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Mitt Romney's remarks last week that John McCain's presidential campaign should have provided more media access to vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin sent waves through the political world because it was one of the first times the former governor had criticized the GOP nominee's strategy. "Holding Sarah Palin to just three interviews and microscopically focusing on each interview I think has been a mistake," Romney said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I think they'd be a lot wiser to let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. Let her talk to the media, let her talk to people." While Romney may have been...

CAMDEN, N.J. - Prospective jurors discussed their attitudes toward religion and immigrants Tuesday as a complex process began to seat a jury in the case of five men accused of planning to attack Fort Dix. Lawyers asked questions of 29 potential jurors Tuesday morning, examining whether they could be fair even if they thought Islam encouraged violence or they had family in the military.

Four people were in custody Tuesday after a smuggling suspect tried to run over a U.S. Border Patrol agent at an East County freeway checkpoint, prompting the officer to open fire, authorities said. The driver allegedly steered a vehicle carrying suspected illegal immigrants at the federal officer at the Buckman Springs-area citizenship verification station on westbound Interstate 8 about 4 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol and USBP public affairs. The agent suffered minor injuries, either when struck by the vehicle or while jumping out of the way, officials reported. The federal officer's gunfire caused no injuries, Border Patrol...

Which candidate would you endorse? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-endorsement-vote,0,6443477,post.poll The editorial board is debating its endorsement for president. As we think about that choice, we want to hear from you. Which candidate would you endorse?

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SHOULD A CHILD EVER BE CALLED A “SUPER PREDATOR?” A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system Children who kill are called “super predators,” “people with no conscience,” “feral pre-social beings"–and “adults.” William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent says We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn’t suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?” Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of...

The government was last night facing the very real prospect of the first British consumers losing substantial amounts of their savings following the collapse of the popular internet bank Icesave. More than 300,000 British savers had accounts worth in total £4bn with the Icelandic bank, attracted by best-buy savings rates of more than 7%, on offer as recently as Monday. But yesterday withdrawals were frozen after its parent group, Landsbanki, went into receivership. Savers desperate to withdraw their cash found they were unable to log on to the website, and, unlike savers with Northern Rock, now face losing any balances...

Researchers Say That Air Cirulation From Fans May Reduce Risk of SIDSWith all the expensive safety products marketed to new parents -- baby-safe furniture, strollers with mosquito nets and BPA-free bottles -- researchers have found that using a simple fan in the bedroom can also save lives. Having a fan running near a sleeping infant was associated with a 72 percent decrease in the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, researchers reported in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. "Obviously, further research needs to be done," said Betty McEntire, executive director for the American SIDS Institute in...

With everyone from Barney "Pedophile" Franks to OJ "Rent a car from us there's enough room in the trunk for your ex-wife AND her lover" Simpson playing the race card, thought I'd give you your "Get out of racism free" card. Feel free to send to any friends that may need one.

PENSACOLA - She entered the Pensacola Civic Center to chants of "Sarah, Sarah!" and was swamped by autograph-seekers on the way out. Sarah Palin isn't your run-of-the-mill politician. She's a bona fide rock star. "They have an enthusiasm and belief in Governor Palin unlike any political figure I've ever seen," said U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, describing a crowd that stood in pouring rain for hours to see the vice presidential candidate. "You probably have to go back to Ronald Reagan to find a politician able to fan this kind of excitement," Miller said. Palin, Alaska's chief executive and the running...

Did you know that Barack Obama was a member of the leading socialist party? In a small omission, Barack Obama apparently forgot to include in his resume, he entered politics as a socialist. This just keeps getting better and better. Barack Obama was active participant in the 1990s of the Chicago New Party and, importantly, the Chicago DSA, a group of socialists affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America.

Asian shares fell broadly Wednesday, with markets in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney all lower after another gloomy session on Wall Street that saw the Dow Jones industrial average notch its biggest five-day points fall ever. Japanese indexes fell more than 3 percent on Wednesday after U.S. stocks tumbled, while a firm yen also weighed on exporters. The benchmark Nikkei shed 3.2 percent to fall to 9,834.14. On Tuesday, it slid briefly below the 10,000 level and logged a five-year closing low at 10,155.90. ... In Sydney, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was down 175.5 points at 4,443.2, erasing Tuesday's 1.7...

Sadly, I think the effort to disprove Barack Hussein Obama's citizenship needs a more reputable advocate. Philip J Berg is a 9-11 Truther, and wanted O'Connor, Scalia and Thomas disbarred over their decision regarding Bush v Gore http://www.whitecloud.com/our_struggle_getting_over_it.htm I feel bad about this, but see why so few people want to touch this now. I don't know if this is a proper vanity post but I wanted all folks who are scared of Obama as I am, and looking for a way to keep him from winning, this may be a proper avenue, but may not have the best champion.

Video linkMust see video of Gen. David Petraeus speaking at the Ass'n. of the U.S. Army 2008 Meeting which brings together America's Army, active Guard and Reserve, retirees, family members and civilians.

Communist Goals (1963) Documention below -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America. At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies...

The memories of that particular fall just won’t go away. Thankfully, most of the memories are positive or funny. Turning 15 and finally having an ice cream cake. Hearing Prince’s “Love Symbol” album for the first time. Seeing Bret “Hit Man” Hart’s first interview as WWF Champion on Superstars of Wrestling. So much was strange about that fall. None of the movies seemed particularly interesting: The Last of the Mohicans, Candyman, Under Siege and Glengarry Glen Ross struck me as brutally dull based on the newspaper ads and TV commercials. Madonna generated a national scandal with her book Sex and...

GREENVILLE, N.C. – After more than a month on the campaign trail, Gov. Sarah Palin has finally taken questions from her traveling press corps. The very brief press conference occurred on a flight from Pensacola, Fla., to Greenville, N.C., when Ms. Palin walked back into the press cabin without any warning, accompanied by her spokeswoman, Tracey Schmitt. She worked her way back row by row, shaking hands with each reporter and saying “Nice to meet you!” to each one. Then she answered questions on the state of the race, on the relevance of William Ayers, on the state investigation in...

Republicans are slipping. They used to be far better at conniving and manipulating situations – like during the “golden age” of the “Bush lied, People died” era, when they could peddle sweet deceit about weapons of mass destruction and simultaneously persuade the frightened citizenry that the Patriot Act was for their own good while progressively raping them of their basic rights. *sigh*No, they don’t make neo-cons like that anymore. Making it all that much more notable, in retrospect, was that during the meat of the “lets-overstate-the-terrorist-threat” period (which is still in full swing today), Republicans were somehow – masterfully -...

SAN DIEGO -- A Border Patrol agent was injured Tuesday after he was struck by a car driven by a suspected smuggler, 10News reported. The incident occurred before 5 p.m. at a vehicle checkpoint on westbound Interstate 8 at Buckman Springs Road.

Lt. Burke Jensen was called five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait. Now he is being told to get an irrigation system and landscaping on his property as soon as possible or face legal action from the Oak Hill Country Estates Homeowners' Association.KENNEWICK — Burke Jensen moved to Kennewick about a year ago, bought a nice house in the country south of the city and began to settle into a new job at Energy Northwest. Then came the call five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait. So Jensen, who says he is an involuntarily mobilized reservist,...

<p>REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A business owner checking a trash container for scrap cardboard was alarmed by something else: gas masks, maps, an M-80 explosive, arson photos and anti-government writings.</p> <p>"It was kinda scary," Andy Wishaw recalled. "Some of my employees said it's nothing. I thought, 'What's it going to hurt to call the police?'"</p>

"I have emailed everyone at Fox repeatedly, with no results, and called and got close to speaking to O'Reilly today on his show before one of his men, basically told me that O'Reilly is aware of the suit, but thought this whole thing was "internet garbage." I was told to call back on Friday in the second part of the show to try to get my comment in to O'Reilly, but if he thinks it is garbage to begin with, what chance would I have on-air. He is missing the biggest story of the year, or decade for that matter....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's go to the Saturday Night Live audio, and I need to set this up. It's really searing, and it's funny. It's amazing that this skit made it on the air. It has vanished from the website of NBC's Saturday Night Live. It's a seven-minute sketch. We're not going to play the entire thing. It's a mock news conference among congressional leaders explaining the bailout bill. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi are explaining while inadvertently admitting that it was Congress that blocked reform and effective oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They have two actors...

The Las Vegas headquarters of the nation’s largest grassroots community organization for low-income people was raided today by Nevada state authorities as part of a voter-fraud probe. The raid was initiated by Nevada’s Secretary of State, Ross Miller, after a series of accusations that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also known as ACORN, was submitting voter registration lists to the state that contained false or duplicate names of voters. “When we got [to the headquarters], no one was there so, there were no arrests,” Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh told CBS News. But, he added “agents...

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With Virginia as a battleground state in the 2008 election and given Democrat Barack Obama's damaging gaffe earlier this year about rural voters clinging "to guns or religion", a new gaffe by another Democrat should be worthy of media attention. It remains to be seen if the mainstream media will even notice. (h/t Reformed Chicks Blabbing) Running to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Republican John Warner, former Gov. Mark Warner (no relation) has a healthy lead in recent polls and the admiration of a pliant media. Yet an audio recording of Warner at a Democratic Party gathering caught...

In an exclusive Nashville interview with The Page, Obama strategist Robert Gibbs addresses the key remaining question about his candidate’s relationship with William Ayers: Does Obama think it is acceptable to serve on a board with — and have personal ties — to an unrepentant domestic terrorist?

John M. Murtagh Fire in the Night The Weathermen tried to kill my family. 30 April 2008 During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow...

The US has reacted angrily after a judge ordered that 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay should be released into the United States. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said the US could not hold the 17 as they were no longer considered enemy combatants. The Uighurs (WEE'gurz) were cleared for release in 2004 but the US says they may face persecution if returned to China. The White House said the ruling could set a precedent that would allow "sworn enemies" to seek US entry. The government says the 17 also pose a security risk if released into the US. Lawyers...

As he was opening up a lead over his rival in the polls, Barack Obama was outspending John McCain on television advertising three-to-one, according to the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza. "From Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, Obama spent more than $20 million on television ads in 17 states including more than $3 million in Pennsylvania and more than $2 million each in Florida, Michigan and Ohio," he writes. "McCain in that same time frame spent just $7.2 million in 15 states. Even when the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure spending in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin is factored...

Did you know that Barack Obama was a member of the leading socialist party? In a small omission, Barack Obama apparently forgot to include in his resume, he entered politics as a socialist. This just keeps getting better and better. Barack Obama was active participant in the 1990s of the Chicago New Party and, importantly, the Chicago DSA, a group of socialists affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America. Barack Obama attended and participated in meetings the Chicago New Party and the Chicago DSA, the local affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. Barack Obama sought the endorsement of the...

There are days when this election seems like a Stephen King short story, or like a “B” horror movie. Or a Stephen King short story that was made into a “B” horror movie - - “Children of the Corn.”

Decided to use Googles' 2001 index to see what would come up with Ayers and Obama pre-2000. Just a random symposium involving Barack and Michelle and hosted by Ayers... Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the...

WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama pretended to be brushing dirt off his shoulders during a speech last spring in the midst of an increasingly acrimonious primary battle against Hillary Clinton, aging and unhip pundits didn't have a clue what he was doing. But young Americans seized upon Obama's tip of the hat to the Jay-Z hit "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" - about rising above hatred - and before long, dozens of YouTube mash-ups appeared featuring footage from the speech running over top the song. "People, we're talking about a seminal moment in the campaign, the merging of politics and pop...

The Dem governor of TN was just interviewed in advance of tonight's second presidential debate. Folks, the word they will hammer home tonight is "erratic," as in "John McCain's erratic behavior makes him dangerous to the country." Perhaps we'll hear, "Who knows what could have happened to his mind as a POW?" Also heard: McCain will remain a gentleman and respond mildly to any attacks. The McCain team apparently still believes that moderation will gather the most "independents," whom Rush Limbaugh correctly describes as spineless wastes of electoral time. Also comes news that Obama will rip into McCain, blaming him...

Woo hoo!! Getting close to one third!! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!!

Calling All FReepers: I don't know exactly what we need to do and where, but I can't help but believe we have to counter these ACORN nuts in every way possible. I'm in Georgia so we don't have as much to worry about locally, but the battleground states sure do. I do like the idea of Squirrel Brigade as the name...

MOSCOW (AFP) — Military exercises due to be held by Russian and Venezuelan navy are not aimed against the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published Tuesday. "Russia and Venezuela have no plans of attacking anybody, they cooperate on the basis of international law," Lavrov told the state Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily, slamming "hypothetical scenarios of unimaginable attacks on the United States". "Among the US leadership and that of several other countries that chose absolute loyalty to Washington's way of thinking, the geopolitical ideology of doing everything possible to rein in Russia prevails," the minister deplored....

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Barack Obama's campaign is citing the University of South Carolina's speaking invitations to William Ayers and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford's role as school trustee to counter GOP efforts to link the presidential candidate to the 1960s radical. The governor dismissed the effort as "totally bogus" and said he never heard of Ayers. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said Obama was "palling around with terrorists" and referred to Ayers, an education professor. Ayers helped found the violent Weather Underground group, whose members were blamed for several bombings when Obama was 8. Obama has denounced Ayers'...

Iran has announced plans for a new car designed specially for women. Its features will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids and a jack for changing tyres without getting grease on your chador. Iran's biggest car producer, Iran Khodro, says it will come in a range of feminine colours and interior designs. Other features are proposed to make it easier for women when they are doing the family shopping or taking their children to school. If that suggests a degree of sexist stereotyping in Iranian society, it is, just possibly, true. Despite the fact that Iranian women now make...

The public presence of little Trig Palin is a powerful witness to the sanctity of human life, and the knowledge that this little infant with Down syndrome is bringing such joy to his family is upsetting those who believe that babies such as Trig should never be born.The public presence of little Trig Palin is a powerful witness to the sanctity of human life, and the knowledge that this little infant with Down syndrome is bringing such joy to his family is upsetting those who believe that babies such as Trig should never be born. The facts are daunting. It...

NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi incommunicado at the airport until he departs the country after police shut down a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama's connections in the country. Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book "The Obama Nation," was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi. "Just as we were about to start the 10 a.m. press conference at the Grand Regency Hotel...

College graduates are starting work with twice as much debt as in the mid-1990s. For many, the burden of loan payments — sometimes as large as mortgage payments — is constraining big decisions, from picking a career to buying a house. Tyson Hunter dresses sharply, works out most every day and can't wait to make his mark on the business world. Hunter, 23, also happens to owe $152,000 in student loans, accumulated in four years at Boston University. He graduated last year with a bachelor's degree in business administration, and now earns $40,000 a year at a market-research company. His...

Corporate Social Responsibility News (CSRwire) To expand the secondary market for affordable community-based mortgages nationwide, Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation’s largest source of financing for home mortgages, today announced a commitment to purchase $2 billion of "MyCommunityMortgage" loans through a suite of flexible mortgage options for low- and moderate-income borrowers purchasing one-to-four unit homes. Starting December 1, 2000 through a web-based application, participating lenders will get prompt approval recommendations from Fannie Mae on loans that previously would have been negotiated on an individual basis. Fannie Mae then will purchase or securitize the MyCommunityMortgage loans. MyCommunityMortgage product options give flexibility to...

<p>Bless your heart, sir, my son is over in Eye-Rack, fighting for your right to protest. -- Sarah Palin, to a purported heckler at a rally yesterday.</p> <p>There's something doubly evil about a self-avowed Christian who prefaces almost every uncharitable remark she makes with a disingenuous "Bless your heart!" In any case, I say this without even the slightest amount of support or emboldening from the US military-- fuck you and your jingoistic blather, Palin. How's that for freedom?</p>

Something’s missing on Iowa’s political landscape this year: Tom Harkin’s always red-hot race for reelection. Yet despite the low-to-invisible profile of Harkin’s Republican opponent, Christopher “Who?” Reed, Wednesday’s KCCI poll showed the businessman and first-time candidate with 39 percent of the vote. That might not sound like much, but with near-universal name ID, John McCain got the same 39 percent in that same poll. Christopher Reed in Postville, IA.A Research 2000 poll shows Reed at 40 percent, and the Des Moines Register poll had him at 34 percent two weeks ago, with Harkin in the low 50s in each. So...

Michelle Obama told a crowd of military families near the Marine Corps' massive base at Camp Lejeune on Tuesday there is "only one candidate" for president who will work to give them the services and care they need. "When I look at the two candidates and their plans for America ... and when I think about the military families I've met across the country and the kind of help that they could use right now - not in four years or eight years but right now - then the choice is clear," the wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life group says Barack Obama is flip-flopping on abortion -- not by changing his position but by changing his approach to talking about it. National Right to Life says Obama and his campaign touted his pro-abortion record in the primaries and now is running from it as the election draws near.Douglas Johnson, longtime legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, tells LifeNews.com that the Obama campaign and its allies have adopted a strategy to mislead pro-life voters about his extensive pro-abortion record."The scam depends on the Obama campaign, with cooperation from...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself. She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical and falsely claimed the Democratic presidential candidate plans to raise most people's taxes. On Tuesday, she tried rebutting the Illinois senator's criticisms of Republican presidential candidate John McCain over health care and Social Security. She said Obama was misleading and wrong, but she herself told less than the full story. To be sure, most of Palin's...

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