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"The legacy of President Barack Obama will be one of lies. The Official Obama Administration Scandals List, a compilation of Obama Administration lies, broken promises, flip-flops and scandals, has just hit a whopping total of 1,400 items! The latest on the list? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says that promise of “creating or saving” hundreds of thousands of teacher jobs is out the window. So much for all that talk of how great the stimulus would be for teachers!..." SEE THE REST OF THE LIST…most recent items on highest page number. PAGE TWENTY FIVE #1,301-1,400 - - This page featured...

This is an updated list of Tax Day Tea Party attendence. If you attended an event that is not on the list, please add your totals in this thread and I'll update later. Also, please ping any contacts who may have been to a Tea Party that is not on this list. I know that I'm missing several (including DC!). Current totals: 53 cities, total attendence 111,345.

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said today on KCUR's "Up to Date" that President Barack Obama doesn't have the votes to pass health care reform in the U.S. House. "We're not at 217," Cleaver said, referring to the number needed to pass the bill.Later, the three-term Democrat from Kansas City said the passage number could be 216 given vacancies in the House.The count today, Cleaver said, is about 201 health care supporters.That number, he added, could fluctuate significantly as a final vote nears.Listen to the show, that also featured Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore, here.

By Peter Andrew - ConservativeAmerican.orgThe Department of Defense today released the names of several more soldiers who have died, including a few who were killed in a shooting incident at Camp Liberty in Iraq. One soldier is being charged with murder for that incident. The latest announcements mark a very sad milestone for the new President. Two soldiers from Illinois, President Obama's home state, marked the 100th and 101st military deaths since President Barack H. Obama became Commander in Chief. Those two soldiers were identified as 21-year-old Omar Albrak and 23-year-old Lukasz Saczek. Saczek was one of the men murdered...

I'm hoping to be able to ascertain an overall national figure of attendance at the tea parties today by asking Freepers to post their crowd estimates on this thread.I'm also asking that the thread be kept to just the numbers, no photos, etc., but if you want to link back to photos in your crowd estimate that's fine.Please give the location and number of participants.I'll go first:Melbourne, FL - 1000.

According to the latest unofficial combined machine and paper results released this afternoon, Democrat Scott Murphy has a 35-vote lead over Republican Jim Tedisco in New York’s 20th District. The following counties have finished counting their domestic absentee ballots: Delaware, Essex, Greene, Otsego, and Rensselaer counties. No numbers have been reported to the state from Saratoga and Washington counties.

A truckload of Iraqi Policemen head to a local voting station in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, Jan. 28, 2009, to cast their vote in the country's second election since the fall of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jerry Saslav. CAMP VICTORY — During the 2005 provincial Iraqi elections, voters had their fingers stained with election ink to prevent them from voting twice. Some held their fingers up in pride as they took part in democracy; others hid their faces from cameras, afraid of becoming victims of sectarian violence. This year, ink or not, Iraqi Security Forces will make their...

The race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. John Doolittle has tightened, with Republican Tom McClintock holding on to a 291-vote lead districtwide. With about 40,000 ballots that remain to be counted in the 4th Congressional District, Republican Tom McClintock is asking for volunteers to observe the count in county elections offices throughout northeastern California. “The process of counting the remaining votes could take several weeks, and the Democrats are bringing people in from around the state and nation,” McClintock wrote in an e-mail to supporters today. “We need additional volunteers to help staff the office and monitor the vote-counting process....

Look, I don't know much about gymnastics, but I do know that landing a vault on two feet is better than landing one on two knees. Olympic gymnastics judges evidently disagree with me, as they awarded China's Cheng Fei a bronze medal yesterday even after she fell on her vault landing. American Alicia Sacramone finished fourth despite, you know, not falling.

"...The results produced some remarkable anomalies, such as 21 counties showing no Republican voters and three counties showing no Democratic voters..."

WASHINGTON - History shows the folly of counting out a Clinton. If Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is looking more and more like the Titanic, she may yet prove to be the unsinkable Molly Brown. Ask Mike McCurry about the Clintons' resilience. McCurry worked for Bob Kerrey, one of Bill Clinton's chief rivals in the 1992 presidential campaign. He remembers the day details broke about Clinton's efforts to avoid the Vietnam draft, just weeks after allegations had surfaced of an affair with Gennifer Flowers. "He's toast," McCurry told co-workers on the Kerrey campaign. "He's never going to survive this." McCurry went...

Everything is dependent on the amount of delegates each candidate gets ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2007 – U.S. troops in Iraq are anxious to come home, but also want to ensure that they don’t leave too soon for their efforts to take hold, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today in Manhattan, Kan. Speaking at Kansas State University’s Landon Lecture series, the defense secretary said the first troops not to be replaced in Iraq have already returned home, and more will follow in December. He noted that Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, has laid out a proposed timetable to return one Army brigade combat team home...

Until about the 18th of this month, FR posted what I thought was a viable tracker about the interest a thread might attract. The 'lurker'; that ever-present internet FR surfer who rides from thread to thread opening that which peaks his/her spirit. Stocks Soar After Half-Point Rate Cut Posted by Always Right On 09/18/2007 2:43:25 PM PDT · 50 replies · 219+ views Having removed the number of people who 'viewed' a thread eliminates the true value of a thread, and subjects it to a value shaped only by the number of replies it may or may not attract. For...

As a result of Hugh Hewitt's conversation with General Petraeus a few days ago, the question has been brought up of how many terrorist combatants have been killed due to the United States' fighting the War Against Islamic Terror in Iraq. This has been a complaint of mine for a couple of years now. Why do we never hear how many bad guys are killed from day to day from the television news journalists? All we ever hear is how many American Soldiers are killed each day, nothing else. The reason is because the TV news channels are antiwar pacifists...

BAGHDAD - U.N. officials accused Iraq on Wednesday of withholding civilian death figures to try to deflect attention from escalating violence and a worsening humanitarian crisis despite the U.S.-led Baghdad security crackdown. Those conclusions by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq drew a sharp rebuke from the Iraq's political leadership, which called the report "unbalanced" and said it raised questions about the credibility of the U.N. staff in Iraq. The clashing views over the document — which covered three months ending March 31 — reflect a wider debate that goes beyond attempts to tally the bloodshed: whether the Baghdad security...

KABUL (AFP) - Near-daily battlefield death tolls released in Afghanistan are no measure of the success of US-led operations, can be misleading, and often deflect attention from real achievements in the war-torn country, experts and officials say. ADVERTISEMENT Official numbers of "enemy" killed in battle can be staggering: 100 in Panjwayi, 60 in Musa Qala, 10 every other day. Loosely worded statements on "estimated" dead or "enemies of Afghanistan" are often picked up by international media desperate for news from inaccessible battlefields but with little way of verifying details. The Taliban also issue battle tolls but these are usually so...

So reveals Leonel Cota Montaño, National President of the PRD and member of the commission, which will present inconsistencies in the PREP tomorrow Monday, July 3, 2006, 9:48 p.m. The "For the Good of All" coalition (PRD-PT) formed a political commission in their fight for the defense of the vote. Leonel Cota Montaño, National President of the PRD and a member of this commission, revealed that at midday tomorrow [the commission] will make inconsistencies in the [vote count of] the Program of Preliminary Electoral Results (PREP) known. Cota Montaño said that they are demanding that the IFE not use this...

Gaza families count the cost of Israeli siege By Harry de Quetteville and Patrick Bishop in Gaza (Filed: 03/07/2006) Israel's deputy prime minister said his country would prosecute Palestinian government officials seized in connection with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. The threat came as concern grew over the humanitarian cost of Israel's siege of the coastal territory, the most crowded place on earth. A Palestinian family examines the damage to their house after it was left in ruins by the Israeli army "They will be put to trial," Shimon Peres told CNN's Late Edition on Sunday. "And they will...

Our illegal immigration counters are based on an estimated twenty million illegal aliens having been present in our nation as of January 1, 2004. In a letter dated February 2004, no less an authority than Arizona Senator John McCain recognized that Border Patrol apprehension figures demonstrated that "almost four million people crossed our borders illegally 2002" (read McCain's letter) – experts on the subject agree that illegal crossings have only increased since then. The Tucson sector Border Patrol union local 2544 on the number of illegal aliens in our nation: "There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in...