Topics in today’s show:

– Jobless claims rise to 500,000
– WaPo’s Robinson: Obama’s on a winning streak
– Debt: $44k/person
– NYT’s Cooper admits to drinking on the job
– Wyclef Jean disqualified for Haiti president
– UK doctor calls for cocaine legalization
– Facebook, the movie
– Justin Bieber tweets digits of an obsessive fan

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Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington Saturday could not have been an encouraging sign for Democrats and the Obama administration.

The crowd was huge by any count – likely at least a couple hundred thousand people judging by aerial photos and the reported comments of some police officers – stretching from the Lincoln Memorial back to the Washington Monument.

And far from being a gathering of self-proclaimed rabble rousers carrying offensive signs insulting of President Obama, as has often been the case with “tea party” rallies spurred on by Mr. Beck, it was mostly a heartfelt and largely nonpartisan expression of civic concern, patriotism, and religious faith.

In other words, there may have been some Democrats in the crowd, but even they are likely not happy with the direction the country’s taking, according to recent polls – including the policies and programs pushed by the majority party in Congress and the White House.

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Watch the entire “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington Saturday  http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295231-1

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A Better Health Care System?

• You will be required by law to have health insurance and to attach proof of insurance to your tax return.
• If you fail to insure, you will be fined — up to $695 ($2,085 per family) in 2016 or 2.5% of your adjusted gross income, whichever is greater.
• If your employer doesn’t offer insurance, your employer can be fined as much as $2,000 per employee per year.
• A government agency, rather than you and your employer, will decide what kind of health coverage you must have.

Read more – NCPA

If it was really about improving health care for those without it the simple and much more cost effective solution would have been to provide those people with a government voucher that covers the cost of a health insurance policy.

Simple – like food stamps. But it wasn’t about health care. It is really about subjugating a people to government authority, masked by deceptive rhetoric and the seemingly laudable noise of doing something for the “good of the people.” It is enslavement and it is evil.

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Earl is now a hurricane. It continues to strengthen and will affect the northern Leeward Island tonight and early Monday.

Hurricane warnings and watches are in effect for parts of the Leeward Islands.

The new forecast track carries it east of the North Carolina Outer Banks then menaces Cape Cod Friday.

Hurricane Earl

tropicalwx.com

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Today marks the 5th year anniversary of Katrina roaring onshore along the Gulf coast.

This video is put together by Scott McPartland and Dave Lewison. Gulfport was destroyed by Katrina and this video details the incredible events of August 29th, 2005….from the pre-storm environment to the full force of Katrina, to the aftermath.

http://www.SevereWeatherVideo.com
http://www.FaceTheWind.com
©2005 Scott McPartland/Dave Lewison

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