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http://medford.patch.com/articles/na...-budget-battle

Video: Nancy Pelosi Visits Tufts in Midst of Budget Battle

Pelosi: "As long as we don't have to take something to the floor, I can be with you right now."

By Jarret Bencks

April 8, 2011

Nancy Pelosi took the stage at Cohen Auditorium on the Tufts campus Friday afternoon with the federal budget in gridlock in Washington.

"Minute to minute, hour to hour, we're getting reports," Pelosi said. "As long as we don't have to take something to the floor, I can be with you right now."

Pelosi was the guest for the inaugural Alan D. Solomont lecture. She took the stage shortly after 2 p.m. Friday, gave a brief speech, then answered questions from Solomont, a Tufts alumnus who is the U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra.

The issues holding back the federal budget have been narrowed to about a half dozen, including funding for planned parenthood and clean air/clean energy programs, Pelosi said.

"There were 50, then there were 25, now it's down to about six areas of policy disagreement," Pelosi said. "The policy issues don't really belong in this kind of bill, but nonetheless, they are there."

"You really can't split the difference if splitting the difference means half the kids are going to be thrown off Head Start, but not the full number, or that half the home-bound seniors will lose meals," Pelosi said. "...You can't just talk about dollars -- you have to talk about values."

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...ng/?test=faces

Two George Soros Events Aim to Remake the Financial Order and the Media -- So Where's the Reporting?

By Dan Gainor

Published April 06, 2011
| FoxNews.com

Apparently, megalomaniacs need schedulers.

Just ask George Soros. The left-wing billionaire is helping fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. God created the world in six days. Apparently, Soros, who sees himself as “some kind of god,”needs just a long weekend to start remaking today's world in his image.

The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. Soros wants to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”

Now that is change you can believe in. Sadly, those who actually report the news must believe in it because they sure as heck aren’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other.

The first gathering in Bretton Woods, N.H., is an economic conference Soros once described as “a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.” In October 2009, Soros committed $50 million to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). A week later, the glib lefty investor wrote a column calling for a new Bretton Woods event, to recreate the one that helped design the post-WWII economy. Only he wants this one to knock America down a peg or three.

Now, it's been a little over a year later and the group he funded is making King George’s wish come true – bringing together a whole slew of important people to discuss how to change the global economy. In Soros speak, that means “establish new international rules” and “reform the currency system.”

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If you're concerned about Pelosi's speech, I'm sure you're equally concerned that AZ Rep Carl Steele was in New Yor Friday meeting with Donald Trump.

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...ng/?test=faces

How ironic that this piece would be reporting on an event that promotes fair reporting by the media. What a joke.