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Muslim Brotherhood vows not to recognize Israel

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood will not recognize Israel “under any circumstance,” the party’s deputy leader Dr. Rashad Bayoumi told Arabic daily al-Hayat in an interview published on Sunday.

In recent Egyptian elections the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 36.3 percent of the list vote, while the ultra-conservative Salafi al-Nour Party took 28.8%.

When asked whether it is a requirement for the government in Egypt to recognize Israel, Bayoumi responded by saying: “This is not an option, whatever the circumstances, we do not recognize Israel at all. It’s an occupying criminal enemy.”

ICE launches hotline for busted immigrants

Politico

As states across the nation ramp up their efforts to catch illegal immigrants, the Obama administration on Thursday launched a new free hotline for people busted on violations to get help.

The hotline, run by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, is available 24/7 for detained individuals to phone if they think they “may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime.”

175 Languages Spoken Here: Obama's Housing Dept. Expands Services for Non-English Speakers

CNS News

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has launched a telephone service that will offer live, one-on-one interpretation services in more than 175 languages.

The HUD Language Line -- available nationwide -- will help HUD staff better communicate with "limited English proficient" people about HUD fair-housing programs, home ownership, lead abatement, housing assistance, and other HUD programs and services.

Pro-Life Group Sues HHS to Force Release of Documents on Planned Parenthood Funding

CNS News

New Hampshire Right to Life is suing the Obama administration in an attempt to force the release of information regarding $1-million in taxpayer money awarded to Planned Parenthood’s six New Hampshire clinics.

The grant – awarded by the Health and Human Service Department (HHS) in September -- came three months after New Hampshire’s governing body rejected federal money for clinics that perform abortions.

The lawsuit stems from an Oct. 7, 2011 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. New Hampshire Right to Life on that date asked HHS for documents regarding the million-dollar grant – and why it was not put out for competitive bidding so hospitals and health clinics could have applied for the funding as well.

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Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle

Mackinac Center

Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

Hohman looked at total state and federal assistance offered for the development and production of the Chevy Volt, General Motors’ plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. His analysis included 18 government deals that included loans, rebates, grants and tax credits. The amount of government assistance does not include the fact that General Motors is currently 26 percent owned by the federal government.

India: 50,000 Girls Become Victims of Abortion Monthly

LifeNews.com

The ABC 20/20 news story is riveting — a revealing look at why there are so many fewer women than men in India. Reporter Elizabeth Vargas traveled to India to bring this story of what is called “Gendercide” home to a stunned American audience.

Here are the numbers: An astonishing 50,000 girl babies are aborted each month. One millions girl babies die every year. Over 40 million girls have been killed through sex selection abortions, neglect or outright murder in the past decades.

The main reason for male preference is money. Indian culture demands that a woman entering a marriage provide a dowry. In order to avoid impoverishing the family, girls are simply eliminated. Sex selective abortions are not used just by poor families, however, as middle and upper class families also seek ultrasound to guarantee the birth of a son.

Gov’t Will Share Medicare Patients’ Data With New ‘Accountable Care Organizations’

CNS News

The new year will bring a new phase of Obamacare to an estimated 860,000 Medicare patients.

Under the new system, individual medical claims filed with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be shared with doctors and hospitals unless Medicare patients opt out of the data-sharing.

Starting on Jan. 1, 32 health care organizations from across the country will take part in a "Pioneer Accountable Care" initiative, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Monday.

Gallup: Under Obama, Growing Percentage See Big Government as 'Biggest Threat'

CNS News

While President Barack Obama has focused his rhetoric in recent weeks on depicting a reckless Wall Street and insufficiently taxed "millionaires and billionaires" as threats to the American middle class, a newly released Gallup poll indicates that Americans apparently have been coming to a different conclusion during Obama's presidency, with fewer people now seeing big business as the "biggest threat" to the country in the future and more seeing big government as the "biggest threat."

Over the last forty-five years, Gallup has periodically asked this question: "In your opinion, which of the following will be the biggest threat to the country in the future--big business, big labor, or big government?"

Court schedules week of health care arguments

Associated Press

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will use an unprecedented week's worth of argument time in late March to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul.

The high court scheduled arguments for March 26th, 27th and 28th over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which aims to provide health insurance to more than 30 million previously uninsured Americans. The arguments fill the entire court calendar that week with nothing but debate over Obama's signature domestic health care achievement. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/19/national/w083032S25.DTL#ixzz1h0Fj90F9

EXCLUSIVE: EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of 'Sustainable Development'

Fox News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that will give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of “sustainable development,” the centerpiece of a global United Nations conference slated for Rio de Janeiro next June.

The major focus of the EPA thinking is a weighty study the agency commissioned last year from the National Academies of Science. Published in August, the study, entitled “Sustainability and the U.S. EPA,” cost nearly $700,000 and involved a team of a dozen outside experts and about half as many National Academies staff.

SEC Charges Ex-Fannie, Freddie CEOs with Fraud

Associated Press

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with civil fraud, saying they misled the government and taxpayers about risky subprime mortgages the mortgage giants held during the housing bust.

Those charged include the agencies' two former CEOs, Fannie's Daniel Mudd and Freddie's Richard Syron. They led the companies when the housing bubble burst in late 2006 and 2007. The four other top executives also worked for the companies during that time.

Religious Tolerance Resolution Backed by Obama Administration Aligns With Islamic Bloc’s Interests

CNS News

The head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has acknowledged that a U.N. religious tolerance resolution heavily promoted by the Obama administration has the same aims as the Islamic bloc’s annual “religious defamation” resolutions, which Western democracies have consistently opposed for more than a decade.

The State Department this week hosted three days of talks with foreign governments and international organizations, including the OIC, on implementing “resolution 16/18,” a measure adopted “by consensus” – without a vote – at the U.N. Human Rights Council last March and set to be endorsed by the full U.N. General Assembly within days.

Legal Ethics Expert: Kagan Must Recuse from Obamacare Case

CNS News

Ronald Rotunda, a law professor and expert on legal ethics, says that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan must be recused from judging the challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law that will be heard by the Supreme Court early next year.

“I think she really has to be disqualified,” Rotunda said at a forum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that was hosted by Judicial Watch.

AG Holder: Government Has ‘Responsibility’ to Automatically Register Citizens to Vote

CNS News

"All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote," and it's the government's "responsibility" to see that it happens, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.

In a call to modernize voter registration, Holder noted that many elections officials still are manually processing new applications, many of them handwritten -- a situation that produces errors and confusion at the polls, he said.

Political 'posturing' on Lowe's business decision

OneNewsNow

A California conservative says a Democratic state lawmaker is going too far in suggesting legal action to counter Lowe's decision to pull ads from a controversial show on Muslims.

California Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) said he almost called for a boycott of Lowe's Home Improvement after the company pulled its advertisements from the reality TV show All-American Muslim. The retailer made the move following a complaint that the show promoted "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."

High court will look at state immigration laws

USA Today

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take up a dispute over an Arizona law that requires police to check the status of people stopped or arrested if officers suspect they are here illegally.

The Obama administration had asked the high court to stay out the closely watched case at this early phase, arguing it should let lower court judges examine the constitutionality of the law first.

The justices instead have decided to review whether lower federal court judges had sufficient grounds to block enforcement of the most controversial portions of the Arizona law -- which now has equivalents in several states -- while a question about their constitutionality is pending.

Future Health IT Networks Will Include ‘Interventions’ – Such As Text-Message Reminders

CNS News

The Obama administration on Wednesday outlined its goals for achieving better health care through technology.

The goals include so-called interventions in which health care providers reach out to patients through text messaging, for example, to remind them to monitor their blood sugar, take their medicine, or quit smoking.

As part of its plan to develop a nationwide network of health information technology, the Obama administration has designated 17 “Beacon Communities” to serve as models for the rest of the nation.

Obama: Limited Gov't That Preserves Free Markets 'Doesn't Work. It Has Never Worked'

CNS News

In a speech delivered at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama argued that while a limited government that preserves free markets "speaks to our rugged individualism" as Americans, such a system "doesn't work" and "has never worked" and that Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more and regulates more if they want to preserve the middle class.

"'[T]here is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. 'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us," said Obama. "If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes--especially for the wealthy--our economy will grow stronger.

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