Longtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted

Representative Henry A. Waxman of California ousted Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan from his post as chairman of the influential Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday, giving President-elect Barack Obama an advantage in his plans to promote efforts to combat global warming.

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SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

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Chavez Says Sustained Drop in Oil Prices Will Affect Venezuela

Oh, we’re crying crocodile tears for Chavez . . .

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his country isn’t immune to a global recession and will be affected by falling oil prices should they remain low for a prolonged period of time.

Chavez said Washington was to blame for the world economic slump that has contributed to a decline in crude prices. The country will confront the situation by strengthening its international reserves, he said in comments on state television.

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Interesting. So in return for the compassion he had for us when oil was nearing $150 a barrel, and the fact that it’s really OUR fault that oil is dropping like a rock, I believe he’s earned a response to his current plight.

So let me be the first offer these words of sympathy and encouragement:

Bite Me, Chavez.

Drip, Drip, Drip:

Six Agencies Illegally Scoured Joe the Plumber’s Records for Dirt, Including Office of the Attorney General, So That Information Could Be Turned Over to National Media

Wow! That “Sudden Fame Exception” to privacy wasn’t known by many, but it sure seems to have been known by partisan Democratic Ohio bureaucrats!

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What made our nation strong?

“This nation wasn’t founded on charismatic leaders. It was founded upon a principle. We were founded upon a consensus of individual liberty, limited government, and the rule of law, which includes private property. That’s the cohesiveness that keeps us together.”

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Michael Steele to Run For RNC Chair

Michael Steele, former Lt. Gov of Maryland, speaks to the delegates during the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center on Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount, Washington Post

Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele has decided to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, a move sure to shake up the evolving race for control of a party demoralized by broad losses at the ballot box earlier this month.

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Bring back Reagan . . .

Is this going to be 1982 when Reagan got us out of a recession or 1932 when Roosevelt exacerbated it? The biggest myth in economic history is that FDR’s New Deal got us out of the Great Depression.

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Coleman, Franken Battle Over Ballots

Read bout it at CBS News.

Obama’s Road to Damascus

History will record that Barack Obama’s first act of diplomacy as America’s president-elect took place two days after his election victory, when he dispatched his senior foreign-policy adviser, Robert Malley, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—to outline for them the forthcoming administration’s Mideast policy vis-à-vis those nations. An aide to Malley reports, “The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests” than has President Bush. The Bush administration, it should be noted, has rightly recognized Syria to be not only a chief supporter of the al Qaeda insurgency in Iraq, but also the headquarters of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the longtime sponsor of Hamas—the terrorist army whose founding charter is irrevocably committed to the annihilation of Israel. Yet unlike President Bush, Obama and Malley have called for Israel to engage in peace negotiations with Syria.

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Emanuel volunteers Americans to do ‘a lot’

‘If you’re worried about having to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes’

A video of a 2006 interview with now-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for president-elect Barack Obama

reveals plans for mandatory induction for all young adults into a civilian “force.”

“If you’re worried about, are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is yes,” Emanuel told the interviewer, a reporter who was podcasting for the New York Daily News at the time.

You’ve got to read this.