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One of our Australian readers alerted us to this headline in today’s Adelaide Advertiser, the largest newspaper in South Australia. You may think the answer is obvious. In that case, the current results of the Advertiser’s poll may surprise you as much as they surprised us:

Gone too soon. 20 deaths from the sports world that shocked us .

From the Executive Summary: "This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. (snip) ...defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual’s ability to do the same." Freedom in the 50 States

Bad Moon On The Rise? Trouble brewing for the untested President NO TEXT, JUST COMMENTARY BY BRIT HUME http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=446

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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=53313 Guard Needs Full Spectrum of Capabilities, General Says By Army Staff Sgt. S. Patrick McCollum Special to American Forces Press Service BALTIMORE, March 3, 2009 – Living up to the National Guard’s motto of “Always Ready, Always There” requires a full spectrum of capabilities, a senior National Guard official told an audience at the Domestic Operations Conference here today. Army Maj. Gen. Peter M. Aylward, director of the National Guard Bureau Joint Staff, speaks to conferees at the NGB Domestic Operations Conference, March 3, 2009, in Baltimore. U.S. Army photo by Staff...

LoyaltoLiberty "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force." The Federalist "With words we govern men." Benjamin Disraeli In practice, the substance of liberty is deliberate, voluntary choice. Constrained by the threat or use of force; manipulated by lies and misinformation; herded by contrived circumstances; choice is...

Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans, helping set off a chain of events that has the economy staggering. So it may come as a surprise that a dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from the home mortgage mess. Stanford L. Kurland, Countrywide’s former president, and his team have been buying up delinquent home mortgages that the government took over from other failed banks, sometimes...

Is President Obama intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees? Some argue that, indeed, he is. "The free market has failed," he could say, "just as it failed the housing market!" Consider that, in the teeth of a devastating recession, Obama has: • Raised taxes on small businesses, the engines of entrepreneurship and job growth • Raised the capital gains tax • Lied about "tax cuts for 95% of Americans", offering instead $13 a week, achieved not through tax cuts, but by changing the federal withholding tables! • Destroyed charitable giving by axing the tax breaks for...

The GOP is in disarray, but conservatives aren't. We are as united and determined as ever..... So, here is MY note to Mr. Steele: 'I don't know what you are, but you AIN'T a conservative! And we don't need you out running your mouth like the other RINOS who have run the Party into the ground. So, SHUT UP!'

OTTAWA -- Central bankers from the major industrialized countries have moved in lockstep to flood financial markets with cash in their battle against a decaying global economy, but they do so with little experience to draw upon, heightening the risk that this grand effort could fail. “Independent measures being taken in a contemporaneous fashion implies co-ordination,” says Michael Woolfolk, New York-based senior currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon. “There is nothing perverse or desperate about it. It is just that they are running out of monetary policy room to stimulate the economy.” Mr. Woolfolk’s analysis emerges after Mark...

For anyone wanting to get a group of people energized to go out and defeat OBAMA! This song will get you charged up. Even the group's name (Republica) fits.

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LOS ANGELES -- The mayor of Los Angeles easily won re-election after a bumpy first term in the nation's second-largest city, fueling speculation that he will be among contenders next year to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the first Hispanic mayor in more than a century, was rewarded Tuesday with a second, four-year trip to City Hall despite an uneven first term that saw the breakup of his marriage and the defeat of his signature plan to reform city schools.

California corrections officials say the state will no longer spend the estimated $10 million a year it costs to lock up undocumented immigrants with prior convictions who reenter the country illegally after being deported. In the past, the state kept them on parole after deportation and incarcerated them for parole violations when they reentered the country illegally. But a federal court has ordered California to reduce the population of overcrowded prisons.

Buckley turning on him was predictable, Brooks turning on him was a pleasant surprise if not unthinkable — but Mr. Leg Thrill? This isn’t the first time he’s expressed exasperation with The One’s performance lately, either. If he’s losing Matthews, whither the rest of the media’s Hopenchange sycophants?

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - Scam artists with sophisticated Web sites, some featuring photos of President Barack Obama, are offering to help consumers cash in on the new $787 billion economic stimulus package, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.

GORDON Brown last night urged America to use the drive that put man on the Moon to save the Earth. The PM called on the US to “seize the moment” and lead the world out of economic crisis with green technology. Mr Brown forecast the global economy could DOUBLE — if America, Britain and the EU worked together for a “Global New Deal”. He warned America not to close its doors to foreign competition — saying protectionism would “protect no one”.

I thought y'all might want to know, and to watch. STAR OF THE MONTH: RONALD REAGAN, He's on now. All times in Eastern. 8:00 PM Secret Service Of The Air (1939) A government agent battles smugglers. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy, Jr., John Litel. Dir: Noel Smith. BW-61 mins, TV-PG 9:15 PM Code Of The Secret Service (1939) Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy, Jr., Rosella Towne. Dir: Noel Smith. BW-58 mins, TV-G 10:30 PM Smashing The Money Ring (1939) The Secret Service investigates a fleet of gambling...