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Really, if you could live in Calgary with its fairly mild winters, closeness to the Rocky Mountains, professional hockey team, and citizens who shower, who the hell would choose to live in Toronto?

In these days of ever growing Government with the effects and consequences of it on our culture and society there is a great burden on the hearts of the conservative individual. All we can do today is hope that the Conservative leadership and policies will be found again in our country and society, but that seems very unlikely. There is no conservative leadership in most of Washington. The few who do stand up are destroyed and slandered by the Mainstream Leftist Media and abandoned by the Moderate controlled Republican Party. With the abandonment of moral laws and absolutes the societal...

I've always been amazed at liberals when it comes to their absurd penchant for acting as if animals are somehow just like people. This anthropomorphizing of the animal kingdom is fine if you are talking with kids, reading fairy tales, or creating entertainment, but when you are talking like adults about science or generally about animals there is no place for it. Animals are not people. It's just that simple. But apparently we can't tell that to the left-wingers at NPR because on Dec. 22 on the Morning Edition program we got a pretty silly story about baboons and their...

Tropical Storm Ida happened well over a month ago, almost two now. But regardless, the great father in Washington has generously opened up the federal purse to help those struggling folks that lost so much to that storm. The devastation was so bad that USA Today said of the storm, "Tropical Storm Ida slogged ashore in the area in November with heavy rains but left relatively little damage." Huh? Wait a minute? If the storm wasn't so bad, why is the Obama Administration suddenly, almost two months later, making a show of sending federal disaster money to Alabama? Oh, wait....

Ann Arbor, MI – “80% of the victims of human trafficking are females, and 50% are children,” said Josephine Nicholas, who, together with three of her siblings, is a successful local Arab-American entrepreneur, founding several companies; as well as the charity event group called Party with a Purpose (PWAP). “My siblings and I decided to turn our family’s Annual After New Year’s party into a fundraising event for Free to be Kids, an organization that has positively changed the lives of thousands of children sold into human trafficking,

America is no longer “standing at the crossroads” of decision-making – wondering which way we ought to go. We are standing near the edge of an abyss, and there are those among us who are trying to push the entire nation over that cliff into an oblivion of chaos, confusion, and an eternity from which there will be no return. If we continue down that path you will have no values, no freedom and NO liberty whatsoever.

Socialized Healthcare in America by: Cleve Tidwell, Candidate for US Senate for Colorado American health-care crisis… political watchwords used in countless situations in Washington to strike fear into the souls of man. The current healthcare system is in need of reform. Unfortunately, our left thinking friends seek a strategy for reform that cripples, rather than stimulates, the situation of the American healthcare system. By proposing a single-payer system shown over and over again as a threat to the well-being of American families, a potential obstruction to quality care, and stifling of American individualism against an ever-encroaching Federal government, the Democratic...

...the federal, rather central, government is a train wreck that is on its way to happen, and we, all of us, are passengers on that fated train. Like passengers on a train headed too fast for a curve in the track, we can (at least most of us can) see the impending danger in front of us, and most have a strong suspicion that we will not survive the coming wreck. We are also afraid to jump off of the doomed train for fear that we will be hurt when we make our exit. There may be rough ground outside...

Many good, honest conservatives want to fire all of Congress. One of the latest efforts is a website called goooh.com (as in GetOutOfOurHouse.com). Believe me, I understand the feeling. Congress has miserably failed to satisfy the voters. They've been arrogant, they've spent more time accumulating personal wealth than legislating, they've casually ignored the entirety of the Constitution, they've lied, stolen and become so filled with hubris that even when they stand silent people assume they are lying. Yes, I get it when people say that we should "fire 'em all." But unfortunately the righteousness of the populist anger doesn't make...

Every year I post a pre-Christmas piece on the farce that is Kwanzaa. This year will be no exception. Note, some of the newspaper articles I quote are several years old so some may no longer be online. Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to another gauzy, fluff piece about how great Kwanzaa is by yet another PC spewing newspaper columnist. This year, among many others, we find aggrandizement such as the Progressive's "Kwanzaa is more relevant than ever in recession," the Chattanooga Times Free Press with theirs titled, "Common ground," or the one from the...

Coach Brad Franchione has been named the 2009 American Community College Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year. The award will be presented to Franchione at the American Football Coaches Association Coach of the Year Dinner on Jan. 12 at the AFCA Convention in Orlando.

Cole Green, Taylor Jungmann, Chance Ruffin and Cameron Rupp were among the top players selected by Collegiate Baseball newspaper for the 2010 Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America team. AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas had four players named to the 2010 Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America team presented by Collegiate Baseball, the publication announced on Monday. Taylor Jungmann and Chance Ruffin were tabbed to the First Team as starting pitchers, while Cameron Rupp was named a second-team catcher and Cole Green was named a third-team relief pitcher.

I am finding it increasingly impossible to discuss current politics without pointing out that Democrats and liberals are simply a pack of liars and "journalist" Cokie Roberts fits quite neatly into this category for what she said about the healthcare debate on ABC's This Week Sunday morning talk show... Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

Christmas for adults is never quite the same as Christmas for the under 12-year-old set. Not that it's all bad if you are an adult, it's just that it takes a different form for adults. For kids it's all about the magic of Santa Claus. When you believe it all seems so wondrous. This blindly, uninformed reliance on mere belief is a perfect definition of the Democrat voter. As an adult, of course, a lot of what many of us see during Christmas are the mounting bills for gifts, growing credit card debt, and draining bank accounts. It always makes...

CUNY Graduate Center professor David S. Reynolds has an idea. He wants to pardon an American criminal that is a known murderer and fanatic and who led a life that was steadily radicalized by an extreme religious ideology. This domestic terrorist even went so far as to attempt to start a war inside the USA and advocated for American citizens to be killed in their homes for not seeing things his way. No, Reynolds is not hoping to pardon Islamic terrorist Nidal Hasan, though being a professor of one of our wonderful universities it would not be surprising if he...

Republican candidate for Governor of Texas Debra Medina’s gubernatorial campaign today announced that she would be at the KERA sponsored gubernatorial debate in Dallas, Texas on January 14. Making the point that KERA is a 501(c)(3) organization, campaign manager Penny Langford Freeman said that unless Debra Medina is on the debate stage, KERA would be in violation of the IRS’ restrictions on political activity.

Ugly 16-13 Win Keeps Playoff Hopes Alive The Grinch came eerily close to snatching Christmas away from the Texans and all of their fans a few days early on Sunday. In a game that the Texans were expected to win handily, they found themselves engaged in an all-out slugfest with the lowly Rams, in a contest that was not decided until the closing minutes.

Linda Wallace in a column in last week's Philly Daily News typifies the utter nonsense that is the modern "diversity" and "multicultural" movement, not to mention the modern hypocrisy on matters racial. Titled "The true value of A.I." (as in Allen Iverson), the third paragraph alone signifies how clueless Wallace is: In many ways, Iverson was a 21st-century barrier-buster. Like Jackie Robinson, the little guy with the big heart challenged America's racial biases. He was the first NBA player to wear cornrows, which prompted some to wonder if he was "too black." His off-court fashions came straight from music videos:...

We hear it so often around this time of year: "Happy Holiday!" "Season’s Greeting!" Everyone seems to be in the mood for some kind of festive celebration. Exactly what is the holiday that we are celebrating? Are we allowed to say it? Is it a forbidden word? Are we afraid to say it? Will people be offended if we actually tell them what the holiday is? What ever happened to Christmas? What ever happened to the Christ of Christmas? Long ago there was no room in the inn. Is there any room for Him in today’s celebration? Are little children...

In being witness to the plight Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has found himself in, I cannot help but recall the final year or so of the Bush administration.

I meant to mention this story yesterday and didn't get to it. I guess the reason why I wasn't so all fired up to highlight it is that it all seemed as no surprise, it seemed like ho-hum news. Don't get me wrong, certainly it is big news that Gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna is being investigated by the State Party over possible misuse of party money to fund his own first poll to ascertain whether or not his run for Gov. would be viable. No question that this is interesting news on several levels. It is interesting, for instance, that...

This is momentous news, harrowing news if you are a Democrat that wants Obamacare passed at all costs. The powerful and very rich Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is wavering in its until now stated support of Obamacare. The Hill is reporting that the SEIU just backed out of an event promoting the Senate's healthcare bill over "concerns" about the changes that have recently been made to get the support of Joe Lieberman and centrist Democrats. Apparently the SEIU was going to attend a rah-rah session with the AARP, the liberal advocacy group Families USA, Consumers Union and the American...

Club Signs 17-year-old Dominican

Piano Wreckage at Ithaca College Bethany Stotts, December 16, 2009 The Ithacan Online reported on Monday that person(s) had vandalized more than 60 pianos in college’s practice rooms over the weekend. And this wasn’t just scratches, it was violent vandalism: More than 60 pianos were damaged Saturday night in the first floor practice rooms in the Whalen School of Music… Sophomore Andrew Thomson, a composition and instrumental major, said he went into the first floor of the Whalen Center to retrieve some equipment and found damaged equipment in all of the practice rooms. “Two or three [pianos] were flipped completely...

Representative Luis Gutierrez (D, IL) will introduce another stab at "comprehensive immigration reform" this month and it's been given another one of those Orwellian names that you know means the opposite of what it says in the title. Gutierrez is calling this mess the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009, or the CIR ASAP -- in other words Comprehensive Immigration Reform ASAP. The simple fact of the matter is that, regardless of the name, this legislation will do nothing whatever to help our security or our prosperity. In fact it will damage both. In his...

Do you think your boss should pay you for getting dressed in the morning or for taking off your day's clothes to climb into your snuggly Pjs each night? No reasonable, sane person would. But unions are neither reasonable, sane, nor apparently interested in what's good and right. At least the moron unionists in Oakland, California are illicit like that because the thugs of the police union have found some halfwit judge to agree with them that the city… that would mean the taxpayers… should pay them for zipping up their fly each morning and taking off their clothes at...

HOUSTON — The effects of Hurricane Ike and simultaneous economic downturn affecting Houston’s real estate market in November 2008 continue to distort year-over-year comparisons which reflect yet another month of double-digit increases. However, longer-term analysis aimed at gleaning a more realistic view of market conditions shows November 2009 real estate activity to be comparable to that seen at the cusp of the recession, in the fall of 2007. November marked the third straight month in which property sales volume and pricing recorded gains. According to the latest monthly data compiled by the Houston Association of REALTORS® (HAR), November volume of...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article, written by Daniel Zanoza, was published in the January 2002 edition of Guns Save Life [www.gunssavelife.com/]. The article was an RFM NEWS (now known as RFFM.org) Exclusive. The following details how Jim Ryan, who is currently seeking the Illinois Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010, attempted to entrap law-abiding citizens who were selling and/or buying firearms over the Internet. In 2001, Ryan was Attorney General for the state of Illinois. Ryan launched a failed--and what many called unlawful--sting operation targeting gun owners and dealers. While Ryan was conducting what his own legal advisors determined, up until...

For the Family Research Council, Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski warned in a Washington Times op ed that a case on gun rights that will soon come before the Supreme Court could "trigger the unhinging of American culture." Not only do I think the pair went too far in their claim, I also think they missed several key reasons why their worst fear of the end of state's rights and federalism is misplaced, even as their warning is well taken. What Blackwell and Klukowski are worried about is that the upcoming McDonald v City of Chicago case could open a...

California Insurance Commissioner and candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor, Steve Poizner, has announced that he'll donate another $15 million of his own fortune to float his flagging Gubernatorial campaign making himself his biggest contributor. Once the transfer is complete, Mr. Poizner will have donated a total of just over $19 million of his own cash to his campaign. And it should be noted that this is being termed a donation, not a loan. Let's be clear, though, Poizner is not the only major candidate for governor that is using his own fortune to fund his race. Chief opponent...

Join our guest, counterrevolutionary columnist J.B. Williams and his teammates with Freedom Force, who have a real plan for growing teeth in the Tea Party, through electoral activism. ​ This is what George Soros, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and their Marxofascist minions fear. Find out how it is done -- and learn what you can do! Sentinel Radio, 12/14/2009, 9-11pm ET,,, 6-8pm PT Call-in Number: (646) 727-2652 - press "1" to comment/question! Use the widget below, or visit the blogtalk radio page for tonight's broadcast and live chat. ​ ​J.B. will be joined by Freedom Force organizers Phil Glass of...

Kevin Jennings' GLSEN-Boston transports kids to "Fistgate II" in taxpayer-funded school bus in 2001. Jennings was a founding member of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and as co-chair of the education committee, he masterminded the DOE's "Safe Schools" program. He has had a long alliance with BAGLY, the Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth. BAGLY was prominently included and recommended in the founding document of the Governor's Commission (1993). BAGLY's long-time director, Sterling Stowell (who later "transitioned" to become "Grace"), was a founding member of the Governor's Commission and co-chair of the its human services...

In protest of being booted off of the KERA TV debate for Gubernatorial candidates, Debra Medina has launched a new TV spot taking Rick Perry to task for refusing to debate if Medina were allowed to participate.

On yet another appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show, President Barack Obama broke his own arm patting himself on the back telling the talk show maven that he gives better gifts than he gets. As Chicago's Lynn Sweet reports, "When it comes to gifts, President Obama says he gives 'nicer stuff that I get,' an assertion disputed by First Lady Michelle Obama." Barack had better hope that no one shows this episode to the Brits because they would fall off their easy chairs in laughter over Obama's ill-considered claims. After the Obama's perpetrated "giftgate" back in March, the Brits would...

Kevin Jennings and his organization GLSEN worked hand in hand with the Massachusetts Department of Education. The DOE has tried to distance itself from the infamous GLSEN-Boston Fistgate conference in 2000. But that won't wash. They were in this together. The DOE Commissioner wrote a welcome letter in the conference booklet, but further, teachers were also able to collect professional development credits for attendance. We can't imagine that the DOE would extend professional credits for an event unless they knew the content of the workshops. Two of the instructors of the fisting workshop were DOE employees (in the "Safe Schools"...

The Texans jumped out front early and often en route to their 34-7 thrashing of the hapless Seahawks, who ostensibly had already made their winter vacation plans by the time their plane landed in Houston.

Tiger Woods of late has been the center of great controversy in light of his sexual addictions and appetites. Tiger has many exceedingly great accomplishments in his young life. One though that he has fallen short on is the discipline and managing of his own heart and the unbridled passions. Tiger is just the tip of the iceberg in today’s Red Light District American culture. He is par for the course in light of the countless others in the professional sports world and the entertainment elite industry that are part of this decadent and licentious pleasure seeking crowd. With their...

Today I have read a piece of "journalism" by a freelance writer whose Slate article shows me why the profession has fallen on such hard times. The piece on fast food drive thru windows is not only pretentious but it is filled with enough fluff to stuff a mattress and leaves the impression that the writer thinks it all resembles wit. It simply amazes for its vacuous nature. And, worse, it doesn't even pay off fulfilling the premise of its headline. In fact, it is so ridiculous for its assumptions and its presumption of surety that one wonders if the...

We're not a weather forecasting website, but I wanted to urge everyone in Western PA to stay home or wherever you are. Freezing rain and sleet have shut down our major arteries; religious services and classes have been delayed or cancelled, and there have been numerous traffic accidents, including at least one fatality. So...go back to bed or just stay on FreeRepublic and read/post. Certainly, a lot safer than going outside right now.

The Associated Press reports the words of Lily Eskelsen, vice president of the National Education Association, who went to Washington D.C. to protest the so-called Cadillac healthcare plan tax currently in the Senate's healthcare bill. "We should tax the millionaires, not teachers and bus drivers," she told reporters. This has been the constant refrain from Big Unions since Senator Max Baucus (D, Montana) included the taxing plan into his Senate version of Obamacare earlier this year. This 40 percent tax plan would kick in for any employee whose healthcare plan reaches $8,500 per year for individuals or $23,000 for families....

Let us see if we can follow the bouncing ball and comment the dots of atheist propaganda: 1) Atheist activists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, etc. condemn the overwhelming majority of parents who have ever lives as “child abusers,” “brainwashers,” etc. for teaching their children their religion. They do this while admitting that they want society to step in and that this will lead to children choosing no religion at all—their goal is to interrupt families in order to encourage atheism in children: evidence here2) Next, they admit that they teach “science” and “evolution” as being synonymous with atheism,...

All Proceeds Donated To Local Charities The Katy Holiday Fun Festival was established in 2008 for the purpose of providing an exciting community based holiday event in the Katy area, to take place during an exciting time of the year, and to creating a venue to raise donations for local charities. All proceeds will go to assist non-profit organizations and local families who are in need of cash, clothing, food, toys and gifts for the holiday’s and much more.

Tiger focuses on Family after focusing on skank over the prior years.

...look again at Kevin Jennings' very own high school LESSON PLAN presenting anonymous an*l sex in the bushes as a "civil right" to fight for...

The profane, but popular lefty site named "Wonkette" decided that it wants conservatives to die. Either that or it wants homosexuals that indulge a certain sexual practice to die, it's a bit hard to tell. In a post outrageously headlined "Teabaggers To Feign Death In Senate Offices, Because Of Whatever," the Wonkette crew snarks that "teabaggers" will appear in the Senate and will "pretend to die, because they're pussies, and won't die for real." Now, there is a bit of confusion here, as you can readily see. None who are going to the Senate to protest the anti-American Obamacare policies...

Fistgate instructor Margot Abels had been with the Massachusetts DOE “Safe Schools” program for seven years by the time she ran the scandalous workshop documented at the GLSEN-Boston conference in 2000. That takes her back to 1993, the year the “safe schools” program began in the DOE. She had run “at least five” workshops similar to Fistgate prior to 2000.... It was in 1992 that Kevin Jennings joined radical David LaFontaine at the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, to “run its education committee” – which set up the “safe schools” programs in the Department of Education..... Isn’t it...

One year ago, on December 16, 2008, a tragedy struck the CyFair Christian Church family with the passing of the 13-year-old junior high student, Nicole “Lillyh” Lalime, after being hit by a drunk driver. This is a tragedy that most still remember vividly and deal with on a daily basis. But just as “Lillyh’s” vibrant personality and giving soul touched us in life, she brought out some of the best in the members of CFCC with the sharing of her passion in her passing.

ampaign Manager: We'll Battle Ds, Rs All Across Texas (Houston) - The Jeff Daiell for Governor Campaign has appointed Bill Grisham, CPA, as Campaign Coordinator for Bexar County. Mr. Grisham is an eight-year veteran of the U. S. Navy. In December of 1982, he graduated from Southwest Texas State University with honors. A native Texan, he has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1986.

Texans for Accountable Government (TAG) have formally endorsed Republican Debra Medina as their candidate for the 2010 Texas Gubernatorial Primary. According to John Bush, Executive Director of Texans for Accountable Government, “Texans for Accountable Government PAC is proud to announce our endorsement of Debra Medina in the 2010 Gubernatorial Republican Primary! Debra is a fine human being who deserves the support of We Texans. She has fought tirelessly for years now against corruption and injustice. Recently she led the struggle against the dishonest party leadership who sought to shut Ron Paul supporters out of the 2008 GOP convention process.

(Reader note: I was at this event and I will be posting a photo slideshow as soon as I have assembled the images. Please check back later for an update. In the meantime, please enjoy the slideshow below, Sarah Palin Going Rogue book tour.) Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin visited Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Tuesday, signing books and meeting supporters at a stop on her national tour to promote her book, Going Rogue. At least one reporter from a European newspaper, Der Spiegel, was on hand to cover the event. Officials gave no estimate for the...