Meet-Up: Conservative Cafe, February 13th

Tired of Big Government? Join us the Tea Party of Lake County
2nd SATURDAY of the Month
1:00pm Meet-Up
Conservative Cafe
Crown Point, IN
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Please take the three POLLING QUESTIONS (Indiana voters only) in upper left corner. Thank you.

White House announces televised health meet

President Barack Obama is planning to host a televised meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders on health care reform.
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Dem. Ill. lt. gov. candidate exits race amid furor

CHICAGO (AP) – The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination amid a political uproar about his past.
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Money for victims disappears from politicians’ Katrina charity

Only $1,392 of at least $31,000 raised to help Katrina families was paid, tax records show, and just about everybody involved with the charity — including the two Democratic pols — claim ignorance as to where the rest of the money went.
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India to ‘pull out’ of UN ‘global warming’ panel

The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.
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McCain Feeling Primary Heat From His Right Flank

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republicans’ standard-bearer in 2008, is facing a surprisingly strong primary challenge from the right, evidence that even party leaders aren’t safe from the swell of conservative activism heading into the 2010 midterm elections.
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Congress passes pay-go, record debt hike

Congress approved a record $1.9 trillion debt ceiling increase Thursday together with Democratic-backed legislation to reinstate “pay-go” rules credited with helping to rein in deficits in the 1990s.
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House faces tough vote on $1.9 trillion more debt

WASHINGTON (AP) – Facing a politically excruciating vote, House Democratic leaders are counting on new budget deficit curbs to help smooth the way for a bill allowing the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper into debt over the next year – or about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident.
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Tea leaves: Republican establishment still rules

Defying predictions from last year, early evidence suggests that party leaders and even most grass-roots activists are more interested in winning elections than in ideological bloodletting.
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Muslim chaplain ’smuggled’ box-cutter blades into jail

A city Department of Correction Muslim chaplain who served 14 years in prison for murder and robbery was arrested today for carrying three utility blades and a pair of scissors into a lower Manhattan jail, authorities said.
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