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Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished. The robot from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has been missing since Monday. It cost about $100,000. It also was equipped with a detector to find red tide, a toxic algae bloom. That was valued at another $30,000. Scientists aren't sure what happened to the robot, which is nicknamed Waldo. It could have had a leak or malfunction and sunk to the bottom. It also could be on the surface, but its communication system isn't working properly to signal its location.

Mike Pence: "The president should suspend any future appointment of so called czars while the administration and the Congress carefully examines the background and qualifications of the more than 30 individuals who've been appointed to these czar positions."

I have just finished reading William R. Forstchen's new novel One Second After. Briefly, it is about the instantaneous breakdown of American way of life as the result of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which disables the nation's electrical grid as well as all sophisticated electrical components in cars (they stop), planes (they crash), telecomunications of every sort, etc. leaving the population in a world similar to that of the Eighteenth Century. Shortages of every variety create societal strains, chaos, death and destruction in a matter of weeks and months. Forstchen's book (with a forward written by Newt Gingrich), while fiction,...

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All summer long, Republican Bob McDonnell has been urging Creigh Deeds, his Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, to join him in a series of 10 debates across Virginia. Let’s debate the serious issues Virginia faces in the 21st century, McDonnell, the state’s former attorney general, said. Deeds’ answer? Here’s a 20-year-old, law-school thesis. Debate that. How truly pathetic. The Washington Post broke the “story” of McDonnell’s law school paper last week. Written while he was a law student at Regent University in 1989, he detailed his views on divorce, single-parent households, homosexuality, abortion and women’s rights. It was pretty...

Van Jones, you commie, will you please go now! The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don't care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Van Jones, you commie, will you please go now! You can go on skates. You can go on skis. You can go in a hat. But Please go. Please! I don't care. You can go By bike. You can go On a Zike-Bike If you like. If you like You can go In an old blue shoe. Just go, go, GO!...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Political survival will be high on lawmakers' minds when the Democratic-led U.S. Congress returns to work on Tuesday amid widespread voter dissatisfaction with its performance. While the debates over healthcare reform, global warming and banking legislation and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will dominate the airwaves, many incumbents, both Democrats and Republicans, are beginning to worry about holding on to their seats in November 2010 elections. Polls show only about one-third of Americans approve of how lawmakers are doing, less than a year after President Barack Obama led Democrats to big gains in Congress. Surveys find...

Violence has been on the rise across much of Afghanistan since President Obama ordered 21,000 U.S. troops to the country, shifting the focus of the U.S.-led war on Islamic extremism from Iraq. Now some are calling Afghanistan "Obama's war." Do you agree? Is Afghanistan 'Obama's war'? Yes. No. I'm not sure.

Carl Pope, the white male executive director of the Sierra Club wrote an after the fact defense of former Obama administration official Van Jones published at the Huffington Post tonight that smears everyone, including Jones, with racial insults.Pope says he served with Jones on the board of the Apollo Alliance and calls himself a friend of Jones.But like so many privileged liberal white males, Pope doesn't see Jones as a Yale Law grad and successful author. No, he sees Jones as just another black man from the ghetto.Pope lets his inner racist out as he writes a defense of Jones...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican soldiers arrested a suspected drug gang leader linked to a 2006 border incursion by armed traffickers into Texas and the killing of an anti-crime activist in July, the army said late Saturday. The army said in a statement that soldiers acting on a tip about armed men detained Jose Rodolfo Escajeda in Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northern Chihuahua state. Escajeda and three other suspects detained with him Friday allegedly worked for the Juarez cartel, named after the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. The suspects were riding in bullet-resistant vehicles. The...

Wasn't Barack Obama supposed to be the guy who was loved all across the world. During the campaign didn't they do public opinion polls that showed how the Obamessiah was the choice over McCain in all of our allied countries as well as our enemies? Those days are gone. Remember how he he upset the entire country of Great Britain by dissing their Prime Minister; no state dinner, no press conference and to top it all off President Obama gave the Prime Minister a crappy take-home gift, old DVDs that were in a format that couldn't be played in a...

American news outlets (well at least those not in Barack Obama's lap) are filled with criticism on the Department of Education plans to bring Obama's agenda into our nation's classrooms. The ploy to reach and teach our children through a presidential speech and through instruction guides (little red books?) appears to be stalled for now as parents -- if nor educational unions -- resist the idea of brain-swaying our children into writing paeans to Obama and his agenda. However, few have wondered how such an idea ever emerged in the first place. We do have some clues and they are...

A rising chorus of discontent – more a citizens uprising – shows Middle America’s deep suspicion of President Obama’s health care reform proposal. Average citizens have voiced their disapproval at townhall meetings hosted by Sen. Arlen Specter and HHS Director Kathleen Sebelius, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Rep. Tim Bishop, and staffers of Sen. Claire McCaskill. In a burst of passion-envy, Chris Matthews asked on Monday night’s Hardball, “Where the Hell are the people who want health care, the poor people out there…the union people? Where are they? I haven’t seen one placard, let alone one protest demonstration, for health care.” In...

Post-Mortem: Separation, Not Divorce by Paul R. Hinlicky — September 05, 2009 The shipwreck in Minneapolis has now taken place. The ELCA was organized twenty years ago with this outcome in mind, as we warned at that time at the Call to Faithfulness conferences. It took longer than the religious Left expected, indeed ten years of hard battering on the gates (with the collusion of the church bureaucracy) before exhausted and out-spent defenders collapsed. There are still some in the agonized middle of this dispute who cling to the thought that “structured flexibility” and “bound conscience” represent a workable “live...

This video will make you laugh at the incredible arrogance of our elected representatives. Representatives who play fast and loose with legislation and our freedom, all the while claiming … ignorance?This video is an interview done yesterday morning on Fox with Massachusetts Senator Bob Hedlund, a Republican who voted for the original version of the outrageous “Quarantine” law .

Return to the Article September 06, 2009Is Sarah Palin crazy?By Howard Lurie Is Sarah Palin crazy?  Was she out of her mind when she implied that the Obama health care bill was going to create a "death panel" that would encourage the elderly to check out early if their illness or infirmity was draining too many dollars from the system? Sure, there is a provision in the bill for end-of-life counseling by doctors, but it does not establish "death panels."  And yes, it does call for explanations of orders regarding life sustaining treatments, and why such orders might be...

Big discussion with a member of Adult Discussin Group at church this morning about congressmen/women who charges their leased vehicles back to their own taxpayers -- even though they get a pretty hefty salary and a ridiculous $1.5 million+ to finance their offices, etc. No one believed me when I said that the congressionals were charging their leased costs back to constituents. I know I read a list of which congressional leased what but can't locate it now. Anyone have such a list. I want to mail it to this guy who was circulating a petition for his favorite congressman.

We now are hearing that President Barack Obama's honeymoon with voters is over, that his poll numbers are falling, that the soaring rhetoric of the campaign no longer makes the Democratic faithful swoon so easily. If this is a real trend and not temporary disgruntlement, it is a good thing. For too long, Democrats, especially progressives, have been reluctant to openly criticize Obama, the nation's first black president. They want him to succeed, and they believe that serious public criticism from inside the party would hurt their man and egg on angry Republicans hell-bent on not being reasonable. Progressives do...

The Arctic Sea cargo ship that disappeared for almost a month earlier this summer, was carrying weapons to Iran and was being tracked by Mossad, the Israeli security service, according to reports. Mystery has surrounded the ship, officially carrying a cargo of timber worth £1.3 million from Finland to Algeria, since its crew first reported a boarding in Swedish waters on July 24 after a raid by 10 armed English-speaking men posing as anti-narcotics police officers. It was eventually recovered off the coast of west Africa on August 17. Russia has since charged eight men from Estonia, Latvia and Russia...