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Bill Can Pass Senate With 51 Votes, Van Hollen Says Even if Democrats
lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator,
Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using a process called
reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
Sunstein
Attacks Second Amendment In a lecture at
the University School of Law on October 27, 2007, Obama’s administrator
of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs emphatically
stated that you do not have a right to own firearms.
Obama's
Favorite For Supreme Court Justice Sunstein Wants To Ban Guns, Free
Speech Cass Sunstein, president
Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, and the man who outlined a plan for the government to infiltrate
"conspiracy groups" in order to undermine them, is in direct
line for a promotion to Supreme Court Justice.
JP
Morgan reports big jump in profits
Banking giant JP Morgan Chase reported on Friday a big jump in net profit
to 3.27 billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2009, highlighting
renewed health in the troubled sector.
Paulson
Asked to Testify at AIG Bailout Hearing With Geithner Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been asked to
join his successor Timothy Geithner in testifying before a House
panel examining bailout payments to American International Group
Inc.’s trading partners.
'Even
Charles Manson could beat him now'
One year after his election, Barack Obama's approval rating is lower
at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. So why
has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly?
Possible
peacekeeping role for US troops in Haiti The US relief mission in Haiti remains focused
on saving lives but American troops could be called on to help keep
order if security deteriorates, officials said.
Easily
Hacked Voting Systems to be Used in MA Special Election for the
U.S. Senate
Next Tuesday's Special Election for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts
looks to be coming down to the wire. Surprising pundits in what
had previously been thought to be a cakewalk for State Attorney
General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate hoping to fill
the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, Republican state Senator
Scott Brown has come on strong in the final days of the campaign.
Poland's
Economy Is No Joke
Watching the world's leaders stumble their way through the economic
crisis, it often feels as if political success and economic understanding
are mutually exclusive.
National
Security: The Big Fraud
The handwringing about the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber
and the politicians' tiresome declarations that it will never happen
again miss the point: As long as the U.S. government pursues its
imperial program of invasion, regime change, occupation, and sponsorship
of corrupt governments in the Muslim world, Americans will be targets
for avengers. This does not excuse the killing of innocents -- it
merely points out an inevitable chain of events.
