Health care reform means more power for the IRS

By Byron York "Under the Democrats' health care proposals, the already powerful — and already feared — IRS would wield even more power and extend its reach even farther into the lives of ordinary Americans, and the presidentially-appointed head of the new health care bureaucracy would have access to confidential IRS information about millions of individual taxpayers."

Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments

ABC News "Jones and other young activists in 1994 formed a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, rooted in Marxism and Leninsm."

Rangel Plays Race Card, Says Obamacare The Victim

Channel 2, New York "Already under fire for a wide range of ethical questions, Rangel played the race card in a health care forum the other night, saying racial bias against President Obama is behind opposition to health care reform.

CURL: Biden fills vacationing Obama's void

Washington Times "The vice president, borrowing Mr. Obama's teleprompter for a speech before a friendly audience at the Brookings Institution, said "I" more than a dozen times as he pointed repeatedly to progress on the economy and to his lofty role in the process."

Obama, The Mortal

by Charles Krauthammer "But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chavista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?"

Defending Those Who Serve: Paying the Legal Costs of CIA Officers

Heritage "CIA Director Leon Panetta recently announced that he will use agency funds to pay for the legal defense of case officers targeted by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder's reinvestigation of interrogators the Department of Justice (DOJ) previously decided should not be prosecuted."

Liberal Lies About National Health Care: Third in a Series (Commemorative Plates On Sale Now!)

By Ann Coulter "Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. "Abortion" becomes "choice," "communist" becomes "progressive," "communist dictatorship" becomes "people's democratic republic" and "Nikita Khrushchev" becomes "Barack Obama." "

"Man-Made Global Warming: 10 Questions" By Pat Sajak of "Wheel of Fortune"

Human Events From Dec, 2007 "...I’ve still come down on the skeptical side, because there are aspects of the issue that don’t make a lot of sense to me. Though I confess to have written none-too-reverentially on the subject, I want to try to put all that aside and ask ten serious questions to which I have been unable to find definitive answers:..."

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Newspaper Roundup for September 3, 2009

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9/11 Families about politicizing the day

Blackfive "...the families want Americans to remember those in the military that volunteered to go to war to fight the terrorists and protect America. As Debra Burlingame so eloquently stated, “We cannot forget the men dying in uniform. Those are the people who have done the heaviest lifting when it comes to serving this country; when it comes to 9-11. We need to teach future generations what happened as well as the response.”"

What George Will Could Learn From 'Wild Bill' Corson

By Norm Hapke "I wish George Will had adopted the approach that Bill Corson took. Finding our way forward entails looking at our options dispassionately and carefully without blame or recrimination or trying to score points in the political arena. I don't know which way forward is best but I don't think conservatives serve our country by being reflexively on one side or the other. However, if we stay in Afghanistan, I'm heartened to see that Gen's Jones, Petraeus, and McCrystal show that they have read Bill Corson's book."