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As a writer with an academic past in philosophical analysis of political events, one of the issues which captures my attention is the idea of government overthrow: Its feasibility, the causes of its ideology, its agenda and its members. In my internet trawlings, I found this poignant piece, excellent in its backward look at an era paralleling our own in sensibilty and tone. From ObamersDotCom: More and more each day, we hear people like Michelle Bachman inciting conservatives to stock up on guns and ammo and launch the revolution against Obama. Will they really do it? It wouldn't be the...

It was just one line at the end of a segment. But it spoke volumes about the way a media willing to look the other way saved Ted Kennedy's political career at the time of Chappaquiddick. Jim Pinkerton made the observation on yesterday's Fox News Watch at the very end of the segment on the media's treatment of Kennedy's death. View video here.

This letter is from Dr. Zane Pollard. He operates at Children's Health Care of Atlanta. Google him, he has an extremely very impressive resume. Friends: I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on healthcare. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table and, as your friend, by explaining many of the problems from the aspect of a doctor. First off the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital...

State budget impasses in Conn. and Pa. could replay in other states with slow tax dollar flow . While most states have already passed their budgets, Connecticut and Pennsylvania remain the only two in the nation still at odds over how to balance the books this fiscal year amid plummeting state revenues. Connecticut's revenue flow has dropped by $2 billion from last year while Pennsylvania's came in $3.3 billion less than expected. "It's a symptom of a very severe recession that's caused some really difficult political choices to be made," Meanwhile, in Michigan, where the fiscal year begins Oct. 1,...

It’s not scientific, but does represent the opinion of a large and fairly diverse group of Americans. A poll on the social networking site Facebook shows the following results from (at the time) more than 423,000 participants answering the question, “Will you vote for Obama in 2012”? The results: Yes = 101,881 (24.0%) No = 301,549 (71.2%) Undecided = 20,306 (4.8%) By a margin of nearly three-to-one, at this point in time Americans are not inclined to re-elect Barack Obama when his first term in up in 2012. That’s good news, if the country survives until 2012. Visit Annuit Coeptis

Here we are, another golf Sunday, and the CBS golf hacks are once again kissing some major Tiger butt?

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My wife heard Gerald Connolly on Fox News just a few minutes ago say that his town hall meetings were "very civilized" and that he wasn't sure how he was going to vote on portions of it. I will be sending Fox News a message about this but this is nothing but a pack of lies. We’re so mad we could spit nails. We contacted Connolly's office three times in the last several weeks and participated in two demonstrations against Obamacare, Aug 22nd and 25th. The first time we demonstrated was outside of his office in which there were over...

President Obama did not always agree with allowing the government to get involved with running healthcare. For example he hated it when George W. Bush was president. On December 8, 2003, President Bush signed into law H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173). H.R. 1 creates a voluntary prescription drug benefit program (Part D) for all individuals eligible for Medicare under which they will pay a monthly premium for coverage in helping them purchase prescription drugs. Part D is effective January 1, 2006. The bill establishes a transitional drug discount card, includes...

Naomi Campbell attacks companies for 'dropping' black models in recession Never afraid of speaking her mind, Naomi Campbell has accused the advertising business of using the recession as an excuse to drop black models. By Richard Eden 29 Aug 2009 Naomi Campbell who is a friend of Nelson Mandela, has won support from Bruce Oldfield, the designer of the wedding dress worn by Samantha Cameron, the wife of the Tory leader Photo: Getty Images The 39-year-old supermodel, who is a close friend of Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister's wife, claims that major companies are refusing to use non-white women to...

Washington has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying a US-supplied anti-ship missile, US media say. The US believes the Harpoon, sold to Pakistan by the Reagan administration, has been altered for land-based use, the New York Times reported. Islamabad says the accusations are "incorrect and based on wrong intelligence", Pakistani media say. The US protested to Pakistan's PM in June, the Times said, fearing increased tension with Pakistan's rival, India. 'Secret test' The Times quoted a senior US administration official as saying: "The focus of our concern is that this is a potential unauthorised modification of a maritime anti-ship defensive capability...

This is part #3 of the Marxist Mountain series of cartoons from the good folks at Insanity Island. In this funny epsiode, Michael Moore helps his liberals cohorts in their secret hideout in Marxist Mountain to conduct damage control after the FBI raid that stopped their plans to use a mind control machine on well known conservatives. It's funny stuff and we invite you to watch and comment!

Why is John Holdren a perfect progressive? Because he believes in grand government schemes cooked up and implemented by cognoscenti rather than letting people make their own decisions. Secondly, he has no regard for the constitution, or he is purposely stupid about its meaning. This is a dangerous combination Population Bombs and Other Progressive Power Grabs Zombietime has the definitive summary on his population control views, complete with page scans from the book Holdren wrote with the Ehrlichs of "The Population Bomb" fame. If you want to understand the issue completely, along with rebuttals from the Obama camp, go read...

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, the blunt-talking, cigar-chomping military leader who stepped into the political feuding that followed Hurricane Katrina and sorted matters out, will be guest speaker at the annual Freedom Fund Banquet of the Shreveport Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. snip

Harry Reid Worried About the Tea Party Express! PROGRESS! At Winnemucca today there appeared a guy with a video camera and tripod. Not unusual, but this guy was alone and didn’t talk with anybody, he just set up his gear and quietly began to roll. Turns out he was from Senator Harry Reid’s office and he is attending our events through Nevada and taping them for the Senator’s office. Our press guy (Levi) invited him to join us on one of the buses to go along with us and have the same full access that we are giving the Fox,...

If you are wondering what Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are going to be spending the week talking about now that the Kennedy memorial is over, get over to Foxnews.com and watch former Vice President Dick Cheney’s blockbuster interview with Chris Wallace. In an extraordinarily blunt, straightforward—and witty—interview, the former Vice President gives his unvarnished, no-holds-barred opinion on the revelation this week that Attorney General Eric Holder was beginning a criminal probe of CIA interrogators, and the implications it has for national security. While Cheney is composed and relaxed throughout, there is little doubt that his outrage at...

Dare to dream, citizens, dare to dream. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationkowide 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. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote. This is one of those exercises in pure fantasy that still brings a smile to my face even though I know that American voters tend to express their disappointment more in polls than at the polls. Job security...

'JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al- Megrahi over fears Scotland would suffer a terrorist backlash if he died behind bars. He believed Megrahi would have been seen as a MARTYR by Islamic extremists if he had been left to die in Greenock Prison. And last night a source close to the Cabinet Secretary said: "Kenny feared the repercussions would have haunted Scotland for a generation and more. "If Megrahi had died in a Scottish jail, we'd have seen burning Saltires across the Middle East." MacAskill and SNP First Minister Alex Salmond are preparing to publish...

Yes, it’s another episode of “Name That Party,” where our contestant is a criminal Democrat in the news that somehow, mysteriously finds the Old Media conveniently forgetting to mention that he is, indeed, a Democrat. This time it’s former Starr County, Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra who was handed a five-year sentence for drug trafficking this week. Guerra is the second Starr County Sheriff in a row to go to jail for corruption. The Old Media dutifully reported this conviction, to be sure. It was reported that Guerra was up on harsher charges, how he had those reduced, it was also...