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Don’t mean to give you more indigestion on a Saturday night, but thought you should see this from The Hill:
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)…is still in talks with President Barack Obama regarding her final vote on the legislation. Snowe said that she spoke to Obama while he was aboard Air Force One en route to Asia [...]

Skyrocketing property taxes were a huge issue in the NJ governor’s race.
They were on the ballot here in Colorado, too. And the limited government message was sent loud and clear:
Rattled by an economic downturn and skeptical of the dire predictions emanating from City Hall, Colorado Springs voters overwhelming rejected a proposal to raise property taxes [...]

Scroll down for updates…10:45am – Snowe wanted reassurance from CBO and Baucus that scoring “integrity” will be preserved as conceptual language becomes legislative language…1:04pm Eastern…Snowe will vote YES on government health care takeover…2:54pm Eastern Senate Finance Cmte vote is 14-9

Sen. Olympia Snowe was one of the three members of the Senate GOP Turncoat Caucus who [...]

President Obama says it’s a “fabrication” and “distraction” to assert that the Democrats’ health care takeover bills subsidize abortion.
Well, not to distract you, but the NYT reports today:
Representative Bart Stupak, a Democratic opponent of abortion, is pressing for a ban on health care subsidies for abortions.
Abortion opponents in both the House and the Senate are [...]

Playing games.

Gird your loins, taxpayers and ratepayers.
Sen. Barbara Boxer is readying her cap-and-tax monstrosity, and she is hoping to soften opposition among Climate Change Republicans. E&E News reports on the latest maneuvering, via Matt Dempsey at the US Senate Cmte on Environment and Public Works:

The Senate climate debate has largely been in standby mode since June, [...]

Here’s my July 22 column on Obamacare for illegal aliens, which spotlights how the S-CHIP expansion’s loosened verification standards open the barn door.
Here’s my August 17 blog post on how hospitals are buckling under the weight of illegal alien care costs — and why it’s time to ration health care for illegal aliens.
Here’s my August [...]

I’ve noted the irony of the unhinged Left moaning about the “insane rage” of the Right many, many, many, many, many times.
Allahpundit reports tonight that the DNC is now decrying “mob rule.” Lefty bloggers are comparing grass-roots conservatives to Holocaust deniers and waving around the moral equivalence card to smear peaceful Tea Party activists [...]

Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views are growing more conservative, according to a new Gallup poll:
Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. [...]

Photoshop: Leo Alberti
We celebrated our freedoms this Independence Day. Now, it’s time to fight for them. Hope you are feeling energized. There is much work to be done.
On the front-burner: Defeating the cap-and-tax bill.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee begins hearings on Tuesday.
Spruiell and Williamson have an excellent rundown of Waxman-Markey’s garden of [...]

Caption contest.

I really don’t want to hear it later from Senate Republicans if Commerce Secretary nominee Gary Locke gets himself in an ethics mess after he’s approved.
Washington has been warned — not just by me, but by many other close observers of the former Washington state governor who have followed his career marked by sloppy [...]

“Washington sends $1 food stamp checks to 250,000.”

So, President Obama phoned the Senate GOP sellouts Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter and praised them Friday night for showing their “patriotism” by cutting a trillion-dollar, backroom deal to mortgage our children and grandchildren’s future.
If that is “patriotism,” then I’m proud to be an unpatriot.
How about you?

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The generational thieves question our patriotism.
I [...]

Meltdown.

Before we get to tax cheat Tom Daschle, let’s recall the names of the Bend Over Republicans who pooh-poohed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s tax troubles and accused critics of “thinking in small political terms.”
On the Senate Finance Committee, B.O. Republicans Mike Crapo, Orrin Hatch, John Cornyn, Olympia Snowe and John Ensign all determined that Geithner’s [...]

Breakdown.

Scroll for update…Sanders confirms…

Over the weekend, I wrote about Washington state Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders, an old friend of mine from my days in Seattle who had been identified on Friday by lawyer Wendy Long as the man who heckled Attorney General Michael Mukasey during his Federalist Society address.
I received the following non-response response [...]

Watch out.

“I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uh, site.”

“SOLDIERS, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND FAMILY MEMBERS NEED TO STAY ALERT, NOTICE SURROUNDINGS, AND REMAIN VIGILANT.”

The battle continues.

Cracking down on domestic terrorism.

The domestic consequences of appeasement.

Making the rounds.

“Make some noise.”

The costs of “compassion.”

Update: One more for you–a heartbreaking reminder of the sacrifices so many American families made this year for our country.
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Last week, I shared a few favorite Baghdad photos I took in January. Here are a few more noteworthy images from 2007 that I won’t soon forget:
Michael Yon’s iconic image of hope and unity in Iraq:

I [...]

BDS haiku contest!

“…nearly $4,000 in damage was done to police cars…”