By David S. Broder Sunday, February 28, 2010   Two hours before President Obama opened his health-care summit, and two blocks away, a couple of dozen reporters gathered at the invitation of the Christian Science Monitor for a breakfast at which the reform proposal’s doom was foreshadowed. The guests for the group interview were [...]

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and ROBERT PEAR   Published: February 27, 2010 WASHINGTON — The future of President Obama’s health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats in the House of Representatives — abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives — whose indecision signals the difficulties Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces in securing the [...]

Feb 27, 2010 By Paul Howard FOXNews.com   Democrats signaled at the beginning of the week that they will try and ram their bill through with no Republican votes. That’s too bad, because the bill needs fixing. On Thursday, after Senator McCain took President Obama to task for not keeping his campaign promises, the president [...]

Feb 27, 2010 ATLANTA —  The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a multi-agency squad has seized more than $1.6 million in a joint narcotics investigation that spanned the country. The bureau tells WSB-TV in a story Saturday that agents arrested 12 suspects in Georgia and Louisiana in connection with the trafficking of marijuana. Agents said they [...]

Feb 27, 2010 AP   President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on [...]

Feb 27, 2010 FOXNews.com   President Obama is facing sharp criticism for his decision to nominate Tim Purdon as U.S. attorney in North Dakota , a nominee who critics say lacks sufficient experience and owes the nod — over more-qualified candidates — to his political connections. President Obama is facing sharp criticism for his decision [...]

Feb 27, 2010 FOXNews.com   Unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits will expire Sunday for millions of voters because the Senate was unable this week to pass a short-term extension, a failure that reflects partly the partisan gridlock that has stalled the Democratic legislative agenda and partly the Senate rules that allows one lawmaker to block [...]

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February 27, 2010   by Bill O’Reilly Rush Limbaugh recently mocked me because I do not call President Obama a socialist. Although I asked Obama to explain his “socialistic tenets” in my last interview with him, I have not branded him with the “S” word, because the label does not exactly apply to his governance [...]

February 26, 2010   by Hugh Hewitt It seems very likely that if Obamacare is going to be stopped, it will have to happen in the House. And that means turning some of supporters the deeply unpopular bill into opponents with at least enough spine to tell Nancy Pelosi and the president “No.” Thus the [...]