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This character defamation is not what I wanted to wake up to this morning, but as NewsReal continues to grow it's something we'll have to grow accustomed to accompanying each morning's breakfast. I've always taken my morning coffee black, though I guess now I'll have to down it with two lumps of leftist lies. It appears NewsReal is now officially part of the "Right-Wing Blogosphere," as it made the regular round-up at the leftist Village Voice's feature "The Voice Explores the Right-Wing Blogosphere." Heh, Lies About the Right-Wing Blogosphere is more accurate. Though this shouldn't be a surprise coming from...

...the criticism of Barack Obama has turned strikingly personal as some of his liberal media allies have gone wobbly on him. After playing a cheerleading role during the campaign, some are bluntly questioning whether he's up to the job. If Obama is losing Paul Krugman, can the rest of the left be far behind? "I'm concerned as to whether, in trying to reach out to the middle, he is selling out his base," says Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page. "I find myself saying, 'Where's that well-oiled Obama machine we saw last year?' . . . Maybe he's being a little...

Paris Hilton fashion designer faces 50 years in jail for rape of young models he lured to LA By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 31st August 2009 A fashion designer who was friends with Paris Hilton is facing more than 50 years in jail today after he was convicted for sexually assaulting young models he lured to Los Angeles. Anand Jon Alexander, 35, is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court today before he is sent to New York to face similar charges. Los Angeles prosecutors have asked that he be imprisoned for the maximum possible under the law -...

As the anger over the nation's movement towards socialism grows, Democrats' patience with town hall meeting protesters is clearly wearing thin. On Saturday, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) instructed security guards to escort what ended up being a retired New York City patrolman out of a fiery Manchester gathering. Removed from the forum because he continually interrupted Shea-Porter and others in Manchester was Carl Tomanelli of Londonderry, who objected when her staff passed out health care stickers before the event began. He also objected that people outside Shea-Porter's Congressional district were in the room, including a young man who could not...

[...] rebranding. If your product falls on public disfavor or it is found inferior in some way you just simply change the name and keep on selling the same old hash. Prior to this August recess Congressmen and Senators alike were briefed for hours on how to sell (or defend) Obamacare to constituents back home. When these Democrat politicians came home and attempted to regurgitate party line support for their unpopular Health Care agenda Democrats found that their constituents and their political opposition alike were not buying the Obama Pelosi Health Care balderdash. In the interim Sen. Edward Kennedy passed...

Charlie Rangel always has been an entertaining congressman. And not to damn him with faint praise, an effective one, too. But the New York City representative, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is having a problem with his numbers as they relate to the truth. He now can be neither entertaining nor effective. He needs to go. If he won’t, Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs to push him. It’s the same old story for Rangel, who last year reluctantly acknowledged what he described as an inadvertent failure to report $75,000 in rental income for a beachfront property in the...

"This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health -care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a security officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama. The officer's response? "It ain't no more, OK?" Get the prescription for reclaiming America's heritage of liberty – before the what the officer said is true – Joseph Farah's "Taking America Back," autographed only at the WND SuperStore. A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying...

SOMERVILLE, N.J. — Attorneys for Jayson Williams say the retired NBA star's convictions related to a fatal shooting should be thrown out because those who prosecuted him were racially biased. Williams was convicted of four counts of covering up the shooting of a hired driver at his central New Jersey mansion more than seven years ago.

According to the Obama administration’s mid-session budget update, the federal government will have to borrow nearly 40 percent of its total expenditures in 2010, a level not seen since World War II. The report, “Mid-Session Review, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2010,” shows that 39.9 percent of all federal income will be borrowed, making borrowing the single largest share of revenue in 2010. The next largest component of federal revenue is the personal income tax, which accounts for only 27.3 percent of federal funds. This is only slightly lower than in 2009, when the federal government borrowed 43.3...

1. “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.” -- President Obama at an August 6 at a rally in Virginia 2. “They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.” -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an August 5 interview 3. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have...

His back might be sore from all that twisting.

As Edward Kennedy was mourned and laid to rest over the weekend, talk about what will happen to his open Senate seat grew louder. On Friday, there were reports that the Massachusetts legislature would follow Kennedy’s final wish and change the five-year-old Senate succession law. Such a change would permit Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint an interim senator until the special election is held no earlier than 145 days after Kennedy’s death and no more than 160 days. (That means in January). This would be the second Democratic opportunistic change to the law. The last time – when Democratic...

Freep this quiz from the WhiteHouse http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/quiz/?e=12&ref=text

Chris Dodd may have put pressure on the Fed to aid a troubled mortgage servicer. Forbes is reporting that the Senator from Connecticut helped Carrington Mortgage by sending a letter to the Federal Reserve urging easier terms for mortgage servicers taking part in the TALF program. And when the Fed changed the TALF program, it turned out that Carrington was the only company to benefit. Carrington is owned by a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the letter he argued that the terms of the TALF advances were not “economically viable” for mortgage servicers. The TALF, for those of...

I would hope that, were my death imminent and if I had the opportunity to write a personal letter to the pope, I would be moved to some greater degree of humility. The knowledge that I would soon enter into the great unknown and, I believe, meet God in that ultimate encounter would, I pray, bring me to my knees seeking forgiveness and redemption. Along with a ritual expression of “deep humility” and acknowledgement of his shortcomings caused by his “human failings” and that he was “preparing for the next passage of life,” the late senator proceeded to provide the...

Who needs to make health care Barack Obama's Waterloo, as Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. suggested? Why not make it the president's Alamo? That's the advice PBS host Bill Moyers had for President Barack Obama in an appearance on HBO's August 28 "Real Time with Bill Maher." According to the former press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson, a defeat on health care/health insurance reform would do the left more good than crafting some sort of compromise. ..more (w/video)..

Fifteen years ago, in his first book, Dead Right, David Frum identified several challenges facing Republicans. He cited the “fundamental contradiction” of William Weld, at the time governor of Massachusetts, who thought he could be a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. Frum recounted how this Republican blue-blood, unable to reconcile the two positions, evolved into a thoroughgoing liberal who pushed through huge budget increases, in much the same way that John Stuart Mill, who objected to the social conservatism of his day, ended up a socialist. Had this disconnect been limited to one governor in one state, Frum’s point...

By Christopher Logan I have frequently spoken to Islamic apologists who say that their Muslim "friends" respect Jesus. They probably do, but it is not in the same way that Christians do. In the view of Muslims, Jesus is coming back as a Muslim and he will break the cross (destroy Christianity) and be a slave to Islam. He will also abolish the jizya, which will leave Jews and Christians with only two options. To convert to Islam or die.

Rush is out all week. Sub line up is: Monday - Mark Davis Tuesday - Mark Davis WEDNESDAY - MARK STEYN THURSDAY - MARK STEYN FRIDAY - WALTER WILLIAMS