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Interesting afternoon. I'll report and you decide and none of this came from Fox news As promised, EXpresident Zelaya tried to return to Honduras. 3k to 400k supporters of Z tried to take the airport. 3k reported by people on the ground, 400k by leftist newspapers and radio. Many calls by Z for the military to rise up and open the airport, calls for the leftist thugs to overrun the airport. Z's plane was redirected to El Salvador and may have diverted to Managua for fuel issues (yeah riiight). 1-3 dead on the ground, several injured. Reports of troops gathering...

WZNF FairTax Flagler County Open Mike 9-10 am July 7, 2009 from 9am to 10am – http://wnzf.com/index.asp WZNF (ABC) News Radio 1550 AM, 106.3 FM in Flagler County, Florida has again invited Flagler County FairTax to their morining Open Mike hour. Robert Lowry and Linda Martin will participate. You ca... Organized by Miss FairTax | Type: radio, broadcastYou have not responded. Restoring America Series: Money & Freedom - Unraveling the Mystery of Banking July 7, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8pm – Eau Claire River Room @ RCU Corporate Center http://www.LibertyWisconsin.com/RAS Host: Chippewa Valley Campaign for Liberty Speaker: Ken Van...

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill today by encouraging political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader and unite their nations to fight climate change. The former US vice-president accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming. He said lack of awareness among voters allowed governments to avoid taking difficult decisions. Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.” He added: “We have everything we need...

New analysis of President Obama's Budget finds that he is targeting the nation's highest earners for greater income redistributions. By 2012, the federal government is scheduled to be redistributing an extra $79 billion from the top-earning 5 percent of American families, and $71 billion of that will be paid by the top-earning 1 percent of families. "That's an additional $64,000 per family redistributed from the top-earning 1 percent," said the Tax Foundation's president Scott Hodge, "on top of the already substantial $368,000 that would have been redistributed from each family even without President Obama's new policies." "Part of that change...

Readers of Needs of the Many know I haven’t been on the racial guilt bandwagon … ever. If you’re an ass, you’re an ass. If you’re a success, you’re as success … that should be applauded. I recently wrote a very popular post about how I reject the term “reverse racism.” The simple fact is that a major portion of the black community uses their race to get away with mediocrity, and it is an insult to the great successes of the black community … which are numerous. It’s also in direct contradiction to what Dr. King advocated. Bill Cosby,...

Well, when all you do is lie, this kinda stuff is going to happen to you. “I don’t know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did, but I’m sure that you’re all going to have wonderful careers,” he said as he warmed up the audience before delivering a commencement speech at an economics school in Moscow Tuesday. But the truth is that the couple met not “in class” but at a law firm in Chicago, Sidley Austin, in 1989. Obama was a summer associate (essentially a legal intern) there and Robinson was...

LONDON: Former US defence secretary Robert S. McNamara, who has died in Washington aged 93, wanted America to attack China with nuclear weapons if it invaded India for a second time. Although he became a hated figure among the world’s Left for his role as an architect of America’s war on Vietnam, one of his chief aims when he became the head of the World Bank in 1968 was to leverage the Bank’s aid to persuade India to tackle poverty more effectively. McNamara was key to plans discussed by US President John F. Kennedy in May 1963 to defend India...

A 46-year-old exotic dancer from Moorhead, Minn., has been charged with extorting $7,000 from a married pastor by threatening to expose their money-for-sex relationship to his wife and church leadership. Bunny Annette Byington was charged last week in Clay County District Court and released on $500 bail on Thursday. Once the pastor told Byington that he could come up with no more hush money, Byington followed through on her threat and told the pastor's wife, a senior pastor and assistant to the bishop about the affair, according to the charges. She also sent the bishop a photo of the pastor...

Three men have been jailed for an arson attack at the home of a publisher days before his novel about the Prophet Mohammed was due to be published. Martin Rynja's home in Lonsdale Square, Islington, north London, was targeted on 27 September last year. Abbas Taj, 30, Ali Beheshti, 41, and Abrar Mirza, 23, from east London, were each jailed for four-and-a-half years. They were convicted of conspiracy to commit arson, being reckless as to whether life was endangered. The attack took place as the Jewel of Medina, a novel about the Prophet's child bride A'isha, was to be published...

It was hard for the Democrats to get the 219 votes they needed to pass the "cap and trade" climate change bill in the U.S. House two weeks ago. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, may have rolled the dice but, veteran Capitol Hillers say, it was only the intervention of President Barack Obama and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that managed to close the deal. They did it by pitching the vote as a referendum, at least internally, on Obama's presidency rather than on the underlying issue. No president likes to lose, least of all on a...

The revenge of Justice and Peace (or so they may think). By George Weigel In the often unpredictable world of the Vatican, it was as certain as anything could be in mid-1990 that there would be a 1991 papal encyclical to commemorate the centenary of Rerum Novarum — the 1891 letter of Leo XIII that is rightly regarded as the Magna Carta of modern Catholic social doctrine. The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which imagines itself the curial keeper of the flame of authentic Catholic social teaching, prepared a draft, which was duly sent to Pope John Paul II...

Bucks County may have another snake scare. Yesterday around noon, an 8-to-10-foot snake was seen slithering across Snowball Drive in Levittown. Or at least that's what a witness told police. In June of 2007, in Bristol, about five miles south, a nine-foot albino python was caught, and a 12-foot boa constrictor or python was reportedly hiding in a crawl space - and possibly eating newborn kittens. The latest snake, described as resembling a python, went into a small wooded area near the intersection with Shell Flower Road, perhaps headed toward Mill Creek, according to the witness. "We went out and...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, centre right, talks with his son, U.S. Army Capt. Beau Biden, centre left, at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday, a day after warning Iraqi leaders that U.S. assistance will be jeopardized if the country reverts to ethnic and sectarian violence. Biden began Independence Day by greeting more than 200 U.S. soldiers who were becoming American citizens at a naturalization ceremony in a marble domed hall at one of Saddam Hussein's palaces...

A few days ago I escorted a lovely woman originally from Guyana around Hebron. A writer, speaker and diplomat, she seemed very aware of the events taking place throughout the world and in Israel. But one thing perturbed her: Why were people like us - Hebron residents, and others throughout Judea and Samaria - seemingly persecuted by our own people? My explanation was very simple. "Understand, there are people who don't want us here because they believe we are living in, and occupying, an 'Arab' city, and are 'obstacles to peace.' These same people are convinced that we will sooner...

Here is video from the Michael Jackson funeral service where the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke glowingly about Jackson's life, and spoke directly to his children saying, "There wasn't anything strange about your Daddy. What was strange was what he had to deal with." . . . . . . (Watch Video)

If you're like me, you've been married for a few years and have all but resigned yourself to emasculation. You can't go hang-gliding, bungee jumping, white-water rafting, sky-diving or any of the cool things you thought you'd get to do when you "grew up". But there is one manly, super cool thing you JUST might get to do if you play your cards right, and that is: purchase a handgun.

Democrats held a six- or seven-point lead over the GOP for the first several weeks of 2009. That began to slip in early February, and since mid-April, the parties have been roughly even.... Voters not affiliated with either party like GOP candidates by a 37% to 21% margin, showing little change since last week... Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are, while 36% believe the average Republican congressman is more conservative in comparison to themselves... Obama's approval rating is at his lowest ever, 52%; disapproval at 47%; strong disapproval...

The World Series of Poker Day 1d attracted record numbers, much to the chagrin of WSOP officials, who did not have room for the 500 or so extra people who ultimately got shut out, among them big name pros like Patrik Antonius and six-time gold bracelet winner T.J. Cloutier. "We are sorry, and I am sorry," said Jeffrey Pollack, World Series of Poker commissioner. "The last thing that we ever want to do is deny people entry into our events." Hundreds of hopefuls waited in the hallways at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to see if...

In these circumstances, it seems unlikely that either side would back down. This would set the stage for a military confrontation at the border, during which it is conceivable that Mr. Zelaya and others would be killed. That’s what may happen. What I think should happen is rather different. Panamá has it right, and foreign countries should keep their noses out of Honduras’ internal affairs. The early elections proposed by the interim Honduran government would very likely defuse the explosive situation there and, like the vote a few years ago when Mr. Zelaya was elected, would be fair and transparent....

Boulder learning will go on without Ward Churchill. On Tuesday Judge Larry Naves granted CU's and the Board of Regent's motion for judgement as a matter of law that the Board of Regents is immune from being sued and vacates the jury verdict from April of this year. Naves also denied Churchill's motion for reinstatement of employment as well as any "front" pay. He essentially got nothing. "We are very gratified with the decision," said Bronson Hilliard, spokesman for CU Boulder. The ethnic studies professor had sued the University of Colorado in an attempt to regain his teaching post. Churchill...