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WASHINGTON -- After a month of personnel appointments and canine selection, last week was the Obama administration's week of revelation. In a speech at Camp Lejeune, President Obama pledged "to succeed" in what candidate Obama called a "misguided war" in Iraq -- slowing down his promised pace of troop withdrawals, pledging to retain a substantial military force to support Iraqi democracy, and claiming credit for a "new strategy" that was largely the implementation of President Bush's own. The McGovernite peace candidate became the responsible commander in chief. On domestic policy, the revelation was different. Candidate Obama was a tonal moderate...

How to Organize Your Own “Tea Party” Protest The internet is abuzz with chatter about organizing protests around the country to put an end to this madness on Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. But I’ve talked to many people out there who have never organized a protest, and so they don’t have a clue where to begin. Here are 10 simple steps that you can follow to organize a protest in your own community. If you want more help, just send me an email at bsteinhauser @freedomworks.org and I’ll work with you one on one to help make your protest...

Former professional football player and Blue Dog Democrat Heath Shuler is at the top of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “enemies list,’’ according to Politico. Why? Shuler, D-N.C., has staked out a leadership position as a fiscal conservative who doesn’t ride with the pack on issues like the massive stimulus package, which he and five other conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats voted against. Shuler’s name tops a list of 10 alleged enemies of the speaker. ... Shuler, a second-term member, is clearly being noticed among Pelosi’s allies as a potential problem. He opposed Democratic leaders when he was a freshman, including on...

Listen Live Right Now:Sound off Connecticut with Jim Vicevich 9am until Rush Jim Vicevich hosts “Sound off Connecticut” every weekday morning and although he tends to lean to the right “Sound off Connecticut” welcomes and encourages viewpoints from every side. So call in and voice your opinion. This is your chance to “sound off.” :)=^..^= http://www.wtic.com/pages/13975.php Jim Vicevich Jim Vicevich hosts “Sound off Connecticut” every weekday morning. Republitarian by nature (see Larry Elder, KABC), Jim has more than 20 years experience in broadcast television. With 6 Emmy nominations and 3 Telly Awards, Jim has worked most recently as business and...

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius’ addition to Barack Obama’s Administration as his Health and Human Services Secretary cinches it. The Pro-death Democrats will be running our health care system without any checks on their power. They will use their power and position to do away with old people and infants whom they see as drains on “the collective.” Marxists/socialists always have to kill off people to give the illusion their Ponzi scheme works. The Soviet Communists did this in the 1930s. Pol Pot did this in the 1970s and now we will see Barack Obama doing the same thing. Bank on...

Saturn in View Credit & Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne, Francois Colas, OMP Explanation: Very good telescopic views of Saturn can be expected in the coming days as the ringed planet nears opposition on March 8th, its closest approach to Earth in 2009. Of course, opposition means opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky - an arrangement that occurs almost yearly for Saturn. But while Saturn itself grows larger in telescopic images, Saturn's rings seem to be vanishing as their tilt to our line-of-sight decreases. In fact, the rings will be nearly invisible, edge-on from our perspective, by September 4. Recorded on...

With clipboards, pencils and flag markers in hand, Julie Eathorne's students had one mission as they walked the Island Lake Park trail Wednesday: find dog poop. For each pile of waste discovered, Emerald Heights students marked it with a metal flag and recorded where it was along the trail. When finished, the total number of piles was tallied. With a split second-and-third grade class of 20 students — including 14 boys — it's natural to assume immature behavior would prevail when dealing with a sensitive subject like dog poop. But Eathorne's students rose above that. "They've handled it really well,"...

Concord's town flag will be lowered to half-staff today in honor of Henry John Wilayto, a survivor of the 1942 Bataan Death March during World War II, who died Feb. 28 at his Concord home of leukemia. He was 92.

THE GOVERNMENT HAS FORCED AMERICA TO ASSEMBLE FOR THE SINGULAR PURPOSE OF PROTESTING THE PLUNDERING OF OUR MONEY AND THE MONEY OF OUR CHILDREN THROUGH A OF A WHOLESALE SURRENDER OF THE FISCAL AUTHORITY OF THE FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE BRANCH TO A MORALLY CORRUPT MARXIST, ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-CHRISTIAN FEDERAL EXECUTIVE BRANCH PLACE : IRS Offices 55 S. Market St., San Jose, CA ( across the street from San Jose's Saint Joseph’s Cathedral ) WHEN : Twelve Noon - April 15th!!! BRING : Signs; Flags; Horns; Drums; YOUR AMERICAN SPIRIT!!! SIGN SUGGESTIONS : WE WON'T FORGET; FIRE CONGRESS; STOP THE THEFT OF AMERICA;...

Here is a video report from Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier" yesterday that takes a look at the enormous cost to American families of the coming "Cap and Trade" System that President Obama intends to impose on the country. As the report lays out, Obama himself said during the campaign that his Cap and Trade plan would necessarily cause electricity costs to "skyrocket." In the report, one analyst says it would result in every American family paying an additional $700 - $1,400 every year! Once again, it's good to know we have an administration that is working hard...

"The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor...All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies, perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured in some hiding place in Oceania itself." 1984 by George Orwell In the passage above, and throughout 1984 and Animal Farm, George...

Is Hillary Clinton still feeling defensive about the decision her husband made, and she supported, to return Elian Gonzalez to Cuba? Why else would she make a grotesque analogy between that case and the situation of a boy being kept in Brazil against the wishes of his American father? The Today show highlighted the case this morning of Bruce Goldman and his biological son, Sean. The boy’s mother, then Goldman’s wife, took Sean to her native Brazil in 2004. She divorced Goldman, married another man, then died. The second husband refuses to return Sean to Goldman. Andrea Mitchell interviewed Clinton,...

At CPAC, Ann Coulter knocked it out of the park, Tucker Carlson was booed, Phyllis Schafly was prayed for, Bobby Jindal was second, Mitt Romney came in first, Mike Huckabee was reverently religious, but only semi conservative, David Horowitz was brilliant as usual, Sarah Palin had not prepared, Michael Steele had to publicly repent for Republicans' "mistakes" (that was before he was cornered into refusing to defend Republicans as not being Nazis, while calling Rush names),Newt was more conservative than Huckabee, but still no cigar. The cigar, of course a big Cuban, went to Rush Limbaugh. Despite Rush's magna cum...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that the Obama administration will take actions to tackle international tax dodgers.

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- For key moderate Democrats in the House, giving debt-strapped homeowners the right to seek mortgage modifications in bankruptcy court had to be a last resort.</p> <p>So they wrote a compromise to a housing bill that requires bankruptcy judges to consider whether banks offered homeowners reasonable loan restructuring deals before they weigh in with judicial remedies....</p>

As I predicted at the weekend, Barack Obama read the memo from the Brits and wheeled out the usual boiler plate about the Special Relationship at his all too brief press availability with Gordon Brown. But there was a lacklustre quality to it all that did little to assuage the fears that he cares not two hoots for the niceties of it all. I would have more insights on the mood and appearance of the president, but like the other DC based correspondents I was deemed surplus to requirements by the White House, who clearly had no intention of letting...

I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years. Thus, I have chosen as my lead this proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic theme of 2003-08: "Bush lied, people died." There are, of course, two differences between the slogans. Most importantly, I chose to separate the two clauses with a semicolon rather than a comma because the rule of grammar is that a semicolon (rather than a comma) should be used between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating...

I ran across this sort -but-interesting article today-written by JIM VERDONIK , a securities lawyer in Raleigh, NC, who does a great deal of new business startup work. There is a lot of "gloom and doom" about business,but his conclusions may surprise - and encourage you. (Excerpt ommitted for copyright reasons)

President Obama is not getting the message. Yesterday when asked about the Market's Decline during his administration he replied that "What I'm looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market" Sorry Mr. President but you are not getting it. The Stock Market has not been gyrating during the month and a half of your presidency, that suggests lots of ups and downs. The stock market has been going DOWN during your administration. And every time you announce another Program it goes down even further. Just look at the chart above which shows the Dow Jones average from...

This week, the United States Senate will vote on a spending package to fund the federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year. The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 is a sprawling, $410 billion compilation of nine spending measures that lacks the slightest hint of austerity from the federal government or the recipients of its largess. The Senate should reject this bill. If we do not, President Barack Obama should veto it. The omnibus increases discretionary spending by 8% over last fiscal year's levels, dwarfing the rate of inflation across a broad swath of issues including agriculture, financial services,...