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A woman accused of holding down a child while her husband sexually assaulted the girl — an act captured on video — pleaded guilty in a Travis County courtroom Friday and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Mariana Garcia's punishmentfor two counts of aggravated sexual assault was part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. Charges are pending against Garcia's husband, Adrian Navarro, 30. Garcia, 24, showed little emotion during the proceedings before state District Judge Bob Perkins. At one point, prosecutor Joe Frederick asked her whether Navarro is her...

On CSPAN, Just announced that the final Vote will happen by Mid-night

Miami, Florida (CNN) -- He lies in a bed on a balloon-type mattress, to reduce pressure on his burned body. He is covered with bandages; a ventilator breathes for Michael Brewer because he can't do it for himself.

The devil, so the saying goes, is the ape of God. And so one of his standard methods for deceiving is to create parodies of good things and send them into the world in pairs.Why parodies? Because he cannot make, he can only mock. So instead of love, he offers lust. Instead of justice he offers merciless vengeance. Instead of dignity, he offers pride. Instead of contentment with the world’s goods he offers greed.Why does he send errors into the world in pairs? So that, in fleeing one lie, you will embrace the opposite lie. And so, for instance, he...

The Labour government has been engaged upon a deliberate and secret policy of national cultural sabotage. Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since 2001. Over the next 25 years some seven million more will be added to Britain's population. The Government's 'driving political purpose' was 'to make the UK truly multicultural'. It was therefore a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country. It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language and traditions....

Democrats Vote To Reward Trial Lawyers At The Expense Of Consumers WASHINGTON - During consideration of H.R. 3126, legislation to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted against two amendments offered by Republicans that would prevent abusive litigation. One amendment offered by Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) would prevent abusive litigation by ensuring that the legislation does not create any new private rights of action. The McHenry amendment would leave enforcement of rules, regulations, and duties with the regulators, to ensure that these rules are implemented consistently and fairly. The Democrats' legislation confers...

style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As the Left barrels forward with its agenda to remake the United States, Sen. John McCain has interrupted President Obama’s latest payoff to the Shadow Party. McCain announced Wednesday he would place a hold on Obama’s appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Becker is a longtime lawyer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which donated $27.8 million to Obama’s 2008 campaign. McCain described Becker as “probably the most controversial nominee that I have seen in a long time” – and that from an administration that has nominated John Holdren, Van Jones, and...

"Of course I dislike the Nazis. But who is to say they're morally wrong?" The shocking statement was made by a college student in New York, as documented by author Kerby Anderson in a much-needed book, "Christian Ethics in Plain Language". The professor of the class, Anderson reports, "....said that he has never met a student who denied the Holocaust happened. But he also reported that 10 to 20 percent of his students cannot bring themselves to say that killing millions of people is wrong." This is certainly an indictment of how modern society has made a false religion out...

After dismissing jihad charges in new book, showcases imam cited in '93 WTC bombing While mocking an explosive new book that presents internal documents showing it is a U.S. front for global jihad, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations is trumpeting a keynote speaker at its 15th annual banquet next week who was an uninidicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing investigation and who told New Jersey Muslims the U.S. government would one day be taken over by an Islamic caliphate. CAIR currently features Imam Siraj Wahhaj's name on the opening flash page to its website, along...

During the entire Bush administration critics accused him of using religion for political purposes. Many people were aghast that our President was a religious man.******- Obama chose the members of the advisory council precisely because they would fulfill his political goals. In this case, he wants to turn the American people against Israel and has the audacity of using a religious group to do so. Any Jewish person who has an atavistic fear of religion being used as a cudgel to hurt Jews should wonder why our President supports such a policy. I believe it is abhorrent that Obama and his...

When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in 1983, he was articulating in the boldest terms what had always been an American understanding. The Kremlin had long been fomenting communist revolution the world over, and we had long pursued our policy of "containment." Thus did we fight wars in Korea and Vietnam, facilitate coups d'état against people such as Salvador Allende and support anti-communist rebels such as the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Of course, plans didn't always come together. There was the Bay of Pigs debacle, and the covert Iran-Contra operation getting front-page exposure. The "police action" in...

Sometimes something comes along that just blows you away. This is one of those times. Just as we are now, there was another time when America was fighting the strong advances of communism. There were many Americans who thought communism was the way to go, just as there are now. Lots of folks have vilified Senator Joe McCarthy, who held hearings looking for communists in America. Many have said there were no communists. History proves that McCarthy was absolutely correct. This cartoon is from 1948, just as the Cold War was kicking into high gear. Just as we have now,...

It is very difficult not to turn on the news or experience first hand, in some form or another, frustration, stress, or in some extreme cases, even harm. People seem to be getting crazier and crazier, and it seems like its getting out of control. Recent news headlines alone serve as a perfect indicator for what I’m talking about. In local News: Corruption, crime, murder, domestic disturbances, or other. National News: Political Corruption (money laundering, politicians writing laws to advance the interests of lobbyists and not the people), secrecy, betrayal, national sellouts to an international elite, population control (inflicting sickness...

It's worse than we thought... According to radio host and activist Sandy Rios from the Culture Campaign, Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings wrote the foreword to a pedophilia book. Via Hannity: Jennings sounds like just the person you want working around children, huh? More... Kevin Jennings also wants to segregate gay children from the general population and says critics of gay schools are racists. UPDATE: Bill Ayers also endorsed this child sex book.

Roman Polanski is a film genius. He's a director of rare quality. He's also a criminal that three decades ago committed a horrible crime. Before being adjudicated for that crime, he fled the country to another country (France) that wouldn't extradite him back here. He's lived in France since in a fairly comfortable lifestyle. Movie making has logistical problems because he can only make movies in certain countries, but he's never short on Hollywood stars who are pleased to work with him. His genius overrides the heinous nature of his crimes.

It would be ironic if the UFOers had actually had it right all along. That some advanced planet had landed years before, colonized earth and had been watching its progress from a safe distance. Perhaps they had banked on a civilization evolving into one more highly advanced than even their own, had even kept the hope alive that man would move passed his animal mentality. Or maybe they had waited to take over earth without having to lift a finger toward its destruction? A few may have bet on mankind to pull it off, probably their high intelligence clearly pointed...

The moment they do this I love the country, period. These are key to my good health and there is great evil behind this bill and movement.

And now for something quasi-serious. A fascinating concept, perfectly executed: Hardly a relative theory. Click here!

The video, lyrics and an explanation of how the video came to be were posted on YouTube, September 7th, 2009, by user misterbee2009: The Obama Song (”Proud American”) By Mr. B and the students of Room 8 February 2009 Obama is the President! First African America in history 44th president of the United States The ground has shifted The world has changed! CHORUS: Oooo Im a proud American Oooo yes yes yes yes YES WE CAN! Im going to study really hard just like Barack

et's start with what is not in the report. In its almost 600 pages there is not one word – there simply isn't! – about Hamas's ideology. Hamas has a covenant. This covenant is the basis for the conflict between Israel and the demonic entity that has arisen in Gaza. This covenant is pure anti-Semitism. This covenant makes it clear that Hamas is no different from the Taliban. On the contrary, it is worse. The leaders of Hamas also declare – in their own voices – their solidarity with the Taliban, their desire to take over the entire free world,...

Dumb is no excuse for journalists being too cowardly to expose the eco terrorism that destroys legitimate construction projects. Are we too spineless to question who's behind the powerful environmental groups that are responsible for influencing government agencies to act against our interests? Why did the Federal Bureau of Reclamation cut off the irrigation pumping to Southern California farms to protect a tiny indigenous fish? Since July, the farmlands have dried up and unemployment in the area has reached 40 percent. Journalists know that the United States has more oil than the entire Middle East, but we're not allowed to...

JERUSALEM – President Obama is "fed up" with Israel while his administration has given the Palestinians guarantees they will eventually take over Jewish homes and buildings throughout most of the West Bank, a top Palestinian Authority official claimed to WND. "We heard from the U.S. that no matter what Israel is building in the West Bank, it will not affect a final status agreement to create a Palestinian state," said the PA official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld. "The Americans told us (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu might construct in the West Bank for now but we (Palestinians)...

James O'Keefe's foray into filmmaking may cost him a few years in the slammer. O'Keefe and fellow conservative activist/budding investigative journalist Hannah Giles were the ones who dressed up like a pimp and a prostitute, respectively (or not), and went to the offices of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) in D.C. and Baltimore looking for advice on how to buy a house. The resulting video caused quite a commotion and resulted in the firing of four ACORN employees, as well as other repercussions for those who support the organization. In Maryland, it's against the law to...

Former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) responded graciously, but factually, to President Barack Obama's (D) health care speech with his post partisan gratuitous swipe at her. As she puts it "so much for civility." And it's hard to listen to the President lecture us not to use "scare tactics" when in the next breath he says that "more will die" if his proposals do not pass. In his speech the President directly responded to concerns I've raised about unelected bureaucrats being given power to make decisions affecting life or death health care matters. He called these...

You owe your life — and everything else — to the sovereign. The rights of subjects are not natural rights, but merely grants from the sovereign. There is no right even to complain about the actions of the sovereign, except insofar as the sovereign allows the subject to complain. These are the principles of unlimited, arbitrary, and absolute power, the principles of such rulers as Louis XIV. Intellectuals have assiduously promoted them; think of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. A new intellectual champion of absolutism has now emerged. Mild-mannered University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein has been advancing the...

Ever find yourself in a discussion with a liberal who claims that they, not you, agree with the founding fathers because the founding fathers were liberal? Liberals have twisted the meanings of things to the point that they are convinced that they are right. It is kind of like their claim that the constitution or the Bible are living documents. By doing so, they can feel justified in their immoralistic destructive behavior as they support policies that will ultimately destroy this once great country. However, I digress from my point for this post. I would like to make my...

VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion of U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore's latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival on Sunday. Blending his trademark humour with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

What is Black Liberation Theology anyway? Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright catapulted black liberation theology onto a national stage, when America discovered Trinity United Church of Christ. Understanding the background of the movement might give better clarity into Wright's recent vitriolic preaching. A clear definition of black theology was first given formulation in 1969 by the National Committee of Black Church Men in the midst of the civil-rights movement: Black theology is a theology of black liberation. It seeks to plumb the black condition in the light of God's revelation in Jesus Christ, so that the black community can...

The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May. “We’ve already lost 81 this year,” he told CNBC. “The numbers are climbing every day. Many of these institutions nobody’s ever heard of. They're smaller companies.” Failed banks tend to be smaller and private, which exacerbates the problem for small business borrowers, said Kanas, who became CEO of BankUnited when his firm bought the bank and is the former chairman and CEO of North Fork bank. “Government money has propped up the very...

Interview of Barack Hussein Obama explaining how to achieve redistributive change. Click on link to hear him in his own words.

The first seven months of the Obama administration seemingly make no sense. Why squander public approval by running up astronomical deficits in a time of pre-existing staggering national debt? Why polarize opponents after promising bipartisan transcendence?

In a case that's been widely ignored by the mainstream media, justice prevailed today as Letalvis Cobbins was found guilty of the vast majority of charges, including that of first-degree murder. Cobbins was one of a group of thugs who carjacked, then raped, tortured and murdered two Knoxville residents. For more on the story, see the Knoxville News-Sentinel. http://digg.com/d311xYc

HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday. In an unusually conciliatory column in the state-run media, Castro said Obama had inherited many problems from his predecessor, George W. Bush, and was trying to resolve them. But the "powerful extreme right won't be happy with anything that diminishes their prerogatives in the slightest way." Obama does not want to change the U.S. political and economic system, but "in...

When President Obama took office eight months ago, he scoured the foreign-policy community in search of the brightest and best envoys to take personal control over such pressing challenges as the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the crisis in Darfur and the quest for peace in the Middle East. Now, however, his appointments of nearly a score of special envoys and special ambassadors have created a confusing patchwork of policy fiefdoms inside the administration that lacks clearly defined lines of command and has the potential for miscommunication on a grand scale. The president has created "an empire of envoys,"...

Some of the statements about the pending health care reform are "phony claims meant to divide us," President Obama said Saturday during his weekly radio address. The president used his radio talk to directly address and shoot down rumors about his health care proposals that are spreading across the Internet. He said health care is important and he is not surprised that Americans are engaging in a debate. "It should be an honest debate, not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions, spread by the very folks who would benefit the most by keeping things exactly as they are,"...

President Barack Obama needs some outside help pushing health care reform, and he's turning to rabbis to get it. In a morning conference call with about 1000 rabbis from across the nation, Obama asked for aid: "I am going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform," the President told the group, according to Rabbi Jack Moline, who tweeted his way through the phoner. "We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama went on to say, according to Moline's real-time stream. The 15-minute morning briefing was sponsored by the Religion Action Center of Reform Judaism, and included...

The White House booked 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) hotel rooms at the Big Sky Resort for Barack Obama's overnight visit last week for a town hall meeting in nearby Bozeman, Montana. Two floors were completely taken over, including the penthouse suites.While the national news media is ignoring the story, local media let the news slip in their gushing stories of how thrilling it was to have Obama in their midst.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported on Tuesday on Obama's visit, quoting Big Sky Resort spokesman Dax Schieffer:The First Family stayed in one of the eight penthouses on the tenth floor of Big...

Here is amazing audio of President Barack Obama taking the mantle of the nation's preacher by accusing critics of his Government Health Care Plan of "bearing false witness," and insinuating that adoption of his plan is the only way to "be our brother's keeper," meeting moral and ethical obligations to "look out for each other." Obama made the statements to a group of liberal religious leaders in a conference call today. How ironic is it that Obama would preach about being "our brother's keeper" by passing his Health Care Plan, when the plan itself will result in an expansion of...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Wednesday said America, as the world's richest nation, had a moral duty to offer health care to everyone, in a fresh bid to bolster support for his top domestic priority. Obama addressed thousands of people in a call with left-leaning religious faith leaders, as the White House tried to still disquiet among liberals, and fierce opposition among Republicans, to his under-fire health care plan. "The one thing you all share, is a moral conviction, you know, that this debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people," said Obama....

Is the "Final Solution" wording that was added to this revamped Obama Health Care graphic warranted? Some might see it as a simple play on words. But before you decide how to consider that wording, please read the following shocking quotes from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the chief health-care policy adviser to President Barack Hussein Obama, and (not coincidentally) the brother of Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. From: (Principles of allocation of scarce medical interventions, January 31, 2009) Also see: (Deadly Doctors, New York Post, June 24, 2009) "Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems...

LA times. The creator is a Palestinian living in Chicago. Article at link

I am going to list what I believe to be the "10 greatest evils" of our time, both in Korea and in the U.S. Surprisingly, in these matters, Korea is an eager imitator of the U.S., more copiously in some areas than others. Let me try to explain : EVIL 1. EFFICIENCY: Efficiency is the overriding principle of all modern scientific and technical operations. It is simply humanity's longest-running aim of getting things done as easily, as quickly, and as cheaply as possible. Why walk 10 miles when 1 mile will do? The trouble begins when this principle, which applies...

You may have seen yesterday’s video of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) speaking on her cell phone while a cancer survivor spoke to her about health care reform. Well now comes news that the pro-Obamacare voices in the crowd were not entirely legitimate. A primary care physician identified as Dr. Roxana Meyer stood up and praised the President’s health care plan for overhauling a broken system. Meyer said: “I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic.” The Congresswoman asked the crowd to give her a round of applause for being a doctor, hugged her and...

It’s his own coinage, as nasty and awkward as the man himself. And like a two-year-old who’s just crapped on the carpet, he’s curiously proud of it. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, was having second thoughts – or was he? – about the way he had characterized people who are disrupting town halls with “lies, innuendo and rumor,” and not letting others speak. They are, he said, “evil-mongers.” A day after tossing out the term “evil-mongers” in the closing speech of his annual clean energy conference, Reid was alternating between pride in his coinage and knowing that he probably...

The media have repeatedly stated how "angry," "hostile" and "ugly" town hall meetings across America are becoming. They are of course largely ascribing the nastiness to conservatives voicing their opposition to (among other things) President Barack Obama and Congress' proposed government takeover of the health care system. The press has been particularly offended by the "extreme" use of references to Adolf Hitler specifically and Nazis generally. One image they have repeatedly used as an example of this alleged right-wing extremism is a poster of President Obama - on whose face a Hitler mustache has been Photo Shopped - bearing the...

A Republican leader in the U.S. Senate says the healthcare proposals being debated in Congress "miss the point" that most Americans like the healthcare they have, but the cost of that care is a problem. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) opposes the "pay or play" mandate for small businesses and employers under the proposed government-run healthcare option, and he believes the government option will ultimately leave 119-million Americans with no option but the government plan. Although there is little agreement between Republicans and Democrats on the public healthcare option, Cornyn contends there is a lot of consensus on what can be...

A "classic" video of Geraldo interviewing Manson.

PUBLIC REAL ESTATE SIPHONED TO NANCY PELOSI We know there is a massive cover-up of record-breaking money flowing to the Obama Campaign, including millions unaccounted online from Saudi Arabia, Iran, China and other overseas sources. Even brain-dead Liberal columnist Maureen Dowd had to express concern in the NYT. Yet the so-called Federal Election Commission is refusing to track this down. But where has all the money come to finance another Obama-nite -- "speaker" Nancy Pelosi. Nancy (nee D'Alesandro) bilged forth in a bloodline of corrupt Baltimore politicians. But it doesn't stop there. SUCKING OFF CALIFORNIA Pretty-lips Nancy D'Alesandro married a...

A couple of caveats: First, this is not meant to discourage. I spoke at one Tea Party, and I attended both; I contribute; I have worked for many campaigns in the last eight years; and I will continue speaking, writing, voting, and agitating to the end. But forewarned is forearmed. Second, there are some realities: the national media will not ever, ever tell the truth about citizen protests, town meetings, or conservative gatherings. Get over it.That said, consider this possibility---that Obama and the Dem leadership don't care how many Americans oppose this health care bill, even if they deeply oppose...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says President Obama's plan to overhaul health care is evil. The former Republican vice presidential candidate posted her thoughts Friday on Facebook. Palin says in the America she knows, people won't have to "stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care." She says such a system is "downright evil."