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SURPRISE! GUESS WHO'S BIGGEST ISLAMIC THREAT -- BY MICHAEL CARL, World Net Daily

Terror expert's warning cites this NATO member

Famed PLO terrorist-turned-Christian Walid Shoebat is warning that the United States needs to be watching not Iran, Syria or even Hamas and Hezbollah as closely as it needs to follow the actions of the Islamic leaders of Turkey.

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COUNTY SPENDS $600 MIL ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS -- Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles

For the second consecutive year taxpayers in a single U.S. county will dish out more than half a billion dollars just to cover the welfare and food-stamp costs of illegal immigrants.

Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, may be in the midst of a dire financial crisis but somehow there are plenty of funds for illegal aliens. In January alone, anchor babies born to the county’s illegal immigrants collected more than $50 million

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TOM CAMPBELL'S TROUBLING TIES -- BY JOHN PERAZZO, Frontpagemag

Republican Tom Campbell, who served in the House of Representatives for ten years between 1989 and 2001, is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by California Democrat Barbara Boxer. While the incumbent has acted as little more than a rubber stamp for the Obama agenda, it is by no means clear that Campbell would represent much of an improvement.

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THE NEXT ECONOMIC MELTDOWN -- BY VASKO KOHLMAYER, Frontpagemag

“Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way” read a recent ABC News headline. The headline was occasioned by a report from an elite group of economists, financiers and former federal regulators headed by the Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz. The report warned that the American economy and the financial system are in danger of descending into another crisis.

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REPUBLICAN COLLECTIVISM -- BY LARRY ELDER, Frontpagemag

The most disturbing part of the ObamaCare debate is not about where Republicans and Democrats disagree, but where they agree.

Take this issue of those with pre-existing illnesses. Many Republicans actually support government action to prevent insurance companies from refusing to insure them. Ignoring the benefits of cost-lowering free market competition

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NEW PAY DISCRIMINATION BILL WOULD LET GOVERNMENT COLLECT PAYROLL RECORDS OF PRIVATE COMPANIES -- BY MATT COVER, CNS News

A bill taken up by a Senate panel on Thursday would empower the federal government to collect the payroll information of private companies and analyze it in an effort to prevent gender-based pay discrimination, which has been illegal since 1963.

The law would compel the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to begin mandatory collection of payroll data from private employers,

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FOR FIRST TIME, U.S. WILL SUBMIT CRITICISM OF ITS OWN HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD TO U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- BY PENNY STARR, CNS News

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the State Department is soliciting comments from citizens, advocacy groups and other non-governmental organizations on the human rights record of the United States.

“Human rights are universal, but their experience is local. This is why we are committed to holding everyone to the same standard,

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HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BE A FEDERAL JUDGE IN RHODE ISLAND? ANSWER: ABOUT $700,000 -- BY JOHN McCORMACK, The Weekly Standard

Ed Whelan flags a report that trial lawyer John J. McConnell, who was nominated by the president to a district judgeship in Rhode Island, donated nearly $700,000 in the past 20 years to various Democrats.

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TRYING TO REINVENT OBAMA -- BY JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary Magazine

Dee Dee Myers is the latest Democrat to step forward offering advice to Obama. Her bottom line: change your personality. She finds him “calm,” “cool,” and “self-possessed.” The result, she says:

"But while eschewing emotion — and its companion, vulnerability — Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the “I feel your pain” connection that sustained [Bill] Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders’ intentions.

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HEALTH CARE: A TWO-DECADE BLUNDER -- BY TEVI TROY, Commentary Magazine

In 1991 the political world was rocked by the unlikeliest of victories. Harris Wofford, a former aide for John F. Kennedy, upset two-term Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh in a special election to fill the seat of the late Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz. Wofford was guided to his victory by a little-known campaign manager named James Carville

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HOP ABOARD THE NANNY TRAIN -- BY IKE BRANNON, The Weekly Standard

Washington, D.C.'s Metro remains a great manifestation of liberalism today. Although it was created at the zenith of the Great Society, and although its union workforce gains overly generous pensions and maintains ridiculous job security, it is Metro's management of its passengers—its attempt to save passengers

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FEDERAL BONUS BONANZA -- EDITORIAL, The Washington Times

Freeze bureaucrat benefits during the recession

The only thing that seems to be growing during the current economic downturn is the government, and that's cause for alarm. While families and businesses struggle to make ends meet, the ranks of federal workers swell - as does their compensation. It's time for the feds to start making the same financial sacrifices as the rest of us.

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FIDDLING WITH TALK RADIO -- BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, The Washington Times

Depend on The Post to run over the right

There has been yet another eruption of violence from what our liberal friends a year or so ago were wont to call "the angry left." However, if you read The Washington Post, you might think this recent outburst of violence came from talk radio.

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WHY HEALTH REFORM IS BAD POLITICS -- BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, The Wall Street Journal

Contrary to all the theories, Democrats will not benefit from ObamaCare.

Another week, another episode of health-care drama, another round of headlines proving the end is not yet nigh. The polls are dismal, the Democratic caucus is in disarray, it is spring of 2010. Yet the ObamaCare dozer grinds on, and on, and on.

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A FISCAL SUICIDE PACT -- BY JOHN STEELE GORDON, Commentary Magazine

If you believe the Obama administration (and I doubt there is a person on the planet not in custodial care who actually does), ObamaCare will, if enacted, save the government $132 billion over the next 10 years. In the world ordinary citizens live in, one of mortgage payments and tuition bills, that sounds like a lot of money, more than the net worth of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined.

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THE ENDLESS CAMPAIGN -- BY JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary Magazine

It really never ends:

"Mr. Obama’s sleeves were rolled up, there was an old campaign sign in the audience, and he’s talking about his “opponents.” No, this is not a flashback of the presidential campaign, but it does feel awfully similar.

While campaigning for his health care bill, President Obama has summoned up some imagery and words that has often been left on the campaign trail. Today


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BIG LABOR SAVAGES NONCOMPLIANT DEMS -- BY JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary Magazine

Big Labor is grouchy and out to throw its muscle around. The Hill reports:

Frustrated at seeing their legislative agenda stymied, unions are becoming increasingly active in competitive Democratic Senate primaries. Across the country, labor groups are using their organizational muscle early against candidates whom they see as having walked away from their agenda. By doing so, they’re exposing schisms between centrist and liberal Democratic lawmakers who have struggled to come through on the campaign

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NO ONE DOES MINUTIAE LIKE HILLARY CLINTON -- BY JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary Magazine

The Washington Post has a puff piece on Hillary Clinton extolling her “internal outreach” to hire State Department gurus beyond her circle of Hillaryland loyalists. We hear that “Clinton has made a vigorous effort to widen her circle, wooing and pulling into her orbit the agency’s Foreign Service and civil service officials, many of whom said in interviews that she has brought a new energy to the building.” And then it’s nice to know

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PEW RESEARCH: MORE NOW TRUST GOP TO DEAL WITH RISING DEFICIT -- BY GARY ANDRES, The Weekly Standard

Pew Research released a new analysis showing increasing concern among Americans about the federal budget deficit in the past six months. Those citing red ink as the “most important problem” reached the highest level in twenty years and nearly doubled, (from 6% in August of 2009 to 11% in January of 2010) in the last six months. According to Pew:

For the first time in many years, public concern over the budget deficit is increasing.

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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO THE INFLATION HAWK DINNER? -- BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI, The Weekly Standard

Michael Kinsley on inflation in the new Atlantic:

"My specific concern is nothing original: it’s just the national debt. Yawn and turn the page here if you’d like. We talk now of trillions, not yesterday’s hundreds of billions. It’s not Obama’s fault. He did what he had to do. However, Obama is president, and Democrats do control Congress. So it’s their responsibility, even if it’s not their fault.

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OBAMACARE'S PASSAGE RESTS ON NANCY PELOSI'S POWERS OF PERSUASION -- BY GARY ANDRES, The Weekly Standard

The Mother of All Whip Checks.

When legislative leaders count votes before a bill comes to the floor they call it a “whip check.” It’s an old English phrase referring to those who kept the dogs in line during a foxhunt.

With all the barking about health care these days, Speaker Pelosi will need some pretty stout lashes to hold Democrats in the pack. But she and President Obama also possess more tools than you think to flog wavering lawmakers.

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UPDATE: MEET THE *17* DEMS WHOSE VOTES MATTER MOST ON HEALTH CARE -- BY DAVID FREDDOSO, The Washington Examiner

Since I posted our first whip count, there have been a number of new developments. First, a handful of Democratic Congressmen who voted for health care in November have declared that they will vote "no" this time. Second, at least one "no" voter from last time who was believed to be in play -- Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri -- declared himself a firm "no" yesterday.

Here is our updated whip count for the expected House

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IN THE WILSONIAN TRADITION -- BY GEORGE WILL, Townhall

There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical. He has shown himself to be a timid progressive.

His timidity was displayed when he flinched from fighting for the boldness the nation needs -- a transition from the irrationality

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THE BRIDGE -- BY MICHAEL YON, Small Wars Journal

The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan. During the Soviet war, though the Bear comprised Afghanistan’s entire northern border, the Afghan resistance was frequently able to block Soviet logistical operations, which were dependent on scant roads, tunnels and corridors. Captured Soviet logistics convoys often supplied the Mujahidin.

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ANOTHER STATE TO FEDS: TAKE YOUR GUN REGS AND STUFF 'EM -- BY BOB UNRUH, World Net Daily

Local governments in massive revolt against rules ordered by Washington

Utah has become the third state to adopt a law exempting guns and ammunition made, sold and used in the state from massive federal regulations under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and supporters say about 30 more states have some sort of plan for their own exemptions in the works.

Officials in Utah say they expect a lawsuit over their direct challenge to Washington

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OBAMA ACCEPTS PAUL RYAN'S PREMISE -- BY ANDREW CLINE, The American Spectator

After talking incessantly about cutting waste, fraud and abuse from federal spending, on Wednesday, President Obama finally announced a plan to do so. His method: use financial incentives.

The president has ordered all federal departments and agencies to "expand and intensify their use of payment recapture audits under the authority they currently have." Recapture audits consist of the government paying private sector auditors to discover improper payments that result from error or fraud. The plan

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MOVING FROM YES TO NO ON HEALTH CARE -- BY QUIN HILLYER, The American Spectator

It really should not be all that hard for a moderate Democratic U.S. House member to resist the pressure from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and thus to do the right thing by switching from a "yes" vote on Obamacare to a "no."

Imagine for a moment that you are -- to pick a "swing vote" congressman almost entirely at random -- freshman Rep. Mark Schauer of Michigan,

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OBAMA'S PRESS SECRETARY LACKS PROFESSIONALISM, DECORUM -- Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles

The comedian wannabe that serves as White House press secretary has stooped to an all-time low by publicly attacking the Supreme Court, proving once again that the president needs a more professional and serious spokesman who possesses at least some decorum.

A perpetual jokester at the podium, Robert Gibbs is well known for keeping reporters in stitches during White House press briefings. In fact, he earned accolades for causing more than 600 instances of laughter

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FAITH IN OPEN BORDERS -- BY MARK D. TOOLEY, Frontpagemag

Joining with groups like ACORN, a wide coalition of Religious Left groups will march on Washington, D.C. on March 21 on behalf of eventual amnesty and largely open borders under the rubric of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). The National Council of Churches (NCC) is even hailing CIR as a “divine mandate” and a “patriotic act.”

At least the NCC is acknowledging patriotism is a virtue of sorts. New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer

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ALL THE NEWS UNFIT TO PRINT -- BY ANDREA LEVIN, Frontpagemag

What the New York Times chooses to cover in the Arab-Israeli conflict – and what it excludes – is a story in itself. The paper’s silence, as of this writing, about an event that has rocked the Israeli media and public and triggered calls for government action once more raises serious questions about the paper’s news judgment. After all, the Times reports on no other foreign nation as minutely as it does Israel, whether about negotiations

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FANNIE, FREDDIE, PETER AND BARNEY -- DOWNSIZING, CATO Institute

Last week, after Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said that holders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s debt shouldn’t be expected to be treated the same as holders of U.S. government debt, the U.S. Treasury took the “unusual” step of reiterating its commitment to back Fannie and Freddie’s debt.

If ever there was case against allowing a few hundred men and women to micromanage the economy, this is it.

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POLL: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THINK THEIR KIDS' TEXTBOOKS PLACE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ABOVE ACCURACY -- BY JOE SCHOFFSTALL, CNS News

A new Rasmussen Poll shows that 60 percent of Americans with children in elementary schools say most school textbooks are more concerned with presenting information in a politically correct manner than in accuracy.

In a national survey conducted March 6-7, 1,000 adults were asked: “Are most school textbooks more concerned about accurately providing information or about presenting information in a politically correct manner?”

Only 28 percent thought textbooks were more concerned with presenting information accurately.

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GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS SAYS PRESIDENCY IS NOT HIS GOAL -- BY ROBERT BURNS, AP, Army Times

For a guy who professes to have no interest in running for president, Gen. David Petraeus can come off as surprisingly eager to talk about it — sometimes without even being asked.

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EVERY AMERICAN IS A CRIMINAL, OR SOON WILL BE -- BY RON EWART, CFP

“The more laws government passes, the more law breakers government makes.” Ron Ewart

We have repeated the following phrase several times in our articles, since repetition seems to be the only way to get a message across. “YOUR MONEY IS GOVERNMENT’S MAJOR POWER OVER YOU: The first power that government has over you is YOUR perception that YOUR money is their money. The second power that government has over you is by using the money

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GET READY FOR THE KNOW ALL, SEE ALL NATIONAL ID CARD .....PLUS, PLUS -- BY DR. LAURIE ROTH, CFP

Obama and his administration want to know and control everything, namely us. If given the chance, Obama and his crew will morph into place a national ID Card for Workers under the guise of repairing and responding to the Immigration problem.

Now, the push is on to quickly create a biometric card, which would have embedded information, personal information and fingerprints. Who cares about that old fossil….privacy rights. This special and intrusive card

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REJECT COAST GUARD'S MARITIME SECURITY AND COUNTERTERRORISM MISSION BUDGET CUTS -- BY MacKENZIE EAGLEN AND JIM DOLBOW, The Heritage Foundation

The U.S. Coast Guard's advanced interdiction and counterterrorism capabilities are being scaled back at a time when they should be expanded. President Obama's fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget request for the Coast Guard proposes killing five of the 12 Maritime Safety and Security Teams (MSSTs) in addition to nine aircraft and five cutters. Worse yet, a recently leaked memo from the nominee to become the next commandant of the Coast Guard proposes further reducing critical capabilities

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PAUL RYAN: THE ROADMAP WARRIOR -- BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI, The Weekly Standard

The Wisconsin congressman on tax policy

Paul Ryan's Roadmap for America's Future would drastically overhaul the American welfare state in a free-market direction. The Congressional Budget Office says it would solve the entitlements crisis through a series of changes to Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. The Roadmap also includes a fundamental tax reform -- one that Ryan says, and the CBO assumes, would bring in revenues equivalent to the long-term historical average

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OBAMA'S RATIONING PLAN -- BY THE EDITORS, National Review

President Obama recoils when his adversaries call his health-care plan a “government takeover” or suggest it will lead to bureaucratic rationing of care. He insists it would do nothing of the sort and dismisses such criticism as unfounded partisan rhetoric.

The president’s defensiveness is understandable: He knows that his plan is unpopular, in large part because the public deeply distrusts the federal government he wants to put in the driver’s seat. Among voters’ greatest

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PATRIOT GAMES -- BY STEPHEN SPRUIELL, National Review

High taxes are right for our country — but not for unions?

On the campaign trail, vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was fond of saying “It’s time to be patriotic” when asked about his running mate’s plan to let certain of the Bush tax cuts expire. But when the Senate passed a health-care bill that raised taxes on generous health benefits — the kind that unions have acquired for their members through years of collective bargaining

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PELOSI AIDE KNEW ABOUT MASSA COMPLAINTS IN OCTOBER -- BY DANIEL FOSTER, National Review

A House ethics panel has dropped its probe of former congressman Eric Massa, but the story isn't quite over. It now appears that members of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff knew about concerns with Massa's behavior toward his staff as early as October 2009, months before Majority Leader Steny Hoyer set an ethics investigation in motion.

From Politico:

. . .a Pelosi aide told POLITICO on Wednesday evening that Massa’s chief of staff, Joe Racalto, informed

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OBAMACARE: COOKED BOOKS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN -- BY DEROY MURDOCK, National Review

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use a $100 bill to buy groceries and then deposit that same Benjamin in the bank to help pay your monthly credit-card statement? Regular Americans would call this either magic or fraud. Washington Democrats call this “health-care reform.”

Obamacare rests upon such double counting. It repeatedly shanghais taxpayer funds for Obama’s plan while simultaneously shielding that same money for Medicare, Social Security, and other programs. Such chicanery

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RESETTING OUR RESET FOREIGN POLICY -- BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, National Review

Almost every element of Barack Obama’s once-heralded new “reset” foreign policy of a year ago either has been reset or likely soon will be.

Consider Obama’s approach to the eight-year-old War on Terror. Plans made more than a year ago to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010 have stalled. Despite loud proclamations about trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11, in a civilian court in New York,

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INEPT VA HURTS VETS -- BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, Human Events

The Obama administration, which made helping veterans a front-burner issue, botched the debut of the new post-9/11 G.I. bill, leaving thousands of war veterans without tuition aid for months at a time.

The system put in place by the Veterans Administration for the beginning of classes last August could not keep up with applications, even though Congress in 2008 gave the VA a year to get ready.

As a result, vets waited months to receive

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WHAT'S ARABIC FOR 'YOU'RE NO ATTICUS FINCH'? -- BY ANN COULTER, Human Events

A group of "leading conservative lawyers" -- a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" -- has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.

The letter calls Cheney's demand "shameful," before unleashing this steaming pile of idiocy:

"The American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers

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McCONNELL AND KYL INSIST ON BYRD RULE -- BY JED BABBIN, Human Events

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) doesn’t want the healthcare bill to go through his committee by the reconciliation ploy. Now, Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) have upped the ante.

It was only a couple of weeks ago (February 28) that Conrad told “Face the Nation” that, “...reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind

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PELOSI'S LATEST HEALTHCARE SCHEME -- BY JED BABBIN AND CONNIE HAIR, Human Events

Meetings between House and Senate Democratic leaders and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel lasted on into Tuesday evening and were aimed at crafting a series of legislative maneuvers that would result in the passage of the president’s healthcare nationalization plan by late next week.

According to multiple congressional sources on both sides of the Hill, here’s what they were talking about.

Under Speaker Pelosi’s latest master plan, the House

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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON E-VERIFY -- BY JAMES R. EDWARDS, JR., Human Events

A new report on the voluntary E-Verify system shows a decent record at keeping more illegal aliens from taking American jobs.

That may not be what you read elsewhere, but that’s the truth behind the spin being leveled against employment verification. A consulting firm, Westat, has issued a report on E-Verify’s performance, and by and large found the system working well.

However, even the Wall Street Journal used terms like “controversial” to describe E-Verify.

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PELOSI'S PIG IN A POKE -- BY JAMES TARANTO, The Wall Street Journal

"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned up yesterday at the Washington conference of the National Association of Counties, and she engaged in a little cheerleading for ObamaCare:

You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just

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CAN NANCY PELOSI GET THE VOTES? -- BY MICHAEL BARONE, The Wall Street Journal

The Senate bill's abortion language is not the House Speaker's only problem.

Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when President Barack Obama heads to Asia. Nevertheless, analysts close to the Democratic leadership tell me they're confident the leadership will find some way to squeeze out

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OBAMA FAMILY HEALTH CARE FRACAS -- BY DR. MILTON R. WOLF, The Washington Times

"Primum nil nocere."First, do no harm. This guiding principle is a bedrock of medical care. Sadly, those politicians who would rewrite our health care laws do not live in the same universe as do the doctors and health care professionals who must practice it.

Imagine if, like physicians, politicians were personally held to the incredibly high level of scrutiny that includes civil and financial liability for any unintended consequence of their decisions.

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VIDEO: DOJ LAWYER SUGGESTED U.S. INTERROGATORS COMMITTED WAR CRIMES -- BY JOHN McCORMACK, The Weekly Standard

In the above 2008 video of a Human Rights Watch panel, lawyer Jennifer Daskal says that the U.S. interrogators had done "things the United States has called war crimes when carried out against Americans."

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SYMBOLISM: DEMS MULL RAMMING OF HEALTH-CARE WITH 'SLAUGHTER SOLUTION' -- BY MARY KATHARINE HAM, The Weekly Standard

Congress Daily reports today that the Senate may try to find a way to pass the Senate bill without a final House vote. Sounds improbable, but Rube Goldberg would be proud.

I present to you the Slaughter Solution, devised by Rep. Louise Slaughter. (What Sen. Death Panel was not available to put his name to it?). Via Congress Daily ($):

"House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul

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