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Happy New Year, everyone!! Goodbye 2010, hello 2011, and welcome to the start of the 2012 presidential sweepstakes!! And we have a lot at stake this election cycle. Namely, our freedom and our very right to exist as a constitutional free Republic!! The Marxist left is now making noises that our constitution is outdated, written in an ancient language that is too hard to understand, and is unnecessary. They want no restrictions on government power whatsoever and believe that there ARE no restrictions on government power whatsoever. Proof of that is the ramrodding through of the unconstitutional Marxist ObamaCare system...

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Neil Strauss hardly seems like a guy who'd kill a goat and gut it with his own hands. A slim intellectual in silver jewelry and designer jeans, he doesn't appear to be the kind of person who would stash food in a forest or plot an escape from his Los Angeles-area home using fire trails and a motorcycle he barely knows how to ride. Yet that's precisely what Strauss has learned to do in the past three years in an effort to prepare himself should society collapse. It's a journey he not only chronicles in his new book, "Emergency: This...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Texas is wasting little time claiming its annual notoriety as the nation's most active capital punishment state. Convicted killer Curtis Moore, condemned for killing three people during a drug-related robbery in 1995 in Fort Worth, is set for lethal injection this week – the first execution in the U.S. in 2009. It's the first of eight scheduled executions this month in the U.S., all but two of them in Texas. Moore, 40, is set to die Wednesday. Two more executions are set for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit next week, then three more the...

Dear Larry, I just feel extremely proud and confident for all of our Veterans, past/present/future. Cousin Joey Nowacki

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Welcome to The Hobbit Hole! Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today! First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit holeSecond thread: The New Hobbit HoleThird thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!) Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet... Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert remains firm in his position, to continue Operation Change of Direction, intended to minimize the Hizbullah threat to Israel. While agreeing to a 48-hour halt of aerial strikes, Olmert continues to exhibit an external calm, aware he enjoys broad cabinet support as well as overwhelming national support for the ongoing military effort. Hizbullah continues to pound Israeli civilian population centers with rockets, but according to intelligence community reports and senior military commanders, the terror organization is beginning to show signs of weakening, signs that the constant IAF aerial bombardment of Hizbullah positions is taking its...

A Seattle police officer called to a fight between a man and a woman made no arrests and took no report, instead quitting his shift early to take the woman involved to his place for sex. After an investigation prompted by the woman's fiancé, Officer Lance Basney was suspended for 30 days without pay. But this week, Basney succeeded in appealing that discipline before the city's Public Safety Civil Service Commission; his punishment was reduced to five days. Still, an attorney for the Police Department was pleased, saying the finding supports the department's position that even off-duty conduct matters. "We're...