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In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Rush Limbaugh suggested that President Obama's recent visit to Dover Air Force Base was nothing more than a staged photo-op. This elicited a torrent of outrage from pundits in the liberal mainstream media. Conversely, when Obama made similar remarks about former president Bush, the mainstream media didn't even bat an eyelash. As I noted in my previous post, in March of 2007, President Bush toured Walter Reed Army Medical Center after he had learned of the dilapidated conditions there and the poor quality of care that the patients were receiving - which...

Astonishing though it may be, there are Americans who actually believe that Barack Obama’s vist to Dover was an authentic expression of concern for our troops and empathy for their loved ones. Of all the Obama fabrications, this has to be one of the more preposterous. The Narcissist in Chief was not showing empathy because he doesn’t have any.

Talk radio bomb thrower Rush Limbaugh ripped President Obama Sunday for his ego, health care reform effort - and a "photo-op" with the casket of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan. "It was a photo-op precisely because he's having big-time trouble on this whole Afghanistan dithering situation," Limbaugh told "Fox News Sunday." "He can create the impression that he has all this great concern," Limbaugh charged. Obama said his overnight trip to view the returning flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base Thursday will "bear on how I see" the war. He is expected...

Despite what some conservatives say, we now have a president of whom we can be proud. Doing something that his predecessor never did in eight years in office, President Barack ObamaBarack Obama made an after-midnight visit to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Friday night to welcome home the fallen dead from the war in Afghanistan. He was somber and dignified, and he showed America that he understands the other side of the decision he is making whether to send more American troops into harm's way in Afghanistan. Not only did his predecessor never visit Dover for one of these...

Here is a video report on President Obama making a surprise visit to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware overnight to greet the caskets of U.S. Soldiers and DEA Agents killed in Afghanistan. Obama made the trip in the middle of the night, and returned to the White House around 5:00 this morning. Obama lifted the ban on media coverage of military dead returning to the U.S. . . . (VIDEO)

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, DEL. -- When the first Bush administration banned the media from covering the arrival of the fallen at Dover Air Force Base during the Persian Gulf War nearly 20 years ago, the stated reason was to protect the families' privacy. But in the six months since the controversial ban was lifted and 258 families were allowed to choose whether they wanted the media present, 60 percent said yes, according to the military. In August, the Pentagon quietly amended the policy so that families were given a third option for coverage. Now they can have military camera...

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N.J. immigrants getting N.C. licenses Print this article Email this Article By Taft Wireback Staff Writer Courts in northern New Jersey are having trouble with fraudulent driver's licenses turning up in the hands of illegal immigrants, but they aren't licenses issued by the Garden State. They are licenses given by North Carolina to illegal immigrants who live in New Jersey but who come to the Tar Heel State by the busload or vanload to get the document that allows them to drive, work, bank and rent housing, said Sonia Barria, the court administrator for the town of Dover, N.J. "We...

FREE REPUBLIC NASCAR THREAD Autism Speaks 400 Welcome to the Sprint Cup Race #13 at (Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.) Third phase of Monster Makeover constructionis complete at Dover International Speedway “Budweiser Celebrity Billiards Shootout”returns to Dover Downs Hotel & Casino on Friday, 5/29 Current Cup Driver Standings Dover Weekend Track Schedule Autism Speaks 400 entry list Qualifying: Friday 5/29 3:00 pm/et Sprint Cup Qualifying ~ SPEEDRace: Sunday 5/31 2:00 pm/et SPRINT Cup Race ~ FOX 's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 11:30 am/etScheduled Green Flag (approx): 2:16 pm/et Track Details with Current...

Woman Steals Town's Credit Card, Spends Thousands DOVER (WBZ) ― The search is on for a woman wanted for using a credit card belonging to the town of Dover to purchase American Express gift cards from Staples stores in several Massachusetts towns. Police say about $7,000 in charges had piled up before the town realized what had happened and canceled the credit card. Dover police say this woman used a town credit card to purchase American Express gift cards from Staples stores throughout the state. Massachusetts Most Wanted

For the first time since media coverage was banned in 1991, the return of the body of a fallen member of the U.S. armed forces was opened to news outlets late Sunday. The U.S. Air Force informed media on Sunday that the family of Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers consented to allowing coverage of his casket being returned to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Myers, 30, of Hopewell, Virginia, was a member of an engineering unit based in Britain. He died Saturday in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military reported.

Natural Selection Studies Based on Bad Statistics March 30, 2009 — Hundreds of studies claiming to show natural selection may be wrong, say scientists from Penn State and Japan.  PhysOrg reported today that “several statistical methods commonly used by biologists to detect natural selection at the molecular level tend to produce incorrect results.”  Many studies of human evolution have relied on these flawed methods.  If the methods were wrong, the conclusions are unreliable.  “Of course, we would never say that natural selection is not happening, but we are saying that these statistical methods can lead scientists to make erroneous inferences,”...

The Silver Star Families of America Backs Gold Star Moms

On Friday, Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission distributed an e-newsletter asking you to send in your opinion on President Obama’s announcement to review overturning the 18-year ban on publishing photos of flag-draped transfer cases at Dover Air Force base. Hundreds of you wrote in to inform us on your position and we want to thank you for taking the time to share your story. Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission represents over 60,000 military families, including Blue and Gold Star Families and veterans. According to the respondents: • 64% believe that the policy should not...

3 February 2009 Judge Jones gets multiple honorary degrees, Ben Stein has his withdrawn William Dembski Judge Jones, whose distinction prior to the Dover case was running the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, now has multiple honorary doctorates for rendering his decision, which he cribbed from the ACLU’s Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Ben Stein, who is an acclaimed actor, author, and economist, on the other hand, has just been denied an honorary doctorate at the University of Vermont: “This is not, to my mind, an issue about academic freedom or the openness of the campus to all...

DOVER — The staff at Dover High School was given the heads up that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, plans to hold a town hall-style event at the school on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The stop will mark Palin's first appearance in New Hampshire as a candidate — if not ever — and is expected to draw up to 500 people from Dover and beyond, according to an e-mail Principal Deborah Migneault sent to staff. Palin's visit falls on the heels of her husband, Todd, being in the state Saturday, when the snowmobile racer is set to...

FREE REPUBLIC NASCAR THREAD Camping World RV 400 Welcome to the Sprint Cup Chase Race #2 of 10 atDover International Speedway (Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.) Current Cup driver standings History of the “Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup”at Dover International SpeedwayDover has hosted four races that have each played a huge role in determining the final season’s standings,each with its own memorable outcome,that have established the track as one of the biggest challenges in the 10-race Chase. Dedication ceremony fit for “The King”: Richard Pettyto be honored with a marquee plaqueon...

(SNIP) And then there's Phoenix International Raceway, the iconic desert mile nestled at the base of the Estrella Mountains outside of town. While it's renowned for producing great racing, the 44-year-old facility lacks most of the comforts of the other, newer stadiums in the greater Phoenix market. The vast majority of its 76,812 grandstand seats are simple aluminum bleachers. With the exception of suites spanning the first two turns and a tunnel that replaced a pedestrian bridge, this rather austere facility still looks very much like it did decades ago. In a city famous for its sports stadiums, Phoenix's racetrack...

FREE REPUBLIC NASCAR THREAD Best Buy 400 Welcome all to the Sprint Cup race atDover International Speedway (Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.) Current Cup driver standings One monster of a structure:The Monster Monument at Victory Plaza He’s been portrayed as an intimidating, car crushing creature who wreaks havoc on NASCAR’s most skilled competitors. He’s been molded into the winner’s trophy, playfully mimicked by victorious drivers, featured in a comic book, and posed as an action figure. In 2008, Miles the Monster will become the largest attraction at a NASCAR track and will...

A packet for educators issued by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in conjunction with the NOVA program "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" encourages teaching practices that are probably unconstitutional, a conservative organization stated on Tuesday. "The NOVA/PBS teaching guide encourages the injection of religion into classroom teaching about evolution in a way that likely would violate current Supreme Court precedents about the First Amendment's Establishment Clause," said John West, vice president for public policy and legal affairs at the Discovery Institute, in a news release. The 22-page document is a companion piece to the two-hour NOVA docudrama, "Judgment Day,"...

FREE REPUBLIC NASCAR THREADThe Chase for the NEXTEL CUPcontinues with the Dodge Dealers 400 Welcome all to the Nextel Cup race atDover International Speedway (Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.) Current Standings: Rank-Car-Driver-Points1) #48 Jimmie Johnson 52102) #24 Jeff Gordon 52103) #20 Tony Stewart 52004) #07 Clint Bowyer 51955) #5 Kyle Busch 51756) #1 Martin Truex Jr. 51707) #17 Matt Kenseth 51568) #99 Carl Edwards 51479) #11 Denny Hamlin 512810) #29 Kevin Harvick 512211) #31 Jeff Burton 511912) #2 Kurt Busch 5108 DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY NEWS/RUMORS David Spade, R. Lee Ermey to kick...

Ben Stein: Gestapo Tactics Got Larry Craig Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:39 PM Former Sen. Larry Craig didn't do anything illegal and was railroaded with "Gestapo tactics," says actor and commentator Ben Stein. Appearing recently on Your World With Neil Cavuto program, Stein remarked: "I don't like the idea that people are sitting in the next stall from you at a public bathroom listening to whether or not you tap your foot. This is, as I said, Gestapo tactics. Gestapo, Gestapo, Gestapo. It's not America." Stein says Craig, who was arrested June 11 by Minneapolis police and pled guilty to...

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Judge John Jones once told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he became a judge hoping that someday he would have a chance “to rule in matters of great importance.” Well, last year he got his chance. He ruled on Kitzmiller v. Dover, holding that you could not teach intelligent design in public schools. But given what’s leaked out about his decision, Judge Jones is not likely to be remembered as “an outstanding thinker,” as Time magazine called him. Instead, we might remember him as the judge who let a litigant write his opinion. Maybe I am an idealist, but going back...

Welcome to the 2nd race of the Nextel Chase for the Cup 2006 race thread. The Nextel Cup series and Craftsman Trucks will be at Dover and the Busch series will be racing in Las Vegas. Prayers for the troops at Walter Reed and to All our service personnel and their families around the globe and for all those who served and sacrificed so much for the freedom and liberty we enjoy today. Never Forget.

Every American should be troubled by this statement by a federal judge: I think that some of the cross-examination was absolutely fabulous," said Jones. "It will endure, and I think it will be excerpted for advocacy classes. ... I would say, in particular, Eric Rothschild's cross-examination of Professor [Michael] Behe -- the intelligent design proponent -- that might be as good a cross-examination of an expert witness as I have ever seen. It was textbook. (quoted in Pennsylvania Lawyer, July/August, 2006) This statement was made, of course, by Judge John Jones who presided over Dover v. Kitzmiller. And if Rothschild's...

Last year’s decision in Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School Board caused quite a stir. Evolutionists loudly trumpeted their victory, while others spoke out in disagreement with the ruling for a variety of reasons. Some attacked Judge John E. Jones III for his decision, saying he was a judicial activist. According to the ruling, Jones anticipated that. “Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court.” In this case however, it seems the Judge is protesting too much, at...

News and Notes from York County, PA July 31-August 6......... No Explanation For Firing For Dover Superintendent....... When the school board made a decision in June that his contract wasn't being renewed, Dover school superintendent Dr. Richard Nielsen was told he would receive a written evalutation. Nielsen says he is still waiting for that evaluation, which he plans to make public. The new anti-intelligent design school board dominated by the "Dover CARES" group said it could not comment on personnel actions when it decided not to renew Nielsen's contract when it expires next year. But members of the audience at...

A federal judge tried to avert skepticism of Charles Darwin’s theories in Dover, Pa., but doubters remain unconvinced. According to Discovery Institute (DI) Senior Fellow Dr. John West, DI’s involvement and position on the 2005 Kitzmiller case was distorted in media accounts of the controversial case involving intelligent design science. “We want schools to teach more about evolution, not less,” said West, adding, “We don’t want to mandate the teaching of intelligent design.” Dr. West, who is also an associate professor of Political Science at Seattle Pacific University, made these remarks at a recent Discovery Institute’s book event at the...

Early in U.S. District Judge Jones III's appearance on WITF-TV's "Smart Talk" program Thursday night, host Nell McCormack Abom asked him about the time that's passed since his brush with York County. "It's been a surreal experience," Jones replied. Jones rendered a decision in the Dover Area School District's "intelligent design" case in December. He ruled that former school board members were trying to introduce religious education into a public school science curriculum under the guise of teaching an alternate scientific theory. That decision brought him international fame and recognition of both the positive and negative variety, including a mention...

If the ACLU happens to sue your small hometown and then demands $1 million dollars for their lawyers, would you call them generous and charitable? Strangely enough, that's exactly what they’ve done to the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania. Following the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State's (AUSCS) federal trial court victory in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board (M.D.Penn. 2005), the ACLU recently announced it would "generously" demand only $1 million in costs and attorneys fees. Why $1 million you may ask? According to the ACLU’s Eric Rothschild, “We think it’s important that the public...

Despite negative criticism, political jabs, disturbing threats and a recent internet posting stating that he's star-struck and on a world tour, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones candidly discussed-for the first time in the York area......the aftermath of the "epic" Dover intelligent-design trial....... Jones said he was pleased to be at the York County Colonial Courthouse Wednesday on an invitation from the Herbert B. Cohen American Inn of Court meeting where he spoke to about 60 York attorneys and judges........ Jones said. "There are continuing attacks. I think judges and lawyers need to speak out...I've taken some incoming fire." A...

Why won't the Dover Area School Board give reasons for not renewing the contracts with district Supt. Richard Nilsen and Asst. Supt. Michael Baksa. Is it because the two men share a history with the former school board and its stance on intelligent design?......... About 100 people-including former board members Alan Bonsell, Ed Rowland, Shelia Harkins and David Napierskie-attended the meeting. Most were there to support the continued exmployment of Nilsen and Baksa. Many demanded immediate answers to their questions. Initially, the board said it wouldn't discuss renewing the contracts because personnel issues are confidential. But at the meeting, Nilsen...

John E. Jones III is using the intelligent-design debate to answer his critics and talk about judicial independence. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III could have taken the safe route and retreated to the privacy of the courthouse after issuing his landmark ruling in December against intelligent design. Most judges are loath to go public about their cases at all, let alone respond to their critics. But Jones - angered by accusations that he had betrayed the conservative cause with his ruling, and disturbed by the growing number of politically motivated attacks on judges in general - came out...

The Neighborhood Excellence 400 Sunday June 4 at 1:30 pm ET (FX) From Dover International Speedway Friday Practice: Friday, June 2, 11:35am - 1:00pm/et, TV-noneFirst Saturday Practice: Saturday, June 3, 9:00 - 10:00am/et, TV-noneQualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-43, Friday, June 2 at 3:10pm/et, TV-Speed Channel via tape at 5:30pm/etHappy Hour Practice: Saturday, June 3, 10:35 - 11:20am/et on TV-FX via tape at 2:00pm/etSpeed's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 11:30am/et [90 minutes] with John Roberts, Jimmy Spencer, Kenny WallacePre-Race Show: FX - 1:30pm/et - with hosts Chris Myers and Jeff HammondRace: Sunday, Sunday June 4, 2006 in Dover, DE -...

A federal judge who outlawed the teaching of "intelligent design" in science class told graduates at Dickinson College that the nation's founders saw religion as the result of personal inquiry, not church doctrine. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones gave the commencement address Sunday to 500 graduates at Dickinson College, his alma mater."The founders believed that true religion was not something handed down by a church or contained in a Bible, but was to be found through free, rational inquiry," said Jones, who was thrust into the national spotlight by last year's court fight over the teaching of evolution in...

In an attempt to better define science, evolution and intelligent design, filmmakers are preparing a documentary that reviews lessons delivered last year in U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg. Crews from "NOVA," a popular PBS science television series, will be in Dover, York and Harrisburg this summer conducting interviews and obtaining footage for a two-hour show centered on Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District. [Link to text of opinion: Kitzmiller et al. v Dover Area School District et al.] Barbara Moran, senior researcher for Boston-based "NOVA," said crews paid attention to the trial and interest grew with each...

5/5/2006 - DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFPN) -- One month after a C-5 Galaxy crash-landed less than a mile short of the runway here, recovery operations are proceeding on schedule, officials said. All 17 people on board survived the April 3 crash. “We started the recovery effort the same day of the mishap and have been working every day since,” said Maj. Rob Triplett, the 436th Maintenance Squadron commander and director of the mishap recovery effort. “Safety has been our number-one priority. Our team’s primary focus, besides safety, was to preserve vital evidence for the safety investigation board.” An...

U.S. District Judge John Jones, who ruled that teaching the concept of intelligent design as an alternative to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution would violate the separation of church and state, had made the cover of Time magazine. The Pottsville resident who presided over a six-week trial before issuing the ruling Dec. 20, was named to Time's list of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century, published Monday. Jones' likeness is on the cover along with those of President Bush, Pope Benedict XVI and Oprah Winfrey. "I was dumbstruck," he said, but he kept the honor in perspective....

The judicial branch is no place for politics, Judge John E. Jones III told a crowd Tuesday afternoon at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The federal judge from Pottsville ruled in December that Dover's intelligent design policy was unconstitutional...... Jones was among the speakers at a two-day convocation..Though he was asked to speak about the Constitution's Establishment Clause..he instead talked about the broader issue of th epublic blurring the lines between the branches of government...... judges should make decisions based on the law, not based on personal affiliation, he said. "We must remember that we have a rule of law,"...

Immunology had an unexpected and decisive part in challenging the claims of 'Intelligent Design' proponents at the US trial on the teaching of evolution in public schools in Dover, Pennsylvania. The latest skirmish in the ongoing controversy about the teaching of evolution in US schools ended decisively on 20 December 2005, when the introduction of 'Intelligent Design' (ID) in a public school biology class was struck down by US Federal Judge John E. Jones as an unconstitutional establishment of religion. The case, 'Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District', was brought by 11 parents from Dover, Pennsylvania, represented pro...

Joe Manzari and Seth Cooper’s article today in The American Enterprise Institute Online brings this dirty little secret into the public light. A few months ago when the ACLU announced that they “generously” would only demand $1 million in attorneys fees for the Kitzmiller case, the casual observer probably thought nothing of it. However, once the facts are examined, as Manzari and Cooper nicely lay out, the attorneys fees collected by the ACLU are not merely the cost of losing a lawsuit, but rather look much more like a fat taxpayer funded gift to the ACLU & AUSCS. Manzari &...

Jones and his family were under marshals' protection in December. In the days after U.S. Judge John E. Jones III issued his decision in Dover's intelligent design case, outraged people sent threatening e-mails to his office. Jones won't discuss details of the e-mails, or where they might have come from, but he said they concerned the U.S. Marshals Service. So, in the week before Christmas, marshals kept watch over Jones and his family. While no single e-mail may have reached the level of a direct threat, Jones said, the overall tone was so strident, marshals "simply determined the tenor was...

Traipsing Into Evolution is the first published critique of federal Judge John E. Jones's decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case, the foremost trial to attempt to address the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design. In this concise yet comprehensive response, Discovery Institute scholars and attorneys expose how Judge Jones's Kitzmiller decision was based upon faulty reasoning, non-existent evidence, and an elementary misunderstanding of intelligent design theory. Despite Jones's protestations to the contrary, his attempts to use the federal bench to declare evolution a sacred cow--unquestionable in schools and fundamentally compatible with all "true" religion--are exposed by these critical authors as...

The battle to get intelligent design into school books was lost in Dover, and it is time for proponents to lay down their swords. Creationists describe their mission to overturn evolution in military language, calling it the fundamental dispute of the culture wars. We recently saw the resolution of one of the most significant battles in this war: the end of the Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District trial in Pennsylvania. [Link to text of opinion.]This was the first case dealing with creationist attempts to introduce intelligent design into public schools. The Thomas More Law Center, which defended...

News and Notes from York County....March 5th Science and education interacted in York County last week. I'm talking about the weather. Around 11 O'Clock Monday night snow squalls came across the area and dumped a surprise coating of snow that led to icy spots everywhere. The meteorologists didn't know what was going on (it wasn't in the forecast) until it showed up on radar. School superintendents trusted the science and got burned. For whatever reason, most of them weren't prepared to delay school on Tuesday. My theory, they trusted the science and went to sleep, getting up too late Tuesday...

Approximately $250,000 will go directly to recovering out-of-pocket expenses, Rothschild said, and will be divided among American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Pepper Hamilton. The rest will go toward the ACLU and Americans United. The Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based pro-intelligent design organization, has criticized civil liberties' groups of using threats of lawsuits to bully school districts. But Rothschild said, "The threat of a lawsuit is real when the Constitution is violated. It's important to recognize here with this case, the substantial expense to bring and win this lawsuit."

The Inquirer: Some have said your ruling wasn't about church and state but about whether intelligent design is science. Jones: I think that the ruling followed precedent, both the Lemon test [a three-part test, based on Supreme Court rulings, of whether a government action violates the separation of church and state] and the establishment test [from the First Amendment of the Constitution, which forbids Congress from making any law "establishing religion"], and I'm reluctant to characterize what that "means." The controversial part of the ruling was whether intelligent design is in fact science. Lost in the post-decision debate was that...

The Dover Area school board voted Tuesday night to pay 1 million dollars in legal fees to the attorneys that successfully sued the school district over its intelligent-design policy.... After board members voted, Beth Eveland, one of the parents who sued the district, told the board she and other plaintiffs at the meeting considered it a fair offer. However, she said they were dismayed that the taxpayers and children were left with the bill and believed the old board members should be held accountable. The smallest amount of accountability is an apology, she said.... Heather Geesey, the only remaining member...

The recent, notorious confrontation, embodied in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case, between Creationism (in the guise of "Intelligent Design Theory") and biological science was notable for many things, not least among them the dissolution of standard political categories. The decision itself confronted us the startling image of Judge J. Jones, a conservative Republican and a recent Bush appointee to boot, coming forth with an opinion that in its unquestioning deference to the "establishment" clause of the First Amendment, its pervasive concern for civil liberties, and its determination to maintain a materialist, naturalistic definition of science, seemed to have come straight...