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Nov. 21, 09 Poll - Voters continue to see deficit reduction as the top Presidential priority with health care reform a distant second.
NLRC - Senate Health Bill Federally Funds Abortions
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv.) has rejected the bipartisan Stupak-Pitts Amendment and has substituted completely unacceptable language that would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs.

Ramming socialized medicine through now comes down to cash payoffs
which looks like the biggest taxpayer-funded bribe in the history of the Republic.

Spoiling the profitable spoils of climate change hysteria Climate Change: As scientists confirm the Earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.

Live coverage @ Space.com:
Atlantis Astronauts On Second Spacewalk of Mission

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The White House Blues - News:
11/19/09 Quinnipiac poll: President Obama's approval rating below 50% @ 48% Also, 52 percent of those surveyed disapproved of his handling of the economy and 49 percent disapproved of Obama’s handling of the Afghanistan war.

11/19/09 Minus 14 - The lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14.

11/19/09 By a 3-to-1 margin, voters believe that tax cuts will create more jobs than additional government stimulus spending. Most also believe that canceling the rest of the stimulus spending will create more jobs than spending the money that’s been approved.

11/19/09 House hearing - tracking of stimulus funds and job numbers
investigating allegations of false claims to pad the positive results.

11/19/09 Defense Sec. Gates orders review of Fort Hood massacre
Lapses, problems in security, procedures, response, ... to be assessed.

Nov. 18, 2009 Senate Health Bill, over 2,000 pages is revealed, not yet read by Congress.

Senate Health Bill Price Tag, Rosy Deficit Estimate Assailed as 'Fantasy'
The CBO cost estimate of the senate health care billis challenged as being grossly inaccurate.

Health care issues loom large for 2010 elections. The results show that incumbent senators and representatives may want to proceed with extreme caution on health care.

Katrina lawsuits - Judge rules negligence - govt. to pay
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Wednesday awarded seven plaintiffs $720,000, but the government could eventually be forced to pay much more. The ruling should give more than 100,000 other individuals, businesses and government entities a better shot at claiming damages.

11/19/09 Sen. Lieberman launches Fort Hood hearings without any government witnesses
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) held the first congressional hearing into the Fort Hood shootings with minimal cooperation from the Obama admin.

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FBI: 10% of U.S. Mosques Preach Jihad

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"MASTERING PRAYER" - "OUR LIFE-LINE TO THE FATHER"
I John 2:10, 11 -
"He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes."

51% Oppose Decision To Try Terrorists in New York City
(51%) of U.S. voters oppose the Obama administration’s decision to try the confessed chief planner of the 9/11 attacks and other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City. 29% of voters favor the president’s decision not to try the suspects by military tribunal at Guantanamo.

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China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform
It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions.

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Morale down among troops in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war. As Barack Obama struggles to come up with a new war strategy and planned troop buildup, there is also perhaps equal new attention focused on the mental health of the force since a shooting rampage at Fort Hood last week in which an Army psychiatrist is charged.

Study: Chinese women with abortions - 17% increased breast cancer risk
Relevant: "Govt.funded abortion means more dead American women from breast cancer."
Chinese researchers found a statistically significant overall odds ratio of 1.17 (17%increased breast cancer risk for all subtypes combined) among women with induced abortions. The Chinese and the Turkish studies are relevant considering the debate over government-funded abortion through healthcare reform," said Karen Malec, pres. of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. "Government-funded abortion means more dead American women from breast cancer."

Planned Parenthood and ACLU file lawsuit against Personhood Nevada
The lawsuit is against the sponsors of a Nevada ballot initiative defining the term "person." The simple, one-sentence amendment states, "In the great state of Nevada, the term 'person' applies to every human being."

Health Care Reform Assumes Millions Would Pay Fine Rather Than Get Coverage
A significant part of the plan to expand coverage relies financially on fines from the uninsured.

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'Significant Amount' of Water Found on Moon
Nov. 13, 09 NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today.

Republicans Jump to Six-Point Lead on Generic Ballot
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now.

911 alleged suspects to be tried in NYC court

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Earth Narrowly Misses Asteroid Strike
On November 6, 2009, The Catalina Sky Survey noticed something in the sky — an asteroid, seemingly on a collision course with Earth. The object would miss our planet by a mere 8,700 miles.

The Rise of French Evangelicalism
From a postwar population of about 50,000, French Evangelicals are now estimated to number 450,000 to 500,000.
According to the Evangelical Federation of France, the number of churches has risen from 800 in 1970 to more than 2200 today.

Fort Hood Shooting suspect's superiors questioned behavior
A group of doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training discussed concerns about his religious views
and strange behavior months before the Army major was accused of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 dead and 29 wounded.

FBI: 10% of U.S. Mosques Preach Jihad
Imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.
Nidal Hasan's former imam said to praise Hasan's suspected murderous attack as heroic.

UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according
to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger

Telling It Like It Is!
The Rise of French Evangelism
From a postwar population of about 50,000, French Evangelicals are now estimated to number 450,000 to 500,000.
According to the Evangelical Federation of France, the number of churches has risen from 800 in 1970 to more than 2200 today.

Fort Hood Shooting suspect's superiors questioned behavior
A group of doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training discussed concerns about his religious views
and strange behavior months before the Army major was accused of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 dead and 29 wounded.

FBI: 10% of U.S. Mosques Preach Jihad
Imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.
Nidal Hasan's former imam said to praise Hasan's suspected murderous attack as heroic.

UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children
Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.