Monthly Archives: November 2010

NFL Week 13 Power Rankings: Jets, Patriots move up as Monday showdown looms, but Falcons still No. 1…

NFL Week 13 Power Rankings: Jets, Patriots move up as Monday showdown looms, but Falcons still No. 1…

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Virginia Judge Rejects Challenge to Health-Care Law……

Another challenge thrown out….

No big headlines…

Just another judge asserting the Federal Governments right to put this bill on the books…

Another small win for the people of America and their ability to have healthcare…

Amen…..

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Slurpee Summit…..Talkandpolitics….

Slurpee Summit….

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Wikileaks Update 11/30/10…..Arrest Warrant, Clinton resign? and The Death Penalty?

Wikileaks Update 11/30/10…..Arrest Warrant, Clinton resign? and The Death Penalty?

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The last of the Undecided races and Public feeling about ‘Don’t Ask’… from Fivethirtyeigth…

The last of the Undecided races and Public feeling about ‘Don’t Ask’… from Fivethirtyeigth…

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In Tax Cuts, the Options Run Short…..Bulls*#t!

If Obama and the Democrats want to draw a line in the sand….

This is the place…

This Dog refuses to believe that the Democrats should get rolled on this…….

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Abbreviated pundit round-up…..Dailykos 11/30/10…Ihhofe, Wikileaks, Capital Punishment, Carbon Tax, America 1st, “Secession Ball”, Earmark’s and Poor states

Abbreviated pundit round-up…..Dailykos 11/30/10…Ihhofe, Wikileaks, Capital Punishment, Carbon Tax, America 1st, “Secession Ball”, Earmark’s and Poor states

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Today in Congress…..11/30/10

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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Christine O’Donnell IS a Hillary Clinton fan….

As for 2012, “I love everybody in the Republican side who’s even considering throwing their hat in the ring, so I’d be happy with any candidate who gets the Republican nomination,” O’Donnell said Tuesday. And that includes Sarah Palin, who endorsed O’Donnell in her campaign, even though Palin “shoots from the hip.” But O’Donnell does like Hillary…..

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Updates on the Obama – GOP Summit at the White House….

Obama and his Republican adversaries both described the long-anticipated meeting as cordial and the beginning of a new dialogue between the two parties.

In comments after the meeting, Obama lamented the “political incentive” of balking at compromise in the “current, hyper-partisan climate.”“I was pleased to see several of my friends in the room say, ‘Let’s try not to duplicate that,’” Obama said following a longer-than-expected two-hour meeting.

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States Find a Rebound in Tax Receipts…..

orty-two states showed gains, with overall advances breaking down to $2.5 billion more in personal income taxes and $2 billion more in sales taxes. In dollar terms, New York reported the largest increase in total tax collection, up $577 million, or 4.5 percent…..

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Republican effort to ban earmarks fails in Senate…..

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had long opposed a ban, also voted to support the proposal Tuesday.

Some Republicans, such as James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, whose reelection remains contested in Alaska, voted against the motion.

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The Pentagon will release Don’t Ask report this afternoon…No surprises are expected….

The Pentagon’s long-awaited report on gays in the military concludes that repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” law would present only a low risk to the armed forces’ ability to carry out their mission, and that 70 percent of service members believe it would have little or no effect on their units, according to sources briefed on the report’s findings.

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Jeb: ‘You can’t shut down the government’…

“First of all, you can’t shut down the government. There are public safety, national security issues, that override a well-intended point……”

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Open Thread for the last day of November 2010…..

Open Thread for the last day of November 2010…..

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets……

When? Which bank? What documents? Cagey as always, Assange won’t say, so his claim is impossible to verify. But he has always followed through on his threats. Sitting for a rare interview in a London garden flat on a rainy November day, he compares what he is ready to unleash to the damning e-mails that poured out of the Enron trial: a comprehensive vivisection of corporate bad behavior.

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