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Here is video of a small business owner going "On the Record" that caused a "major uproar" at a town hall meeting when she voiced her opposition to ObamaCare. When she was done speaking the crowd cheered and it was clear that the majority of people agreed with her. The town hall part is also shown in the video right before the interview. (Watch Video)

A dagger is pointed at the heart of America. Its point is the deliberate misuse of the English language for the purpose of influencing how Americans speak and think. If the dagger is driven home, reason itself will be the principal victim. Reason is the human faculty concerned with forming good conclusions and making sound judgments.[1] It is the power of intelligent thought, and it takes us step by step on a journey to knowledge. We use words to take that journey because, as the English philosopher Francis Bacon once observed, words are the "footsteps of reason." But, as Bacon...

The name's Moscowitz. Rabbi Moscowitz. Unsure the NYPD can protect them from a terrorist attack during the upcoming high holidays, a bunch of rabbis have taken matters into their own hands. The group, which bills itself as the International Security Coalition of Clergy, was founded by Rabbi Gary Moscowitz. The mission: Protect synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holidays, at the end of the month. Moscowitz, who has a black belt in karate, was an NYPD cop for nearly a decade and is a martial arts instructor, founded the coalition, according to The New York Post....

OK!!! Fun stuff.... ;-( I have an older laptop. Actually, more than one of the same model. Battery in one of them died - well, not quite. It would still start up the charge cycle but would only go to what it says was 30% or so no matter how long I left it on charge. Then, if I unplugged it and let it run on battery, it would run about 5 minutes and suffer a somewhat violent shutdown. I was able to get a few more batteries from somebody who once had a boatload of these models, but none...

While discussing Governor Palin's political future and place in the conservative movement on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" tonight, Larry Kudlow and Jerry Bowyer, syndicated columnist, laid the smack down on liberal Mark Walsh, former Air America CEO. Here's the video:

The Kennedy Funeral: Boston's Latest Scandal t | t | t | t by Phil Lawler, September 3, 2009   A week after the death of Ted Kennedy, the relevant question is not whether the Massachusetts Senator deserved a Catholic funeral, but whether he deserved a ceremony of public acclamation so grand and sweeping that it might, to the untutored observer, have seemed more like an informal canonization. We cannot know the state of Ted Kennedy's soul when he finally succumbed to brain cancer. We are told that he was visited regularly by a priest in his last days; we...

A recent mob-beating of a Buffalo, NY teen has caused a great deal of outrage within the community, and while the crime has been covered locally, the national mainstream press has completely ignored the story. The victim is white and the assailants were black. On August 18, Brian Milligan Jr., 18, was walking home when he was reportedly attacked at the corner of Genesee Street and Floss Avenue, by between 10 to 15 black men. In addition to being punched and kicked, Milligan’s attackers hit him in the back of the head with a brick. Amazingly, despite his severe injuries,...

Why I Don't Want the Obama Speech Shown in Other Schools As I have said, I am happy President Obama has decided to deliver a back-to-school message Tuesday at Wakefield High, an A-plus school in Arlington County. I just wish the White House hadn't suggested that students at other schools across the nation watch it, for a reason I have not heard much in the increasingly heated political debate over the announcement. I don't think the speech is an effort to "spread President Obama's socialist ideology," as charged by Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party. I don't think...

Wikipedia is an important web resource that serves as an encyclopedia for far too many people. Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone, and is the largest encyclopedia in existence. Unfortunately, as with many good things, the leftists have ruined it in areas of controversy, by aggressively editing articles, and persistently fighting to keep their own viewpoint dominant. I was reminded of this today when reading the article on the so-called “Winter Soldier Investigation” - a 1971 propaganda travesty orchestrated by Jane Fonda, John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The purpose of this staged event was to...

Vietnamese police have arrested two bloggers and a journalist for their involvement in a plan to print T-shirts opposing China's investment in a bauxite mining project and its claims over disputed islands, sources said. The arrests underscore how sensitive Vietnam considers relations with China while highlighting the challenge Hanoi faces in keeping public opinion in check as Internet usage blossoms -- and where it draws a line on organized dissent. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 30, who blogged under the name "Me Nam," or Mother Mushroom, was arrested on September 2 for "abusing democratic rights" and harming national security, her mother...

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Signaling an attempt to move forward on stalled U.S. union legislation, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney would back speedy votes by workers on whether to join a union rather than the much-attacked "card check" provision, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Sweeney, head of the largest U.S. labor federation, told the newspaper he would accept a fast election campaign because it would help stem management interference during union organizing drives. The card check legislation, backed by U.S. President Barack Obama, would let workers decide whether to unionize by signing a petition or holding a secret-ballot election. Employers can now require...

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Most of the time when wives cheat on their husbands, they don’t receive public humiliation. But, when the husband is a loyal listener of the Paul and Young Ron Show, all bets are off. Paul and Young Ron claim to “have always had their listeners’ backs,” and this story certainly teaches not to get on their bad sides. One woman, dubbed the “Boot Camp Tramp” by the show’s listeners because her husband was training to be a customs agent while she allegedly cheated on him, was put in her place on Friday morning. When she left her home, a plane...

Signs of Internet addiction, according to Hilarie Cash, executive director of the ReSTART center for Internet addiction near Seattle. Three of the following symptoms suggest abuse, five or more addiction: -Increasing amounts of time spent on Internet -Failed attempts to control behavior -Heightened euphoria while on Internet -Craving more time on Internet, restless when not there -Neglecting family and friends -Lying to others about use -Internet interfering with job and school

In February 2007 I suggested a 4% mortgage delinquency rate could trigger a decline in the entire housing market. Since that proved prescient, we should revisit the analytic tool behind that call: the Pareto Principle. There is a whiff of euphoria in the housing market, a heavily touted confidence that "the bottom is in." It's all roaring back--rising sales, multiple bids by anxious buyers, 3.5% down payments, low mortgage rates and the bonus of an $8,000 first-time home buyer credit (a gift from U.S. taxpayers). Housing Lifts Recovery Hopes (Wall Street Journal) Foreclosure-related sales account for over 30% of all...

Finally! A member of the MSM notices that Obama himself (rather than just his subordinates) may be making some mistakes. But not before he calls the president's detractors lying, homicidal racists. Joe Klein, whose two largest orifices tend to be indistinguishable, dismisses all rational arguments against the Obama vision of health care reform and assumes that all that's needed is for The One to assert himself and be THE ONE. Klein's tendency to crap out both ends makes me react to him in a knee-jerk fashion, I'll admit. He actually says a couple of things in this article that I...

WASHINGTON – Personal attacks against Nancy Pelosi may have hit a low point in August when Fox News host Glenn Beck joked about adding poison to the House speaker's glass of wine. "Drink it! Drink it! Drink it!" Beck urged as a staffer wearing a Pelosi mask sat next to him holding a glass of red wine to her lips. As opponents try to defeat President Barack Obama's health care plan, the California Democrat has emerged as their top target. In the latest sign, the GOP is prominently featuring Pelosi in advertisements, putting heat on conservative Democrats by reminding voters...

Sacramento police arrested 17 homeless residents at their "safe ground" campsite this morning, including one advocate for the homeless. Rev. David Moss, a Methodist Minister, was taken into custody along with other campers, charged with illegal camping, Sacramento police Sgt. Norm Leong said. A press release by Loaves & Fishes early morning claimed Sister Libby Fernandez, executive director of the Loaves & Fishes homeless services group, was arrested together with other campers. But later Sacramento police clarified that she was only detained for a short period when police arrived to search the camp. Only those who had been previously cited...

It appears the reason high level Obama appointee Van Jones has such a deep seated hatred for America has been found: He was a nerd who was bullied in school and was "always picked last" in team sports.In an undated interview published at Collage Foundation, Jones spoke of his growing up as a nerd and how he scammed a graduate degree from Yale:When you were younger, what were you interested in? I was mainly interested in journalism and poetry and writing. I read a lot of comic books, James Bonda lot of good guy vs. bad guy type of stuff....