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The First Lady of these United States is now urging Americans to stop drinking sweet tea. Yes – friends – you heard correctly. Mrs. Obama has declared war on the House Wine of the South. It’s all part of her anti-obesity campaign — called Let’s Move. The website Free Beacon was the first to report on her latest culinary atrocities – urging us to wash down our lettuce and bean sprouts with unsweetened tea. The First Lady also told Americans to stay away from all-you-can-eat buffets — which I’m sure is great news for all those folks employed by all-you-can-eat...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I mentioned Rick Perry earlier. He's out doing the media rounds today, and he's sounding good -- and he had a great exchange with Mike Allen of Politico. Everybody that says, "Ah, Perry is a nice guy, but he looks slow, Rush." I can't tell you the number of people, wherever I go, whose number one complaint about practically every Republican hopeful is that somebody thinks they're stupid or that they sound stupid or that they talk stupid, or that they talk dumb. It's really a powerful, influential thing that has happened here. Some people tell me,...

National Journal's Victor will have the scoop in tomorrow's edition of the National Journal magazine that Obama economic adviser Christina Romer is quitting the post. It all stems from her feeling -- despite her title as chairwoman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers -- that Larry Summers has more influence with the president.

SACRAMENTO, CA - Helen Hodges understood the need for a gas station clerk to write her identifying information on a sales receipt. She just wishes he had chosen a different phrase. "It says 'black lady,' and I can understand that because I am a black lady," Hodges told News10. "But I don't get 'big fat.' I don't get that part." Hodges, 31, said the offensive incident happened Thursday night after she was shorted $10 in a gas pump mix-up at a station on Marconi Avenue near the Capital City Freeway. When she returned to the station for a refund, a...

Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading genetics expert. Fathers over the age of 35 are more likely to pass on mutations, according to Professor Steve Jones of University College London. Speaking Tuesday at a UCL lecture entitled "Human Evolution Is Over," Professor Jones will argue that there were three components to evolution — natural selection, mutation and random change. "Quite unexpectedly, we have dropped the human mutation rate because of a change in reproductive patterns," Professor Jones told The Times. "Human social change often changes...

Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.

BORDER POST OF MASNAA (Lebanon) - the last Syrian soldier left Lebanon Tuesday not very front 13H30 local (10H30 GMT) in direction of Syria, noted a journalist of AFP. The last soldiers crossed the border post of Masnaa on board eight Syrian military buses, raising Syrian flags and photographs of Syrian presidents Bachar Al-Assad and his/her late Hafez father.

The Ohio delegation to the Electoral College cast its votes for President Bush on Monday, hours after dissident groups asked the state Supreme Court to review the outcome of the state's presidential race. The 20 GOP electors voted unanimously for Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "The vast majority of people understand this election is over," said Gov. Bob Taft, who was at the electors' voting session in the state Senate chamber. The challengers who went to the Supreme Court question whether Bush won the key swing state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over Democrat John Kerry. The court...

In all 50 states and the District of Columbia, members of the Electoral College will meet as prescribed by the US Constitution on Monday to cast their votes-one each for President and Vice President of the United States.C-SPAN will air six of these meetings live from Ohio, California, Pennslyvania, Massachusetts and Texas. (With Jesse Jackson, Conyers and the liberal moonbat protesters airing their 'forum' from the capital of Ohio at 4:30 PM, ET) WATCH: Monday 12PM-6PM Eastern Time

Ohio's 2004 Presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state's Supreme Court, a coalition of public interest lawyers announced Friday.The Lawyers have sworn testimony from hundereds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials to make a case that thousands of votes were incorrectly counted or not counted on Election Day.Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has not yet certified the November 2nd vote. State election law says an election challenge must show that the wrong candidate has been declared the winner,...

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Kerry Reshapes Campaign Democratic Nominee Taps Two Veteran Party Strategists for Top Roles Sept. 5 -- Under fire to shape up his presidential campaign, Democratic challenger John F. Kerry on Sunday tapped two veteran party strategists from Boston to assume top roles in an operation that has been criticized by Democratic allies for allowing President Bush to regain the initiative in the battle for the White House. Campaign officials said John Sasso... will now become the senior Kerry adviser aboard the candidate's traveling charter until the election... Kerry advisers described the moves as long planned and part of an overall...

Entertainer banned after Bush remark Presidential 'chicken legs' joke leads bookstore's customers to complain ---------- Apparently, it's become un-American--or at least highly controversial--for a woman to publicly say that the president of the United States' body is less than perfect. A Baltimore acoustic artist has been banned from playing the Fredericksburg Borders Books & Music store--apparently because she made fun of President Bush's legs between songs in her show Friday night at Central Park. Julia Rose, a singer-songwriter and a fitness advocate who often shows audiences her six-pack abs, told a Fredericksburg Borders audience Friday: "George Bush has chicken legs....

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