http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Current U.S. Political Polls Averaged from Real Clear Politics. Most Accurate Numbers Today. en-US Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:59:12 -0500 1440 http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Here is the latest from POLITICO.com: House passes historic health billBy PATRICK O'CONNOR | 11/7/09 11:18 PM$1.2T health care reform clears House Sat. evening. All eyes on ReidBy CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & MANU RAJU | 11/8/09 7:09 AM The 'no' list: 39 DemocratsBy CHRIS FRATES | 11/8/09 12:02 AMHouse Democrats see 39 of their members vote against the bill -- here is the full list of names. With the House’s landmark health vote complete, Harry Reid is facing dissent among Senate Democrats. Be sure to visit[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ 10% Unemployment Shows Objective Failure of Obama Stimulus!Last week the Obama administration issued a report purporting to show that the President’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan had saved or created exactly 640,329 jobs. Such a precise number for such a fuzzy concept as jobs “saved or created” immediately raised doubts about the veracity of the report in any honest American’s mind.And since that report was issued, a once compliant press has filed story after story tearing the credibility of[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Fort Hood killer, Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan is quoted by World Net Daily.com as saying: "Muslims should fight the aggressors."Here is the latest on this horrific event....Posted: November 05, 20093:31 pm Eastern© 2009 World Net Daily.comA Muslim U.S. Army officer opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas today, killing 12 soldiers and wounding 31, before he was shot by a base police officer. The gunman, Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, orginally was reported to have been killed, but the Army said this evening Hasan[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Health Care Update: Shocking Analysis of U.S. House Health Care BillThe new House health care bill (H.R. 3962) unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) yesterday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. As written, the bill purports to cost only $1.05 trillion over the first ten years and is paid for by over $700 billion in tax increases and cuts to Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug payments. But as troubling as those numbers are, the scariest thing about the bill is the solid[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Science bulletin: 'Sun heats Earth!'Russian research forecasts global cooling!By Jerome R. Corsi© 2009 WorldNetDailyIn a sharp rebuke to climate alarmists who believe human-generated carbon dioxide is responsible for causing catastrophic global warming, a Russian scientist has issued what amounts to a news flash announcing, "Sun Heats Earth!" Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia......has published a paper in which he[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ CNN has released a poll that claims to show Americans are overwhelingly supportive of a public option in the Obama health care plans. I say - baloney! Nearly everyone in my circle of friends and family, even the local newspaper, show the opposite is true. In spite of this, liberal Democrats are making all the rounds promoting the CNN poll. What's the truth? Here is Arthur Brooks of the Wall Street Journal....Regardless of how President Barack Obama's health-care agenda plays out in Congress, it has not[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Swimming in the roiling sea of online journalism, increasing numbers of newsrooms have decided to take up the challenge of articulating editorial policies for social media. Over the past year, news organizations from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to the BBC have issued protocols for staff on Facebook, Twitter, and personal blogs and websites.Recently, the Washington Post came under fire for......formulating "restrictive" guidelines, after managing editor Raju Narisetti expressed[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Healthcare is in the headlines a lot these days, and the results of a survey that asked small business owners' opinions on the matter have arrived in a timely fashion. TriNet, which conducted the survey, found that owners are rather concerned about both current trends and proposed reforms.A TriNet representative wrote in an email to SmallBusinessNewz... ..."Nearly 63 percent of the respondents said their health care costs rose between 6 percent and 20 percent in the last year." That doesn't[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Reason magazine Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey writes: "Clearly there has been a drastic failure of market competition when it comes to the health care sector. The question is how can market forces of competition be brought to bear on escalating health care costs? An essential player is absent from the competitive field: the actual consumer of health care services. So long as insurers can extract their premiums from employers and providers can extract payments from insurers, the health care[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ You have to read all the way to page A-25 in today’s New York Times to learn about it, but the Senate took its first floor vote on Obamacare yesterday and the White House lost. Big. The NYT reports: “Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Gallup: Obama Suffers Worst 3rd Quarter Drop in Approval Since 1953Barack Obama has suffered the worst third quarter decline in his public approval rating of any elected president in the post-World War II era.Obama's average quarterly approval rating has slipped from 62 percent in the second quarter to 52.9 percent in the third quarter, according to Gallup polling. That 9 percentage point decline is twice the amount of any other post-war elected president. Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ "The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist, Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has become a laboratory in which his hypothesis is being tested. The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ From: Rules for a Radical White House - Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei reporting.President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top White House officials to undermine conservatives in the media, business and lobbying worlds. With a series of private meetings and public taunts, the White House has targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest-spending pro-business lobbying group in the country; Rush Limbaugh, the[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Hector Veloz spent eight months in prison for receiving stolen property and thought he was being released, only to be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be deported to Mexico. Veloz, the son of a Vietnam vet, swore he was an American citizen. But officials refused to believe him. It took him nine months to prove to a judge that he was a citizen. But ICE appealed the decision. All told, Veloz spent 13 months behind bars, in addition to his sentence for receiving stolen property,[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/www.DavidHarsanyi.com Why saying "no" does not equal saying "yes" to the status quo... No. Normally used to express the negative of an alternative choice or possibility. No. A super way to convey negation, dissent, denial, or refusal. No. Republicans — the "Party of No" — should embrace the glory of the word. It is always curious to hear irascible members of one political party accuse members of the opposing political party of "playing politics" as if it were a bad thing. Can you[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ After thousands of Americans attended hundreds of townhalls this summer, after the President of the United States delivered a rare speech to a Joint Session of Congress, after endless coverage of legislative markups in the relevant congressional committees, what if the Senate began actual floor votes on the health care overhaul and the drive-by media refused to cover it? Couldn’t happen? It already is. This week the Senate is set to vote on a measure that would approve spending for almost one quarter of[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/2009/10/jackson-sharpton-limbaugh-commentary.html Jackson & Sharpton Effort Against Rush Limbaugh is an Effort to "Get Whitie" and a "Racist Act," Says Leading Black ConservativeStatement of Project 21's Deneen Borelli..... Washington, DC - This statement was issued today by Deneen Borelli of the national black leadership network Project 21:The left-wing jihad against Rush Limbaugh is un-fair and un-American. Rush is being targeted simply because he is a conservative and a leading critic of President Obama’s wealth redistribution[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ According to the Associated Press, at the direction of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senate Democrats are plotting to pass a bill, by as early as next week, that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade. This will no doubt add to the deficit. Why are the Democrats so intent on spending $247 billion in one week? To pave the way for the White House to claim that Obamacare is deficit neutral.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Democratic Leadership are[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ This is a personal post. Walter Cronkite, my mentor, died today at his Manhattan home with relatives by his side. He was 92.We will remember his final on-air words while he was the #1 News Anchor on television: "And, that's the way it is.." Tonight, his final words on this earth are reported as - "I have to go now."Walter Cronkite is truly the end of an era of journalistic excellence and, for me, the loss of a role model for current and future journalists.It was 1969 when I had an[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Taking a vacation to visit relatives is always fun and can be a surprising adventure when one is open to discovering all that the local culture has to offer. Each locale always has something unique that one wishes they could take back home. So it was in the Lone Star state of Texas. Texas offers some great historical sites. We visited The Alamo, President Johnson's birthplace and the Ranch where he is laid to rest. I even listened to telephone recordings between President Johnson and his top political[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/2009/05/2-million-dollar-end-to-walmart-door.html The dangerous and deadly practice by American retailers called "door buster sales" may soon be over, at least the way they have been run in the past. America's #1 retailer, WalMart, is paying a huge fine in a agreement to change the way it handles customer stampedes in those crazy 5 am holiday sales. Wal-Mart will pay nearly $2 million and develop a safety plan but, for now, it will only apply to its 92 New York stores. The Nassau County prosecutor hammered out a deal that keeps WalMart from[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ by Paul Myers TalkBiz NewsConficker, considered to be potentially one of the nastiest worms to hit the Internet in quite a while, has finally woken up. It's downloading updates, which security analysts suspect to be keyloggers or other code designed to steal information from infected machines.To see if your machine is infected, go to.......http://www.talkbiz.com/confickertestIt's an extremely simple test. Load the page and see if you get all 6 pictures. If you do, you're unlikely to be infected. The[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/2009/03/you-are-banker-and-us-automaker.html Yes, friends, if you pay taxes here in the United States, you are now a major stockholder in U.S. Banks and Detroit. Our Board of Directors - Congress, and our Chairman of the Board - President Obama have purchased billions of dollars in stock in our names and without our consent. They have decided they know what's best for us just as the former Congress and former President Bush decided when they authorized the first massive stimulus bill. The new stimulus will not work any better than the first stimulus[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/search/label/education Today, President Obama may have created an enemy of a friend, the teachers union.He unveiled his Education Plan today that calls for accountability for teachers, among other things that the teachers union, the National Education Association, will lobby against. In addition to promoting Charter Schools, the President said: "We need to make sure our students have the teacher they need to be successful. That means states and school districts taking steps to move bad teachers out of the classroom. Let me[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Grab my free ebook: How To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft - here!The idea of a secret cabal of mysterious forces that make up the Illuminati has (for some) a "romantic" appeal. Granted that appeal may be filled with fear but it's a concept they hold onto in spite of reason. The newest Illuminati scheme is the engineering and manipulation of the current economic crisis in order to get their greedy hands on government money in nearly every country on the planet especially President Obama's[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ I just found this free on line tool that shows you a way of getting 1000's of new legit followers on Twitter.com on autopilot. I just started using it myself and it's starting to work already. I got several new followers within a couple of hours of using this free service. Best of all, you don't have to follow back unless you want to.Why do this? Traffic, of course! And, you can use it for quick comments on any subject, comments that are not moderated.Check it out now - here!If you "tweet", this[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ The World Health Organization estimates 40% of all injections given in developing countries are unsafe, with 1 child in 100 facing premature death due to an HIV or hepatitis infection passed through a used needle. This year, scientists expect over 20 million new cases of hepatitis and HIV at a cost of 1.3 million lives and $500 million dollars.My brother in Christ, Ray Zimmerman, has established Needles for Life™. (N4L) provides local missions and clinics around the world with sterile needles along with[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ President Bush has thrown General Motors and Chrysler a financial lifeline that is designed to force them to either restructure voluntarily or do so under "organized bankruptcy."In essence, automakers and the union have three months to get their act together. If they don't, the fed will force repayment of $17.4 billion in government loans and force the companies into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.At an announcement this morning (Dec. 19, 2008) President Bush said: "The American people want the auto[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ A multi million dollar settlement between toy maker Mattel and 39 states leaves open a question as to what happens to the millions of potentially tainted toys still in homes across America. Will those toys be found at a yard sale or thrift shop near you? Toy maker Mattel Inc. has agreed to pay millions of dollars to 39 states for not being more quality control conscious. The toy giant trusted Chinese manufacturers to make toys that, it turns out, were tainted with dangerous levels of lead or hazardous[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ The Democrat leadership in the House and Senate are pretty shrewd, at least they think they are. They don't have the votes to bail out automakers, they couldn't goad President Bush into doing it, and, now.....Now they are trying to get President-elect Obama to act "presidential" before he is even sworn in. They hope he will take the bait. So far he is more shrewd that they.What they really want is to get off the hook. Like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands of any responsibility for the economic[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ America has elected the first "black" President of the United States but is this just more media spin? Are we missing the whole point? Media have portrayed President-elect Obama as being "black" but, the fact is, he owes much of his values to his white Mother and Grandmother. This is by his own admission. They were responsible for his upbringing, not his father.Media has played down the fact that our new President is half-black or half-white, depending on your view. Is the glass[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ I thought long and hard before deciding it's time to reveal a secret about me that, I believe, will help you if you suffer from low self-esteem. If you read my profile here or my post on News Scoops here, you know I am a retired TV News Anchor and News Director. The secret is.... I was a High School drop out with a genetic hearing loss and working in a factory before I began my successful broadcasting career. All the odds were against me having a highly visible and successful career in anything, let alone[...] http://www.feedage.com/html2rss This RSS Feed was generated using the Free HTML 2 RSS conversion tool from Feedage.com