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Memories of April's massive Tea Party protests returned Friday as thousands gathered on the west side of the Capitol for what organizers billed as a sequel. While Friday's protest didn't match the first one's crowd numbers – the California Highway Patrol said the crowd ranged from 1,500 to 4,000 – the level of outrage and volume was high.Salvador Trejo, of Riverdale, stands by a tractor that was driven to a Tea Party rally on Friday, August 28, 2009. Trejo said he was at the Capitol supporting his friends as they protested the lack of water in the Central Valley. Hector...

Federal Judge refuses to certify class action lawsuit against Sheriff Arpaio and his office for alleged racial profiling during saturation patrols. Phoenix, AZ - The United States District Court in Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres vs. Arpaio denied the motion to certify the lawsuit for class action treatment against Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The judge determined that the motion failed to present sufficient evidence of the fact that a real and immediate threat of future constitutional injury from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office exists to bring their lawsuit in the form of a class action. The...

The Liberals have finally acknowledged what has been self-evident for some time: This is not the time for an election, and constantly threatening one isn't a good idea. The admission, curiously enough, comes not from Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal leader, but from Sen David Smith, the campaign co-chairman. “We’re not having an election on EI,” Smith said Thursday, as reported by Canadian Press. “I don’t hear Canadians clamouring for an election on this issue.” He added: “I don’t think there’s a presumption that every time there’s an opportunity to have an election that you have to do it. We still...

We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation — or, at any rate, its “mainstream” media culture — declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s passing, America’s TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there’s a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it. In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo...

Her transformation began more than 20 years ago after she decided that in a past life she had lived as Queen Nefertiti. During that time Nileen Namita has spent £200,000 on her face in order to turn herself into a living sculpture of the ancient Egyptian. The mother of three has had 51 cosmetic surgery operations - including eight nose jobs, three chin implants, one eyebrow lift, three facelifts, six mini facelifts, two lip surgeries, five eye surgeries and 20 minor tweaks - in her efforts to recreate herself in the image of the 'Beauty of the Nile'.

Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), the revolutionary group formed by self-described "communist" and "rowdy black nationalist" Van Jones, held a vigil in Oakland, California, "mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world" on the night after Sept. 11, 2001.... Van Jones is now President Obama's green jobs czar. He does not appear to have distanced himself from his past communist activities and is now part of the Obama administration's push to turn Sept. 11 into a National Day of Service focused on the promotion of the radical environmentalist agenda. Jones also founded the Ella Baker Center...

<p>The Tea Party Express is roaring through Nevada today!! We're in Sparks now, next stop: Winnemucca at 12:30, then Elko at 4:30!!</p> <p>Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!!</p> <p>Be sure to check the tour schedule and join us when we get to a city near you: TeaPartyExpress.org!!</p>

Having strong libertarian tendencies, I pay special attention to issues which present a reasonably good choice between libertarianism and statism – - libertarianism being, in essence, a philosophy that favors individual liberty, less government, and low taxes, and statism being the belief in better living through bigger government. While it seems to me that at least a strong plurality and probably a majority of Americans still hold to libertarian principles, our lives are controlled by the incessant, internecine “liberal-versus-conservative,” “Democrat-versus-Republican” political battles in which libertarian values are either ignored or honored only for show. How can it be, I lament,...

Companies from US, UK and Australia have the most concentrated financial power. A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world's finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power, and point out the worldwide financial system's vulnerability as it stood on the brink of the current economic crisis. A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich did a physics-based analysis of the world economy as it looked in early...

OBAMA SUPPORTER, PEACE OFFICER, SHOWS HOW OBAMALAND USSA (UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA) WILL BE GOVERNED BY OBAMA THUGS IN OR OUT OF UNIFORM. THIS VIDEO SHOWS UNBELIEVALBE TRAMPLING OF OUR RIGHTS ON THE SAY SO OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO STATES HE WILL INVENT ANY CHARGE HE LIKES TO ENFORCE HIS POINT OF VIEW. Law? Constitution? What is that all about? I make the rules here! I support O bama and will make sure you obey!

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At the dawn of the Barack Obama era, the promise of hope has faded. America's public square is an angry and bitter place. Finger pointing and yelling at town hall meetings this summer are signs of a country that's been building toward a boiling point for several years, stressed by a fast changing economy, a flood of immigration and threats at home by terrorists. It's a land at turns frustrated and irate at a government that led them into an unpopular war, proved itself inept at helping its citizens in a disastrous hurricane, presided over an historic economic collapse, then...

Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh yesterday commenting on a Senate Bill under consideration that would allow President Obama to seize control of the internet in the event of what he deems a "cyber-emergency." Limbaugh says he believes the American people will not put up with this. . . . . (Listen to Audio)

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Obamacare, and Death Panels by rayharvey on August 27, 2009 Poor misunderstood Ezekiel J. Emanuel. Ezekiel, if you don’t know, is the older brother of the statist Rahm Emanuel, and recently Ezekiel got his feeling hurt. In an interview he just gave the Associated Press, Monday (August 24th), Ezekiel said this: “I’m completely dumbfounded. I’ve been in academic disputes before, but I never thought I’d be disparaged on Sunday morning talk shows and in the papers, being distorted in ways that can only be described as willful and intentional.” What Ezekiel Emanuel is referring to here is...

A CAT is feline fine despite being a candidate for the world's oldest moggy. Tizzie was found dumped in a bag on a railway line by two girls in 1973 — and 36 years later she is still going strong. Owner Jim Cowell is now trying to verify his pet's age to determine if the cat is a record breaker. Jim said: "She really is a fantastic cat and is still as fit as a butcher's dog. She still looks like a young kitten and moves around perfectly well. "The vet said that her organs are as healthy as they...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A ruling Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for Shell Oil to resume its exploration and development in the Beaufort Sea. The court's ruling says the Bush administration was correct in not demanding a new environmental impact assessment for the company's drilling leases

"Thousands of people rallied at the Capitol over President Barack Obama's health care reform package." Video at link: http://www.kcra.com/video/20611967/index.html

PRESS RELEASE  For Immediate Release August 25, 2009 Hampstead to Fly Protest Flag In an act of protest, Hampstead Mayor Haven N. Shoemaker has ordered the Town’s municipal flag to be replaced by the historic Gadsen “Don’t Tread On Me” flag. Mayor Shoemaker will raise the flag after a brief ceremony at the War Memorial in Hampstead at 6 p.m., September 1. The timing of the ceremony coincides with anticipated cuts in state funding to local governments including Hampstead. “We have the so-called stimulus which is nothing more than an unprecedented issuance of debt. We have ObamaCare. In Maryland, we...

India loses Moon satellite links All communication links with the only Indian satellite orbiting the Moon have been lost, India's space agency says. Radio contact with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was lost abruptly early on Saturday, said India's Bangalore-based Space Research Organization (Isro). The unmanned craft was launched last October in what was billed as a two-year mission of exploration. The launch was regarded as a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace with other space-faring nations in Asia. Following its launch from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, it was hoped the robotic probe would orbit the...

OAS, US, UN pile on Honduras To refresh those who are unfamiliar with this disgrace: On June 28, the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of then president Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya had, in a clear violation of the Honduran Constitution, attempted to have a plebiscite on the Constitution. His idea was to modify it, Chavez style, to negate the one term restriction and enable him to serve multiple terms. It is, in any case, a violation of law for a president to even suggest such a change as the power to modify the Constitution rests in the Congress. The Supreme Court...