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The results from today's elections in Honduras are beginning to roll in and it looks as if Porfirio Lobo,from Honduran opposition National Party, is leading in the election at least according to the local media. According to preliminary data, the 61-year-old opposition leader received around 56% of the vote. His main rival, 46-year-old businessman Elvin Santos representing the ruling Liberal Party, came second in the presidential race, with about 38% of the vote. Even if the trend continues the Liberal party will not be the big loser today, Hugo Chavez, whose imperialist goals were thwarted when President Zelaya was ousted...

Women can be cruel, and they often do cruel things to men. Despite their reputation as the fairer sex, when it comes to relationships, sometimes women can be downright nasty. It seems like a reverse sexism started to take hold as the feminist movement came about and equality for women began gaining ground. Some women use their girl-power solidarity to come to a consensus on what’s socially acceptable for women to do to men in a relationship. They’ve agreed among themselves that these behaviors are perfectly justifiable regardless of how they play with a guy’s emotions or ego. With that,...

Subject: HR 615 On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn, which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan. Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.) Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition. The process is very simple. I have done just that at: Petition LinkSenator...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something." But on Tuesday, the Virginia Commonwealth University student didn't bother voting in the governor's race because, she said, the candidates didn't give her anything to get excited about. "The simple fact is, unless you put it in front of somebody, they're really not going to seek it out," Hill said.

NBC's "The Biggest Loser" is at the White House tonight. This is not a joke.

Blue Dogs got a warning shot across the bow...The bluest of blue states, and a deep pocketed incumbent Govenor who spent $28 million dollars and brought it Biden, Clinton 2x, and Obama 3x, gets sent home by Republican Chris Christie....

Harry sure changed his mind... fast! We're not going to be held to any timeline, we are going to take the time to get it right [Healthcare] Harry tonight was dragged kicking and screaming back to the center by the ass kicking Dems got tonight. You can bet the Blue Dog's told Harry if the GOP sweeps tonight, we don't want any part of your mess. Dems in the House and Senate ... get ready for that enema that's been needed for some time. Who do you fear more? The voters of Pelosi/Reid

The hundreds of civil war gravestones in Culpeper cemetery tell of the town’s bloody history. Halfway between the opposing capitals of Richmond and Washington, it saw more battles than anywhere else in the United States. Today this town in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains is a battlefield of a different kind. In 10 days’ time Virginia, which last November voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1964, goes to the polls for a governor in the first electoral test of the Obama presidency. This contest between Bob McDonnell, a Republican, and Creigh Deeds, a...

WEST VALLEY CITY — The head of the Republican National Committee said Friday he believes voters may have moved beyond the bias against Mormonism that hurt Mitt Romney in last year's presidential election. Speaking to reporters after a town hall meeting at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Michael Steele said comments he made earlier this year about Romney being rejected by the GOP base because of his faith were "old news." "I was speaking to an attitude or a mindset at the time that I thought was unfortunate and I said that I think (Romney) proved just how unfortunate it...

Breaking News: Chicago Fails to Snag Hot Dog Contest WASHINGTON – The International Federation of Competitive Eating announced that the race for the 2016 Nathan’s International July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest is down to Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, and Wildwood, New Jersey as Chicago was eliminated in one of the most shocking defeats in IFOCE history. The defeat is especially painful for President and Mrs. Obama, who made personal pleas before IFOCE this morning in Coney Island. In an impromptu speech before IFOCE’s Board of Regents, Mr. Obama waxed eloquent by reading from a teleprompter for forty-five minutes about his memories of eating hot dogs...

That is only a sidebar to what happened on Friday, with an Olympic bid from Chicago that President Obama shouldn't have gone near. This wasn't the President's fight. For a smart guy, he does some dumb things sometimes. We can talk about winners and losers all we want to now that it is over. The biggest winners of all are the people of Chicago, because their city doesn't have to plunge itself into debt to host the Olympics. This is the kind of winner New York was despite Michael Bloomberg's insane quest to get the 2012 Games, which eventually -...

Analysis: Chicago's Loss Is A Blow To Obama, Too By JENNIFER LOVEN and JULIE PACE, Associated Press Writers Oct 2 WASHINGTON – OK, so it wasn't health care, climate change or war. Still, President Barack Obama's high-profile failure to win the Olympics for Chicago could feed negative narratives already nipping at his heels — that he's a better talker than closer, more celebrity than statesman. And this could hamper his efforts on the weightier issues. Despite Obama's fabled charm and powers of persuasion, his in-person plea for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Games fell flat. It was a hugely...

For Obama, An Unsuccessful Campaign By PETER BAKER October 2, 2009 COPENHAGEN — President Obama not only failed to bring home the gold, he could not even muster the silver or bronze. A dramatic 20-hour mission across the ocean to persuade the International Olympic Committee to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago proved such a miscalculation that his adopted hometown finished fourth of four candidate cities. Rarely has a president put his credibility on the line on the world stage in such a personal way and been slapped down so sharply in real time. While Chicago may have lost...

.... Would you please sit down and shut up you old fool! Yup. Think about this one for a moment. You're a young black man or woman, you're finishing up your education and hope to have a career in politics. Along comes Barack Obama and you're just elated! The barrier has been broken and a black man is now President of the United States! Your path is clear! But wait! In the early months of Obama's presidency his inexperience starts to show. He fails on several big fronts: Health care, cap-and-trade and the union card-check bill. He tries to convince...

It's a quiet Sunday afternoon, after the usual motley crew of assorted losers, twits, and dumb-bells spinning political sewage in the morning. If there's EVER a reason to go to church other than worship God, it's to avoid morning political shows. Anyway, I wondered if Webster's or Wikipedia would be accepting of the following premise: We need an appropriate photo to accompany the urban/slang definition of 'Tool'. Here are my suggestions. Which one best fits your mental image when the word 'Tool' is used in a defamatory way: 01) Obama (dumbo or salt-vampire) 02) Biden 03) Gore 04) Sean Penn...

It’s like déjà vu all over again,” noted philosopher Yogi Berra is credited with saying. And so it is. A liberal Democratic president has his heart set on pushing through a proposal strongly unpopular with most Americans. Enjoying substantial Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, he intends to win. So it was in September, 1977 when Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal treaties to relinquish United States control. An Associated Press opinion poll conducted that month found that only 29 percent of Americans favored the pact. A solid 50 percent opposed it and 21 percent expressed no...

A television advert for an Israeli cellphone firm showing soldiers playing football over the West Bank barrier has sparked cries of bad taste and prompted Arab lawmakers on Sunday to demand it be taken off air. The jaunty commercial for Israel's biggest mobile phone company Cellcom makes light of Palestinian suffering and shows how far Israelis fail to understand their neighbours, critics said. The company stood by the ad, however. It shows a ball falling on an Israeli army jeep from the far side of a towering wall. A game ensues, back and forth with the unseen Palestinians after a...

Sarah Palin trashed by members of John McCain's campaign team in Vanity Fair BY Michael Saul DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Monday, June 29th 2009, 12:01 PM Grillo/AP Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors." That's how one longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain, the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, described veep nominee Sarah Palin. In an expansive story in the August edition of Vanity Fair, a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team told reporter Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election. "They can't quite...

The Department of Defense has withdrawn a training manual question that linked protesters across the United States to terrorism, but there's evidence coming to light that describing Americans as terror suspects, or "low-level" terror suspects, is routine. reported just days ago that the U.S. Department of Defense had included in a training course a question that defined protesters as terrorists.According to the letter from the Northern California ACLU, the DoD's "Annual Level 1 Antiterrorism (AT) Awareness Training for 2009" tells department personnel "that certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to 'low-level terrorism.'" Specifically the training "Knowledge Check 1" asks, "Which...

General Motors (GM) has agreed to finance private equity firm Platinum Equity’s buyout of Delphi Corp. GM will provide more than $2 billion to Platinum Equity for purchasing most of the assets of Delphi.Troy, Michigan-based Delphi, which has been operating under ban kruptcy protection, is a former GM subsidiary and the auto-maker’s largest supplier. Under the deal, Platinum Equity will acquire most of Delphi's global operations, including its Troy headquarters. GM is also acquiring some troubled assets of Delphi. Further, the company is providing $250 million to help Delphi emerge from bankruptcy protection....

US Middle East envoy George Mitchell (R) stands alongside US Vice President Joe Biden (C), US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) and National Security Advisor James Jones (L), as US President Barack Obama speaks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (not pictured) during meetings

Dallas Cowboys NFL Team Column By Russell Easley 26 May 2009 Roster Series Part 2: Wide Receivers Much has been said about the Dallas Cowboys receiving corps so far this offseason, most of it dealing with the departure of Terrell Owens, who shuffled off to Buffalo, but Owens is history and the show, as they say, must go on. There are two major question marks for the Cowboys receivers going into the 2009 season. Can Miles Austin step up and be a consistent downfield threat this season ? Can Roy Williams step up and be a consistent #1 target and...

Roster Series Part 1: Offensive Line The draft picks have been made. The rookies had their (mini) mini-camp. The OTA’s are set to begin this week. So it must be time for a roster series. As I look up and down this roster there are question marks in only two areas. One of them is the offensive line. The other is – well, you’ll just have to come back here and read about it when it comes out. Overall, they’re in decent shape if the starters stay healthy. Consider last year. For the games the Cowboys had the entire starting...

Michael Steele guest-hosted Bill Bennett's radio program on May 8th, and... well... is this the type of analysis an RNC Chief should be providing? [...] STEELE: Yeah, but let me ask you. Ok, Jay, I’m there with you. But remember, it was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life. It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism. It was the base that rejected Mitch, Mitt, because they thought he was back and forth and waffling on those very economic issues you’re talking about. So, I mean, I...

Extinct? Not quite. Seen better days? Probably. But it's not like the GOP received much help from Team McCain.

Look at the new Fortune 500 list and you'll see all the mighty companies that drained your 401(k), Allan Dodds Frank writes. A guide to the worst of the best. When I look at this year’s Fortune 500 list to focus blame on the companies most responsible for my permanently diminished retirement accounts and my higher cost of living, there is no shortage of suspects. I could be mad at the most profitable company, Exxon, but I am not. They sell real products and, like most Americans, I was hardly surprised that as oil went beyond $100 a barrel, the...

Megyn Kelly interviews Courtney Friel about Miss USA. It doesn't get much better.

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While we don't know what her husband does for a living, here is a CNN video of Minta Garcia, a bus driver who as a part of President Obama's most recent bailout plan will get some of your money to help her out of an $800,000 mortgage mess.-

Determined few keep demonstrating for peace Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:48 PM By SUZANNE HOHOLIK THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Despite President Barack Obama's campaign promise to withdraw troops from Iraq in 16 months, central Ohio peace activists continue to meet each Saturday on street corners to call for an end to the war. "I think it's important to keep up the pressure," said Mike Smalz, who held a "Stop Iraq War" sign at the corner of North Broadway and N. High St. today. "I'm still optimistic that Obama will keep to his pledge and withdraw troops in 16 months." Not all...

More than anything else, the 2008 presidential election proves that freedom is not for everyone, including in the land of the free and home of the brave. All campaign rhetoric aside, when we get right down to the meat and potatoes of what the incoming Progressive Democrat movement represents, we find that it represents a growing public interest in a government run by the Marxist principles of each according to his ability or need, rather than the American principles of each free to do as they please, with liberty and justice for all. The term “liberal” is a complete misnomer...

Ann Coulter was on The View this morning to promote her new book, Guilty.The video posted to YouTube is almost 9 minutes long and was posted by a detractor of Coulter. The View panel discussed Ann's book before she came on the show. That discussion is not included in the video.As is usual when The View has a conservative guest, the discussion quickly descended into a cacophony of crosstalk as the panelists would not let Ann complete a response to their inquisition.The discussion revolved around Ann's section in the book on single motherhood contributing to disproportionate anti-social behavior by their...

A Portsmouth, N.H., couple yesterday blamed each other for their black and blue Christmas when they got into a violent fight - and arrested - after an argument over a gift of the popular Nintendo video game. “This was the worst Christmas ever,” Randi Young, 24, said a day after she and her boyfriend, Heath Blom, 26, were both cuffed and carted off by cops on misdemeanor charges of “domestic-related” simple assault.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it (John 1:5). The world settles into winter, at least in the northern hemisphere, and life to many seems increasingly bleak. Foreclosures, layoffs, government bailouts and financial failures, continuing war on two fronts, terrorist attacks, murders of some identified only by their faith -- this world is in abundant need of light. We know light that is not overcome by darkness, for God has come among us in human flesh. Born in poverty to a homeless couple, to a people long under occupation, Jesus is human and divine...

There are probably many reasons why John McCain lost his bid for the presidency to Barack Obama. Some will say the political tide was running against the senior Senator from Arizona and there was little chance a Republican could win our nation's highest office in the year of the Democrat, but I'm not buying that premise. John McCain became the Republican Party's presidential nominee due to the tampering of both the conservative and liberal media. Therefore, Republicans were forced to make the best out of a bad situation. Yet there is no excuse for the pitiful effort made by McCain...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Despite a landslide for Democrats in the White House race, Americans voted more conservatively on Tuesday in a myriad of referendums on banning gay marriage and abortion. Voters in some states rejected gay marriage rights and affirmative action and approved restrictions on adoption for unmarried couples. However, results were mixed as other referenda across the country -- some 35 states were asked to consider 153 ballot questions -- showed voters in favor of assisted suicide and against outright bans on abortion. In California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas, voters rejected gay marriage. In Arkansas, they voted to prevent...

I can't wait for the next PR from those stooges at the API about how they are going to sue Fox for not airing the tape of Michelle. Maybe these goons will learn how to upload the video to youtube.

Leaders of a church that's drawn national controversy for its protests at U.S. military funerals say they plan to picket Friday's services for two Scott County High School cheerleaders and sisters killed in a weekend crash.

If recent trends continue Hollywood may be looking for a government handout. A surge of liberal style patriotism has gripped the movers and shakers in Hollywood, they have produced movie after movie critical of the war in Iraq. Every one a box office dud. The red ink flowing faster than the blood of Al Qaeda in Iraq as our brave troops hunt them down in every corner of the country. Hollywood reporters seem perplexed -- why isn't the public interested in Iraq war movies? Could it be the clear majority of Americans who consider themselves conservative -- According to this...

The best it got for Washington's football program under Tyrone Williams was a five-win season in 2006. SEATTLE -- Washington coach Tyrone Willingham said Monday he will step down at the end of the 2008 season. The embattled Washington coach fell to 0-7 on Saturday after a 33-7 loss to Notre Dame. Willingham and athletics director Scott Woodward made the announcement at a news conference. Willingham has been under fire for being unable to turn around the Washington program. He is 11-32 overall in his four seasons with the Huskies. Washington currently has a nine-game losing streak dating back to...

There's been tremdous interest by the public in the box office fate of Oliver Stone's W. for its second weekend in release. Well, it ran out of steam. QED International/Lionsgate's Bush biopic sank 58% to No. 8 with $1.5 million Friday from 2,050 dates for what will probably be a $5.2M weekend. The $30M negative cost film should end up with $23M domestic box office gross by the end of its North American run. That means, with a $25M P&A investment and Lionsgate's distribution fees, the film won't recoup.

There's been tremdous interest by the public in the box office fate of Oliver Stone's W. for its second weekend in release. Well, it ran out of steam. QED International/Lionsgate's Bush biopic sank 58% to No. 8 with $1.5 million Friday from 2,050 dates for what will probably be a $5.2M weekend. The $30M negative cost film should end up with $23M domestic box office gross by the end of its North American run. That means, with a $25M P&A investment and Lionsgate's distribution fees, the film won't recoup.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran's oil minister renewed his call for OPEC to cut production when it meets later this week, saying this was the only way to prevent crude prices falling further, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. "The only way to prevent global oil prices from falling further is to cut OPEC's production ceiling," Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said late on Saturday, according to IRNA.

Wooohooooooo. We have been saved by the socialists...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Local Democrats debated a resolution Wednesday to censure Sen. Joe Lieberman. One of the creators of the resolution called Lieberman's speech at the Republican National Convention the final straw. Audrey Blondin introduced a resolution to the Democratic State Central Committee that would censure Lieberman and ask him to resign. "It upsets me, it angers me," Blondin said. "I feel that Democrats have one set of positions, Republicans have another, and that if you are a Democrat, you should be supporting the Democratic ideals and positions." While some in attendance cheered Blondin on, others called the resolution a...

The most fascinating political development of the summer has occurred with little notice. Republicans are respected again. Wait, what? Believe it or not, entering the final quarter of the eighth year of the George W. Bush presidency, Republicans are ascending in popularity, Politico.com reported yesterday. Half of registered voters and half of independent voters have a favorable opinion of the GOP, according to a new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press. Democrats hold a slight edge in favorability among registered voters (55 percent to 50 percent), but they are statistically tied with Republicans among independent...

DEMOCRATS: MoveOn.org claims to have “bought” your political party. What are you going to do about it?

Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama's head. How else to explain Sen. Obama's decision to go one-on-one against "Sarah Barracuda," captain of the Wasilla High state basketball champs? It's a matchup he'll lose. If Mr. Obama wants to win, he needs to remember he's running against John McCain for president, not Mrs. Palin for vice president. Michael Dukakis spent the last months of the 1988 campaign calling his opponent's running mate, Dan Quayle, a risky choice and even ran a TV...

Antioch's gone, but its spirit lives Nonstop institute born out of demise Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:27 AM By Holly Zachariah THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- Jesus smiled down on Isabella Winkler as she talked to her college students about violence, passion, gender roles and French kissing. The six students in Winkler's culture and interpretation class focused on the photographs of embracing couples and paid no mind to the stained-glass image overwhelming the sanctuary inside the United Methodist Church. At about the same time, chemistry professor Kabuika Butamina was across town. He goes by only Kab. "Just one...

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. – For Senator Barack Obama, the television image of his day on Friday took place on the floor of a glass manufacturing plant in the small Pennsylvania town of Duryea. But by nightfall, he was a world away from that scene, as he arrived here for a pair of high-dollar fund-raisers. The singer Jon Bon Jovi and a nearby neighbor hosted back-to-back events for Mr. Obama. While his message was largely the same – criticizing Republicans for their convention message – he steeled his supporters for a tough battle ahead in the final 60 days of the campaign....