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If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again

CARNEYS POINT TWP. -- A Salem woman was arrested at a motel here recently after police said she allegedly rubbed human feces on her boyfriend's room and car door handles during a domestic dispute, police said. Tamesha F. Telfair, 34, of Yorke Street in the city, was charged with two counts of criminal mischief as a result, along with burglary and simple assault, police said. Police said Telfair was taken into custody at the Friendship Motor Lodge around 12:38 p.m. on Aug. 20. Authorities said her friend allegedly defecated in a bag, which she allegedly used to wipe on the...

Russia deploys missiles along border with North Korea Tony Halpin in Moscow Russia has put defences on alert along its border with North Korea amid tensions over possible new missile tests by the secretive Communist regime. The Kremlin ordered troops to deploy Russia’s most advanced missile defence system, the S-400, to intercept any threats from North Korea’s nuclear programme. General Nikolai Makarov, the head of the Russian army, said that a mobile battery of 32 surface-to-air missiles had been put into operation in anticipation of any Korean tests. “We are taking these preventative measures as a security guarantee against faulty...

You can get the Obama Joker AND the Sarah Palin doll and duke it out.

Here is video from this past week of Rush Limbaugh talking about how liberals, along with the media, seem to believe that anyone who opposes President Obama's policies are "racist." Limbaugh cited a Gallup poll showing Obama's approval rating dropping from 69% "shortly after the immaculation (inauguration for those who don't speak Rush-ese)," to a current 50%. Rush said sarcastically the "number of racists has increased by 19%," referring to the media's characterization of why anyone would oppose Obama's policies - "it must be because of racism." . . . . (Watch Video)

President Ronald Reagan and Sen. Ted Kennedy were good friends, according to Nancy Reagan. But that didn't stop Kennedy from trying to undercut Reagan ... with a little help from the Soviet Union. According to Peter Robinson, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former White House speechwriter, Kennedy offered to make a deal with then-Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in 1983. Robinson, writing for Forbes.com, says Kennedy sent his close friend, former California state Sen. John Tunney, to Moscow with a secret message to Andropov: Help the Democrats battle Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, and in return...

Never has an administration who had more firepower at their disposal, been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress. Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (Dec 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take and effectively halt the radical transformation that the left appeared unstoppable with only months ago. 1. Health Care's long and painful...

CHAPTER FOUR THE NECESSITY OF RELINQUISHING HUMAN CONSOLATIONS IN THE ACQUISITION OF INNER PEACE THE PATH WHICH LEADS to this heavenly peace is almost unknown to the world. For along that path tribulations and trials are sought with the same avidity that the worldling displays in the pursuit of pleasure. There contempt and derision are pursued as are honors and glory by the ambitious; there as great pains are taken to neglect and be neglected, to forsake and be forsaken, as the children of this world take to be sought for, caressed, and admired by the mighty and the rich....

Spurgeon's Morning & Evening - August 30 -------------------------------- Morning Devotional "Wait on the Lord." - Psalm 27:14 It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in...

Here is a video report from Dallas on what appears to be a "cat butcher" on the loose. Four cats have been found killed and sliced apart in front yards in a neighborhood area of Dallas. At first, people thought it might be the work of animals, but now stab wounds have been detected and police believe someone is going after cats. . . . . (Watch Video)

Extreme Unction 906. What is the Sacrament of Extreme Unction? It is a Sacrament instituted by Christ in which a Priest anoints with blessed oil those who are sick and in grave danger of death. This Sacrament gives grace which is of great spiritual assistance to the dying, and even at times affords relief from the physical illness. 907. When did Christ institute such a Sacrament? That is not known. But the fact that He did so is evident from the words of St. James. "Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church,...

Early in 2002, Eric Holder, then a former deputy attorney general, said on CNN that the detainees being held at Guantánamo Bay were “not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention,” particularly “given the way in which they have conducted themselves.” Six years later, declaring that “Guantánamo Bay is an international embarrassment,” Mr. Holder said, “I never thought I would see the day when ... the Supreme Court would have to order the president of the United States to treat detainees in accordance with the Geneva Convention.” So what changed? A lot of things, of course,...

The cortège goes on and on. As I write these words, mourners still proceed by the casket of Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass). Organizers have all but thrown out the schedule. Ceremonies drag on longer than planned. And I’m thinking, alas, that we’re burying a man who — while alive — served as a great advertisement for term limits. Thus he did a great public service, in his own way. Far more salutary than, say, serving as a living, walking advertisement for better guard rails on bridges and waterside roadways. Sorry about that last comment. There’s little reason to...

Soaring deficits cast a shadow over the dollar Irwin Stelzer: American Account Recommend? (3) $2,000,000,000,000. That’s the amount by which the Obama administration raised its 10-year estimate of the nation’s budget deficit from the $7 trillion it guessed only a few months ago, a 30% error. It seems that expenses are higher than estimated — up 24% this year, the largest increase since the height of the Korean war — and revenues are lower. There’s worse. The new estimate assumes that Medicare and Medicaid (government healthcare) spending will be cut by $622 billion, even though Congress has made it known...

This has been the "Summer of the Senior" in America.  While the health care debate has raged, senior citizens have been front and center at town hall events, challenging their representatives to explain how Obamacare will affect Medicare and pressing them to shoot straight about whether a "public option" will result in health care rationing or "comparative effectiveness" policies (what Sarah Palin has termed "death panels"). In the midst of the turmoil, America's seniors learned this week that, for the first time ever, they will not be receiving a cost-of-living adjustment to their monthly Social Security benefit.  The reason for...

Venezuela's top prosecutor said Saturday that recent street protests were legally tantamount to "rebellion" against President Hugo Chavez's government and that demonstrators will now be charged. The dramatic move by Attorney General Luisa Ortega capped a week of huge street protests, mostly directed against a new education law that critics say is politically charged. "People who disturb order and the peace to create instability of institutions, to destabilize the government, or attack the democratic system, we are going to charge and try them," Ortega said in a statement, referring to the government of leftist-populist Chavez. William Ojeda, of the opposition...

Good Lord! I noticed the headline earlier, but missed the locale-- I used to run chemical tests on the settling pond at New Hope Plantation. Google search: http://tinyurl.com/n2lzml Times Online: http://tinyurl.com/n5894q Seven people were found dead and two critically injured at a mobile home park within the grounds of a historic plantation in southeastern Georgia. The two survivors, said by local TV in America to be aged six and 16 years were taken to hospital in Savannah suffering from gunshot wounds. Police would not say how the victims died nor whether the killer was among the dead or still at...

Barack Obama came into office championing change, and he apparently assumed that if Americans voted for him, it was because they wanted the future to be different from what went before. Actually, what they wanted was a future much like the not-so-distant past -- before the financial crisis, before the recession, before the Iraq war, before the most unpopular president since the invention of polling. If voters had wanted a sharp ideological shift, they could have voted for Democratic candidates more identified with Great Society-style government -- Hillary Clinton, John Edwards or even Dennis Kucinich. Obama got the early endorsement...

What are Barack Obama’s objectives? What is he really trying to accomplish, as our President? Our current Commander-In-Chief won the presidency last year with very broad, generalized campaign themes of “hope,” “change,” and to a lesser degree, “transformation. ” He promised a foreign policy that would correct all the “mistakes” of George W. Bush, and an economic policy that would take wealth away from “rich” people and give it to people who were “deserving” of it. Today, after roughly eight months in office, nobody doubts that President Obama has brought about a dramatic level of ”change.” But what is the...

In all the obits published and specials aired this week, Chappaquiddick gets a few paragraphs, a few minutes, a tidy recapping of the events of July 19, 1969: The married Ted Kennedy, driving late at night with young campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne, pitches off a bridge and into the water below. He escapes; she drowns. He does not report the accident for 10 hours. He pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence, two months in jail. In most of these narratives, Chappaquiddick is told as Ted's tragedy, the thing that kept him from ever becoming president. And in these...