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On several occasions, Obama (the liar) has openly acknowledged that the Democrats' health care bill would cover result in extending "free" coverage to illegal immigrants. This is one such instance: YouTubeI saw another video of him doing the same, but was not able to find it. Does anyone have a link? I'm amazed how few people understand the issue that to which Joe Wilson called out the President's lie. I guess it's because we no longer have a functioning news media. As Obama (the Liar) well knows, the bill in congress will result in coverage for illegals due to other...

Eight years after September 11, the war on Radical Islamist terrorists has gone the way of the dinosaur, for PC reasons the President has down size the battle, it is now a war against al Qaeda and its allies. And what about Osama bin Laden, who lives in hiding does he even matter now? The U.S. government came close to bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora in December2001, but we haven't come close since. The Drone program started by President Bush and, to his credit, continued by President Obama has been very successful at eliminating much of the...

I can remember the exact moment I heard about this. I will never forget. Prayers to every American that feels as I do; for their loss and their courage. Those who died did not die in vain

OWOSSO, Michigan -- State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning in front of Owosso High School . . . State police also confirmed that a suspect was taken into custody about 8:15 a.m. at the suspect's home

Glenn Beck this morning had me in tears, opening with the airplane chatter as 911 was unfolding then through the unfolding events with sounds from the media, it was truly moving. Then, he moved onto the present, talking about how the Freedom Tower is now to be called "One World Center" (I think was the name). It hasn't been built, trapped by political correctness and politicians, it made me very angry, you really had to hear it, I cannot describe it, but if you can get the first 15-20 minutes of todays show I encourage you to list. To be...

Never has a president been warped by Washington quicker. At times tonight, Obama sounded like an embattled second-termer with a 35 percent approval rating. What percentage of his speech was spent lashing out at his enemies, real and imagined? Radio and cable-television pundits, George W. Bush, former Congresses, unnamed ghouls employing “scare tactics,” whose “only agenda is to stop reform at any cost”—they’re all against him, Obama said. And they’re lying. This isn’t how confident leaders speak. These are the complaints of a man on his way to bitterness. So soon?

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Three rockets struck northern Israel on Friday. There have been no reports of casualties. The rockets were fired from southern Lebanon and Israel Radio has reported that the Israel Defense Forces have launched retaliatory artillery into southern Lebanon.

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) mastered politics in a state where no-holds-barred political combat dates to the days before the Civil War, when one of its congressmen entered the Senate chamber and beat a Massachusetts senator with a cane for attacking pro-slavery Southerners. So when Wilson went so far Wednesday night as to heckle President Obama, interrupting his address to a joint session of Congress with shouts of "You lie!" he wasn't straying far from South Carolina's tradition of wild and woolly politics.... Wilson's charge -- which fact-checkers have repeatedly established as false -- was that the universal-coverage provision Obama backs...

Fans of Jay Leno may have high expectations for the comedian's new show beginning Monday night. But in negotiating ad rates, NBC and advertisers have set the bar low. In the weeks leading up to NBC's launch of "The Jay Leno Show," advertisers are buying spots for about half what they'd spend per commercial in new episodes of dramas on competing networks at the same time of night, executives say. snip The number of people watching shows on weeknights between 10 and 11 p.m. on NBC, CBS Corp.'s CBS and Walt Disney Co.'s ABC has declined 23% from three TV...

The health care debate has strained relations bewteen House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. From the Politico House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was telling reporters Tuesday night that a health care bill might survive without a public option when Nancy Pelosi bounded to the microphones to cut him off.

Markets were up about one percent yesterday. This movement appears to have come as a result of the better than expected weekly jobs report. That showed that new jobs claims dropped to 550,000, the lowest in about two months. There's some breaking economic data. This time it is import prices for the month of August. They rose by about 2%. So far, the market has shrugged off the news and markets are relatively unchanged. The University of Michigan consumer confidence index will come in about an hour and a half. I have no data on what the consensus for that...

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...

Just a message to the freepers from the author of "Geeks On Caffeine." Please share with your friends and especially with those whose memories of the 9/11 terrorist attacks have faded.

Have you heard about the latest Obama czar to stir up controversy for his extreme policy positions and radical affiliations? I’m not talking about Van Jones, the recently deposed “Green Jobs Czar.” Sure Jones has an affinity for Marxist ideology and dabbles in 9/11-was-an-inside-job lunacy. But this guy makes all the fuss surrounding Jones look downright humdrum by comparison. He’s got ties to domestic terrorists, believes babies who survive abortions do not deserve protection and for decades embraced a mentor who thinks America deserved what it got on that horrific day eight years ago. And he’s the most powerful czar...

NEWPORT NEWS – When police got the call, they dropped everything. Cases went on the back burner; the focus of every available detective shifted to the Windsor Great Park neighborhood where an 18-year-old said someone put something around her throat, pulled her from her car, dragged her into an easement, and tried to rape her. “She was very distraught, and she was very upset, and it helped to add to the credibility of the story that she gave,” Captain Marvin Evans tells 13News. The head of the Newport News Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Bureau says officers would find out that...

Mascanomet High School senior Olivia O'Malley wants to make sure nobody ever forgets what happened on September 11, 2001. Armed with a box of American flags, she began her mission on Thursday to plant a flag for each person who lost their life 8 years ago. "We can never forget it started as an ordinary day." List: Mass. 911 Victims Olivia has been planting flags on the lawn at Mascanomet High School each year as a reminder. She says her mission began three years ago when, on the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, there was no announcement made at...

Now that I'm back from (yet another) vacation and decompressing, I've made a major editorial decision. I am no longer going to run stories about dire economic news. There's lots of it going on, but likewise, there's lots of good news that gets lost in the shuffle. Witness the latest shred of silver lining, forever lost in the furor over whatever nonsense the nation's been obsessed about in my brief absence. -- Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the nation’s biggest banks, taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that many...

Former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) responded graciously, but factually, to President Barack Obama's (D) health care speech with his post partisan gratuitous swipe at her. As she puts it "so much for civility." And it's hard to listen to the President lecture us not to use "scare tactics" when in the next breath he says that "more will die" if his proposals do not pass. In his speech the President directly responded to concerns I've raised about unelected bureaucrats being given power to make decisions affecting life or death health care matters. He called these...

About 1,000 US troops in Afghanistan marked the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Friday by participating in a memorial run that spanned 9.11 kilometers at Bagram Air Field in Kabul. Two other bases also took part in the run, which was dedicated also in memory of American troops who died in nearly eight years of fighting in the terror-stricken South-West Asian country. Organizers of Friday's race called it an act of defiance against insurgents who inflicted the deadliest year for American military in 2009 since the beginning of the conflict. U.S. troop casualties were at its height in August,...