Senate Gives $500 billion to FDIC
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) is moving to allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department.

Another Obama Nominee Steps Down
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, has withdrawn his name from consideration as surgeon general of the United States, he said Thursday.

US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas industry
U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday. It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.

Obama intel chief violating Iran sanctions?
President Obama's nominee for a top intelligence post sits on the board of a major oil company owned by the Chinese government that is in the midst of a multibillion dollar deal with Iran which may violate U.S. sanctions, WND has learned. Charles "Chas" Freeman is slated to head the U.S. National Intelligence Council. Since 2004, Freeman has been on the international advisory board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

Obama’s False Numbers
President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way: with a mischaracterization of data. “The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds," Obama said at the opening of his White House forum on health care reform. The problem: That claim, based on a 2001 survey, is simply unsupportable.

Obama tax hike meets Democratic resistance
President Barack Obama's proposal to limit itemized tax deductions for high earners is running into opposition from key Democrats in Congress who worry that charities and the housing market would be hurt. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus questioned Wednesday whether the proposal was viable, a day after his House counterpart also expressed reservations. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said tax increases on families making more than $250,000 a year are necessary to make a down payment on health care reform and to limit future budget deficits. But, he said, he was willing to work with lawmakers on proposals they objected to.

Pence Agrees with Rush
Congressman Mike Pence tells it like it is! Yes, I hope Obama’s policies fail!

Botched Abortion Baby Thrown Away By Abortionist
A Hialeah abortion clinic owner's lawyer this afternoon said his client will plead not guilty to accusations she delivered a live baby during a botched procedure and then threw the infant away.

Obama can’t speak without teleprompter
President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks. Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a manufacturing plant in Indiana as he pitched his economic stimulus plan. They traveled to the Department of Transportation this week and were in the Capitol Rotunda last month when he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in six-minute prepared remarks. Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual – not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events large and small.

Palin bucks pressure in Supreme Court appointment
Governor Sarah Palin has selected Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, on the bench since 2002, to the high court. Christen's application included her membership in several charitable groups, including some from her past, but did not mention that she was on the board of Planned Parenthood in the mid-1990s. The organization, which didn't provide abortions in Alaska until 2003, is now on the opposite side of a Palin-supported bill to require girls under 17 to get parental consent for an abortion.

The Man! Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman, conservative economist, schools Phil Donahue on Capitalism!

She won't be in Kansas anymore
It occurred to me the White House might be forced to nominate radically pro-abort Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Department of Health and Human Services secretary after news leaked last week it was pausing due to her loathsome reputation among pro-lifers. Fear of pro-abortion recrimination, pride, whatever. But it never occurred to me a pro-lifer legislator would applaud the pick, never mind two. But that's what happened when Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts issued a glowing joint statement congratulating their home girl.

Those Who Oppose Sebelius are just Pro-Life Terrorists
Chris Matthews has been on the pro-abortion side of the debate since before his time as a top Congressional aide for abortion advocates. Now the MSNBC host has gone overboard by referring to pro-life advocates who oppose pro-abortion Health Secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius as terrorists. During his program "Hardball" on Monday night, Matthews worried that Sebelius would become the target of "the terrorism of the, of the anti-abortion people."

Lobbyist for Late-Term Abortion Practitioner Tiller Praises Kathleen Sebelius
A lobbyist for late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller is praising President Barack Obama's nomination of pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius as his Health Secretary. Sebelius has had a long and controversial relationship with the embattled abortion practitioner during her tenure as Kansas governor. In an editorial posted on the pro-abortion blog Rh Reality Check, Julie Burkhart, who recently made a false threat against a pro-life advocate, praises the Sebelius nomination. Burkhart calls the selection a reason for abortion activists to "breathe a sigh of relief" and she claimed Sebelius has "proven herself again and again to a broad spectrum of Kansans" by promoting abortion at every turn.

Kansas Chairs: Sebelius has done nothing for Kansas Health Care
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has done nothing in the area of health care in Kansas that qualifies her to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or to lead a promised reformation of the American health-care system. That’s the verdict of legislators who chair House committees that oversee health-related policy in Kansas and who have worked with the governor for years. “I think the governor is a really surprising choice for HHS secretary,” said Rep. Brenda Landwehr, a Wichita Republican who chairs the House Health and Human Services Committee. “She has done nothing in her six years in office to reform health care in Kansas." "All she has ever recommended as governor is expansion of existing programs," said Landwehr, "and if you want reform you have to change things, not simply expand what already exists.” Landwehr and Rep. Peggy Mast, an Emporia Republican who chairs the House Social Services Budget Committee, pointed to several recent actions by the governor that made them question her suitability for the Cabinet post.

New Catholic website protests Gov. Sebelius’ Cabinet nomination
Catholic opponents of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ nomination to become Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have launched a new website which decries her “extremist support for abortion” and solicits petition signatures protesting her nomination. The site www.catholicsagainstsebelius.org characterizes Gov. Sebelius, a Democrat and self-described Catholic, as “an avid supporter of the most radical abortion politics.”

Catholics Against Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius has long been an avid supporter of the most radical abortion policies.?In an interview published twenty years ago on October 29, 1989, in the Wichita Eagle, Sebelius, who was then a member of the Kansas House of Representatives said, “I think for me and a lot of other people, there are certain inalienable rights established for a person, but those are not applied in utero.”

Kansas Senate passes coal plants bill
The Senate has pushed a proposal for two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas a step closer to a promised veto by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Senators approved the measure Thursday on a 31-9 vote. It would allow Sunflower Electric Power Corp., based in Hays, to build the two plants near Holcomb in Finney County.

Kobach: Budget Woes Linked To How Justices Are Chosen
The House Judiciary Committee recently heard testimony on House Concurrent Resolution 5005, which would scrap the current Supreme Court Nominating Commission and replace it with the federal model -- allowing the governor broader discretion to pick nominees, but subjecting the nominees to Senate confirmation. At the hearing, no fewer than seven law professors showed up to testify. Five (including me) supported the proposal. Two defended the status quo. Twenty-two states use some form of nominating commission. But Kansas has the most extreme version in the country. Only Kansas gives its lawyers the power to select a majority of the commission's members. This creates an institutional bias that favors more power for courts and more profit for attorneys. Moreover, the commission makes its decisions behind closed doors without any accountability to the public. New research makes the picture even worse: The lawyer members of the commission tilt radically to the left and are out of sync with the majority of Kansans. Because federal campaign contributions are accessible on the Web, it is possible to chart the political allegiances of the members of the nominating commission. The results are shocking. Between 1987 and 2007, the lawyers on the commission gave a whopping 83 percent of their federal campaign contributions to Democrats. If they were representative of the people of Kansas, they'd be giving about 40 percent of their contributions to Democrats.

Kansas House approves two abortion bills
Women seeking abortions would get the option of seeing a fetal sonogram under legislation passed Wednesday by the Kansas House. The House also passed a second bill that would require providers to give state health officials the diagnoses used to justify late-term abortions.

Archbishop Naumann says Gov. Sebelius nomination ‘particularly troubling’
Archbishop of Kansas City Joseph F. Naumann has responded to Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ nomination to President Obama’s Cabinet, calling it “particularly troubling” that an “outspoken advocate of legal abortion” was chosen for the key position. He also raised concerns about her connections to abortion “rights” lobbying groups and Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller.

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them"

- President Ronald Reagan

From Proverbs 15:29
“A cheerful glance brings joy to the heart; good news invigorates the bones.”

Gospel According to Matthew 5:20-26

20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
21 "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, `You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.'
22 But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, `You fool!' shall be liable to the hell of fire.
23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25 Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; ?26 truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.

President Obama’s nomination of Governor Kathleen Sebelius to HHS

It comes as no surprise that a President who supports rationed healthcare initiatives would choose someone like Governor Sebelius who shares his views. Governor Sebelius has advocated for policies that would take Kansans off private health insurance onto taxpayer-funded health insurance. She has also promoted healthcare policies that would limit a patient’s freedom to work with a physician to choose the best treatments available.

"Under her leadership as governor of Kansas, our state went from budget surpluses to massive budget deficits. She has helped create more government jobs in the past six years than private sector jobs, and she has been an ardent opponent of expanded job creation in rural Western Kansas.

It is well known Governor Sebelius has a strong financial and political relationship with the abortion industry and with those who provide late-term abortions. I have serious concerns that these relationships would influence her decisions if she were to become Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Like President Obama, Governor Sebelius holds some liberal views that I cannot support.

From controversial social policies to growing the size of government, President Obama is building a cabinet whose members share his liberal ideological motivations. Governor Sebelius is par for the course.

Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas serves as the Ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS/Education) that approves funding and provides oversight for HHS.