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These people are coping every single thing. Now they copied these well known cars and selling them for 1/3 the price.

It's beginning to look like peace had its chance with Iran and failed. Tehran is facing a Tuesday deadline to respond to the Group of Six offer to open talks on trade if Iran ends its nuclear enrichment program. The United States should make contingency plans for when Israel takes action.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), one of Speaker Nancy’s Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) closest allies, is still waiting for the House to come up with a healthcare bill he would support even though he is a co-sponsor of measure that includes a single-payer provision. Murtha is one of 86 co-sponsors to a bill sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.). That measure would provide all individuals residing in the United States with free health care. It also would prevent private insurance companies from participating in the government program, which Conyers dubbed The United States National Healthcare Program, for any kind of healthcare...

I'm in need for some ammo to throw at a liberal here and the search is failing me again. Does anyone have examples of precedents to Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst in Congress during Obama's speech? I have an idiot here who is claiming that this has *never* happened before, ever. I know I've read of some (like the 06 SOTU) and I used that one, but he won't accept that and he wants an exact parallel situation, where a Congressman heckled a speaking President. Anyone got any references? Thanks.

Whatever your philosophy, there was something for almost everyone in Sen. Lindsey Graham’s performance Sunday at a town hall meeting at the University of South Carolina that drew more than 350. “I’m a free-market guy with a heart,” said Graham, a South Carolina Republican serving his second term in the Senate. Graham — using simple language and folksy stories about his upbringing, in which government handouts helped his struggling family — explained for almost two hours his complex political views on equally complex political issues.

SANTA CRUZ — Staff and supporters of the UC-Santa Cruz Arboretum are bracing for cuts, including the director's salary, as the university looks to trim costs in the wake of reduced money from the state. Alison Galloway, vice provost and dean of academic affairs at the University of California-Santa Cruz, said there are no plans to close the cherished 100-acre garden and research center or cut its hours. She declined to discuss financial details until she meets with the garden's staff next week.

US and French scientists say the term 'nanoparticle' needs to be redefined to provide a focus for environmental, health and safety studies, and future regulation. According to the researchers, nanomaterials should be categorised based on novel properties that are related to their small size - not, crucially, their size alone.In most countries, few or no specific regulations exist to govern the safe use of nanoparticles, despite their wide use in cosmetics, sun screens and some drug products. Until a decision can be reached on what exactly constitutes a nanoparticle, however, there can be no clear path forward. Although traditionally thought...

President Barack Obama's pledge to continue the ban on the use of federal funds for abortion and to maintain conscience protections for health care workers in any health reform legislation was welcomed by two officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the president of the Catholic Health Association. Speaking with Catholic News Service Sept. 10, hours after Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and a nationwide television audience, Kathy Saile, director of domestic social development in the USCCB Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, said the president's address offered an encouraging sign that the administration has...

I just spend this lovely Sunday organizing and editing close to 500 photos from yesterday's historic march in DC. I am still inspired by the sheer joy expressed by the million marchers in DC.Can we say this is the Woodstock for conservatives? Absolutely. I'd even say if MLK were alive, he would be out marching to the Capitol with the people and give a rocking speech. Several impressions I took home from the Rally: A million plus attendees is my estimate of the crowd size. Compare the official crowd estimator from the 2009 Inauguration (fig. 1) to the screen...

Osama bin Laden Warns Americans In New Tape Message appeared in Web site often used by al Qaeda supporters DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued an apparently new audio tape on an Islamist Web site on Monday, warning the American people over their government's close ties to Israel. The message, entitled "A statement to the American people," was approximately 10 minutes long and appeared on a Web site often used by supporters of al Qaeda. The same Web site said earlier this month it would soon carry a "present" to Muslims from bin Laden, who is thought...

When the majority of American voters selected Barack Obama as President of the United States of America last year, we caught a brief glimpse of post-racial America. It lasted a few weeks, at least. But the racial tension that has accompanied each major period of American history is again emerging under a new guise: The Tea Party/9-12 Project/Continental Congress '09 marches this weekend represent the new racist vanguard in America, uniting the anti-Muslim sentiments which followed the 9-11 attacks, Joe Wilson's singular obsession with undocumented immigrants receiving health care, and though in some ways subconsciously, a reaction to the nation's...

Now some may not remember Mrs. Baines other than the recent news of her passing but the media covered her during the presidential election of 2008. The MSM were all excited because the oldest living woman voted for Mr. Obama and they noted that she voted for him "because he's for the colored".

Liberals have an amazing ability to commit almost any foible and come out unscathed. The corruption is usually deemed a lapse in judgment by the Watch Dogs of Democracy (more accurately known to Conservatives as The State Controlled Media) The guilty Democrat usually goes on to bigger and better things. Take Charlie Rangel, who has admitted to incorrectly filing his taxes by forgetting to mention hundreds of thousands in revenue. Instead of being reprimanded, Mr. Rangel gets a promotion to Head of the House Ways and Means Committee (the group of house members that actually write the tax code) Mr....

September 14, 2009                                 Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Nm 21:4b-9 With their patience worn out by the journey,the people complained against God and Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,where there is no food or water?We are disgusted with this wretched food!” In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents,which bit the people so that many of them died.Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you.Pray the...

In light of these different foundations, therefore, it is important to point out to our opponents that their very conception of equality is fundamentally different than our own. There is a false assumption that both sides view equality in the same way. As we can see, however, that is not a valid assumption at all. It is no surprise, therefore, to find that there is a divergence of opinion on the issue of women’s ordination. Feminists believe they don’t have equality in the Church because they are denied a function, but this is a distortion of what true equality is....

Serena Williams Makes A Fool Of Herself And Deserves Punishment Serena Williams offered no apology and showed no remorse for her behavior during her U.S. Open semifinal loss to Kim Clijsters, 6-4, 7-5. Her tirade toward U.S. Open to lineswoman goes beyond those of McEnroe and Nastase in earlier days, especially as she shows no remorse. She should be heavily fined and suspended. Bill Dwyre. September 13, 2009 Let's get right to the point. Serena Williams should be fined heavily and suspended for a while from the pro tennis tour. FOR THE RECORD: A column in Sunday's Sports section about...

A Citizen goes to Washington for the 1st time. 9/12 National Tea Party President Lincoln would be pleased to discover that work on the Capitol (and on the Great Compromise) continues; and thus the people are still hopefull... "That government Of the People, By the People, For the People, will not perish from the Earth". --Abraham Lincoln Gumby Gets it... E Plurbus Unum : Out of Many Peoples - One Nation The path less chosen... Framed in Rush-Hour E Plurbus Unum. Hi Mom! The Law comes with The Pie. Yo, Taxi! Capitol Visitor Center Capital Dome Windows Where's my Pie?...

Police in Connecticut on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be hidden inside the wall of a university building where she was last seen five days before. ... State police found the body at around 5 p.m. Sunday in an area of the building that houses utility cables that run between floors.

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