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To the surprise of no one, Rep. Duncan Hunter is following closely in the footsteps of Rep. Duncan Hunter. Like his father, who retired in January after 28 years in Congress, the younger Hunter is a combat veteran whose top legislative priorities are national defense and immigration. They are both avid outdoorsmen who often go hunting and fishing together. And both, of course, are staunch conservative Republicans. “It was a seamless transition from one to the other,” said Mike Cully, president of the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce. “They're cut from the same cloth.” Seamless indeed. Hunter didn't...

I just returned from the Che-Porter Town Hall In Portsmouth, NH. I arrived at 12:15 and there were about 85 Moonbats and 30 or so Patriots in line for one hunred seats. The weather was Horrible, the location even worse, think the North End in Boston or parts of Back Bay. The Federal Buidding on 80 Daniel Street is about the size of a High School in a small town, real SMALL and located in a dead end area that two F-250's would have trouble passing each other. The moonbats had front loaded the line with the usual preprinted signs,...

Sorry to clog the board with a vanity but I have a problem. It is an extra older machine running Windows 2000 Professional. Our office had power problems and I did not have it on a power backup and it lost power.

This was sent in by alert reader Steve Martin. JihadWatch director Robert Spencer will be on CSPAN tonight: This will air Saturday, August 29 at 7PM EDT. From C-Span (thanks to Bill):The Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or BombsRobert Spencer

The more the Democrats deny it, the more obvious it becomes that Obamacare will of course cover illegal aliens. I said so last month. And now… GOP Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, citing a new, non-partisan Congressional Research Service report, says it again: “Democrats can keep claiming all they want that illegal immigrants will not be covered in this bill. But their actions speak louder than their words. Democrats have rejected opportunities to close the gaping loopholes in this health care bill that will allow illegal immigrants to participate. “If President Obama is committed to ensuring that illegal immigrants do...

Last night, I told you about the fake political hate crime here in Colorado at the Denver Democrat Party headquarters involving one “Maurice Schwenkler.” This hammer-wielding person has been charged with felony mischief. This person’s accomplice is still on the loose. Eleven windows were smashed, causing $11,000 in damage. Schwenkler is a far Left nutball and transgender activist who guys by “Ariel Attack”. As part of Schwenkler’s work for the SEIU-tied 527 group Colorado Citizens Coalition, he/she canvassed for a state Democratic candidate, Mollie Collum. Schwenkler has a prior criminal history… On the last day of the 2008 Republican National...

Not that I had any great amount of affection for the now-deceased senior Senator from Taxachusetts...I mean, Massachusetts, but I found myself these last few days tuning in on occasion to watch the "grand celebration" of Ted Kennedy's life and achievements. Actually, it wasn't like a person could avoid having to watch something about the guy, given the hagiographic orgy of storytelling the mainstream media was indulging in over the fellow. And because of the canonization going on over Kennedy (I expect Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to rename "ObamaCare" to "KennedyCare" any second now), I was forced to ponder...

I finally figured out why Ted Kennedy wants to have Governor Devoid Patrickakis appoint someone to replace him - Ted is staying in Florida. Ted has been in Florida since he collapsed at an Obama inauguration dinner many months ago. Like his dear mother Rose, Teddy wants to establish Florida as his primary residence in order to avoid those massive estate taxes and dreaded Massachusetts income taxes. This is important because Teddy has a new book coming out and he wants the income from that book to be declared tax free in Florida - not Taxachusetts. The same way we...

The only Marine imprisoned in the 2006 killing of an Iraq man in what was then the deadly Sunni Triangle says he never would have hurt someone he did not believe was an insurgent intent on killing U.S. troops. "I never would have knowingly harmed any innocent Iraqi," former sergeant and now Pvt. Larry Hutchins III said during an interview with the North County Times on Friday. "If I knew for sure to this day that the person that was killed was an insurgent, I would sleep a lot better at night." The 25-year-old Hutchins, who sports a large spiderweb...

Take a few moments out of the bustle of Life on Earth for a search that truly matters. Where are you right now in this moment of real time? Not geographically, but where are you in your heart and in your soul? Whether you are in a cornfield in Iowa, or high up in the mountains in Pennsylvania, you are where you are, and if true to yourself, you have not changed the way that you think since November 4, 2008. Through months of upheaval of job and home loss jeopardy, you still believe in the exceptionalism of America, “land...

Longtime readers of this blog will be quite familiar with race-baiting Democrat Rep. Diane Watson of California. She attacked Ward Connerly for marrying a white woman. She bragged about Washington, D.C. being a “chocolate city.” She polluted the Hurricane Katrina aftermath with race card-playing nonsense. Thanks to KABC, there’s audio of Watson heaping praise on Castro, Guevara, and the Cuban health system at her town hall meeting last night — as well as injecting her usual racial poison into the health care debate. (For a reminder of what Cuban health care is really like, click here.) (see link) I wrote...

I know this has been posted before, but we have had so much bad news lately, dealing with corrupt politicians and criminals it's good to hear there are real heroes out there. This is officer Ally Jacobs, the woman who saved 3 young girls from further torture. Let's find out where she works and bombard their switchboard with thanks.

US scientists have developed a sensor system for profiling the protein content of human blood serum without needing individual receptors for each separate protein. The technique could be used to provide cheap preliminary disease diagnosis information, saving time and money by reducing unnecessary testing.There is a direct link between levels of protein in human serum and disease, making protein levels an attractive target for sensors and diagnostics. However, with over 20,000 proteins present in human serum at a range of different concentrations, developing an effective sensor has been a challenging task.Pattern recognition sensing uses detector systems that interact with many...

Personifying the rock’n’roll spirit of Kate’s attire, the collection is heavily inspired by the 60s, 70s and 80s, with a distinct groupie feel. A series of blouses and dresses in chiffon are voluminous with billowing sleeves and pointed collars or smock style.

There was a poignant footnote to President Obama's historic July 10 meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. Behind closed doors in the papal library, Obama handed Benedict a letter that Senator Edward Kennedy had asked him to personally deliver to the pontiff. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs later told reporters that nobody - not even the President - knew the contents of the sealed missive. Obama himself asked Benedict to pray for Kennedy, and called the ailing Senator afterward to fill him in on his encounter with the 82-year-old Pope. The letter, most likely already re-sealed and tucked...

I flipped on C-Span 2 at seven this morning to see Nation writer D.D. Guttenplan promote his hagiography of the Soviet agent and Communist camp follower I.F. Stone, to a group of aging Vermont radicals with similar political fantasies. In the break, C-Span advertised its segment at 9 featuring Guttenplan's boss, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, which turned out to be a panel promoting socialism along with a Nation collection of diatribes against the Bush years and the free market economy. In between there was a conservative French economist, Gary Sorman talking about his new book. Every time I watch...

Who'd have thought it? On the front page of today's Washington Post is an astounding revelation. OK maybe not so astounding. Actually its something that most logical people figured out a long time ago. But it is astounding that the Washington Post has finally figured out this most obvious fact, waterboarding has worked to help us stave off more terror attacks. After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called "terrorist tutorials." In 2005...

What, you hadn't heard? "A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties," FOX News said breathlessly.

Interesting name for an Establishment during these times in the United States.

It was recently reported that in the Senate there is a bill, that if signed into law, would give the government control over Internet service providers and commercial computer systems during national emergencies. While I'm sure everyone's heart is in the right place, this is one idea I hope gets sent to the bit bucket. Normally in such power grabs there is at least some semblance of high ground upon which the claimant stands, so let's looks at the government's foundation: