http://www.gopusa.com Conservative news, information, and commentary Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST http://www.gopusa.com/images/gopusa_logo_sm.gif http://www.gopusa.com http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_health_summit1.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences between the basic Democratic and GOP ideas are stark - and the two sides have increasingly hardened their positions in this election year. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_iran1.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's state TV says the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_gates_iran.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to see the United Nations slap sanctions on Iran in "weeks, not months." news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_murtha_dies1.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., with his family at his bedside, the hospital said. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_activists.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a threat assessment of local pro- and anti-abortion rights activists before an expected rally last year, even though they did not pose a threat to national security. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_nlrb.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republicans' first test of their new Senate clout could come in a vote to block President Barack Obama's choice of a union attorney for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_neb_dem.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - Nebraska's Democratic senator says he will join Republicans in opposing a union lawyer's nomination to serve on the National Labor Relations Board. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_korea_kim.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il assured a high-level envoy visiting from Beijing that Pyongyang is committed to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, China's state news agency reported Tuesday. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0209_school_lunch.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:55:17 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids. news http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2010/ts_02091.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:40:11 EST By Thomas Sowell -- If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word "fair." It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dlimbaugh/2010/dl_02091.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:40:11 EST By David Limbaugh -- Conservatives understand that liberals often demonize their opponents rather than debate the merits of the issues because the tactic works. But you have to wonder whether another reason they lash out is that they are angry that reality doesn't cooperate with their ideologically driven solutions and it's easier to blame others than to face up to the unpleasant truth of their failed ideas. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dsaunders/2010/ds_0209.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:40:11 EST By Debra Saunders -- In the circle of lawyers and judges I know, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is a giant. He is a brilliant jurist, legal eagles will tell you, who has insightful, and often unexpected, opinions. He's funny and charming -- and he's gay. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mbarone/2010/mb_02081.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:40:11 EST By Michael Barone -- Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things. That's no longer clear. Last month, the Labor Department reported that private-sector unions lost 834,000 members last year and now represent only 7.2 percent of private-sector employees. That's down from the all-time peak of 36 percent in 1953-54. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dpatton/2010/dp_02081.shtml Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:40:11 EST By Doug Patton -- Barack Obama loves to be compared to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln he definitely is not, but the FDR analogy is apt. In her superb book about the Great Depression, "The Forgotten Man," Amity Schlaes describes the almost schizophrenic way in which our 32nd president governed the nation for the first eight of his twelve long years in office. commentary