.Typically, a case of whooping cough appears similar to a common cold up to approximately two weeks. This is followed by weeks or months of rapid coughing fits that sometimes end with a whooping sound.
Officials advise seniors and women in child-bearing years to get vaccinated..
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Carly Fiorina, 55, has been contending with chemotherapy and radiation treatments and reconstructive surgery because of breast cancer, so she is understandably undaunted by the relatively minor challenge of winning a U.S. Senate seat in this state that last elected a freshman Republican senator in 1982, that has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, and that has not elected a right-to-life candidate in statewide voting since 1998. This race will test the power of the rising Republican wave.
Fiorina might surf it from here to Capitol Hill because her opponent, Barbara Boxer, 69, is the Senate’s fiercest liberal, and California is an intensely unhappy laboratory for liberalism—high taxes, opulent entitlements, thick regulations, and subservience to government employees’ unions.
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New polling from Pennsylvania moves that state’s Senate race from the Toss-Up category to Leans GOP. Pat Toomey now leads Joe Sestak by seven points.
With two months of summer left before the fall campaign season begins in earnest, Rasmussen Reports polling shows that Republicans are poised to pick up Democratic-held Senate seats in three states— Arkansas, Indiana, and North Dakota. Two others are leaning that way–Delaware and Pennsylvania. Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln is the only incumbent senator currently projected to lose a seat. The others are open-seat races following retirements by Democratic incumbents.
At the moment, outside of the Toss-Up states, no Republican-held seats appear headed for the Democratic column.
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Bill Emmerson shifted his official residence from Redlands to Hemet so he could run for a state senate seat vacated when Senator John Benoit was appointed to fill the late Roy Wilson's position on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.
In this case, Emmerson, who left an assembly seat for a Riverside County senate district when he won in June, should not be accused of carpet bagging. His move from Redlands was a return home.
Though Emmerson was active in the Redlands community where he lived and represented the San Bernardino County-based 63rd Assembly District, he held deep roots in Hemet.
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Under pressure, the Democrats are cracking. On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a realization that Nancy Pelosi's hold on the speakership is in true jeopardy; that losing control of the Senate is not out of the question; and that time, once the Democrats' best friend, is now their mortal enemy. Since January, when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, the President's party has tried to downplay in public what its pollsters have been saying in private: that Obama's alienation of independents and white voters, along with the enthusiasm gap between the right and the left, means that Republicans are on a trajectory to pick up massive numbers of House and Senate seats, perhaps even to regain control of Congress.
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Unless the Congress passes some meaningful economic reform, the Dems will suffer massive losses in November
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Day By Day July 19, 2010 – Taxing It All
Socialists like Castro, Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama will tax the air you breathe if it brings about the redistribution of income they covet. But, this scheme does NOT work – not even in a utopian police state like the Soviet Union.Remember?
The current American economic morass was created by government largess in the housing market and “cheap” money. But over regulation of financial markets/business to redistribute economic activbity will NOT solve anything.
The latest unemployment figures for the State of Nevada are out this morning and they are NOT good – 14.2%.
If the President does not take some constructive pro-market economic action by the Fall, he and the Democrats will suffer massive losses at the polls – and, then, the Republicans will do it.
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Thursday's Post reported about a growing controversy over the Justice Department's decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with a question: What took you so long?
For months, readers have contacted the ombudsman wondering why The Post hasn't been covering the case. The calls increased recently after competitors such as the New York Times and the Associated Press wrote stories. Fox News and right-wing bloggers have been pumping the story. Liberal bloggers have countered, accusing them of trying to manufacture a scandal.
But The Post has been virtually silent.
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When David Cameron visits the United States this week, he will find a country whose national political argument has become more like our own in Britain than probably he – and certainly I – would ever have imagined. For America has learned, thanks to Barack Obama's crash course in European-style government, about the titanic force of class differences. The president's determination to transform the US into a social democracy, complete with a centrally run healthcare programme and a redistributive tax system, has collided rather magnificently with America's history as a nation of displaced people who were prepared to risk their futures on a bid to be free from the power of the state.
They are talking a lot about this in the US now. Suddenly the phenomenon of class resentment is a live political issue
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The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some analysts say, could eventually weigh heavily on the state’s already-stressed budget.
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Well, Duh and this will weigh on Mitt Romney come 2012
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Day By Day July 18, 2010 – Back to Me
Chris, the American people have seen Barack Obama as the emperor that has no clothes. This is why his poll numbers are in the crapper and why his party that just two years ago won super majorities in the Congress will lose BIG in November.You know what they say about fooling the people all of the time.
American voters understand.
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