Right Angles (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In the last 45 minutes or so, both Rep. Virginia Foxx and Rep. Howard Coble have joined the House debate on the freedom-killing bill that would give the federal government control over the health care decisions of every American.
jobsanger (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
As we all know, the Republicans have had virtually nothing to offer in the way of health care reform. It seems like the only thing they are interested in is protecting the obscene profits of the huge private insurance companies. One thing the Republicans have especially opposed is the creation of a public option for health insurance -- something along the lines of Medicare for Americans of all ages...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Amanda Carpenter: An upstart group trying to displace the powerful American Israel lobby has attracted President Obama's national security adviser to its first big meeting next week, but the event is also being shunned by Israel's U.S. ambassador and several members of Congress because of its views and ties to controversial figures. J Street was formed a year and half ago as a more liberal alternative...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Michael Goldfarb writes: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has confirmed that North Carolina Republican Howard Coble has become the latest member of Congress to have his name pulled from the host committee for J S...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The vile anti-Jewish J Street is being shunned by K street, Congress, and anyone with an once of a basic human decency. Only Obama sanctioned this stain on humanity. Another revolting notch in the belt of the enemy in the White House. Daniel F sent this: They're heading for the exits at anti-Zionist George Soros's vanity production, J Street. The Weekly Standard has the latest tally of politicians...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has confirmed that North Carolina Republican Howard Coble has become the latest member of Congress to have his name pulled from the host committee for J Street's inaugural conference. Coble spokesman Ed McDonald said that when Coble was first asked whether he would add his name to the list, he was told it was a "pro-Israel group" and said "no problem." McDonald...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The names of Reps. John Salazar (CO-03) and Ed Towns (NY-10) have been scrubbed from the list of congressmen serving on the host committee for J Street's inaugural conference. That brings to ten the number of congressmen, Republicans and Democrats, senators and representatives, who have bailed on J Street after learning that, contrary to their promotional materials, they are not a pro-Israel group....
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
During the presidential campaign last year, a woman told Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting that she couldn’t trust then Sen. Barack Obama because she had read that he was an Arab. McCain replied that while he had disagreements with Obama, she shouldn’t be afraid of him, because he was a citizen and decent family man, and not an Arab. McCain left the implication that Arabs could not...
All About domains (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Coble troubled by Internet domain names Howard Coble doesn’t seem like the most likely character to be involved in a dispute over Internet domain names. The 78-year-old Greensboro Republican is more likely to get on the phone with an angry constituent than answer an angry e-mail in kind. But a letter the long-time member of the House Judiciary Committee co-authored to ICANN — the Internet...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Just days prior to the expiration of the final Joint Project Agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the US Dept. of Commerce, effectively letting the DOC's oversight over ICANN lapse, the CEO of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, informed ranking Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee and its key Subcommittee on Courts and Competition,...
DomainsBot News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Rod Beckstrom New ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded to the concerns regarding additional gTLDs raised by two of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s top Republicans, Lamar Smith and Howard Coble, saying that “the new gTLD policy development is the very type of process that the United States government envisioned, supported and encouraged through three presidential [...]
The Web Scene (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The top two Republicans on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee recently sent a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom to express their concern about several issues regarding the organization, including its plans to introduce a number of new top-level domains (TLDs). In their letter, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) said that [...]
Wampum (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Susie sent this link to a post at CT by Michael Bérubé. Michael manages not to point out that Marcos was in it for the money, and that Jane followed the same guiding light, that Josh became expert on DOI-DOJ corruption overnight, without cites, following the same Veleyat-e Faqih (source of imitation), and each self-promoter had hundreds of willing accomplices, along for the ride up the...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Joe Wilson's war Hours after South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson was formally rebuked by his colleagues in the House for screaming "You lie!" at the president during a joint session of Congress last week, G2 was on Capitol Hill for a reception for the Entertainment Industries Council's Prism Awards, which honor entertainers who destigmatize mental illness and substance abuse recovery....
PageantCast News Desk (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
clipped from missnorthcarolinainternational09.blogspot.com While many little girls dream of someday donning a pageant queen’s crown, Summerfield’s Julie Tesh, Miss North Carolina International, wasn’t inspired to enter the pageant life until she was a freshman in college at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “I’d never thought about doing pageants before,”...
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