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Want to find out about how to shoot a moose or drill for oil in the Arctic? Perhaps even, how a self-styled "average hockey mom" can change the face of American politics? Well prepare to start bidding, as a dinner date with Sarah Palin is to be auctioned online.

(IsraelNN.com) Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz (Likud) noted that the Saudis rejected that Israel be given air rights.

What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)? The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Just look at Obama’s behavior as president, beginning with his first address...

Van Jones may have resigned but there are over 30 other "czars" in the White House we need to be aware of and start targeting one by one. Van Jones was easy pickings. His trail was very public, very well documented and contained many easy use statements on videotape from his speaking engagements. I doubt more powerful and possibly more radical "czars" will be as blatant in their public disregard for America and American values. We surround them. Remember, only 1/3rd of colonists were self-described patriots and only 10% of colonists actively took up arms or directly supported the Revolutionary...

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has recommended that non-Muslims take the opportunity of the month of Ramadan to fast, along with their Muslim neighbors, in order to promote "understanding between cultures."

The national unemployment rate as reported Friday stands at 9.7%, about 15 million people or is it? In August, the total civilian workforce as calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was estimated to be 154.6 million. However, that is down 0.16% from 154.8 million in August 2008. The decline of approximately 256,000 (rounding error) is highly unusual since the workforce population is ever increasing thanks to immigration and other factors (graduation, divorce or other catastrophe (e.g., Bernie Maddoff)). In August alone,1.09 million people entered the workforce according to the BLS. Population growth in the U.S. is a given....

I want to know exactly how much it cost the taxpayer for this commie to resign, ala Palin. I want to know how much was spent on letterhead, envelopes, official portraits, rubber stamps, 3-ring binders, promotional pens, engraved signs, the who kaboodle, just like Palin's accounting.

Enjoy their sweet, sweet pain and lamentations. ... and, for those who prefer to watch KOSsacks suffer and writhe in delicious torment: here. ;)

SALON Nov. 20, 2008--Sexiest Man Living Van Jones, activist, do-gooder who fights for civil rights and the environment -- and looks like he wandered straight off a Ralph Lauren shoot. If we had no idea who Van Jones was and he walked into the room, our hearts would still begin to flutter. If we were on a beach, and Van Jones came strolling up to us, clad in board shorts and carrying two big salty margaritas, we'd take a big gulp and desperately hope that we don't wake up from our dream anytime soon. Jones, 40, is hot. But he's...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The recession has eaten into people's nest eggs so the government is promoting ways to make it easier to save for retirement. One initiative that President Barack Obama outlined in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday will allow people to have their federal tax refunds sent as savings bonds. Others are meant to require workers to take action to stay out of an employer-run savings program rather than having to take action to join it. "We know that automatic enrollment has made a big difference in participation rates by making it simpler for workers to save,"...

Van Jones, the onetime Marxist whose controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11 have made him a distracting lightning rod as Barack Obama's environmental czar in recent days, resigned tonight. Now, the Sunday morning political talk shows (guest listings here) will have something really hot to talk about. On Wednesday, as The Ticket reported here, Jones was forced to apologize when a video surfaced of his February remarks in Berkeley, of all places, using a reference to a lower anatomical orifice to describe Republicans. The next day Jones again had to apologize for having his signature on a petition to then...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 4, 2009 Vice President Biden Announces Finalized $535 Million Loan Guarantee for Solyndra Recovery Act funding will accelerate job creation and help expand marketplace for innovative solar electric panels FREMONT, CA – Vice President Joe Biden, appearing via satellite from Washington D.C., today announced the Department of Energy has finalized a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc., which manufactures innovative cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels that provide clean, renewable energy. The funding will finance construction of the...

Just like federal gun control schemes, federal health control schemes can be attacked on constitutional grounds. There are two lines of attack. First, federal action can be attacked as violating individual rights. Federal gun control schemes have been successfully attacked as violating the individual right to keep and bear arms. In District of Columbia v. Heller the U.S. Supreme Court struck down DC's handgun ban and inflexible trigger lock law. Subsequently at least two federal judges have that under the Second Amendment, "federal laws depriving persons who are merely accused of certain crimes of the right to legal possession of...

One Socialist down, 3 more to go.

3 killed, 880 people rescued from Philippine ferry By JIM GOMEZ (AP) – 59 minutes ago MANILA, Philippines — At least three people drowned and more than 800 terrified passengers, many roused from their sleep, were rescued early Sunday from a ferry that listed and then sank in the southern Philippines, officials said. More than 80 people were missing. Coast guard chief Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo said 880 of 964 passengers and crewmen on board the Superferry 9 were transferred to two nearby commercial ships and a navy gunboat hours after the ferry began to list off Zamboanga del Norte province...

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Officials believe they have solved the brutal slaying Lyudmila Burshteyn, a 57-year-old married mother of two, a Russian immigrant who lived in the Somerton section of Northeast Philadelphia and worked in real estate - and whose body was dumped in rural Burlington County. They have charged four young men now in custody in South Carolina with her murder. But they also have a lot of questions, including when and where she was killed, and how did her life and that of the accused intersect with such tragic consequences? It was not immediately clear when Burshteyn was last...

I heard a rumor from a friend tonight who said there was a group of Drs. in Dallas who recently sat down with Rep. Pete Sessions in a private 'town hall'. Apparently Pete Sessions says that Pelosi has been in Washington this whole time re-writing the health care bill, that Republicans don't have the votes to stop it in the house (nor do they have the votes to stop it in the Senate) and they are going to ram this thing through in the middle of the night. Anyone heard anything on any of these rumors?

CARACAS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Venezuela will pull the plug on 29 more radio stations, a top official in President Hugo Chavez's government said on Saturday, just weeks after dozens of other outlets were closed in a media clampdown. Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello closed 34 radio stations in July, saying the government was "democratizing" media ownership. Critics say the move limits freedom of expression and has taken critical voices off the airwaves.

An unlicensed intravenous form of the antiviral drug Relenza saved the life of a woman with a severe illness resulting from infection by the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, British doctors reported today in the journal Lancet. Dr. Michael Kidd and Dr. Mervyn Singer of the University College London Hospitals were treating the virus, commonly known as swine flu, in a 22-year-old woman who had contracted it after undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. The woman had increasing shortness of breath, build-up of fluid in both lungs and was progressively deteriorating. Physicians had given her Tamiflu and Relenza, which is normally given...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 5, 2009 WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Announces New Initiatives for Retirement Savings WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama will announce new steps to make it easier for American families to save for retirement. These new initiatives will complement the president’s major legislative proposals to boost participation in IRAs and match retirement savings. The new initiatives will: Expand opportunities for automatic enrollment in 401(k) and other retirement savings plans, Make it easier for more than...