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• Obama Says Quran-Burning ‘Stunt’ Is ‘Contrary’ to American Values
  'Look, this is a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaida. You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan,' Obama said.
  
  
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• Government Says Spending Will Rise Under Democrats’ Health Care Overhaul
  The nation's health care tab will go up -- not down -- as a result of President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. That's the conclusion of a government forecast released Thursday, which also finds the increase will be modest.
  
  
• New Muslim College Welcomes Freshmen in California
  Amid the uproar over the proposed mosque near ground zero in New York, a new Islamic college recently opened its doors in California with plans to educate a new generation of Muslim-American leaders.
  
  
• Mexican Government Rejects Hillary Clinton’s Comparison of Mexico With Colombia
  More worrisome to Mexican legislators, Hillary Clinton suggested the U.S. was looking to implement some type of Plan Colombia for Mexico and Central America, referring to a U.S. anti-drug program in which American special forces teams trained Colombian troops and U.S. advisers are attached to Colombian military units.
  
  
• Four Iraqi Terrorists Escape From U.S. Custody in Baghdad Prison
  U.S. and Iraqi officials say four prisoners with links to al-Qaida have escaped from the U.S.-controlled part of a prison in Baghdad.
  
  
• U.S. Loses Ground in Competitiveness Report
  The U.S. has slipped down the ranks of competitive economies, falling behind Sweden and Singapore due to huge deficits and pessimism about government, a global economic group said Thursday.
  
  
• Cuba's Communist Economic Model Doesn't Work, Fidel Castro Tells Visiting American Journalist
  The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change.
  
  
• Quran-Burning Prompts Safety Warnings and Widespread Calls to Desist
  Florida's governor is concerned about safety at home and around the world, a feeling shared by national and world leaders, over a plan by a small Florida church to burn copies of Islam's holiest text.
  
  
• Why We Treat Obama Like a Dog
  If Obama were a dog, he'd be a bad dog. He'd be the kind of dog that barks at all hours of the night, just for attention. The kind of dog that runs from intruders.
  
  
• Original Quran-Burning Took Place in the Mid-Seventh Century
  Muslims have killed, died, protested and boycotted over the real, perceived or rumored mistreatment of the Quran, but the book they revere as the final revelation of Allah to Mohammed was a version compiled by an early caliph almost two decades after Mohammed's death. According to major Islamic sources, that caliph ordered all rival versions burned.
  
  
• EPA Required Promotional Signs at All Stimulus-Funded Projects
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) required that all contractors and grant recipients post signs that informed the public that the projects they were carrying out had been funded with money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) – better known as the stimulus package.
  
  
• Hillary Clinton Compares Mexican Drug Violence to Colombia's, But No Call for Securing Border
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Mexico, with its drug violence, is 'looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago when the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of the country.' But she did not say that securing the U.S.-Mexico border was necessary to curtail the violence.
  
  
• Hoyer: 'You're Going to be Chasing Your Tail Down a Rat Hole' Unless More Taxpayer Dollars Go for Stimulus
  Though Americans are split on the issue, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says the 2009 economic stimulus plan kept the U.S. 'from a severe depression,' and he predicted that's where we're headed unless more money is injected into the economy.
  
  
• Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov’t Data
  In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.
  
  

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