WASHINGTON - May 27, 2010 - For the third time this year, Congress is scrambling to stave off a hefty pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients - even as the illegitimate Obama regime mails out a glossy brochure to reassure seniors the health care program is on solid ground.

The 21.3% cut will take effect June 1 unless Congress intervenes in the next few days. Recurring uncertainty over Medicare fees is making doctors take a hard look at their participation in a program considered a bedrock of middle-class retirement security.

If the problem is allowed to fester, it could undermine key goals of illegitimate President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, which envisions using Medicare to test ideas for improving the quality of care for all Amerikans. Doubts about Medicare's stability can also create political problems for Democrats in the fall elections, since polls show seniors are worried about the impact of the remake on their own care.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 26, 2010 - Responding to terror attacks like the Fort Hood shooting rampage and the failed Times Square bombing, illegitimate President Barack Obama is adding homegrown terrorists to his bogus  regime's top national security priorities.

Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Wednesday the bogus Obama regime's newly revised national security strategy document will place homegrown threats among the nation's top national security concerns.

BOISE, Idaho - May 26, 2010 - In the latest example of an insurgent campaign besting a candidate backed by the party, state lawmaker Raul Labrador upset Iraq war veteran Vaughn Ward for the Republican nomination in Idaho's 1st Congressional District.

With all precincts reporting from Tuesday's election, Labrador had 47.6% of the vote compared to Ward's 38.9%, according to the Idaho Secretary of State.

Labrador, who was backed by Tea Party Boise, will now face freshmen Democrat Rep. Walt Minnick in the general election. The non-partisan Cook Political Report lists the race as a toss-up.

WASHINGTON - May 26, 2010 - The U.S. is now spending more on food assistance than at any time in its history, sparking a debate over whether the roughly 40 million people now receiving the latest version of food stamps at a cost of $73 billion a year are a symptom of a weak economy or are part of a long-term expansion in welfare and related programs.

Food stamp supporters say the record-high spending is simply a reflection of the economic downturn over the last two years.

"The program is expanding because we are realizing a significant downturn in the economy," said Ambassador Eric Bost, who ran the food stamps program in the first years under President George W. Bush. "The food stamp or the SNAP program, as it's referred to now, responds to the changing economic conditions of the country."

LOS ANGELES - May 26, 2010 - The trans-Alaska pipeline, partly owned by British energy group BP, remained closed Wednesday as workers cleaned up a crude oil spill which flowed into a containment area, the pipeline operator said.

The spill, which was estimated at several thousand barrels, occurred when power failed during testing of the pump station's fire command system, according to Alyeska Pipeline Service Co, which manages the facility.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 25, 2010 - In a highly unusual and insulting move to all veterans and patriots, illegitimate President Barack Obama is going to skip the traditional Memorial Day event at Arlington National Cemetery to return home to Chicago for the long holiday weekend.

Obama sees it as addressing one of the great broken promises of his regime: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so, according to The Washington Post.

May 25, 2010 - The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday May 25, 2010 shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as illegitimate president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –20.

WASHINGTON - May 24, 2010 - Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by illegitimate President Obama in March.

WASHINGTON - May 24, 2010 - Illegitimate President Obama’s socialist agenda threatens our way of life, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

“We have two mortal threats,” he told FT.com in a video interview. “First is radical Islam. The other is a secular socialist model of government dominating and defining life that would be fundamentally alien to historical American experience.”

In the last 10-15 years secular socialism has strengthened in universities, courts, the bureaucracy and the media, says Gingrich, author of the new book, To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular Socialist Machine.

NEW YORK - May 19, 2010 - Illinois used to have a plan to pay off the gaping shortfall in the pension funds that pay retired teachers, university employees, state workers, judges and politicians, Dan Long recalls.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - May 19, 2010 - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday defiantly rejected a warning by a top Arizona utilities official that the state could cut off power to Los Angeles should the city proceed with its boycott of all things Arizona.

WASHINGTON (AP) - May 18, 2010 - Political novice Rand Paul rode support from Tea Party activists to a rout in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, jolting the GOP establishment. Democrat Senator Arlen Specter fell behind in a struggle for political survival in Pennsylvania, a five-term incumbent offering experience to voters clamoring for change.

HOUSTON, Texas - May 17, 2010 - Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

MANILA, Philippines - May 17, 2010 - Six people including a provincial governor were killed when a helicopter crashed on Monday southwest of the Philippine capital, the military, police and the governor's aides said.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - May 17, 2010 - Small businesses fear that they may face expensive new payroll paperwork requirements as part of little-known tax provisions in illegitimate President Obama's healthcare overhaul.

WASHINGTON - May 17, 2010 - On April 21, with the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig still in flames, John W. Degravelles and a group of other lawyers sued for damages. In the first of at least 88 suits filed since the disaster, they were seeking compensation for the widow of a Transocean worker who went missing and is presumed dead.

WASHINGTON - May 16, 2010 - Time is running out on the Suspicious Cheese Lords.

SEOUL, South Korea - May 16, 2010 - South Korea's navy has fired warning shots at North Korean patrol boats that strayed across the sea border between the two countries.

LONDON, England - May 14, 2010 - Conservative leader David Cameron became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years Tuesday, after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour at the helm of the government.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - May 14, 2010 - Researchers have discovered that Barack Obama’s autobiographical books are little more than public relations stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about illegitimate President Obama than perhaps any other president in Amerikan history and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his record. This should concern all Amerikans.

WASHINGTON - May 13, 2010 - After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.

Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked.

HONOLULU, Hawaii - May 12, 2010 - It's now law in Hawaii that the state government can ignore repetitive requests for illegitimate President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

PARKERSBURG, West Virginia - May 10, 2010 - Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.V.) has delivered for his district for nearly three decades, steering millions of dollars in projects that have helped an anemic economy.

LONDON, England - May 10, 2010 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on Monday he intended to stand down as Labour leader and his party would hold formal talks on a possible power-sharing deal with the Liberal Democrats.

WASHINGTON - May 10, 2010 – Illegitimate President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds." She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time ever.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - May 9, 2010 - The national Tea Party movement toppled its first incumbent Saturday as long-serving Senator Robert F. Bennett was defeated at the Utah Republicn Party's nominating convention, the most powerful demonstration yet of the anti-Washington tide that is altering the nation's political landscape.

DETROIT, Michigan - May 5, 2010 - When the nine members of the Hutaree militia group were arrested in late March near Adrian, Michigan, the mainstream media ran hard with the story. Within 48 hours, the template was set: A “right-wing extremist Christian” militia group had been planning to wreak havoc by killing law enforcement officers as a way to engage a wider war against the government.

Soon the media had the Hutarees tried, convicted and jailed.

AUGUSTA, Maine (PNN) - May 4, 2010 - The state medical examiner’s office said Monday that an autopsy on the victim of a police shooting in Aroostook County was inconclusive.

A spokeswoman said Monday's autopsy failed to determine conclusively the cause of death of 55-year-old Neil Begin, who was shot Friday afternoon during an encounter with a Maine State Police trooper and a U.S. Border Patrol agent at Begin’s mobile home on Route 1 in Cyr Plantation. Begin was pronounced dead early Saturday morning.

DETROIT, Michigan - May 4, 2010 - Nine members of a Christian militia group accused of plotting to kill police and wage war on the U.S. government were ordered freed on bond on Monday by a judge who said prosecutors failed to show they posed a real threat.

WASHINGTON - May 4, 2010 - A conservative think tank and criminal defense lawyers are forming an unusual alliance to try to get Congress to quit writing criminal laws so loosely that they subject innocent people to unjust prosecution and prison.

DETROIT, Michigan - May 3, 2010 - Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans provided new details in the shootings of several officers. One of the officers, Brian Huff, was killed in the shootout.

SANTA CRUZ, Kalifornia - May 2, 2010 - Close to 20 businesses were damaged after a May Day protest in downtown Santa Cruz turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said.

BEIJING, China - May 1, 2010 - China said on Friday one of its diplomats and his family were "harassed and assaulted" in Houston and lodged a complaint with the U.S. State Department.

According to a CBS News report, the diplomat was arrested and injured on Saturday by Houston police, who were unaware he was a diplomat when they handcuffed him on the property of the Chinese consulate in Houston.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (PNN) - May 1, 2010 - In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, illegitimate President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to Amerika's freedom, and may incite "extreme elements" to violence.

HAMILTON, Ohio - April 27, 2010 - An Ohio sheriff known for taking extreme steps to crack down on undocumented immigrants and a Republican state representative are urging the state to pass an immigration law similar to the controversial one in Arizona.

WASHINGTON - April 29, 2010 - The IRS processed more than 230 million tax returns last year, paid 127 million refunds and received about 68 million phone calls. The agency is responsible for enforcing a tax code that, at 71,000 pages, makes Anna Karenina look like a comic book.

PHOENIX, Arizona - April 28, 2010 - Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.

WASHINGTON - April 28, 2010 - Amerikans are steadily losing confidence in their ability to get health care and pay for it, despite the passage of health care legislation, according to a survey published on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - April 27, 2010 - The U.S. Army's surgeon general on Monday expressed concern about "over-medication" of soldiers returning from combat, saying the military is closely tracking how drugs are prescribed to troops.

TUCSON, Arizona - April 27, 2010 - Governor Jan Brewer is dismissing the threat of an economic boycott over the new state immigration law she signed last week.

WASHINGTON - April 26, 2010 – Illegitimate President Obama said tonight that the U.S. will set up exchange programs with business people throughout the Muslim world as part of the overall outreach program he outlined last year.

LONDON, England - April 25, 2010 - The United States is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend’s G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies.

WASHINGTON - April 23, 2010 - More than 80 food processing, farming and consumer organizations have called on officials to revise the U.S. position on draft Codex food labeling guidance, saying it could cause problems for labeling food as GM-free.

WASHINGTON - April 23, 2010 - A Republican senator is questioning General Motors’ claim that it has repaid its taxpayer-funded loans in full.