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From a consistently great & illuminating blogger -- Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy : There has been a great deal of talk and debate about health care in the country recently as the Democrats push Heath Care Reform. A lot of animosity has been directed at the Health Insurance Industry as a whole. As it turns out, some is justified, but some is not. I was surprised by what is NOT justified, and I think you might be, too But first, another reason to be angry at insurers, especially if you are female, and living in one of thirty-nine states in the union, as this article highlights, Women Pay Up To 50% More For Health Insurance Premiums . Now, maybe I was just naive to not realize this was happening, but happening it is. This article focuses on the state of Colorado: Checking the “female” box when buying health insurance is likely to cost extra — perhaps up to 50 percent more than a man would pay for the same coverage. Gender-rating — or what some term as flat-out sexual discrimination — is li...

Monserrate's office is just a few blocks away... With Domestic Violence Awareness month coming up -- they can move it even father away, please. By ANDREA PEYSER Shortly after Hiram "Monster" Monserrate cut his girl friend's face, nearly to the bone, with a drinking glass, the young lady in question made a call. Not to her mother. Or her priest. Or bartender. Hiram's gal pal, Karla Giraldo, called her facialist. It was 3 a.m., and she'd lost quite a bit of blood. She also was exceedingly drunk. She was palpably angry. She was bloody. Injured. Hysterical. But Karla wanted to make absolutely certain she wasn't scarred for life. So en route to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, she consulted about "alternative" therapies. And so goes Day One of the strangest domestic-violence case ever to be heard in the borough of Queens. Monserrate, a former cop and current state senator with a weird penchant for Scientology, went on trial for felony assault in a D...

more animals B"H This world operates on chutzpah. It has the chutzpah to declare itself a world, to assert that it is autonomous from its Creator, to deny any relationship to the very force that is continually bringing it into being every moment. We will fight chutzpah with chutzpah. A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe -words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman SHABBAT SHALOM

By David Harsanyi Unity: n. the state of being one; oneness -- especially when your chosen political party happens to win an election. Barack Obama is now my president. Though I wonder whether irascible Democrats who rode around with those snazzy bumper stickers reading "He's not my president" for the past eight years realize the irony of their call for national harmony. Let's hope there's none. Winning elections is one thing; governing is quite another. It is impossible to deny that Obama ran one of the sharpest, most diligent and exhilarating campaigns in modern American history or, for that matter, that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party has won a resounding mandate to run the country. That only means we need a robust and principled opposition. My children continually are lectured by well-meaning adults about the mystifying power culled from our differences, the strength we derive from our disparate upbringing, and the power of diversity. So why, one wond...

from STOP OBAMA We welcome this new development . But before the Obama camp throws off the gloves, it would do well to at least keep its head gear. This one is fake , but painfully funny. The new Fight the Smears page on My.BarackObama.com, has a few distortions and inaccuracies of its own. Johnson will no doubt have little trouble exposing those which pertain to himself . As for those which pertain to us, here are a few sobering thoughts for Obama’s failing attempt to “correct the record.” Obama emphatically claims that he was never a Muslim. This is factually wrong. View our “Islam in his Life” in the contents tab. (watch it disappear now that it's been pointed out - B.) Obama says quotes about race from “Dreams from my Father” have been taken “out of context”. Funny. Out of the four quotes Obama addresses, three are invented - and never featured on our site. Only one quote is actually “taken out of context” and pitifully, the context doesn’t help. For anyone serious about Obam...

THE VIEW SAYS BUH-BYE TO ROSIE By DAVID BAUDER Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at "The View." ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the daytime chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday. She was due to leave in mid-June. It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O'Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck. O'Donnell said last month she would be leaving because she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives. "Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at `The View,'" Walters said. "I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change." In a statement, O'Donnell said that "it's been an amazing y...