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Link to the image since the port office pulled it from their website. Remember, the president had to approve this.

It may be premature for Lt. Gov. John Garamendi to start printing new business cards, but he could be placing an order for them soon. The well-known 64-year-old lawmaker and rancher from Walnut Grove triumphed over his Democratic competitors in Tuesday's special 10th Congressional District primary. "I have represented every part of this district for the past 10-1/2 years," Garamendi said via telephone over the din of his campaign party in Walnut Creek late Tuesday. "The people of this district understood that I knew the issues that they cared about and that I could be a good and forceful representative."...

An heroic army medic treated seven injured comrades after a Taliban attack in Afghanistan despite being wounded with shrapnel herself, it emerged today. Lance Corporal Sally Clarke, of 2 Rifles, ignored the searing pain caused by the shards embedded in her shoulder and back and set about treating the rest of her patrol. The worst hit was Corporal Paul Mather who incredibly managed to radio instructions for jets circling above to open fire on Taliban insurgents despite bleeding heavily from wounds the size of his fist. Corporal Mather, 28, and Lance Corporal Clarke, 22, from Cheltenham, were on patrol south...

I guess it will not be a secret much longer... Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.” In the course of investigating procurement by...

Twenty years ago today in Mormon history . . . . . Elder George P. Lee, the first American Indian General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was excommunicated. In 1975, after Lee served as a mission president in Arizona, he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, one of the presiding bodies of the LDS church. Lee was 32. His autobiography proved to be popular. "Silent Courage: An Indian Story: The Autobiography of George P. Lee, a Navajo" went through nine printings. Lee felt a kinship president of the church Spencer W....

Nearly four years after the so-called "Haditha Massacre," which was cited by U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., when he publicly accused U.S. Marines of being cold-blooded killers, and after being cleared by multiple levels of military courts, a Marine officer is facing a new round of allegations stemming from the firefight in Iraq. According to some members of his legal team, the attorneys at the Thomas More Law Center, the original investigation that failed to produce evidence for a conviction took more than 65 investigators and cost millions of dollars. After an lengthy process in which prosecutors lost at every...

There's quite a buzz going around about Tuesday, September 8th. That's the day President Obama will address PreK-12 students via televisions and screens in public school classrooms, auditoriums, and 'cafetoriums' across the nation. This is a feat never before attempted by a sitting president. Reactions are mixed, no doubt in part because our nation is politically polarized. While some parents think it is a good idea for the president to reach out to school kids, others disagree. Why? Many prefer to be the gate-keeper of social and spiritual influences and want politics and religion kept out of schools. Some parents...

KOmmie heads are EXPLODING! And DUmmie heads are sure to explode very soon except the DUmmies are a bit slow on the uptake over the news reported in the POLITICO that their very own Beloved Barack Obama has thrown the entire leftwing blogosphere under the bus by DUmping the public option in the ObamaCare bill. The KOmmie who posted this THREAD, "Reports out of WH - Public option is dead," also posted this Twitter TWIT by David Shuster which gives you a good idea of the firestorm of outrage about to hit from the Left: Every indication public option...

Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, the White House Council on Environmental Quality. February 11, 2009, Berkeley, CA. From a lecture Jones gave at the 2nd Annual Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) event.

Here is video of Stuart Varney last night telling Sean Hannity that the Democrats' talk of a "Cooperative" approach to Health Care instead of a "Public Option" is really just a "back-door to Government Care." Rumors indicate Obama is willing to drop a "Public Option" to get a bill passed, but the next line of attack may be to refashion the bill using a "Co-Op" approach, which will actually just be another way to move the nation to Government-run Health Care. . . . . . (Watch Video)

The purpose of ACORN/SEIU is to destroy America’s economy so their massa Barack can re-build us into a socialist plantation. The latest attack from these anti capitalist, anti Americans is very serious, very scary. ACORN/SEIU’s new attack has surfaced in New York City, but this is what will be coming to your town. Get ready to fight it NOW! New York’s Council has joined the fight against America. Taking its marching orders from ACORN’s front group the Working Families Party (WFP), the Council is about to pass a law compelling even small businesses to offer paid sick leave to all...

Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions manage complex funds that buy up Americans' life insurance policies and pay their premiums in return for their payouts. But angry German investors are finding that Americans aren't dying as quickly as expected -- and that only the bankers are making a buck. snip -

The very people who accuse us of being bought and paid for and then organized by insurance companies are caught on camera training their zombies in ways to combat the real anti-obamacare protesters

Good morning everyone, Here's a press release issued Monday regarding a new talk-show slot we've been given on our local radio station. We're going to use this slot as a way to push the debate about the future of the country down the road a bit. Hope you'll tune in! CLICK HERE

By 1930 Verdun had been transmogrified almost into a dirty word in French schools. Throughout the late 1920s, the First World War was increasingly reinterpreted in the West as a futile bloodletting. International “Merchants of Death” and greedy capitalists, not the Kaiser’s aggressive Prussian militarism, were now seen as the true causes of that recent horrific war. A punitive Versailles Treaty — and not the failure to invade, occupy, democratize, monitor, and transform a defeated Germany — was seen as the real mistake on the part of the victors. Britain and France all but disarmed. The Maginot defensive line, England’s...

A Westport lawmaker who voted to hike the state sales and alcohol taxes was spotted brazenly piling booze in his car - adorned with his State House license plate - in the parking lot of a tax-free New Hampshire liquor store, the Herald has learned. Michael J. Rodrigues’ blue Ford Crown Victoria, emblazoned with his “House 29” Massachusetts license plate, was parked outside a Granite State liquor store on Interstate-95 South over the weekend, according to a witness who provided pictures to the Herald.

Having gained fame in the late '60s by building a Defense Department network that would become the Internet, BBN Technologies today is being acquired by one of the nation's leading defense contractors. Raytheon announced this morning that is buying the venerable BBN for an undisclosed sum. From Raytheon's press release: BBN's diverse portfolio encompasses a range of technologies including advanced networking, speech and language technologies, information technologies, sensor systems, and cybersecurity. The company's deep scientific and engineering talent aligns well with Raytheon's expertise and commitment to excellence. "BBN brings world class people, technologies and capabilities to Raytheon and our customers,"...

Exclusive: Hamas Spiritual Leaders: Teaching the Holocaust to Palestinian Students a ‘War Crime’ The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report Global media is reporting that a Hamas leader has called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a “war crime.” According to one report:   A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a “war crime,” rejecting a suggestion that the U.N. might include the Holocaust in Gaza’s school curriculum. A senior Israeli official said such statements should make the West think twice about ending its boycott...

A true patriot. We need more of this kind of activism on our side.

Happy September!  August has been a better month, which I am sure you could tell just by seeing the daily totals.  Maybe YouTube is starting to pay attention again?  Or maybe, just maybe, you guys have been really kicking their tushies?  Whatever it was, it worked!  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!  It's so great to actually see good results from all the hard work you guys put in!  So let's get to it, shall we? 30 users suspended totaling (956) videosAn additional 106 videos smacked down from daily playlistsjSDotd had 20 videos downed in August and figures of...