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It appears it's become a weekly pattern for President Joe Biden to give ranting and raving remarks about how much MAGA Republicans "threaten democracy." On Thursday, Biden gave remarks at yet another DNC event, this time at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Forest Hills, Maryland. Such remarks came one week after his notorious speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and two weeks after he referred to Republicans and their philosophy as "semi-fasciscm," also at a DNC event. After mentioning the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Biden got right into it with what he claimed wasn't hyperbole, but...

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The Obama administration will release 5 million barrels of sour crude from the United States’ emergency stockpile in what officials described as a “test” of the nation’s ability to respond to oil supply disruptions around the globe.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Wilmington, Delaware. We're gonna start with Michael. I'm great. You appreciate your patience, and hello, sir. CALLER: How you doing, Rush? And thanks for taking the call. Affordable energy is the absolute, I believe, only way back for this country. RUSH: Yep. CALLER: We cannot create jobs unless we go to the bottom of the job-creation ladder. RUSH: People have to get to work! CALLER: You must have a manufacturer or a person with an idea to open up a little warehouse -- a plant, a garage, wherever -- and bring energy into that building, powerfully and...

<p>The hip-hop artist and actor, whose “We Fly High” was one of 2007′s top-selling rap tracks, was charged with assault on a police officer and breach of peace, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said. Vance said he was not certain how the altercation Friday night began. Jones said on Twitter that he posted $40,000 in bond, adding that he “had a ball” while in custody.</p>

Democrats to Obama: Tap strategic oil reserve By: Darren Goode February 25, 2012 06:26 PM EST Gasoline prices are on a dramatic rise, and everybody's got advice for the White House. No surprise, Republicans are reviving their "Drill, Baby Drill" catcalls from 2008, but liberals in Washington are getting nervous and asking President Barack Obama to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a potential panacea for escalating gasoline prices. Picking up on the themes of a speech he gave Thursday at the University of Miami, Obama used his weekly radio address Saturday to remind Americans of his view that...

ACORN is the largest radical leftist group in America today. This radical group worked closely with the Obama camp during the election but, the community organizing group was not open about the relationship. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election: One of Barack Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992. He worked along side ACORN before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts. And, ACORN...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...

Since you can't post anything from the Des Moines Register, here's a link to the article. Unbelievable!!! http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/NEWS01/603030387&SearchID=73237551850783

MILWAUKEE — It started out with an alert security guard noticing a man urinating on a wall. Then the distinct sound of tires deflating. Now, two sons of prominent Wisconsin politicians and their three friends could end up in prison for allegedly attempting to sabotage a Republican effort to drive voters to the polls for the 2004 presidential election.Jurors began deliberating this afternoon in the politically charged trial of five Democratic activists who are accused of slashing the tires of 25 vans rented by the Republican Party to shuttle voters to the polls for the Bush-Kerry presidential election.In what is...

I am a Afghan war veteran and a former interrogator who worked at the Bagram Collection Point in Afghanistan. Although I do not condone any kind of abuse, we have to remember why these people are being detained - for terrorism and supporting those responsible for terrorism. I never saw anyone abuse our detainees. If I had, I would have confronted him or her. Abusing detainees does not improve the information we obtain from prisoners; instead it can cause false information to be given. I believe too many people are more concerned with how the world views the United States,...

The D.C. government has failed to keep track of millions of dollars in federal bioterrorism funds that it has received since 1999, prompting improper expenditures and spending delays, a recent audit said. The District has spent or earmarked about half of the $24.4 million that it has received for bioterrorism preparedness from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1999, the audit said.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A lawyer convicted of stealing settlement money from vulnerable clients, including $250,000 from a brain-damaged infant, was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 14 years in prison, prosecutors said.Nikolai Tehin, 58, of San Francisco, was found guilty last October in the embezzlement of more than $2 million from his clients' settlement packages."This is the most severe sentence I've ever received from a federal court judge," Tehin's attorney, Harold Rosenthal, said in a telephone interview.During years defending people in medical malpractice and personal injury cases, Tehin would regularly deposit settlement checks into his firm's account and not...

Clashes Slow as Cleric's Grip on Mosque Seems to Slip By ALEX BERENSON and SABRINA Jim MacMillan/Associated Press A United States Army soldier used a dummy head to try to draw a sniper into view in Najaf on Friday. Clashes Slow as Cleric's Grip on Mosque Seems to Slip By ALEX BERENSON and SABRINA TAVERNISEPublished: August 21, 2004 AJAF, Iraq, Aug. 20 - Moktada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric, still seemed to retain control of the shrine of Imam Ali here late on Friday, though there were signs his grip might be weakening as the number of fighters loyal...

Subject: Bert Kinzey discusses CNN Bert Kinzey is a former Army officer who became an expert in military aviation and has authored literally dozens of books, principally aimed at the aviation enthusiast and scale modeler, and that are definitely apolitical. However, with his research efforts on military subjects he has gained a wealth of contacts within the U.S. military, and is one of the premier authorities on military subjects in this country. Please read what Bert has to say about CNN. A letter from Bert Kinzey: Hello, Everyone, As many of you know, although some do not, I wrote a...