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I had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Kennedy (website) who is running as an independent for MA special election (January 19th, 2010) to fill the vacant seat of the late Ted Kennedy. Joe Kennedy is a small government kind of guy and is not at all related to the famous Massachusetts family and in fact is offering voters something new and fresh as opposed to the two incumbent parties. If you are tired of the federal government growing regardless of which party is in charge, understand that our entitlement programs are broken and believe that the media treats third party...

Yesterday, Michael Dreeben, the attorney representing the U.S. government, tried to defend the controversial “honest services” statute from a constitutional challenge in front of the Supreme Court. When Dreeben informed the Court that the feds have essentially criminalized any ethical lapse in the workplace, Justice Breyer exclaimed, [T]here are 150 million workers in the United States. I think possibly 140 [million] of them flunk your test. There it is. Some of us have been trying to draw more attention to the dangerous trend of overcriminalization. Judge Alex Kozinski co-authored an article in my book entitled “You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal.”...

I posted 8 videos of Sarah Palin and her crazy fans in S Dakota, Montana, Colorado and Utah.

It is becoming increasingly clear that in western society the inmates are running the asylum. The idiot elite that holds power in most western nations have demonstrated their insanity by accepting the outright lie that the essential atmospheric gas carbon dioxide is a undesirable pollutant that needs to be regulated. The scam begun by the crooked Enron corporation in the 1990's falsely claims that very slight increases in CO2 would substantially raise air temperatures. Enron, and its successors, hoped to profit from trading carbon credits like it had profited from trading credits in sulfur dioxide, a byproduct of coal combustion....

Muslims are all over the boulevards, avenues and streets throughout Paris. They clog the passages so that non-Muslims and vehicles cannot get through.

This is the story of how my 9 year old daughter Maya and I got to meet Sarah Palin when she came to the Dallas area suburb of Plano promoting her best-selling book "Going Rogue". All the glory to God for putting events in place so that we were able to attend, since it seemed at first we'd missed out completely! (Apologies for the incorrect date stamps on the pics, I changed batteries and didn't realize I needed to fix the date!) As a Sarah Palin supporter, I participate in both Free Republic and Team Sarah, and both were instrumental...

The long hard hours required to work in a new administration must be getting to poor ole Baghdad Bob Gibbs. The alternative explanation for this face-palm video clip is that the man is seriously off his meds and doesn't have a clue what words actually come out of his mouth. If this is a multiple choice exam, I choose D. All of the Above. Though Gibbs has long been an absurd spokesmen for this rather absurd administration, he is becoming increasingly belligerent and bizarre as he tries to rationalize the policy positions of this administration. Perhaps that is a job...

Never heard this group before! Beautiful music! I'm hooked! Hope you enjoy it! Video

John Stossel's new show, aptly titled, "Stossel," will debut tomorrow, December 10, on the FOX Business Network (not FOX News). It premieres at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, and will repeat Fridays at 7:00 p.m., Eastern. Ironically, the Friday repeat runs up against his old ABC show, 20/20...

True story: a man is laid off from a Wall Street job for over a year. He submits resume after resume -- because the Street is hiring for his skill -- but never gets the call. Finally, a friend, who knows a hiring manager at a Bracket Firm recommends the man highly. The hiring manager's first question is, "what color is he?" He explains that he has to hire an Asian this week, that a white man -- no matter how qualified -- will not fulfill racial hiring quota. He explains that, in fact, he must hire X blacks, X...

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Action Alert Tell Congress to Oppose Flawed Health Care Proposals The U.S. Chamber continues to support reforming the health system, specifically efforts to control costs and improve quality, reforms of insurance markets, and the creation of a streamlined, simplified marketplace to purchase insurance. However, bills in both the House and Senate fail a simple litmus test for health reform legislation: they will not improve the current situation; in fact, they will largely make it worse. Tax increases to pay for a public plan, employer mandates, and minimum coverage will do more than devastate the private insurance industry--they could bankrupt our...

  Cindy Thai Tai - Singer, songwriter, make-up artist  (After & before gender reassignment operation) We have all heard about the many nightmares associated with government taking over the health-care industry, but are we really ready for the actual consequences? Think about that for a moment and let the many possibilities sink into the gray matter inside your skull. When all is said and done there really are no limits. And please do not give me any of this foolishness about the Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats forcing amendments into the final bill that will disallow certain procedures or conversely that...

Steven Hayward has a great article in The Weekly Standard on the Climategate scandal. Be sure to check it out. The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” and informs us that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.” Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it. However, he’s wrong in calling me a “denier.” As I noted in my op-ed...

Unless you happen to live in Israel, don't look for this to be covered or reported on in your nightly TV news program. The MSM will for sure ignore it.There is a major public backlash in Israel against a freeze on construction in Judea and Samaria. Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered to protest .  It brings to mind a melody of a famous Johnny Paycheck song with a little different wording:" Take this freeze and shove it, --we aint taking it, - no more!" We done got tired of all those lies and we're,-- not gonna take it no more,"" You better not try...

I posted the MSNBC interview with Al Gore and the written responds. Sarah Palin: Steven Hayward has a great article in The Weekly Standard on the Climategate scandal. Be sure to check it out. The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” and informs us that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.” Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it....

Dubai's economic meltdown was a warning sign of further sovereign default troubles for other governments. CMA, a credit information specialist, tracks the world’s most volatile sovereign debt issuers according to percentage changes in their 5 year Credit Default Swaps. On top of their list for the greatest sovereign risks are countries from the former Russian Eastern Bloc, conflict-torn nations, and an oil-rich dictatorship.

As the world's largest search engine, Google is the planet's most powerful information provider. Google rankings can determine whether a story becomes "top of mind" for millions of people-or sinks without trace. Healthcare is a huge issue in the United States. The Senate is about to debate a Healthcare Bill which could hugely impact the economic and political direction of the US. A few years ago, Google established an Health Advisory Council;

The sovereign debt disease is spreading, and looks set to be the big bad news story of 2010. This time it's Greece that's in trouble – and that's official. Just as the 'don't panic' brigade were telling us not to fret about Dubai World defaulting – not big enough to matter, it's an isolated case, surprised it didn't happen before, etc, etc – a much bigger problem has cropped up. Greece has had its credit score chopped by one major rating agency, and more of the same could be on the way.

OSLO (AFP) – A majority of Norwegians consider "impolite" US President Barack Obama's decision to snub parts of the official Nobel Peace Prize programme in Oslo this week, a poll showed on Wednesday. Obama, who will formally receive the award at a ceremony at Oslo's City Hall on Thursday, will limit his attendance at the normally-scheduled events to a strict minimum. Faced with two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the fallout of the economic crisis, the US leader has declined the traditional lunch with the king of Norway, and, unlike previous laureates, will not hold a press conference nor...

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. “Climate-gate,” as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won’t...

No time to be celebrating the demise of the public option with the agreement reached by Senate dems. No time to be fighting over the abortion amendment; it’s all smoke and mirrors. This is a pure case of not noticing the right hand holding a large sledgehammer while they are fervently waving a big fat carrot with the left hand hoping to keep the sheeples mesmerized. Here’s the left hand: Democrats reach deal on health bill WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democratic healthcare negotiators said they agreed on Tuesday to replace a government-run insurance option with a scaled-back non-profit plan and...

We were told today that the Left is making the rounds on various sites like HuffPo, Daily Kos, etc. (all the usual suspects), talking about how great it would be for people to go to Sarah Palin’s book signings and throw eggs, tomatoes, rocks, etc. at her and her family. Our first impulse at this is to say, “Sarah, declare yourself a 2012 candidate already and get Secret Service protection NOW. Dr. Utopia got it earlier than anyone in history, so you should get it early too.” Then, we hear news that the sickos on the Left are hoping people...

It speaks for itself. The one question I have , though is, how long did it take before the cops figured out what had happened? video

  Déjà Vu for Obama Too:The H1N1 FiascoDecember 9, 2009 When I was growing up, my mother’s most repeated words of advice were: “Watch out, those words may come back to bite you” and “If you can’t fix it, then just leave it alone”. Mom was just warning me about the pitfalls of ignorant babble and clueless meddling. And so I present to you Obama aka “the clueless wrecking ball”. Or to rekindle John Kerry’s 2004 invectives, “If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism?”...“If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health...

I guess the Hyde Amendment that Congress has passed every single year for decades must have been immoral, in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s view. CNS News asks Feinstein about the morality of imposing the costs of abortions on people who object to them, and Feinstein replies with a couple of non-sequiturs you’ll be hearing over the remaining debate on ObamaCare:

Dividing land with Palestinians or returning it to Mexicans? Politically-correct justice of Obama wants violation of the territorial integrity of Israel, but no violation of the territorial integrity of the US By Julio Severo Barack Obama is the man of inclusivity, plurality and diversity. What does it mean? It means that he respects the politically-correct ideology above traditions, morality and Christianity itself, which is an inseparable and undeniable part of the founding of the United States. PC ideology commands Obama to remind in his speeches the Islamic participation in the building of the US. Even though that participation was insignificant,...

email Direct from the Pendleton Battlefront, A Self Described “Grunt Civilian” gives First Hand Account of Chessani Board Of Inquiry (BOI)... December 09, 2009 Email post by H. Hamilton – The report from a concerned CA citizen attending the Board of Inquiry for LtCol Jeffrey Chessani.   Today (12-08-09) started with LtCol Kevin Gonzalez who was GREAT AND 3-4 HOURS!   Brigadier General Lewis Craparotta (Board member) and the Defense stopped the ongoing, ad nauseum questioning of witnesses since Board already has testimony...   Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas (under Colonel Stephen Davis who says Davis is his hero) was great and another Chessani...

It was only one week ago that new stunning revelations came out about the Democratic Party's favorite criminal enterprise also known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The corruption revealed went way beyond the voter fraud, embezzlement and cover-up, and the Hooker/Spy Scandal. Their crimes included a systematic program to try and manipulate the voting process in this country. Anita Moncrief, former ACORN employee told the panel that ACORN continually got federal block grants but did not use the grants for helping the poor as promised. Rather, ACORN “used the money to fund their political machine....

I guess it was not bad enough that all of the warning signs about Hasan the Islamic terrorist at Fort Hood were ignored. So called military leaders were frozen in fear and did not discharge him, as not offending Islam was more important to them. Now they have to rub salt in the wound by bowing down to Islam even more. Wait until you see the part about how they say that Muslim speaker Dr. Louay Safi was vetted. If they would of did a simple Google search, they would of known about this man. To view this short video....

Obama is so transparent, petty and small, he is an embarrassment. O's latest Chicago way payback? He has nominated Larry Persily, who writes hit pieces on Palin for the Puff Ho, got that? Obama defines the hatred of the good for being the good. You go Sarah. W'vee got your back. Obama nominates former Palin aide to pipeline job [note lefturd Reuters headline -- as if he was part of her camp /not] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama nominated Larry Persily, a former aide to ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, on Wednesday to be federal coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas...

On the eve of Obama’s trip to Denmark, in which he may announce new spending plans for developing countries, Moody’s is poised to send a warning that America’s triple-A credit rating is at risk. For generations the country has relied on deficit spending and the strongest credit rating to manage the country’s finances. This new chink in our fiscal armor is a direct result of the fact that our government faces a trillion dollar deficit for the next 10 years, and sends a clear message that Congress, the President and the American people must rein in deficit spending. A reduction...

Representative Dan Burton (R-IN) is leading the Save the SEALS mission to pressure the Pentagon to dismiss charges against three of our magnificent Navy SEALS who are accused by savage barbarian Ahmed Hashim Abed of punching him in the mouth; or the stomach, or something. Abed was the bloodthirsty mastermind behind the massacre of several Blackwater employees who were deployed to deliver catering supplies in Fallujah. Not content to merely ambush and slaughter the victims, Abed went for extra Allah points by setting their bodies on fire and hanging them from a bridge. Little Lord Abed now contends that our...

The Road to Copenhagen Cliff Kincaid, December 9, 2009 You don’t need to attend the United Nations climate change conference to know what’s really going on. Ignoring the fallacies behind the “science” of man-made global warming, a new U.N. report on “climate justice” says the U.S. and other countries owe $24 trillion in “climate debt” to the rest of the world. The report, “Climate Justice for a Changing Planet,” argues that the United States is “historically the largest global emitter” of greenhouse gas emissions and therefore has the biggest “debt” to pay. But another U.N. report puts the figure at...

If indeed former Alaska Governor and Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the joke the new left claims her to be, one wonders why they don’t simply ignore her. On the contrary, they devote an unusual amount of energy into making her the butt of their jokes and seeking every opportunity to discredit her and cover her with political dirt. The Associated Press for example assigned 11 reporters to fact-check her new book “Going Rogue.” The AP assigned exactly 2 reporters to read through the more than 4 thousand pages of the Obama healthcare bills. So much attention seems to belie...

On Friday of this week, the Supreme Court of the United States has scheduled a hearing conference for the petition made by the Indiana Police Pension Trust against the theft of their nearly $6.5 billion dollar investment in the Chrysler Corporation, which was perpetrated by the Obama regime earlier this summer. The action, whereby the U.S. Treasury, without authorization by Congress, used TARP funding to force Chrysler LLC into a debtor-client relationship, and then in using that to practically control the corporation in bankruptcy pleadings has raised several constitutional and legal issues on the action. The case’s official name is...

Despite Barack Obama's claim in a speech yesterday that his programs have 'saved or created' millions of jobs--a familiar but hollow mantra--Americans know the truth that just this year millions of jobs have been lost. So 'successful' has been the President's stimulus bailouts that he is planning yet another one--the 3rd overall. With 3 massive bailouts initiated by the government, the economy must really be humming along. Americans are so painfully aware of the abject failures of this President and this government that Obama has now dropped to the lowest approval rating of any President in history at this particular...

Politicians and their advisors are frantically trying to decide if the public mood has changed and by how much, and even more critically trying to balance the appeasement of the people and the appeasement of the still pro-environment business community (aka: their real friend$.)

“For decades, Britain and the U.S. have been the closest of allies, enjoying a transatlantic alliance forged on the ’special relationship’ that sprang up between those great wartime leaders, Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt. Over 70 years, the special relationship has certainly had its ups and downs. The cast has changed – Thatcher and Reagan, Blair and Bush – as have the problems and crises that it has had to address, but it has always endured. Until now. “ The Daily Mail’s Nile Gardiner chafes at Barack Obama’s execrable treatment of our European ally. One wonders what took so...

It is beginning to look like TheOne has just told the lapdog U.S. Old Media that he didn't get them a Christmas present this year. Politico is reporting that the Obama Administration didn't invite the average number of newsies to the White House Christmas Party and on top of that, even the ones that did get invited won't be able to get their photos taken with Obama in a receiving line like they traditionally have because the president seems to have ditched the whole receiving line thing from the schedule. Imagine the heartbreaking that is going on in those hoary...

The Weekly Standard has an excellent new article in its latest issue that reports on the discouraging story of the Washington D.C. teachers union that is rushing headlong toward destroying the successful and popular federally-funded D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The program has helped many disadvantaged D.C. are kids get a better and safer education than they would have gotten in the violence plagued public schools system. But Democratic lawmakers in Congress have continually announced their lack of support for the voucher plan despite the inner city kids that have benefited from it all... Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

I missed this story: Since 2007, the U.S. State Department has been issuing high-tech "e-passports," which contain computer chips carrying biometric data to prevent forgery. Unfortunately, according to a March report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), getting one of these supersecure passports under false pretenses isn't particularly difficult for anyone with even basic forgery skills. A GAO investigator managed to obtain four genuine U.S. passports using fake names and fraudulent documents. In one case, he used the Social Security number of a man who had died in 1965. In another, he used the Social Security number of a fictitious...

I think our brave men and women in our military might be interested in seeing this list. This is a good synopsis of obama's (lower case intentional) real cabinet. OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who they are and realize what they want to do. OBAMA'S CZARS CZAR Czar Position Summary Richard Holbrooke AfghanistanCzar Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment Ed Montgomery Auto recovery Czar Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty....

Here is the update to the “UK: Two Christians go to Trial for “Insulting” Islam” story. Thankfully they were cleared of all charges and Islam has to take a step back. Cheers for freedom! Christian hoteliers cleared in Muslim woman abuse row A devout Christian couple have been cleared of insulting a Muslim guest because of her faith. Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang were accused of launching a tirade against Ericka Tazi at the Bounty House Hotel in Aintree, Liverpool, in March.

The Cook County Prosecutors In Chicago have announced that they have charged the first gang member with possession of an illegal firearm under a new law the Illinois governor signed last week. He faces a potential 3 to 10 year sentence if convicted as a gang member in possession of a firearm, and no probation is available. We predicted late last week, when the bill became law, that persons charged under this law would also have committed several other crimes at the same time, and that there was a great possibility of this new "Enhanced Gun Crime" charge being plea...

Another story from the UK. Again, the Guardian. Here are several excerpts: “Three hours after the “Danish text” had been leaked to the Guardian, Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese chairman of the group of 132 developing countries known as G77 plus China, spelt out exactly why the poor countries he represents were so incensed." “This text destroys both the UN convention on climate change and the Kyoto protocol….” "It was prepared in secret by a group of individuals known as “the circle of commitment” but understood to include the US and Denmark." “It proposes a green fund to be run by...

Monday afternoon the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions a danger to public health and said it will begin to draft and enforce regulations. Even the EPA realizes these moves will be a disaster for the US economy (and to our own selves as one of those gases, CO2, is what humans ad to the atmosphere every time they exhale). Rasmussen asked American "likely voters" what they thought about the EPA announcement and reaction was split 41% to 41%. But the EPA can write and enforce their regulations without the consent of Congress. When...

My last post dealt with Barack Obama's Marxist personal physician of more than 20 years, Quentin Young and his decades long campaign to socialize US healthcare. Young and his comrades in Physicians for a National Health Plan and Healthcare Now! have driven the US healthcare debate for years. Now they have a friend in the Oval Office and both Houses of Congress controlled by the Democrats. Soon the Senate may pass a Healthcare Bill-but whatever form it takes, the drive to fully socialized, government controlled "single payer" healthcare will only accelerate. . . .