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  • Showing more leg?

    BackyardConservative

    I don't know. Warmer weather is here, though hit and miss. In my teens, minis were in fashion, in my prime working years, maxis. (Or in hippie realms, granny gowns were the bees knees--painful to think of now, I know)

    There are still classics that wear well, like a[...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 2:44pm EDT
  • Reversing Antidepressant Weight Gain

    Susieqtpies Scraps of Life

    Number of comments: 1
    Reversing Antidepressant Weight Gain(Thanks to FSB Associates for this article!) By Judith J. Wurtman, PhD, Co-author of The Serotonin Power Diet: Eat Carbs -- Nature's Own Appetite Suppressant -- to Stop Emotional Overeating and Halt Antidepressant-Associated Weight Gain Antidepressants have been associated with weight gain since they were first used about 50 years [...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 2:33pm EDT
    by Susieqtpies
  • Webliography: `Deem and pass.'

    Change of Subject


    Selected readings on the "deem and pass" issue.

    In the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier used the self-executing rule more than 35 times, and was no stranger to the concept of “deem and pass.” That strategy, then decried by the House Democrats [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:57pm EDT
    by Eric Zorn
  • Obama on Tiger Woods

    sweet

    WASHINGTON--President Obama was charitable in his comments about Tigers Woods when he was asked about the star golfer--who cheated on his wife in multiple affairs playing in the upcoming Masters tournament.

    Fox News Bret Baier put a Woods question to Obama at the end of a Wednesday interview.

    Baier told [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:53pm EDT
    by Lynn Sweet
  • Paul Ryan on with Rush

    BackyardConservative

    More taxes, more Medicare cuts to pay for more spending to get these votes. Penalties on small business.

    ...We've seen the CBO estimates but we haven't see the bill that they're based on. Ryan's working back from what the CBO has handed out. (The Dems are still fooling around' [...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:49pm EDT
  • Obama's Asian trip postponed

    The Swamp

    by Mark Silva

    The Obama White House, which already had pushed a planned Pacific and Asian trip back three days because of the ongoing healthcare debate, announced today that Obama will delay his trip to Guam, Australia and Indonesia until June.

    With the earliest time for a House vote [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:10pm EDT
    by Mark Silva
  • Words mean things in the battle over health care

    illinoisreview

    Number of comments: 6

    by Henry W. Meers, Jr.

    With IR full of comments on Obama’s healthcare plan, we had better not lose sight of the fundamental differences between conservative Republicans and the Democrats running Springfield and Washington. The Democrats have set a very effective semantic trap for us, and we walked right into it. [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 11:47am EDT
    by IR
  • Feds buying Thomson prison regardless

    The Swamp

    by Christi Parsons

    The Obama administration plans to purchase a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., regardless of whether Congress allows terrorist suspects to be transferred there, a Department of Justice official said today.

    In a letter to a member of the Illinois delegation to Congress, Asst. Atty. Gen. [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 11:36am EDT
    by Mark Silva
  • Question of the day

    Capitol Fax

    Number of comments: 10
    * The setup… When he was lieutenant governor, Gov. Pat Quinn supported a beverage container deposit bill that would have imposed a 5-cent deposit on wine, alcoholic liquor and beer containers, along with bottles and cans holding soft drinks, tea, coffee, juice and water. His argument was that such containers constitute 40 [...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 11:34am EDT
    by Rich Miller
  • Obama signs jobs bill. "Let's get to work." Transcript

    sweet

    THE WHITE HOUSE

    Office of the Press Secretary
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    For Immediate Release March 18, 2010

    REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
    BEFORE SIGNING THE HIRE ACT

    Rose Garden

    11:20 A.M. EDT

    THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Please have a [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 11:29am EDT
    by Lynn Sweet
  • More on the Kirk-Obama kerfuffle

    Capitol Fax

    Enclosure: [download]
    Number of comments: 10
    * Congressman Mark Kirk said far more at that event earlier this week than previously reported. As we’ve already discussed, media coverage has mostly focused on Kirk’s referring to President Obama as “this guy” when talking about how Obama could be made a one-termer and then his health insurance reform [...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 10:11am EDT
    by Rich Miller
  • GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - March 18, 2010

    ILLINOIZE

    Articles of interest to Illinois Republicans recently posted by ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Daily Herald, Suburban Chicago News, Suburban Life, Pioneer Local, Southtown Star, Rockford Register Star, Bloomington Pantagraph, Peoria Journal Star, Springfield State Journal Register, Belleville News Democrat, Southern Illinoisan, Illinois Review, Public [...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:48am EDT
  • Race for Obama's seat draws national attention

    illinoisreview

    Number of comments: 6

    That headline probably isn't the best, with Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Mark Kirk's using a new motto, "This isn't Obama's seat, it's the people's," drafting off U.S. Senator Scott Brown's galvanizing quip during the Massachusetts campaign winning Ted Kennedy's seat for the Republicans in January.

    Indeed, Kirk's line is the focus' [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:25am EDT
    by IR
  • On the brink

    Capitol Fax

    Number of comments: 10
    * There’s talk of bankruptcy in East St. Louis. With property tax revenues down and gaming proceeds from the local riverboat tanking, the city is facing a $5 million budget shortfall and is having a rough time meeting its payroll… Two councilmen said the city may be looking at filing [...]
    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:23am EDT
    by Rich Miller

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