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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Here at the Glenn Beck program, the budget isn't exactly that impressive. We're not the federal government, with a limitless American Express card that we never have to pay off. So, instead of traveling to Denver, Colorado, and reporting on the Democratic National Convention in a fancy suit like a real show, I get to watch the speeches at my house in my boxers. Sorry for that image. Here are my impressions of some of the noteworthy quotes from the convention so far, which I observed from a safe distance. Nancy Pelosi: "I am very proud...

I encourage you to watch the Glenn Beck Program this next Friday, August 22, at either 7 pm, 9 pm or midnight, Eastern Standard Time. The program will consist of an interview with four students and Prof. George to discuss the work that has been going on at Princeton over the last 10 years or so to create a climate that is more supportive for students interested in a college education that includes the development of moral convictions and practices. As you know Universities have years ago decided they are no longer going to instruct students on what is right...

Funny but oh so true parody. Originally a thread was posted last night here (Glenn Beck: Obama Soviet Anthem), but it didn't have the video included. Posted now for a morning laugh! Thanks to Tolerance Sucks Rocks for the original thread.

KLAVAN: The Islamofascists. I mean, Islamofascism is our biggest enemy and it`s the biggest enemy of culture, civilization and everything. And a terrible thing that`s going on now is we have lost -- our culture has lost confidence in itself. And this is why I keep telling people you can fill the Supreme Court, you can put Ronald Reagan back in the White House, we can have conservatives winning elections. If you lose the culture, you lose everything.

(Soviet National Anthem playing) GLENN: Wait a minute. Hang on. Wait a minute, hang on. Dan, hold it. Stop the music for a second. That's the old Soviet. That's the motherland theme. That's old news. I mean, this is cutting edge. This is America. What do we do? We sit around on our hands? We use something that's 20, 30 years old? No. We're America! We're the place that can dream and it will become, we're the country that says let's not live in the past, let's live in the future. And what's coming our way, huh? Hope and change,...

I'm not sure how Glenn Beck scored this interview, but it was worth watching. Part 1 (8:34): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z478VRTWYk Part 2 (9:01): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLH_8KDkTvk Part 3 (3:47): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FmxqoDNQtI

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Call our politicians and tell them to stay on vacation. Call the caribou roaming in Alaska and tell them they're safe. Call the Saudi king and tell him what you really think of his oil. I, Glenn Beck, a recovering alcoholic rodeo clown, have come up with a solution to America's energy crisis...and you're wearing it. Look at yourself right now. You've probably got on a shirt, socks, shoes, jewelry, maybe even some pants. Do you have any idea how much all of that weighs? If people really loved America, they would strip down, leave their...

Ramos/Compean fundraiser The families of these border agent/political prisoners are struggling. Homes are in jeopardy, lives torn apart. So, we’re raising money for Monica Ramos and Patty Compean. We’re asking that instead of one check, split your donation between the two: Make them out separately to Monica Ramos…AND…Patty Compean…and mail to: Edd Henndee, Taste of Texas, 10505 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77024__________________________ GLENN: Well, the two families, Patty Compean and Monica Ramos are in real trouble and I have both of them on now. Monica, hello, how are you? MONICA RAMOS: Fine. Thank you, Beck, for having me on. GLENN:...

This morning on Glen Becks radio show, he spoke with the wives of border patrol agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos. They are both having serious financial issues since they are now acting as single mothers raising 6 kids between them. While on the phone, Glen Beck told them both that he would write a check to pay for their rent for the next year.

They've got that global warming thing down coldPosted on Wed, Jul. 23, 2008 By GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com • Penn & Teller's Bull----! 10-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Showtime I've seen lots of things on Penn & Teller's Bull----!, television's only investigative-journalism program run by comic magicians: Hidden-camera pranks where yuppie fools blather on about designer water that actually came from a garden hose. New Age health nuts allowing mollusks to crawl around on their faces to soak up the health benefits of slug slime. Naked people floating around in a zero-gravity chamber for a show on NASA. I don't actually know what...

Shock Jock Michael Savage is in hot water again this time for a stating his belief that 99% of Autism cases are fake. He has taken a beating from parents of autistic children and those who lobby for them. However, let us play devil's advocate for a moment... Are Savage's comments mean spirited or could there be some truth to it? Are children who are diagnosed with autism and Asperger's syndrome (Considered a high functioning form of Autism) being over diagnosed? Are the diagnostic criteria for Autism and Asperger's really too broad and too flawed that otherwise ordinary playful children...

Just happened to see a blurb about Beck hosting Larry King, but I can't seem to find out what the topic will be. I checked his website and couldn't find the topic. Did he mention it on the show today?

Did anyone from Columbia Mo. area attend the live feed of Glenn Beck last night? The feed was interrupted approximately 45 minutes into the show. Any opinions or impressions of how the situation was handled?

This is a powerful piece on what politicians have been saying about energy for 30 years! This is a fantastic video of a montage of politicians and their promises about energy and energy independence. Wow... nothing has change except the price of oil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZ_4EXeyaA

Glenn Beck: Crazy town Express Audio Available: June 25, 2008 - 12:47 ET Drill Alaska! Why should the "pretty" states get a free-pass when it comes to drilling for oil? Just because you have snow capped mountains and exotic wildlife doesn't mean you can't play host to a few drilling fields. Buy Now! GLENN: The people who are running this country, they're on a train to crazy town. Let me give you the example. This is from the front page of today's Wall Street Journal. As the mile-high city gears up to host Democratic bash for 50,000 organizers, they are...

WGAN Morning News with Ken & Mike GLENN: Yeah, yeah. So Ken actually, his daughter, Amy, works for me in New York. She's at CNN, and she is absolutely fantastic. I just absolutely love her to death. She is a keeper. I think she was a pivot point quite honestly on the television program, but I just love her to death. You know, she's a Clinton supporter. She has explained your position in life as a socialist, Ken. ALTSHULER: She compliments me too much. GLENN: I know. But you and I were having an interesting conversation today because I...

Bob Barr appeared on Glenn Beck’s CNN/Headline News program last night for a discussion about energy independence [link to video in post #2]. Barr will be back tonight for an hour-long interview.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Perhaps it was the mental stress of preparing for a book tour in which she had to sell a marriage-destroying affair as a heartwarming memory. But before her book was released, Barbara Walters had this to say to Elisabeth Hasselbeck about Iraq on "The View" on April 8, 2008: Hasselbeck: I think the surge has probably been one of the most effective strategies in this war. Walters: No, it has not. Hasselbeck: Oh, I disagree I think it absolutely has. Walters: I think a few weeks ago it was considered that. Now there has been more...

Watch for him on Wednesday, June 4, when he will appear on “The Colbert Report,” which airs at 11:30 EDT on Comedy Central. Thursday, June 5, he will appear on “The Glenn Beck Program” on CNN Headline at 7:00 EDT. Glenn Beck has had him on several times over the past few weeks and has devoted the full hour-long broadcast exclusively to Bob. He will also appear on “Night Talk” with Mike Schneider on Bloomberg Television later Thursday evening at 10:00.

Federal and local law enforcement have arrested seven alleged members and associates of the Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos prison gang over the last week.Prosecutors say the seven people from Laredo and 17 from the Houston area were involved in a conspiracy to transport large amounts of cocaine from Laredo to Houston and launder the proceeds in Laredo. Pedro Gil III, 37, also known as "Master P," "PG" and "Carwash," was arrested over the weekend and charged with five counts of conspiracy with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and one count of money laundering. Police later arrested his...

"Jobs Americans just won't do." I can't stand that line, but more importantly, I don't even understand it. Americans spend months at a time at sea fishing for crab or drilling for oil; two of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Americans clean bathrooms, subway stations and crime scenes. Americans man toll booths, pave roads, embalm bodies and inspect sewers. Yet people really expect us to believe that they won't pick strawberries or oranges? It just doesn't add up.

David E. Young Interview Our guest today is David E. Young, author, historian researcher... Before we begin, a brief biography is in order to introduce some of you to who this man is, what he's done, and why it's important for RKBA activists to know about his significant work. Biographical Information: David E. Young Born, 1947, Flint, Michigan Graduated with high honors, Michigan State University, 1972, with Bachelor of Science Degree in Park and Recreation Resources specializing in Environmental Interpretation (Naturalist). Have minors in Music Composition, Mathematics, Earth Sciences, and Biology. Retired from career with Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources...

Well, now in Massachusetts they are looking to tax college endowments, university endowments that have more than a billion dollars in it. They say that by doing this, they can put more than a billion dollars a year into the state revenue. Legislators have asked state finance officials to study a plan that would impose a 2.5% annual assessment on colleges with endowments over a billion dollars. Now, the universities are very upset and here's quite possibly -- I want to frame this. I want to frame this. I want this on my wall of my office. When a nonprofit,...

NUEVO LAREDO - A highly respected former city councilman was gunned down near his downtown office Thursday night, renewing concerns that violence may be returning to the Sister City. Rolando Montante, an engineer and owner of a construction company that often does business with local government, was a well-known political activist with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI. He had been mentioned as a possible candidate to head the city's waterworks system. Montante was shot twice with a .40-caliber weapon sometime Thursday night, according to results of the autopsy. The gun believed to have been used in the killing was...

When liberal talk radio host Randi Rhodes returned to the airwaves last month after her well-publicized departure from the Air America Network, she knew her loyal listeners would be relieved.But even she didn't anticipate the fevered response, evidenced by sacks of mail and hundreds of calls. Not to mention a suitcase worth of Mary Kay cosmetics hand-delivered by a fan to the West Palm Beach studios of WJNO-AM 1290, where Rhodes' afternoon drive-time program now originates under a new syndication deal."There was, like, a room full of stuff!" said Rhodes, whose weekly audience of 1.5 million-plus listeners positions her among...

Glenn Beck interviews Ann. They discuss Obama, McCain and the election in general. (Video at the link)

Glenn Beck attempts to explain what Dem Superdelegates really are. (Video at the link)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama is moving away from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright so fast he may claim to be an atheist by next weekend. The ongoing sprint from such a polarizing figure is far from a surprise, it's just the timing of it that is so odd. A New York Times editorial described the recent developments like this: "In the last few days, in a series of shocking appearances, he [Wright] embraced the Rev. Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism. He said the government manufactured the AIDS virus to kill blacks. He suggested that America was guilty of "terrorism" and...

Security was heavy Thursday as the nine defendants named so far in an indictment targeting the Gulf Cartel's enforcers, the Zetas, appeared in federal court for pre-trial proceedings.At least half a dozen stone-faced U.S. Marshals kept watch over the defendants in U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez's court, along with members of the Correction Corp. of America's special operations response team, who wore body armor. Prosecutors allege that the nine defendants named in the 47-count indictment are members or associates of the Zetas, a violent wing of the Gulf Cartel believed to control most of the narcotics trafficking in Nuevo Laredo....

Laredo has once again been included on a national top 10 list, although not for a distinction the city may necessarily want.According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, Laredo ranked sixth nationally in cities with the highest per capita rate of vehicle theft in 2007. The ranking marks a significant increase from 2006, when the agency ranked Laredo 22nd nationally. The agency ranks different metropolitan areas based on the number of vehicle thefts per 100,000 inhabitants. According to the figures, Laredo had 1,914 vehicle thefts last year, a rate of about 821 cars stolen per 100,000 residents. That also puts...

GLENN: From Radio City in Midtown Manhattan, hello, you sick twisted freak. Welcome to the program. Third most listened to show in all of America. My name is Glenn Beck. Here's the headline. "Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World." It's from the New York Sun today. Mountain View, California is the dateline. Many parts of America long considered to be the breadbasket of the world are now confronted phenomenon food rationing. Major retailers in New York and areas of New England and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply....

A 17-year-old from Laredo went missing in the Sister City on March 16, law enforcement authorities said Thursday.Ian Carlos Romo was apparently cruising with three or four friends around Paseo Colón when they were taken from the vehicle. Authorities could not confirm who the other individuals in the car were, but said they were not U.S. citizens. The family has not heard from Romo since the incident and is concerned for his safety. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 727-8477 or the local FBI field office at 723-4021. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards of up to...

Investigators believe a 21-year-old Laredo man who died Tuesday at the Laredo Medical Center was a kidnapping victim who may have been tortured, a Webb County prosecutor said Thursday. It's the fifth homicide in Laredo this year.Roberto Oviedo died Tuesday after being found on the pavement in front of his brother's house with what an initial investigation shows were wounds from torture, said Assistant District Attorney Jesse Guillen. At least three men have been arrested and charged in connection with Oviedo's Sunday disappearance, Guillen said. Police on Thursday arrested Jason Fraga and Octavio Rodriguez Jr. on charges of aggravated kidnapping...

Senator Barack Obama's wife Michelle is "Kim Jong-Il dressed up with a bit of Oprah Winfrey dressing," according to Mark Steyn, probably the most widely read columnist in North America. Appearing on CNN Headline News Glenn Beck show on April 10 Steyn also described the Illinois senator's wife as "a conventional university socialist," according to a shocked Media Matters - the ultra-leftist self-proclaimed media watchdog. Added host Glenn Beck "Her language is riddled with socialism," while opining that with both Obamas "here's a socialist agenda there for America." On the April 10 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck show,...

The FBI is investigating the kidnapping of a 17-year-old former Alexander High School student that may have turned fatal, officials confirmed Thursday. German Antonio Villarreal Muñoz was forced into a sport utility vehicle at Juega Juega, a popular casino in Nuevo Laredo, the night of March 8. His father reported the kidnapping to Mexican authorities the following morning, but nothing was said in public until March 12, when the teen's mother issued a statement to Laredo media, pleading for information about her son. Nearly a month later, hopes for a happy ending are dimming. "Foul play is suspected," said Norm...

Join us this evening on the "Glenn Beck Show" on CNN Headline News as three Vets for Freedom members discuss highlights from the tour, Vets on the Hill, and the Petraeus testimony. The message is getting to America, and with your continued support, we will ensure that America understands the truth of what is really happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. Move Out and Draw Fire!

LAREDO - With appearances on CNN and Nightline, Webb County Sheriff Rick Flores drew national attention to his role as top cop of a county on the front line against Mexican drug violence. But keeping that job comes down to a race that is decidedly local - full of harsh exchanges, nasty innuendo and Laredo's trademark tangle of conflicting loyalties. On Tuesday, Flores, 46, faces longtime state police official Martin Cuellar in a Democratic primary runoff, one of the area's hottest races in memory. His opponent's family name couldn't be more formidable - Cuellar, 49, is brother of U.S. Rep....

MEXICO CITY — Mexican federal police in the border city of Nuevo Laredo seized $6 million in cash Thursday after arresting five alleged paramilitary members at a Pan-American Highway checkpoint. The seizure, officials said, marked the latest blow against the Gulf Cartel, the drug smuggling organization based in the Mexican cities bordering South Texas. Authorities said the arrested men are members of the Zetas, a paramilitary group of gunmen led by deserters from elite Mexican army units. The five men were arrested at a checkpoint about 15 miles south of Nuevo Laredo. After their arrest, they led police to a...

Federal authorities have their sights set on high-ranking members of the Zetas working in Nuevo Laredo, as indicated by a 50-page indictment partially unsealed earlier this week.The indictment alleges a wide-ranging, drug-smuggling conspiracy that involved several murders, including one in which a defendant is accused of collecting the blood of his victim and making a toast to Santa Muerte before killing the man and burning his body. Two of the 32 people listed in the 47-count indictment were in federal court Thursday. Only four names have been made public; the others are blacked out on the court records because they...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- We all want to live in a world that's clean, healthy and prosperous. We all want to hand that world off to our children in slightly better shape than we received it. No one, even the supposedly evil oil executive, has any reason to want anything different. But, for some reason, we find ourselves searching for villains. Surely they exist, but the endless quest to create them sometimes overwhelms our better judgment, whether intentional or not. Congress has picked "Big Oil" as their enemy of the week. These companies inexplicably put profits above people, ravaging the...

Members of rival El Salvadorian gangs were arrested by Border Patrol agents over the weekend just north of Laredo on Interstate 35, an indicator of the increasing through traffic by violent gang members the Laredo Police Department has noticed in recent months."Mostly they're transient," said Sgt. Armando Elizondo, supervisor of LPD's Juvenile Enforcement Team, which deals with local gang activity. "They use this area as a crossing point." Sunday, a 22-year-old gang member was arrested by agents at the Texas Travel Information Center at the 18-mile marker on the interstate at about 2 p.m. He had tattoos showing he's a...

They are believed to have smuggled hundreds of illegal immigrants into the United States but now, 41 truck drivers, guides, brokers, recruiters and smuggling leaders are facing criminal charges. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents started the investigation in Laredo but made the arrests across several American cities over the last seven weeks. Investigators said the group used truck drivers to smuggle at least 376 illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras into the United States. Most of the immigrants were discovered tractor trailers and attempting to pass through different checkpoints in and around Laredo. Most...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- What do these stories all have in common? A woman who says she lost more $1 million gambling in Atlantic City sues some casinos for $20 million, claiming they should've stopped her compulsive gambling. People who bought houses they couldn't afford with loans they didn't understand want their lenders to change the terms. Congress authorizes a war and then tries everything it can think of to get out of it. Our country gets addicted to oil and then blames OPEC when it doesn't like the price. These stories prove how personal responsibility has all but vanished...

A 17-year-old Alexander High School student is missing after visiting with friends in Nuevo Laredo, and his family is asking for help in finding him. The family of German Antonio Villarreal said he went to a movie at the Multi Cinema in Nuevo Laredo on Saturday, March 8. Afterward, he was with friends at Juega Juega, a popular casino in the Sister City, when he went missing. "German is a loving son and brother to his five siblings," said Maria Elena Muñoz Treviño, the student's mother. "His father and I are worried about our son and want to see him...

Webb County taxpayers paid approximately $5.17 million in 2006 to fund law enforcement and justice system services for undocumented immigrants, a 41-percent increase from the costs incurred in 1999, according to a border counties coalition study released this week.The price tag, an estimated $22.34 per Webb County taxpayer each year, is one that elected officials said should not be a local burden. "This has long been a problem and something that, frankly, I think this administration should have done better but didn't," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "But at least Congress is in a position to remedy it to some...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his environmental advocacy, was the main target on Monday at a conference of dissident scientists skeptical of his views on global warming. Several speakers at the conference on climate change whose theme was "Global warming is not a crisis," took pot-shots at the ex-vice president and his film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which won last year's Academy Award for best documentary. "Whether we like it or not, it was extremely effective propaganda," said Timothy Ball, an environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University...

The only place I have heard anything about this is on Glen Beck. It surprised me to see nothing on FR. Town Hall has another decent story on the same topic: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/03/04/cool_news_about_global_warming?page=full&comments=true

Article by Thomas Sowell, National Review Online Sunday, March 2, 2008 (For some reason I could not find the this article on National Review Online) It has almost become something of a joke when some “global warming” conference has to be cancelled because of a snowstorm or bitterly cold weather. But stampedes and hysteria are no joke - and creating stampedes and hysteria has become a major activity of those hyping a global-warming “crisis.” They mobilize like-minded people from a variety of occupations, call them all “scientists” and then claim that “all” the experts agree on a global-warming crisis. Their...

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Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg Description: “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst? Glenn's Comments: Fascism with a smiley face, it's already here. Mentioned: January 14, 2008