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Health care plan ruled unconstitutional

By Tom Schoenberg and Margaret Cronin Fisk U.S. President Barack Obama. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. The Obama administration’s requirement that most citizens maintain minimum health coverage as part of a broad overhaul of the industry is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled, striking down the linchpin of the plan. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, today said that the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation goes beyond Congress’s powers to regulate interstate commerce. While severing the coverage mandate, which is set to become effective in 2014, Hudson didn’t…

Military stike on Iran is the only option-Bolton

By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER Former US ambassador to UN during Bush administration tells 'Post' he is mulling GOP presidential run to reassert strong US foreign policy. WASHINGTON – John Bolton is mulling a run for president because he believes the US needs to recover its international standing and be more assertive, including being willing to bomb Iran and scrap the two-state solution. “Both our friends and our adversaries alike have assessed this as a very weak administration, uncomfortable with asserting American interests or defending them, particularly through the use of force internationally,” Bolton told The Jerusalem Post in an interview…

American Embassy informs PMO that diplomatic cables dealing with Israel-US relations set to be released could cause embarrassment. The US Embassy in Tel Aviv has informed the Prime Minister's Office that the website WikiLeaks was planning on releasing US diplomatic cables, of which some may deal with Israel-America relations. The reason the US gave for informing the Israeli government is that they wanted to make sure Israel was prepared for publicity that might cause diplomatic embarrassment, and would not be surprised by the findings. On Wednesday the Obama administration said it had alerted Congress and begun notifying foreign governments that…

"By THE PRESIDENT of the United States of America." "A proclamation" "WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God; to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and, "WHEREAS both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity to establish a form of government…

New FDA regualtions to destroy small organic farms

A proposed law to bring farms more directly under FDA supervision could be the death of small organic farms, natural food advocates have warned. "How do we trust that the FDA is going to know about things that the San Francisco Bay Area has been very progressive on -- the field to fork, fresh, grow local, buy local -- all of that?" said Rep. Sam Farr. "The organic people are feeling that the regulations the FDA may promulgate will be so safety oriented, it'll put them out of business." Spurred by recent outbreaks of foodborne illness across the country, Congress…

Like it or not — and many in the Obama administration don't — Real ID is coming to a driver's license near you. Having failed to get Congress to revise the tough new security rules for state-issued licenses in the Real ID Act, the Department of Homeland Security says it is working out how to implement the law. But critics fear Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to gut the intent of the legislation's authors. There is broad agreement among those following the issue on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the country that Pass ID, the legislative alternative to…

US cuts funding for Israeli defense systems

Democrats claim that U.S. funding has been increased for Israel's defense systems, although it appears that a one-time grant may be the vehicle through which the aid allocation was raised. The 2011 budget approved by Congress for the Arrow 3 program totaled $108.8 million. This included a White House request for $50.8 million, combined with another $58 million tacked on by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.

Kaboom! Look who’s really behind plan to steal election

Now Democrats in Congress pushing bill to restore rights to convicts A federal bill that seeks to restore voting rights in national elections to felons released from prison has been a pet project of one of the most dangerous members of Bill Ayers' Weather Underground domestic-terrorist group, WND has learned. Linda Evans, who herself served 15 years of a 40-year federal sentence, pushed the plan of registering convicted felons along with the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. She is a recipient of the Soros Justice Fellowship, bestowed by philanthropist George Soros

Changing stance, administration now defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.” And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce. Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several…

Financial reform legislation puts natural supplements at risk

Keep your eyes focused on the rogue corporatist Congress over the next couple of weeks as the reconciliation process takes place to merge the House and Senate versions of the financial reform legislation in a conference committee. While the provisions in the two bills which further centralize control over the financial system in the hands of power-grabbing chief executive are bad enough, a provision in the House version that has nothing at all to do with finance has really caught our attention and must be defeated.

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Health care plan ruled unconstitutional

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New FDA regualtions to destroy small organic farms

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US cuts funding for Israeli defense systems

Kaboom! Look who’s really behind plan to steal election

Changing stance, administration now defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

Financial reform legislation puts natural supplements at risk

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