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Dear Mr. President: As a 64-year-old, lifelong fiscal conservative and Republican since Nixon, may I humbly thank you? In the eight months or so since you took office, you have succeeded in reviving a party, the GOP, that many had left for dead. 1) You have named men to office so wildly irresponsible, so extreme in their positions, so vulgar in their means of expression, that they have made the Republican Party regain its of gleam of gentility and good graces. I am not talking only about the tough guy/ballet dancer Rahm Emanuel, who screamed like a jilted drunken sorority...

The prophecies of the Irish saint Malachy, the 12th century bishop of Armagh who predicted all the popes, have thrilled and dismayed readers for centuries. He has stated there will be only one more pope after the current one, and during his reign comes the end of the world.

Did anyone get a picture of the Mall in DC after everyone left or was leaving? I would love to compare the grounds after "our people" left with the ground after "their BHO worshipers" left. On the Freeper March on DC we picked up after ourselves and even helped the crews clean up their equipment.

Jimmy Kimmel Live - Jake Byrd has fun at a Obamunist Health Care Rally.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is the chief proponent of a public option "trigger," but she said Monday that she does not expect one in the Finance Committee bill. In fact, the trigger has barely come up in the Gang of Six talks. "It probably will be a straight co-op at this point," Snowe said. "We did not discuss the trigger to be part of the co-op, at least in the framework we have before us." She said she wasn't abandoning the idea, which Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) panned on the Sunday talk shows. "It may be something down the road,"...

In his book, Joys of Yiddish Leo Rosten defined Chutzpah as "A boy, having just been convicted of murdering his parents, begs the judge for leniency because he is an orphan. A modern example may be ACORN, the corrupt community organizing group. Remember those 14 states where ACORN is being investigated for voter fraud, that did not deter the government from giving the community organizing group. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) called for a probe of the Democrat's favorite voting fraud group. Admittedly his call for an investigation was shocking because of the fraud testimony indicated a relationship with the Obama...

An semi-armless teenager who acted as getaway driver on a jewellery heist, driving at 100mph during a police pursuit "despite needing somebody to change the gears for him", has escaped jail, the Telegraph reports. John Smith, 18 - who has no arms below the elbow - was in charge of a Ford Focus during the robbery of Ernest Jones in Hempstead Valley shopping centre near Rainham, Kent, on 17 December last year.

Far from protecting us and our children, the war on drugs is making the world a much more dangerous place. SO FAR this year, about 4000 people have died in Mexico's drugs war - a horrifying toll. If only a good fairy could wave a magic wand and make all illegal drugs disappear, the world would be a better place. Dream on. Recreational drug use is as old as humanity, and has not been stopped by the most draconian laws. Given that drugs are here to stay, how do we limit the harm they do? The evidence suggests most of...

Ruling just down from Judge Land says he'll rule on the case at noon Wed. he's probably waiting for the Kenyan BC to prove out...today ( I'm assuming per Judge Carter) there was a subeona served on the kenyan consulate in Los angeles #RE184168898US concerning BO's BC...now it's more of a waiting game, but the truth will come forth!!! 48 minutes ago · Phillip Graham A US court can't subpoena a foreign government. What are they going to do if the Kenyan consulate throws it in the trash and doesn't respond? The court can't jail anyone because they have Diplomatic...

Facing intensifying scrutiny after the release of several disturbing hidden camera videos, the community organizing group, ACORN, is threatening to sue Fox News, the website Breitbart.com and the two conservative activists who produced the exposes. ACORN is alleging that the filmmakers committed a felony by shooting the footage of ACORN employees in the act of providing advice on how to falsify tax forms and set-up a child prostitution business—to a man and a woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute. A lawyer for ACORN said Monday that statutes in Maryland and the District of Columbia made the undercover filming...

What do you do after giving a speech slapping down unsavory Wall Street executives? You hook up with former President Clinton and grab some food. After all, you’re in New York. And President Clinton likes to eat. So that’s what President Obama did today. Now before you criticize us again for reporting that President Obama eats food — like you did when we reported he likes cheeseburgers or here when we reported he likes hamburgers, you can read about today’s Wall Street speech here. Now, on to the food…

I'm going to broach a taboo subject that I've not noticed many FRiends willing to touch, so brace yourself and consider yourself warned. I'm a conservative, and proud of it. For most of my life I have voted Republican pretty much wherever it counts. If we take an international definition of conservatism, it includes limited government and solid moral values. In the USA, it includes standing by the Constitution, as a necessary prerequisite to those first two. And it is this final point where the GOP has let us down - I support the constitution, where they have recently been...

The New York Attorney General's office is preparing charges against several high-ranking Bank of America executives over the bank's alleged failure to disclose details about its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Here is video of two terrorists in Afghanistan who appear to have accidently blown themselves up trying to dig up an IED they buried along a road. The video is from a U.S. Helicopter gunship that was ready to kill the terrorists, but were holding their fire because they did not want to harm a child who was in the vicinity of the terrorists. They watched them bury the IED in the road, and then for some reason, they started digging it up. Before the gunship could take any action, the IED detonated. . . (VIDEO)

"It is also true that many liberals, despite sharing a common political front with the left, are not committed to radical agendas. They are pragmatic enough to tack in a conservative direction should the political wind shift. But by the same token, they are not anchored to any conservative principles that would hold them on course when the same wind shifts again." -- The Politics of Bad FaithThis Horowitz quote of the day was suggested by NewsReal blogger Chris Yogerst.

When South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson screamed "You lie!" at President Obama Wednesday night, he dragged the paranoia and anti-Obama contempt that marked so many August "town hells" into the chambers of Congress. Wilson's shriek also served as an exclamation point on an undeniable trend: Obama steadily lost support among white voters during this long, hot summer of hate, with his white approval rating dropping by almost one-third, from 63 percent to 43 percent between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Of course Obama never had the support of whites like Joe Wilson, a solid son of the South who served...

The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema Redneck and "white trash" culture tends to get a bad rap by the snootier elements of our culture. Maybe you think that hicks and hillbillies don’t know nothin’ ‘bout nothin’, but you couldn't be further from the truth. Sometimes we need to look to the trailer parks for succor, refuge, and justice. Source: Twentieth Century Fox 10. Aileen Wuornos from Monster Source: Columbia TriStar Charlize Theron was one of the first of the bombshell actresses to get on the white trash bandwagon. Never one to make a misstep when it comes to...

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What do a live baby alli gator, a gassed-up chain saw and a 6-foot-long Afri can spear have in com mon? They're all illegal carry- on items that airline pas sengers tried to get through security.