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No, Radley Balko and Michael Moore, Bin Laden did NOT win. He did not change America forever for the worse. America is part of the Human experience and Human civilization has been progressing in fits and starts since the beginning. Bin Laden simply set us (America and all humans) back a bit and has joined the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mugabe, Jong-il and a long list of others who have attempted to exert their malignant ideologies. And Bin Laden did NOT achieve all he wanted. You can't be serious! Did Hitler achieve all he wanted? Did Mugabe? Stalin? No....

Already? That didn’t take long. From Michael Moore’s feral website, “Osama bin Laden killed in mansion (not cave) in Pakistan (not Iraq or Afghanistan) by small strike force in country with NO U.S. ground war.” But didn’t the ground war drive bin Laden out of the caves to a mansion? Without a ground war, he wouldn’t be in Pakistan, right? Nazis were also driven out of Germany. Or, as I’d respond: Adolf Otto Eichmann captured in Buenos Aires (not Germany) by small team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents (not seasonal anti-war pacifists). Does that doesn’t mean liberating Europe was...

Check out the first photo of Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in the upcoming HBO film "Game Change."

DENVER, Colo. -- The man police said planted a pipe bomb at a Littleton mall was released from prison one week before the incident. A nation-wide manhunt is underway for Earl Albert Moore, 65, who's accused of planting the explosives Wednesday, the anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. Moore is considered armed and dangerous. The FBI confirmed that he had been serving time in a Georgia prison for a 2005 armed robbery in West Virginia. Moore had been sentenced to 18 years, but was released early on April 13. Authorities said just seven days later, he planted a pipe...

Liberals on Tax Day: 'Make the Wealthy Pay' Monday, April 18, 2011 By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) - America is not broke, liberal activists say. The problem is that many corporations and millionaires are not paying their "fair share" of taxes. Supporters of MoveOn.Org have organized more than 300 gatherings around the nation on Monday to demand higher taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans who are "raking it in and continue to get tax break after tax break." Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported on Monday that while wealthy Americans pay less tax than they did a couple of decades ago, 45...

Live on the radio during the Jan Mickelson program, Judge Roy Moore made it official - he's running. Announced Moments ago.

Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who lost his job after erecting a monument of the Ten Commandments outside the state's courthouse, plans to announce in mid-April that he is setting up a presidential exploratory committee, an aide told CBS News. The aide, Zachery Michael, said Moore's platform will be focused on repealing the health care overhaul law, replacing the progressive income tax with a flat tax and bringing "commonsense solutions" on immigration and border control. Michael said Moore is entering the fray because "we're just seeing the same type of politicians run for president." He said...

Michael Moore tweets that President Obama should return his Nobel Peace Prize after he approved military strikes on Libya.

Michael Moore tweets that President Obama should return his Nobel Peace Prize after he approved military strikes on Libya.

Michael Moore rips Obama over Libya By Jordan Fabian - 03/19/11 06:41 PM ET Anti-war filmmaker Michael Moore tore into President Obama for taking military action in Libya on Saturday. Moore, a frequent critic of President Bush for launching the Iraq War, unleashed a string on tweets comparing the U.S. military's mission in Libya to Iraq and Afghanistan, using a mantra coined by Charlie Sheen: It's only cause we're defending the Libyan people from a tyrant! That's why we bombed the Saudis last wk! Hahaha. Pentagon=comedy And we always follow the French's lead! Next thing you know, we'll have free...

As some states like Utah look to put cops on the front lines of immigration enforcement, San Jose Police Chief Chris Moore and other prominent law enforcement officials warned Wednesday that using their shrinking pool of officers to target illegal immigrants is inefficient, costly and would make their cities more dangerous, not less. "I am looking at laying off 300 officers, so now more than ever I need to focus on partnerships with communities,'' Moore said during a national teleconference sponsored by the Police Executive Research Forum. "This (the issue of immigration enforcement) has become a wedge in our communities...

...."In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin," Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller wrote in a statement. "In the dark of the night, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people. Now it's time for the people of Wisconsin to take back their government." And outside the statehouse, our colleagues at Wisconsin Public Television told us there were very loud demonstrations. "All levels of the Capitol and its central rotunda are solid demonstrators, shoulder to shoulder," Art Hackett, a recently retired reporter for WPT told his colleague, Frederica Freyberg, who relayed...

Michael Moore is enraged after the Wisconsin State Senate voted to strip public unions of the ability to collectively bargain. Speaking on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," Moore said "they think they can get away with this." Moore also calls for a "student walk-out" across the nation on Friday in response to the Wisconsin vote. "This has to continue day after day and these governors have to step down," Moore declared. "The rich have committed these crimes and the people will demand your ass is in jail," Michael Moore said with a pair of handcuffs on the set of Maddow's show....

"America is not broke," filmmaker Michael Moore told a group protesting against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to curb public employee union collective bargaining in Madison over the weekend. "Neither is Wisconsin." Forget Wisconsin's projected two-year $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Forget this year's $1.65 trillion in federal deficit spending. Any claim that Wisconsin - or Washington - is broke, Moore claimed, is "a Big Lie." "We reject anyone who tells us America is broke and broken," he explained. When President George W. Bush was in the White House, Democrats railed against deficit spending. Now they don't even seem to notice...

Michael Moore labelled a 'communist' as he rallies protesters in Wisconsin... and likens their plight to EgyptBy Mark Duell Last updated at 3:45 PM on 7th March 2011 A multi-millionaire liberal film-maker has compared the Wisconsin protests to Egypt’s revolt and told residents they are galvanising America against the wealthy elite. Michael Moore, 56, urged protesters this weekend to fight Republican efforts to trim trade union powers and said to thousands of them: ‘Madison is only the beginning’. His speech comes after he was criticised by business magnate Donald Trump, who said his views make him sound more like a...

Can someone tell John Boehner what "broke" means?The House speaker says the U.S. can't pay its bills. How many times do we have to point out he's wrong? By Andrew Leonard Monday, Mar 7, 2011 19:01 ET David Lynch's Bloomberg report, "Bonds Show Why Boehner Saying We're Broke Is Figure of Speech," won't win any awards for inspired headline writing, but it should nevertheless be tattooed onto the backside of every legislator currently whining about the supposedly parlous state of the United States' finances. Despite the speaker of the House's constant harping, we're not "broke." Some relevant excerpts from Lynch's...

Michael Moore, champion of the working class, used non-union stagehands to film "Capitalism: A Love Story." The porcine provocateur is promoting his anti-Wall Street jeremiad by giving free tickets to unions, but the American Federation of Teachers has turned them down because Moore didn't hire any members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. "Michael Moore and one of our sister unions, IATSE, are in discussions about concerns the union has," the AFT told ABC News. "The AFT has decided against accepting tickets until those issues are resolved."

Thousands of union supporters protested Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposals on Saturday at the state capital, a day after the state's chief executive followed through on his threat to issue layoff warning notices to unions representing state workers. Joining the crowd was liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, who praised the protesters gathered in the battle over union bargaining rights as joining the history of the American labor movement. Walker, a Republican, has proposed increased payments for health care and pension benefits for public workers ... (snip)

(VIDEO AVAILABLE AT THE LINK) "They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this -- we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it," Michael Moore told Laura Flanders of GRITtv. "I think we need to go back to taxing these people at the proper rates. They need to -- we need to see...

Moore: "America is not broke" By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel March 5, 2011 2:43 p.m. |(64) Comments Madison - "America is not broke," filmmaker Michael Moore declared in a speech to pro-labor demonstrators Saturday at the state Capitol. "The country is awash in wealth and cash," he said. "It's just not in your hands." He said wealth has been transferred "in the greatest heist in history" from the workers to the bankers and the super-rich. "Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic," he said. Moore called Gov. Scott Walker "your soon to be...