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Conservatives Urge 'National Truancy Day' For Obama's Back-to-School SpeechSept. 2, 2009 Rob Kuznia--HispanicBusiness.com President Obama on Tuesday will deliver an address to American school children urging them to stay in school and study hard, but to some conservatives, the whole thing smacks of an attempt to indoctrinate kids to a socialist agenda. The uproar -- fueled in part by conservative commentators such as blogger Michelle Malkin and radio host Dana Loesch -- has been so effective that some schools in Texas are making the viewing optional, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Others in Columbia, Missouri are ignoring the address...

U.S. crude oil production is expected to rise this year for the first time in nearly two decades, buoyed mostly by new offshore projects in the Gulf of Mexico but also getting a boost from a so-far quiet Atlantic hurricane season. Last year, hurricanes Ike and Gustav forced oil and gas companies to shut down wells and evacuate workers from offshore facilities, resulting in 63 million barrels of lost oil production. This year, the government predicts only 3.4 million barrels of outages due to Gulf storms, although hurricane season is still far from over. U.S. oil output is benefiting from...

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The United States voiced grave concern on Wednesday about video footage that a Sri Lankan group says shows government soldiers summarily executing Tamil rebels in violation of international law. "These reports are very disturbing, they are of grave concern," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told reporters. "We'd like more information as we formulate our own national response." Rice was reacting to video footage aired last week on British television which, according to a Sri Lankan advocacy group, shows government forces executing unarmed, naked, bound and blindfolded Tamils during the army's final...

Governor Vetoes Bill On Unionizing of Farmworkers September 2, 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has again vetoed a Democratic-backed bid to change the way farmworker organizing elections have been run for three decades. The governor said the measure, sponsored by the United Farm Workers and carried by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), is identical to bills he has vetoed in recent years. The bill would have allowed the union to sign up workers away from the farm. Schwarzenegger said that would have stripped farmworkers of the privacy of the voting booth to decide whether they wanted the union...

This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," September 1, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, they're angry about health care, angry about taxes, angry about the exploding size of our government, and they want government to get its nose out of their business! The Tea Party Express rolling on down the highway, 35 cities in 16 days. Final stop will be right here in Washington, D.C. But where are they tonight? Well, Griff Jenkins is with the Tea Party Express in Las Cruces,...

Just a question. To be eligible to go to public school, a child must show a birth certificate. So how does Barry get to go into Every public school in the country without showing his??

I can't do links on my phone, but apparently the White House news release on Dear Leader's speech to students contained the word "schoochildren" in the title.

Washington: The White House is using the president's executive powers to scale back pay raises for federal employees. Instead of 2.4%, they'll now get 2%. Budget problem solved? Not even close.In an era when the budget deficit — nearing $1.58 trillion — and debt — $11.8 trillion — are at all-time highs, when it looks as if the expanding federal apparatus will soon swallow the entire nation, the administration found $2.7 billion in spending cuts. Technically, it's not a cut. Instead of funding $22.6 billion for 2.4% cost-of-living allowances for 2010, the taxpayers will be responsible for providing $19.9 billion...

A suggested lesson plan that calls on school kids to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help President Obama is troubling some education experts, who say it establishes the president as a "superintendent in chief" and may indoctrinate children to support him politically. But the White House says the speech is merely "designed to encourage kids to stay in school." Obama will deliver a national address directly to students on Tuesday, which will be the first day of classes for many children across the country. The address, to be broadcast live on the White House's Web...

shows Republicans with a 4 pt lead over Democrats in the generic ballot.

BOSTON -- Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the allegiance of Bostonians by leading the Red Sox to the 2004 World Series, said Wednesday that he has "some interest" in running for the seat held for nearly 50 years by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

LOS ANGELES - There’s a bull market for bullets. Stacks of ammo, once piled high at gun shops across America, have dwindled. Prices paid by consumers for much sought-after Winchester .380-caliber handgun bullets (a common name for cartridges) have doubled. At weekend gun shows, trailers loaded with boxes of ammunition are drained within hours. Budget-pressed police departments, which can’t be caught short, have increased their orders just to be safe, and the US military, fighting two wars, has seen its need for bullets quadruple in recent years. Industry officials say the appetite for ammo in the United States is unprecedented....

Sept. 2) -- Denunciations, denials and apologies are flying after an advertisement that evokes 9/11 quickly spread around the blogosphere. AdFreak.com called attention to the purported World Wildlife Fund print ad that shows dozens of airliners taking aim at Manhattan. The copy reads: "The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it."

Dear Chairman Arthur: On behalf of the Archdiocese of Washington, I write to express support for the initiative that is being filed with the Board of Elections and Ethics today. This initiative would allow voters a voice in the process to ensure that marriage in the District of Columbia continues to be legally defined as it always has been: between a man and a woman. The Archdiocese of Washington includes 580,000 Catholics living in Washington, DC and neighboring Maryland counties. Catholic parishes, schools and ministries have been serving the needs of this area since before the District of Columbia was...

Health Care: A beleaguered White House apparently has abandoned its government-run option. Even so, ObamaCare will still be a thousand-page, trillion-dollar step toward socialized medicine.President Bill Clinton and his erstwhile adviser Dick Morris liked to "triangulate." Top Obama political aide David Axelrod told Politico that the president's post-August recess strategy on health care will be to "synthesize and harmonize." The administration intends to drop the controversial "public option" to rival private employer plans. Independent health care experts have warned that the artificially low premiums and other enticements a government plan would offer could lead to tens of millions of customers...

(CNN) -- A Georgia man allegedly slapped a toddler at a Walmart store because she wouldn't stop crying, authorities said. Roger Stephens, 61, was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree cruelty to children. An incident report obtained from police in Gwinnett County indicated Stephens did not know the 2-year-old girl he stands accused of hitting. The confrontation happened shortly before noon at the Walmart in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta. According to the arresting officer, the child's mother said her daughter was crying as they walked down one of the aisles. The mother said a stranger later identified as...

Some critics suggested that protests from environmentalists contributed to the disaster, which came after the brush was allowed to build up for as much as 40 years. "This brush was ready to explode," said Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, whose district overlaps the forest. "The environmentalists have gone to the extreme to prevent controlled burns, and as a result we have this catastrophe today."

NEW YORK (AFP) – A prominent Democratic fundraiser charged with defrauding Citibank to the tune of 74 million dollars and quickly returning his ill-gotten gains, engaged in yet another fraud to do so, prosecutors said Wednesday. New York financier Hassan Nemazee was charged August 25 with using fake documents to secure a 74 million dollar loan from Citibank. At the time, the authorities said that Nemazee, 59, promptly returned the funds. But in a letter to federal Judge Michael Dolinger in New York, prosecutors say his apparent contrition was faked, alleging that he all he really did was scam a...

It’s not even 2012, and Sarah Palin, the “lightweight” Caribou Barbie stupid dumb right-wing inexperienced unqualified unaccomplished religious wacko birther enabling nut that came from Wasilla, has already defeated President Obama. She has trounced Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. She has trumped MoveOn, ACORN, and Obama’s mass army of volunteers at Organizing for America. She has out-demagogued the three stooges of MSNBC Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow. Oh, and she did it with Facebook notes. Read that again: she did it with Facebook notes. --snip-- Democratic talking head Paul Begala got a lot of press by summing Palin...

Some of you may have heard about the Tea Party Express cross country tour that is a 33 city tour ending in Washington DC on September 12th. News outlets covering the tour are FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times and Parcbench. Here is a summary from Parcbench: “Parcbench is one of six national media outlets embedded with the cross-country government protest tour Tea Party Express. We’ll be providing you with video and blogging updates throughout each day with interviews, coverage of each city and more. The Tea Party Express is a bus caravan crossing the country in...