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The health plan offered to employees by the Republican National Committee covers elective abortion, even though the party platform calls the procedure “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho…
Joe Lieberman tried to make nice with Democrats to retain his committee assignments, but now that he continues to threaten to filibuster a health care reform bill, his stock with Democrats is on the decline.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, one of 13 Democrats who voted last fall to strip Joe Lieberman’s gavel of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, answered sharply…
• More than six decades after the end of World War II, 13 of the Navajo Code Talkers – U.S. Marines whose coded messages helped defeat the Japanese – marched for the first time today in New York City’s Veterans Day Parade. Two of the Code Talkers, Bill Toledo and Frank Willetto, sit down with Alan to share their fascinating experiences.
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Top advisers to President Obama are coalescing around a plan for 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are in the loop, but the president. Obama is reportedly skeptical as to how much the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan can…
In her new book Carrie Prejean claims that Miss California USA director Keith Lewis pressured her into getting a boob job.
“Have you ever thought of getting a boob job,” Lewis asked her days after she won the Miss California pageant. Prejean describes how Lewis ran his hands all over her body, including examining each of her breasts, while she stood in…
Bryan Fischer, the “Director of Issues Analysis” for the American Family Association, claiming that Nidal Hasan is “a Muslim who was motivated by jihadist impulses,” and that he wrote blog entries last year that “attracted the attention of the FBI,” says Muslims should not be allowed to serve. (h/t RightWingWatch). Shouldn’t the bigger question be why the FBI didn’t take…
The only Republican in the House to vote for health care reform discusses why he voted as he did.
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Arizona GOP Congressman John Shadegg held seven-months-old Maddie Thompson, the daughter of Chief-of-Staff Kristen Thompson, to attack Democrats and argue against health care reform. Shadegg bellowed, “Maddie believes in freedom.” (Note: some stories are claiming Maddie is Shadegg’s granddaughter, but is actually the daughter of his chief-of-staff)
“Maddy believes in freedom,” Mr. Shadegg said, as his granddaughter chief-of-staff’s daughter reached toward…
But there could be a vote Saturday if they get over the abortion hurdle.
According to Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, he and other abortion opponents will be given a chance to insert tougher abortion restrictions into the legislation during debate on the House floor.
The issue is whether federal funds will pay for abortions.
House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter said she…
Swift Boat enabler and Obama basher Jerome Corsi is portraying accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan as a transition team adviser to President Obama.
The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled “Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009,”…
