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High court permits 'HOE' license plate Wednesday, July 8, 2009 A Las Vegas man has won a battle with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the DMV wouldn't renew on grounds he was using a slang reference to whores. The high court ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada and William Junge, who said he had the personalized plate from 1999 to 2006, when the DMV refused to let him renew it. Junge said he wanted "TAHOE" for the plate on his 1999 Chevy Tahoe, but it wasn't available so...

ROCKFORD, Illinois, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pattern of abuse at a Rockford abortion facility has continued after an employee allegedly struck with his car a homeless man praying with pro-life protesters, and drove away, according to witnesses at the scene.The vehicle reportedly struck Scott Griffin on Wednesday as it drove into the driveway of the abortion facility, where pro-lifers say workers frequently drive recklessly in an apparent attempt to intimidate those praying and handing out pro-life literature."The dark colored SUV the clinic worker was driving hit Scott Griffin with the mirror on the passenger side so hard the...

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WESTMINSTER, July 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life campaigners in Britain yesterday welcomed a reprieve in the battle against euthanasia as a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide was defeated in the House of Lords. In a vote of 194 to 141, an amendment to the government's Coroners and Justice Bill was defeated last night that would have sanctioned assisted suicide in the UK and facilitated Britons going overseas to commit suicide. The amendment had been put forward by Charles Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor and major figure in Tony Blair's New Labour and part of a cadre of...

46% of Americans view Palin favorably, with 45% holding a negative opinion of her. In monthly surveys conducted between April and June her favorable rating was in the range of 42-43%. The slight increase in popularity is fueled by the number of Republicans with a positive view of her increasing from 75 to 79%. She is static with independents and slightly down with Democrats. When it comes to whether she's fit to be President though, 55% of voters in the country say no with just 37% in the affirmative. And asked specifically how her early resignation affects their inclination to...

At a Senate hearing Tuesday on the use of military commissions to prosecute terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay, some members of the Armed Services Committee took offense at the Obama administration’s view that the detainees should have the same legal protections under the Constitution as U.S. citizens. Ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) questioned Assistant Attorney General David Kris about his remarks on the appropriateness of administering the Miranda warning to terrorist suspects captured abroad. "It is the administration's view that there is a serious risk that courts would hold that admission of involuntary statements of the accused in...

She hangs half-naked and helpless, only held by her suicidal father's grip on her ankle. Fortunately, this man's attempt to hurl his daughter, two, out of the window of their eighth-floor flat in Chengdu, China, did not end in tragedy. She was saved by a policeman who had managed to edge gradually closer to her dangling body.

Doubtless, Obamaphiles will interpret this in any number of ways to make our Dear Leader come out smelling rosy, but Greenpeace can't be pleased with President Obama's role in the G8 inaction on carbon emissions. Note the banner they hung on Mount Rushmore this morning:

Video at site Lyndon Johnson led the Great Society. Barack Obama leads the Great Big Apology Society. So it’s only natural that the National Black Republican Association (all twelve members) believe the President should apologize to them for the Democrat Party’s long, sordid history of racism. They call the Democrat Party “the party of the four S’s: Slavery, Secession, Segregation, and now Socialism.” And they want President Obama to issue that apology ASAP. “The Democratic Party Owes Blacks an Apology” by Chairman Frances Rice, explains their reasoning. As the Examiner reports: The NBRA is not asking this of our government,...

The New York Times reports that the Obama administration plans to take a more proactive position toward speculation in the oil market: In a big departure from the hands-off approach to market regulation of the last two decades, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, said his agency would consider new limits on the volume of energy futures contracts that purely financial investors would be allowed to hold.The agency also announced that it would pull back part of the veil on the oil and gas markets, publishing more detailed information about the aggregate activity of hedge funds...

12 Democrats and 1 Independent defied Party leadership and voted with all 40 Republicans to: * permanently authorize E-Verify, so the pro-amnesty forces can't constantly threaten to kill it if they don't get their way * require all federal contractors to use E-Verify so returning veterans and other unemployed Americans will get jobs created with federal tax money.

All kidding aside about telling Alex Jones what can I say people they are DETERMINED to make their Totalitarian New World Order a reality. It may be imaginary now but just as we are starting to see all the other signs become a reality this will too give it time. This is symbolism the cashless society and microchips will be a reality unless people Revolt. ROME – World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit opening Wednesday in Italy will each be presented with a gift from the past and one for the future. Handmade books portraying works by Neoclassical...

America's emerging policy issue is the federal budget deficit. According to the 7/2 released CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll of 1,026 adults (conducted 6/26-28 with a 3.1% +/- margin of error), the federal budget deficit ranked second only to the economy as "the most important issue facing the U.S. today." That's ahead of health care, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and energy policy. The public's concern is not surprising. While the U.S. economy has been shrinking, the U.S. government has been anything but. The recession's effect on the federal spending and the deficit can be painted in a few bold...

Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed. "I was not aware that I had voted no," he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he "intended to vote yes." That was not the only misfire for the former civil rights attorney first elected to the state Senate in 1996. During his eight years in state office, Obama cast more than 4,000 votes. Of those, according...

UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg/File A judge in California has scheduled a July 13 hearing in a case challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president in which the plaintiffs’ attorney, Orly Taitz, says the commander-in-chief is in default.Taitz told WND if her motion is granted she will immediately request access to Obama’s birth records and other documentation that could determine his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. The announcement came from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, who said: “Before the court is a motion by plaintiffs for reconsideration of order to show cause or in the alternative to certify...

To his friends and family he was already a spectacular success - apparently heading for the summit in the bruising world of finance. Oxford graduate Anjool Malde was about to celebrate his 25th birthday and was building a reputation not just as a stockbroker but also as an events organiser. On Sunday at noon - in his favourite Hugo Boss suit - he paid in cash for a glass of champagne at the eighth-floor Coq d'Argent restaurant near the Bank of England Still holding the glass, he walked to the roof terrace, climbed over a railing and jumped 80ft to...

According to reports I’ve received, which have been declining in recent days due to the crackdown, Basiji checkpoints have been set up throughout Tehran, searching all vehicles driving after 11:00 p.m. A particular focus of the regime is schools, the battleground of 1999. For example, every dorm at Sistan and Baluchistan University has been searched, and summer classes that were set to begin July 6 were canceled so the school could be shut down. At Tabriz University, students were forced to leave their dorms immediately after finishing their final exams. At Babol University, seven students arrested for demonstrating are going...

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and . . . Barack Obama? Patriotic tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Wednesday found a fifth face displayed -- and not as a compliment -- next to the giant stone carvings of four legendary presidents. A group of environmental activists connected with Greenpeace unfurled an enormous banner showing President Obama's face and calling for an end to global warming. The 65-foot by 35-foot banner — which read "America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming" — was hung to the immediate right of Lincoln at about...

CAMDEN -- A city man died today after falling into an eight-foot deep vat of chocolate at a factory in Camden. Vincent Smith II, 29, was standing on a nine foot high platform at Cocoa Services loading solid chocolate into a melting vat when he fell into the vat about 10:30 a.m., according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and . . . Barack Obama? Patriotic tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Wednesday found a fifth face displayed -- and not as a compliment -- next to the giant stone carvings of four legendary presidents. A group of environmental activists connected with Greenpeace unfurled an enormous banner showing President Obama's face and calling for an end to global warming. The 65-foot by 35-foot banner — which read "America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming" — was hung to the immediate right of Lincoln at about...