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When Ed Jordan hung two flags from his front porch – one for his country and one for the Marine Corps he once served in – he thought no one could take issue with his gesture to honor the troops during the Fourth of July. He never imagined he would return to his Far North Dallas home from an errand Monday morning to find the flags burned....

This is a very disturbing picture..... http://younggunconservative.com/2009/06/30/congratulations-democrats-heres-your-new-senator/

Bulls-eyes have been painted on at least 6 House Democrats by the NRCC. The ammo is stockpiled and the weapons locker is open.

U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy. A separate report on April house prices in major cities offered some encouraging signs that the worst of the housing slump may be over, but that was not enough to lift investors' spirits. Another crop of economic data showed business activity in New York City and the Midwest remained weak, while retail chains slogged through a rough June. Billionaire investor George Soros added to the cautionary tone, saying that rising borrowing costs...

People are not only afraid—they are disgusted. Disgusted as the “president”: * Goes on extended apologize-for-America tours to Europe and the Middle East. * Genuflects like an obsequies toady to an Arab potentate. * Condones the Iranian dictator building nuclear weapons but slams Israel for building housing. * Stays mute for 10 days as the same Iranian madman incarcerates and slaughters protestors, at the same time as he (Obama) eliminates funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran. * Sides with the Marxists Castro, Chavez, and Ortega in lamenting the coup that deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. * Attacks those who fight...

Anyone here at FR purchase Gold and/or Silver through Apmex.com? If so, what are your pros/cons?

PRINCETON, NJ -- A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being "too liberal," from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the party's losses in that year's midterm elections. Most major demographic and attitudinal subgroups show at least a slight uptick since 2008 in perceptions that the Democratic Party is too liberal. The increasing perception of the Democrats as too far left comes as President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have expanded the government's role in...

Reagan once asked Americans during a debt with Jimmy Carter, "Are they better off today, than they were 4 years ago?" Barack Obama today in a closed door meeting with heavy weight Democratic Fundraisers raddled off a list of so-called measures that were suppose to have made America better and the need to expand Democrat Majorities in the Congress. Now 6 months in the New Democrat Golden Age which features a rubber stamp House and a Filbuster Proof Senate(not including Franken and RINO Help) I am asking the question that Reagan asked of America once and that the MSM does...

CJ was the first to alert me last night to the growing attempts to 'disappear' alleged child rapist Frank Lombard from the commune where he lived in Durham, North Carolina. Lombard's story can be found here, and in it you can see the minute-by-minute details of the way we first discovered a link between Lombard and the Episcopal Church of the Advocate in nearby Carrboro. Lombard was on the vestry of the church and was scheduled to rotate off in 2010. Saturday morning as the news began to break, ECOTA started removing from its site all references to Lombard, including...

There are only two reasons that come to mind why Todd Purdum might have written the nasty little hit piece on Sarah Palin for Vanity Fair: (1) This is red meat to the coastal elites (and wannabees) to which the magazine panders. (2) Liberals continue to be afraid of Palin as a potential candidate. The piece only makes sense if the underlying motivation is #1. Otherwise, it's a strategic blunder of the first order. I've had some disagreements with Governor Palin in the past -- for example, the way she handled Bristol Palin's pregnancy. But any lingering doubts or disagreements...

Meeting in urgent session in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a demand that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be restored to power, calling his ouster earlier that day "an unconstitutional alteration of the democratic order." The OAS Permanent Council proclaimed that it would not recognize any government resulting from that "coup d'état." Pretty strong stuff--but too little, too late. Manuel Zelaya began his four-year term as president of the Central American Republic of Honduras in January 2006. The harsh fact is that most of his countrymen regarded Zelaya as a capricious blowhard who was too...

One of President Barack Obama's most prominent Wall Street backers gives him high marks on just about everything except his approach to Wall Street.

Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom: And Whereas such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and promote the interests of the British Empire: ... Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and...

BOSTON, June 30 /Christian Newswire/ -- As America prepares to celebrate Independence Day this July 4, Vision Forum Ministries will be hosting a national celebration to honor the 500th birthday of John Calvin, a man who many scholars recognize as America's "Founding Father." The event -- The Reformation 500 Celebration -- will take place July 1-4 at the Park Plaza Hotel in downtown Boston. More than a thousand attendees are expected to gather for the four-day conference. "Long before America declared its independence, John Calvin declared and defended principles that birthed liberty in the modern world," noted Doug Phillips, president...

The House passed a sweeping energy and global warming cap and trade bill Friday. This bill, titled “America’s Clean Energy and Security Act,” or better known as Waxman-Markey, is the Democrats’ answer to the worst recession in decades: a national energy tax -- a tax designed to impose economic pain through higher energy prices and lost jobs. ..... The fact is that the Waxman-Markey bill is just the latest incarnation of costly cap-and-trade legislation that will have a devastating impact on the economy, cost more American jobs by pushing them overseas and drastically increase the size and scope of the...

Michelle Obama while nowhere to be seen when Barack is speaking about his new light bulb standards, or the Coup in Honduras, but when Barack is in a room full of Gay's Michelle Obama is standing guard off to his left. This photo used from PatDollard.com shows Barack in an embrace he enjoys far more than one with Michelle. In addition to the above, last year this blog reported that the John Edwards endorsement of then candidate Obama was obtained by promises of favors by Obama to Edwards. Former Edwards friend and insider Andrew Young confirms some of what was...

After a "Buy American" provision in the stimulus bill triggered a tit-for-tat with Canada, President Obama is warning fellow Democrats to think twice about another "protectionist" measure in the House-passed climate change bill. The climate bill that passed the House last week on a 219-212 vote includes a provision to impose tariffs -- starting in 2020 -- on imports from countries that don't have a system for limiting global warming pollution. The provision was pushed as a way to keep the U.S. competitive with other countries that haven't imposed rules to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,...

President Obama is quickly approaching the moment when he will have to emulate President George HW Bush, who told us to read his lips, "No New Taxes." Barack Obama promised us that he wouldn't raise taxes on families with income of less than $250,000, he is already hinting that the pledge will soon have to fall. Problem with that broken pledge, is that Christina Romer, a top Obama's top economic adviser did a major study that proved for every 1% increase in taxes, the US Gross Domestic Product falls by at least 2%. As we are already in an economic...

A knife-wielding burglar had a shock when he attacked a pensioner in his home - and discovered his victim was a retired boxer. Senior citizen Frank Corti, 72, a former junior boxing champion is still a bit handy with his dukes. And when he spotted the aforementioned intruder, Gregory McCalium, in his hallway he sprang into action and delivered two right hooks.