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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA-nOeLSM7E Television's Vietnam: the Impact of Media 1 of 6 Charlton Heston Narrates

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In Defense of the Republic Many citizens of this fine land describe it as a "democracy" in their conversation about our government and elections. There is an element of democracy in every representative form of government, but that does make a given country a democracy. The United States of America - notice the plural on what makes up America, several sovereign states - was founded with clear understanding that each of the original states - and those to be added over the years - were "Free and Independent States" (last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence). The federal government is...

GUILDERLAND -- Hundreds of people packed a Guilderland school board meeting Tuesday evening to protest the controversial reassignment of two popular teachers. Dozens of current and former students of Matt Nelligan and Anne Marie McManus spoke against the move even though board members walked out and refused to hear the messages of support in a public forum. There were howls from the crowd and calls to vote board members out of office after President Richard Weisz referred to the involuntary transfer of the teachers to Farnsworth Middle School as a personnel matter that could not be discussed. Nelligan and McManus,...

Having just about enough of the broadcasts of NObama and Hil lovefest, the talk about the economy and high oil prices, our TV was stationed on other things this past weekend.Last night was a pleasure when we watched, on WGN TV, WKRP, Newhart and The Honeymooners. Many much needed laughs resulted. Honeymooners- Chef of the Past, Chef of the Future. LOL Funny stuff!

Good morning everyone! And a safe, enjoyable weekend to all...Did y'all catch the lovefest between O and Hill?And what about "no-bounce" Obama? Maybe that's why they staged that special event in Unity, N.H....There's a lot of discomfort and questions out there about the Senator from Ill, and McCain and Co. need to exploit their opening. Will they?

Hi everyone.Price of crude oil is climbing again as the markets open this morning.Comedian George Carlin has died.And the main campaign season is underway as the candidates and their surrogates appear on talk news shows, in ads and across the country before groups. It's going to be a long summer....

Those who believe Obama is articulate, eloquent, etc. should listen to him speak without a teleprompter. The audio is here: http://genelalor.com/

Way to go Gov Sarah. She has got yo be the hottest. "Gov. Sarah Palin is asking the Legislature to give every Alaskan $1,200 as energy cost relief."

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Wherever you  stand, please take the time to read this; it ought to scare the beejeebers out  of you! We know Dick Lamm  as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are  particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation  conference in Washington , DC , filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor  Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, 'Mexifornia,' explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until...

Good morning.Truckloads of prayers for the beautiful state of Iowa, its wonderful people, and for all others affected by the terrible weather events and flooding.

Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America The American flag has been our national symbol for 231 years, and it remains a beacon of freedom wherever it is flown. Since the Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as our flag in 1777, it has stood for freedom, justice, and the resolve of our Nation. When Francis Scott Key saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry in 1814, he believed that liberty would triumph. The flag that inspired Key to write our National Anthem still energizes and...

June 14 is Flag Day. Post your pictures here. For those of you do not know how to post a picture on FR, here's the easy way. 1. Upload your pictures to your free account at Photobucket at this link2. Click on the "HTML code" label and the link with code will automatically be copied to you clipboard. 3. Paste the link in your comments! Easy, peasy. One, two, threesy! Enough talk. Here are my flags that will be displayed at the end of the driveway tomorrow.

What's Obama's strength? Is it? A) - He's different than your usual candidate, different in: looks, age, style. B) - He's a good actor in not showing his nervous emotions, playing it "cool" even when sh*tting in his pants. C) - Anti Bushi-sm. D) - Esploiting the war in Iraq.

Pls give me your opinion on this guy's screed about the Boumediene decision. I am looking for legal arguments to answer this tool's opinion. He is a lawyer and I am not and we are in an email exchange. Thanks in advance... [quote]"(1) 9/11 didn't teach us anything about the capacity of the criminal justice system with respect to terrorism, because the criminal justice system was immediately bypassed following 9/11. All of the evidence shows that the failures of the criminal justice and intelligence systems to prevent the attack were individual failures rather than systemic failures. (2) Nothing in the...

Libs. for Islamic Terrorists inc. - The "huffingtonpost" calls Iranian-Syrian invaders Hezbollah Islamists murdering Americans in Iraq, "resistance" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/27/hezbollah-sides-with-iraq_n_103692.html Hezbollah Sides With Iraqi "Resistance" _______ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2030391/posts?page=1 IRAQ & US ACCUSE [SYRIA'S IRAN'S LEBANESE BASED] ISLAMIC HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS OF CRIMES IN IRAQ

June 12, 2008 The Many Lies of Barack Obama Filed under: Barack Obama — resistliberalism @ 7:02 pm Tags: Barack Obama, barack obama lies, liberal barack obama 15 16 17 18 19 20 lies of Barack Obama. I will continue to update this as I find more lies. If you have any not listed here, post them in comments and I’ll add them to the list!1 - The Poor Poor Daddy Lie Barack Obama has portrayed his father as a ‘goatherd’; suggesting his father was some poor poor peasant black migrant, who miraculously traveled to America. In reality, the Senior Obama came...

IRAQ & US ACCUSE [SYRIA'S IRAN'S LEBANESE BASED] ISLAMIC HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS OF CRIMES IN IRAQ [Iraq] Talabani charges [Iran's Islamic Lebanese based terrorists] Hezbollah interference Published: May 30, 2008 at 8:23 BAGHDAD, May 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in a Baghdad interview Friday, accused the leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah of meddling in Iraq's affairs.http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/05/30/Talabani_charges_Hezbollah_interference/UPI-44791212150201/ Commentary: Iraq ripe for Iranian [militant Shia Muslim] dominationMarch 4, 2008Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor of The TimesMahmoud Ahmadinejad was right to look smug at the end of his two-day state visit to Iraq. Not only did he become the first Iranian president to...

This is a video of Lt. Col. Allen West speaking with the Broward Republican Executive Committee a few months ago. This guy is a real American hero, running for Congress in Florida. The GOP needs to support people like Allen West, who is a real conservative. I hope you think as highly of Allen West as I do.

Start at the top and click on the cartoon commercial. Sedelmaier uses interesting layered messages to illustrate the absurd while humorously making the point about the importance of giving blood. BLOOD SAVES

Good morning!No primaries, no Hillary, but lots to do beginning TODAY to prevent an Obama presidency!

Today, Senator Clinton is expected to end her presidential bid and endorse BHO.Negotiators for Israel and Palestine are drafting a Peace Pact even though there are numerous differences on many issues. Belmont Stakes today. Will Big Brown win the Triple Crown?

Like many people I am very conflicted about casting my precious vote for Senator McCain this November. I want to suggest a way to send an irrefutable signal to him that we are voting for him as the least of the evils and NOT because we think he is the Conservative leader we had hoped for. I think that if Conservatives voted for him by using the Write-In vote as a signal that we demand that he adopt, and actively promote and defend CONSERVATIVE principles and our U.S. Constitution a very strong message would be sent loud and clear. It...

Here's the "thing", when John McCain spoke, he spoke full volume, to the point and full of substance, when Obama speaks (including on the middle east), it's all AIR, or (shall I use -- at this juncture -- Hillary's phrase, he's all 'ZEROX'). One would have to wait for any beginning of truth in these "pledges"... until Obama starts realizing that there's nothing to "talk" about with an Islamic Hitler that wants US/Israel to disappear because they interfere with his Islamofascistic-Messianic ambition and his aim to control the world via oil, nukes and terror. Only when Obama will start addressing...

Good morning! First full week in June, and rumors swirl around a possiblity: video of Michelle Obama giving a racist speech.For further info, check out Townhall's blog.

The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meet today to, perhaps, restore half of the delegation to Florida and Michigan giving them access to the national convention in Denver.An Indiana boy won the National Spelling Bee title when he spelled guerdon.An Indonesian businessman plans to drop 100 million rupiah from an airplane to promote his new book. Authorities may not allow it because of massive crowds.It is said that a new breathing exercise,Papworth method, can reduce asthma symptoms by one third. Online Science Daily is reporting this.

A World War II veteran, closer now to 90 years than 80, told me he once had a dream that he died and was reunited with his fellow soldiers who had perished between Normandy and the Ardennes. They were all as he remembered them, young men. He, however, in the dream appeared as he does today -- well advanced in years. They didn't know him at first, he being now decades their senior. It disturbed him to see himself that way, and to be seen by them an old man.

‘My son died with honor.” These words struck this writer like a bolt from the blue. Captured by a television news crew, they were spoken with quiet dignity by Johnny Spann to reporters at the front gate of his home in Winfield, Alabama, upon learning of the death of his son, Johnny Mike Spann, the first American to die on a foreign field of battle in the War on Islamic Terror. Mike, as he was known to his friends and family, was killed on November 25, 2001, during a combined al-Qaeda–Taliban uprising at a temporary prison in Qala-i Jangi, not...

Please take some time ..today.. to remember. Thank you.

TIPP CITY, Ohio — When 83-year-old Edmund Jackson uses a hand trimmer to clip the grass, one of the 22 pieces of shrapnel in his right arm dances under the skin of his wrist. ---- snip ---- The schoolbook program is designed to spark greater interest in history by giving students an emotional connection to it and showing them it’s made by real people like themselves.

Good morning!Well, Hillary has done it again: created a geat disturbance in the political atmosphere with a reference to June '68, RFK, and presumably his assassination, as a reason for her staying in the race at this late date.What do you think? Intentional or not? Calculated or not? Another sign of Clinton desperation?We shall see...

James D. Miller: Obama and Arab racism - 13 Mar 2008 ... I suspect there is a tremendous amount of anti-black racism in the ... They're the darkest Arabs you can find. Sudan is a terrible govt, ...

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we still have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we still have inflation and high taxes? You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don’t set...

Good morning, and a good week's start to everyone! David Frum suggests on Bennett's show using "appeasement" to "assuagement" so as not to upset the Obama camp. LOL!He's written a new book: Comeback about how Rs can win again...

Yesterday, BHO called John McCain's foreign policy "naive and irresponsible". It is alleged that after asking him to stand back, Iraqi police beat a photographer for filming the scene of a suicide bombing.

Good morning!The stories of the week:Natural disasters...Hillary: When will she quit? Will she quit?Obama turns his attention to McCain..

Happy Mother's Day weekend. Hard to believe that my Mom has been gone close to 30 years. If you have them love them while you can.Dads, don't feel neglected. Your weekend is soon.

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (AW) Kevin S. O’Brien, Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Public Affairs LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter announced on May 7 at a ceremony in Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., the name of the newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer will be USS Michael Murphy. Designated as DDG 112, the name honors Lt. Michael Murphy who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during Operation Red Wing, in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. "Michael Murphy's name which will be forever synonymous with astonishing courage under...

Good morning!Fateful week in national politics. Who predicted we'd be at this point back in January when it all began? Those earliest primaries were supposed to settle everything so quickly! The political gods have a sense of humor......

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080428-N-7883G-683 SOUTH CHINA SEA (April 28, 2008) The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) prepares to anchor in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. Hong Kong is Kitty Hawk's last scheduled overseas port visit before its return to the United States later this year. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle D. Gahlau (Released)

Please consider watching the following coverage of a recent protest in NYC regarding the Fed bailout of Bear Stearns. The Ticker Forum put this together and is comprised of informed voters and investors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUpQ_EJMdGs It’s important to follow the links at the end of the presentation and tell your congress-people what you think. I also attach a White Paper written by Karl Denninger, founder of the Ticker Forum, that was faxed to all members of Congress and a link a petition you should sign if you agree this madness must end. White Paper: http://www.denninger.net/letters/mortgage-mess.pdf Petition: http://financialpetition.org/

Marine Gets Wish to Return to Iraq By Bryan Dean Staff Writer Gene Gibson remembers his son joking about what he would do if he came under fire in Iraq. Master Sgt. William "Spanky” Gibson, 37, had an old knee injury from his wrestling days at Pryor High School. On duty with the U.S. Marines in Iraq, Gibson joked with his father over the phone in May 2006 about how he would protect himself. "He said ‘If they start shooting at me, I'll stick that bad leg up there,'” Gene Gibson said. "Well, that's where they got him, right through...

Good morning!2 primaries tomorrow.Rev. Wright gave an astonishing, jaw-dropping speech before the NAACP last night. Will it be covered by the MSM? Is this the kind of speech we need to get beyond the race issue - Obama's first position during this campaign season, OR to confront honestly this country's racial history - Obama's second , post-Wright position, during this campaign season?I understand the Rev. will be talking at the National Press Club this morning....covered probably by CSPAN.

Most campaigns will donate to a golf outing "Goody Bag"by donating a logo'd item and believe they've promoted their campaign. Wrong! This article helps Republican campaign candidates and staff turn a donation into a powerful promotion. Tells why and how Goody Bags are effective Republican campaign promotion tools and gives a couple of specific examples you can actually use. The best part about goody bag marketing is that it's free!

Jeremiah Wright believes that some of his hateful sermons were taken out of context. Unbelieveable.

Good morning.Dem party wars continue...who'll win?Can the winner be stopped come Nov?Is Jimmy Carter still in the Mideast, or has he found his peaNUTTY way back to Georgia?

A Russian space capsule landed hundreds of miles off course. A search for the capsule and 3 astronauts (1 U.S. astronaut) is being conducted.

SICK!... University of Maine Lays Down US Flags for Students To Walk On For Art « on: Today at 06:43:35 PM » Quote Modify Remove This really is going to far. Thank God there was one veteran to say something. He started picking up the flags before the campus security arrived but was out numbered and in unknown territory. He must have felt like he transported to a Iran university when he went into that place. I give some but not much credit to the student who came to shake is hand and thank him, though he and the student...