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Legalised heroin 'shooting galleries' where hardcore addicts are given drugs for free on prescription have won the backing of Government advisers, bringing a UK-wide network a step closer. A controversial four-year trial has seen heroin worth millions of pounds handed out to users to inject themselves at special NHS clinics - in a bid to stop them funding their habits through crime. Findings to be published tomorrow are expected to claim success in diverting addicts away from street dealers and cutting offending, and the Government's National Treatment Agency is now likely to push for an expansion of the scheme, potentially...

Just how many people turned out at the Sept. 12 march on Washington? Politifact reported that Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the Washington, D.C., Fire and Emergency Department "unofficially" estimated that between 60,000 and 75,000 people attended the march. Officers with the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department told WND the department does not provide crowd estimates. Capitol police declined to comment. However, Wizbang estimated between 500,000 and 1 million. The blog displays the following time-lapse image of the march:

I do not remember another time when an American president was so unpatriotically maligned by Americans and the millions of Joe and Judy plumbers who would disown Jesus if they knew he was African, and Obama if he were the Second Coming.........Apostle Paul wrote, " ... there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God." Hence, Obama is the U.S. president and leader of the Free World because he was appointed by God..The far right and its right-wing brethren's most recent ... attacks against President .. Hussein Obama has led me to conclude...

A poverty-rights group that has drawn the ire of conservatives suffered another setback in Washington on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to deny it access to federal housing funds. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which helps poor people fight foreclosures and fix tax problems, has received more than $53 million in U.S. funds since 1994, but conservatives' charges of widespread fraud have begun to impact its reputation in the capital. Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau told the group it did not want its help boosting participation in next year's census. The Senate measure, which...

In a lead story published this past weekend on Frontpagemag.com, conservative thinker and best-selling author David Horowitz likens President Barack Obama to the "Manchurian Candidate" — a tool of the far left fostering the implementation of its radical agenda. In the 1959 book "The Manchurian Candidate" by Richard Condon — which has been made into two movies — an American soldier is captured during the Korean War, taken to Manchuria in China, and brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for the communists. He becomes part of a plot to kill a U.S. presidential nominee to aid the ascension of the...

TEL AVIV – There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells," argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. "If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. "It is silly to...

Arrived home from the DC march on Sunday night. Slapped my new FUBO bumper sticker on my car this morning and left for work. Ended up with a state trooper following me for the last 3 miles before exiting the interstate. He pulled me over when exiting. He told me that he had been following me for several miles, and that 3 or 4 miles back I had failed to signal a lane change. He ended up giving me a ticket for failing to signal a lane change. Did I fail to signal? Maybe, maybe not. I usually signal but...

An unprecedented amount of overexposure, nearly realizing my dream of someday being able to turn on the tube and find him staring back as I scroll through every channel. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Univision (no Fox, natch), plus who knows? Maybe they’ll squeeze in an appearance on the Food Network, to talk about how important it is to have health insurance in case you accidentally put some tinfoil in the microwave or something. Last week’s speech did do him some good in terms of his approval rating. He’s back up to 58 percent in CNN’s latest, although (a) Gallup still...

The leftwing blogosphere has been trying to convince themselves and others that the attendance at the 9/12 Washington, D.C. Tea Party was fairly small. However, there is one really big problem for them. How to explain away a highly inconvenient time lapse video from a camera showing massive numbers of Tea Party folks parading down Pennsylvania Avenue (video below the fold). The way they get around to explaining away what our lyin' eyes tell us on that video is to devise the most hilarious set of conspiracy theories you can imagine.Why is flag in the video at half staff? How...

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Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth that was walking on a log across a stream. The dog looked down into the water and saw his reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth — and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger than his. He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own...

New York—In a show of dissatisfaction with the reporting from the mainstream media, new Tea Parties are now being formed to march on the headquarters of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. Smaller parties are also being formed to march on the New York Times and various papers that misreported the numbers of people showing up in Washington, D.C., Saturday, June 13, 2009. So, in an act of American solidarity, tens of thousands of protestors and dump trucks will march on each network headquarters building, dumping 500,000 pounds of cow manure in each parking lot. The total manure dumped will equal...

Nasty piece of work, Maureen Dowd. In the Barack Obama-worshipping New York Times over the weekend, she insinuated that Congressman Joe Wilson’s “you lie” outburst during the presidential address was inspired by racism: The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy! “Boy”, of course, is how...

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan - It's 8 o'clock on a Sunday night in the Pakistani capital, but collection cowboy Sharoon Hermoon is living on U.S. time. Headset in place, feet on his desk, he aims his speed dialer at a debtor in Fort Worth, Texas. "Hello, ma'am, how ya doin' today?" he says in a convincing American accent. "My name is James Harold and you owe us $11,000." There's a deer-in-the-headlights moment at the other end, then a deep breath, then a torrent of excuses. "I don't know what you're talking about," she says. "It's someone else. My husband's identity...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country. Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a new chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy in a court filing Monday night that said the Bagram detainees' rights shouldn't extend as far as U.S. courtrooms. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the Justice Department said Bagram detainees should not be given equal...

Tony Blair has revealed that after ignoring a stern warning from his great-grandmother about marrying a Catholic, he now finds his new-found faith has become the driving force in his life as he seeks to clear up the world's religious conflicts. Speaking to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's daily newspaper, Blair said today he considers Pope Benedict's belief that God is central to politics, society, economics and culture "brilliant". Weeks after a packed Catholic conference in Italy gave Blair an ovation for his words about the universality of Catholicism, the pope's newspaper was equally effusive, calling the convert "a gentleman, educated,...

Both bank credit and the M3 money supply in the United States have been contracting at rates comparable to the onset of the Great Depression since early summer, raising fears of a double-dip recession in 2010 and a slide into debt-deflation.

I knew he had his good points. What I don’t know is why he’d insist on keeping this off the record. ABC News reporter Terry Moran caused quite a commotion tonight on Twitter following after writing: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”…Now, an ABC spokesperson explains to POLITICO what happened:In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of...

<p>New Haven (WTNH/AP) - The medical examiner has positively identified a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed behind a wall in a high-security laboratory building at Yale University.</p> <p>Dr. Wayne Carver says 24-year-old Annie Le's death is a homicide. He says he's temporarily withholding the cause of death "in order to facilitate the investigation."</p>

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