Monday, March 9, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Yoely Lebovits Pester Rebbe Frist Music Video-"My Yellow Bus"
Monday, March 2, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Emergency Relief Fund Fire In Lakewood
Checks can be made out to: VOFRF
and mailed to:
Victims of Fire Relief Fund
c/o Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen
37 Fifth St
Lakewood NJ 08701
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Kassam rockets continue to hit Negev
Palestinians fired two advanced Kassam rockets at Ashkelon on Saturday morning, in an attack that saw one projectile tear through an empty school, destroy classrooms, and spray shrapnel in all directions.
Classrooms destroyed in Ashkelon school following the rocket attack, Saturday.
Damaged areas in the school included some that had been deemed safe zones by the Home Front Command.
Two people living near the school were lightly wounded and eight were treated for shock.
The second rocket hit an open area in the city, causing no injuries or damage.
Friday, February 27, 2009
1:05 Pm Fire In Lakewood
Pester Rebbe's Economic Address - Purim Bailout CD
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Senate Backs Amendment to Prevent 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
The South Carolina senator attached his amendment, called the Broadcaster Freedom Act, to a bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House.
The Senate approved an amendment Thursday that would outlaw the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," an off-the-books policy that once required broadcasters to air opposing viewpoints on controversial issues.
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint's amendment passed by a wide margin of 87-to-11. The South Carolina senator had attached his proposal, called the Broadcaster Freedom Act, to a bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House.
It's unclear whether the amendment will survive as Congress debates the voting rights bill. But the measure served to effectively put the Senate on record as opposing a revival of the Fairness Doctrine.
However, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin also won approval for an alternate amendment that would order the Federal Communications Commission to encourage radio ownership "diversity."
A DeMint aide said Durbin's measure will "impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership."
The aide called the Durbin proposal "an attempt to break up companies like Clear Channel and hurt their syndications and therefore putting many local radio stations out of business that depend on those syndicated shows for revenue."
The measure passed by a vote of 57-to-41.
The media control doctrine is a policy created decades ago but abolished in the late 1980s that required broadcasters to provide opposing views on controversial issues of public importance.
Though President Obama remains opposed to any effort to renew it and the Federal Communications Commission claims it is not in any talks to revive the policy, a few Democrats have voiced strong support for the media control policy in recent weeks. Republicans like DeMint in turn pushed legislation to forestall any move to bring back the doctrine.
"We need to make it a law that the FCC or this Congress cannot implement any aspect of the Fairness Doctrine," DeMint said.
( Source FOX News )
Estimated Budget Totals for 2008-2010 Show Government Public Debt Rise 63 Percent
White House Office of Management and Budget presents totals for President Obama's 2010 spending plan.
If passed, President Obama's spending and tax blueprint for 2010 will mean the U.S. government's debt will increase 63 percent in two years.
The publicly held debt -- money that is owed by the government to foreign and domestic creditors -- was 40.8 percent of gross domestic product in 2008. That increased to 58.7 percent based on projections for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1, and will rise again to 64.6 percent in 2010 under Obama's proposed budget.
Gross domestic product is a dollar value of all the finished goods and services produced by the nation. The United States' GDP was $14.22 trillion in 2008, of which $5.8 trillion was debt held by the public. In 2009, GDP is projected to increase to $14.4 trillion but the publicly held debt will rise to $8.3 trillion. According to Obama's budget plan, the economy will reach $14.7 trillion. Public debt will rise to $9.5 trillion.
