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Fox just announced that McCain and Palin will be addressing the attacks TODAY and are angry. They will do so in various forms and are going to demand some retractions from the Obama campaign.

So now you know, I'm a computer idiot. I have a nice new Dell Latitude D830 with XP instead of Vista. Far more computer than I need. Firefox3 keeps offering itself free. Is it a good thing? Should I download? Or will it glitch up my XP? I only use Word, surf a little, and collect my email. And I basically hate the new Word too. All I want to do is format manuscript pages easily, but Microsoft wants to make me read 23439 pages of gobbledygook to figure out how to get the thing to stop skipping spaces between...

Michael Smallwood looks more like a roadie than a scientist, sporting a shoulder-length silver mane, and jeans and a T-shirt rather than a white lab coat. But he's spent nearly two decades tinkering with a gel-like chemical compound that squeezes oil from rock, sand, dirt and whatever else it clings to. That could pay off now that his boss and benefactor, Kurt Neubauer, saw enough promise to found a company to make the substance and market it. "Discovery is the most important part of science," said Smallwood, chief science officer for Neubauer's startup, Planet Resource Recovery. With Smallwood's creation in...

As a new school year starts, how often do you hear parents say "I'm so glad the kids will be out of the house" vs. something like "I'm so glad Susie is going to learn algebra this year". If I did not know better I'd say that a major function of the schools is babysitting and warehousing. I'll admit that neither my wife nor I are willing to give up our full-time jobs, so we want the babysitting. I don't think the public should pay for more of our babysitting through "universal preschool" (which Obama supports). I also think tax...

The 2007 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! (see also The 2007 FreeRepublic Lexicon) I have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please understand that it was very difficult to keep up with all...

We ran into actor Matthew Modine (remember "Full Metal Jacket"?!?) at Denver's La Rumba restaurant and, while the Obama supporter had plenty to say about John McCain's policies, he also had plenty of critiques of McCain's military service -- a topic that almost no one dares denounce. "I mean, he got shot down three times!" said Modine, taking on one of McCain's most lauded personal accomplishments. "That's not success!" While on a bombing mission over North Vietnam, McCain was shot down and held as a prisoner of war. When McCain's father was named commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the United States Ambassador Anne W Patterson in the Foreign Office here to lodge a protest over Angoor Adda incident.

HOLY hoop skirts: When did the clock tick back to 1958? When Joe Biden tragically lost his wife and infant daughter in a car wreck in 1972, not a single colleague, friend or competitor advised him to quit his newly won Senate seat to raise his two little surviving sons. Rather, he was sworn into office from the injured boys' bedside, and took to commuting an hour and a half each way from Delaware to Washington. And when Biden's second wife gave birth to a daughter, no one thought to ask him to step aside and stay home. They all...

The civics lesson for hundreds of Chicago Public Schools students who skipped the first day of classes to protest Illinois education funding shifts Wednesday from the North Shore to corporate America. The Rev. James Meeks, a state senator organizing the boycott, is scheduled to send buses of students to the lobbies of more than a dozen downtown Chicago businesses as part of a teach-in. Some of the same students who traveled to New Trier High School's Northfield campus on Tuesday are expected to sit in the lobbies of buildings including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, City Hall, Boeing Corp. and Aon...

She’s here! She arrived at 0036 3 Sept weighing 8.9 lbs. Not quite 15 hours, but it was quick after the Doctor got there. Mom and baby are healthy and happy as is the rest of the family. Stayed tuned for the next six months as you be deluged with pics.. We’ll be touch!

RNC video of Medal of Honor recipient, Navy Seal Michael Monsoor, narrated by Gary Sinese Video Here

Mexican police discovered an air-conditioned drug-smuggling tunnel less than 60 meters (65 yards) from the US border in northwest Mexico, state police said Tuesday. Policemen surprised workers who were five meters underground digging a tunnel to the United States while they were searching a house in the border city of Mexicali, Mexican police said. (AFP/SSP/Ho) MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexican police discovered an air-conditioned drug-smuggling tunnel less than 60 meters (65 yards) from the US border in northwest Mexico, state police said. The 140-meter-long (150-yard), 1.3-meter-wide and five-meter-deep tunnel included an electric rail for container transport, ventilation and lights as...

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Barack Obama attracting 48% of the vote while John McCain earns 43%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 50%, McCain 45%. Both Obama and McCain lost a little ground in the polls after announcing their Vice President running mate. Obama lost three points after the Joe Biden selection was announced and McCain lost two points after Palin was announced. Obama then enjoyed a fairly typical bounce from his convention and it remains to be seen how what kind of bounce McCain will get. Fifty-two percent (52%)...

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - Sarah Palin has dominated the Republican convention for days without making a public appearance but on Wednesday she takes the spotlight with a prime-time speech that will introduce her to American voters. (snip) Also scheduled to speak on Wednesday was former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who made a failed run for the Republican president nomination. Appearing on CBS' "Early Show," Giuliani defended Palin as being ready for the vice presidency and attacked Obama. "I would say Barack Obama has never governed a city, never governed a state, never governed an agency, never run a military...

A conservative analyst says the media are currently in a feeding frenzy, trying to assert that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is unfit to be vice president because her teenage daughter is pregnant. One pro-family leader says the way liberal media is reporting the story exposes a "rank hypocrisy." Female news anchors and reporters from various media outlets, including CBS, NBC, and CNN, have suggested 17-year-old Bristol Palin's pregnancy should have disqualified her mother from becoming John McCain's running mate and raises questions about McCain's judgment. Katie Couric of CBS News even chided the McCain campaign for not notifying the press...

Joseph Lieberman, the Democrats' 2000 vice-presidential nominee, and former Sen. Fred Thompson tore into Democratic nominee Barack Obama Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention with red-meat speeches that painted Republicans as the party of patriots and attacked Democrats as eager to give up in Iraq. Thompson, a former Tennessee senator, and Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut, were the featured speakers at the Republican gathering's first prime-time session. Thompson went first with a 35-minute stemwinder that got the crowd cheering. After reciting a lengthy passage about presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's heroism as a Vietnam prisoner of war,...

While in Minnesota to attend the Republican National Convention, Ailes told The Washington Post he, Murdoch and Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, had a productive discussion three months ago in New York. He said Obama had expressed concerns about Fox News Channel's portrayal of him and his wife Michelle. The newspaper said Ailes told Obama that while his network wouldn't be "in the tank" for him, he assured the nominee he would be treated fairly. In return, Obama has agreed to appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" Thursday, hosted by conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly

It is awful that women is not taking care of her child. She was working on CNN last night at 11 PM. Everyone knows that a women cannot work AND watch her kids. People...it is time to attack.

Anyone who's really studied Sarah Palin knows that she's accomplished more in her two years in office than had been accomplished during the terms of the governors who preceeded her. Can anyone help with a quote to that effect? Something like, "she accomplished more in her first 18 months than her predecessor had accomplished in 8 years"? Thanks in advance!