admin 28 October 2009Bizzare and Offbeat No CommentAP – Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that �under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions� he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president�s own health care plan�which has never been written. �I don�t know if it is a game of semantics or what,� Stupak said of Obama�s nationally televised declar

While Joe Lieberman finds new and exciting ways to screw over the Democratic Party (wow, I wish we had listened to this moron two years ago ), there is no shortage of campaign news as we are now within one week of Election Day 2009. NJ-Gov: New Polls All Over Map--New Numbers Coming Tomorrow? A pair of new surveys in the tight New Jersey gubernatorial election give Chris Christie a little bit of oxygen after a fairly long and fairly precipitous slide. Rasmussen has the Republican gettin

Harrycare in trouble: Dems bail, Lieberman supports filibuster By Michelle Malkin • October 27, 2009 01:56 PM FNC’s Major Garrett tweets that Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh is “uncommitted” on Harry Reid’s “public option” plan announced yesterday. Politico’s Manju Ranu reports that Joe Lieberman supports a GOP filibuster: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill. Lieberman, who caucuse

CNSNews.com reports : Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written . “I don’t know if it is a game of semantics or what,” Stupak said of Obama’s na