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The healthcare battle in Congress was temporarily concluded with the passage
of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid legislation, and it was a major dust-up. The president and
his allies have been doing a “victory dance” for several days, and claiming that the
momentum, which had been leaking from their political machine in recent months,
was now [...]

Recent demands of the U.S. administration on the State of Israel in regard to
new housing construction in that nation’s capital could logically produce the following
fallout in our own capital of Washington, DC.
Unreconstructed sympathizers to the cause of the late secession of the Confederate
States of America (1861-65) could at last regroup [...]

Obamacare is now the law of the land. In the coming weeks, the full economic
consequences of this legislation will come into fuller view. Opponents warned that
several important parts of it were financially unjustifiable, and would make
healthcare and healthcare insurance significantly more expensive to most Americans.
At the same time, both conservatives [...]

FORMER PRESIDENTS (2013)
by Barry Casselman

Former Presidents, not thinking about the Constitution,
nor about history, do not think about journalists thinking about
what history will say about them. Journalists, thinking about
history abstractly, do think about former Presidents; but
former Presidents, not thinking about journalists
who are not thinking about them, do not think
about anyone who is not thinking about [...]

No one should take the words now being hurled back and forth in the Middle
East as anything more than a fantasy pantomime with shadow puppets.
The timing of the announcement of new housing in East Jerusalem was meant to
embarrass Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, a visit intended to reassure the
Jewish state of the support [...]

Newt Gingrich got it just right this morning when he wrote that all the tricks,
deceptions, and breaking the rules by Nancy Pelosi to pass the Obama healthcare
bill will amount to nothing. The inevitable fact, he wrote, is that the public knows
and will be reminded that the Democrats passed the bill [...]

There is now no going back for President Obama, House Speaker Pelosi and
Senate Majority Leader Reid on their healthcare legislation. From their point of
view, they must pass this bill and the president must sign it. Failure to do so, with
the majorities they now have in the Congress would represent a [...]

The suggestion reportedly made by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter,
chair of the House rules committee, that the Democrats employ an arcane
rule that is little more than a legislative trick to pass the stalled Obama
healthcare bill would be ludicrously funny if it did not display so baldly the
desperation of the majority party [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been doing some curious things
lately. The most recent was, during her visit to Argentina, when she called for
the British to meet with the Argentine government to settle their dispute over the
Falkland Islands, geographically located near the South American state, but under
British jurisdiction [...]

It is only about a year away from the Iowa Republican quadrennial Straw
Poll for president, and it would appear that former Massachusetts governor Mitt
Romney is as genuine a frontrunner for the GOP nomination as we have seen
for some time.
Going back even to 1996 when Bob Dole was the consensus frontrunner, 2000 when
it was George W. [...]