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Ark House vote jeopardizes insurance exchange plan (AP:LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) The Arkansas House has voted down the budget for the state Insurance Department, a vote that jeopardizes a plan to create a framework for a health insurance exchange. Read more on INO News American Health Underwriters Grows Despite Health Care Reform American Health Underwriters creates opportunities for independent insurance agents with specified benefit plans. (PRWeb March 29, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/american-health-underwrit/health-care-reform/prweb8250385.htm Read more on PRWeb Letters to the editor Unions were honorable until they jumped into the political circle. Today, they are just one more back door lobbyist trying to influence the DC puzzle palace with money. They are no more upright and honest than DC is. Honest, like in so many other places in our country, is not the household word it was. The virtues that provided an important catalyst of our society have been repla More...

New Concern About Bias In Counterterror Training Experts have been watching with alarm the phenomenon of officials with limited experience selling themselves as terrorism instructors. A new report by a Boston-based group says independent organizations that provide counterterrorism training to law enforcement officials often stereotype Muslims. Read more on NPR Video: Rep. Ellison: Islamic radicalization hearings “bad idea,” “misuse of gavel” In an one-on-one interview Tuesday, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes the House Homeland Security Committee’s hearing on Islamic radicalization was a “bad idea” and that Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) was misusing the gavel. Ellison is the first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress. Read more on CBS News John Feffer: Extremists on Extremism: Peter King and the Sharia Scam Muslims are rising up against tyranny throughout the Arab world. They have ousted autocrats More...

Calif. bill: Some health coverage can’t be taxed The state Assembly approved legislation Thursday that exempts the amount paid for health coverage of employees’ adult children from being taxed. Read more on AP via Yahoo! Finance A Cairo Kind Of Feeling No rational person would confuse recent events in Egypt (not to mention Libya) with America. Read more on WCVB Boston Bachmann joins Tea Party supporters in plan to defund health care law | Derek Wallbank MinnPost/Raoul Benavides Michele Bachmann WASHINGTON — Upset with a continuing resolution she says didn’t go far enough, some Tea Party-affiliated Republicans like Rep. Michele Bachmann say they’ll push colleagues to insist on removing funds to implement the recently passed health reform law. “We’re having discussions about that now, particularly the defunding of ObamaCare for the implementation … Read more on MinnPost More...

Huckabee behaving like a money-chasing celebrity …rather than a serious candidate for president by John Brummett Mike Huckabee continues to behave more as a man who wants to make money and revel in his own celebrity and glibness than as a serious candidate for president. He purposely barreled into political headlines over the last few days, but all we we can say for sure about his motivation is that he has yet another book out and was trying … Read more on Arkansas Times Spectator Asks, “Who Will Shoot Obama?” House Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) is receiving national attention after a spectator at one of his recent town hall meetings in Athens, Ga. asked, “Who will shoot Obama?” According to The Athens-Banner Herald, the question came after the congressman first… Read more on New America Media Obama offers states flexibility on healthcare law President Barack Obama extended an olive branch on Monday to states struggling to implement his healthcare law, offering supp More...

Obamacare Charade Image by wstera2 Chip Bok from Creators Syndicate www.creators.com/editorialcartoons/chip-bok/14728.html Shame on Rep. who ignored anti-Obama threat Georgia Republican Congressman Paul Broun now says he was stunned after an elderly man at a town hall meeting said, “Who is going to shoot Obama?” Read more on CNN Healthcare reform facts: Why isn’t the media the go-to source? Healthcare reform lawsuits, repeal efforts and overall challenges to Obamacare are confusing the public – and the media doesn’t seem to be helping. Twenty-two percent of the American people think the Affordable Care Act has been repealed, and another 26 percent aren’t sure. Read more on MedCity News Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee talk about 2012 politics (video) One issue that could hurt Daniels with the Tea Partiers and others who care about cutting spending is the fact that on his watch as Bush’s OMB Director, federal spending went through the ro More...

Stop ObamaCare 3 Image by seriouslysilly Attendees at the anti-HCR protest in front of Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA March 20, 2010. NY assemblywoman begins campaign for seat vacated by disgraced Rep. Christopher Lee BUFFALO, N.Y. — Republican Assemblywoman Jane Corwin began campaigning Wednesday for the congressional seat vacated two weeks ago by Christopher Lee in a scandal over a shirtless photo he is believed to have e-mailed to a woman he met on Craigslist. During a series of stops in the western New… Read more on New York Post Editorial: House is right repeatedly Editorial: House is right repeatedly – In recent days and weeks, the House of Representat Read more on Orange County Register Why Obama ‘punted’ on deficit reduction Republican critics of Obama’s 2012 budget are being hypocritical. Read more on The Christian Science Monitor More...

Special Election to Fill 26th District Congressional Seat Vacated By Chris Lee Likely 2-3 Months Away Geneseo N.Y. – The special election to fill the 26th congressional district seat of Chris Lee is probably two to three months away, but w e now know who will be on the republican side of the ballot trying to fill the seat in Congress left vacant by Chris Lee. Read more on WGRZ-TV Buffalo Are Protests in Wisconsin Really What Democracy Looks Like? Are we sure that democracy is accurately represented by bused in mobs from far away states that have nothing to do with state government in Wisconsin? Read more on The Christian Post House GOP Moves to Eliminate Obama ‘Czars’ If House Republicans have their way, no longer will the Obama administration’s “czars” be able to dictate pay at bailed-out mega-firms or negotiate new emissions standards for U.S. vehicles. An amendment attached to the 2011 spending package, which passed the House last week, would stri More...

Donald Trump: ‘I Will Decide By June’ on Presidential Bid Trump electrifies the room as he toys with a future in politics Read more on The Atlantic Obama defies court in continuing with Obamacare implementation Wilson Read more on Kiowa County Signal Bachmann tells CPAC: It’s time for a true conservative president | Derek Wallbank REUTERS/Larry Downing Rep. Michele Bachmann addressed the 38th annual CPAC meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington on Thursday. WASHINGTON — Rep. Michele Bachmann stood today in front of the largest annual conference of conservative activists in America and offered a diagnosis. The problem, she said, is President Obama’s leadership in Washington, large deficits and the rising … Read more on MinnPost Simple Majority Could Repeal Health Care Law Karl Rove explains how if Republicans retake the Senate in 2012, they will need only 51 votes — not a filibuster-breaking 60 — in order to effectively repeal More...

Martin County Community Calendar, updated Feb. 4 Martin County Community Calendar Read more on Indian River Press Journal Egyptians demand Mubarak exit as crowds swarm Tahrir Square Thousands of Egyptians gather in central Cairo for Friday prayers and a “Day of Departure” insisting on President Mubarak’s immediate exit. Channel 4 News correspondents report from Tahrir Square. Read more on Channel 4 Egyptians rally for Mubarak to go now By Dina Zayed and Shaimaa Fayed Read more on Daily Press More...

Stop ObamaCare, Kill the Bill Image by seriouslysilly Attendees at the anti-HCR protest in front of Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA March 20, 2010. GOP targets health care law in Congress and out Buoyed by a federal court ruling, Senate Republicans maneuvered for a vote to repeal the year-old health care law on Tuesday while the party’s potential White House contenders took turns urging them on. Read more on Boston Globe GOP presidential field praises health law ruling A judge’s ruling that called President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul unconstitutional renewed criticism from his potential 2012 rivals, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading the unified pack on Tuesday. Read more on AP via Yahoo! News GOP presidential field praises health law ruling WASHINGTON — A judge’s ruling that called President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul unconstitutional renewed criticism from his potential 2012 rivals, with former Massach More...