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Just heard on FOX that ACORNS involvement in the census has been killed. Anyone else heard anything on this?

RALEIGH, N.C. - Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his late-night movie. It was time for a game Marines sometimes play to build confidence in colleagues: Point a gun at a comrade and ask, "Do you trust me?" Cpl. Mathew Nelson raised his weapon - and the 9 mm pistol went off, striking Malone in the head. The higher-ranking Marine rushed to the wounded man's side and tried to perform CPR, but Malone was mortally wounded. The game, which has cropped up in barracks across Iraq and...

Continued from Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Icon of Saints Peter and Paul (the happy meeting) "Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days" (Gal 1:18). "But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned" (Gal 2:11). The great apostles Peter and Paul stand face to face in these two moments, one congenial, one painful — fixed points in a sea of questions surrounding Paul's narrative in the first two chapters of Galatians. In between Paul mentions one other meeting...

What’s wrong with Sarah Palin, we are told, is that she is a dummy. In the words of the late great Winston Churchill, “Some dummy”. When she, on short notice, announced she was retiring from her job as Governor, her admirers were all too quick to say that she was making a mistake. “Some mistake”. And detractors called it her swan song. In less than six weeks she has taken over from all the elected Republicans, the role of government watchdog. She has assumed the role of a government in waiting and all Republicans are riding her coat tails. From...

Riot police were struggling to contain protests by anti-fascist demonstrators and rightwing organisations outside a mosque in north-west London tonight. Officers were hit by bricks and bottles as they tried to keep about 1,000 rival demonstrators apart outside the partially completed mosque near the tube station in Harrow. Seven people had been arrested and weapons, including bottles of bleach, a hammer and a chisel, were seized, a Metropolitan police spokeswoman said. Police were braced for trouble after the rightwing English Defence League (EDL) and a group called Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) said they would converge on the area...

I just heard on Fox News that the Census has cut all ties with Acorn.It was 'breaking news"

US Representative Edward J. Markey of Malden will not run for Edward M. Kennedy's vacant Senate seat. Markey told the Globe he feels he can be more effective in his leadership role in the House. To read more, visit

Breaking per FoxNews

The office of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has issued a statement, saying the teenage girl who ran away from her Muslim home in Columbus, Ohio, to evangelical Christians in Orlando, should be returned. "Child welfare agencies and authorities in Ohio and Franklin County are fully capable of providing for the security and well-being of Ohio's children," said the statement. "The governor believes this is a family matter and therefore would most appropriately be handled here in Ohio with the assistance of the child welfare and foster care system." Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, is currently living with a foster family in...

Breaking News on Fox, the Census Bureau has severed all ties to ACORN. Will not be working with ACORN for the census in 2010.

Today's most over used and abused office buzzwords are more effective at prompting eye rolls rather than real action, according to an Accountemps executive. “When business or industry terms become overused, people stop paying attention to them,” said Accounttemps Chairman Max Messmer, who is the author of Managing Your Career For Dummies. Many of this year's words like "synergy," "on the same page" and "think outside the box" were also noted as exhausted in a 2004 survey. These are 2009's office buzzwords that need to be retired: * Leverage: As in, “We intend to leverage our investment in IT infrastructure...

RUSH: Rasmussen has released a poll. It's interesting. If we are to believe this, there can be no conclusion other than we are a conservative country. "'Progressive' is becoming more of a dirty word, but all political labels -- except 'being like Ronald Reagan' -- are falling into disfavor with many US voters, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. 'Liberal' is still the worst and remains the only political description that is viewed more negatively than positively. Being like Reagan is still the most positive thing you can say about a candidate. Just 15% of voters say...

Waitress already called, 'racist.'

Vladimir Putin's spokesman says the Russian prime minister has warned against the use of force or new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Dmitry Peskov said Putin made the remarks during a meeting Friday with foreign experts on Russia. Peskov quoted Putin as saying Russia has no reason to doubt that Iran's nuclear program is purely peaceful.

A Rasmussen poll released this morning found that Obama received a negligible bump from his speech on Wednesday, with support for Democratic health care legislation now at 46 percent, up from 44 percent before the speech. A majority of 51 percent are still opposed, according to the poll. Perhaps most interestingly, all of the bump came from an increase in support among Democrats.

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Friday, September 11, 2009 VP Biden hits town for VIP fundraiser It will be at least a few more weeks before President Obama makes his first post-election visit to San Francisco, but Vice President Joe Biden will be in town this weekend on a fundraising mission for U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. Biden is slated to join Boxer and fellow Democrats at back-to-back events on Saturday: a $500-a-head cocktail affair at the Fairmont, followed by a $5,000-a-head dinner at the home of Lydia and Doug Shorenstein. With ex-Hewlett Packard CEO and Republican Carly Fiorina is revving up to challenge Boxer, you...

Few would dispute that Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod are two of President Barack Obama's key advisors. I wrote here that Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law Vernon Jarrett, worked with Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, in at least three communist dominated organizations in late 1940s Chicago. Davis then went on to eventually mentor the young Barack Obama in Hawaii. David Axelrod too has connections that that stretch back to post War Chicago communism. While a New Yorker by birth, David Axelrod studied political science at the University of Chicago in the early 1970s. Later, while a start-out journalist with the Hyde-Park...

Dear Senator Enzi, Democracy’s Achilles Heel As a member of the gang of six Senators that are trying to reach a compromise on the health care issue I would like to share with you my thoughts on compromise and what I consider Democracy’s Achilles Heel. A liberal’s nature supports government safety net programs and the role of big government’s as nanny state and exercises a general faith of government solutions to societal problems emphasizing the general welfare of the populace (Democrats and big government). Conservative’s nature on the other hand believes that America’s safety net has become a hammock and...

On the eve of what organizers call a 'Big Ol' TEA Party', the Washington, D.C., offices of FreedomWorks were evacuated by DC Metro police on Friday afternoon after the conservative organization reported to authorities at 3:42 pm ET that it had received a bomb threat. At 4:48 pm ET, the organization put out a Twitter message saying that it turned out to be a false alarm but the organization is not happy about the disruption. My colleague, ABC News' Teddy Davis has the story: Tens of thousands of anti-big government activists are expected in Washington on Saturday as part of...