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The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security recently asserted that Iran has resolved many of the technical flaws in its 4,000 centrifuges, used in Iran's uranium enrichment program. The institute, headed by former U.N. nuclear inspector David Albright, said Iran was enriching uranium at a rate that would enable nuclear weapons capacity by March 2009. "The centrifuges now appear to be running at approximately 85 percent of their stated target capacity, a significant increase over previous rates," the report concluded. The report, released Sept. 15, was based on information by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In early 2008,...

Clay Aiken, 29, is confirming what many people thought: He's gay. The cover of the latest People magazine shows Aiken holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay." The cover also has the quote: "I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things." Magazine officials said there is an interview with Aiken and confirmed he was on the cover but refused to release the article until today. The baby's mother is Aiken's friend and record producer Jaymes Foster. Aiken, who gained fame as the runner-up on "American Idol" in 2003, rarely addressed the frequent...

Honestly. A clean bill as requested by Treasury man Henry Paulson, along with John McCain's oversight board, can help fix the credit-crunch problem. It needn't be this hard. According to the Paulson plan, distressed assets will be sold by banks through a reverse auction (the low bid wins) to various investment funds, hedgies, private-equity boys, and other banks. And taxpayers will have a strong ownership position in these asset sales. When the assets are worked out over time -- as they will be once housing and the economy recover -- taxpayers will actually make money on the deal. This is...

Three out of four U.S. voters (74%) say they are Very Likely to watch the upcoming presidential debates, but over half (56%) think debate moderators are biased in their questioning, according to new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys taken Friday and Saturday nights. In the first debate this Friday evening, 22% believe the moderator, veteran PBS newsman Jim Lehrer, will try to help Barack Obama. Forty-three percent (43%) say Lehrer will play a neutral role to help voters make an informed choice. Only six percent (6%) think he will try to help John McCain (see crosstabs).

Every two years, the Old Media engage in their now-familiar mating ritual with the liberal electorate. Acting on cue, reporters and columnists dust off their tired clichés and recycle their flawed arithmetic to show how this year women will – at long last – determine the outcome of the presidential election. Continues...================================================================== New Study shows Media full of it Now that Obama is trailing in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Missouri and stuck in a dead heat in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with campaign staff rapidly evacuating from North Dakota -- time for the liberal media . . . oops, sorry, the...

For two decades, going back to the Willie Horton ads of 1999, we've heard liberals accuse Republicans of race-baiting. Throughout this campaign, there have been endless whispers, suggestions and outright accusations that GOP could/would play the race card because Obama is half-black. Now Barack Obama has found his bizarre version of Willie Horton, and it's . Rush Limbaugh. Obama sneakily tried to air a Spanish-language TV ad telling Latinos that Limbaugh thinks all Mexicans are stupid, Mexican immigrants should all shut up and go home, and that Limbaugh and John McCain are identical twins on immigration. None of it is...

John McCain lashed out Monday at Barack Obama's political pedigree, tying his rival to notorious Chicago machine politics as the Republican struggled to reclaim the advantage that slipped to Mr. Obama as the Wall Street mess has unfolded. In a new ad, Mr. McCain accuses his Democratic opponent of running the same "corrupt Chicago political machine" as convicted felon and Obama patron Tony Rezko and the Daley family, which controls Chicago politics. Mr. McCain's campaign said they are raising the corruption issue because the press has failed to do so. "Senator Obama very directly has introduced the issue of associations...

In setting up a joke to a mostly Irish Catholic audience in Pennsylvania yesterday, John McCain quipped: "There is only one ethnic joke you can tell nowadays and that's an Irish joke." The dilemma is indicative of the constant, sensitive discussions surrounding "race in America," and more specifically as it relates to the race for president. Black Americans, it seems, are the one and only ethnic group that must be treated special in polls. Whether it is a poll about religion (which almost never include black evangelicals) or one about racism, it appears as if blacks are the only group...

On Tuesday, John McCain held a press conference for the first time since becoming the Republican nominee, his first in six weeks. Much has been made of his running mate Sarah Palin not talking to the press corps traveling with her, and rarely sitting for interviews. But amid all the criticism of the Republican ticket avoiding the press, it has slipped the notice of many that Joe Biden isn’t giving press conferences either. His last media availability was over two weeks ago on September 7 aboard his campaign plane, flying from Montana to Wisconsin. He spoke for about half an...

My proposal is to immediately slash payroll and income taxes by 20% across the board, effective today. For someone in my income bracket, that's an extra $100/mo to put towards a credit card. For those just higher than my bracket, that's an extra $200/mo ($3600/yr) to put towards their mortgages. There still would be people defaulting on home loans, but immediately you would see fewer people doing so, and liquidity is immediately added to the credit market. Based on $2 trillion in federal income taxes collected annually, a 20% reduction would add as much as $30 billion per month to...

TOKYO - The Bank of Japan pumped another 1.5 trillion yen (US$14.2 billion) into money markets Wednesday, amid an effort among the world’s central banks to calm worries about a global financial crisis. The Bank of Japan during the past week has been injecting trillions of yen by the day to add liquidity into the system. The latest brings the bank’s infusion to a total of 14 trillion yen (US$132.6 billion). A widening credit crisis, which began last year in the U.S., is threatening the world’s economic health and stability. The collapse of Lehman Brothers last week is fuelling additional...

VENTURA, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-Erin Brockovich, a prominent figure in trial attorney circles, is appearing in ads for a conservative California Republican running for the state Senate. A new campaign ad for Tony Strickland features an endorsement from Brockovich, the outspoken legal clerk whose story was portrayed in a 2000 blockbuster film about how she helped plaintiffs' attorney Ed Masery get a $333 million judgment against Pacific Gas and Electric Company over groundwater contamination in a California desert town. "I am a consumer advocate and I'm a Democrat," Brockovich says in the ad. "But I'm also an independent thinker. And so...

Nobody saw it coming. The school bus had stopped on U.S. 301 in Citra to let three or four students step off. Suddenly, Jamar Williams and 20 others from North Marion high and middle schools were knocked around or thrown to the floor. A semi had struck the bus from behind. The vehicles lurched forward and erupted in flames. "It just hit. It happened too fast," said Jamar, 14. "It was just so smoky it was hard to see. "I just remembered from television, stay calm in these situations and don't panic," he said. "That's how people get killed." Despite...

Was watching a late night History Channel program about that shoot out at the OK Corral. Very good piece, looked very well researched. However, I just could not get some of their leftist bias (see linnk) out of my mind. Made me take the entire program with a grain, no a block, of salt. Wonder if the people running these media outlets have any idea what they have done to their credibility? Comments?

September 23, 2008 - Issue 6OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN NEWS:PRESS RELEASES:"McCain-Palin 2008 Launches New TV Ad: "Mum"" - McCain-Palin Campaign Press Release - Arlington, Virginia - September 23, 2008 To read the script of the Ad, please - CLICK HEREWatch video of the Ad @ YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s18LfIDpaIs "ICYMI: Barack Obama Attacks Running Mate for Having Bailout Position" - McCain-Palin Campaign Press Release - Arlington, Virginia - September 23, 2008 "But it's the kind of thing that drives people crazy about politics. Sounds like you were trying to score some political points against John McCain using his words, when your own...

CARLA 'KOZY IN NYC BIG APPLE SAYS BIENVENUE Foxy French First Lady Carla Bruni was the belle of the Big Apple yesterday. The stunning ex-model, in New York with president hubby Nicolas Sarkozy for the opening session of the UN General Assembly, hit the town running - as the couple went for a morning jog through Midtown. Bruni turned heads in a skintight sports top that bared her washboard belly as the seemingly winded president struggled to keep up in an oversized soccer jersey that covered a pair of way-too-short shorts. A few hours later, Bruni looked no worse for...

InTrade currently has the candidates roughly tied. As of this writing, McCain is at around 49 and falling, while Obama is at around 51 and rising. Still, that’s basically a tie. The question is, where do we go from here? The arguments for why Obama will ultimately win this have been explored ad nauseum over the last several months in a variety of contexts. They are straightforward: Parties rarely win third terms, President Bush is unpopular, Obama is charismatic (while McCain is not), the country is ready for change (which McCain does not embody), and Obama’s cash and ground game...

An 11-year-old in Aurora, Colo., says his first amendment rights are being trampled after he was suspended for wearing a homemade shirt that reads "Obama is a terrorist's best friend."

The Democrats and Obama caused the financial crisis of 08 by supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and covering up their bad books. Elect Obama, your democratic Senator and Congress person and we will have THE NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION.