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Am I and about 40k of my readers and America to understand that Obamacare will pass? You mean to tell me that after all the polls that state that America does not want this bill, Obamacare will pass? You mean to tell me that after all the Townhall meetings that America told their elected officals that they don't want Obamacare will pass? You mean to tell me that day after day and week after week of Tea Parties stating they don't want this bill, Obamacare will pass? You mean to tell me that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is asking all female Democratic Members to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning to agree with Obamacare and that Obamacare will pass? Tou mean to tell me that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , still shoring up support for Obamacare that America has been vocal about not passing and Obamacare will pass? You mean to tell me that Rep. John Larson, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said he thinks Democrats already have the votes needed to pass ...

• NBC's Meet the Press :Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Fmr. Senior Adviser to President Bush Karl Rove and NYT's David Brooks and Thomas Friedman. • CBS' Face the Nation : White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), President of America's Health Insurance Plans Karen Ignagni. • ABC's This Week with Jake Tapper : White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), ABC News' George Will and Cokie Roberts, Democratic Political Strategist Anita Dunn, Chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee Ed Gillespie. • CNN's State of the Union (with Candy Crowley now) : White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH). • Fox News' Fox News Sunday : Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA), White House Press Secretary Rober...

Pakistani officials reverse their earlier reports. They now say the man seized in Karachi is a Pennsylvania native. By Alex Rodriguez Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The American Al Qaeda operative arrested in Karachi over the ...

Advertising Age teamed up with social-media trend-analytics service What the Trend to create the weekly Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands list. How does it work? From the Notes section at the bottom of the AdAge.com post: We broadly define "brands" to include major marketers (e.g., Apple) and branded products (e.g., iPad), as well as celebrity and entertainment brands (e.g., Lady Gaga , American Idol ). Ad Age works with WTT to consolidate multiple threads of brand chatter (e.g., Apple, iPad, iTampon, Apple Tablet) into one position on the chart when it's clear that related Twitter conversations are basically all about the same topic, even if they use different keywords. This week's top 10: 1: Oscars (including Sandra Bullock , Kathryn Bigelow , The Hurt Locker , Avatar , James Cameron , Academy Awards, Kathy Ireland , Red Carpet, Precious , Crazy Heart , Tyler Perry , Best Picture, Jeff Bridges , District 9 , Molly Ringwald , Zac Efron , SJP, Be...

The chief of staff for former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver a keynote address Wednesday at a symposium at Nova Southeastern University , examining accountability for crimes against humanity. Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, is set to speak at 6 p.m. at the Alvin Sherman Library on the school's main campus at 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd. Wilkerson's address will focus on the war against terrorism, including the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and the Patriot Act. The symposium will run from March 9 to March 11 and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 954-262-6329.

I use it too! The fast-growing citizen-journalism sector just got a new toy to play with, as TechCrunch described new iPhone app TwitCasting Live , which splits the iPhone screen in half, allowing users to record and broadcast video on the top half, while at the same time accessing their Twitter accounts or the Web on the bottom half. According to TechCrunch, TwitCasting Live users can tweet out a URL for their broadcasts, and their followers can click the links and watch (although without audio on other iPhones). The sessions can be archived on the TwitCasting site , as well. By David Cohen on Mar 05, 2010 05:54 PM

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivers the keynote address during Saviours' Day 2010. This speech took place on February 28th, 2010 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Barack Obama should not only try harder to kick his smoking habit, his team of doctors warned, but they also recommended 'moderation of alcohol intake'. It would seem the pressure of the U.S. presidency - and all those White House receptions - are taking their toll after the 48-year-old's first medical checkup since winning the race to the White House. The chief executive, who has endured an exhausting first year in the White House and year-long battles with congressional Republicans, should also eat better to lower his cholesterol, but was otherwise declared in excellent health and fit for duty. The White House physician, Navy Capt Jeffrey Kuhlman, said Obama should stick with 'moderation in alcohol intake' and ‘smoking cessation efforts’, the use of nicotine gum, and come back in August 2011 after he turns 50. Obama's cholesterol levels have crept up to borderline high and he should alter his diet accordingly, according to a report the White House ...

By Betsy Rothstein on Mar 01, 2010 08:54 AM President Obama's recent physical has revealed that the President is in great health. Still, the reports from members of the White House Press Corp. and others indicate he still needs to work on "smoking cessation." This morning's NYT story discusses Obama's 30-year smoking habit. Read it here . Read Time's Karen Tumulty's report here . See ABC Jake Tapper's "Political Punch" report here . On a different matter altogether, NBC's Luke Russert tweets,"Does anybody else find it weird that people are so interested in Mr. Obama's colon health?" And New York Daily News's Ken Bazinet : "Not a big surprise jock POTUS is declared to be in 'excellent health.' He's got to avoid the fries, but work hard/play hard is lesson here."

By Betsy Rothstein on Mar 01, 2010 03:44 PM Most senators amicably allow reporters onto elevators dubbed "Senators Only." Not Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) . ABC's Jonathan Karl had a bristly exchange with Bunning just outside one such elevator in the Hart Building -- Bunning was in the elevator and Karl was trying to get in there with him and pose a question about the senator's blocking a bill extending employment benefits. Bunning wasn't having it. Not only did he forbid Karl from entering the elevator, but, as reported by Politico's Glenn Thrush , gave an ABC producer, Zach Wolf , the finger. (In our photograph we see Bunning's use of his pointer finger.) Bunning has been in a foul mood as of late. Some may remember his "Tough Sh-t" utterance on the Senate floor last week. Watch the ABC video here . See Thrush's report here .

On February 25, 2010 our president will be in a meeting with officials from both parties, discussing a health bill that the U.S.A. does not want. The president will be at this meeting from 10a.m. till 4p.m. The U.S.A. is in a recession with high unemployment. We have troops all over the world. We are in two wars. Our government wants to talk health bill. Why? The proposed government health bill does nothing for prescriptions. So what is it they will be talking about? Our government is involved in almost every facet of our life. They are involved in most business except our health and now want the ability to dictate what care we may get. What does health care have to do with our government? Nothing! If our citizens want health care then let them decide in a free market what to get.

By: Jim Meyers In perhaps his harshest criticism yet of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Jeb Bush sharply chastised his successor, saying he had committed an “unforgivable” act by supporting President Barack Obama’s massive stimulus package. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Bush praised Crist as a “talented guy” and “about the nicest guy I’ve ever met in politics.” But he took Crist to task for enthusiastically backing what Bush called “a massive spending bill that is not related to stimulus. It is related to trying to carry out a liberal agenda.” Crist is running for the U.S. Senate, and is squaring off against former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio in the Republican primary. See Jeb Bush's Comments on Charlie Crist in Newsmax.TV's Video Interview below So far Bush has remained neutral in the race, but he told Newsmax he “might” decide to endorse one of the GOP candidates. Already his son Jeb Jr. is backing Rubio and ...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview that the Obama administration is charting a “dangerous course” as it pushes for a dramatic expansion of government. Bush predicted a “tsunami” of opposition will sweep away Democratic candidates this November , and a popular “uprising” is under way.

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Former NBA star Jayson Williams tearfully apologized in court where he was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002. (Feb. 23)

Rush Limbaugh was interviewed on William Shatner's "Raw Nerve" on A&E. In this clip of the show, Shatner asked Rush what is a conservative? Rush said that conservatives believe in the principles ...

The program that was to have featured kids ages 6 to 12 drew the agency's scrutiny after a complaint of possible improprieties was filed by a would-be contestant's father. By Meg James February 22, 2010 Allegations that Fox's shelved game show "Our Little Genius" might have been rigged has prompted an inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission into possible violations of federal rules that govern quiz shows. Revelations of the FCC probe follows the News Corp.-owned network's decision last month to yank the highly promoted program from its schedule only a week before it was supposed to premiere. Fox took the unusual step after reality-show titan Mark Burnett, who was producing the program, informed the network that there was a problem with how the young contestants had been coached for the competition. The TV program was designed to showcase precocious children, ages 6 to 12, as they answered increasingly difficult questions in a bid to win thousands of d...

Computerworld - One of the more interesting people I've talked with in the last two years is a figment of his own imagination. "Craig Barth," the chief technology officer of Florida-based Devil Mountain Software, a company that makes and markets Windows performance metrics software, is, I have discovered, nobody. He doesn't exist. Barth is, in fact, a nom de plume , which is a fancy, French way of saying "alias." The real man behind the curtain is Randall C. Kennedy , a popular, sometimes outrageous blogger for and frequent contributor to Infoworld , a publication that like Computerworld is part of IDG. Kennedy's connection to InfoWorld was severed on Friday . The two, Barth and Kennedy, are one and the same. The problem was that I didn't know that. The problem was that Kennedy didn't tell me he was Barth, that I didn't figure out Barth was he, and that together, they were Devil Mountain. Devil Mountain's data, der...