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He says he is gearing up to fight anyone who disagrees with him, and he has singled some of us out by name: Joe the plumber, Rick Santelli and of course the mightiest voice among us, Rush Limbaugh. Rush, as the Democrats tell it, is the leader of Republicans. The Democrats say this because they need attach a face to represent the patriotic Americans that they are planning to attack. The Obama administration and the Democrats keep repeating Rush’s line that he wants Obama to fail, and they say that nothing could be more un-American than to root for Obama...

As a 30-year resident of Chicago's beautiful North Side lakefront, I take some personal pride in my neighbor Mike Quigley's big win Tuesday in the cattle-call race for Congress in the 5th District. Mr. Quigley still has to get by GOP and Green Party foes in the April general election. But that's likely, and as a member of the House, his mix of liberal social views and a zeal for political reform is in the best lakefront political tradition. But the irony is, while representing lakefront views, Mr. Quigley got virtually no election-day help from those who take the 135,...

A century from now, Kansas students will wonder how a state that was founded to keep the west free from slavery allowed itself to become the world capital of an even greater affront to life and liberty, late term abortion. And they will shake their heads in dismay when they read of the rise of governor who flouted the state’s abortion laws and the fall of the attorney general, who tried to enforce them. That governor is Democrat Kathleen Sebelius. At this moment, the media are ignoring the body count she left behind in Kansas in their rush to sing...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Socialist President Hugo Chavez met with a 21st-century incarnation of one of the world's biggest revolutionary icons Wednesday: actor Benicio del Toro, who stars in the new film chronicling the life of Ernesto "Che" Guevara... "He's nice," the actor told journalists following the encounter at the presidential palace...

Perhaps you’ve seen the video of the King County, Wash., sheriff’s deputy dishing out a bit of the rough stuff on a 15-year-old girl. At 3:45 a.m. last November 29, the girl was arrested while riding as a passenger in her parents’ car, which had been reported stolen to police. The video shows Deputy Paul Schene, 31, and a second deputy escorting the girl into a holding cell. The girl, apparently at Schene’s request, takes off one of her shoes and, apparently not at Schene’s request, kicks it at him, striking him in the shin with it. It seems fair...

Security Advisory: Firefox 3.0.7For all you alternative browser types out there, Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox (3.0.7). The latest updated fixes eight vulnerabilities, six of which are considered critical. Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. Comments

Received the following E-mail!!! This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points. For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple. NOTprinted in the Orange County Paper......... Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get...

It's become quite clear now what Obama and the Democrat's strategy was (and is) on the Fairness Doctrine - turn down the volume and deny that's what you really want, while you work to repackage it under a new name. The "New" Fairness Doctrine?So what name will the new version of "fairness" operate under? Diversity. Or "diversity of ownership", if you prefer. Just last week, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by SC Senator Jim DeMint that would prohibit the FCC from reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine, while at the same time approving an amendment by IL Democrat Dick Durbin that...

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Recently, Religious Left icon Jim Wallis preached about the virtues of Big Government to the already converted at Yale University’s chapel, from which the late chaplain William Sloane Coffin had inveighed against America during the tumultuous 1960’s and 1970’s. “Change requires people of faith,” Wallis intoned from the pulpit in the style of Coffin, whose “spirit and…legacy live on,” Wallis later discerned. “If you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains.” The “mustard seed” quote came from Jesus, who was referring to faith’s exponential power in building the Kingdom of God. Wallis, like...

MANASSAS, VA (MARCH 3, 2009) - Half of the 26 Catholic activists, scholars and theologians who signed a statement publicly supporting President Barack Obama’s selection of pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services are professors employed by Catholic universities, The Cardinal Newman Society revealed today. “These professors are giving comfort and aid to those whose stated goals are to advance policies directly opposed to Catholic teachings on life issues, and they do it under the guise of fidelity to Jesus Christ,” said Patrick J. Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society. “Lauding pro-abortion Catholics such...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- This year, parishioners at St. Joseph Church in Modesto, Calif., are more excited than usual about Easter. That's because 40 of them, along with their pastor, Father Joseph Illo, will be in Rome during Holy Week, and one person in their group, Heidi Sierras, will be baptized by the pope during the Easter Vigil at St. Peter's Basilica. Sierras will be in a group of five -- representing different areas of the world -- who will be baptized by Pope Benedict XVI April 11. The 29-year-old mother of four will represent North America. "It's hard to put...

Our Obama Journey May Obama be Our Shepard Yes, be the first on your block to have this professionally framed fine art depiction of Barack Obama as Jesus Christ*, shepherd's staff in hand and lamb in arms. Accompanying this high quality art piece is a wonderful message of uplift about "The Journey" to Obamahood we all share. You'll be proud as your friends and family see this wonderful piece of art adorning your walls and they too will want to believe that YES WE CAN sell them one of their very own. And if you act now, we will send...

Gordon Brown has been given a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD as his official gift from Barack Obama. The Prime Minister flew home from his successful trip to Washington this morning with the 'special collector's box' of films hidden in his luggage. No 10 had tried to keep the present a secret, refusing to answer reporters who asked what President Obama had given to mark the reaffirmation of the special relationship. However, the Evening Standard discovered the truth through White House insiders.

The former Beatles will headline the Radio City Music Hall concert on April 4 for the David Lynch Foundation The David Lynch Foundation provides funds to teach students how to meditate so they can "change their world from within."

That is, he would if he had the ability to think coherently and extend his appreciation of things right in front of his face to his perception of things in general. In recent statements on the local news channel New York 1, the actor Alec Baldwin pleaded for tax breaks that are provided to film and TV production companies in New York to be continued, in the name of business, jobs and overall revenue for the state and city. In an interview on “The Road to City Hall,” actor Alec Baldwin is calling on state leaders to renew a tax...

The people can never wilfully betray their own interests; but they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act. short context: It adds no small weight to all these considerations, to recollect that history informs us of no long-lived republic which had not a senate. Sparta, Rome, and Carthage are, in fact, the only states to whom that character can be...

This just in - - under the imprimatur of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - - the anti-Rush Limbaugh drivel du jour: Dear [sucker], This isn't just some radio host mouthing off. Rush Limbaugh is the leading voice of the Republican Party. Make no mistake. When Rush says jump, congressional Republicans say how high?

Tells Herald party has no leader Conservative talk titan Rush Limbaugh told the Herald that while he’s “the most prominent national figure actually tying Barack Obama to his policies,” the Republican Party doesn’t actually have a “leader” to take on the new administration. “The Republican Party and the conservative movement are two different things. I have nothing to do with the party,” Limbaugh said yesterday in an e-mail. “Clearly, the GOP has no ‘leader’ right now, and they won’t until a viable presidential candidate surfaces. I have no idea who that will be.” The right-wing radio host has emerged as...

Just a little humor on what is starting out as bad day for the Dow Jones. As I am watching the little bit of money I have left in stocks that Obama has not taking from me yet, I see the Dow going down, down down. Diving is a better word for it. I would to know if he is talking some where, any where and if any one that may be near him could polity ask him to stop talking.