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The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions over whether the employees broke the law. The staffers appeared to commit federal tax fraud by offering to help them — for a fee — to establish a child brothel, legal experts say. In a video made public Thursday, two visitors to an ACORN office in Baltimore told staffers they needed assistance securing housing where the woman, a...

I received a frantic call from one of my sisters at 8:46am, September 11, 2001. She was yelling into the phone: “A plane just smashed into the Twin Towers - It’s on fire.” She was so distressed, on the border of being hysterical, that the rest of her conversation was nearly incomprehensible. And how could she not have been, since her only daughter worked as a junior manager straight out of university for the Marriott Twin Towers Hotel. I ran to our 62-inch television to see the horror-show for myself, listening to the CNN anchors report that “it looks as...

Some people are wondering who is next after Van Jones. But the Van Jones story is not over. And we still don't know who hired this "obscure" official, as some on the left are now trying to refer to him. Some of these controversies are currently being investigated by the new media. Blogger Trevor Loudon, who broke the story about Jones' communist background, thinks White House official Valerie Jarrett needs to be seriously scrutinized. She appears to have had a family connection to Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. For the record, this "obscure" official technically...

Here is video of Fox News' Brett Baier reporting on the ACORN Undercover Video story that has exploded onto the scene today. So far, only Fox News has reported the story. ACORN has received billions of dollars from the Federal Government over the years, including an expected $8.6 Billion of Stimulus Money. Glenn Beck spent his entire show today breaking down the ACORN video. (VIDEO)

On August 12, a group of 21 arts organizations endorsed President Barack Obama's health reform plan only 48 hours after a conference call in which a top National Endowment for the Arts official asked arts groups for help in advancing the administration's policy agenda, including health care. ne reason the arts organizations may have been so swift to follow the administration's suggestion is that 16 of the groups and affiliated organizations received nearly $2 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in the 150 days before the conference call.

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On the House floor where President Obama spoke just a half-day earlier, two words shouted by a Republican congressman reverberated louder than the finer points of the health care debate.

  With his popularity ratings plummeting and public resistance to his health-care reform proposals increasing, President Barack Obama spoke to Congress and a national television audience for 48 minutes last night. Though touted as his "health-care speech," the more important subtext was the future of Obama's presidency itself.   He has let it be known that his legacy and health-care reform are one and the same. Last July, Obama warned a Democratic congressman, "You are going to destroy my presidency," if the House of Representatives did not pass a health-care bill. The GOP sees it the same way, as...

ABC anchor John Stossel, a libertarian whose work earned him fiercely loyal fans at the same time he caused headaches for the network, is jumping to Fox. He's trading a much bigger platform for the promise of more time on the air. Stossel will have a weekly show on the Fox Business Network, exploring libertarianism and consumer issues, and make frequent appearances on Fox News Channel, the network said on Thursday.

All I can say is this was a bad business decision. I just took KNEW off my preset stations. Take a look at the comments...it tells the story! Bye KNEW!

22,000 people have already voted. Let's give this a nudge in the right direction just to bug the moonbats. Current results are: Thunbs up 41% Thummbs Down 55% Idiots Wavering 4%

BALTIMORE — The nonprofit housing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute.

I love the smell of easy traffic in the morning. Team Barry was grumpy over her Journal op-ed last night so they tossed this grenade at her in their daily talking points: On Gov. Palin’s AttacksEvery non partisan organization that has looked at her claims say they are false. And the ideas in her op-ed are both scary and risky. Eliminating Medicare and giving our seniors vouchers instead is a bad idea that we shouldn’t adopt. To which Palin, within the last hour, posted this reply/prebuttal of tonight’s speech: I’m pleased that the White House is finally responding to Republican...

President Obama, bringing out the best in entrepreneurship and inspiration in the American people.

You know, it might be a quaint old idea coming from a mid-century antique, but where I come from, when you screw up (which in this case is more of a wow-did-I-say-that-out-loud moment of real, genuine passion by a Patriot) you usually do the following; 1. Apologize 2. Use no weasel words 3. Move on. You've done that Joe. In spades. Just as important as a clean and gentlemanly apology, however, is the fact that you really do expect the other guy to do the right thing...if he accepts the apology...and just let it go. But that isn't happening. This...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The nonprofit housing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute. Fox News Channel broadcast excerpts from the video Thursday. Those excerpts showed a man and woman asking about buying a house and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. An ACORN employee advises the woman to list her occupation as "performance artist." Maryland ACORN board member Margaret Williams says in a statement the employees "did not meet ACORN's...

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The leader of the caucus of pro-life Democrats in the House is repeating the promise he made over the summer. If the pro-abortion Democratic leaders fail to include language to prevent abortion funding in the government-run health care bill, he and his colleagues will block the legislation.That's the promise coming from Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who has long been at the forefront of pro-life efforts."What I've told the speaker and the leadership and the administration is first of all you have to give us that vote," Stupak told CBN News about the desire...

You owe your life — and everything else — to the sovereign. The rights of subjects are not natural rights, but merely grants from the sovereign. There is no right even to complain about the actions of the sovereign, except insofar as the sovereign allows the subject to complain. These are the principles of unlimited, arbitrary, and absolute power, the principles of such rulers as Louis XIV. Intellectuals have assiduously promoted them; think of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. A new intellectual champion of absolutism has now emerged. Mild-mannered University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein has been advancing the...

...The Terrestrial Planet Finder is a mission which primary target is to search after Earth-like planets and currently under study by NASA. At the moment are two complementary concepts for this mission. The visible-light Coronograph and a formation-flying infrared Interferometer."There are countless suns and countless earths all rotating around their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system. We see only the suns because they are the largest bodies and are luminous, but their planets remain invisible to us because they are smaller and non-luminous. The countless worlds in the universe are no worse and...