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Former President Bill Clinton told Virginia Democrats Saturday that the party has won America's long-running culture war but has to make sure not to squander it with partisanship. Clinton told more than 3,000 people at a party fundraiser that the nation's natural political base shifted back to Democrats for the first time since 1968, thanks to protracted Republican mistakes and the belief that President Barack Obama represented the solution. He said Obama's election shows Americans at last are welcoming diversity and accepting differences, the opposite of the political dynamic he said Richard Nixon first used in 1968 to lock in...

Obama ‘One of Us’, Say Indian Americans By MICHEL W. POTTS indiawest.com February 05, 2009 CHEVY CHASE, MD. — Former Obama campaign worker Subodh Chandra, elected officials Kumar Barve and Jay Goyal, and actor Kal Penn celebrated the election of Barack Obama as the new U.S. president, during a “Celebration of Indian American Leadership” hosted Jan. 19 by Sunita Leeds and Shekar Narasimhan at the Indique Heights restaurant here.

Yet another example of the ‘research’ masquerading as science that is used to reinforce the man-made global warming fraud. One of the difficulties the green zealots have had is that Antarctica has been not warming but cooling, with the extent of its ice reaching record levels. A few weeks ago, a study led by Professor Eric Steig caused some excitement by claiming that actually West Antarctica was warming so much that it more than made up for the cooling in East Antarctica. Warning bells should have sounded when Steig said What we did is interpolate carefully instead of just using...

We have been given some time to mobilize our efforts and exert additional pressure in stopping the Obama/Pelosi "stimulus" package. With the tentative deal still on shaky grounds, Harry Reid has pushed the vote to Monday. There is sufficient evidence that Collins can "un-break" ranks and refuse to vote if the Democrat amendments make the bill top heavy. The tentative deal is already larger than the one she agreed to. This is perfect considering this senate term might be her last. However, Arlen Specter is planning to run again in 2010. This is a perfect opportunity to voice your opinion...

A newly elected President should be given the full support of an American Citizen until such a time that he takes an action diametrically opposed to said citizen's beliefs. My support ended just three days after Mr. Obama's Inauguration. That's when the following was announced on The White House Blog (http://www.whitehouse.gov/statement-released-after-the-president-rescinds/): Statement released after the President rescinds "Mexico City Policy" It is clear that the provisions of the Mexico City Policy are unnecessarily broad and unwarranted under current law, and for the past eight years, they have undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning in developing countries....

<p>By JIM LANDERS jlanders@dallasnews.com HELSINKI, Finland – This is the land where no child is left behind.</p> <p>By the time Finland's children complete the ninth grade, they speak three languages. They have studied algebra, geometry and statistics since the first grade. And they beat the pants off students from just about everywhere else in the world.</p>

Iceland, ravaged throughout history by volcanic eruptions and natural catastrophes, is struggling with a man-made disaster so overwhelming that the women are taking over. It is, they say here, the end of the Age of Testosterone. Next week a newly minted left-leaning Government led by Johanna Sigurdardottir will start to tackle the tough agenda of cleaning out the old-school-chum networks that have led Iceland to the verge of bankruptcy. Half of her Cabinet will be women; female advisers carrying briefcases move in and out of the Prime Minister's whitewashed office, a former jailhouse in the middle of Reykjavik. Two women,...

Family celebrates a bittersweet anniversary Click-2-Listen Mary Smith describes it as a year she can never forget, yet one that she never wants to relive.  It began when her youngest daughter Emily, now 8, was diagnosed at 17 months old with neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that starts in nerve cells and expands. Christy Wooten/The Daily Sentinel (ENLARGE) Emily Smith, left, gets a hug from her mother, Mary, during a classroom party Wednesday celebrating the seven year anniversary of Emily's stem cell transplant which helped her battle a form of cancer call neuroblastoma. She currently shows no signs of the...

The Crazies of the Church of Global Warming has a philosophy, "If God deals you bad numbers--fudge them." Remember when they came out with the announcement that October was the warmest in history and then, "OOPS NEVER MIND." (James Hansen The Grand Poobah of warming screwed up the numbers). It was actually a quite average month. Ranked 70th in the last 114 years. And it wasn't the first time Hansen has screwed up his numbers. In 2007 he was forced by other scientists to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the...

FEBRUARY 6, 2009 The Stimulus Tragedy Obama bets that we can spend our way to prosperity. President Obama has started to play the "catastrophe" card to sell his economic stimulus plan, using yesterday's terrible January jobs report to predict doom unless Congress acts. No doubt he'll get his way, but the tragedy of this first great effort of the Obama Presidency is what a lost opportunity it is. Everyone agrees that some kind of fiscal stimulus might help the economy, and that running budget deficits is appropriate in a recession. The stage was thus set for the popular President to...

I'm a big believer in the power of prayer so I hope whoever and wherever you are, you will say a prayer for my son who was just diagnosed with pneumonia. Many times when I see prayer requests on FR, I get my 4 little ones to add the freeper to their nightly prayers. If you have a child saying prayers tonight, please add my son to their list. Thanks so much, ---ICWHATUDO

In my “Another Innuendo Over a CBO Report: TRICARE For Life,” I pointed to a message from a “BG Bob Clements, USAF Ret (P38 Bob)” that is making the rounds through the internet, claiming: Seems as though our President has placed a priority on cutting [TRICARE For Life] out of the budget as a means to provide funding for those things he promised during the campaign…Just another move to slight those of us who dedicated much of our adult lives to the defense of our country. Tricare For Life (TFL) was instituted just a few years ago to correct the...

The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama's nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts going to put people back to work in Indiana? How would $20 million for "fish passage barriers" (a provision to pay for the removal of barriers in rivers and streams so that fish could migrate freely) help create...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez finished nationalizing his country's oil industry in 2007 by transferring the last holdings of foreign firms to the government-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA). But with oil prices way down and production falling because the PDVSA's ineptitude — it's a jobs bank for his cronies — Chavez is courting Big Oil again. Incredibly, 19 companies are paying $1 million or more to hop back in the sack with him. Those that win stakes in his new oil ventures will remain junior partners until crude prices rise sufficiently and he kicks them out of the country again....

Speaking of Rice, she seemed to have shifted to the left over the course of the Bush administration, particularly in its second term, when she became secretary of state. Does it really make a difference, then, whether it's Bush running the show or Obama? Sadly from my perspective, there will be a lot of continuity between the Obama and Bush administrations where Middle East policy is concerned - generally on Iran, and specifically on a range of other issues. That doesn't warm my heart. It shows that mistakes were being made, especially during the second term of the Bush administration,...

A state program that helps low-income homeowners replace their oil-fired furnaces paid out nearly $540,000 to 110 households in its first month — with one-fifth of the money going to homes in Waterbury. The Low Income Heating and Water System Replacement Program, however, is still waiting for half of the money appropriated for it to be released by the state. Because of the current budget crisis, its administrators aren't certain they'll get it. The program is administered by the Fuel Oil Conservation Board as part of its 2008-09 Oil Conservation Plan. It assists clients of community action agencies who are...

World Net Daily has done it again and is also on the cutting edge informing the world. As I was making the rounds on my favorite news web sites, I saw the title on WND - Stimulus to ban religious worship. As I started to read the piece I was amazed to find what also was stuffed into this big pork sandwich called the “Stimulus bill”. This “Stimulus bill” was written totally for and by the Socialist Left Democratic Party of America. The ingredients of this bill are 93 % pork and 7% stimulus. This Stimulus bill is none other...

Neurological disorders are among the most difficult disease for patients and their loved ones to deal with, as the root of what makes an individual, their mind, is attacked by disease or affected by injury. Scientists have now discovered a new stem cell therapy for Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease initially, that could have implications for neurological disorders as wide ranging as Alzheimer's, dementia, epilepsy and stem cell therapy for stroke. Adult stem cell cures via the new source, dental pulp, could be personalized and easily available, as they can be harvested during simple visits to the dentist. We look...

It's probably the only intelligent thing Joe Biden has said in a year. More . . .

There are approximately 50 members of the adenovirus family, and they cause up to 5% of respiratory tract infections each year, ranging from the common cold to severe pneumonia. Some strains can also cause eye infections. Ad-36 has not been linked to any specific disease to date. Early research found that 30% of obese people were infected with Ad-36, while only 11% of non-obese people were infected. New research finds that Ad-36 has a direct effect on human fat stem cells. The virus infects the fatty tissue and increases replication, differentiation, and accumulation of fat cells. Ultimately, this leads to...