Jason Mick
DailyTech
November 7, 2009
EO at leading parts supplier: “Energy independence…ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive”
It’s no secret that when gas prices dropped early in the year and with the recession in full swing, hybrid sales saw their first drop in years. Faced with tough new fuel economy restrictions, auto executives [...]

We the People | The idea that party affiliation has anything to do with how our government is actually run is laughable.

Weekly Standard | Pelosi will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor.

PRNewswire-USNewswire | An agent of the Israeli intelligence service worked on the staff of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) according to a newly declassified FBI file.

Politico | Thousands of tea party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion-dollar health care bill and government spending.

Reuters | Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives hustled on Thursday to count votes and round up support for a sweeping healthcare overhaul that was headed to a close floor vote on Saturday.

Big Hollywood | What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern.

ABC News | Just under half the voters in Virginia, 48 percent, approved of the way Obama is handling his job, rising to 57 percent in New Jersey.

Christian Science Monitor | Republican senators boycotted Day 1 of her panel’s markup of historic climate legislation.

The Hill | The debate on Capitol Hill mirrors one taking place all across the country.

Raw Story | According to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Democrats’ health reform legislation is basically a sham.

Politico | It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.

Ron Paul | There is still very powerful resistance to the disclosures that HR 1207 would require and efforts to weaken it will continue to pop up before this issue is settled.

Guardian | With the clock running down to Copenhagen, the administration wheeled out four top officials to make the case that failure to act now on climate change would relegate America to lower tier status in the global economy.

Rev. Ted Pike | After 11 years and five defeats, the Anti-Defamation League’s federal hate crimes bill will be signed into law by President Obama.

New York Times | Skeptics on the committee were starting to pick apart the 900-plus page proposal as too expensive, too cumbersome, ill-considered and perhaps even unnecessary.

Foon Rhee | Grayson was objecting to opposition to more government oversight from Linda Robertson, a former Enron lobbyist now working for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Fox News | Republicans warned that new taxes on insurers will lead to a rise in private plan premiums that they predict will give the government plan an unfair price advantage — potentially drawing millions into it whether the customers want it or not.

Infowars | Barney Frank goes head to head with Ralph Nader, and lets it slip.

NewsBusters | “60 Minutes” did a fabulous exposé Sunday on Medicare fraud that should be required viewing for all people who support a government run healthcare program in this country.

Capitol Hill Blue | Frank also said Congress is discussing whether to create an optional federal charter for insurers.

ABC News | John Podesta even suggested taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care.

The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.

GlobalWarming | Senator Boxer’s cap-and-tax energy-rationing bill is bad news for the American economy.

Brett Michael Dykes | Some are speculating that the agency may need to relinquish all or part of its roles in protecting the country’s financial machinery in order to focus resources on the protection of the president and other high-profile leaders.

OneNewsNow | A conservative organization says “safe schools czar” Kevin Jennings was once a member of a radical “bullying” homosexual activist group.

Infowars | Wall Street, Goldman Sachs are desperate to distract the American people from their criminal behavior.

Wall Street Journal | The U.S. pay czar will slash compensation for the 25 highest-paid employees at seven firms receiving large sums of government aid and demand a host of corporate-governance changes at those firms.

Roll Call | Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander plans to offer what he will say is a “friendly suggestion” to the White House not to repeat the errors he saw committed by the staff of Nixon.

The Hill | Rep. Edolphus Towns locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

The Obama campaign’s press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute “control” over coverage

Infowars | It makes sense Obama is reading Zakaria. He is one of the leading intellectuals of the New World Order.

John Charlton | 2004 piece distributed world-wide puts focus on timeline claim.

FEMA | Fed drill to evaluate a Biennial Emergency Preparedness Exercise at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.

Wall Street Journal | Anger is palpable in tea-party groups forming around the country.

Washington Examiner | What does a hate crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?

CNSNews | A small group of determined scientists gathered in a Senate office building to present evidence backing their claim that climate change is caused not by man but by nature.

Exposing Faux Capitalism | On January 27, 1996, President Bill Clinton stated during his 1996 State of the Union Address, “The era of big government is over.”

Meredith Jessup | Premiums for a single person would go up by $600 more than would be the case without the legislation, according to study.

Heritage Foundation | Leaders in the House and Senate have a plan to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care plan by Thanksgiving without any significant participation by the American public.

CNSNews | Under the procedure, the substance of House Resolution 1586 would be removed and replaced with the entire Senate health care package.

Susan Ferrechia | As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote.

The Hill | A new value-added tax (VAT) is “on the table” to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday night.

New York Post | In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama.

Times Online | “We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together.”

Steve Peoples | U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy fears that supercharged passions fueling the national health-care debate may lead to violence.

Politico | Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.

Washington Times | Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday turned back a Republican amendment to wait 72 hours and require a full cost estimate before the final committee vote on the health care reform bill.

Bloomberg | Palin used her first trip to Asia to attack the Federal Reserve for creating asset bubbles and encouraging excessive risk-taking that hurt working-class Americans.

Fox News | A failure to address climate change could create an “irreversible catastrophe,” President Obama warned Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations.