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Off Their Meds, Installment 6,432. Tommy Friedman was allowed out without supervision again and managed to produce and another stunningly oblivious assessment of the world as he perceives it to be outside of the Manhattan Media Bubble. Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. The only logical place to go from there is to indict the one party in a Democracy that's got too much power,...

Camille Paglia, a democrat with brain, on her disappointment with Obama: As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration’s strategic missteps this year. I suspect there had been private grumbling all along, but the media warhorses failed to speak out when they should have — from week one after the inauguration, when Obama went flat as a rug in letting Congress pass that obscenely bloated stimulus package. Had more Democrats protested, the administration would have felt less arrogantly emboldened to...

Following up on this morning’s post about Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) calling for a hearing on “44 czars,” I asked McHenry’s spokesman Brock McCleary where that number came from. “We’re using a variety of sources and finding everyone who has been referred to as a ‘czar,’” said McCleary. “It would be appropriate for the WH to release a formal list.” In the meantime, McClearly provided me with two sources that McHenry’s office is using to build a czar list: this list from Politico, and this thread from the conservative web forum FreeRepublic.com. The FreeRepublic thread begins with a list from...

...For the past eight years Democrats have been voting against and filibustering two important reforms that would help all Americans. First, allowing you to buy your health insurance from any of the 50 states. Right now you are stuck buying insurance from businesses in your state, often with expensive mandates pushed on you by the state legislators and lobbyists for special interests This reform alone, known as the Shadegg bill, would drop the cost of health care an average of 15%. Not bad. Democrats have spent years opposing this fix. Second, we need to reform tort law—stop the trial lawyer...

One of the clearest messages from the Town Hall forums during the August congressional recess was that people want Congress to be covered by the same health care reform plan they impose on the rest of us. ... And in this video Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option plan if they approve it for private citizens. Predictably, however, the Heller amendment was defeated, with all 21 committee Democrats voting against...

Explaining the recession and changes to your family economics to your children may not be an easy task but Elmo is here to help. Sesame Street has produced, in association with David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and Lookalike Productions, a new PBS primetime special, Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure in Tough Times.

Obama's Green Czar, Van Jones, signed letter blaming U.S. for 9/11 attacks 9/11 denial is exactly like Holocaust denial except for the fact that it excuses, denies, blames on the victim, or blames on somebody other than the known perpetrators two missing skyscrapers, four missing airplanes, and three thousand missing Americans instead of ten million missing Jews, Polish Catholics, Gypsies, and assorted Slavs. Other examples include accusations that Franklin Roosevelt was complicit in the Pearl Harbor attack, and Soviet Russia's efforts to blame the Katyn Forest Massacre on Germany. Barack Obama's appointment of Van Jones (who has already gone under...

The first piece I wrote about President Barack Hussein Obama was an August 5, 2004 ezine article titled The Barack Obama Myth, http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11950. This was after I listened to him speak at the 2004 Democratic convention. At that time, I wrote: "this rising star in the Democratic Party spouted some conservative themes during his speech, the rhetoric may be deceptive. While Obama spoke of individual responsibility – such as stating that the government cannot teach kids to read, parents must – his ideology and voting record is quite different. Obama is very liberal." Obviously, my piece was very prescient. Mr...

US soldiers fire rocket at a mosque being used as a firing position (look closely and you'll see the muzzle flashes coming from the dome at the 2 second mark)

It's a shame she is not giving the rebuttal to Obama's speech tonight!Sarah Palin is proving that she doesn't have to be a sitting governor to be relevant in the current policy debate over health care. By bringing high level attention to the matter of death panels and health care rationing she forced the "news" media to cover a story they might otherwise ignore. She's done it again with this reply to Obama's op-ed in health care. I know you will want to read the whole thing, but here's a teaser: Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to...

Whoever said Homestead was devoid of star power obviously didn't know that Paul Newman and James Taylor lived in Homestead... ACORN said they had alerted authorities on their own after finding "numerous discrepancies" on 888 of 1,400 voter cards in Homestead.

Some call them the fourth branch of government in Massachusetts – quasi-public agencies. They’re not fully private entities, but not fully a part of state government, either. Click To Comment | Payrolls: Who Pays More Than $100K “It literally is like a disease that can't be controlled,” said Sen. Mark Montigny, D-New Bedford. Team 5 Investigates’ Janet Wu reported Wednesday that even reading the names of the dozens of quasi-public agencies can be confusing. The words economic, finance, development and technology show up in most titles. “You never know what is buried in those cans of worms because it's not...

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An illegal alien serving a 15-year prison sentence for the hit-and-run murder of a Wisconsin teenager demanded a judge free him because he encountered discrimination when his immigration status was repeatedly referenced in court. In August 2007 the intoxicated illegal immigrant (Eddie Carbajal-Lile) with a previous drunk-driving conviction ran a stop sign and caused a crash that killed a 17-year-old boy. Two other teenagers were injured in the accident and Carbajal-Lile fled the scene but was arrested a month later in Ohio. Incredibly, the illegal immigrant already had open container and drunken driving convictions in Wisconsin, a notorious sanctuary state...

When President Obama addresses Congress and the nation tonight, he should pledge to do three things. First, he should announce that he will discard the 1,018-page health bill drafted in the House of Representatives and replace it with a 20-page bill in plain English. Twenty pages should be sufficient. The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.

Just how many communists are there holed up in the Obama White House anyway? John Holdren, Obama's biggest radical and Science Czar, slammed the idea of American exceptionalism and explicitly said that we need to redistribute energy and material resources during the Bali Conference on global warming on July 12, 2007. John Holdren says the US should redistribute the wealth with green policies:

Security at risk from Russia addicts - Medvedev 08 Sep 2009 14:46:33 GMT Source: Reuters * Up to 2.5 million Russians are drug addicts * Drug use contributes to demographic problem * Students may face tests By Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW, Sept 8 (Reuters) - High drug use among Russia's youth is a threat to national security, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday. Russia is the world's top consumer of Afghan heroin, fuelling concerns in Moscow about the growth of the opium trade in Afghanistan. "The young age of drug users is a threat to the country's national security, a serious...

Assemblyman Michael Duvall (R) Orange County is caught on a hot mic speaking about spanking and more; talks about relationship with woman 19 yrs younger than the married father; runs from reporter than avoids him.

Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields. Scientists working on behalf of NASA built a device to simulate variable levels of gravity. It consists of a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals, with a space inside warm enough at room temperature and large enough at 2.6 inches wide (6.6 cm) for tiny creatures to float comfortably in during experiments. The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something. "It actually kicked around and started...

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