Nov 06, 2009 -
Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York
By Bill Berkrot (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.
Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.
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Oct 08, 2009 -
I saw this and thought it was interesting. I'm not sure what the truthfulness is.
About 6 months ago I was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest.
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Oct 07, 2009 -
by Christian Toto
10/07/09
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33858
The Koran, the holiest book of the Islamic faith, often comes up when the subject turns to terrorism.
But does the public, or even our highest elected officials, for that matter, understand what’s in the text itself? And, more importantly, any connections between radical Islam and the Koran?The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer helps decode and decipher the holy text in a way that’s both illuminating and hard to ignore.
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Sep 09, 2009 -
WHO SET UP GOVERNMENT ‘PROPAGANDA’ CONFERENCE CALL? Newly Revealed White House, NEA Audio Contradict by Patrick Courrielche
Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues.
Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com, posted her experience with a meeting that occurred on August 27th and confessed that she also felt “uneasy” about the government’s arts effort.
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Sep 04, 2009 -
School speech backlash builds
By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON
School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address Tuesday – forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation’s classrooms.
The White House says Obama’s address is a sort of pep talk for the nation’s schoolchildren. But conservative commentators have criticized Obama for trying to “indoctrinate” students to his liberal beliefs, and some parents call it an improper mix of politics and education.
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Sep 02, 2009 -
Republicans in Congress have raised the specter of a bloated, "socialized," bureaucrat-run nightmare of a health care system as a means of undermining the White House's effort at a systematic overhaul. And yet, as Democratic sources are now pointing out, when medical crisis hit close to home, many of these same officials turned to a government-run hospital for their own intensive care and difficult surgeries.
Take, for instance, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who warned that "a government takeover of health care" would "take away the care that people already have [and] are perfectly satisfied with."
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Aug 18, 2009 -
JERUSALEM – Former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there should be no Palestinian state in the West Bank and endorsed Israeli settlements there, sharply disagreeing with Washington and much of the world.
A three-day tour of Israel, hosted by a far-right group of religious nationalists, is taking Huckabee to some of the most contentious hotspots in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict including a West Bank settlement outpost that even Israel's hard-line government considers illegal and an east Jerusalem housing project that the Obama administration has demanded be halted.
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May 29, 2009 -
PUBLCI POST
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BLOG TEEN'S SUPREME IRE
RIPS SONIA AS A FOE OF FREE SPEECH
By JENNIFER FERMINO
BATTLE: Avery Doninger was barred from holding student office over a blog vulgarity, and Sonia Sotomayor backed the girl'sConnecticut school.
A Connecticut teen who used a vulgar epithet on a personal blog to describe her school's administrators never imagined someone like Sonia Sotomayor would stand in the way of her student-government career.
But the Supreme Court nominee did just that last year, when she sided with school brass, which had barred the ambitious student from holding office over the offending blog entry.
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May 21, 2009 -
Limbaugh blasts Powell attack
From CNN's Lauren Kornreich
Rush Limbaugh criticized Colin Powell as being part of the 'stale, the old, the worn-out GOP.'
(CNN) - Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh escalated their war of words on Wednesday, with the talk radio host calling the former Secretary of State part of the "stale, the old, the worn-out GOP that never won anything."
The comments came hours after Powell fired back at Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney over recent remarks questioning his GOP credentials.
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May 16, 2009 -
Utah GOP governor is Obama's pick as China envoy
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer Darlene Superville, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama reached across the political divide Saturday and named Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a potential GOP White House contender in 2012 and top John McCain supporter, to the sensitive diplomatic post of U.S. ambassador to China.
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