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As Barack Obama prepares a nationwide broadcast to America's students next Tuesday, it has been revealed that Democrats complained in 1991 when then President George H. W. Bush broadcast a speech from a Northwest Washington junior high school. In fact, the House Majority leader at the time, Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), said "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students." Such was reported by the Washington Post on October 3, 1991 (h/t KY3 Political Notebook via Chuck Todd): House Democrats criticized President Bush yesterday for using...

A Muslim teenager from Ohio says her father threatened to kill her because she converted to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, ran away from her family in Columbus, Ohio, in July and took refuge in the central Florida home of the Rev. Blake Lorenz with the Global Revolution Church in Orlando. The teen heard of the pastor and his church through a prayer group on Facebook. The girl's parents reported her missing to Columbus police, who found her two weeks later in Florida through cell phone records. The teenager, in a sworn affidavit, claims her father, Mohamed Bary, 47, was pressured...

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President Obama is now scheduled to address a joint session of Congress during prime-time on September 9. Exactly when hasn’t been set, but it’s likely to be 9pm Eastern (although the last Obama prime-time address/press conference was quickly rescheduled from 9pm to 8pm after some of the broadcasters balked, and Fox Broadcasting didn’t carry the address, but Fox News did). But the fall premieres of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and Glee are both currently scheduled for September 9. Whether the address is at 8pm or 9pm, it completely screws up Fox’s night since those shows are scheduled...

While the UN is supposed to be about truth and freedom, they have no problem in helping advance the Islamic agenda. In the past they have even banned the criticism of Islam at the UN in regards to human rights. This is just another example of our taxpayer dollars funding the enemy.

Here is audio of New York Democrat Rep. Louise Slaughter on the Ron Reagan Radio Show where she told him she was "not going to do Town Meetings." Slaughter condescendingly said "I'm not going to give these people" a forum, meaning those who oppose ObamaCare. Via The Radio Equalizer

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attacked Israel Thursday during his visit to Syria, calling it an imperialist nation that annihilates other people. Venezuelan President Hugo... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad at al-Shaab presidential palace in Damascus, Chavez comments came during a news conference with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad after a one-hour meeting at the hilltop presidential palace. "Israel has become a country that annihilates people and is hostile to peace," he said, according to the Arabic translation of his remarks to reporters

Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show. With the premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, looming on September 16 at the Toronto Film Festival, normally you’d expect to find Moore filling up every inch of media, shocking the bourgeoisie with his trademark Angry Guy Banging on the Palace Walls shtick, providing Matt Drudge with a new outrageous quote every news cycle. But Moore has been strangely silent in this run-up and the LA Times‘ Patrick Goldstein has learned that he plans to keep a lid on...

Once again, one of the masters of the universe trotted out on MSNBC has discovered the cure to one of society's ills - more Obama. Daily Voice editor and CNBC contributor Keith Boykin waved off the reservations of some parents about President Barack Obama addressing their children in the classroom. Boykin appeared on MSNBC on Sept. 3 in a segment about the classroom controversy and added his insightful commentary on the matter. "So much of the debate about President Obama has been politicized in an effort by some to delegitimize his presidency," Boykin said. "This is clearly much ado about...

Now, everyone has focused on the extremely unstatesmen like manner in which Jones referred to Republicans. That has been analyzed and hyper analyzed. As such, I want to look at it in another way.

It's week No. 1 in NCAA football. Tonight the S.C. Gamecocks of the SEC go against the N.C. Wolfpack of the ACC and No. 19 Boise State of the WAC takes on the No. 16 Oregon Ducks of the Pac-10.

Ten-year-old Lauren Murro has a killer back-to-school saga when the time comes to tell the class “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.” The New Jersey sixth-grader was with her dad, Tom, at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs last week when President Obama played through. “We were sitting by the 18th hole, waiting for him to finish up,” said Tom, “when I spotted Spike Lee .”

"The notion that they showing up with guns, I think, is totally dangerous."

Students will get free vaccinations. Health clinics will turn into “flu centers” to relieve hospitals. Emergency room statistics will be reported on the Web every day. And schools will close only as a last resort. Girding for a second wave of the swine flu pandemic that has already killed more than 50 people in New York City, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg outlined a strategy on Tuesday that was equal parts infection control and panic control. “It’s natural to imagine a worst-case scenario, but all signs at this point in time do point to an outbreak that will be much more...

I know yall are not fans of the public health option, neither am I, Hawaii's Reps and Senators are making themselves very scarce (Tele-town halls etc). What can I do to make sure the nails are put in the coffin of both the health care plan, and Barack Obama's socialist agenda. I am legally a resident of the State of WA, so I can do things in that respect.

History is full of examples of conquests that seemed easy and tempting, but later turned out to be gigantic blunders. One of them was Napoleon’s decision to invade Spain in 1808 and put his elder brother Joseph on the throne. That was the first great miscalculation of his career. I strongly suspect that Obama’s decision to “reform” American health care by thoroughly politicizing it will become his Spain — a short-run victory that will in the long run prove disastrous for him. Napoleon and Spain In 1808, Napoleon was the master of continental Europe. To his south, Spain was officially...

My Mother Hired A Hitman To Kill Me: The Shocking Story Of A Muslim Woman Whose Parents Disapproved Of Her Western Lifestyle By Sofia Hayat 03rd September 2009 Ordeal: Sofia Hayat [Pic in URL] was imprisoned and her mother threatened to kill her because she led a Western lifestyle. The text message forwarded to me from my younger sister Saira was concise and chilling: 'Mum's sent a hit man to kill you,' it read. 'Be careful.' As I read those words, my first instinct wasn't fear or even shock, but simply survival. I'd become accustomed to behaviour like this from...

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The controversial article that started it all.. Teddy, the KGB and the top secret file. By Tim Sebastian, printed in the London Sunday Times. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19401082/Teddy-the-KGB-and-the-Top-Secret-File-Tim-Sabastian-the-Sunday-Times-Feb-2-1992

Teenager Says Her Parents Will Kill Her Over Conversion. The Muslim community if speaking out about a so-called religious runaway who came from Ohio to Florida saying she feared her parents would kill her because she converted to Christianity. On YouTube, Fathima Bary, who is known as Rifqa, says her parents must kill her because she has converted. "It's an honor. If they love God more than they love me they have to do this," she said. "I'm fighting for my life." Rifqa's attorney has said that the mosque attended by her parents has terrorist ties.