Obama Seeks to Restore Stimulus Cutbacks

February 11, 2009

WASHINGTON — The White House is seeking to restore funding cut by the Senate for schools, health insurance and computerizing health records as the economic-stimulus plan headed into a final round of negotiations in Congress, with top lawmakers struggling to bring the price of the two-year package down to $800 billion.

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Geithner Can't Find Silver Bullet

February 11, 2009

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — That’s it? That’s all Geithner had to offer? It is amazing that this far into the financial crisis, we are still stumbling along, still so reluctant to tackle the problems facing the financial system and the economy.

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19 Killed in Kabul Attacks

February 11, 2009

KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the Justice Ministry and another government building in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing 19 people ahead of a planned visit by President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the region.

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Will Geert Wilders be Arrested at Heathrow?

February 11, 2009

This morning Lord Malcolm Pearson, a member of the British House of Lords, announced that he has invited Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, to show the movie Fitna (see it here) in a committee room of the House of Lords next Thursday (12 February). Mr. Wilders has been asked to address a […]

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Merrill Secretly Moved Up Bonus Payments

February 11, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Merrill Lynch secretly accelerated bonus payments and gave at least $1 million to each of nearly 700 employees as the brokerage was amassing billions of dollars of losses, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in a letter to Rep. Barney Frank.

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Paglia: A Rocky Start

February 11, 2009

Money by the barrelful, by the truckload. Mountains of money, heaped like gassy pyramids in the national dump. Scrounging packs of politicos, snapping, snarling and sending green bills flying sky-high as they root through the tangled mass with ragged claws. The stale hot air filled with cries of rage, the gnashing of teeth and dark […]

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LA: Jindal Health Care Reform in Limbo

February 11, 2009

Federal action on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s health-care proposal likely won’t come until after the 2009 legislative session, Louisiana’s health chief said Tuesday. The Jindal administration had planned to push legislation to implement the revamp.

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Help the Environment: Stay Away From It

February 11, 2009

Do you really want to be good to the environment? Stay away from it. Move to high-rise apartments surrounded by plenty of concrete. Americans who settle in leafy, low-density suburbs will leave a significantly deeper carbon footprint, it turns out, than Americans who live cheek by jowl in urban towers.

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Leahy's "Truth Commission" Gains Support

February 11, 2009

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has really started something. He reportedly brought his idea for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the White House Tuesday, talking with President Obama’s new White House Counsel Greg Craig about the proposal. “I went over some of the parameters of it and they were well aware at […]

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Rasmussen: Generic Congressional Ballot Even

February 11, 2009

Are Republicans winning the public relations battle over spending in the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus package? Democrats and Republicans are nearly even in this week’s edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

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