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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: "Obama, the African Colonial" This is by L.E. Ikenga. This is LE Ikenga. She is a first-generation American, and she absorbed the African culture from her parents.  This is a special piece, and I'm going to read most of it to you here. It's at the AmericanThinker.com. "Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a...

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WASHINGTON — A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. Frank Lombard, the school's associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested after an Internet sting, according to the FBI's Washington field office and the city's police department. According to an affidavit by District of Columbia Police Det. Timothy Palchak, an unnamed informant facing charges in his own child sex case led authorities to Lombard. Authorities said that Lombard tried to persuade a person — who he did not know was a police officer — to travel to North...

College students find new ways to channel their inner Bluto. When Animal House first came out just over 30 years ago, it dominated the cultural landscape. College students were nostalgic for the "raunchy, pre-1960s undergraduate ideal," says Peter Rollins, who has been studying pop-culture academically for over 30 years. Mr. Rollins, who attended Dartmouth in the 1960s, says that students back then tried to live "the fantasy" on their own campuses. Some still do, taking Bluto's counsel to heart: "My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." Take Alpha Delta, the Dartmouth College fraternity that the infamous Delta house...

Vote was 219 For 219 Against (Roll Call). 8 Republicans voted For and 2 Did not vote. Enough to have made the difference. Republicans who voted For: Mary Bono Mack, CA-45Mike Castle, DEMark Steven Kirk, IL-10Leonard Lance, NJ-7Frank LoBiondo, NJ-2John McHugh, NY-23Dave Reichert, WA-8Chris Smit, NJ-4 If you are a constituent of any of the above, you may wish to express your displeasure at their voting for a bill that will do nothing to prevent climate change but will saddle American's with thousands more in tax increases and job losses. Contact links for each member are available on their web...

Teenager jumps to her death from Eiffel Tower, crashing onto roof of packed restaurant 180ft below IAN SPARKS 27th June 2009 A teenage tourist has leapt to her death from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and crashed onto the roof of a packed restaurant 180ft below. The 18-year-old Brazilian girl jumped from a second-storey tier as her brother frantically tried to stop her. Diners on the tower's 170ft-high first floor then heard her smash into the plastic roof of the restaurant, believed to be Altitude 95, five feet above their heads. Altitude 95, on the first tier of the Eiffel...

Waukesha -- A woman accused of four drunken driving offenses in three weeks is a "poster child" for the need to reform Wisconsin's drunken driving laws. That's what Waukesha County Court Commission Martin Binn said Friday as the Milwaukee woman, 27-year-old Nicole M. Bailey, appeared before him Friday. Bailey had a new charge filed Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with a June 13 traffic stop in Menomonee Falls by an officer who was investigating a hit-and-run accident, according to the criminal complaint. Bailey wasn’t driving the 1999 BMW at the time of the accident, but she was...

If you are a friend of President Obama you need have no fear of a corruption probe!Here's another in what is fast becoming a series of moves designed to further shield Obama allies from any accountability before the law: Conyers backs off probe of ACORN Says 'powers that be' ended plans for hearings on group By S.A. Miller Washington Times June 26, 2009 House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate purported wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea. Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier...

Jewish groups and representatives of 49 countries are gathering in Prague for talks on returning art and possessions stolen by the Nazis. The five-day conference in the Czech capital will also aim to increase Holocaust awareness and education. The Nazis stole an estimated 650,000 religious items and works of art from European Jews during World War II. While much of the art been returned, a great deal remains in museums and private collections. The BBC's Rob Cameron in Prague says there has often been considerable reluctance on the part of those in possession of the looted art to return it....

U.S. President Barack Obama while signing executive orders about the closing of the military prison at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in the Oval Office on second official day at White House in Washington, January 22, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)Well, this can't make the Code Pink crowd and ACLU militants very happy: The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White...

Stress of comeback blamed for death of pop king Michael JacksonJune 27, 2009 10:00am THE stress of a hugely anticipated series of comeback shows in London caused Michael Jackson's death, his close friend Uri Geller says. Spoon-bending psychic and performer Geller, who lives in Britain, said Jackson was desperate to prove to the world that he was still a superstar despite child abuse allegations which had seriously damaged his career. The paranormalist described the scale of Jackson's planned comeback shows - some 50 concerts at London's O2 Arena, which were due to start in July - as ``just scary''. ``He...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday, June 26, 2009 A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn’t the same naked man seen walking around earlier. Mark Musselwhite, 43, said he was hot and had been in the creek, according to a Georgia Department of Natural Resources incident report. He apparently didn’t think he was doing anything wrong. Musselwhite, of Gainesville, was arrested last weekend after being confronted by state DNR authorities. He was charged with public indecency. “He told me he was the ex-mayor of the city Gainesville and he was...

Goldman Sachs: "Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression" Posted by Tyler Durden at 2:58 PM With a subtitle like "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again" run, don't walk, to your nearest kiosk and buy Matt Taibbi's latest piece in Rolling Stone magazine. One of the best comprehensive profiles of Government Sachs done to date. Speaking of GS, they sure must be busy today, now that Bernanke is about to be impeached and take the fall for...

A group of individuals was recently denied the privilege of having a booth at the Twin Cities Pride Festival due to the fact that they believe what the Bible says about homosexuality. The following email correspondence has been posted as a result.

As a follow-up to this story, the New York Times is now admitting that it made a mistake, and that what Jermaine Jackson actually wished his late brother Michael Jackson was, "May Allah be with you always": Correction: June 27, 2009 An article on Friday about the death of Michael Jackson misstated the number of songs from his album “Off the Wall” that became No. 1 singles. There were two, not four. The article also misstated part of a comment that Mr. Jackson’s brother Jermaine offered for Mr. Jackson after speaking with reporters. He said, “May Allah be with you...

Dear Friends, I am starting up a Political Action Committee for the 2010 Congressional Elections (though I also may support/oppose state and local candidates as well)! I have Contacted the FEC (as well as..) the IRS. I have a big packet of information from the FEC in which I am currently reading (and though it is interesting-to me..)..(ok so I am a 'nerd'..a political 'junkie' to be specific..). I am humbly asking for your advice if anyone has ever attempted this and is connected to this webite or just a general fellow citizen)? What were some 'pitfalls', 'successes', 'tips', etc.....

Friday, June 26, 2009 Weeks after a reported lion sighting in north Georgia, a Jackson County woman says her horse was killed by a big cat. JoAnn Hitman told the Web site accessnorthga.com that she found the horse Thursday morning on her property near the Hall County line. She called her veterinarian, and “he found evidence of where this cat that must have weighed 300 pounds came in and got on the horse’s back and brought the horse down,” she told the Web site. She said several neighbors also believe a big cat is on the prowl.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, is changing its name. Why? Because the ACORN franchise has become so tarnished they feel they can't continue under the original name. The Washington Examiner reports that ACORN has changed its name to "Community Organizations International." Shall we call them "coy?" If they were "Community Organizations National" we could call them "con" because that's still exactly what they are. A con by any other name is still a con. Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, was the chief financial officer of Citizens Consulting, Inc. (CCI), the financially controlling...

On Today's Show...   H.R. 2454: The Cap & Tax Travesty, A Madoff-Type Scam Read the transcript of Rush's landmark monologue. (Rush 24/7 Members:  Listen)   "This climate bill has nothing to do with saving the planet or the polar bears.   The problems that this legislation claims to address do not exist.   Regulating our behavior and limiting our freedom will not have any effect on the climate.   It is a pure power and money grab by the same people in Washington who have been grabbing power and money since Obama was inaugurated." -Rush     Barack Obama...

Republicans in Italics: Bono MackCastleKirkLanceLoBiondoMcHughReichertSmith (NJ)