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There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8"A nice sentiment?Maybe not. The psalm reads, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." no one in the GOP leadership or the evangelical community is doing anything to tamp down on this rhetoric... - joshua

Psalms 109:8 says, 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.' The citation is being passed around the Internet as a rallying cry against President Obama. - joshua

Lawmakers also are looking at levying new taxes on insurance companies, drug companies and medical device makers. But the only approach that got majority support in the AP poll was a tax on upper-income Americans. Who's not on board with this approach? The Senate, where the majority of members are millionaires. - joshua

Americans by 2-1, 61 percent to 31 percent, say leaders of the Republican Party are mainly criticizing Obama without presenting other ideas, rather than offering alternatives to his proposals. Independents hold this view by 54-37 percent. - joshua

"I feel like there are lot of critics of the government but there are very few critics of the media who have an audience and are credible and keep a watch on things," said "Daily Show" writer Elliott Kalan. "That's a role that we provide that we take very seriously." - joshua

The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a government report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children. - joshua

Sarah Palin, the former running mate to Sen. John McCain during the 2008 presidential elections, continues to claim that she effectively protected Alaska's environment, but a national academies peer review panel has blasted her oil and gas risk assessment plan, calling her environmental credentials into question. - joshua

The Huffington Post took a look some of the bombastic host's past guests and found names steeped in controversy. Beck has hosted, and even occasionally praised, a renowned white supremacist, a devout southern secessionist, a defender of slavery and a 9/11 skeptic - joshua

Results of Senator Dick Durbin's poll on health care reform show overwhelming support for the strongest possible public option. - joshua

shes insane - joshua

Palin talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.” - joshua

Looking at last week’s election results, I noticed that black turnout in VA was 20% down since '08 and youth turnout was 50% down. While this fact does not account for McDonnell’s win, it does account for some portion of his huge margin of victory. Most importantly, it means that conservative declarations that the Obama era is over are premature. - joshua

General Motors said better results will allow it to start repaying government loans sooner than expected, although the company continued to lose money in its first quarter since emerging from bankruptcy. - joshua

President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top leader of the ruling military. - joshua

Three prominent conservatives warned in a joint statement against Republican "scaremongering" on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying the prison in Thomson, Illinois would be fine to handle them. Former Republican Congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist, - joshua

In a parting shot at Fox News, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn mocked the conservative-leaning network on Friday and laughed off its controversial host Glenn Beck for calling her a Mao enthusiast. The outgoing administration spokeswoman took a clear and enjoyable dig, first at Sean Hannity for recently airing spliced footage designed - joshua

More than a dozen lawmakers’ statements about the health care debate were ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech, a biotechnology company. - joshua

ABC This Week: Conservative Columnist David Brooks - Sarah Palin Is "A Joke" - 11/15/09 - joshua

From CNN: White House's David Axelrod Rebuts Mitt Romney's Attack - 11/15/09 - joshua

If something has been learned from the massacre at Fort Hood, it’s that our hawks are utterly confused about who it is we’re fighting in Afghanistan. - joshua

The cast of characters she disparages range from the famous to the obscure, the national to the local - all of whom are accused of either peddling scandal or playing out political vendettas. - joshua

Tension between Republicans and top CEOs escalated with the release of a new report from the Business Round Table praising aspects of Democratic health reform. - joshua

While I have long argued that there is too much elitism on the left for my tastes, there's a wide gulf between holding your nose in the air for no good reason and dumbing yourself down in order to appeal to the lowest common idiotic denominator. Suck is the case with the Tea Party group and their leaders like Palin. - joshua

Glenn Beck was on FNC's The O'Reilly Factor on Friday, where he continued to spread lies and falsehoods about the healthcare reform bill. Beck is still claiming that under the bill, people who don't buy insurance will face jail time. This is not true. The penalty for not buying insurance is a tax, not jail time. - joshua

ESCONDIDO, CA -- Provoked by a presidential administration he believes is guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 46, has become a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head. - joshua

A girl struggles with her initial Google interview - joshua

Because the bill was held up for so long in the Senate, an end-of-the-year filing deadline will prevent anyone from accessing the final six weeks of benefits, according to state officials and sources on Capitol Hill. That’s not all. The emergency unemployment benefits provided beginning in 2008 are also tiered. - joshua

Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. - joshua

The papers are reporting that the scene inside BofA right now is chaotic. Lewis' sudden ousting caught them off guard - and the man responsible for finding a new CEO cannot be reached because he's "on vacation on a ship" until the end of the month. Since it's our tax dollars being pumped into BofA, we decided to help with the hiring process... - joshua

Scientists in Australia have developed an apple that won't rot. Or, won't rot for a long, long time. The delicious-sounding RS103-130 apple is a rare cross-breed 20 years in the making, cooked up by researchers at Australia's Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries. - joshua