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Here is video of Greta Van Susteren tonight reporting on the "Tea Party Express" that launched in Sacramento today and will move across the country. The "Tea Party Express" will visit 30 cites and will end up in Washington, D.C. on September 12. Griff Jenkins reports with the Express from Reno, Nevada, which was stop number two today. He reports the "star" of this movement is the people, and said it is clearly a true grassroots movement. Greta then talked with Mark Williams, leader of the Tea Party Express Movement. He said they will take a 7,000 mile route to...

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero.” -- Voltaire “The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin air can provide sustainable economic growth has delivered this crisis to us. Instead of economic growth and stable prices, (The Fed) has given us a system of government and finance that now threatens the world financial and political institutions. Pursuing the same policy of excessive spending, debt expansion and monetary inflation can only compound the...

Don’t you know Obama and his ilk wish to God (or whoever the heck they wish to) that Glenn Beck would fall into adultery with an Argentinean newswoman, or cut his jugular vein while shaving, or show up drunk, high and naked to his FOX show and forever be publically vilified, marginalized and thus muzzled? Beck has formally joined Rush as an Official Pain in Barack Obama’s Backside (OPIBOB). (Are you an OPIBOB yet?) Yep, not only has Obama’s administration called Rush out, but the White House has now phoned Beck during his TV show in an attempt to get...

Group Protests Greensboro Neo-Nazi MeetingNational Socialist Movement Kept Triad Meeting Secret UPDATED: 8:21 pm EDT August 29, 2009 GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The controversial National Socialist Movement group/Party, commonly referred to as neo-Nazis, was in Greensboro Saturday night for a regional business meeting. While civic leaders decided not to respond to the group's presence in the Triad, others said they don't want the meeting in their neighborhood. A group of nearly 100 people gathered at Elm and McGee streets to show their opposition to the neo-Nazis' presence in Greensboro. "I think we need to continue to stand up as a community...

MIAMI (AP) - The father of Terri Schiavo, who became a national symbol in a closely watched right-to-die fight, has died, his son said Saturday. Robert Schindler was 71. Schindler, a tireless activist through years of legal wrangling, died from heart failure at a hospital in St. Petersburg. Terri Schiavo, who courts ruled was in a "persistent vegetative state," died in 2005 after the feeding tube that had nourished her for years was removed according to her husband's wishes.

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus When the trailer hit for writer/director Jack Perez’s ‘Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus’, the Internet was a buzz with excitement and the hope that a true B-Movie had returned. Pitching two extinct goliaths of the oceans, the megalodon, a sixty feet long mega shark and a giant octopus, against each other sounded like a stroke of genius but the execution harks back to the very worst of the B-Movie era to produce a film that even Ed Wood would be ashamed of. A low budget, B-Movie will never attract a big name star but they...

Early explorers dreamed of a safe trade route across the frozen Arctic for hundreds of years. Now as global temperatures warm and ice rapidly melts, the U.S. Navy is weighing the possibility that within decades the Arctic will open into one of the world’s prime shipping lanes. New climate data point to a summer season completely free of sea ice as early as 2030 — about 70 years sooner than previously predicted — allowing ships to move freely for the first time in history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By midcentury, the Navy could be faced with...

Pot garden discovered in Calif. national park Rangers close popular section of park to visitors to destroy marijuana Gary Kazanjian / AP [Pic in URL] A ranger is shown in Crystal Cave during a marijuana eradication operation in Sequoia National Park, Calif. on Aug. 27. Authorities said the proximity of the pot plants to such a heavily trafficked tourist site was unusual and reflects a newfound boldness among growers, who are now planting marijuana near trails and access roads at an increasing number of parks. Aug 28, 2009 SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - A section of this Sierra Nevada national...

The Senate is actually giving consideration to a bill that would give the president the power to "shut down online traffic by seizing private networks". 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.

America will pay for Ted Kennedy's legacy.--- By now almost everyone has weighed in on the legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who passed away this week after a year-long struggle with a cancerous brain tumor. Liberals eulogized that Kennedy's legislative legacy is unquestioned and has now transcended partisan bickering. In their postmortem acclamations, Kennedy was recognized as a larger-than-life senator who charmed his Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle for nearly a half-century, while astutely pushing through legislation aimed at protecting the weaker, the poorer, minorities and the most vulnerable through constant expansion of federal entitlements and civil...

The world's first truly dual-screen laptop, which will allow computer users to multi-task while on the move, is due to go on sale by the end of the year. One of the first photos of the gScreen Spacebook Photo: GIZMODO The pioneering PC, known as the Spacebook, is the brainchild of Alaska-based technology firm gScreen. The gScreen Spacebook will boast two 15.4 in screens which can slide away to fill the space of a single screen when the laptop is being stored or transported. Gordon Stewart, the founder of gScreen, told the website that the first Spacebooks should be available...

Some would go farther and say that the memorandum from Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB that was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR, outlining a secret proposal made by Senator Ted Kennedy to the Soviets to help them "understand Reagan" in return for their help in making him president, constitutes treason. It's not a word to throw around lightly and the reason I refrain from using it is because I am unsure Kennedy's actions meet the definition. Kennedy was not in direct contact with Andropov, using his good friend John Tunney, former...

A Slidell woman nearly nabbed two men who were burglarizing her boyfriend's home Thursday night, but they managed to wrest free of her grip, leaving her holding part of one burglar's shirt. Police arrested two suspects soon afterward, however, when the men returned to the area, one still wearing a torn gray T-shirt. John Stile Jr., 17, and Robin Arnold, 18, both of Slidell, later confessed to police that they were involved in that burglary, two other successful burglaries and another attempted break-in in the same subdivision, authorities said. The woman, whose name was not released, stopped by her boyfriend's...

Moe Lane has a disgusting post. Oh. it isn't disgusting because of what HE wrote, but because of the disgusting graphic that makes fun of tea party goers.

Howie Carr live thread. When the Herald posts his column I'll post it here. Also Jerry Anguilo has shed his mortal coil which means another winner in Howie's death pool.

8:30 AM 8/30/2009 — Every once in a while something happens in current events that requires a conscientious priest to deviate from the Gospel lesson of the day; although it may be Divine Providence that the event I need to address with you relates very well not only to today’s Gospel lesson, but also the feast we just celebrated. I am speaking, of course, of the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and his very public funeral which was viewed by millions on television. The question you should have asked when you saw it was, “Should Ted Kennedy have been...

Beck to the Future II: Three Scary ObamaCare "Czars" LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/28/09 | Peter J. Smith Posted on Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:07:25 PM by wagglebee See Part I By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Germany's experience with National Socialism is one of the darker moments of human history. FOX News host Glenn Beck has taken on the challenge of applying the lessons of Nazi Germany (government-controlled health care, combined with the principle of valuing human beings based on "quality of life" and a severe economic crisis) to "question with boldness" the direction American...

Brooklyn Democrat Congresswoman Yvette Clarke 1st Townhall Monday 8/31

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said. The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms.

Zimbabwe's two main political leaders, President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had talks with outgoing South African Development Community (SADC) chairman and President of South Africa Jacob Zuma into the early hours of Friday morning. Mr. Zuma came to Harare to try and unblock outstanding issues from the political agreement which is nearly a year old and which brought the unity government in Zimbabwe to power in February. Mr. Zuma has had one-on-one talks with both Mr. Mugabe and Mr. Tsvangirai and then with both of them together since he arrived in Harare late Thursday. Mr. Zuma seemed...