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This ridicules interview with Feinstein and Lott is exactly why Democratic talk radio will get no where. People know when representatives are lying and obfuscating issues. Diane Feinstein’s prefab talk to filter everything into a Democratic talking point during this Wallace interview is aggravating, off-point, and arrogant. She thinks the masses do not understand the issues or read the bills. She’s wrong! That’s where arrogance can lead to demise. Diane Feinstein is a perfect example. Here she talks so high and mighty about the law and Dick Cheney. I wonder how she can talk about the law when she has...

"After reading an excellent paper about the biases that have crept in to temperature measurements world wide titled: Unresolved Issues with the Assessment of Multi-Decadal Global Land-Surface Temperature Trends I decided to contact the main researcher."

It is tempting to assert that adult Californians are, generally speaking, morons. Granted, that assertion, if it were to be made in this space, would come from an adult Californian who clearly has more than a casual relationship with moronity. But geez, people, you're not even trying. At least it looks that way from ... the latest survey by the folks over at the Public Policy Institute of California. The survey probed into Californians' knowledge of, and feelings about, state fiscal and governmental/political issues. What it found was a thick, hard layer of huh?: • Only three in 10 could...

CARSON CITY, Nev., May 8 (UPI) -- The Nevada Senate has scored a first: the reading of a Sanskrit blessing by a Hindu chaplain to open its session. Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at the Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada and a resident of Reno, wore saffron-colored clothing and traditional sandalpaste marks on his forehead as he prayed before Nevada's senators Monday. Translated into English, one of the ancient Hindu prayers read by Zed said: "May we be protected together. May we be nourished together. May we work together with great vigor. May our study be enlightening. May no...

By Linda Deutsch ASSOCIATED PRESS 4:23 p.m. April 20, 2007 LOS ANGELES – Jurors chosen for Phil Spector's murder trial are an eclectic mix, including a network TV producer who had been assigned to cover the case, a vice president of a movie company and its music division and an assistant to a Los Angeles deputy mayor.According to written jury questionnaires released Friday, the panel of nine men and three women also includes an electrician at a TV studio, an auto mechanic, a bank employee and an environmental health specialist for Los Angeles County. There are several college graduates including...

State Police are preparing to release a report that will say the trooper who was driving Gov. Jon Corzine during a serious accident Thursday was speeding at the time, two sources who have been briefed on the report's contents told The Star-Ledger today. They declined to be identified because the report - which could be released as early as this afternoon - has not been made public by the State Police. State Trooper Robert Rasinski was driving the Chevrolet Suburban transporting the governor on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township on Thursday night. He swerved to avoid another car...

SAN ANTONIO -- Seguin police said they arrested a man who they accuse of stealing hundreds of dollars worth of fish and seafood from a Catholic church. Police said Patrick Vaughn, 38, stole $800 worth of cod, catfish, and shrimp from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic church last week. Police said Vaughn tried to sell the fish on the streets. Church members planned to use the fish for a fish fry last Friday. Vaughn was was charged with burglary of a building and is being held on a $50,000 bond.

I was wondering why the majority (~79%) of republicans didn't vote for supporting the Senate amendment 285 to S.4? I skimmed the text of S.Amdt. 285 but didn't find any egregious flaws. Can somebody help me understand this? Thank you,

'Listen more' is world's message to US A BBC international opinion poll suggests there is widespread disquiet about the United States' role in Iraq and its other foreign policy priorities. The BBC's Jonathan Marcus analyses the results. The Bush administration's toppling of Saddam Hussein has had several profound and unintended consequences. One has been the way in which the destruction of both the Taleban regime in Afghanistan, and of Iraq's military machine, have opened the way for the rise of Iran as a major regional player. Another crucial but less tangible problem - as this opinion poll commissioned by the...

CHICAGO - The man accused of plotting to carry out a holiday grenade attack on shoppers at a Rockford mall was a Muslim convert whose growing interest in radical views worried his mother, according to a published report. "I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong," Marie Dunn told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald. "I believe he has gotten involved with the wrong people. ... I don't know who he's running with." Dunn said she wasn't surprised when her 22-year-old son, Derrick Shareef, converted seven years ago, because his father was a member of the Nation of...

You will probably want to know One or Two things about your Folk Hero: - He is a Well-Known anti-Conservative - He has Promoted Drugs in many songs, including his Hit "Everybody Must Get Stoned" (!!!) - He Is no a Christian of birth. No, he is not! And alot of you would say, well, This Is Okay. I do too. But! he Perverted the Christian Faith for several Years. - He has participated in Celebrating Unusual Lifestyles. - He has had Children out of Wedlock. - There are many songs which Celebrate the Flaunting or Ridiculing of Authority. -...

What exactly did United States Senator-elect Jim Webb mean when he wrote in The Wall Street Journal that "the most important--and unfortunately the least debated--issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century." Certainly we can agree with him when he asserts that "In the age of globalization and outsourcing, and with a vast underground labor pool from illegal immigration, the average American worker is seeing a different life and a troubling future... . Manufacturing jobs are disappearing." And, of course, the average corporate...

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report. A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students? performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%. The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest. ... The students? various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born?s team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes....

QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means. "You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be...

The unfortunately named Actroid, an eerily human-looking robot, will be the toast of the Wired NextFest high-tech convention, officially opening Friday at the Javits Center in New York City. Actroid can't walk, but she can talk your ear off in an actual two-way conversation. The jazzy Japanese automaton speaks four languages and understands 40,000 phrases, such as "Where is my meeting?" and "Can you tell me a joke?" Her makers also claim she has a playful sense of humor — and she's giggly. And, like an obedient gal, if Actroid doesn't understand you, she'll politely change the subject. Most impressive...

Kenny Rogers

Dear Editor: I read with interest the remarks by Scarsdale’s Deputy Superintendent of Public Works, Neil Blitz, in the Scarsdale Inquirer's September 1st front-page story entitled "Don't Touch Any Trees in the Right of Way". According to Mr. Blitz, "Nobody is supposed to do anything in the right of way. Homeowners are absolutely not allowed to prune or remove trees in the right of way - although they are required to maintain the lawn...." In Mr. Blitz’s novel interpretation of the law, homeowners in Scarsdale, New York have absolutely no property rights whatsoever in the 13 feet of their front...

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Big Brother watches Free Republic. I was reading the post DIESEL BLUES I had PerrGuardian 2 running; and what do I see being blocked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 72.240.241.61:1395. (Source), 134.67.99.207:80 (destination), and U.S. Department of Energy 72.240.241.61:1415 (source), 205.254.143.167:80 (destination). Maybe now I should wait for the knock on the door, but I don’t think they will knock first. They will probably just take my harddrive to see what other NEWS I am reading.

Press converence at White House on CNN. LOL. All the news chick could say was, "Wow!"