President Signals Flexibility on Health Plan Tax

  By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Published: January 11, 2010

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The machinists’ union announced Monday that its executive council had unanimously voted to oppose any health bill that was financed by taxing the value of workers’ existing health plans, and the general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, Harold A. Schaitberger, accused Mr. Obama of abandoning his campaign promise not to tax the middle class.

Read more : NY Times

America’s new surgeon general says jibes that she is overweight were ‘hurtful’

By David Gardner
Last updated at 10:34 PM on 11th January 2010

 America’s new top doctor has said that she found jibes that she was overweight ‘very hurtful.’

Critics claimed Dr Regina Benjamin’s appointment as U.S. Surgeon General was sending the wrong message in a country where 34 per cent of Americans aged 20 and over are obese.

Dr Benjamin, who was sworn in today, admitted she is battling the scales

Read more: Daily Mail UK

Obama Nominee to Head TSA Names Groups that are “Christian-Identity Oriented” as Potential Danger – Video

Monday, January 11, 2010

Here is video of President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) – Errol Southers – saying he worries about the danger posed by groups that are “Christian-Identity Oriented.” He does not explain what he means by that.

Southers also mentions groups that are “anti-Government,” “anti-abortionist,” and with a “survivalist mentality.”

He never mentions any concern for groups or individuals that have a strong “Muslim-identity,” even though virtually ever terror attack – or attempted terror attack – has been carried out by Islamic Jihadists

Read more: Freedom’s Lighthouse

Media Homosexuals Bash Uganda’s Christians

 |  By Cliff Kincaid  |  January 8, 2010

The Washington Post editorial page has now joined lesbian MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow in blasting the government of Uganda for considering a law to protect children from homosexual predators and the dangerous public health impact of the homosexual lifestyle. Despite its moderate views on some foreign policy issues, the Post has always come down firmly on the side of making homosexuality into a special right that should be protected and even glorified by governmental institutions. Now it wants to impose that view on Uganda’s mostly Christian population

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Health Care Overhaul Bill Is ‘Hanging by a Thread’: Dodd

Published: Monday, 11 Jan 2010 | 2:48 PM ET

By: CNBC.com

Health care reform is “hanging on by a thread,” and one or two votes could determine the outcome of the heavily-debated bill, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd told CNBC Monday.

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“Everyone feels, I guess, to some degree who have been for this, that they would have liked something different, and that’s not uncommon when you’re considering an issue of this magnitude,” Dodd said

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Obama Ally Code Pink Invites Muslim Brotherhood: ‘Join Us In Cleansing Our Country’

by Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King

Fresh on the heels of their Hamas-protected trip to Gaza, the so-called feminist, American antiwar group Code Pink, co-founded by top Obama funder Jodie Evans, is running banner advertisements on the English language version of the official Web site of a terrorist sympathizing group, the Muslim Brotherhood, one of which invites the Muslim Brotherhood to “join us in cleansing our country

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Kevin Jennings Funded “Gay” Prize at Harvard; Helped Radicalize University

“Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings has gone beyond corrupting and radicalizing K-12 school children through his organization GLSEN. He also convinced the useful idiots at Harvard University to put that institution’s imprimatur on his sexual radicalism at the college level.

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Muslims Burn Protestant Church in Algeria

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Islamists looted and burned a Protestant church in Algeria, the congregation’s leader said Monday, suggesting they were inspired by a recent wave of religious intolerance in the Arab and Muslim world

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Scientific Facts and ClimateGate

By Ken Johnson | Monday, January 11, 2010
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The e-mails revealed there has been an organized “cabal” of politicians and others calling themselves “Climate Scientists” who for years have been supplying falsified global temperature data to the UN to promote their efforts at worldwide wealth redistribution through CO2 emission rationing and taxing schemes, such as the US’s upcoming ‘Cap and Trade’ (industrial CO2 generation allotments), with a tax on all CO2 releases.  Following the first announcement that their scheme had been uncovered by the e-mails, the major players were on the Internet commanding file deletions, hard drive erasures, and demanding prosecution of those responsible for the releases.  This whole episode was dubbed by some journalist as “Climategate”.  It has been an example of the radical environmentalists demanding the ‘foot’ must be made to fit the ‘shoe’

Read more: ECN Magazine

Rep. Peterson says he’d vote against climate bill despite winning concessions

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But now Peterson says that despite the concessions, he would vote “no” if the bill or something like it comes back through the House.

“First of all, this isn’t going anyplace in the Senate,” Peterson told a conservative talk radio show based in North Dakota, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But if it did and we ended up with a bill that was similar to what came out of the House and that was going to become law, I would vote no.”

The story notes that a Peterson defection could sink the bill because he’s influential among rural Democrats

Read more: The Hill