Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul and will stay afloat a dozen years longer than earlier projected, trustees forecast Thursday. But that depends on cuts in care that the system’s top analyst says are highly doubtful.
The annual report by the trustees who oversee Medicare and Social Security, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, gives backers of the new health care law evidence of a positive impact on government entitlement programs, but it also undercuts the findings with a host of caveats.

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President Barack Obama celebrated his 49th birthday in Chicago yesterday while his wife, Michelle, and daughter, Sasha, were vacating in Spain, and his other daughter, Malia, was at camp. But don’t worry, the President didn’t celebrate alone. He was surrounded by some special friends including Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King.

Obama traveled to Chicago and dined at graham elliot restaurant in the River North gallery district with Oprah and Gayle plus long-time friends Eric Whitaker, Marty Nesbitt and Valerie Jarrett, who is a senior White House adviser and fellow Chicagoan. (more…)

KABUL — The two U.S. Navy sailors who went missing Friday afternoon left a base on the outskirts of Kabul called Camp Julien, which houses NATO’s counter-insurgency academy, and might have taken a wrong turn that sent them toward Logar province, according to NATO officials.
Although NATO still characterizes both men as missing, Afghan officials, along with a Taliban spokesman, said one of them was killed during a shootout with insurgents in the dangerous Charkh district of Logar. (more…)

Two U.S. senators ratcheted up the pressure on BP and British government officials Monday to provide answers to the questions now swirling around the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pam Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people.

A group of senators from New York and New Jersey have repeatedly voiced suspicions that Scottish authorities released al Megrahi as part of a deal allowing oil giant BP to drill off the Libyan coast. BP, a British corporation, is already dealing with a public relations nightmare as the company responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
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Pepco has now tasted the the wrath of God for supporting gay marriage. Several months ago, we all frowned our faces in disappointment as we found even Pepsi effervescently fizzing with the foul support of gay marriage.

Pepco and Pepsico are similar enough in name so that we can draw a reasonable association as to the sign that God is sending with this one. God’s wrath was so angry and blinded all in similar look are being smitten! God is giving Pepsi a warning that Pepsico, and even any power grid group with a similar name, shall face his wrath for supporting gay marriage! (more…)

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange (pictures below) claims newly released Afghanistan documents show war crimes. Wikileaks’ Julian Assange released last weekend over 90,000 classified U.S. documents about the war on Afghanistan from 2004-2009. The means in which Assange released the documents is the subject outrage by White House officials today.

The secret reports were first given to The New York Times, The Guardian (England), and Der Spiegel (Germany) and then posted online. The White House says it found out about the documents through the news. (more…)

The USS George Washington is the new ship that is going to take the United States and the South Korean Military officials for a four day military exercise in the Sea of Japan. The captain of the USS George Washington Ross Myers says that all the preparations have been made and they are ready to launch the exercise. A lot of US ships and some from the South Korean will be participating in this nuclear exercise. Ross Myers explained to the media that South Korea and the United States hold these kinds of drills often and this time they will be targeting the Sea of Japan for their aims. (more…)

BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward may resign within the next two days as the U.K. oil company prepares to publish its first-half results, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Detailed negotiations over Hayward’s severance package have taken place this weekend, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information. The company’s board is scheduled to meet tomorrow before BP publishes its results on July 27, the Sunday Telegraph said. (more…)

LAS VEGAS, NV — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took questions from Netroots Nation 2010 conventioneers at the Rio casino and resort Saturday morning in Las Vegas before a crowd of about 1000 liberal bloggers. Progressive revelers here don’t seem like morning people, but Sin City is not a morning place and organizers said that that they were here to have fun as well as to network.

In her opening remarks, Pelosi noted that the election is 100 days from tomorrow. She promised that throughout the upcoming August Congressional vacation, Democrats will focus on jobs, the economy, and restoring America’s manufacturing base. (more…)

Suppose there were a heavily Muslim neighborhood in New York, with mosques, religious schools and shops with meat prepared according to Islamic dietary rules. Suppose an evangelical church wanted to build a chapel there. And suppose local Muslims tried to block it as a flagrant insult to them.

Would Sarah Palin urge the church to retract this “unnecessary provocation” in the “interest of healing”? Would her followers? Or would they scorn this disparagement of Christianity and champion the religious freedom on which America was built?
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