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Mollohan Wrong On Health Care

November 7, 2009

U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., will not be representing the vast majority of his constituents well if he votes in favor of a health care bill scheduled to go to the House floor within a few days — perhaps this weekend. In fact, supporting ultra-liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the bill would amount to placing political considerations ahead of the interests of those of us in northern West Virginia. As this was being written, Pelosi and her cronies were scrambling to line up enough votes to pass the bill. Their hope was that they could be assured of the necessary margin in time for a vote today or Sunday. But in order to accomplish that, the liberals were making substantive changes in the enormous document, a bill that was 1,990 pages long when introduced. According to The Associated Press, two critical changes involved “finalizing language to bar federal funding of abortion and resolving a flare-up over the treatment of illegal immigrants in the legislation that had Hispanic lawmakers up in arms.” Both items have long histories in the debate over health care. Time and time again, Pelosi and company have claimed that taxpayer funding of abortions would not be permitted. And time and time again, examination of health care bills has disclosed that no such ban actually had been written into them. Why should anyone expect anything about that to be different now? That ought to concern Mollohan, who has said he is a staunch pro-life advocate.

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Keeping Police Weapons Secure

November 6, 2009

Wheeling Police Chief Robert Matheny has been on the job less than a month — and already he has a serious problem with which to deal. It involves the M-16 assault rifle stolen from an off-duty police officer’s vehicle.

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Learning What Went Wrong

November 6, 2009

Results of tax levy questions on the Tuesday election ballot in Belmont County were puzzling, in some ways. Two school levies and a countywide issue to support social services were defeated by voters.

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Don’t Let Liberals Gut the Patriot Act

November 6, 2009

To his credit, President Barack Obama became a fan of the Patriot Act after he took office and learned more about terrorist threats facing the nation.

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‘Stimulus’ Jobs Claims Fraudulent

November 6, 2009

President Barack Obama’s administration apparently believes in the “big lie” theory of propagand.

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‘Tea Party’ Groups Gaining Strength

November 5, 2009

In all likelihood, liberal politicians hoped that the “Tea Party” movement would be a short-lived fad that would go away quickly. It did not. In fact, it appears to be gathering momentum.

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