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ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that Judge Susan Nelson has granted a preliminary injunction to the NFL players, lifting the NFL lockout. The league will seek an immediate stay of the injunction pending appeal. Judge Nelson apparently did not include a stay in her ruling, meaning the league will have to get a stay from 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.

Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight. Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining...

Gasoline prices are killing the pockets of Americans as the rise continues with no sign of letting up. In Orlando, Florida today it showed prices of a startling $5.69 a gallon! It was at that Suncoast Energys stations near the Orlando International Airport that the high price was seen and left customers reeling in disbelief. The price is considered the highest in the U.S., according to the website gasbuddy.com which monitors the prices of gasoline nationwide.

LONDON – Gold prices hit record highs for a fifth session on Thursday and silver rallied to its strongest since 1980 as the dollar slid to a three-year low against a basket of major currencies.

BENGHAZI, Libya -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military intervention in Libya, said Friday that Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Qaddafi's troops are his heroes. The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee made the remark after arriving in Benghazi, a city that has been the opposition capital in the rebel-held eastern Libya.

The White House’s new deficit plan has the drug industry crying foul, and that means Big Pharma may now join Big Insurers to push back on health reform. Drug industry sources tell FOX Business the Administration is backtracking on what is called the “PhRMA deal” in health reform, a deal that was struck behind closed doors in late 2009 and early 2010 in order to get the industry to support and endorse health-care reform.

To many Libyan people, the biggest question mark about Gadhafi doesn not involve his repressive and dictatorial rule, delusional statements or brazen lies. Behind closed doors for years they wondered if he was jewish.

HomeVaultGreen RoomEd Morrissey Show Shocker: Domestic Oil Production Down, Foreign Imports Up Share posted at 10:12 am on March 11, 2011 by Jazz Shaw regular view Fortunately for all of us, the wise energy policies of the Obama administration have us well on the way to a sustainable, secure energy future for our nation. After all, who could argue with a policy where we seek to import less oil from abroad, stifle the domestic production of such resources and do nothing to replace the shortfall? With that in mind, surely nobody would expect a result like this. The lack of...

Consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in five months in early March as gas prices rose, a survey released on Friday showed. Even so, buying plans were largely unchanged and although the rate of real consumer spending will diminish, the report does not indicate a renewed downturn on the horizon, the latest consumer survey from Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan said.

Dan Rooney sells out faily to get back Obama. Oh course he gets Ambassatorship to Ireland. Go Pack or anyone but the Steelers.

I saw Michele Backmann last night on Freedom Watch. She stated the Democrats are livid about the Estate Tax the most in the extending of the Bush Tax Rates. She said they could live with everything but the Estate Tax being dropped to 1 Million Taxed at 55%. Democrats above all don't want people leaving their family money, its immoral to them.

Will Obama's tax on the rich send Lebron to Miami because Florida like the other teams has no State income tax. Sorry Bulls Obama killed their chance.

NEW YORK -- Even the long-awaited Super Bowl ad from conservative group Focus on the Family came with a punchline -- a hard hit and a soft sell. The 30-second "Celebrate family, celebrate life" ad starring Heisman winner Tim Tebow ended with a surprise -- Tim Tebow tackling his mother after she says she nearly lost him during her pregnancy. The pair jokes that they have to be "tough" with all the family has been through. The Women's Media Center, which had objected to Focus on the Family advertising in the Super Bowl, said it was expecting a "benign" ad...

You knew it would come to this when Tim Tebow and his mother Pam entered the nasty, divisive world of partisan politics. Now they are being “Swiftboated” by pro-choice attorney and activist Gloria Allred, who has all but painted Pam Tebow as a liar for claiming doctors in the Philippines recommend she undergo an abortion when she was pregnant with Tim. Allred uses the argument that abortions were illegal at the time in the Philippines and therefore the Tebow’s pro-life Super Bowl commercial on CBS is “misleading advertising.”

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, announced Friday she is filing for divorce months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an Argentine woman.

Stuart Varney was just on Fox and said Moody's will lower the United States bond rating for the first time ever in 2013 with current spending plans.

Reports show Orange County firefighters responded to a medical call at Tiger Woods' Isleworth mansion this morning and transported a woman to the hospital. Orange County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Genevieve Latham said firefighters responded to a home in the 6300 block of Deacon Circle at 2:36 a.m. The exact address of the call is listed as Tiger Woods' home, according to Orange County property records.

Another member of Bin Laden's team, a psychologist, was Ali A. Mohammad. This man is in a US jail right now and has apparently provided a great deal of secret testimony to the US -- we have a great deal of hidden knowledge about this man, and the entire terrorist network. Mr. Ali was a member of the US Special Forces, and received all the secret training WE had to offer, as well as then being responsible for training and brainwashing the bin Laden troops to become suicide assassins. [I wrote the above in September, 2001, when hardly anyone even...

A newspaper advertisement blaming President Barack Obama and Democrats for wrecking the economy is receiving complaints from some area readers and raising questions about the organization behind it. "Barack Obama and the Democrats did not inherit the bad economy; they caused it and made it worse," read the full-page ad, which ran Monday in The Gainesville Sun and last week in the Ocala Star-Banner. The ad also has run in other newspapers nationwide, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Salt Lake Tribune.

A source close to Brett Favre said the quarterback, pending a physical, will sign a contract with the Minnesota Vikings for between $10 million to $12 million, according to ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen.