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Glenn Beck shows the number of stories from Foxnews vs. all other media on the ACORN undercover video story. What a disgrace the libs are...

In spite of unexpected public opposition, President Barack Obama continues to unflinchingly "guarantee" that he will "reform" healthcare this year. Recently, he said the Democrats will get it "done one way or another," hinting of the nuclear option. By invoking arcane rules in the Senate, the President could force through a bill with only 51 votes, instead of the required 60. Such a partisan, bully-move would eliminate the need for dissenting Democrats -- not Republicans, as the administration frames it and the media dutifully reports. Although Obama has ample Democrat majorities, he can't even secure the necessary Democrat votes --...

Very good article by JB Williams, but something vitally important can be added to this set of facts: The information provided by JB was actually discovered before the election, but no one did nothing. It was on Freerepublic.com at the time under the microscope as to why (and how) Nancy Pelosi could do such a thing. The nice thing about JB's article, is that he indicates to have a copy of these documents. It should be noted that before the election, several Congressman from both parties were alerted to this info provided by JB, but to no avail.

There were things that President Bush did that I didn't agree with, but, he never gave up defending this country against terrorists. He wasn't a wuss like the current White House resident.

Glenn Beck's Witch Hunt: Who's Next? (Huffington Post cannot be posted)

In the wake of a second videotape surfacing of ACORN employees counseling a pimp and prostate on establishing their business and evading taxes, the Census Bureau has severed ties with ACORN. Fox News reports:

PHOENIX (AP) -- A driver has racked up dozens of speeding tickets in photo-radar zones on Phoenix-area freeways while sporting monkey and giraffe masks, and is fighting every one by claiming the costumes make it impossible for authorities to prove he was behind the wheel.

A Kenosha, WI jewelry store owner defended himself against a pair of armed and violent robbers. Police say that two robbers walked in to the Jewelry Exchange on Wednesday afternoon. One of the robbers pointed a gun at the store owner, threatening his life. The owner quickly grabbed his own defense gun from under a desk, and shot the robber in self defense. The wounded robber and his unwounded co-conspirator then fled, leaving the store owner unharmed. Police found a wounded suspect laying in the grass about a block away, and expect that suspect to live. Police are searching for...

A Michigan police chief says a 63-year-old anti-abortion activist who was protesting outside a high school was shot and killed in front of horrified students and parents. Owosso police chief Michael Compeau said the activist, Jim Pouillon, was outside the school this morning with a sign when a man drove by and shot him. No one else was injured. Compeau says a 33-year-old Owosso man was later arrested in the school shooting and he then told police he was involved in the gravel-pit shooting.(continued)

Financial Crisis: Congress has impaneled a "bipartisan" commission to get to the bottom of the subprime scandal. Will it? Only if it listens to a panelist who predicted the disaster.That panelist — one of 10 making up the newly formed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — is former Reagan Treasury official Peter Wallison. He first sounded alarms in 1999, as Fannie Mae began easing credit rules to please the Clinton administration, which accused it of racial discrimination. Under mounting political pressure, the mortgage giant took on riskier loans in underserved — mostly minority — communities. Wallison warned that those loans could...

DALIAN, China — UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said on Friday he believed nations would sign a "significant" deal on how to reduce the effects of global warming at a conference in Copenhagen in December. "I am confident we can reach a significant agreement," De Boer told AFP on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, known as the "Summer Davos in Asia", in the Chinese port city of Dalian. The December 7-18 talks in Denmark, under the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aim to craft a successor treaty to...

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...

Sir – As a long-term employee in the oil and gas industry, having worked in various locations around the world including Libya, I would like to pose a few points for all and sundry to ponder. When I worked in Libya several years ago many locals were, at that time, quite adamant that Mr al-Megrahi would someday return to Libya – they have been proved right. Some went as far as to say they were sorry for the death of non-Americans on the doomed flight, but not necessarily for the American fatalities. Within the oil and gas industry wherever you...

Reform: Millions of Americans finally got to hear the Democrats' pitch on health care reform, made by their top salesman. But they heard nothing new — just a lot of discredited myths recycled as the truth.IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For FailureFor the record, we support improving our health care system. As is, it has too many rules, too much government spending and too few market forces to keep costs low and quality high. We spend north of $2 trillion every year on health care — 17% of our GDP, the most of any wealthy nation. If that...

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You would think the identification and arrest of sleeper agents working for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and operating on U.S. soil in 2003, is a success story our intelligence and law enforcement agencies can rightly trumpet, no? Not according to Peter Bergen, who is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a national security analyst for CNN. Writing about the inspector general's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program and two other CIA analyses released on August 24, Bergen wrote the following on CNN.com: Of the terrorists, alleged and otherwise, cited by the CIA...

Glenn Beck hates 9/11 survivors. Shocking as it may sound, Glenn Beck claimed that he hates 9/11 survivors. The Fox news personality and media clown has always been an outrageous demagogue, a pied piper to the illiterate, unwashed masses that make up the Fox news audience. Beck's remarks were made on the September 9 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program: you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, "Oh shut up!" I'm so...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Regulators closed Chicago-based Corus Bank N.A. and Woodbury, Minn.-based Brickwell Community Bank on Friday, bringing the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 91 and costing the federal deposit-insurance fund more than $1.7 billion as the credit crisis continues claiming victims.

Ever since Alan Greenspan handed the reins of the Federal Reserve over to Ben Bernanke, he's been on the lecture circuit making market-moving pronouncements about the markets, the economy and Fed policy. Frankly, as I’ve already written here, it probably would have been better if he just kept his mouth shut and let Bernanke get on with his terribly difficult job in peace. But this week Greenspan said something that's just so right on I have to be grateful that he's still regarded as The Maestro. Bloomberg reported that Greenspan said in a speech that gold's rally to $1,000 an...

Floyd Norris's recent New York Times article on the greenback is hands down the worst economics article I have ever read. Not only is it jam-packed full of false history, but it uses the falsehoods to justify monstrous crimes, both in the past and present. The reader with a strong stomach will have to click the above link to appreciate the full enormity of Norris's accomplishment, but for those with limited attention spans I'll detail some of its biggest problems below. Bernanke Saved the Credit Markets? The article opens up with claims about the health of the world economy that...