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Here’s why Dems keep pushing ‘dead’ Obamacare despite growing public opposition

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Feb 282010
 

By: Mark Tapscott
Washington Examiner, February 28, 2010

For months, President Obama and his congressional Democratic allies led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have pushed forward with their radical plans to socialize American health care despite repeated public opinion surveys showing mounting public opposition.

Now, following the White House health care summit, Obama and company are pushing forward with their plan to ram Obamacare through Congress with bare minimum majorities made up entirely of Democrats. Continue reading »

Posted by DagnyTaggart at 6:21 pm  

Transformation

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Feb 282010
 

Andy McCarthy
National Review Online, February 28, 2010

On Sean’s panel last night, when the conversation turned to how nervous Democrats supposedly are over what for now is teeing up like a very bad November, I felt like I was channeling Mark Steyn, Mark Levin and Rush. That is, I think our side is analyzing this all wrong: Today’s Democrats are controlled by the radical Left, and it is more important to them to execute the permanent transformation of American society than it is to win the upcoming election cycles. They have already factored in losing in November — even losing big. For them, winning big now outweighs that. I think they’re right.

I hear Republicans getting giddy over the fact that “reconciliation,” if it comes to that, is a huge political loser. That’s the wrong way to look at it. The Democratic leadership has already internalized the inevitablility of taking its political lumps. That makes reconciliation truly scary. Since the Dems know they will have to ram this monstrosity through, they figure it might as well be as monstrous as they can get wavering Democrats to go along with. Clipping the leadership’s statist ambitions in order to peel off a few Republicans is not going to work. I’m glad Republicans have held firm, but let’s not be under any illusions about what that means. In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you’ve calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state. Continue reading »

Posted by DagnyTaggart at 6:15 pm  

Exclusive: New Obama Interrogation Unit Not Deployed to Question Captured Taliban Chief

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Feb 272010
 

Mark Hosenball
Newsweek/Declassified, February 27, 2010

Last summer, the Obama administration announced that, as a replacement for the Bush administration’s secret CIA terrorist detention and interrogation program, it would create a SWAT-style team of interrogation experts to travel the world squeezing terrorist suspects for vital information. Administration officials say that the interrogation unit, known as the HIG (for High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group) is now operational. But for reasons that are unclear, the administration has not deployed HIG personnel to question Afghan Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arguably the most important terrorist suspect captured since the detention of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in spring of 2003.

Mullah Baradar was captured by Pakistani security forces in Karachi earlier this month following a tip-off from U.S. intelligence about a planned meeting involving some of his cohorts; as we reported, U.S. officials have acknowledged that Baradar’s arrest was a lucky break, since the intelligence tip-off did not indicate he would be present at the meeting. As we also reported, some sources say that U.S. intelligence personnel in Pakistan, who are believed to include both CIA and military counterterrorism experts, were not given access to Baradar until more than a week after his capture. Obama administration officials now say that Baradar is talking a little, that U.S. personnel in Pakistan do have access to him, and that any intelligence that has been squeezed out of him has been shared with American representatives. Continue reading »

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It Can’t Be True: More on that Missile Defense Agency logo

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Feb 272010
 

by Frank Gaffney
BigGovernment.com, February 27, 2010

MDA new logoIn a post here Wednesday, under the headline “Can This Possibly Be True?,” I called attention to a “new” logo being used by the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the grounds that it bore a disconcerting resemblance to an amalgamation of the Obama campaign’s logo and the symbols of Islam, the crescent and a single star.   It turns out the answer is “no,” it isn’t true that the MDA’s logo is exactly new or, apparently, that it reflects an Obama-directed redesign.

We have since learned that the logo has been used at the MDA website since at least October 2009.   Matters are made more confusing by the fact that the agency continues to use its older shield-like logo for online and other purposes.  The contract for a complete rebranding for MDA was let in 2007, during the Bush administration, although much of the work appears to have been done in 2008 in follow-on contracts during the presidential campaign in which the Obama logo was much in evidence. Continue reading »

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Another Puzzle in Iran After Nuclear Fuel Is Moved

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Feb 262010
 

By DAVID E. SANGER
The New York Times, February 26, 2010

WASHINGTON — When Iran was caught last September building a secret, underground nuclear enrichment plant at a military base near the city of Qum, the country’s leaders insisted they had no other choice. With its nuclear facilities under constant threat of attack, they said, only a fool would leave them out in the open.

So imagine the surprise of international inspectors almost two weeks ago when they watched as Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. It was as if, one official noted, a bull’s-eye had been painted on it.

Why take such a huge risk? Continue reading »

Posted by DagnyTaggart at 6:38 pm  

Top Stories February 26, 2010

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Feb 262010
 

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Another Puzzle in Iran After Nuclear Fuel Is Moved

MDA Says Logo Designed Three Years Ago

Joe Biden’s Deceptive Celebration

Theodore Roosevelt, Big-Government Man

“Bending the Curve”: What Really Drives Health Care Spending

The Economy Keeps Getting Worse, While Washington Fiddles

Explosives Theft Qualifies As Near-Miss for USA

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Posted by DagnyTaggart at 3:40 pm  

More…Feb 26, 2010

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Feb 262010
 

‘The People United Will Never be Defeated’: Inside ACORN’s Community Organizing Model

For liberals, the filibuster is now the enemy ~ George Will

Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund
The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program.

Dems’ Sneak Attack on CIA Fails
While our attention was elsewhere, the Democratic Party launched a disgraceful sneak attack against our intelligence professionals. The Democrats attempted to subject anyone who interrogates a terrorist in a less than gentle manner–for example, by “exploiting the phobias of the individual,” which refers to the notorious caterpillar in the cell–to 15 years’ imprisonment.

Libya’s Gaddafi urges ‘holy war’ against Switzerland

‘Mitch the knife’ eyes 2012 run
After months of Shermanesque denials, Indiana GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels’ admission that he’s now willing to consider a White House run has roused his long-standing, if unofficial, fan club. Republican admirers from Washington, Indiana and elsewhere, hoping to encourage their favorite Hoosier, are out in force to make the case that a balding, blunt, unprepossessing, listed-at-5-foot-7 policy wonk would be a strong contender to take on President Barack Obama.

George Soros, the Democrats, and the Little Guy
In the case of George Soros, the rich really do get rich while the poor get poorer. Let me count the ways hedge fund billionaire has enriched himself through his trading “strategies.” Years ago, he broke the Bank of England by wagering against the British pound — pressuring it in such a way that the England had to devalue the pound. His first billion-dollar payday. Various ploys over the years enriched him further. Then he made billions by wagering that the housing and mortgage markets would collapse in America

January home sales fall 7.2%, median price unchanged

Shhhhh, Don’t Tell Anyone — The Patriot Act Was Reauthorized

Obama Names SEIU’s Stern to Deficit Commission

‘Czar’ Seeks to End “Biology Based Restrooms” in Maine Schools; Sees Goals in Reach

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Explosives Theft Qualifies As Near-Miss for USA

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Feb 262010
 

by Bob McCarty
BigGovernment.com, February 26, 2010

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Imagine tons of explosives being stolen in Mexico and then transported by truck across the border into the United States. Could it happen? Over the weekend, it did. Almost.

On Friday, according to an article in the Latin American Herald Tribune, 18 tons of industrial explosives were stolen from a cargo container during a robbery along the Monterrey-Saltillo Highway in the northern Mexico state of Nuevo Leon. According to subsequent reports, Mexican officials located and recovered the stolen explosives within hours. The thieves, however, remain at large.

But should Americans rest easy now? Not after this near-miss event. Continue reading »

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