tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 20, 2009, 5:31 am
HR 4130, entitled “Share the Sacrifice Act of 2010”, allows for an increase in Federal Income Tax to those earning as little as $22,600 per year in 2011. The Act is intended to offset the costs fo...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 19, 2009, 5:33 am
The decision by the Obama Administration to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, has come under fire from both Republicans and Democrats – giving th...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 18, 2009, 5:29 am
As the Nation, lately, is most likely to follow Massachusetts’ lead in matters of economic chaos (see Massachusetts Universal Health Care Debacle), Democrat Governor, Deval Patrick has renewed his c...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 17, 2009, 5:12 am
In a speech before the Economic Club of New York, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, predicted continued unemployment through 2010 yesterday. In addition, Bernanke noted that banks were less li...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 16, 2009, 5:21 am
A recent article in Politico suggested that the Democrat Party may lose the “Catholic Vote” in 2010 should abortion be included in the Health Care Reform plan that has gone to the Senate – the a...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 13, 2009, 5:06 am
Although the New York 23rd had not officially been called for Democrat Bill Owens, in the November 3rd Congressional Special Election, Nancy Pelosi swore him into office on two "technicalities": Conse...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 12, 2009, 5:34 am
The House, overseen by Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, narrowly passed a version of a Health Care Reform Act, last Saturday night – what saved Speaker Pelosi – exclusion of federal funding for abortion. T...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 11, 2009, 5:47 am
Veteran’s Day was originally called Armistice Day, as the day the final treaties were signed between the Allies and Germany in 1918, ending what was, at the time, considered the “Greatest War” I...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 10, 2009, 5:32 am
A CBS News report issued yesterday indicated “informed sources” suggested that the President would increase troop deployment to Afghanistan by up to 40,000 members. There are 68,000 U.S. troops c...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 9, 2009, 5:10 am
How large of a role did the American Catholic Church play in the passage of H.R. 3962, ? According to an article in Politico, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave in to anti-abortion Democrats, who refuse...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 8, 2009, 6:56 pm
Late Saturday Night, the Democrats, lead by Nancy Pelosi, rammed Universal Health Care through the House, with a mere 5 vote advantage. The Bill now must go to the Senate, where, as of this writing...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 6, 2009, 9:46 am
Unemployement figuresreleased today show a rate of 10%, or the highest unemployement rate since 1983, which was below the high of 11 plus percent under Jimmy Carter's leadership.
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 6, 2009, 5:21 am
The AP is reporting that the President’s planned trip to Congress on Friday , to push for health care reform, has been postponed until Saturday. The President, according to the White House, had pla...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 5, 2009, 12:24 pm
Those that would prefer to seeimprovements made, not an overall of, our present health care system, have taken to Capital Hill today to protest the current form of Health Care Reform being pushed by N...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 5, 2009, 5:18 am
Massachusettsresidents who hold private insurance plans are bracing for a 10% increase in the cost of their premiums in 2010. Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the Commonwealth’s largest insurer, has set pre...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 4, 2009, 5:22 am
The State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Virginia both elected Republican Gubernatorial candidates; Bob McDonnell took Virginia by a margin of 18% the state had last voted for a Democrat in 200...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 3, 2009, 5:23 am
The majority of headlines today are asking if several key races are a referendum on either the President, or either major Political Party, however, with voter turnout expected to be low on every level...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Nov 2, 2009, 5:26 am
On Tuesday, four states are holding elections that have the eyes of the nation’s pundits and political party analysts doing a bit of hand-wringing. The Virginia Governor’s race is all but a foreg...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 31, 2009, 1:15 pm
The Republicanrunning in the New York 23rd District, Dede Scozzafava, has taken herself out of the race, leaving the Conservative Candidate Doug Hoffman poised to make history. Hoffman, who had closed...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 30, 2009, 5:42 am
An article from the Boston Globe, via the A.P. speaks to the risks involved in the newly unveiled Obama Administration health care reform plan; the plans target the insurance, prescription drug, docto...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 29, 2009, 5:13 am
There’s been a good deal of attention (for those political junkies paying attention) to three particular races: the New York 23rd Congressional, and Virginia and New Jersey’s Governor’s seats, b...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 28, 2009, 5:25 am
A video surfaced yesterday from an MSNBC program via Real Clear Politics - in the video Ralph Nader and Barney Frank, Massachusetts 4th District U.S. Representative, have a back and forth on the regul...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 27, 2009, 5:34 am
Doug Hoffman, Conservative Candidate for the New York 23rd Congressional District, has now taken the lead according to a poll conducted by the Conservative Club for Growth. Hoffman receives 31% of the...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 26, 2009, 5:10 am
The Boston Globe, reporting on Obama’s recent visit to aid embattled Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, spoke of the “large” crowd of 4,000 that was filled with enthusiastic young people (th...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 23, 2009, 5:32 am
According to Politico, the New York 23rd Districthas become a testing ground for the Conservative Party. As a general rule, a third party candidate rarely makes an impact in a state’s primary, let a...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 22, 2009, 5:18 am
President Obama has hit the campaign trail to try and bolster Democrat incumbent governor John Corzine, who is just weeks away from from possible early retirement. An article in Politico, entitled “...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 21, 2009, 4:56 am
Within the past few weeks, Obama administration officials have been downplaying the role of the Fox News Organization - from Communications Director Anita Dunn to White House Advisor David Axelrod cam...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 20, 2009, 5:19 am
2009 - The Stage is Set The price of oilhas increased this week, up to $80 per barrel, causing an added burden to the millions of economically stressed Americans. Historically, when the dollar is in d...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 19, 2009, 5:32 am
Rasmussenreleased a second GOP 2012 poll result yesterday which paired Mike Huckabee against 2008 campaign rival Mitt Romney. In this scenario Huckabee received 44% to Romney’s 39%, with Huckabee l...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 18, 2009, 6:46 am
The old adage, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”, may be coming back to bite both national parties in the early polling leading to the not-so-distant 2012 election. Who will...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 17, 2009, 8:02 am
The race to fillthe late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat, has three contenders confirmed as of October 16th. Scott Brown, the Republican State Senator, filed 17,000 (10,000 required) signatures with the ...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 16, 2009, 5:26 am
Those receiving Social Security Benefits will not be entitled to a “cost of living” raise this year due to a negative rate of inflation. A negative rate of inflation should mean that one’s payc...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 15, 2009, 5:13 am
The Obama Administration has called for a $250 per person stipend for the 2010 calendar year, in order to offset a zero cost of living increase in Social Security Payments. There will be no cost of l...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 14, 2009, 5:35 am
A billdrafted by Thaddeus McCotter, (R-MI) would allow for deductions for expenses related to pets. Proposed in July H. R. 3501, would allow up to $3500 in deductions for pet owners each year. The de...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 14, 2009, 5:01 am
Harry Reid, (D-NV), Senator Majority Leader, is facing an increasingly difficult uphill battle to retain his senate seat. At the moment, the likelihood of Reed returning to the Senate in 2010 is zero,...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 13, 2009, 5:07 am
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrickannounced that President Obama will be in Massachusetts on the 23rd of October for a fundraiser to help move “the agenda” forward. The video (below) by Governor...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 9, 2009, 5:40 am
The mid-term elections are looming, and polls conducted to date, show an overall definitive advantage to the Republican’s vying for seats in both State and National elections. Those who look at hist...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 8, 2009, 5:09 am
From: The Boston Globe: The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, a watchdog group that keeps tabs on Human Rights abuses under the current Iranian Regime, will be forced to shut down in May due to ...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 7, 2009, 5:27 pm
The video below depicts school children singing on the set of CNN, a painfully rehearsed political ditty in favor of "Health Care Reform" to the tune of "Party in The USA". Politico has the video here...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 7, 2009, 5:39 am
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, recently began accepting applications for assistance. The programs design, in brie...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 6, 2009, 5:30 am
Although still early in the 2010 political season, one has to take a hard look at Barney Frank’s district race this year – in the past, Congressman Frank ran virtually unopposed – that is no lon...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 6, 2009, 5:17 am
ACORN received a grant from FEMA little more than two weeks ago. Apparently, despite the slew of investigations, videos and 8 X 10 color glossies’ depicting Acorn affiliates in a myriad of stages o...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 5, 2009, 4:24 am
On Thursday of last week, SNL's Weekend Update did a spoof on the Obama-Oprah Olympic pitch - adding in a jab about health care. The weekend brought it home - with what is the most honest assessme...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 4, 2009, 9:44 am
With unemployment raging at 9.8% and the threat of inflation on the horizon one would think that a dwindling tax base would prompt Congressional Representatives from tacking earmarks onto their 2010 ...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 2, 2009, 12:14 pm
Rio de Janeiro won the rights to host the 2016 Olympic Games besting Madrid in the final round of voting. Chicago was out in the first round - prompting a Drudge Report Headline "The Ego Has Landed" -...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 2, 2009, 5:14 am
An exclusive at Big Government.com entitled “ACORN legal memo confirms Depths of Troubles” (The full article is at American Spectator reveals the contents of a faxed email and delves into the aspe...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Oct 1, 2009, 5:36 am
American Casualtiesin Afghanistan are on the rise; with a total of 43 service men and women having died since August 30. President Obama, meanwhile, will wait several weeks before making a decision r...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Sep 30, 2009, 5:24 am
The BostonGlobe ran an article entitled “Mihos Runs Short on Tax Lien Explanation”, yesterday. In reading the article, written by Globe Staffer, Michele Richinick, one gets the distinct impression...
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tina hemond posted an article on Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity - Sep 29, 2009, 5:30 am
From CBS News: Congressional Democrats are seeking for ways to fund the proposed health care reform plan – the way out – taxing those who have Cadillac insurance plans purchased either privately o...
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