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    links for 2010-11-12

    • Democrats think they know how to run the insurance industry better than the insurance industry, and they're getting the chance to prove it under ObamaCare. Consider the early returns on its plan to insure Americans denied coverage for pre-existing conditions.

      To judge by President Obama's rhetoric, the insurance industry's victims have been wandering the country like Okies in "The Grapes of Wrath." Thus ObamaCare gave the Health and Human Services Department the power to design and sell its own insurance policies. The $5 billion program started in July and runs through 2014, when ObamaCare's broader regulations kick in.
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      (tags: Obamacare)
    • As an RNC member, the choice is yours as the outcome will be determined, in large part, by which party has the resources and the organizational program to prevail.

      If you believe that what we have seen at the RNC the past two years is good enough to provide us a victory in 2012 then by all means you should stick with our current leadership and direction.

      But if you agree with me that victory in 2012 requires a new set of priorities and new leadership I hope you will consider supporting my candidacy for RNC Chairman.
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      Will Michael Steele run for a second term?

    • Kentucky Republican Senator-elect Rand Paul is already making waves in Washington, D.C. with plans to organize either a Senate or bicameral Tea Party Caucus
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      Paul said he’s been chatting with several people from Kentucky about laying down a communications blueprint to keep the grassroots Tea Partiers nationwide in touch with their newly elected senators and representatives about what’s going on inside the Beltway. Paul told The Daily Caller he plans to start by forming a “nucleus” of conservative senators and then reach out to colleagues in the House.
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    • Tea Party Patriots (TPP), a national umbrella organization of local Tea Party groups, is asking its members to call Republican senators and demand that they agree in a caucus vote next Tuesday to forgo all earmarks in the upcoming Congress. In an e-mail to their 134,000 online members headlined, "Our first battle with the newly empowered GOP," the group's national coordinators single out for phone calls the two highest-ranking Republicans in the Senate, among others.
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      As they should
  • Sarah Palin

    David Kernell: Sarah Palin E-mail Hacker Sentenced to One Year in Custody

    David Kernell, left, leaves the federal courthouse in Knoxville, Tenn., with his attorney Wade Davies Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. Kernell was a University of Tennessee student majoring in economics when prosecutors say he hacked into the Yahoo! e-mail account Palin sometimes used for state business

    You remember the FLAP.

    Well, today the Sarah Palin e-mail hacker was sentenced to a year in custody.

    David Kernell, the former Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, was sentenced on Friday to one year in custody.

    Kernell, 22, was convicted earlier this year of misdemeanor computer intrusion and a felony count of obstruction of justice. The jury found him not guilty of a wire-fraud charge and hung on a fourth charge for identity theft, after four days of deliberating.

    The convictions carried a maximum sentence of 20 years in custody and a possible fine of up to $250,000. Federal sentencing guidelines recommend a sentence of between 15 and 21 months in prison. The government was seeking 18 months, but Kernell’s attorney asked the court to forgo a prison sentence and give his client probation instead.

    Kernell was sentenced to one year and one day in custody and three years of probation. Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips recommended that his sentence be served in a halfway house in Tennessee, although his destination will be determined by the federal Bureau of Prisons. The judge also recommended that Kernell get mental health treatment. According to court filings, Kernell had suffered from depression since the age of 11.

    Yeah. Yeah David Kernell is depressed and an idiot to boot.

    Should he serve hard time in jail?

    Probably not but he should be punished and will be.

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  • Day By Day,  Tea Party

    Day By Day November 12, 2010 – Drive

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, American voters helped by patriots from the Tea Party movement wrested control of the House from the LEFT and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The GOP almost captured the Senate but there will be a number of Democrats and Republican Senators who are up for re-election in 2012 who will heed well the election results of 2010. Plus, there will be new conservative Representatives and Senators who will pave the way (Marco Rubio and Rand Paul come to mind).

    As far as earmarks and profligate spending is concerned. Forget about it.

    Americans have grown tired of tax and spend and DEBT.

    POLS who pork barrel spend like the old days will be retired at their next election – bet the farm on it.

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