US clears high-dose Sanofi flu vaccine for elderly

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2316757020091223

(Reuters) - U.S. health officials approved on Wednesday a high-dose influenza vaccine made by Sanofi-Aventis DA (SASY.PA) for people age 65 and older.

Cops Get “Ghost Cars” to Bust Cell Phone Talkers

http://www.lohud.com/article/20091223/NEWS02/912230332/-1/newsfront/Westchester-cops-hope--ghost-car--blends-in

HAWTHORNE — Watch out for the new ghost on the highway.

Westchester County police will introduce a new "ghost car" Wednesday that is designed to sneak up on motorists who are talking on hand-held cell phones, text-messaging or driving without seat belts.

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Cost to Fight Each Al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan Per Year: $300 Million

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/president-obamas-secret-100-al-qaeda-now-afghanistan/story?id=9227861

As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters in the entire country.

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Obamacare Slaps $15,000 Annual Fee on Middle Class Families

http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryJeffrey
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the final Senate health care bill indicates it would slap a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 on middle-class families that earn an annual income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($88,200 for a family of four) and are not provided with health insurance by their employer.

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Paul Howard: Obamacare's gift to all: More regulation, more debt, more taxes

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/

Democrats are spending trillions on a Christmas present that a majority of Americans don't want: health care legislation loaded with more debt, more taxes, and more regulations. Like your Aunt Phyllis' fruitcake, it's on the way and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

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50 years of cooling predicted

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/50_years_of_cooling_predicted#65269

We're already 11 years into a cooling cycle according to BBC.

Meanwhile, Winter freeze kills 79 in Poland.

Who said the science was settled?

Avatar, the answer to a Copenhager’s dream

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_avatar_the_answer_to_a_copenhagens_dream/

MOST people will date the death of the great global warming scare not from the Copenhagen fiasco - boring! - but from Avatar.

It won’t be the world’s most expensive warmist conference but the world’s most expensive movie that will stick in most memories as the precise point at which the green faith started to shrivel from sheer stupidity.

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LAPD Takes Over Boy Scout Explorer Program

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_14052104?source=rss

YOUTHS: New name, uniforms, insignia planned.

With a pledge to develop a program that does not tolerate discrimination, Los Angeles police officials said Tuesday they are on target to take over the Explorer Program on Jan. 1.

New uniforms, patches and other insignia will be unveiled - along with a new name - to make the long-debated transition of the program from the Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America to the LAPD's control.

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Paul goes from ridicule to respect

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6774366.html

Paul's proposal to audit the Federal Reserve — first introduced by the Texas congressman more than 20 years ago — recently sailed through the House Financial Services Committee.

Unemployment funds going ‘absolutely broke’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34519544/ns/business-washington_post

The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks.

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Arizona's Coming Government Collapse - from Governor Jan Brewer

http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/arizonas-coming-government?xg_source=activity

Dear Fellow Arizonan,

We face a state fiscal crisis of unparalleled dimension – one that is going to sweep over every single person in this state as well as every business and every family.

That is why I held an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday morning where I outlined for our state’s elected leaders and business leaders the ills our state faces. As I told them yesterday, we ARE faced with some of the worst days in our 97-year history.

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Fierce storm barreling into Upper Midwest

USA Today reports the storm will be stronger than any storm seen in South Dakota in the past 40 years, which begs the question…

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NY Times: Obama Puts Off Gitmo Closure Until After 2011

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/human-rights/NY-Times-Closure-of-Guantanamo-Prison-Will-Take-Longer-Than-Expected-79983017.html

The New York Times newspaper says the Obama administration may not be able to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and transfer terrorism suspects held there until 2011 at the earliest.

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