Bishops Press Obama to Strike Provision on Abortion Funding
foxnews.com — A coalition of Christian leaders -- including New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan -- are putting heat on the White House to strike down any provision in the Senate's health care reform bill that allows abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans. (Submitted by bettverboten) More…
Utah Senator doesn’t want gays “stuffing it down his throat”
guyism.com — In something of a positive step for the gay person in Utah, Utah senator Chris Buttars has said he might support a bill giving gay people equal rights for jobs and non-marriage related things. His word phrasing of not wanting gays “stuffing it down [his] throat all the time and certainly in [his] kid’s face” leaves something to be desired. (Submitted by casspa) More…
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The $100 Million Health Care Vote? - The Note
blogs.abcnews.com — The health care bill includes a $100 million section for increasing medicaid subsidies to the state of Louisiana. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, and all latest political campaigning for the 2012 presidential race. Washington's first and most influential tipsheet, The (Submitted by ghengiskhan1) More…
$4.8 trillion ($4,800,000,000,000) = INTEREST on U.S. Debt
money.cnn.com — Here's a new way to think about the U.S. government's epic borrowing: More than half of the $9 trillion in debt that Uncle Sam is expected to build up over the next decade will be interest. More than half. In fact, $4.8 trillion. (Submitted by ChoosyMother) More…
D'oh: Palin Confuses Iraq and Iran in Hannity Interview
tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.… — During her interview with Sean Hannity that aired last night, Sarah Palin made an interesting declaration: That we need to prevent a Iranian Prez Ahmadinejad's Nuclear Ambitions by cracking down on "Iraq." (Submitted by mrjoshtpm) More…
Health Bill CBO Score: $849 Billion Over Next Decade
huffingtonpost.com — A preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Senate health care legislation finds that the bill will cost $849 billion over the next decade while covering 94 percent of eligible Americans, a Democratic leadership aide told reporters Wednesday afternoon. (Submitted by jsatz23) More…
Why cap-and-trade is ‘dead policy walking’
blogs.reuters.com — Publicly, Senate Democratic leaders say they are only pushing off debate and consideration of a comprehensive climate change bill until spring. But it is hard to get a major bill passed in a Democrat-controlled Senate when the Democratic majority leader of the Senate wants the bill to go away. (Submitted by Blinker1315) More…
CIA Torture Chamber Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
abcnews.go.com — The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week...the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could use harsh tactics to interrogate up to eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists at (Submitted by ChristPissed) More…
Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate
politicususa.com — In an interview with Newsmax, Sarah Palin floated Fox News host Glenn Beck's name as her running mate for 2012. Palin said, "But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He's a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way." Apparently, Palin's qualifications for a running mate include that they be a "hoot." (Submitted by capj71) More…
Slate's unauthorized index of Sarah Palin's autobiography, G
slate.com — When Sarah Palin's 413-page autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, hit stands Tuesday, readers discovered the governor's most mavericky move yetâ��that the book lacks an index. So Slate has compiled its own. Just print out this index, paste it into th (Submitted by troepke) More…
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