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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- An actress who starred on the hit television series "Three's Company" has been arrested in Southern California and cited for drunken driving. Police said Joyce DeWitt, who played the character Janet Wood on the popular show, was pulled over Saturday afternoon after she drove past a barricade near a park in El Segundo. Sgt. Danny Kim says an officer arrested the 60-year-old DeWitt after he observed signs she had been drinking and gave her field sobriety tests. Kim says DeWitt was booked at the Police Department, cited and released on her own recognizance.

In an interview on ABC's "This Week" program, Biden said Israel can determine for itself how best to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. "We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they're existentially threatened," Biden said. *** US President Barack Obama on Tuesday strongly denied that the United States had given Israel an approval to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. Asked by CNN whether Washington had given Israel a green light for such an attack, Obama answered: "Absolutely not."

A New York woman said a wallet stolen nearly 27 years ago in Central Park was found in inside a hollow tree. Ruth Bendik, 60, said she was greeting runners at the end of the New York marathon Oct. 24,1982, and "when I got out of the crush of people, I realized my purse was much lighter," CNN reported Tuesday. Josh Galiley, tree-care supervisor for the Central Park Conservancy, said he was chopping down a 65-year-old hazardous black cherry tree in the park last week when he found the blue leather wallet in the hollow trunk. "I started poking in...

This country is constantly made great by people who are kind, generous and good-hearted. If there are angry, greedy or stingy people in Ventura County, they should try to hide that as best they can. Love our country, lift it up and make it a better place. Love our president, lift him up in your prayers and help him be the best he can be. This country will continue to become great if people will see the good in each other, even the good in others who are different. Take the toxic anger and hate in your heart and give...

Tough Love on Russia by: Anthony Kang, July 07, 2009 In concert with many other remarks made by President Obama, there has been much mystery, worry, and speculation regarding his stated desire to “reset the button” on U.S.-Russia bilateral relations. The Heritage Foundation held a discussion July 1st led by panelists Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasion Studies, Sanford Saunders, partner at Greenberg Traurig, and director of the New European Democracies Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Janusz Bugajski, who each shared their expectations for Obama’s visit and possible consequences of the summit’s...

This really ticks me off, when can you ever remember a politician "quitting", no they "Resign" but not Sarah, the Media says "She Quit". Not even disgraced politicians quit, they resign, and Sarah is certainly not disgraced, but yet, news story after news story says she Quit. Language matters, and I hear it here on the FR as well, she didn't quit like a kid walking out of MacDonalds, she resigned with dignity as the Governer of Alaska.

Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and energy officials urged the Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation to reduce the pollution linked to the planet's rising temperature. The heads of the Energy Department, Agriculture Department, Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate panel it should pass a bill similar to one the House narrowly cleared late last month. That legislation would impose the first limits on greenhouse gases, eventually leading to an 80 percent reduction by mid-century by putting a price on each ton of climate-altering...

Obama can hold his hand over his heart for the USSR but not for America? What is going on with Obama? When will America Wake up? Freely distribute.

And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America, having lost their morals, their initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as The One. He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them : “I am sent to save you. My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. For I shall save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and...

SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - Last week, German authorities discovered that groups of terrorists may have been dispatched from training bases in Pakistan to launch crippling attacks.” SNIPPET: “They say as a minimum of 12 al-Qaida operatives who were trained in the tribal region of Pakistan have left the training camps and are headed back to their home countries. Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Egypt are just some of those countries. According to the source, the threat levels also were raised for many other Western European countries to include concerns for “Turkish Airlines flying passengers from Istanbul to the...

FReep this poll: what kind of senator will Al Franken be?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sarah Palin says she's not a quitter, she's a fighter, but adds that, politically speaking, "if I die, I die. So be it."

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A third incident of groping occurs at a Central Florida water park in just over two weeks. Robert Double, 51, of Farmington, New York, was arrested Friday at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon. He's accused of groping girls and pulling off their bikini tops in the wave pool. The incident occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Orange County investigators said Disney Security officers watched Double on security monitors repeatedly assaulting young girls. Deputies talked to the victim and her father at the park. The 15-year-old victim told deputies that Double had been deliberately crashing into her while she was waiting...

An online insomnia intervention based on established face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy techniques appears to improve patients' sleep, according to a new report. About one-third of adults report symptoms of insomnia and approximately 10 percent meet diagnostic criteria for an insomnia disorder, according to background information in the article. The condition decreases quality of life, impairs daytime functioning, has personal and public health consequences and results in an estimated $41 billion in reduced productivity every year. Cognitive behavioral therapy—a psychological treatment focusing on the behaviors and dysfunctional thoughts that contribute to sleep problems—is one of the most effective treatments for insomnia....

The Palins were staying with Sarah's in-laws Bob and Blanche Kallstrom when the soon-to-be-ex-governor of Alaska sat down for an interview. The Kallstroms are two of the 2,500 full-time residents of Dillingham, Alaska, and owners of the Bristol Bay Inn and a hardware store. [...]What do you think is wrong right now with what President Obama is doing in particular? President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it's immoral and it's uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America. His plan to "put America on the right track" economically, incurring the debt that our nation is incurring, trillions of...

Melanie Phillips highlights troubling contradictions contained within Alan Dershowitz's Wall Street Journal editorial. To use the proverbial "canary in the mine shaft" description of Dershowitz would be generous. Coming from a professor of law (wasn't Obama supposedly a professor too or so he told us?) of his stature one would hope for more than a wishful thinking op/ed on his part. more

In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear free world.” He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.

Video of ABC, NBC, and CNN interviews with link to Time Magazine Palin interview.

Green is the traditional color of Islam. It has political, religious, and historic significance. The color green has been used as a symbol to identify Islam for centuries. In the West the use of the color green for promoting climate hoaxes, ecology politics, and global corporate interests who seek to further control human behavior is increasingly obvious. The encryption of the color green into visual symbolic cues as well as the use of the word “green” as a shorthand to evoke the illusion of environmental harmony is a self evident part of popular culture.

When I was very young girl, my parents took me to see the Jackson Five/ABC Concert in Dallas, Texas.  My military dad and mom were so proud of this young black child who seemed to be able to do anything on stage.  Normally they would never had dreamed of taking such a little one to a concert but, Michael Jackson to my parents and many blacks in America… was more than just a performer. Jackson at just 9 years old… along with his brothers had a Saturday morning cartoon… opposite of the Osmonds.  Back then it was one of the precious...