I know this video is being used as criticism against New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter because a man who speaks out from the crowd is arrested. Yet, I think this is just another example of how dysfuntional these town hall meetings are. There’s yelling, interruptions and no one stays on subject. A real town hall [...]

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Senator James Inhofe is not hiding any great Congressional secret when he said that he does not need to read the healthcare reform bill.
“I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it. I’m going to oppose it anyways,” Inhofe said.
There are probably a slew of other Congress members who are doing the same [...]

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This is why there is not a healthcare debate going on in this country. A debate requires informed debaters on both sides of the question. In this case, Congressman Pete Olson of Texas uses an example of a private insurance company rejecting a medical procedure to explain that a government public option plan would do [...]

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The release of the Lockerbie bomber was all about oil.
Pat Boone thinks he has found the cause of liberalism – it is a virus.
Rep. Charlie Rangel has amended his financial disclosure statement, nearly doubling his total wealth from previous estimates.
South Carolina House Republicans are debating whether they should try to force Governor Mark Sanford from [...]

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Utah has just created the nation’s toughest anti-texting law. Text and getting into an accident may bring you 15 years in state prison.
“It’s a willful act. If you choose to drink and drive or if you choose to text and drive, you’re assuming the same risk,” said state Senator Lyle Hillyard.
Texting and causing an accident [...]

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Did you know there are 30,000 guillotines on military bases in this country?
Yep, they are just sitting there waiting for the Obama administration to give the okay so Americans can be herded into the blades and their organs harvested.
At least that is what some people who are crazier than the birthers think.
The latest paranoid delusion [...]

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From a nation that once had an empire that scanned the globe it has been quite a fall for the British army. The new British army does not quite have the bite of the old. In today’s army, soldiers are barred from training with live ammunition.
This is part of a cost-cutting measure by the British government. Live ammunition [...]

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert said that gays do not need special protections in Utah with fair housing and employment laws.
“Where do you stop? That’s the problem going down that slippery road. Pretty soon we’re going to have a special law for blue-eyed blondes,” Herbert said.
A group pushing an ordinance guaranteeing gays equal treatment in housing, [...]

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he is so popular that he ordered his vote totals reduced from 93% to 83% in his country’s last election. Lukashenko said he made the order for “psychological” reasons.
The Republican National Committee mailed out a survey suggesting that health care reform might discriminate against Republicans.
Sweden may soon ban homeschooling.
Senator [...]

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How long has Kilmer toyed with this? It looks like he finally stated that he is not going to run for New Mexico governor, but don’t they all say that before they say yes?//

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