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Obama’s denials of abortion coverage ‘laughable’ (OneNewsNow.com)

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“It’s almost gotten to the point of laughable if the consequences weren’t so dire — the president repeating over and over that there is no abortion coverage in healthcare reform currently. I mean, it’s simply a lie. It is simply not true,” she contends. “I simply don’t believe that he is that ignorant of what the plans are out there. I think what he knows is that Americans have rejected the idea. Our poll showed last week that it rejects the idea.”

In order for President Obama to be considered the next convert to the pro-life cause, Dannenfelser says he needs to push for an amendment specifically excluding abortion coverage from the healthcare plans, an amendment that has been narrowly defeated in the House more than once already.

via Obama’s denials of abortion coverage ‘laughable’ (OneNewsNow.com).

Senate votes to bar funds for ACORN; scandals erode political support – Louisiana Politics | State Legislature News – NOLA.com

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The seven senators voting “no” were Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Roland Burris of Illinois, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

In July, an 88-page staff report by Republicans on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform described ACORN as “a shell game played in 120 cities, 43 states and the District of Columbia through a complex structure designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators.”

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via Senate votes to bar funds for ACORN; scandals erode political support – Louisiana Politics | State Legislature News – NOLA.com.

Senate Votes to Cut Off ACORN Housing Funding – Political News – FOXNews.com

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The Senate voted to cut off ACORN Housing funds following the release of three videotapes that show employees of the activist group advising a “pimp” and “prostitute” on how to break the law.

The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to7 and prohibits the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from receiving funds from the current Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. It marks the third time this year Republicans tried to block the organization from federal funding.

via Senate Votes to Cut Off ACORN Housing Funding – Political News – FOXNews.com.

ACORN Employees caught at Brooklyn office helping hookers launder earnings

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The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

via ACORN Employees caught at Brooklyn office helping hookers launder earnings.

Westchester Agrees to Desegregate Housing in Mostly White Towns – NYTimes.com

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This evil, no different than housing projects on prime real estate other places, drives bigger divides and causes more racial resentment than nearly any other policy. Total lack of understanding how people think and feel.

Westchester County entered into a landmark desegregation agreement on Monday that would compel it to create hundreds of houses and apartments for moderate-income people in overwhelmingly white communities and aggressively market them to nonwhites in Westchester and New York City.

The agreement, if ratified by the county’s Board of Legislators, would settle a lawsuit filed by an antidiscrimination group and could become a template for increased scrutiny of local governments’ housing policies by the Obama administration.

“This is consistent with the president’s desire to see a fully integrated society,” said Ron Sims, the deputy secretary of housing and urban development, which helped broker the settlement along with the Justice Department. “Until now, we tended to lay dormant. This is historic, because we are going to hold people’s feet to the fire.”

Westchester Agrees to Desegregate Housing in Mostly White Towns – NYTimes.com.