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One thing we know for sure: If it is passed, ObamaCare will greatly increase abortions in this country by making them free. For the first time in over thirty years, abortion-on-demand will be funded by American taxpayers. In poll after poll, strong majorities of Americans oppose this for moral and religious reasons.

The White House is not responding to questions about House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R.-Ohio) renewed call for the resignation of Harry Knox, a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, who recently stood by his assertion that Pope Benedict XVI is “hurting people in the name of Jesus.”

His leading alternate approach would provide health insurance to perhaps 15 million Americans, about half what the comprehensive bill would cover, according to two people familiar with the planning.

It was the third straight month that new home sales fell and the percentage decline in January was the largest in a year. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected new home sales to increase to a 360,000 unit annual pace from December’s previously reported 342,000 units.

Napolitano instead described him generically as a “domestic extremist” and “never once used the phrase Islamic terrorism” or made any reference to Islam, jihad, or the ideology and mechanism that motivated ZAZI and his co-conspirators to plot attacks in New York, according to this source. Rather, Napolitano spoke of the “need to study and analyze the motivation behind these extremists, something that I thought should have been quite obvious based on the amount and type of evidence uncovered in that case, especially when speaking to a body of governors,” stated this source.

Inasmuch as Obamacare has a snowball’s chance in hell of passing (but did you see how much snow they got in hell last week?), everyone is wondering what President Obama is up to by calling Republicans to a televised Reykjavik summit this week to discuss socializing health care.

The Justice Department employs nine lawyers previously involved in the defense of terrorist detainees. This is a colossal conflict of interest. Just whose side are they on?

More than that, Inhofe, in releasing a GOP report questioning the science used to support cap-and-trade legislation, hinted that such activities may be part of a vast criminal enterprise designed to bilk governments, taxpayers and investors while enriching those making the false claims.

The report was an evaluation of the EPA’s current Technical Support Document (TSD), analyzing the endangerment of human health caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite the unpublished report’s argument that the TSD was not conclusive in its findings, the EPA told the White House that carbon emissions did indeed endanger the health and welfare of Americans.

posted at 9:30 am on February 24, 2010 by Ed Morrissey via Hot Air The SEIU’s Andy Stern may still get his weekly tete-a-tete with the President’s staff, and the industry he represents may share something in common with the President besides a radical agenda.  A new poll by Pew Research shows that the labor movement’s popularity among Americans has plummeted over the last three years.  In January 2007, unions had a favorability gap of 27 points with a solid […]