Chris Dodd's Wife Financially Tied to Health Companies

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Jackie Clegg Dodd, the wife of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), sits on the board of four health organizations from which she collected at least $4,000 in director's fees in 2008, according to

Dodd's recently released personal financial disclosure reports. (Dodd had filed for an extension to the May 15 deadline.)

Those groups include:

* Assisted living facility and retirement community, Brookdale Senior Living, Inc.
* Drug maker Cardiome Pharma Corp.
* Drug maker Javelin Pharma Inc.
* Non-profit Public Welfare Foundation

Dodd's wife also sits on the board of Pear Tree Pharmaceutical, which gave her less than $1,000 in director's fees, according to the senator's disclosure reports.

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Americans Against Obama Healthcare

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"By a 50-42 margin, Americans oppose the House of Representatives' bill introduced July 14," said S. Ward Casscells, M.D., vice president of external affairs and public policy and the John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor in Cardiology at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. "This bill would call for most employers to sponsor health plans and would also create a Medicare-like plan for those under 65 who have no other health plan. The increased costs would be covered by increasing income taxes on individuals making more than $280,000 and families making more than $350,000."

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Leftists Starting to Think Obama not 'Cool' Anymore?

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On Monday, the president's audience snickered, while he didn’t crack a smile, and it took a few moments for him to adjust to reading his remarks without looking to his left, where there was now just an empty pole.

On Tuesday, Obama was put to another test: throwing out his first pitch as president. He had practiced with Reggie Love. He got advice from Willie Mays. But the pitch was a bit of a lob and while it didn’t hit the ground, it also didn’t clear the plate, like Obama had wanted. It was fine. But not the impressive performance some expected from the athletic president.

Even his hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, said he was “lacking in style points on his short southpaw lob to home plate.”

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Iowa: Branstad Would Defeat Culver by 16 pts

Question: If the elections for Governor were held today, and the candidates were Terry Branstad and Chet Culver, who would you vote for between Terry Branstad, the Republican candidate and Chet Culver, the Democratic candidate?

Branstad: 53%
Culver: 37%
Don’t Know: 6%
Neither: 4%

Source: Concordia Group via The Iowa Republican

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Russian Navy facing 'irreversible collapse'

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The Russian Navy is currently on the verge of 'irreversible collapse', according to a recent analysis published by the authoritative Moscow-based weekly - the Independent Military Review .

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Drudge Nabs Leftist Attempt to Hire Healthcare 'Grassroots' Workers

If you click on it now, you will notice that the link just takes you to an empty Craigslist page.


HIRING! 'Grassroots' work to promote Obama's healthcare pays $11-16 per hour...


In other words, this is just another Hire-a-Mob.

62% Think America on Wrong Track

Date	Right Direction	Wrong Track
JUL 5-12	32%	62%
JUN 29-JUL 5	34%	61%
JUN 22-28	37%	57%
JUN 15-21	37%	58%
JUN 8-14	38%	58%
JUN 1-7	36%	59%
MAY 25-31	37%	55%
MAY 18-24	37%	57%

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Sarah Palin and the Scum of the Earth

Check out this article about how the regular every-day people who love Sarah Palin are... well, the Scum of the Earth according to the mainstream media.

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Republicans Lead Generic Congressional Poll for 3rd Straight Week

Date	Dem	GOP
07-12-09	37%	40%
07-05-09	38%	41%
06-28-09	39%	41%
06-21-09	41%	39%
06-14-09	39%	39%

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Do Some Research!!!

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I found this paragraph in an article about how you could help New Orleans recover from this and that and the other:

ACORN

This organization is dedicated to helping low income families rebuild their homes. They help with the gutting and cleaning of my homes that were effected by Katrina. Since 2005, there have been about 15,000 volunteers and well over 400,000 hours of volunteer time, total. Since then they have saved about 3,000 homes. If your heart is in the less fortunate, you may want to check out their website.

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New Jersey: Christie Increases Lead Over Corzine to 12 pts

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The Quinnipiac University Poll out Tuesday has GOP candidate Chris Christie leading the incumbent Corzine by 53 percent to 41 percent among likely voters.

A June 10 Quinnipiac poll had Christie up by 10 points, 50-40 percent. The most recent polling was done after Corzine signed a $29 billion budget that increased taxes and trimmed tax rebates.

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Republicans Increase Lead in Generic Congressional Ballot

Date	Dem	GOP
07-05-09	38%	41%
06-28-09	39%	41%
06-21-09	41%	39%
06-14-09	39%	39%
06-07-09	40%	40%

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Republicans Lead Democrats on 8 of 10 Key Issues

Issue	Democrats	Republicans
Health Care	46%	42%
Economy	41%	46%
Education	41%	38%
Iraq	41%	45%
Nat'l Security	40%	49%
Abortion	39%	46%
Social Security	37%	42%
Taxes	36%	52%
Immigration	34%	40%
Gov't Ethics	33%	34%

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New Jersey Transit Officer Caught With 4 lbs of Marijuana in Car

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A suspended NJ Transit police officer has been indicted for having nearly four pounds of marijuana in his car, Attorney General Anne Milgram announced today.

Sgt. Barrington Williams, 47, of Irvington, was charged with official misconduct, drug possession with intent to distribute and possession of a gun during a drug offense.

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Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend: Obama More Catholic Than Pope

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While this is the standard left-wing spin of the papal document, as exemplified by AP and Reuters' coverage of it, the Democratic politician omitted that these three issues she names are secondary to the link that Benedict XVI made between “life ethics and social ethics, fully aware that ‘a society lacks solid foundations when, on the one hand, it asserts values such as the dignity of the person, justice and peace, but then, on the other hand, radically acts to the contrary by allowing or tolerating a variety of ways in which human life is devalued and violated, especially where it is weak or marginalized.” The pope would go on to condemn “the tragic and widespread scourge of abortion...the systematic eugenic programming of births....[and] practices... [which] foster a materialistic and mechanistic understanding of human life.”

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Gallup: Obama Reaches New Low

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Approve 56
Disapprove 36

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Palin Doing Well in 2012 Primary Poll

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New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte Resigns AG Position, May Run for Senate

New Hampshire [Republican] Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is resigning to explore a campaign for U.S. Senate.

Ayotte submitted her letter of resignation to Gov. John Lynch, effective Friday, July 17.

In a statement Tuesday, Ayotte says many people have urged her to run. She said she made her decision after discussing the matter with her husband, Joe.

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