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Petitions handed in as licence hearing looms More than 150 people have signed petitions imploring Luton Borough Council to deny the new Tesco Express in Bury Park an alcohol licence. The bid from the supermarket giant has upset Muslims living in the area, some of whom say they find the idea of alcohol being sold offensive. Next Tuesday councillors will make a decision on the application, which, if successful, would see the store permitted to sell alcohol from 6am until 11pm every day. Tesco says its stores sell alcohol as part of a broad range of goods, and that staff...

Remember Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and other companies had artificially put assets on the books? They'd say something was worth $10M when they bought it, but eventually it decreased in value, and they never updated the value in the books. That was part of the fraud. Under current laws at that time, they were all convicted and put in jail for fraud. Then we got all mad and made all these new laws that are coming out the wazoo called Sarbanes- Oxley. It's a huge, massive law but the idea is that we were going to mandate ethics to corporate America...

The defining moment in the National Rifle Association's eight-figure advertising offensive against Barack Obama takes place about 15 seconds into a new spot featuring Karl Rusch, a white, middle aged Virginian clad in hunting gear. After claiming that Obama supports "a huge new tax on my guns and ammo," Rusch closes the door of his truck and turns directly to the camera. "Where is this guy from?" he asks. "He's probably never been hunting a day in his life." The spot, the Washington Post points out, is a "huge stretch" - the claim that Obama wants to institute a large...

Now that Congress has a proposal before them to bail out beleaguered investment banks in the wake of the subprime mortgage fallout, there is one way to pump liquidity into the markets almost no one is talking about – cutting the financial obligations of these troubled firms by cutting taxes. That was one proposition Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., suggested when he spoke to conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 23. He was promoting his new grassroots activism Web site PorkParade.com. But even Flake, a staunch earmark reform crusader, admitted that issue is trivial compared to...

Texas legislators moved last month to try to include immigration enforcement in the responsibilities of local police departments, but area officials insist the differences among communities would make it almost impossible to uniformly implement those laws. In Brownsville, a losing competition for staff with the U.S. Border Patrol and the city’s daily flow of legal and illegal immigrants have resulted in a police department with barely enough personnel to carry out its regular duties. State Rep. Frank Corte Jr., R-San Antonio, and state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Austin, have sought an opinion from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on whether the...

I have always thought there really isn't much difference between stupidy and fraud. Initial reactions to the bailout option shouldn't be held against either party ..they aren't thinking clearly due to the election. Bernanke should step down if for no other reason than his proclamation several weeks ago the banks had a strong cash position. Since when do we analyse cash flow versus one's balance sheet, or expense summary. Every American know's you can continue making minimum monthly payments on your credit card (keeping the cash flow positive) meantime your actual debt is increasing ..and let's not forget why they...

All this recent talk about “change” got me thinking...Maybe the time has come to establish a Congressional Rich White Guy Caucus for the purpose of defending America’s real minority group, taxpayers, currently under constant attack. Rich white guys - that top 5% of American producers that Obama’s leftists want to put out of business, just because they hate freedom, liberty and capitalism, - just because with your help, they can. Democrats learned nothing else from Thomas Jefferson, but they certainly learned this...“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights...

New evidence strongly suggests that Barack Obama has been less than forthcoming about the role that unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers may have played in choosing him to lead the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, I have obtained an e-mail message from former CAC executive director, Ken Rolling, to Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett, two of CAC’s three co-founders. Bill Ayers was the third founder. In Rolling’s message, sent the morning after I first requested access to CAC records housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), he admits to avoiding...

But the point is clear: If you're a hunter, Barack Obama is not anything like you. And if he doesn't understand your concerns, he sure doesn't deserve your vote. Obama has been fighting the notion that he opposes gun rights, stressing on the stump that he backs Second Amendment protections. His campaign has released a radio ad featuring American Hunters and Shooters Association head Ray Schoenke telling hunters the Democratic nominee won't come for their guns. "The bottom line is this. If you’ve got a rifle, you’ve got a shotgun, you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking...

Important interview, since Q&R's home-base station covers much of the 12th district.

A company in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter is making commemorative coins for American presidential hopeful Barack Obama. And if the Democratic candidate is elected to become the most powerful man in the world on November 4, it could open the floodgates for millions of pounds worth of business for the firm. Windsor, Elizabeth & Windsor has already sold more than 300 limited edition commemorative silver coins to the Democratic Party to hand out to key members of the campaign to elect Obama. The contract is worth about £100,000 to the company, based on Warstone Lane, Hockley. And a spokesman for WEW...

Senator Obama apparently is beaming a guiding light for the faithful ones seeking the "epiphany" he promised his followers at Dartmouth College last January: "[A] light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack." The faithful are called to follow the beam to Obama's "Faith, Family and Values Tour" beginning this week. For those already blinded by the beam, "fleecing the sheep" seems more apropos. Obama's "faith" journey For openers, no one who...

As Congress and the Administration work to prevent the crisis in the financial sector from spilling over into the larger economy, the vultures are swarming. In an Associated Press article yesterday, the following quote is made by Barney Frank, ultra-liberal Democrat of Massachusetts: “The private sector got us into this mess…The government has to get us out of it. We do want to do it carefully.” This is obscene. This “mess”, as Congressman Frank so eloquently put it, is the fault of government pure and simple. And, it is the personal fault of Barney Frank. For him to now hide...

From the moment of the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Republican VP nominee, she has been the object of congratulation, excitement, and adulation from Americans who are more oriented towards conservativism, traditional values, and traditional patriotic feelings about their country...and the object of scorn, ridicule, derisive and disgusting attack, and out and out hate from the more liberally, leftists, morally relative, and hate-American oriented. These patterns continue to this day. It is indeed, once more, as Ronald Reagan noted so many years ago..."A time for choosing." All Americans should carefully consider and research the cjoices. The all-American, traditional valued,...

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to...

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Völkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to...

"A quick summary: Companies that had billions in subprime loans were feeling the effects of their stupid decision to make those loans in the first place, and practically gave them away for pennies on the dollar. But since no one wants these loans, and they've had to mark them down to market value, it has frozen the market. If we temporarily change the rule that forces companies to do that, that will free the market up...." http://www.daveramsey.com/tdrs/index.cfm/2008/9/23/Fix-the-bailout-with-mark-to-market?ictid=sptlt http://www1.daveramsey.com/etc/fed_bailout/economic_cleanup_10887.htmlc

When I used to log on to read the forums I used to get a list of the articles being discussed. I'd pick the ones I was interested in and then read them. Now when I log in I'm getting every response to every thread as it is being made. How do I switch back to the old way(I liked it better)

I will admit that I love all the Chuck Norrisms floating around out there. With all due respect for Chuck Norris, and I believe the right-leaning actor will agree, it's time for some Sarah Palinisms. After all Sarah Palin's legend has grown faster than Davey Crockett's after the Alamo. So let's look at some of these. * Before the Boogie-Man goes to bed, he checks under his bed and in his closet for Sarah Palin. * Sarah Palin is the reason a compass points North. * Confucius say, "Sarah Palin know true age of Chinese gymnasts." * The moose population...

December 14, 1999 WASHINGTON A prominent commodities trader who acknowledges a business history with a reputed Soviet Bloc crime figure and a notorious arms dealer has been one of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's top campaign supporters. Commodities trader Semyon (Sam) Kislin and his family also lavished thousands of dollars in contributions to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, to the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, to former Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and to a number of state and city politicians. Kislin sits on the New York City Economic Development Board. Kislin is not alone among emigres from the former Soviet Union who have...