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        2(sic) Oregon soldiers killed in Iraq identified Aug 29, 2009 11:23 AM AP   Related Topics: PORTLAND, Ore.PORTLAND, Ore. (Map, News) - The Oregon National Guard has identified two soldiers killed when a convoy they were guarding was attacked in Iraq. Pfc. Taylor D. Marks, 19, and a decorated veteran, Sgt. Earl D. Werner, 38, died Friday when the convoy was struck by an explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, an armor-piercing explosive that turns into a projectile when detonated.Werner was on his third deployment with the Oregon National Guard. He had been awarded the Bronze...

Meg Stapleton, Governor Palin's spokesperson, confirmed to Fox News something that made its way around the blogosphere yesterday: Governor Palin will be traveling to Hong Kong to speak at CLSA's Investors' Forum: While Palin will not be going to Florida, she will be delivering a keynote speech in Hong Kong, China later this month, according to her spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton. Palin will be speaking to a forum organized by CLSA, a Hong-Kong based brokerage firm, and will address the company's clients and delegates at the 16th Investors' Forum. Speakers in the past have included Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Alan...

A US military commander says China's military build-up should be watched very carefully but has stopped short of calling the emerging superpower a threat. The head of the US Pacific Command, which patrols the Pacific Ocean from California to China, has held talks in Australia with Defence Force Chief Angus Houston. Admiral Timothy Keating, whose command covers 51 per cent of the earth's surface, says the US is monitoring China's military build-up.

Tea Party sets up in Rio Rancho Updated: Tuesday, 01 Sep 2009, 12:34 PM MDT Published : Tuesday, 01 Sep 2009, 12:34 PM MDT Reporter: Kaitlin McCarthy Web Producer: Todd Dukart RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - Protestors gathered at Haynes Park in Rio Rancho starting Tuesday morning, getting ready for another stop in a national tour of protests against proposed health care reform and government spending. The Tea Party Express tour, organized by a conservative political action committee called the Our Country Deserves Better Committee, is scheduled to wrap up on Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C., where a protest march...

CBS just now released a bunch of details for the Cronkite memorial, which'll be Sept. 9, 10:30 a.m. at Avery Fisher...The big news Prez Obama will speak. Bill Clinton too! That's a little surprising, considering these guys didn't know each other particularly well....Mickey Hart, of the Dead, might seem to be a little unsual too, but he and Walter were buddies (though I'm reasonably certain Cronkite was not a Deadhead.)

EDGARTOWN, Mass. – Just a week after the death of semi-permanent Senate fixture Ted Kennedy, the so-called Lion of the Senate has garnered a touching posthumous honor in his home state. Chappaquiddick’s picturesque Dike Bridge, where, in a less-than-lionhearted moment in 1969, Kennedy drove a young courtesan to her watery death, is to be rechristened in his name, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) confirmed today ...

<p>Check out the last few hours as of 10:00PM EST. Nice circular rotation, well defined.</p>

Oh, I’m sure some of you folks are laughing out loud at the idea that ex-vice president Dick Cheney considered by some to be an ideal candidate for president in 2012. But that’s only because you aren’t a rabid right-winger who thinks the only thing wrong with the Bush administration is that they didn’t torture enough Muslims. Believe me, they are out there: Craig Shirley, a longtime Republican strategist who often has his finger on the pulse of the party’s base, concurred while also noting that Cheney can galvanize conservatives in ways few other current figures can. “In 2009, there...

A former Revolutionary Guard commander wanted by Interpol for masterminding the worst terrorist attack in Argentina looks set to become the new Iranian Defence Minister after parliament signalled that it would confirm the provocative choice. General Ahmad Vahidi is alleged to have planned the bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in 1994 when he commanded the Quds force, a unit of the Revolutionary Guard responsible for foreign operations. He is one of five Iranians sought in the bombing in which 85 people died. Iran denies that it was involved. Israel and Argentina reacted with outrage at his nomination...

DENVER — In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.” “This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.” “Something is way crazy out there,”...

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdVnqTrP58&feature=channel_page "Paltalk News - Harry Reid Sends Aide To Videotape Tea Party Express" Video Description - Quote: reportergary September 01, 2009 The Tea Party Express, the bus tour that began in California and is winding it's way to a September 12 rally in Washington D.C. has apparently captured the attention of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Organizers of the anti-health reform and anti-tax increase movement allege that Reid has dispatched an aide to follow and film the tea party tour as it traverses through Nevada. Tour organizers first noticed a videographer who they refer to as a "Reid...

Rich, Kathryn et al, I'm less hostile to the George Will column. It seems to me we have no very clear war aims in Afghanistan, which is never a good position to be in.

Being powerful, Margaret Thatcher once said, is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. On college campuses, that rule applies to “sex columnists” who tell us they’re bold and cutting-edge for writing about their sex lives in the student newspaper. These columns are overwhelmingly written by uncreative girls who have modeled their personalities and lifestyles after Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex And The City”—right down to the slang, the clothes and, apparently, writing a ludicrous sex column. “Vibrators, cross-dressing, oral sex, multiple orgasms, masturbation, bondage — no topic is too hot to handle,” USA...

Incredible how much the days since Ted Kennedy's death have been dominated by revelations about his apparently deeply felt Roman Catholicism—from a priest's account of the senator's final hours to the decision to hold his funeral at an out-of-the-way church where Kennedy sought healing to stories of how his faith begat his political passions. At Kennedy's burial on Saturday came another revelation, as Washington, D.C., Archbishop Emeritus Theodore McCarrick read from a poignant letter that President Obama delivered from Kennedy to Pope Benedict XVI last month, along with portions of the Vatican's reply. Excerpts of Kennedy's letter to the pope:...

Can any Nevada FReepers shed any light on Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian? Tarkanian seems to be stronger in the polls (both lead Reid in head-to-heads), but he doesn't have a very good track record in elections. I would assume Lowden has more political connections, fundraising connections, and has held elective office in Nevada before. Who is the more conservative candidate between Tarkanian and Lowden? Thanks.

David’s message 7 September 2008 The Scriptures We attending this small fellowship have made a choice. We have chosen to be defenders of the Faith, and being of like mind to worship together in order to encourage and edify one another in our walk with Christ and bring glory to God’s name. An awful alternative would be to fellowship with apostates and heretics- a journey of compromise and error. There is no middle-of-the-road. What then is deemed to be heresy and apostasy? Heresy is an opinion or doctrine at variance with orthodox or accepted doctrine evidenced in God’s Word. Apostasy...

<p>Scientists and artists plan to build a 40m-wide lunar clock by the River Thames by 2012.</p> <p>The aim is to create a new London landmark close to the proposed Olympic stadium as a monument to a more natural way of marking time.</p>

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is too spineless to face his constituents at a normal town hall. So, he held a "no questions allowed" rally with invited union members and supporters of Obamacare at UNLV. Other citizens were turned away at the door. Earlier this month, Harry Reid waved a piece of Astroturf and said, "I just want to show you what Astroturf really is." Senator Reid, you have shown the citizens of Nevada you know exactly what "Astroturfing" really means.

When the man convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 two decades ago over Lockerbie, Scotland, was released, many in this country were rightfully outraged. On December 21st, 1988, 243 passengers, 16 crew members, and 11 people on the ground were murdered. Of these, 180 were Americans; 60 of them children. The bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, returned to Libya on August 20th with much fanfare enjoying a “compassionate release” due to his imminent demise from cancer. He had served 8 years of a 27-year sentence. Moreover, he was given an unfathomable level of compassion...

Nations finish global treaty on illegal fishing-UN 01 Sep 2009 12:22:40 GMT Source: Reuters ROME, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A group of 91 countries have finalised the first global treaty to fight illegal fishing, seeking to shut ports to rogue vessels plundering the seas, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday. Environmental groups estimate that one-fifth of all fish landed are from illegal, unregulated or unreported (IUU) fishing boats, dealing a heavy blow to developing countries in Africa and Asia which rely on the seas for valuable income. "IUU fishing damages the productivity of fisheries -- or leads...