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BITELY: Thank you Senator DeMint for dropping by NetRight Nation. Can you tell us about the meaning of the 3 Senate Republicans that flipped and sided with Senate Democrats on the "Stimulus" vote? DEMINT: Glad to be here Adam and thank you for giving me this opportunity. Blogging is a very important aspect of the Movement and I appreciate all of the work that you and other bloggers do. The three Republicans that went into the negotiations with the Democrats did not represent the Senate GOP. They represented themselves. They played the GOP for fools. The belief that centrally planned...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

Harvey Vengroff is a very wealthy man and an unapologetic Republican, and he has a plan to help him avoid, in a small way, what he views as President Barack Obama's tax-the-rich approach to governance. Rather than pay higher taxes that he knows are coming, Vengroff is planning to provide more than 200,000 square feet of office and warehouse space rent-free as part of an initiative to jump-start fledgling businesses in the Sarasota Manatee area, something Vengroff has dabbled in for years. If the start-up companies fail, all Vengroff and Williams will have lost is the potential rent they would...

Jim Cramer on Obama's Economic Abilities: 'It’s Amateur Hour at Our Darkest Moment' (Videos) By The Staff at wowOwow.com © AP In case you’re unaware, the stock market isn’t doing so well. The Standard & Poor index is trading below 700 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 7,000, the lowest it’s gone since 1997. And Jim Cramer’s blaming "amateur" President Barack Obama."Until the Obama administration starts listening, until they start paying attention to what you’re watching — to the stock market, until they realize that their agenda is destroying the life savings of millions of Americans — then...

-------------------------------- > Morning Devotional > > > > > "My grace is sufficient for thee." > - 2 Corinthians 12:9 > > > > If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so > well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has > not where to lay his head, who yet can say, "Still will I trust in the > Lord;" when we see the pauper starving on bread and water, who still > glories in Jesus; when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in > affliction, and yet...

How the brainwashed Left can destroy us

A Liberal, 'lying' about the Facts...weird. Timothy Geithner, President Obama’s tax cheat Treasury Secretary, doesn’t pay attention to his facts any better than he pays his taxes. The Associated Press reports Geithner claims Obama has inherited “the worst fiscal situation in American history.” The facts disprove Geithner’s statement. The January unemployment rate was 7.6%. The revised gross domestic product showed economic activity declined at a 6.2% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2008. Those two statistics demonstrate that far from being the worst in history, this recession still isn’t as bad as 1982 recession which saw 10.8 % unemployment...

The collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on Tuesday buried more than a millenium's worth of documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and historians hope something can be salvaged, but the future of the city's past is grim. Disaster struck in Cologne on Tuesday, as the building housing the city's Historical Archive suddenly collapsed. According to city officials, two people are officially missing and believed dead. ... Cologne's archives are one of the only collections in Germany to have survived World War II completely intact. Because of Cologne's long history, much of its heritage was stored locally rather than...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. private sector job losses accelerated in February, according to a report by ADP Employer Services that suggests hefty employment declines are on the way in the government's payrolls report due on Friday. ADP said on Wednesday that private employers cut 697,000 jobs in February versus a revised 614,000 jobs lost in January. The January job cuts were originally reported at 522,000. It was the biggest job loss since the report's launch in 2001 and showed the misery of declining employment spreading broadly and evenly throughout the economy. The service sector, which often resists the grip...

Strange goings on surrounding the programme for the first day of Gordon Brown's visit to Washington. No sooner had the Prime Minister's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling Westminster correspondents that the press conference they'd been told to expect had been called off "because of snow". Hours earlier, at around 4pm EST on Monday, a British official had told me that there would be a "press conference" after the PM and President Barack Obama had met in the Oval Office and before they had their working lunch in the Old...

<p>Private sector jobs fell 697,000 in the U.S. in February, according to a national employment report published Wednesday by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers.</p> <p>That's higher than the 630,000 loss forecast in a Dow Jones Newswires survey, and would be the largest number of jobs lost in one month during this recession. The figure for January was revised to show 614,000 jobs lost, compared with the initial figure of 522,000.</p>

In the wake of the Republican Party's second consecutive electoral defeat, the question that seems to be everywhere is: "How do we reinvent conservatism?" Most conservatives are willing to concede there is in fact a problem, but I'd simply suggest the question is itself misguided: We don't need to reinvent conservatism; we need to return to it. The past few months have given rise to a tug of war of sorts on this very matter. On one side, we have those who think the Republican tent is simply not large enough to house a viable political coalition. On the other...

Susan Estrich is worried. Very worried. She believes that the current coordinated Democrat strategy of attacking Rush Limbaugh is completely counterproductive. And she's right: He talks for hours every day. He gets paid to talk. Just talk. Doing it well is no small thing; witness the number of people who have tried to be him, or be the NOT-him, and failed. But he doesn't have to build a coalition. He doesn't need the votes of the other side to earn his check. He doesn't have to write the legislation, convince Olympia Snowe, raise money to keep the lights on, put...

Taxpayers for Common Sense says the bill contains 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion. An estimated 60% of the earmarks are from Democrats, while Republicans requested the remaining 40%. Americans are facing an economic crisis that is bordering on the verge of becoming a depression, thus, with 60% of the earmarks coming from Democrats and 40% from Republicans, is there really a difference between these two parties anymore? Obama said ” I am proud we have passed a recovery plan free of earmarks.” REALLY?

Beyond the hundreds of billions in bailout money to financial institutions, President Obama’s stimulus is based on: 1) Millions in tax rebates to people that don’t pay taxes; 2) Taxpayers paying the mortgages of people who should have never bought homes; 3) Earmarks; 4) Universal healthcare; and 5) More government regulations Be WARNED with a little loosening of the credit crunch and all the bailout money to date there will likely be some positive bump in the economy in the near future. That bump will be used by Obama and the MSM to justify everything and even if the bump...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's dream of becoming the first "post-partisan" governor has finally come true - he's equally disliked by Republicans and Democrats. "He's reached his goal. Both sides view him the same way," said Mark DiCamillo of the Field Poll. "Negatively."Overall, the action-star-turned-budget-bedraggled-compromiser scored a 38 percent approval rating in a statewide Field Poll of 761 voters taken after the recent budget deal was reached.Schwarzenegger's abandonment of the Republican mantra of no new taxes cost him dearly among his own party. The number of Republicans who approve of his job performance is down to 39 percent, versus 56 percent who disapprove,...

This is the story of a bank. It wasn’t one of those irresponsible banks that rode the subprime boom until the bottom fell out. It was a bank that hedged its risks, a bank that made sure its balance sheets added up.

Darwin’s real message: have you missed it? by Carl Wieland Harvard’s renowned Professor Stephen Jay Gould1 is a vigorous anticreationist (and Marxist — see documentation), and perhaps the most knowledgeable student of the history of evolutionary thought and all things Darwinian. I’m glad he and I are on the same side about one thing at least—the real meaning of ‘Darwin’s revolution’. And we both agree that it’s a meaning that the vast majority of people in the world today, nearly a century and a half after Darwin, don’t really want to face up to. Gould argues that Darwin’s theory is...

Tuesday March 3, 2009 Family Advocates: Ask the Senate to Stop the Child Porn Lawyer from Becoming Dep. Attorney General By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., March 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, David Ogden, despite a deluge of protest from Christian and pro-family advocates who object to Ogden's extensive history defending child pornography and hardcore pornography giants.Sen. Arlen Specter, the committee's top Republican, reportedly said on National Public Radio that he had never seen so much opposition from voters against a nominee. According to Specter 11,000 phone calls, letters and...

Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1. Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Mr. Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails. Well, given what Mr. Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Mr. Obama’s agenda is much more audacious. Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has said as a matter of objective analysis that Mr. Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet...