Sunday, October 11, 2009

Renew America | Headlines - October 11, 2009

CHRISTIAN POST — The House voted Thursday in favor of expanding hate crimes protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The bill was attached to the 2010 Defense Authorization bill. In a 281 to 146 vote, the House approved a measure that conservatives say was sneaked into a must-pass defense policy bill... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Norwegian Nobel Committee says U.S. President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — There are serious problems with the administration of the U.S. Census. Americans have good reason to be wary of the stranger's knock on the door. Unfortunately, anything critics say about the federal Census can and will be used against them in the court of left-wing opinion... (more)

DAVID LIMBAUGH — CNN "senior political analyst" Gloria Borger doesn't get it. Like so many cloistered mainstream media liberals, she just can't imagine why anyone would oppose Barack Obama's agenda. To her, it's all politics... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — American taxpayers are planning to storm more than 100 mainstream media offices and stations across the nation next week in protest of a media blackout of the growing movement against Obama administration policies... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — You may have won $10 million dollars!!! Or not, but the same federal agency that can't stop those dishonest sweepstakes mailings wants the right to supervise everything bloggers, Facebookers, tweeters and practically anyone else writes on the Internet starting in December... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause global warming, a noted geologist and best-selling author is warning Congress... (more)

PAT BUCHANAN — September's unemployment figures were not only disappointing -- they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work -- 5 million for more than six months... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The next al-Qaida attack on the United States could come from within, with recruiting for jihadists on the rise and the terror organization continuing to smuggle operatives across international borders, experts confirm... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Israel's powerful foreign minister declared Thursday that there is no chance of reaching a final accord with the Palestinians any time soon, casting a pall over the U.S. Mideast envoy's latest effort to get peace talks moving again... (more)

CNSNEWS.COM — A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is "likely" that Reid will use H.R. 1586--a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions--as a "shell" for enacting the final version of the Senate's health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A political activist who was behind the famous Willie Horton advertisement that left Gov. Michael Dukakis' candidacy for president floundering and was among the first to sound the alarm on the need for Bill Clinton's impeachment says the United States is collapsing around its citizens right now, but there is a defense... (more)

BIGGOVERNMENT.COM — ACORN wants people to register to vote -- as long as they're Democrats. Republican registrations go into the trash... (more)

CHRISTIAN POST — Leaders in the U.S. House plan to slip the hate crimes bill into the 2010 Defense Authorization bill that could be voted on as early as Thursday, a conservative public policy organization warned... (more)

ASSOCIATED PRESS — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised President Barack Obama's drive to overhaul the nation's health care system on Tuesday and urged fellow Republicans to join in efforts to finish the job this year... (more)

JONAH GOLDBERG — Watching the House of Representatives on late-night C-SPAN, you might have any number of reactions, including seppuku-inducing boredom. Depending on who's talking, you might also feel disgust, rage, contempt, or, in rare cases, inspiration. But one reaction you probably won't have is: "Gosh, if only there were more of these jokers"... (more)

JIM SIMPSON — Last Friday, we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill Ayers' authorship of President Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My Father,' based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from Bill Ayers himself... (more)
Ayers admitted authorship to National Journal -- just kidding