http://www.gopusa.com Conservative news, information, and commentary Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST http://www.gopusa.com/images/gopusa_logo_sm.gif http://www.gopusa.com http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_unemployment1.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. The Labor Department said Friday that the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. August job losses were also revised lower, to 154,000 from 201,000. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_suspect1.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_30_dead1.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_allahuakbar.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire at the Texas post. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_house_vote.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_kill_bill1.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats' health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation's medical system. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_patriot_act.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_southern_dems1.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_911_terrorists.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept. 11 terrorists from being prosecuted in civilian federal courts. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_census_question.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_fiorina.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Weeks after Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was criticized over her poor voting record, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina tried to fend off a similar line of questioning by owning up to her spotty past. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2009/november/1106_census_worker1.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:05:38 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. news http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dlimbaugh/2009/dl_11061.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:46 EST By David Limbaugh -- The White House arrogance on display in denying that Tuesday's election results were a repudiation of President Barack Obama's radical agenda is of a piece with its arrogance in attempting to advance this agenda against the people's will. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mmalkin/2009/mm_11061.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:46 EST By Michelle Malkin -- In 2006, the minority party in Congress issued a dire report on the "unprecedented erosion of the democratic process." Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, then the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, authored the scathing document. She blasted the majority Republicans' violations of "procedural fairness," short-circuiting of debate, and late-night meetings "to discourage members and the press from participating" in legislative deliberations. My, how history repeats itself. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/lchavez/2009/lc_11061.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:46 EST By Linda Chavez -- Democrats are having a hard time explaining away their big losses on Tuesday. First, the White House let it be known that President Obama wasn't actually watching election returns, choosing instead to tune into HBO's puerile documentary about his own presidential campaign. Talk about ego; the man just can't get enough of himself. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/onorth/2009/on_11061.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:46 EST By Oliver North -- Thirty years ago this week, a group of Iranian "students" shouting "death to America" stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking nearly 100 hostages -- among them 65 Americans. Though foreign national employees and some Americans were released within a few weeks, the remaining 52 were held for 444 days. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/bbozell/2009/bb_11061.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:46 EST By Brent Bozell -- In the earliest days of television, shows were often supported entirely by one sponsor. There was the "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle. Remember "General Electric Theater" with Ronald Reagan? The corporate patron was held responsible for the content within the program. More to the point, the corporate patron wanted the association with the show it was sponsoring. commentary