POLL: CONGRESS LESS POPULAR THAN OBAMA

Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com (AP)--

OBAMA APPROVAL INDEX: -21

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Rasmussen Reports--

TOYOTA DEALERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST ‘PREDATORY TACTICS’ BY GM DEALERS

The head of the Toyota National Dealer Council today blasted the federal government for using ‘taxpayer dollars’ to fund incentive campaigns to lure customers away from Toyota, and accused GM of using ‘fear’ in an attempt to lure away its customers, 1200 WOAI news reports.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--News Radio WAOI--

BRIT MEDICAL RECORDS GO ONLINE WITHOUT CONSENT

Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--UK Telegraph--

CONGRESSMAN CONYER’S WIFE GETS 37 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR TAKING BRIBES

DETROIT - A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers’ request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Breitbart.com--

PELOSI’S PIG IN A POKE

“[W]e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it…”

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Speaker Nancy Pelosi--

55 PERCENT THINK OBAMA SHOULD ‘START OVER’ ON HEALTH CARE REFORM, POLL FINDS

A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 55 percent of Americans think that Congress should throw the current health care plan out and start fresh, suggesting that President Obama’s demand that Congress pass his reform proposal has failed to sway the public.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

VOTERS TRUST GOP MORE THAN DEMOCRATS ON 8 OUT OF 10 ISSUES

Republicans appear to be winning the battle of ideas, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey of American voters that found the GOP is trusted more than Democrats on eight out of 10 policy issues.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

WHITE HOUSE STILL CHECKING ON SESTAK’S ALLEGATION OF JOB OFFER TO NOT RUN AGAINST SPECTER

Two weeks after promising to check on the matter, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs still did not have an answer to the charge by former Navy admiral and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Rep. Joe Sestak that the Obama administration offered him a job in exchange for abandoning his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

CENSUS DATA NOT SO CONFIDENTIAL AFTER ALL

This “mission creep” for the Census thus pushes up against a level of discomfort no amount of advertising dollars can likely assuage. Many will no doubt choose to follow former Senate majority leader Trent Lott’s advice to skip any Census questions they feel violates their privacy--“which may well include any exceeding the Constitution’s mandate for an ”actual Enumeration."

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Independent Institute--

NOT ALL CRIME VICTIMS PLEASED WITH FLA. HOUSE SPEAKER’S BILL TO KEEP 911 CALLS OFF THE AIR

TALLAHASSEE - Peggy Lee and her husband, Mark, cried last week for two days straight.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Palm Beach Post--

U.S. CONSIDERS SOME ‘FREE’ WIRELESS BROADBAND SERVICE

WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Yahoo! News (Reuters)--

FACING DISMAL POLL NUMBERS, REID WELCOMES THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES IN SENATE RACE

Facing dismal poll numbers in his home state, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has devised a re-election strategy: welcome third party candidates who can split the opposition in the uphill battle to hold on to his U.S. Senate seat.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Fox News--

EU SHUTS DOOR ON TERROR INVESTIGATORS

The European Parliament has tossed a roadblock in front of U.S. efforts to track international bank transfers to determine whether they are being used to finance terror, even though the monitoring of such transfers averted a possible terrorist attack in Germany, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

HARVARD POLL OF YOUNG VOTERS SHOULD WORRY DEMOCRATS

Harvard’s Institute of Politics released the latest results from its ongoing survey of young adults this morning, and they don’t look good for Democrats. As in the rest of the population, President Obama remains personally popular (56 percent approval), but support for his individual initiatives, like health-care reform, is much weaker. Only 38 percent of young people (defined as 18- to 29-year-olds) approve of the president’s handling of the deficit, and a majority disapprove of his economic management (51 percent) and his work on health care (53 percent).

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Newsweek Blogs--

‘SILVER BULLET’ FROM U.S. STATES KILLS ‘MANDATORY’ OBAMACARE

At least 36 state legislatures are considering legislation that would allow citizens to opt out of a key component of President Obama’s health-care “reform” - an “individual mandate” requiring that all Americans have health insurance.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

THE ANOINTED ONE‘S NEXT TARGET: ANGLERS

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--ESPN--

CALIFORNIA ‘WATCHDOG’ SEES CLIMATE POLICY JOB LOSSES

California is likely to see modest job losses in the near term from its aggressive climate change policy due to higher energy costs and other factors, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office said.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Yahoo! News--

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: SCENE AT STATE OF UNION ‘VERY TROUBLING’

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.”

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Google News (AP)--

COURT TO RULE IN MILITARY FUNERAL PROTEST CASE

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the [putatively] anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers.”

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com (AP)--

TWO FORMER ACORN WORKERS FACE VOTER FRAUD CHARGES FROM ‘08 CAMPAIGN

MADISON, Wis. - Two former ACORN workers are accused of repeatedly trying to register the same voters during a Milwaukee drive to meet quotas set by the organization.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com (AP)--

SENATE ARMED SERVICES CHAIRMAN DID NOT KNOW THAT BILL HE IS SPONSORING WOULD LEGALIZE BISEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE MILITARY

Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) did not know that a bill he is co-sponsoring with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I.-Conn.) to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the military would also legalize both homosexual and bisexual activity among military personnel.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

ROMNEY: OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE PLAN ‘MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL’

Former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tells Newsmax that America needs to change course or face the “unthinkable consequences” of its decline.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

DEMOCRATS’ POLL: 60% SAY U.S. ON WRONG TRACK

WASHINGTON - A new poll on Monday found signs of trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and his Democrats on national security issues such as the handling of terrorism suspects.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com (Reuters)--

VA. HEALTH BILL COULD FOIL OBAMA PROPOSAL

RICHMOND - Here in the former capital of the Old Confederacy, where resistance to the supremacy of federal law has a long and tortuous history, a new battle is being waged over a question that could undercut a key part of President Obama’s health care proposal: whether Washington can require that most Americans have health insurance.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--Boston Globe--

U.S. MUSLIM LEADERS FORBID AID TO TROOPS

American Muslims are banned from helping U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and other “Muslim lands,” according to a shocking fatwa, or religious decree, recently issued by American-based Islamic jurists.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

BILL GATES: USE VACCINES TO LOWER POPULATION

One of the world’s wealthiest men and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has suggested vaccines as one method of reducing the world’s population.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

OBAMA SEEKS TO VILIFY HEALTH INSURERS, GIVE THEM $336 BILLION CHECK

President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform [sic] effort.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--ABC News--

POLL SHOWS OBAMA, DEMS LOSING GROUND

A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--Washington Times--

CDC: U.S. HERPES RATES REMAIN HIGH

WASHINGTON, March 9 - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Reuters--

SHOWS WITH HOMOS COULD LOSE FLORIDA TAX CREDIT

MIAMI - Florida lawmakers are considering a “family friendly” bill that would deny tax credits to films and television shows with gay characters in favour of those promoting traditional values.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Google News (AFP)--

STUPAK CAVING ON ABORTION

Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com (AP)--

CONGRESSMAN: ‘STUPAK CORRECT’ ON SENATE BILL

GOP’s Pitts: Lacks ‘statutory provisions to prohibit government funding of abortions.’

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--WND Radio America--

BARRON’S: WASHINGTON POST INVESTIGATED BY THE DEPT. OF EDUCATION

Call it a conflict of interest or what you will - but how should The Washington Post handle formal inquiries into its business practices as it pertains to news coverage?

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsBusters.org--

VICIOUS PAYBACK FOR MASSA: NASTY LEAKS

Not two hours before Rep. Massa was to appear on Fox News’ Glenn Beck show Tuesday, new, leaked details of his ethics probe were hitting the Washingtonpost.com website.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

MASSA FUMBLES IN GLENN BECK INTERVIEW

Fox News host Glenn Beck apologized to his viewers for “wasting your time” Tuesday after an interview in which former New York Rep. Eric Massa seemingly backtracked on his allegations that he was forced to resign over his opposition to Obamacare.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

SENATE STAFFERS WARNED TO STAY CLEAR OF DRUDGE REPORT

The Senate’s official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com “are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate,” according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Fox News--

FOCUS DENIES DOBSON ‘PUSHED OUT’ OF RADIO

Focus on the Family denied allegations by a high-profile ally that its founder, Dr. James Dobson, was “pushed” out of his 33-year-old radio program as part of the ministry’s alleged effort to become more acceptable to mainstream society.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

LATEST COVER OF WORLDNETWEEKLY FIRES UP BLOGOSPHERE

The adjectives used to promote WorldNetWeekly - WND’s latest innovation - ring ever more accurately as the online news magazine’s latest cover is currently igniting emotion and outrage across blog posts and online forums.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

OBAMA LAUNCHING CIVIL-RIGHTS PROBES IN SCHOOLS

Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to announce Monday that his agency is ramping up enforcement of civil rights laws in schools and colleges, a move that seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of his Republican predecessors.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Washington Post--

SCHOOL BOARD ENRAGED BY ANY MENTION OF ‘GOD’

Members of a California school board, unhappy that they were told by a federal court not to censor a teacher’s patriotic classroom banners that mention “God,” have voted to appeal the ruling.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

‘SAFE SCHOOLS’ CZAR DODGES QUESTION ON WHETHER TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALITY

WASHINGTON, DC - Kevin Jennings, a leading gay activist and President Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar, dodged a question on whether the federal government should promote homosexuality as moral in public schools earlier this week.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--LifeSiteNews.com--

WORLD’S ‘TOP SCIENTISTS’ TO REVIEW CLIMATE PANEL

UNITED NATIONS - At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world’s most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations’ Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Breitbart.com (AP)--

CLIMATE CHANGES, WOMEN HIT HARDEST

Women hit hard by the effects of climate change - drought, floods, sea level rise and crop failure - gathered on Monday to plan a Capitol Hill push for U.S. legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--Reuters--

MEN, SIT TO PEE, SAVE THE PLANET

This toilet separates urine and poo-poo at the source. The nutrients in urine can be then recycled for such purposes as fertilizer. And the other sewage can then be transported to waste treatment facilities where actually can be used to produce power rather than consume it.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Houston Chronicle--

WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG ROLL TO BE ‘ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY’

This year’s White House Easter Egg roll will be eggs-actly what the bunny ordered. The environmentally concerned bunny, that is.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--Fox News--

LETTERS TO THE POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL EDITOR - 03/10/2010

Read and comment on today’s letters to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--Poughkeepsie Journal--

LETTERS TO THE POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL EDITOR - 03/09/2010

Read and comment on today’s letters to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--Poughkeepsie Journal--

CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT CONGRESS ISN’T VERY SMART.

Commentary by Nancy Scola

Matt Bai has a piece in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine riffing off of Larry Lessig’s important work in correcting both the perception and practice of Congress being horrifyingly warped by the money that flows into campaign coffers.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--The American Prospect--

THREE THINGS LIBERALS CAN’T ADMIT

Commentary by Rich Lowry

Not everything has been said in the health-care debate.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--National Review--

SARAH’S CANADIAN OUTREACH

Commentary by Aaron Goldstein

So why condemn her for medical decisions her parents made when she was five?

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--American Spectator--

DESPERATE DEMOCRATS CLING TO HUMAN KIDDIE SHIELD

Commentary by Michelle Malkin

Have you noticed something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his government health care takeover roadshow? They’re getting younger and younger.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

WHY HEALTH CARE IS NOT A RIGHT

Commentary by Walter E. Williams

Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let’s ask ourselves a few questions about this vision.

(Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--

NANCY PELOSI’S GRIP ON HOUSE SLIPS

Commentary by Jonathan Allen

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not accustomed to the word she’s been hearing far more frequently in recent days: “no.”

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--The Politico--

BEWARE OF DEMOCRATS BEARING GIFTS

Commentary by Mona Charen

New Jersey has run itself into a ditch, led by liberal Democratic office holders and their public-union backers and beneficiaries.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--National Review--

REPEAL: OBAMACARE AS THE NEW PROHIBITION

Commentary by Jeffrey Lord

If the health bill passes the push is on to repeal - yes, it can be done.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--American Spectator--

BLOWING WIND UP YOUR SKIRT

Commentary by Alan Caruba

One of the keystones of the Obama administration’s energy policies has been a very expensive emphasis on “clean energy”, sometimes called “renewable energy”, allocating billions to the wind and solar energy producers. Like much of the “stimulus” bill, that money is a waste.

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

I LOST MY FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

Commentary by Ken Hutcherson

Was James Dobson forced off radio at Focus on the Family?

(Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010)   <Read it>

--WorldNetDaily.com--