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Archive for October, 2009

Senate To Vote On Health Plan With Public Option Opt-Out

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics

Call it the optional option:
Washington (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday that he intends to move forward with a health care bill including a public insurance option allowing states to opt out.
Reid, a Nevada Democrat, has been melding legislation from the more conservative Senate Finance Committee and the more liberal Senate Health, [...]

Not Exactly Trick Or Treat

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under In The News

A man in a Halloween mask robbed a bank in Loudoun County today:
An armed robber wearing a Halloween mask robbed a Loudoun County bank Monday morning, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash, authorities said.
The man, who wore a black hooded jacket over a dark-colored rubber mask with oversized white teeth, walked into the [...]

Why Are Republicans Holding Up A Vote On Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

This one doesn’t make any sense to me except as an exercise in pure naked partisanship:
A GOP stall on all Health and Human Services nominees has left the department without a surgeon general during a period of a global flu pandemic, prompting the HHS secretary to call for Senate action.
Regina Benjamin, the surgeon general nominee, [...]

Club For Growth Poll Shows Three-Way Statistical Tie In NY-23

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Politics

A new poll of New York’s 23rd Congressional District from the Club For Growth, which is backing Conservative Party Candidate Doug Hoffman in the race, effectively shows that the race is now a statistical dead heat among all three candidates:
Washington – A poll released today by the Club for Growth shows Conservative Party candidate Doug [...]

Scott Rasmussen Replies To Andrew Sullivan

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Politics

Scott Rasmussen has replied to Andrew Sullivan’s post about poll discrepancies which I blogged about earlier today:
I am fascinated with those who see a big difference between our Job Approval polling and other polls. In fact, there is no significant difference.
For a Democratic President, polls of all adults are typically going to show results about [...]

Roman Polanski Could Face Two Years In Prison If Extradited

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Celebrities, In The News

According to Swiss reports, Roman Polanski faces prison time if he’s returned to the United States:
ZURICH – Film director Roman Polanski could face two years in prison if extradited to the United States after fleeing sentencing in California on child sex charges in 1978, the Swiss justice ministry said.
“The United States want him to be [...]

Dead Tree Media Continues To Die

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Media

Yet another decline in newspaper circulation:
Newspaper sales moved sharply lower this year, falling about 10 percent in the six months ended Sept. 30 compared to the same period last year, according to figures released on Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Circulation has been sliding since the early 1990s, but in the last few years, [...]

Fox News Ratings Up Since Obama Administration Picked A Fight

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Media, Politics

Yet another sign that the Obama Administration’s war on Fox News isn’t working:
Reporting from New York – It’s been a long time since Fox News, which avidly cultivates its outsider status, got to play the underdog. But after White House aides recently labeled the top-rated cable news channel “a wing of the Republican Party” and [...]

Andrew Sullivan Needs To Learn To Read, And Maybe Understand Statistics

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Politics

Andrew Sullivan looks at this collection of polls from RealClearPolitics:

And says this:
Just looking at this raft of polling data, it’s perfectly clear that Rasmussen is polling a different country than other polling outfits. [...]

Orly Taitz Files Another Pleading Based On Fake “Evidence”

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, October 26th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

It seems Orly Taitz is at it again, this time she’s asking a Federal Judge to take “judicial notice” of a fact which is quite obviously untrue. Specifically, the claim that a June 2004 article from a newspaper in Kenya that referred the then Illinois State Senator as “Kenyan born:”
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, [...]

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