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I really don't have time for this, but it has to be said: mucho important. While watching the Fox News segment interviewing Michelle Malkin on the Ethan Winner Palin smear video I noticed that it wasn't the same videol Spot the difference. Original Ethan Winner video: (see link for video) Here's the video of Michelle on Fox this morning. The ad starts about 25 seconds in. They don't run it all, and they may have spliced part of the middle of the video to the beginning ("quotes from the founder") but there is a part of their version which differs...

Washington Post religion writer Michelle Boorstein says “a concerted effort to reach into Christian Medialand has intensified recently and will continue beyond the November election.” That means Obama ads on Christian radio stations in Ohio, using a faith-based quote from former Congressman Tony Hall: “As a Christian, Barack believes God calls us to care for those in need.” There’s also a new push to evangelize the Democratic party to Christian artists, and EMI Christian Music Group Grant Hubbard tells Boorstein “I think it would be shocking to a lot of people [that] if you interviewed Christian artists, the split would...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California's sputtering economy is going to get worse, a report released on Wednesday said. The state's jobless rate will hold above 7 percent through next year as the homes slump grinds on and finance payrolls shrink, according to the UCLA Anderson Forecast. A "strong undercurrent of housing and finance generated weakness" is dragging down growth in the eighth-largest economy in the world, the report said. "Our near term quarterly forecast has things getting worse," it said. "Unemployment will continue to increase to the thin air of 7.4 percent by the end of the year and it...

Had the cross-cutting between Obama and Biden been a little quicker to emphasize the absurdity of the contradiction, this one might have reached the sarcastic heights of the “celebrity” ads. No matter. Conservatives will relish it anyway for rubbing Biden’s face in a warm pile. And by pile, I don’t mean a pile of coal.

Dear John Ziegler Mailing List Members: This Saturday will likely be the final chance to see my film "Blocking the Path to 9/11" in a Los Angeles theater. This screening is particularly important because it is part of the Valley Film Festival where the movie is up for Best Documentary. It would mean a lot to borh me and the incredibly important story in the film if you live in the LA area and you could come support the cause. The screening is at 4:30 pm this Saturday in North Hollywood. You can order tickets via this lnik: http://valleyfilmfest.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=155309 After...

BENNINGTON, Vt. — Things have really been booming at Southern Vermont Orchards. And it's been keeping people up at night. After a series of hailstorms devastated the orchard's apple crop in 2007, the owner resorted this summer to using a hail cannon, a noisemaking machine whose sound waves supposedly disrupt the formation of hailstones. Scientists snicker at such devices. But farmers swear by 'em. As for the neighbors, they just swear......

John McCain didn’t want to respond in kind to Barack Obama’s silly and ignorant attack on McCain’s inability to e-mail, but a 527 group has decided to fill the vacuum on their own. In a 30-second spot called “Wounded Veterans”, Lt. Col. Mike Fairhead asks Obama why he attacks McCain’s war wounds:

In March, 1778, MSNBC ran one of their famous non-biased television segments on Valley Forge. The transcript follows.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez held talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday before the two sides signed an oil cooperation deal and several economic agreements. The Chinese government gave no immediate details of the oil agreement but it said other documents covered economic cooperation, education and justice. The Venezuelan government said more than 20 agreements would be signed during Chavez's three-day visit to China, which began on Tuesday. Hu welcomed Chavez as an "old friend," following earlier meetings between the Venezuelan leader and Wu Bangguo, the official number two in China's ruling Communist Party, and Vice Premier Li Keqiang....

TO: All McDonald’s Team Members FROM: Management RE: New Federal Guidelines in wake of the federal rescue Dear Team: As most of you are aware, the past few days have been challenging for all members of the McDonald’s USA and McDonald’s Worldwide Team. McDonald’s, as you know, maintained a complex and highly-leveraged commodity futures operation, and recent events in the financial markets have made our risk-management strategies impossible All along, as we faced a softening demand for our products and in the wake of our increased exposure to losses in the commodity derivatives market of beef futures, hog swaps, egg...

If the National Retail Federation (NRF) has its way, selling goods online will soon become far less anonymous and significantly more onerous for any online auction or discount website. The NRF has announced its support and testified in favor of three bills: H.R. 6713, known as the E-fencing Enforcement Act; H.R. 6491, aka Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008; and S.3434, the "Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008." As the titles suggest, all of these bills are (supposedly) aimed at fighting organized crime rings, but don't worry—the burdens the NRF would impose upon you are for your own good....

Earl Palmer, the New Orleans drummer who largely defined the beat of rock 'n roll on thousands of recordings from the late 1940s on, died Friday in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 83... ...Mr. Palmer's distinct back beat, built on a heavy bass kick and New Orleans second line shuffle, was also informed by bebop jazz... Mr. Palmer provided the pulse on scores of Fats Domino singles, including his 1949 debut "The Fat Man" and his hits "I'm In Love Again," "I'm Walkin" and "My Blue Heaven." He backed Little Richard on "Long Tall Sally" and "Tutti...

Frankly I have had it, and I know a lot of other women out there who are with me on this. I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin. It has to end. She was in New York on Tuesday meeting with world leaders at the U.N. And what did the McCain campaign do? They tried to ban reporters from covering those meetings. And they did ban reporters from asking Gov. Palin any questions. I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment....

The bombshell the press missed: Clinton says that Hillary didn’t really want to be vice president but would have accepted it as “her duty” if need be. Okay, some of this is sour grapes. On the other hand, if she thinks Obama is a loser, she may not want to be tainted by his loss. Kerry’s defeat didn’t position Edwards very well for the 2008 race. The Clinton calculatrix is always calculating.

I've heard figures that 1 million new Democrats are registered in Pennsylvania, and 500,000 in Florida. About 6 million people voted in the 2004 election in Pennsylvania, and about 8 million did in Florida. So the 1 million new voters in Pennsylvania would be a 17% shift, while the 500,000 voters in Florida would be a 6% shift. I know that not all of the voters will turn out, but even if we assume about 60% actual voter turnout, that is a huge mountain for McCain to climb.

"Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. "We're on a train headed to the future and there's a bridge out," LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. "And nobody wants to talk about it." LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to...

LONDON (AP) -Olympic organizers issued detailed design rules for the 2012 London games Wednesday, including a mandate that at least some toilets in the Olympic park do not face the holy Islamic city of Mecca.

At a time when GOP support for an administration-backed bailout package seemed to be unraveling, House conservatives on Tuesday further fractured their party by unveiling their own proposal. Members of the Republican Study Committee raised several concerns with the $700 billion plan being pushed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Specifically, they charged that the plan doesn't ensure taxpayers will get their money back and say it could fundamentally alter the role of government in the free enterprise system. "We are highly skeptical of the Paulson plan and believe that the time has come for Congress to rationally debate alternatives," said...

A Tulsa, Okla., megachurch lost a two-year property battle in court Tuesday when the county district judge ruled in favor of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Judge Jefferson Sellers ruled that the the Kirk of the Hills church property belongs to the PC(USA) and the Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery, a regional body of the denomination, and not the local congregation. The 2,400-member Kirk of the Hills congregation, which was the second largest church in the regional presbytery, has been in legal battle over the property since it split from the PC(USA) in August 2006. After an overwhelming vote to leave the denomination,...