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Will the Dems pass Health Care via Reconciliation?

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Obama and the L-Word

March 10, 2010

Here’s how predictable the president’s slippery relationship with the truth has become: Hours before the State of the Union address, Washington Examiner reporter Timothy P. Carney posted a “pre-emptive fact check” that, among other things, prebutted any presidential claim to have “stopped the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying.” As it happened, that night Barack Obama made an even bolder (read: less truthful) claim: that “we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.”

Same-Sex Couples Begin Saying 'I Do' in Washington

March 9, 2010

Dozens of same-sex couples made a historic walk down the aisle in Washington Tuesday as gay marriage became legal in the nation's capital.

Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Recruiting Violent Jihadist Fighters

March 9, 2010

A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "JihadJane" has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.

Chris Matthews Agrees: Yeah, There's Some Racism Involved In Why Israelis Don't Like Obama.

March 9, 2010

Keep in mind that he is IN Israel while agreeing with the racism assertion. It’s been a busy night for Matthews. He also let us in on his belief that ’Cheney Is Like Brando In Superman Putting Liz In A Capsule Because His World Is Ending.‘

VIDEO: ACORN Workers, Citizens Face Voter Fraud Charges From '08 Campaign

March 9, 2010

"Miles stated they were 'all hoodlums' working for ACORN and they all had criminal histories, and that they were going to 'do whatever they had to do' to be able to gain their money at the end of each day."

Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B

March 9, 2010

President Obama, making his final push for health care reform, pitched his proposal Monday to a crowd in Pennsylvania with a deficit-reduction figure that the White House later admitted missed the mark.

Seven Muslims arrested over 'plot to kill cartoonist'

March 9, 2010

Seven Muslims were arrested in the Irish Republic today over an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, police said.

Biden urges Israel to take risks for peace

March 9, 2010

JERUSALEM — Vice President Joseph Biden has told Israel that the U.S. is willing to stand by those who will "take risks for peace."

U.S. and Russia in final push to clinch new START treaty

March 9, 2010

U.S. and Russian arms control officials begin on Tuesday what both sides hope will be a final push to clinch a treaty cutting their strategic nuclear arsenals, officials said.

Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric

March 9, 2010

THE CASE for global-warming alarmism is melting faster than those mythical disappearing Himalayan glaciers, but Al Gore isn’t backing down.

Local News

Florida Joblessness at Highest Level Since At Least 1975

Records Only Go Back That Far

25 Thousand Jobs Coming to Florida

Federal Money to Pay Most of Wages

15 Year Old Gets Life in Prison for Violent Spree

Already Doing Hard Time for Another Violent Crime

Changes Coming to Troubled St. Pete Middle School

Superintendent Addresses Problems After Dozens of Students Arrested

Bill Banning "Texting While Driving" Clears House Committee

Makes It a Secondary Offense

Seminole House Heavily Damaged in Morning Fire

Two Residents Get Out Unhamred

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CALIFORNIA NHTSA to inspect runaway Prius EL CAJON | A Toyota Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway was towed to a dealership Tuesday while federal and company inspectors converged on the car to determine whether a stuck gas pedal was to blame. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent two investigators to examine the car after Monday's incident, said Olivia Alair, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation, which oversees NHTSA. Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Brian Lyons said the automaker is sending three of its own technicians to investigate. James Sikes, 61, of Jacumba, told authorities ...

DONATELLI: States experimenting with creating new jobs

ANALYSIS/OPINION: If we are to believe government experts and liberal academics, Americans must accept high unemployment and slow economic growth "for the foreseeable future." Fortunately, many states are experimenting with economic policies and strategies designed to create jobs and raise economic activity by strengthening the private sector and targeting investment and resources to make labor markets function more smoothly. What are some of these policy initiatives that conservative governors across the country are supporting? First, and most obvious, states must restore fiscal discipline to their budgeting and tax policies. Numbers don't lie. States with high rates of taxation and large ...

Gardens crop up in war zones

Gardening can be comforting — even therapeutic — for troops trying to shake the stresses of war. There's a long history of soldiers growing plants in the extreme conditions of a war zone. "Trench Gardens" produced needed food as well as healing diversion for soldiers mired in the muck on both sides of the Western Front in World War I. American prisoners of war cultivated "barbed-wire gardens" to augment starvation rations and provide some mental escape during World War II. Most recently, such "defiant gardens" have cropped up at isolated combat outposts in Iraq and Afghanistan, much as they did ...

Skilled chef interns offer meals on wheels

MIAMI | Culinary student Solomon Nerio could be slaving away on the line in any Miami restaurant, chopping onions with a dozen other chefs. Instead, he took to the road in a food truck that serves Latin-influenced burgers and tacos. It's a career path mostly unavailable to young chefs not so long ago. But the recent popularity of food trucks like the shiny black one where Mr. Nerio interns (called "the latin burger and taco truck") has opened new avenues for those looking to break out earlier rather than later in their careers. "One thing that we're doing is we're ...

TV staffer pleads guilty in Letterman case

NEW YORK | A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night host's affairs with staffers, avoiding a long prison sentence by pleading guilty in exchange for six months in jail and community service. Robert "Joe" Halderman, 52, entered the plea in a Manhattan court to attempted grand larceny after being accused of demanding $2 million to keep quiet about the late-night comic's workplace love life. Halderman, a producer for CBS' "48 Hours Mystery," had mined information from reading his then-girlfriend's diary entries about her relationship with Mr. Letterman, her ...

Ga. bill would outlaw abortion for race, sex

A Georgia bill that would outlaw abortions based on race, color or sex is fueling arguments over whether abortion providers are targeting black women. The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act would apply to abortion "the same standards of nondiscrimination" that govern employment, education, government and housing, said Georgia state Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican who introduced the bill last month with bipartisan support. If enacted, the bill would make it illegal to knowingly solicit, perform or accept funding for race- or sex-selected abortions. The bill has a hearing set for Wednesday before the Judiciary Non-Civil Committee. The Radiance Foundation has been raising ...

World News

7 nabbed over Swedish cartoonist plot

DUBLIN (AP) -- Police in Ireland on Tuesday arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. Irish police said four men and three women were detained in raids across the south of the country. The force says the arrests were part of an investigation into a "conspiracy to murder an individual in another jurisdiction." The force offered the statement in response to a question about Lars Vilks, whom Britain's Press Association news agency identified as the target. Police said the suspects were aged from their ...

Feds to probe runaway Prius in Calif.

EL CAJON, California — A Toyota Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway was towed to a dealership Tuesday while federal and company inspectors converged on the car to determine whether a stuck gas pedal was to blame. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent two investigators to examine the car after Monday's incident, said Olivia Alair, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation, which oversees NHTSA. Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Brian Lyons said the automaker is sending three of its own technicians to investigate. James Sikes, 61, told authorities that the accelerator malfunctioned Monday as he ...

Chile quake moved cities roughly 10 feet

WASHINGTON — The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit. Thanks to GPS, scientists at Ohio State University and the University of Hawaii found that the city of Concepcion moved at least 10 feet to the west. It is the nearest major city to last month's quake, Chile's capital, Santiago, moved just shy of a foot, and even Buenos Aires, in Argentina, moved an inch. The Falkland Islands also went a tad west. Researcher Ben Brooks said this happens with every quake, but usually it is too small ...

Bali blasts' mastermind may have died in raid

JAKARTA, Indonesia | A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings may have been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe Tuesday moments after sitting at a terminal, authorities said. DNA tests were under way to confirm his identity. Dulmatin, a 39-year-old Indonesian trained by al Qaeda in Afghanistan who goes by one name, is wanted in the suicide bombings that tore through two Bali nightclubs popular with Westerners, killing 202 people in Indonesia's deadliest terrorist attack. He has been one of Southeast Asia's most wanted fugitives and was thought to have fled ...

Biden slams Israel's plan to build new settlements

JERUSALEM | Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday condemned a new Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed East Jerusalem, casting a cloud over a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kick-starting Middle East peace talks. Israel's Interior Ministry said late Tuesday that it had approved construction of 1,600 new apartments, an embarrassing setback for Mr. Biden after a day of warm meetings with top Israeli officials. Mr. Biden issued a harshly worded statement several hours later criticizing the Israeli move, saying its timing was especially troubling by ...

Checkpoint misery: Palestinians grind to reach jobs

QALANDIA CROSSING, West Bank | The journey to Jerusalem, for tens of thousands of Palestinians, begins in a dank, trash-strewn hangar. They move through cagelike passages and 7-foot-high turnstiles to be checked by Israeli soldiers from behind bulletproof glass. The soldiers often yell at them through loudspeakers. They are supposed to work in pairs to speed the lines through, but sometimes one of them is asleep, his feet on his desk. The Qalandia crossing, the Israelis say, is where potential attackers are filtered out before they can reach Jerusalem on the other side. Palestinians say it's a daily humiliation they ...

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