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On Friday a report was issued by two Republican Senators contending that the Obama White House was politically motivated when it fired inspector general Gerald Walpin after his 2008 investigation of Kevin Johnson, now Sacramento's mayor. The report by Senators Issa and Grassley criticizes the White House ethics counsel, for not examining what Walpin had been investigating at the time of his dismissal, including the allegations of sexual misconduct by Johnson and hush-money used to cover up the misconduct. The report asserted that Michelle Rhee, now Johnson's fiancee, made the payoffs. New Documents show that immediately after Mr. Walpin was...

It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact.

As a part of the recently passed House healthcare insurance reform bill, the Democrats included a provision that would cap flexible spending accounts (FSAs) at $2,500 per year. For most people that is not a big deal because some companies set caps lower than that anyway and few people actually contribute more than $2,500 into their own FSA accounts. FSAs, of course, are accounts in which individuals can set aside portions of their wages on a tax-deferred basis to be used exclusively for healthcare purchases. They are ‘use it or lose it’ plans, meaning that if they do not spend...

The Independent World reports a real sicko story! Gangs in Peru lure farmers into jungles with the promise of work, only to kill them for their body fat to cosmetic makers in Europe! But the real question is, who, if anyone is buying??? Content warning!TheIndependentPolice in Peru say they have arrested three members of a gang who murdered a string of peasant farmers, drained the fat from their dead bodies, and then attempted to sell it to European cosmetics manufacturers.

Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's a male Democrat genius. But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening. And Barack Obama's are sliding. Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40's. Depending, of course, on which recent set of numbers you peruse and how the questions are phrased, 307 days into his allotted 1,461 the 44th president's approval rating among Americans has slid to 49% or 48%, showing no popularity bounce from his many happy trips, foreign and domestic.

From townhall.com: Carrie tells Larry where to go! Ignore the narrator and listen to what Carrie has to say....

WTH? Sikhism? Are you kidding me? That's exacty what I said when I saw the photos, Gurus from the Sikh religion were invited to the White House to celebrate the birth of the founder,...And you will never guess where I found this story...

This is single sourced for now. Here's the MEMRI Blog source, which is calling out this original reporting from al-Watan.com. A source in Kabul for the Afghan secret talks between the elements in the Taliban led by Mullah Mutawakkil, the Foreign Minister of movement between the American ambassador in Kabul, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, which has achieved progress - without explaining further details. She suggested the United States during the talks give the power to the Taliban in the provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan and Kunar, and Nuristan, in exchange for not ... Full article...

Einstein once said that doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity. But some people think it is the definition of wise policy. These people have been in charge in California for years. Now they are trying to do to the nation what they did to California.

A recent hack into a prominent UK scientist's computer has revealed over a thousand emails that contain incriminating information against climate change and global warming proponents. The information in these emails has been described as a 'smoking gun' evidence of data collusion and manipulation among climatologists. This data was tweaked to be in support of the widely held view that man is causing climate change. The data has been retrieved from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, or Hadley CRU, by an anonymous poster by the name of 'FOIA'. The director of Britain's leading Climate Research Unit, Phil...

Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) issued the following statement urging the Obama Administration to overturn its decision to transfer several Guantanamo Bay detainees to New York City for trial, and in support of the efforts by Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), who filed a discharge petition on H.R. 2294, the "Keep Terrorists Out of America Act"...

The Obama Democratic Party demonstrated their desire to help the poor, unfortunate victims of Hurricane Katrina by giving them $100 million ...

For those of you who are not familiar with the term, Chutzpa it means unmitigated gall. It has best been described as a man who kills his father and mother and then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan. OPEC has Chutzpah. The oil cartel has been milking the rest of the world for decades by helping to keep oil prices artificially high. Now it's members are saying they might need a bailout. Led by Saudi Arabia, OPEC is telling the world that as the world moves to green energy, and use...

To some people the debate about whether the Fort Hood Jihadist was a terrorist is a silly semantics discussion. The Fact is two years ago we were warned that future acts of terror would not come from al-Qaeda but from home grown Jihadists. Back in 2007 the Council on Foreign Relations reported: “The possibility of a ‘homegrown’ terrorist attack against New York City or any other American city is real and is worsening with time (PDF),” Richard A. Falkenrath, New York City’s deputy police commissioner for counterterrorism, recently told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. This kind of threat is particularly...

If you’re thinking, “van who?”, don’t worry — you’re not alone. In one of the most undemocratic developments in recent history, the new leader of a half-billion Europeans is a name only 12% of them have even heard of. He was chosen unanimously by a council of other EU leaders, not by popular vote, and will take office January 1, 2010. Now that I’m home, I’m contemplating how quickly an unknown can rise to a position of great power. All this comes quickly on the heels of the historic passage of the EU “Lisbon Treaty” earlier this month. Noted the...

Palin scheduled to be at Ft. Bragg for a book signing stops in Asheville today to meet with the Reverend Billy Graham....., (Video of Sarah's (small) plane arriving at the airport and meeting with Franklin Graham) (Photos Added)

One YouTuber response reads: "This is about a transfer of wealth and power. Watch it all in the Documentary - Fall of the Republic - You think 0bama is the man sticking up for the little guy when really he is just the puppet standing in front of a special interest group of fat white guys. (Rich Bankers) Wake up son you have been sold out. We have been sold out by both parties. We have been lied to."

A new video is out on YouTube about the words – Natural Born Citizen – Three Little Words. Definitely worth watching. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B278681E23614868 M Publius Goat http://countryfirst.bravehost.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=105

Lucky or blessed? An inch either way would have been a life changing experience, to say the least! MailOnline

Reports that some federal stimulus payments apparently may have been stolen or squandered failed to dent President Barack Obama’s confidence that his program is working. Questions arose when a number of supposed recipients of the federal money turned out to be fictitious. The President urged people to “stop nitpicking every detail of my program. I am trying to deal with the worst national crisis since 1933. A few crumbs falling through the cracks is no big deal.” Some of the “crumbs,” for example, seem to have fallen into a nonexistent “crack” the Administration’s web site (Recovery.gov) labeled “Arizona Congressional District...

Emotions run high at a protest over a banner that depicts President Obama as the Joker from Batman. Some call it racist and disrespectful. Others say race has nothing to do with the issue. The image is stirring up quite a bit of controversy. You can see the large sign is displayed outside of Club Velvet, a gentlemen's club in Richmond. The banner led to a protest by the NAACP. The organization says the image is not only an attack on the president, but on all men and people of African descent. "The presence of a black president that has...

Here is video of Liz Cheney on "This Week" saying that the lack of a decision on Afghanistan is "completely inexcusable." Liz Cheney said "I think it's just completely inexcusable that we've now had month after month of photo-op out of the White House and no decision." She said "the President is very fond of saying, "before I commit troops I'm going to think very carefully about it," somebody in the White House needs to remind him he's already committed troops. We've got American men and women in Afghanistan today." (Video)

A source in Kabul for the Afghan secret talks between the elements in the Taliban led by Mullah Mutawakkil, the Foreign Minister of movement between the American ambassador in Kabul, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, which has achieved progress - without explaining further details. She suggested the United States during the talks give the power to the Taliban in the provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan and Kunar, and Nuristan, in exchange for not firing rockets at U.S. bases. According to the source, Eikenberry met with members of the Taliban led by Mullah Mutawakkil in a secret location in Kabul, and that...

The GOP is quickly becoming a regional party with little chance of capturing the White House is the foreseeable future. In 2008 the Republican's geriatric presidential nominee was soundly rejected by a public weary of the GOP's divisive rhetoric. There are no Young Turks with the experience, credentials, charisma and gravitas to pose a serious challenge to Obama in 2012. In desperation the minority party turns its lonely eyes to Sarah Palin, hoping and praying that celebrity and good looks will trump experience and integrity at the polls. Sarah Palin may annoy the press and and infuriate the intelligentsia, but...

Updated mailing address for Rifqa Bary. Flood the authorities with letters. Let them know we're watching. Rifqa Bary is imprisoned in solitary confinement in Ohio for the "crime" of converting from islam to Christianity.

November 20, 2009 Just a day after Oprah Winfrey announcing that she will be ending her talk show, we are already being overloaded by columns and news reports speculating on “Oprah's next move". I think she’s going to enjoy the attention from this PR stunt immensely. I can see it spinning out of control already and I’m not looking forward to listening to the speculation propounded ad nauseam by media pundits over the coming months. It’s on par to be bigger and more vexing than “who shot JR?”. Some, like Jon Friedman of Marketwatch.com are speculating that she may run...

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter. When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxists and Communists, people said it didn't matter. When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

Former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Douglas Holtz-Eakin, testified before the Senate Committee on the Budget on Nov. 10, giving a sharp rebuke of the Obama administration's out-of-control spending...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz brings another low water mark to the debate, saying Republicans are politicizing breast cancer,...this from ABCNews This Week with George Stephy Stephanopoulos...(Video)

Here is video of Sen. Joe Lieberman on "Meet the Press" saying "I don't think anybody feels this bill, as Senator Reid put it down, I don't think anybody thinks this bill will pass as it is." Sen. Lieberman said "if the public option is still in there, the only resort we have is to say no." (Video)

There's a trend emerging in American politics. I don't think it's a new one, but it's growth is disturbing to me. And it's the amazing hostility to the common people.

Yes, another interview for all of us Palin junkies from a Christian perspective!

According to the Saudi Network, al-Arabiya (via Ynet), Gilad Shalit, Kidnapped by Hamas over three years ago, may be coming home as soon as this coming Friday. It will be a four-stage deal. Israel will release 450 terrorists, custody of Shalit will be transferred to the Egyptian Government. Israel will follow up by releasing the another 650 terrorists and Egypt will transfer Shalit to the Israel. I assume that means that Hamas believes that one Jewish life is worth 1,000 Arab terrorist lives. Israel had agreed to release 1,000 prisoners months ago, within the group 450 specific prisoners were demanded...

I posted Photos of Sarah Palin on the road in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, a video of fans sleeping over in Virginia and photos of Sarah Palin on Hannity.

Back in April the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation filed a freedom of information act asking the Department of Labor to release: * Records from communications and recorded events where specified Obama appointees and Big Labor official were present * Lists of lawsuits involving the Department of Labor and Deborah Greenfield within the past eight years. * List of any gifts received by Solis in the past 5 years from Big Labor or its officials * Provide in detail (a) notes, (b) agreements, (c) communications, and (d) agendas related to the regulations related to the labor union and...

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) lays it on the line: [see video] He doesn’t care what his constituents want, he’s going to toe the Democrat line, even if it means he loses his job in 2010. That said, I have to admire Sen. Bennet; at least he has the courage of his (party’s) convictions, and is willing to say so, with no ambiguity or equivocation. Asked a direct yes-or-no question, he simply answers “No.” We could wish for that same simplicity from the rest of our elected officials...

Due to the amount of traffic, the climateaudit.org site has been overwhelmed the last few days. CA founder Steve MacIntyre (The target of most of the controversy) has started a blog at the above address which can better handle the load. He has some interesting things to say about the CRU/Climategate revelations. One interesting tidbit- It has been determined that the infamous 62meg FOIA zipfile was created on 11/12/09. The latest FOIA denial letter sent to Steve was dated 11/13/09. Things that make you go "Hmmmm..." Credit to WUWT for making this info available!

Adam Taxin aka "The Hungry Hebrew" of Philadelphia Sports Radio, Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu of "Inside Gitmo" and Tim Sumner of 911 Families for a Safe and Secure America. Join the NiteCap Lounge for a discussion on the Holder Dictum of this week and more about the specifics of tyranny and corruption in politics with a little sports talk and laughs mixed in for good measure.

Nothing like the world of political correctness. In its desire to have something for everybody, the Mattel Corporation has decided to create a Barbie Doll wearing the symbol of the harsh Islamist Repression of women: One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children. More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy. 'I think this is really important for girls,...

In October of 2008, Senator Obama's campaign accused Senator John McCain of planning to gut Medicare. ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (AFP) — Barack Obama's White House campaign Monday accused John McCain of plotting to impose savage cuts on government-run health care programs that insure the elderly and the poor.It was the latest attack from the Democrat's camp over an emotive issue that is taking on new urgency at a time when many Americans fear losing their jobs and thus the health care coverage that comes from their employers... "This plan would be a disaster. It would dramatically reduce the quality of...

In a Homeland Security Senate committee meeting, Frances Townsend launched a verbal attack against the Rev. Pat Robertson. Describing Robertson's remarks about Islam as "ignorant and offensive": “Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system". “It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.” -Robertson Senator Carl Levin was equally condemning. As was U.S. General John Kean. The truth is that Robertson's remarks were both inaccurate and spot-on accurate at the same time. According to...

Here is the joint press conference skit with Jintao thinks he is entitled to at least a kiss, a movie and dinner before Obama "does sex to him". This is begging for a CNN fact check. Fred Armisen's impression is not improving much but this opener is still pretty funny:

Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has gotten the Consumer Financial Protection Act through his House Financial Services Committee. This bill will create a new federal agency to oversee consumer credit. “Too many people are frivolously abusing credit,” Frank alleged. “They’re buying things they don’t need with money they don’t have. This is a recipe for bankruptcy. We have to stop it.” Under the legislation, a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) would review all current credit cards, as well as applications for new cards, to determine whether the cards are, or would be, used appropriately. Cards intended for uses that don’t meet...

Five years ago, the 9/11 commission reported that Khalid Shaihk Mohammed initially proposed a Sept. 11 attack involving 10 planes that would be used to attack CIA and FBI headquarters, unidentified nuclear plants and tall buildings in California and Washington state. KSL told interrogators that he planned to lead the hijacking of one aircraft himself. He intended to kill every adult male passenger aboard, then land at a U.S. airport and make a “speech denouncing U.S. policies in the Middle East before releasing all the women and children,” according to the report. Now, thanks to President Obama he will get...

An anti-Palin screed somehow ended up on Psychology Today's website. I know, I know, it's shocking that Psychology Today could sponsor something that is less science than it is PC, hatespeak against conservatives, what with psychology being so scientific and all -- but, there you have it. Penned by one Bella DePaulo, the piece really has little worth as a work of science and is little but a political rant filled with name calling and hate for Governor Sarah Palin and anyone that might support her. In the piece Palin is termed a "special liar" by the writer and conservatives...

Chicago, Ill. -- The president of the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association has been caught stealing over $600,000 in union funds, authorities say. Sgt. John Pallohusky, 53, spent the stolen funds on gambling trips, lavish dinners, and online stock trading. He spent more than $163,000 on Ameritrade and $75,000 at restaurants including Ruth’s Chris, Smith & Wollensky, Kinzie Chophouse, Petterino’s, Gibson’s and Lawry’s, the arrest warrant said. This is just another example of the illegitimacy of unions, really. This guy has been doing this for two years. Did no one miss all that cash for two years? Were there no other...

The Chicago Park District is wasting millions more of the taxpayer's money by hiring a New York landscaping firm to redesign portions of Grant Park and Northerly Island just as it recently announced plans for employee lay offs to try and balance its $400 million budget. Chicago residents will recall that in the dead of night in the Summer of 2003 Mayor Daley sent bulldozers onto Northerly Island to destroy the Meigs Field airport runways so that he could reclaim the property as another one of his vaunted park space projects. In 2003, Daley made the silly excuse that Meigs...

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Resarchers at UCLA prove that the media definitely has a liberal bias. They used the scientific method to arrive at these conclusions, and their research is completely sound. The left no lomger has any claim that the mainsream media doesn't have a liberal bias. For all their bitching about FoxNews, Dumbocrats will be forced to admit that the overall media is left leaning. http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx?RelNum=6664