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Libertarian poll: What is Obama trying to distract us from? Party needles White House over attacks on radio host Limbaugh WASHINGTON – America’s third largest party is asking Americans to vote on what they think the White House’s ongoing war with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is intended to distract attention from, Libertarian National Committee (LNC) Communications Director Donny Ferguson announced Wednesday. The LNC has posted a poll at www.lp.org asking Americans to cast their vote for one of five harmful Obama policies the White House hopes their spat with Limbaugh will distract attention from. “Every time Obama announces higher...

White House efforts to highlight Rush Limbaugh as the face of the Republican Party are an attempt to divert attention from the administration’s massive budget proposal, GOP House leaders said Wednesday. They said Americans are more concerned about the economy and President Obama’s budget than Limbaugh, under White House fire for saying he hoped Obama would fail because of his policies. “This is nothing more than a distraction created by the administration to take people’s attention away from the fact that they’re going to raise taxes and grow the size of government,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Wednesday...

Here is video from last night where Sean Hannity talked with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who said the Obama Administration has made it first big foreign policy mistake with it's offer to the Russians to scrap a promised missile shield to Eastern Europe in exchange for Russian help with Iran. . . . . (Watch Video)

Moderate and conservative Democrats in the Senate are starting to choke over the massive spending and tax increases in President Barack Obama’s budget plans and have begun plotting to increase their influence over the agenda of a president who is turning out to be much more liberal than they are. A group of 14 Senate Democrats and one independent huddled behind closed doors on Tuesday, discussing how centrists in that chamber can assert more leverage on the major policy debates that will dominate this Congress. <snip> Sen. Evan Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who assembled Tuesday’s skull session, added that he...

Nobody cries like dreamboat crooner Chris Isaak does. In fact, he's got a song on his new album called "You Don't Cry Like I Do." The man has either had the worst run of bad relationships ever or just wisely recognizes that the hitch in his throat and his butter-melting falsetto work best when he's pining, lamenting, beseeching, or otherwise bringing the high, Orbison-ian drama. Either way, he continues to deliver the goods on "Lucky" by singing about the unlucky. Among the cast of lonely hearts are the bitterly betrayed man doing the slow burn on "Cheater's Town" and the...

Just listening to CNN online and heard Rick Sanchez interview this Media Matters guy and made no mention of MM's affiliations or slant, just that he works for "a media fact check group". I wanted to barf. It's to be expected coming from CNN, but here's the real shocker: they picked apart a Republican congressman's response (forgot his name) to a question. Sanchez asked him about spending and earmarks under the Bush Administration and why he's making a big fuss now instead of back then. The congressman rattled off several bills that Bush supported that he fought Bush on. Enter...

Sounding an alarm.

in government as elsewhere, hard decisions avoided are hard decisions worsened....The administration’s current FY ’10 budget proposal projects huge annual deficits for several fiscal years to come, meaning further trillion dollar increases in national debt....

New Orleans ministers say Louisiana Attorney General has ruled that state law does not allow recall of federal officials Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The New Orleans ministers who launched a recall effort against 2nd District Congressman Joseph Cao last month say they've now been told by Louisiana's Attorney General that state law does not allow the recall of federal officials. The advisory opinion had been sought by Secretary of State Jay Dardenne who presides over elections. The campaign was launched after the newly elected Congressman who succeeded Bill Jefferson, voted twice with his fellow Republicans in the House against an...

"This all comes at a time when the economy is in sort of in the tank and union members are losing their jobs. Here are some numbers released today, for example. Manufacturing - the economy has lost 219,000 manufacturing jobs. Service industry - down 359,000 jobs. The goods producing and construction jobs down 338,000. It is hard to get exact numbers, but many of those people are dues-paying union members who are now without work."

Mariska Hargitay was hospitalized in New York on Wednesday night after suffering chest pains, sources close to “Law & Order: SVU” confirmed to Access Hollywood. According to the sources, more surgery is likely for the star. Mariska has been hospitalized twice previously in recent months for a collapsed lung.

Schools are installing CCTV cameras and microphones in classrooms to spy on teachers. The surveillance technology is being used to check that pupils are being taught well and to expose poor teachers. But the approach has provoked fury among teaching unions, who say the tactics smack of Big Brother. Under the system, special training classrooms have been equipped with 360-degree cameras and five microphones. Some cameras are so powerful they can pick up what pupils are writing in their exercise books or what's on their computer screens. Teachers can be given live feedback from senior staff through a concealed earpiece....

A prison riot Wednesday near the troubled Mexican border town of Juarez has left an unconfirmed number of fatalities, news reports said. El Diario de Juarez newspaper reported 17 people were killed, including two federal agents. Ten people were wounded, the newspaper said. The tallies could not be independently verified with state and federal officials. Police official Carlos Gonzalez said the uprising occurred among members of the Aztecas drug gang housed in Module 3, according to El Diario. Some inmates were armed, the newspaper said. The prison is located in a semi-desert area 17 miles (28 kilometers) south of Ciudad...

Radio host Rush Limbaugh, whom the White House has repeatedly suggested is the true head of the Republican Party, is challenging President Obama to a debate. “If these guys are so impressed with themselves, and if they are so sure of their correctness, why doesn't President Obama come on my show?,” Limbaugh said today. “We will do a one-on-one debate of ideas and policies.” “They wanted me to be the focus of attention,” Limbaugh continued, referencing reports that the White House is working to tie him to the GOP. “So let's have the debate! I am offering President Obama to...

"It's out there. We deal with it."

All of this talk of Rush Limbaugh being the Boogeyman, and the defacto head of the Republican Party. It is supposed to hurt Republicans. I say that may backfire on the current Democratic leaders. You see, Bush would not come out and argue his point, debate his point, and sometimes not even defend his point. Rush will! I have been politically astute for 28 years [since I was 18 and a guy name Ronald Reagan politically picked me up]. I have had a political bend, I was a two time candidate for local office. No, I did not win, I...

All these highbrow conservative attacks on Limbaugh keep missing the point. 1) There is a certain sort of genius there that can do 15 hours of talk per week, ad hoc, and hold an audience of 20 million plus for over 20 years. There are about one or two others out of some 300 million who can do it. It may not be the same as digesting Reinhold Niebuhr or rereading the Federalist papers, but it is an uncanny talent and for over twenty years it has energized conservatives and reflected a certain populism that was lacking in its Wall...

NEW South Wales Police are to be given covert search warrants, allowing them to search a property without informing the owners for up to three years. The warrants will be issued through the Supreme Court and limited to investigations of suspected serious offences punishable by at least seven years jail. These offences include the manufacture of drugs, computer crimes, the sale of firearms, homicide and kidnapping. Premier Nathan Rees said NSW would be the first jurisdiction in Australia to adopt the covert search warrants, and would be borrowing from Commonwealth anti-terrorism legislation. "If you are a serious criminal in NSW...