POLITICAL NEWS HEADLINES
with EXCERPTS...
Palin
story in Vanity Fair ignites GOP family feud...
Politico.com:
...A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin
in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of
insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket
– tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and
revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that
paralyzed the campaign in its final days...
Gallup:
more Americans see Democratic Party as too liberal...
Gallup.com:
...A Gallup Poll finds a statistically
significant increase since last year in the percentage of
Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being "too
liberal," from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying
so since November 1994, after the party's losses in that year's
midterm elections...
Democrats get super-majority with Franken ruling in Minnesota
senate race...
YahooNews.com/Reuters:
...Al Franken, a satirist turned
politician, was declared the winner of a Senate seat in Minnesota
on Tuesday, clearing the way for President Barack Obama's party to
secure a critical 60-seat majority in the Senate...
Proof of man-made global warming tanks, as
Pelosi crams Cap and Trade legislation...
WallStreetJournal/.com:
...Among the many reasons President
Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly
jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the
global warming tide is again shifting.
...The collapse of the "consensus" has
been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's
temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing
concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked
doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria,
extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has
politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require
them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon....

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