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This unprecedented presidential address to America’s public schoolchildren is pretty creepy. But don’t take it from me. Take it from D.K. Jamaal, columnist at the Newark Progressive Examiner [bolds in original]: Big Brother alert: Sorry, but Obama’s planned address to nation’s schoolchildren is creepy September 1, 2009… I’m sorry, but the notion of a mational address to schoolchildren creeps me out.Maybe I’m paranoid, but it sparks within me thoughts of Big Brother’s looming head on a massive television screen, indoctrinating the hapless drones spread out before him.The companion “Menu of Classroom Activities“ released to pre-kindergarten through sixth graders by the...

Congressman Michael McCaul (TX 10) will be a busy man on Friday, September 4 as he travels from a Health Care Reform Town Hall in Katy to an awards ceremony in Tomball. First up, the number one issue in America; Health Care Reform. Congressman McCaul will take your questions about the Democrats’ proposed healthcare reform legislation, and government takeover of your health care. McCaul will also discuss the alternative plan he has co-sponsored, H.R. 3218, the Improving Health Care for All Americans Act. While Congressman McCaul’s plan has been largely ignored by the mainstream media it is an option well...

Democrat Curt Hanson has defeated Republican Stephen Burgmeier by 107 votes in Iowa House District 90, according to unofficial results released by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office Tuesday night. Hanson will replace former state Rep. John Whitaker (D-Hillsboro), who was appointed to a position with the USDA. The balance of power in Iowa’s lower legislative chamber remains unchanged, with Democrats holding on to a somewhat volatile 56-44 majority. Tuesday’s turnout was low compared to recent presidential elections but high for a special election, with 8,046 voters casting ballots in the district, which spans Jefferson County and parts of Wapello...

The Battleship Missouri, scene of the Japanese Surrender to U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur on September 2, 1945, is about to get a complete overhaul and makeover. The videos above show the Missouri in action during the First Gulf War in 1991 - blasting away with her big guns. The second video shows the Japanese Surrender on her deck 64 years ago today: "On Sept. 2, 1945, the USS Missouri hosted Japan's surrender in World War II. "I'm proud of it," Art Albert said. Back then Albert was a machinist aboard the vessel. Now he sees rust and faded paint on...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Schools in Ohio and Kentucky fall short of national standards for nurse staffing levels, raising concerns should either state see a swine flu outbreak... ...Kathy Inderbitzin, an executive board member for the Ohio Association of School Nurses, says nurses can handle a mass immunization effort if it is mandated. But she says there's still a critical shortage and the association is worried about how the flu will affect children.

The last couple days are a good example of why I believe that getting bogged down in every economic number gets people nowhere. Yesterday, the ISM index finally passed 50 which means that manufacturing is expanding. Automobile sales were up and construction spending was good. Then, this morning ADP released its August numbers for private jobs and they were worse than expected. ADP survey revealed that the private sector lost 298,000, more than the 250,000 that was expected, but less than the 367000 from July.

While the exact route of the Great Wagon Road has not been preserved, as such, we know that in Virginia and West Virginia, from the Potomac to the Roanoke Valley, it is either under or parallel to Route U.S. 11. Because the highway has been regraded, straightened, widened, and sometimes relocated and sometimes expanded to three and four lanes, it is often hard to know whether you are on, or simply driving parallel to, the Great Wagon Road. Except . . . there are places where you can be relatively certain that you are on the old road. [Pictures]

Today’s rumor of presidential overreach starts at the National Legal and Policy Center and the Drudge Report, which has launched a slew of e-mails about official spying on social-networking sites. The NLPC found an RFP from FedBizOpps, the site that publishes all opportunities to do business with the federal government, that offers a contract for a company to collate data from the Internet. Is Big Brother upon us?

Here are the news stories, editorials, and videos that conservatives dugg Monday, August 31, 2009. Please take a moment to digg these articles at Digg.com, then get back over here! What is Digg? And why should I care?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20090902/SCIENCE-US-AUSTRALIA-REEF/

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". inflammable • \in-FLAM-uh-bul\ • adjective 1: flammable 2: easily inflamed, excited, or angered : irascible * * Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence Example sentence: The messenger trembled as he stuttered out the news of the army's defeat to the highly inflammable king. Did you know? "Combustible" and "incombustible" are opposites but "flammable" and "inflammable" are synonyms. Why? The "in-" of "incombustible" is a common prefix meaning "not," but the "in-"...

CBS Poll internals on Obama, Health Care and Town Hall protesters...

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Childhood Obesity Report Calls For Government Regulations to Limit Access to ‘Unhealthy’ Restaurant Chains Wednesday, September 02, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) - A newly released report by the Institute for Medicine and the National Research Council details strategies for local governments to combat what it calls an epidemic of childhood obesity, including enacting zoning and land-use regulations that would “restrict fast food establishments near school grounds and public playgrounds.” The report, “Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity,” was compiled by the Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments, a committee of health care...

Ex-CIA operative: 'We're not going to go to prison for protecting this nation'

Wednesday, September 02, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12 (see trends). Republicans have opened their largest lead yet over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot. However, Republican voters say that GOP representatives in Congress are still out of touch with the party base. Most say that the average Republican in Congress is more liberal than the...

<p>All aboard for El Paso and San Antonio!! We have a Tea Party in El Paso at 10:00 am this morning and another at 11:00 am in San Antonio at the Alamo!!</p> <p>Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!!</p>

Roman Catholic couples are being encouraged to pray together before they have sex. A book published by a prominent Church group invites those setting out on married life to recite the specially-composed Prayer Before Making Love. It is aimed at 'purifying their intentions' so that the act is not about selfishness or hedonism. The prayer, which appears in the Prayer Book for Spouses, implores God 'to place within us love that truly gives, tenderness that truly unites, self-offering that tells the truth and does not deceive, forgiveness that truly receives, loving physical union that welcomes'. It adds: 'Open our hearts...

Health care isn't the only destructive White House priority running into trouble in the Senate. Yesterday, Barbara Boxer (Marin County) and John Kerry (Nantucket) announced that Democrats won't release their cap-and-trade bill next week as scheduled after all, but will instead postpone it for up to a month. It's far too early to say that carbon tax and cap is dead, but mark this delay down as one more sign that it remains well short of 60 votes.... Ms. Boxer and Mr. Kerry insist that all systems are still go, though it didn't sound that way when... Cap and tax...

Anyone who remembers this: Washington Post Confesses To Biased Reporting During The 2008 Presidential Campaign 84rules November 11, 2008 Should find no surprise in this: Left-Leaning Washington Post Go After Bob McDonnell 84rules September 2, 2009