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Islam's European Conquest —  Is America Next?... Britain’s Muslim demographic is now so dominant that the British government recently began to allow Islamic civil and religious law, known as Sharia, to be enforced along side British law. ... More

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Obama Election Defeat Termed 'Astonishing' - Conservative Sweep Mid-Term Elections...The Obama freight train that has been steamrolling American politics ever since his election one year ago ran squarely into a political brick wall Tuesday night, as Democrats suffered stunning setbacks in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.

Direct General suddenly closes 9 Florida No-Fault offices - claims "extraordinary losses due to fraud investigation"... Nashville-based Direct General Insurance Agency Inc., which sells under the Florida No-Fault and Cash Register brands, closed nine retail stores – five in Tampa, one in West Palm Beach, two in Miami and one in Fort Myers.

Man arrested for automobile fraud ring in Savannah...Accompanied by fire safety and insurance commissioner John Oxendine they arrested Joseph Morris at his home. Morris is charged with three counts of ...

Almost a criminal conspiracy:  Pelosi Health Care Bill Big Present to Trial Lawyers...Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.

NYT: GORE'S BIG PROFITS FROM 'GLOBAL WARMING'... Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in. Don't be the last one to figure this out!

Will the public plan have higher premiums than private insurance?...The public option's premiums, they say, will actually be more expensive than private insurance: Roughly one-fifth of the people purchasing coverage through ...

CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion...The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday a U.S. House health-care system re-write would extend health insurance to 96% of the nonelderly U.S. population by 2019, and spend $1.055 trillion to do so.

Insurance Giant: Where's the "Teeth" in Health Care Bill?...Anthem owns a 40 to 45 percent stake of the private insurance market in Virginia, and covers around 3 million state residents. ...

Chubb's new policy to protect businesses from cyber-criminals...The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has launched a new cybersecurity policy to help improve the protection commercial organizations receive against losses ...

Sheffield to Tout Regulatory Role in Georgia Insurance Commissioner Race...Before private practice, she spent six years with the Georgia Department of Insurance working in several units including compliance and licensing. ...

VIDEO:  7 Lies in under 2 minutes!  Obama may have set new record... In his own words...  A must listen...

Obama: Twelve months on, the star falls back to earth...The President has already suffered a slow, but steady, decline in his approval ratings, so it cheers no one in the White House that the outcome in Jersey is so uncertain. In Virginia, where the President campaigned this week, the outlook is worse with most polls suggesting...

Feds: Chinese drywall reports still inconclusive...And some homeowners are reporting that their insurance companies are dropping or refusing to renew their policies based on the presence of the wallboard in ...

Insurers: Costs Would Skyrocket Under House Health Bill...By Katharine Q. Seelye No sooner had House Democrats presented their health-care legislation than the insurance industry gave it a thumbs-down. ...

Homeowners Choice Receives Florida Regulatory Authorization to Assume Up to ...About Homeowners Choice, Inc. Homeowners Choice, Inc. is a Florida-based insurance holding company headquartered in Clearwater. ...

State to take over Georgia insurance company...a state takeover of an Atlanta-based worker's compensation insurer at the center of 1 of the largest insurance failures in Georgia in the last decade. ...

VIDEO: Boehner: '1,990 Pages Of Bureaucracy'... Sen. Boehner sees multiple levels of trillion dollar bureaucracy in Pelosi's Health Care Bill...

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Insurer informs of rate hike — then asks customers to oppose reform...In its flier, Blue Cross had included a form letter to North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan, asking Hagan to "please oppose government-run health insurance. ...

Lieberman raises filibuster on healthcare..."To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the ...

Louisiana Beefing Up Bait Car Program To Fight Auto Theft...He said two programs within the Department of Insurance's Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (LATIFPA) are aimed at ...

New York And Louisiana Crack Down On Medicaid Fraud...Prosecutors said that the defendants filled out applications to receive Medicaid, a health insurance plan for low-income people, and gave incorrect ...

Georgia Auto Fraud Ringleader Arrested...Georgia officials say they have arrested the ringleader in a fraud ring operating in Savannah, that collected nearly $95000 from six insurance companies by ...

Va. regulators fine agent, warn others of 2003 privacy safeguard law...Virginia insurance regulators issued their first fine for a violation of a 2003 law regarding the protection by agents and agencies of policyholder ...

Donegal Mutual Insurance Company and Southern Mutual Insurance Company ...The affiliation received the approval of the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Georgia on October 28, 2009 following a public hearing held on ...

Georgia Insurers Warned Not to Penalize Flood Claimants...Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine has issued a directive to homeowners insurance companies ordering them not to penalize policyholders who've ...

Chubb Wins Applied Systems Interface Partner Award...pplied Systems, an insurance technology company, honored the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies with the 2009 Interface ...

Aon results highlight tough quarter for insurance brokers...s results Friday highlighted a tough third quarter for insurance brokers as the lingering effect of the economic slowdown, competition and a lack of major ...

Aflac's Profit Triples as Investment Losses Decline...Net income rose to $363 million, or 77 cents a share, from $100 million, or 21 cents, in the same period a year earlier, the Columbus, Georgia-based insurer ...

VIDEO:  7 Lies in under 2 minutes!  Obama may have set new record... In his own words...  A must listen...

GALLUP: Obama has only had minimal effect on race relations...In short, despite a brief and notable bump after Obama won the election, optimism (or lack thereof) about U.S. race relations is back to its previous level.

Taxpayers paid $24,000 per clunker... A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis

Russia: Nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars... the nuclear spaceship should be used for human flights to Mars and other planets. He said the project is challenging technologically, but could capitalize on the Soviet and Russian experience in the field.

More than $1.2 billion stimulus money awarded to firms on watchdog's list... So far, 33 federal departments and agencies have awarded more than $1.2 billion in stimulus contracts to at least 30 companies that are ranked by one watchdog group as among the most egregious offenders of state and federal laws.

Democrats' New Health Care Bill: 'Historic Moment' or 'Monstrosity'?...It's going to raise the cost of health insurance, new mandates, new taxes. I think it's just -- it's a monstrosity. ...

Atlantic Hurricane Season slowest since 1997; Global tropical cyclone activity near 30-year lows... The North Atlantic hurricane season has not produced a storm in over 3-weeks and, if no more develop, the season overall would rank as the slowest since the El Nino year of 1997. Hurricanes Bill and Fred accounted for over 82% of the Accumulated Cyclone Energy [ACE**] -- a metric that combines intensity, duration, and frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms during a year.

Investigate 'Muslim Mafia,' new petition tells Congress..."We call on the U.S. government to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the interest of national security," says the new petition by Brigitte Gabriel, who now runs the ACT! for America organization.

VIDEO: Amphibious Car Vehicle at Lake Havasu and Newport Beach CA "American Deamin".. You gotta see this video!  I want one of these!

NYT: In Iowa, Euphoria Gives Way to Second Thoughts on Obama... I really thought there would be immediate change,” she said. “Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.”

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