http://megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:03 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_1 e5f69b17ab5b5ace6b8d1ea49dd448fd WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher. The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. The rising jobless rate could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers' confidence and makes them more cautious about ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:01:03 PST http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_2 7e02c410961b485f84a20bc55d333ba1 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:13:11 EST http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_3 3978dad3a359a1c6dd279a0de06cc23f With unemployment over 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the careers with the best—and worst—prospects. The results: the 10 high-growth and 10 worst-growth jobs out there. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:03 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_4 81246a40ad1841375093895d945a6800 When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:58:08 EST http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_5 7efdba409ad778c1ceb67643e412a007 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:58:08 EST http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_6 e48cd912f7ebd3447691916075a240ae As concern spreads about H1N1 flu, a new survey of California voters found that while most consider the vaccine safe, a majority had no plans to get vaccinated. The poll also found that blacks and Latinos are far more likely than other groups to say they believed the vaccine could be unsafe. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_7 cb8b5b105c1681bc68cb61a70eced0a9 The House of Representatives is expected to vote on health-care reform Saturday. But the days before a big vote are rarely calm ones, and this week has been no exception. Democrats don't expect a single Republican to cross over to vote for health-care reform. That is to say, the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, which got eight Republican votes ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_8 b92c80e7f4733dff2dcb9ec3044df26c Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:54:35 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_9 b925d5c1de214985d701e5aa196c2cd5 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:03 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_10 10029a499dabd8274c6e64c30743b414 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T18:05:04Z http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_11 60bd9b85ab124a40cbee6c92afb91bc1 Well, sure, maybe at the extremes they are. The right wing nuts want nothing less than pure unadultrated libertarian capitalism [wih a dash of John Galt], while the left wing nuts want nothing less than the dismantling of Wall Street. And, admittedly, there are many more right wing nuts at TWS than there are left wing nuts at TNR. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:38 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_12 11728f33f650f8064bb435802eb977bb Pretty funny stuff from Jon Stewart: more about "Stewart Does Beck", posted with vodpod (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:12:37 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_13 8816a2bcaae470618a4aa0c7373f2a81 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T12:30:33-05:00 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_14 3fceec760fe21111fb45bbcd6c945800 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_15 bafffaa74af488e3ebc0b76318d19d2f Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_16 fe26f0330003c4d0d3355ec950ffddf4 The stated number-one priority for Democrats is passage of a government takeover of American health-care. President Obama and his allies in Congress have essentially bet the future of their party on securing something radical and sweeping. Congressional leaders have set aside everything else until they can pass some version of Obamacare, and they ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_17 fb12f917509309859380f9cfc460e74f U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, shown with Mayor Richard Daley last month, is the federal overseer of school stimulus spending. (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune / October 7, 2009) (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:23:03 -0600 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_18 509aeceddf01afb2ec8c64d34dc92268 Unemployment has reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent. Today the House Republican Conference sent out this graphic, which is essentially the same as the chart that we've been following for some months now ; click to enlarge: It's gone past the point where we could officially declare the "stimulus" bill a failure. At this juncture, I don't see ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:12:37 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_19 1d286bfb22e11e402b4029b8ff6dc63d MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- The number of drug-related killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, so far this year has reached 1,647, surpassing the death toll for all of 2008, a city spokesman told CNN. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/1#item_20 e56620c711ef2c0e32d7ac36dccd4fd2 Please upgrade your flash player. The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player. If you are unable to install flash you can download a QuickTime version of the video. EMBED (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T12:30:33-05:00 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_1 76b0084fac070a218938254d0980e72e Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T15:45:17-05:00 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_2 ab2f83b1c105ca62d1d328686e0fe526 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T12:30:33-05:00 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_3 23e3911f8406be3fdcf10d655b3cf038 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T15:45:17-05:00 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_4 56f7b7a283f5dafcaa6540484e1546c0 Tree huggers be warned: Soon you may be picking up part of the energy bill for the neighbors who leave all the lights on. In a recent application to the state, Pacific Gas and Electric asked to raise service rates by 5 percent for their best energy-conserving customers, typically smaller households. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:52:43 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_5 92a287fbc43156c5022abe1a9a70de64 Democrats got their woman in Iowa, expanding the Senate playing field a bit: Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin plans to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission next week to run for U.S. Senate next year, adviser Mark Daley said today. Conlin, a Democrat, has said last month she is more likely than not to seek the seat held by five- ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:38 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_6 fa2b5bee48262f2a6f2169cc5a4ad3ac Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:12:37 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_7 6071ec15696c289539d7cf0212569fa8 Even the Chicago Press is Ripping Obama For His "Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting," Calls For Him to Apologize.... You mean the Commander in Chief giving "shout out" prior to speaking about 13 of the soldiers he commands being cut down in cold blood is inappropriate?.... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:12:37 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_8 ebb964225e0f1d7bdb81cf08e1f15208 The expanded use of formal rules on Capitol Hill is unprecedented and is bringing government to its knees. The slaughter last April of 32 people at Virginia Tech University by a mentally disturbed student using a variety of guns he had purchased brought about an unusual, quick consensus in the political arena: guns should not be in the hands of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:52:43 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_9 ca787da600cdb2bce463c6ccf3bf2680 Forbes, Ten Ways To Audit Proof Your Tax Return, by Robert W. Wood (Wood & Porter, San Francisco): While what-triggers-an-audit theories abound, there are some basic things you can do to reduce your chances of being picked for an audit or at least to make any interactions with the IRS less traumatic. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:52:43 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_10 7d26db86e2edae715b86c049cebbc1cd I will never forget my son Beau's deployment ceremony on Oct. 3, 2008, in Dover, Del. As I stood in the audience watching him, a general's wife quietly slipped a prayer into my hand. The prayer has stuck with me every day since: (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:47:41 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_11 ef7f989d3fa3c67eebf77f6f701209fe "If I wanted to be part of socialized medicine, I would have moved to Europe. I'll be damned if I'm going to let a socialistic Washington shove a new mandate down the (Illinois) taxpayers' throats, especially if it's health care." - Republican Kirk Dillard, the Illinois state senator who famously cut a campaign ad on [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:52:43 GMT http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_12 4a1ee829301ab74c604475ceb952aa90 We were honored to help judge Long Beach's Howl'oween dog-costume contest Saturday, but while we were having a blast with L.A.'s most pampered pets, our colleague Lu Parker of KTLA News was busy helping homeless pets find new adoptive families. We had a great time -- but three guesses on which of us had a more fulfilling Halloween! ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T17:58:41Z http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_13 942b82f3b52a94385406357a353560b8 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T17:32:56Z http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_14 8084e144783248425a11c58fcd3369f5 Data extracted on: November 6, 2009 (1:35:05 PM) (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-06T16:02:41Z http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_15 ae345bae0ab9ff04f109260972807352 I think we just caught the DNC lying to the gay community about the election in Maine. And an email from DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias, which we quote below, proves it. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:55:00 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_16 19eda7a25c202f2a23fa67e70af4d000 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:55:00 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_17 2e27282b2e3a6638f79db488804d2c9e The Senate just tabled the amendment proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would have prohibited use of Justice Department funds to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects in U.S. federal courts. Effectively, that means it’s dead. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:47:47 +0000 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_18 43e753736f1f37a20d5ea6fe34bd5a77 As part of a late-summer onslaught against Chris Christie meant to narrow a steep gap in the polls, Gov. Jon Corzine's campaign hammered the Republican for a health care plan they said would lift a state regulation on insurance companies mandating that all policies cover mammogram screenings. When the polls soon tightened, Democrats thought they [. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:51:27 EST Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:51:27 EST http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/21#item_20 d21a9765958e84665482974527a678dd Tracey Maclin, a law professor at Boston University, said it “makes perfect sense’’ for Coakley to weigh in on this case. “I’m against the death penalty, but it would be bordering on incompetence for an attorney general not to sign this case,’’ he said. “If the Supreme Court makes it harder, that&# ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:56 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/41#item_1 75d2930720e2729c6d745ad7d310aac1 It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Monday morning.... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:56 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/41#item_2 362c844c7c6cf3f96715175d4553ff68 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. © 2009 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. All market data delayed 20 minutes. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:56 -0500 http://megite.com/politics/1257621289/41#item_3 88b32947c1e474eef8ee41283715acd9 Twelve soldiers were murdered in cold blood at Fort Hood. Thirty others were wounded. Our Commander in Chief calls a press conference and begins it with a long thanks to the Interior Department and Indians who just concluded a conference and then gives a good natured "shout out" to an attendee , all with a studied nonchalance, before he ... (Read on Source) ]]>