News You Need to Know 24Dec09
- Christmas Eve and Christmas at NewsReal
NewsReal will be featuring fewer than usual posts on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We wish everyone a very merry Christmas. We’ll be back at it in full force on Monday and with more new content on Saturday.
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- Blockade Iran Now! No More Deadline Extensions
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has rejected a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration to a nuclear deal brokered through the United Nations:
They say we have given Iran until the end of the Christian year. Who are they anyway? It is we who have given them an opportunity.
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- Senate OKs health care measure, reaching milestone – AP
Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama’s legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country’s history.
“We are now finally poised to deliver on the promise of real, meaningful health insurance reform that will bring additional security [...] - Imam Linked to Ft. Hood Rampage Believed to Be Among 30 Al Qaeda Killed in Airstrike – FOXNews.com
The radical Muslim imam linked to the rampage at Fort Hood reportedly is believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that may have also taken out the region’s top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants.
The raid in Yemen’s east targeted an Al Qaeda leadership meeting held to organize terror attacks. U.S. officials [...] - Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion – AP
The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year.
The Senate’s rare Christmas Eve vote, 60-39, follows House passage last week and raises the debt ceiling by $290 billion. [...] - Carter Says Sorry to Jews, Apology Not Linked to Grandson’s Political Ambitions – FOXNews.com
Jimmy Carter’s recent apology to Jews for actions he acknowledged have stigmatized Israel is not timed to a decision by his grandson on whether to enter Georgia politics, the former president told an online Jewish news agency this week.Atlanta attorney Jason Carter, 34, is debating whether to run for Georgia’s state Senate from the district [...]
- Chairman Grinch Is Not Going to Steal My Christmas
As pictures of the Senate chamber filled the screen and a scrolling news ticket promised that Thief-In-Chief, Obama would soon address the masses on the triumph of his nationalization of medicine, the voice-over of a reacting viewer could be heard on C-Span this morning:
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- Pakistan’s Christians receive text messages warning of a “special Christmas present”
Islamic Tolerance Alert: Already left homeless by a Muslim rampage in August that saw eight Christians burned alive, the remaining Christians of Gojra cannot celebrate Christmas without looking over their shoulders. “Pakistan Christians celebrate Christmas in fear,” by Elena Becatoros for the Associated Press, December 24: GOJRA, Pakistan – No…
- The Birth of A New America: How the Left Is Replacing God with Government
“Religion is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness.”
- Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of RightPresident Obama is desperate to have the health care bill signed, sealed and delivered on Christmas Eve. So desperate, in fact, the First Family [...]
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- Five U.S. Muslims ask for asylum in Pakistan in name of jihad — Pakistan court says no
It isn’t a crime in Pakistan to wage jihad. But the Pakistani court, perhaps mindful of all those American billions (not that anything could really jeopardize them), punted. “Pak court rejects asylum petition for 5 American Muslims,” from the Press Trust of India, December 24 (thanks to James): LAHORE: A…
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