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The Republican Party became losers by doing several things wrong. Republicans became racists against non-whites and alienated African-Americans and Hispanics. Republicans recruited religious fanatics that have "Bible & Hymnal" ideology while ranting against other religious factions(hypocrites). Republicans became the party of "the weaker sex" letting Sarah Palin, Patti Jones, Mikel Ward and Kay Hutchison lead them down the primrose path. Republicans then let the "fatboy society" led by Rush Limbaugh(dittoheads) and Robert Pratt(loudmouth) poison the airwaves with mindless madness turning voters off. Local republicans like Chris Winn and Mikel Ward are now letting such groups like AFIIG and Young Republicans...

If you don't see eye-to-eye on an issue with your ideological counterparts - rather than debate the issue, you can go on national TV and call them derogatory names like liberal talking head David Sirota has done. Earlier on CNN's Sept. 7 "American Morning", as NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard pointed out, Sirota called Fox News host Glenn Beck a "right-wing political terrorist" and added that Van Jones was "a national hero." But this time he set his sights on Florida Republican chairman Jim Greer and "people like Jim Greer" who were concerned about President Barack Obama speaking to school children in...

***Graphic Images*** You can't post about communism without the "Graphic Images" warning--you cannot separate the horror from the communism. What you need to know is that these awful things happened after the 'Hope and Change' periods were over--this is after the elation, the fanaticism, and the deception--this is the only possible end to hard-left ideology. You cannot enslave one man to the cause of another's existence, or the state, and expect good things to come of it. Only stagnation and death comes from succumbing to the Siren song of the left. This is precisely the kind of thing that our...

Obama Prepares For Crucial Health Care Speech http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112607353 ^ Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:04:10 PM by kcvl September 7, 2009 President Obama got in a little relaxation Sunday afternoon with a game of golf ahead of a pivotal week for one of his administration's key policy objectives: health care. On Monday, Obama plans to attend an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, to rally support for his health care plan. He won't focus solely on that topic. He will also address the state of the nation's economy when he speaks at the organized labor event. Last week, mixed reports...

The racism of marijuana prohibition Enforcement of marijuana laws disproportionately affects young African Americans -- even though their usage rates are lower than whites'. By Stephen Gutwillig September 7, 2009 The Times' Aug. 30 article, "Marijuana’s new high life," does a great job describing the cultural mainstreaming of marijuana. Pot is indeed flourishing in "civilized society" as never before, and the movement to end decades of failed prohibition has picked up unprecedented momentum. But that debate has largely ignored the people most impacted by our current policies -- the rising number of people, particularly young people of color, arrested on...

Mid-term elections are generally not very pleasant for the president's party, especially when the president and congress are all lead by the same party.... The 2010 elections will be no different, the only real question is whether the losses will be small or large. The tea party and town hall protest movements show there is great anger and frustration amongst voters toward a congress that is out of touch with their constituents. Then there is the fastest growing voter block in the American electorate, Seniors: Bush's 2005 Social Security debaclealienated seniors and contributed to Republican congressional defeats in the 2006...

Sadeq Larijani, a young and inexperienced cleric with close ties to Iran's military and intelligence agencies, has replaced Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as head of the Iranian judiciary. This appointment is particularly significant, since the judiciary in Iran wields considerable power -- albeit through the approval of Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- and has a great deal of latitude to make decisions without reference to law or Islamic concepts, especially when "safeguarding the interests of the regime" is deemed necessary. Sadeq justifies his lack of political experience in a short autobiography on his website. Because he "felt that the...

The prepared text of President Barack Obama's back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesday, as released in advance by the White House: OBAMA: Hello, everyone — how's everybody doing today? I'm here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through 12th grade. I'm glad you all could join us today. I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if...

Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones is gone, along with his views about whites directing poisons to minorities, his obscene condemnations of Republicans and his affiliation with the idea the U.S. government was behind 9/11. Now critics of the cadre of unvetted political appointees charged by the president with "advising" on a broad range of critical issues are looking at some of the other names with White House access. Jones' midnight-on-a-holiday-weekend resignation came after pressure over his extremist history first exposed in WND reached critical mass, set off by a tape of him in an expletive-packed rant, directly attacking...

September 8, 2009 The Secrets of Michelle Obama’s White House Workouts A regular routine including an 'arm-shaping superset' helps Mrs Obama tone those world-famous biceps [Pic in URL] At last the secret to Michelle Obama's sculpted arms: tricep pushdowns and hammer curls. So says Cornell McClellan, the US First Lady’s long-time personal trainer, who has described the workout routine of his famous client in the October issue of Women's Health magazine. Mrs Obama began working with Mr McClellan in 1997 at his Chicago fitness studio. “She's truly committed herself to the importance of health and fitness,” he says. Mr McClellan...

TEHRAN, Sept. 7 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday invited representatives from a group of six world powers, including the United States, to Tehran, but he said negotiations over his country's right to a nuclear program would be off the table. Discussion on the nuclear issue, he told reporters at a news conference, is "finished." "We will never negotiate on the Iranian nation's obvious rights," he said, adding that Iran would not halt its uranium enrichment efforts. Ahmadinejad said Iran had prepared a proposal for breaking the deadlock on its nuclear program, and he asked diplomats to come to...

President Obama on Monday announced his selection of Ron Bloom as senior counselor for manufacturing policy. Speaking at an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati, the president introduced Bloom, who has been a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner as part of the auto industry task force since February. Bloom, a Harvard Business School graduate, previously advised the United Steelworkers union and worked as an investment banker. "As my new point person on manufacturing, he's going to help us craft the policies that will create the next generation of great manufacturing jobs and ensure American competitiveness in the 21st century,"...

Arianna Huffington’s liberal gossip site the Huffington Post has been vigorously defending green jobs czar and 9/11 “truther” Van Jones. It turns out that Jones was Huffington’s grassroots political director when she ran for governor in the 2003 recall election. In fact, Jones, a self-described “communist,” thought Huffington was so wonderful he was part of the effort to draft her to run for office. A San Francisco Chronicle article from Sept. 5, 2003 described Jones as Huffington’s “grassroots director.” A Miami Herald article from Aug. 3, 2003, described Jones as a ”Bay Area activist” and “director of the Ella Baker...

Reporting from Washington and London - Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up transatlantic planes in a spectacularly scaled, Al Qaeda terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people. A jury in Woolwich Crown Court convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to murder by setting off liquid bombs smuggled aboard seven North America-bound airliners in sports-drink bottles. Police have said their plan was possibly days from fruition when the men were arrested in August 2006 amid the biggest counter-terrorism investigation in British...

A towering North Korean hotel which Esquire magazine once dubbed "the worst building in the history of mankind" has come back to life with a facade of shiny glass windows affixed to one side of the concrete monolith. But few expect the North will ever finish construction of its 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel, started in 1987 and halted for 16 years because it could have bankrupted the destitute state. "The hotel doesn't look as shoddy as it once did, probably because of the reflective glass," said a member of a civic group in South Korea that recently returned from a visit...

Like a scene out of the "Dukes of Hazzard," a driver launched his SUV from the road into the second-floor of a Long Island home early Saturday. "All hell broke loose," said homeowner John Sarli, 58, who was sleeping at the far end of his E. Moriches house when the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee crashed through the front. "I was kind of in shock." Suffolk County cops said Adam Clark, 20, was driving drunk when he hit a dirt berm 20 feet off E. Moriches Blvd. about 12:20 a.m. The Jeep flew 65 feet into the grand foyer of Sarli's...

Six people were injured when a paramotor crashed Monday afternoon into a crowd at park in Hooper, Utah, Witnesses told FOX13Now at least four people were taken away in ambulances. According to a county dispatcher two people, including a 4-year-old girl were taken to a local hospital by helicopter. (video at url)

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A pit bull that chewed the toes off of a 4-month old baby in North Carolina has been euthanized, while the child's mother and her boyfriend remain in custody, charged with felony child abuse. The 1-year-old dog was put down and tested negative for rabies. A spokeswoman for Onslow County Animal Control said that to test for rabies, animals must first be euthanized.

Sarah Palin ignited a political firestorm when she worried that "death panels" would deny end-of-life treatment to her son with Down syndrome. In fact, ObamaCare would more likely see to it that people like Trig never even make it out of the womb. The outlook for children found to have disabilities in utero is bleak now -- because the medical-ethics establishment has spent decades pushing for their abortion. Thanks to advances in prenatal testing, it's now far easier to detect conditions like cystic fibrosis and spina bifida -- and our "best and brightest" overwhelmingly counsel parents to destroy the unborn...

Analysis: Furor Over Speech Typifies Polarization By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 7, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The furor over President Barack Obama's start-of-school speech to the nation's students -- challenging them to work hard, earn good grades and stay in school -- typifies the country's widening rift over politics and social issues. It's certainly an unwelcome distraction as the president prepares to address both houses of Congress and the nation Wednesday about his embattled attempt to overhaul the health care system, which has taken a hammering from Republicans and some middle-of-the-road Democrats. Dating back to his campaign for president, some...