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Democrats took a swipe at Republicans - and conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh - with a Web page launched Wednesday morning on the official site of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The page - found at imsorryrush.com - allows users to construct a Mad Libs-style message to Limbaugh using "the secret Republican Apology Machine" and sign it with the name of prominent Republicans who've released mea culpas to Limbaugh recently - including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. [Snip] Limbaugh made headlines on his radio show when he stated, four days before Barack Obama's inauguration, that he wanted...

NEW YORK (AP) - A recently released Black September terrorist convicted of placing three powerful car bombs in New York City in 1973 has been deported to Sudan, a violent African nation that once sheltered Osama bin Laden and other terrorists. Khalid Al-Jawary, 63, was flown out of Denver International Airport on Thursday and arrived Tuesday in Khartoum, said Carl Rusnok, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman. Details of his deportation were released after Al-Jawary's federal escorts had safely left the volatile country that was once the site of a bloody Black September attack in the '70s.

Painting of the Holy Family from an exhibit of art in the Cusco School style in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, August 2008. [The following is excerpted from the book "The Divine Favors Granted to St. Joseph," by Pere Binet, S.J., reprinted by TAN Books, pgs. 59-60, 86-87.] "Let us consider...how, as father and spouse, this incomparable Saint [Joseph] has a right to be honoured by Jesus and Mary, since it is a precept, both natural and divine, that every son must honour his father, every wife her husband. Here Gerson expresses a sweet and loving thought;...

PANDI, Bulacan — At least six members of the so-called "depopulation team" at Win Farm in this town where 6,000 pigs are infected with the dreaded Ebola Reston virus have been suffering from "some kind of illness," a health officer said. Dr. Joy Gomez, public health officer of Bulacan, confirmed at yesterday’s press briefing that six members of the team have experienced dizziness, headache, and fatigue. The sickness experienced by the workers might be due to the protective suits that they are wearing, Gomez said, adding that the discomfort caused by the suits, which are uncomfortably hot, could become unbearable...

Out of Duke University. . . . A 6-foot-8-inch forward. . . . He had more or less admitted to me that this part of his job left him cold. ‘It’s the same thing every day,’ he said, as he struggled to explain how a man on the receiving end of the raging love of 18,557 people in a darkened arena could feel nothing. “If you had filet mignon every single night, you’d stop tasting it.” To him the only pleasure in these sounds — the name of his beloved alma mater, the roar of the crowd — was that...

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Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, This morning, while radio host Tom Roten was interviewing Delegate Margaret Anne Staggers and me live on WVHU, Del. Staggers said that she did not support her own bill, H.B. 2749, the sports access bill, as written. Your phone calls had an impact!

An inside source associated with the NY GOP has said they may be expecting anti-Rush Limbaugh protesters at an event with RNC Chairman Michael Steele tonight in New York City. The event is to take place at 560 5th avenue at 6pm. Update: The individuals will be protesting Michael Steele for apologizing to Limbaugh. Chairman Steele had previously called Limbaugh's show "incendiary" before issuing an apology to the talk show host.

It should go without saying that liberals aren’t the only ones who would suffer buyer’s remorse were we to accept a text-only Constitution as our lot. Consider an act of Congress-the “Above-Average Gun Violence Act”-that requires any city in the United States with a higher-than-average annual per capita rate of violent crimes involving the use of firearms to enact, within one month of the Justice Department’s release of the relevant annual figures, a gun control law (i.e., a law regulating the purchase, sale, and possession of firearms) that has been submitted to, and approved by, the attorney general, who in...

A man shot and killed an intruder who was assaulting his 34-year-old son, Weatherford police said today. Robert E. Bardwell, 57, entered the home in the 500 block of South Rusk Street and began attacking the son, police said. The dad fired a warning shot into the ceiling, but the attack continued. The dad then fired at Bardwell. Police arrived at the home shortly after 1 a.m. today. Bardwell, who appeared to have multiple gunshot wounds, was pronounced dead at the scene.

After a day of uncertainty, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said Tuesday he would vote to confirm Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for secretary of health and human services. “The president won the election and has nominated a Kansan to the Cabinet,” Brownback said in a statement. “Despite our profound policy differences, I will support my fellow Kansan.” Brownback joined Sen. Pat Roberts, who also made his intentions known Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday, Brownback had deferred. “He doesn’t plan to say anything either way at this point,” said a spokesman. Some questioned how Brownback would decide, considering how abortion opponents — who have...

The 2008 election sent many messages. At the top: Americans wanted to turn the page on the politics of division and partisan pettiness, and they wanted a government -- and country -- that would put the middle class first. Watching the Republicans operate this past month, it would appear that they missed that unmistakable signal. Instead, Rush Limbaugh has become their leader. Limbaugh, of course, told his radio listeners that he's rooting for President Obama to fail -- and hoping the president's ideas for bolstering our economy fail with him. For many Americans, hungry for leadership and cooperation, this sounded...

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(CNN) -- Three years ago, Phillip Loughlin made a choice he knew would brand him as an outsider with many of his fellow hunters: "It made sense," Loughlin said of his switch to more environmentally friendly ammo, which doesn't contain lead. "I believe that we need to do a little bit to take care of the rest of the habitat and the environment -- not just what we want to shoot out of it." Lead, a toxic metal that can lower the IQs of children, is the essential element in most ammunition on the market today. But greener alternatives are...

<p>Tennessee’s Republican Party is trying to tap into the resentment that some Americans are feeling about the Obama administration’s foreclosure prevention program.</p> <p>Thursday, the Nashville-based organization began selling bumper stickers reading “HONK If you’re paying my mortgage.” In five days more than 4,000 have been purchased, according to Bill Hobbs, the party’s spokesman. He said that this beats the 3,500 stickers the party sold last fall that read YOUR WALLET The only place Democrats want to drill.</p>

The Republican Party is holding a Convention on May 29-30, 2009, to select candidates to run for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General in the General Election. VCDL-PAC is endorsing a candidate for each of these positions at the Republican Convention: LT. GOVERNOR: William T. "Bill" Bolling. This endorsement is based on the excellent record Lt Governor Bolling established representing the interests of Virginia gun owners during his career in the Virginia General Assembly, as well as his forthright and unequivocal 100% pro-gun answers to the VCDL Candidate Survey. The Bolling campaign website is: http://www.billbolling.com ATTORNEY GENERAL: Kenneth T. "Ken" Cuccinelli,...

At the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Obama Budget yesterday, Republicans vociferously objected to President Obama’s devastating new taxes on energy found throughout the budget that would drive our already fragile economy down. Crippling taxation on the small independent oil and gas producers and Obama’s “cap and trade” policy would at once burden families across the country with staggering gasoline and electricity costs, drive manufacturing jobs overseas and sound the death knell for domestic oil and gas production at a time when there is no transitional source of energy. Ranking member Dave Camp (R-Mich.) told me in...

Senior Islamic Jihad commander Khaled Shalan was in critical condition on Wednesday night after being wounded in an IAF missile strike on a car in Gaza. Another member of the terror group was also critically hurt in the attack on the vehicle that was traveling from Jabalya to Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza. According to the IDF, Shalan was responsible for the recent rocket fire on Ashkelon. Hamas officials said the two jumped out of the vehicle when they heard the approaching aircraft, but were hit by the incoming missile. Five others were reportedly wounded in the strike. Since the...

QUO WARRANTO: A New Hope - Military can now retreat in peace. Today I had a five hour meeting with New Jersey attorney, Mario Apuzzo. The meeting was entirely focused on the issue of Quo Warranto Bottom line: we’ve identified a subset of plaintiffs who have a much more viable path to standing to institute an action in Quo Warranto than active military. This subset of plaintiffs would not be exposed to possible court martial since they are not military plaintiffs. And there is no prevailing need to place this burden on the backs of our military. Our military can...