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Kurt Streeter: Serena Williams should be suspended for the rest of the year | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

Kurt Streeter: Serena Williams should be suspended for the rest of the year | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

Let’s face it, the 2009 Open will always be remembered for Serena Williams’ sudden, salty burst of lunacy. Now the question, even after her Monday apology, is how tennis will respond.

How does this compare to the "Black" President of the United States and Joe Wilson's apology who is "white"? Is it politics or racism?

Obama's denial of abortion coverage 'laughable'

Can't see this email? View the online version. Abortion and healthcare reform advertisement New DVD relase - Order Today - Free Shipping Obama's denials of abortion coverage 'laughable' A leading pro-life activist in Washington says President Obama is not telling the whole truth when he promises taxpayers they will not be forced to fund abortions under his healthcare plan. POLL: Will abortion coverage be removed? VOTE Perspective: Fables for adults In a country where everything imaginable is bought and paid for on credit, why is it suddenly a national crisis if some people cannot pay cash up front for medical treatment? Risky for Rifqa in Ohio? The head of a Christian ministry dedicated to exposing the truth about Islam believes that a 17-year-old Christian convert from Islam should not be returned to Ohio, despite the efforts of authorities there. Dems focus on homosexual agenda Democrats are currently undertaking two major efforts in Congress to enact key parts of the political agenda of homosexual activists. President asked to apologize for 'lies to entire country' President Barack Obama is being called on to publicly apologize to Congress, the media, and the entire nation for lying about illegal immigrants not having access to healthcare reform benefits. More of today's news Uc Irvine Shoot... Yale Student De... Nyc Terror Thre... Obama to talk with autoworkers, AFL-CIO members WASHINGTON Going before groups of autoworkers and union members, President Barack Obama is trying Tuesday to assure blue collar audiences that the economy is coming back Bipartisan Baucus plan may leave Democrats cold WASHINGTON Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has been trying for months to write a health care bill that could win Republican support. If he succeeds he Analysis: White House postponing hard calls on war National Security Writer WASHINGTON The Obama administration is holding off major decisions that could put its military forces on a firmer war footing in Afghanistan even as doubts Police appear to be closing in on Yale killer NEW HAVEN, Conn. The discovery of a Yale University graduate student whose body was stuffed in the wall of a medical research building brought a Senate votes to cut off ACORN housing funding WASHINGTON The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter registration fraud cases. Senate votes to cut funding for ACORN Elijah Friedeman| Thanks to an undercover investigation and plenty of bad press resulting from that investigation, the Senate has voted to cut funding to ACORN. ACORN exposed in undercover investigation Elijah Friedeman| In an undercover investigation, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe expose the corruption prevalent in ACORN. Posing as a banker and a prostitute, Giles and O'Keefe are helped by ACORN employees to circumvente the government when setting up a brothel staffed by underage illegal immigrants. Conservative and Liberal View of Reform by Jerry Richardson I claim that abasic conflict in ideology is the background that is fueling the current healthcare battle. The conflict, as I see it,is between liberalism and conservatism. But of course, you say, that opinion is well known. Obama Admits Rep. Wilson Was Right by Bryan Fischer, AFA Director of Issue Analysis The White House has now conceded that Rep. Joe Wilson was exactly right when he accused President Obama of lying when Mr. Obama denied that illegal aliens would be covered under the Intellectual Ideologues by Jerry Richardson Who? Barack Obama and Cass Sunstein. Who are they? They are the most dangerous leftwing duo to hold the reins of executive political power in American history. Obama and Sunstein potentially represent the greatest threat to the A Solution to California's Prison Problem by Bryan Fischer, AFA Director of Issue Analysis California is getting ready to release 37,000 prisoners to cope with its budgetary crisis. This is politically problematic, since Californians vote to get tough on crime when they get the chance. Obama Raises Tariffs; Hello, Second Great Depression? by Bryan Fischer, AFA Director of Issue Analysis One of the enduring myths of American politics is that President Herbert Hoover tried to deal with the stock market crash of 1929 using free market methods, which so miserably failed that Little Eyes One Million Moms video Love Your Enemies, Do Not Hate Them Matt Friedeman discusses Arizona pastor Tenth Amendment Rendered Useless by Congress Matt Friedeman discusses health care reform Are We Running Pell-Mell Towards Hell? 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Politics, Political News - POLITICO.com

Politics, Political News - POLITICO.com

House Democratic leaders will move ahead with a "resolution of disapproval" against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Tuesday afternoon, following through on their threat to sanction the conservative lawmaker for heckling President Obama last week.

Media Matters Daily Summary

Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. Rove advances "glaring misstatements" and "distortions" in criticizing Obama speech Purporting to examine President Obama's health care speech, Karl Rove claimed that while discussing "the so-called lies and misstatements about his proposal," Obama "made a series of very glaring misstatements or distortions." In fact, it was Rove who was advancing falsehoods and distortions. Read More Hannity falsely claimed Obama called insurance execs "bad people" On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that President Obama said during his health care speech that insurance company executives are "bad people," and that Obama's remarks "took [Hannity] back because it was so harsh." In fact, as was made clear by the video Hannity himself showed, Obama said just the opposite -- that "[i]nsurance executives don't [treat their customers badly] because they're bad people; they do it because it's profitable." Read More Fox News' partisans accuse Obama of "partisan hackery" Responding to President Obama's September 9 speech to Congress on health care reform, in which Obama denounced "bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform," Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, and Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. asserted that the speech was, in Hannity's words, "full of partisan hackery." But Hannity, Rove, and Johnson have each repeatedly fearmongered or advanced false attacks while discussing health care reform, including the charges that reform would deny care for the elderly or that the administration is encouraging military veterans to end their lives. Read More Fox & Friends advanced false suggestion that DOJ is "stand[ing] idly by" in alleged "outing of" CIA operatives While discussing the John Adams Project -- an ACLU initiative that allegedly took pictures of CIA interrogators and allowed defense lawyers for detainees at Guantánamo Bay to show them to detainees -- frequent Fox News guest and former CIA operative Wayne Simmons claimed that the Justice Department will "stand idly by and allow this illegal outing of potentially covert CIA operatives," to which Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade agreed that the "White House, the administration, should move against" the group. In fact, the Justice Department reportedly already opened an investigation into the allegations, which was not mentioned by any Fox & Friends host. Read More Wash. Times' Curl claims Obama "cut out" bipartisanship line he actually delivered In a September 10 article, The Washington Times' Joseph Curl falsely claimed that President Obama "cut out" a line about "bring[ing] the best ideas of both parties together" from his prepared remarks during his September 9 address to the joint session of Congress. In fact, not only did Obama not "cut out" the line about working in a bipartisan manner to achieve health care reform, Curl's own paper quoted Obama as delivering it. Read More Hannity advances dubious claim that Koh "advocates Sharia law in America" In the past four editions of his Fox News program, Sean Hannity has claimed that State Department legal adviser Harold Koh "advocates the use Sharia law in America." In fact, that characterization -- originated by a lawyer who claimed that at a 2007 event, Koh said that Sharia law "could, in an appropriate instance ... govern a controversy in a federal or state court in the US" -- has been disputed by both the host of the event where Koh purportedly spoke about Sharia law and by Koh himself. Read More Witch hunt continues: Fox goes after Sunstein with false smears Continuing Fox News' witch hunt against Obama administration nominees and officials whom they have labeled "czars," Glenn Beck falsely claimed that Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has said "you must be an organ donor" and "you should not be able to remove rats from your home if it causes them any pain," and Fox News reporter James Rosen also distorted Sunstein's writings about organ donation and animal rights. In fact, Sunstein advocated for reforms to the organ donation system, but not for mandatory donation, and he did not advocate against rat removal. Read More Following Beck's instructions, Fox News attempts to change story from health care to ACORN On September 9, Glenn Beck said that while the media "says they're going to be talking about health care" the next day, he didn't "think so," later suggesting that a video of Baltimore ACORN employees would instead be the top story. Apparently taking their cues from Beck, through 7 p.m. the following day, Fox News devoted at least 17 segments on six programs to airing and discussing portions of the video. Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.

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