http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Current U.S. Political Polls Averaged from Real Clear Politics. Most Accurate Numbers Today. en-US Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:30:37 -0500 1440 http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ On Saturday, Democrat Harry Ried got his 60 votes to move the Senate bill to floor debate. He bought off Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana with a guaranteed 100 million (hidden in the bill) for her state to prop up Medicaid. This is our 100 million, our tax dollars. Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas was the other key vote.The Democrats are forging ahead in spite of polls that show overwhelming rejection of massive health care reform among likely voters. And, polls show Congressional[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Yesterday (Nov.17) at 3:00 p.m. ET, the Treasury Department updated its calculation of the U.S. National Debt to: $12,031,299,186,290.07. That $12 trillion record high comes just eight months after it hit $11 trillion and is only expected to rise faster considering the federal deficit for 2009 was over $1.4 trillion. And what is the leftist majority of Congress going to do tomorrow about these skyrocketing deficits? They are going to pile on the spending faster.The issue at hand is the congressionally[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Congress' proposed reforms will raise health insurance rates By Douglas J. Wenners There are too many Americans without health insurance. For those with health insurance, the escalating cost of keeping it is unsustainable. Unfortunately, the current legislation being debated in Congress is neither sustainable nor practical. The legislation fails to address the true drivers of health insurance rates: underlying medical costs. And, due to a combination of provisions in the legislation, it will actually[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Wall Street Journal - Jerry Seib Reports: 'The last thing Democrats need right now is a fight over health care with a powerful group that ought to be an ally in the struggle to pass a bill. Yet that's exactly what may be taking shape with the nation's Catholic bishops. The reason..... The party's liberal wing is trying to force a retreat from a deal struck in the House to ensure that federal funds aren't used for abortions under a health-care overhaul. It's an argument nobody seems to really want, over a[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Many concerned veterans and citizens attended the hearing in Federal Court in Santa Ana in the lawsuit against Barack Obama to determine his eligibility to be President and Commander in Chief. About 150 people showed up, almost all in support of the lawsuit to demand that Obama release his birth certificate and other records that he has hidden from the American people.Judge David Carter refused to hear Obama's request for dismissal. He indicated there was almost no chance that this case would be dismissed.[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ The Hill's Aaron Blake Reports:'The healthcare battle appears to be helping Republicans running for the Senate. Two Quinnipiac polls released Thursday show the leading GOP candidates in Connecticut and Ohio growing their leads. Former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) leads Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), 49-38, and former Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has opened his first leads over two potential Democratic opponents. The surveys are the first major Senate polls since the House passed its healthcare bill on Saturday.[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Subject: Big Labor Is Bankrupting Our CountryFrom: The Morning Bell - The Heritage Foundation - here! Last month when the White House released its visitor log for the first six months of the Obama presidency, one name appeared far more often than any other: Service Employee International Union (SEIU) President Andrew Stern. Stern has every right to expect to be welcome in the Obama White House. He has repeatedly bragged about the fact that under his leadership, the SEIU spent $60.7 million to elect Barack[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries. I'm embarrassed that my representatives think that government can subsidize the consumption of medical care without increasing the budget deficit or interfering with free choice. It's a triumph of mindless wishful thinking over logic and experience. The 1,990-page bill is breathtaking in its bone-headed audacity. The[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ By Joe Kovacs© 2009 WorldNetDaily Rasmussen survey shows only 30% strongly support presidentWhen it comes to tracking President Obama's approval ratings, today's numbers vary greatly, and it all depends on the source. For instance, an Associated Press poll has the commander in chief with a 54 percent overall approval mark, but Rasmussen Reports shows that figure 8 points lower at 46 percent, with only 30 percent strongly approving of Obama's performance. Pollster.com shows the average of major polls have[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Obama Dithers While Our AfPak Credibility BurnsThe Morning Bell - The Heritage Foundation Last month, The Washington Post reported that President Barack Obama had asked senior officials for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan “to help determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which require international help.” He supposedly wanted “the clearest possible understanding of what the challenges are to our forces and what is required to meet the challenge.”But[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day-forgotten-by-too-many.html Hi Jim, It's not very often that I speak my "personal" beliefs or opinions in public... after all... this is an online business based mailing list and few, if any subscribers have signed up to receive anything other than online business related content. However, I'm compelled from time to time to break from tradition. So.. I woke up today and eagerly sat down at my desk to go through my usual heap of emails that came in overnight, anticipating the messages from the list owners that I'm subscribed[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Reagan, Obama and the Berlin Wallfrom The Morning Bell - Heritage Foundation"President Barack Obama (the same man who found time to jet to Copenhagen at the drop of a rumor that his presence could win the Olympics for his hometown of Chicago) could not be bothered to attend the 20th anniversary of the wall’s fall last night......"On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and said: “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek[...] http://on-line-tribune-front-page.blogspot.com/ Who is the President Calling “Extremist?”The Morning Bell - The Heritage Foundation.Following last Tuesday’s election, the last thing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wanted to do was allow Members of Congress to go home and talk to their constituents about the $2.6 trillion health care bill she was marshaling through Congress. The centerpiece of Pelosi’s trap and pressure campaign was a Saturday address by President Barack Obama in the Cannon Office Building, where Obama warned Democrats: “Does[...] 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 been[...] 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 could[...] 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://www.feedage.com/html2rss This RSS Feed was generated using the Free HTML 2 RSS conversion tool from Feedage.com