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1) Texas gov. rejects stimulus money for unemployment

HOUSTON – Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday he turned down $555 million of federal stimulus funding that would expand the state's unemployment benefits, saying the money would have required the state to keep paying for the expanded benefits after the stimulus money ran out. See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_re_us/stimulus_texas 1a) Pelosi dodges chance to end automatic pay raises See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_go_co/congress_pay 1b) Obama's honeymoon bliss fading The most optimistic say Obama and Democrats in Congress will face a political backlash unless the economy improves by Election Day 2010. See: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-honeymoon-fades-2009-03-11.html 2) 'Deep concern' Obama ready to talk to Hamas Terrorist group calls for murder of Jews, destruction of Israel JERUSALEM – There is deep concern among Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization that the U.S. government has changed its attitude toward Hamas and may be ready to end the terrorist group's isolation, a senior PA negotiator told WND. See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91441 2a) Should we let Iran go nuclear? Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also dismissed his American counterpart’s desire for direct talks, saying they could only happen if the U.S. abandons her “satanic, coercive and aggressive ways.”  Yet even as the leaders of Iran talk about annihilating Israel and the U.S., and feverishly try to build, buy or steal nuclear weapons, a growing chorus of “experts” in the U.S. foreign policy community are actually suggesting a nuclear-armed Iran might not be such a terrible thing. See: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/22566/ 2b) Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical" KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban on Tuesday turned down as illogical U.S. President Barack Obama's bid to reach out to moderate elements of the insurgents, saying the exit of foreign troops was the only solution for ending the war. Obama, in an interview with the New York Times, expressed an openness to adapting tactics in Afghanistan that had been used in Iraq to reach out to moderate elements there. "This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical," Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, told Reuters when asked if its top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would make any comment about Obama's proposal. "The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?," See: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5291GQ20090310 3) Birds of a feather? Newsweek bails out Air America Left-leaning radio network strikes deal to broadcast news magazine's show See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91523 4) Survey: Less Than 1 Percent of Young Adults Hold Biblical Worldview This is the reason for God’s coming wrath… See: http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Polls_reports/2009/03/survey-less-than-1-percent-of-young-adults-hold-biblical-worldview-10/