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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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Meltdown 101 The importance of same-store sales
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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Broadcasts to mobile devices to start in 22 cities
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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New TV trends Internet movies, 3-D, power saving
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN halts Gaza aid, truce resolution deal approved
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN Security Council calls for Gaza cease-fire
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN Security Council calls for immediate Gaza truce
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN calls for immediate cease-fire in Gaza
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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Pope Benedict jokes about hoarse voice
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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CLEARING THE AIR ON SCHIP?
October 20, 2007 -
October 27, 2007
Last week the U.S. House failed to override President Bush’s veto of legislation that would have reauthorized and expanded health insurance coverage under the SCHIP program by $35 billion over the next five years. The Senate had the votes to override the veto, but the Senate leadership opted to wait for the House to act before scheduling their own vote on the matter. Tennessee Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker both voted for the legislation and would have voted to overturn the President’s veto had they been given the opportunity.
As new legislation is drafted to reauthorize and expand this important health insurance coverage program for poor children it will be more important than ever for Tennessee’s Senators to understand what the bill actually says BEFORE they cast their votes. They clearly failed to do that when they voted for the version of SCHIP that President Bush vetoed.
For example, both Senators have claimed that the version they supported would not have provided illegal aliens access to taxpayer funded health insurance. That is simply not true. Section 605 of the bill did indeed provide: “Nothing in this Act allows Federal payment for individuals who are not legal residents.” But, as is so often the case, the devil is in the details.
Section 211 of the bill dealt with verification of citizenship for purposes of determining eligibility for the program. Under the proposed law the applicants would only have been required to submit a name and social security number, which would then be verified with the Social Security Administration, to qualify for SCHIP coverage.
The current law requires states to determine whether persons applying for SCHIP are U.S. citizens. That requirement is satisfied by having applicants show specified types of identity documents, like drivers’ licenses, passports or birth certificates, when they apply for these programs. But the bill supported by Corker and Alexander would have substantially weakened those requirements and made it easier for both legal and illegal aliens to break the law. None of that documentation would have been required under the law Tennessee’s Senators supported.
In fact, Michael Astrue, the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, confirmed that the new SCHIP provisions would fail to identify and therefore would not prevent illegal aliens from fraudulently using another person’s valid name and Social Security number to get health coverage under SCHIP. Individuals who illegally overstayed a valid work permit would also not be detected under the weakened provisions of the law. Bottom line? Illegals were being provided with a huge loophole to gain access to SCHIP coverage.
There were a lot of landmines tucked away in the amnesty bill for illegals a few months ago. The same thing happened with the SCHIP bill. When dealing with the voluminous bills that come before Congress, Senators Alexander and Corker need to make sure they conduct fair, full and skeptical analysis rather than simply relying upon the Cliffnote versions provided by advocates of the legislation. At the very least they should rigorously follow Ronald Reagan’s advice to “trust, but verify.”
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THOMPSON STEPS UP FOR FIRST DEBATE. -
October 7, 2007 -
October 14, 2007
In the roughly four weeks since Fred Thompson made his campaign for the Republican nomination for President official there have already been a lot of significant moments. His first visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, his first quarterly fundraising report, several major media interviews have all been among the big steps that Thompson has taken. None, however, is bigger than a Tuesday night date in Detroit, Michigan with his fellow Republican candidates for his first major debate.
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CHEAP LABOR IS PROVING TO BE VERY COSTLY. -
October 1, 2007 -
October 7, 2007
Those who favor continuing to allow illegal aliens to flood into the U.S. regularly tout our supposed need for “cheap labor” as the primary justification for ignoring our immigration laws. Unfortunately, for U.S. taxpayers this “cheap labor” is proving to be incredibly expensive.
Earlier this year, Robert Rector and his colleagues at the Heritage Foundation sought to quantify the burden that is being imposed on American taxpayers by the 12 to 17 million illegals that currently reside in... |
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DOBSON'S CHOICE -
September 21, 2007 -
September 28, 2007
For the second time in six months Focus on the Family Founder James Dobson has launched an ambush-style attack on Fred Thompson – before ducking for cover behind his “spokesmen.”
In late March Dobson told a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report that he did not believe Thompson, who was then beginning to consider a race for the Republican nomination for President, to be a “Christian.” When the quote was published Dobson claimed, through a spokesman, that he meant that he didn’t thin... |
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FRED ENTERS FROM STAGE RIGHT -
September 9, 2007 -
September 16, 2007
Fred Thompson has finally moved from “testing the waters” to “diving into” the race for President. In a three-day barnstorming tour of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina over the weekend Fred was greeted by a combination of enthusiastic supporters and curious voters who may have picked another candidate but who remain willing to change their minds. The weekend of campaigning started with a high-profile announcement of Thompson’s intent to seek the Presidency during a visit with Jay Leno on “... |
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HSU'S ON FIRST: TAINTED MONEY FLOWS INTO TENNESSEE -
September 2, 2007 -
September 9, 2007
The Tennessee media has apparently not figured it out yet, or maybe they are just covering it up, but some of the money from California fugitive and shady Democratic Party moneyman Norman Hsu has rolled into Tennessee. Hsu, who has been one of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s top fundraisers, entered a guilty plea to felony grand theft in California fifteen years ago after being charged with swindling investors. He reportedly agreed to serve three years in prison as part of his plea, but... |
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