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December 2010

December 22, 2010 - DeMint vows to reverse FCC Internet takeover  Click here ; No Congress Since '60s Makes as Much Law as 111th Affecting Most Americans  Click here ; Biting winters driven by global warming   (Please)  Click here ; U.N. Passes Religious ‘Defamation’ Resolution Sponsored by Islamic Nations, But Support Dwindles   Click here ; Screening the Credit History of Job Applicants Is Discriminatory, EEOC Says  Click here ; Zsa Zsa's Hubby Accidentally Glues Eye Shut   Click here

December 21, 2010 - FCC gives government power to regulate web traffic  Click here ; Automakers sue EPA over ethanol blend  Click here ; Stricter rules for entry are ignored at the border  Click here ; Obama Announces Support for UN Resolution Stating 'Indigenous Peoples Have the Right to the Lands ... They Have Traditionally Owned, Occupied or Otherwise Used or Acquired'   Click here ; Census shows slowing US growth, gains for GOP  Click here ; Bill Clinton PETA's Person of the Year  Click here

December 20, 2010 - Straight Troops Must Shower With Gays, Says DOD Working Group  Click here ; $2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities  Click here ; Govt 'creating vast domestic snooping machine'  Click here ; The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom   Click here ; Democrats put heat on FCC commissioner on net neutrality vote  Click here ; Audacity of 'austerity,' 2010 Word of the Year   Click here

December 17, 2010 - Bill Preventing Big Tax Hikes Heads to Obama  Click here ; The Omnibus Falls  Click here ; 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' DREAM Act head to Senate for weekend vote  Click here ; Health judge fears 'broccoli' mandate   Click here ; Mummified forest provides climate change clues  Click here ; Feds force OK bank to remove crosses, Bible verse  Click here

December 16, 2010 - GOP will paralyze Senate by having entire omnibus bill read aloud  Click here ; Pelosi scrambles to save tax bill  Click here ; Another challenge to Arizona immigration law dismissed  Click here ; Surgeon-General’s Report on Tobacco Called ‘Unscientific and Potentially Unethical’   Click here ; Food prices rise sharply - and there's more to come  Click here ;Christmas tree must be surrounded by other objects at Oregon school  Click here

December 15, 2010 - DeMint wants to have the omnibus spending bill read on the Senate floor  Click here ; Conservatives join liberal critics of tax plan  Click here ;Poll: Public not yet sold on GOP  Click here ; Washington Post fails to publish own poll on ObamaCare  Click here ; Activist Hollywood Wrong Again: No Cancer Increases in ‘Erin Brockovich' Town  Click here ; Smoker's suit wins award of $71 million  Click here

December 14, 2010 - Huge senate majority advances tax package  Click here ;Reid threatens to keep Congress into next year  Click here ;Green jobs not growing as expected  Click here ; Christian hotel owners in court for denying gay couple a bed  Click here ; Holbrooke's death leaves major void in Obama's Afghan strategy  Click here ; Fake congressional lapel pins available at Capitol Hill gift shops  Click here

December 13, 2010 - Federal judge strikes down health care law  Click here ; Michelle Obama on Deciding What Kids Eat: ‘We Can’t Just Leave it Up to The Parents'   Click here ; House Dems want to change tax bill before vote   Click here ; In Haiti, good intentions have unexpected and unfortunate results  Click here ; Climate Change is ‘One of the Greatest Threats Facing Our Planet,’ Says Agriculture Secretary Vilsack  Click here ; Pilot duped AMA with fake M.D. claim  Click here

December 10, 2010 - Tax Package Appears Headed for Senate Passage; Test Vote Set for Monday  Click here ; Items added to tax cut bill to draw support   Click here ; Sen. Sanders to rich: 'When is enough, enough?'   Click here ; Irony alert: the unusually chilly global warming summit  Click here ; New York Fire Department to institute 'crash tax'  Click here ; Have a green Christmas: rent a tree  Click here

December 9, 2010 - House Democrats reject tax plan unless changed  Click here ; Democrats delay action on DREAM act   Click here ; GOP gets queasy over earmark ban   Click here ; Most Americans say they're worse off since Obama took office  Click here ; Freeze brings Paris to a standstill  Click here ; 16 billionaires agree to give away fortunes  Click here

December 8, 2010 - Fiscal Conservatives Say 'No Deal' to Obama-GOP Tax Compromise  Click here ; Obama Defends Tax Compromise to Skeptical Democrats, As Some on Both Sides See ‘Second Stimulus’   Click here ; Republicans slam DREAM act for including illegals with criminal records  Click here ; House Republicans Unite Behind Key Committee Chairmen  Click here ; High school hunter faces expulsion over gun locked in trunk  Click here ; Goodbye to bake sales thanks to nutrition bill  Click here

December 7, 2010 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in U.K.  Click here ; Obama seeks to deflect anger in Democrat Party over tax deal   Click here ; FCC push to regulate news draws fire  Click here ; Civil rights panel faults Justice on Black Panthers  Click here ; Supreme Court to hear global warming case  Click here ; NYC Taxi Drivers Urged to Use Racial Profiling in Passenger Pickups   Click here

December 6, 2010 - GOP, Democrats nearing deal on jobless benefits, temporary extension of Bush-era tax rates   Click here ; WikiLeaks sold classified intel, claims website co-founder Click here ; Retail pump prices hit 26-month high  Click here ; Gay and lesbian teens are punished more at school  Click here ; Petition aims to protect illegal Mexican immigrants  Click here ; Venezuela's Chavez blames capitalism for torrential rains  Click here

December 3, 2010 - Weak Jobs Data Dash Hopes of Accelerating Recovery   Click here ; House passes child nutrition bill  Click here ; Increase in cost of unemployment insurance slams Colorado firms  Click here ; FCC Commissioner Wants to Test the 'Public Value' of Every Broadcast Station  Click here ; Editorial: Wave goodbye to Internet freedom  Click here ; Women's bathroom in House: $200K   Click here

December 2, 2010 - Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond banks to industry, foreign firms  Click here ; EPA head Lisa Jackson prepared for battle with GOP  Click here ; Midwest senators counter colleagues' bid to kill ethanol subsidies  Click here ;Health insurance premiums surge 41 percent  Click here ; Tea partiers resist GOP healthcare repeal tactic  Click here ; ‘Misleading’ Andy Griffith Ads Cost Taxpayers $3 Million, Gov’t Documents Show   Click here

December 1, 2010 - Federal judge throws out challenge to Obamacare  Click here ; WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange  Click here ; US Ready to Back Bigger EU Stability Fund  Click here ; Energy Secretary: U.S. Does Not Need '100 Percent Certainty' To Act On Climate Change  Click here ; Ray LaHood: Street sign regulations 'make no sense'  Click here ; 'Christmas Village' becomes 'Holiday Village' -  Please!  Click here

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