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What began on the border in 2005 has spread to DC and every state in the union. The Revolution isn’t coming, it is here. Call it the Constitution Revolution. The genie is out of the bottle and there will be no putting her back in. I spent all day yesterday up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with people from all over the Union. One guy I met had 45 autographs on his t-shirt from people from 45 states. He only needed 5 more to make it a day. The mainstream media has reported the rally as anti-Obama or anti-government, both are...

Thomas J. Miller, a veteran U.S. diplomat, says that President Barack Obama's maiden appearance at the United Nations later this month will attract considerable attention. Obama has "talked very much about working cooperatively with other countries and about multilateral diplomacy and the importance of it," Miller says, and "people are going to be looking very carefully to what he has to say." Obama will speak at a special summit meeting on climate control on September 22, address the General Assembly on September 23, and chair a special Security Council meeting on arms control and nonproliferation on September 24. He will...

Despite the fact that there have not been any complaints, the Justice Department (DOJ) will be monitoring today’s municipal elections in – are you ready for this - Springfield, Mass., and Newburgh, N.Y., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Forget about reams of evidence of voting rights violations in Philadelphia, no Eric Holder's Justice Department would rather spend the taxpayers' money investigating a place where there is no problem. According to the DOJ press statement, federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Springfield and Newburgh. The observers will ....

<p>Police are calling the Monday morning attack of a Belleville West High School student on a school bus racially motivated.</p> <p>Two black juvenile suspects are in custody after they allegedly beat a white student on a bus heading to Belleville West, police and school officials said.</p>

BAGHDAD — On the same day that an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush was freed from prison, he said that he was fleeing Iraq, fearing for his life, and claimed that he had been tortured while in jail. “Here I am free and my country is still captured,” said Muntader al-Zaidi during a press conference at the television station where he had worked. He claimed that he was beaten with pipes, steel cables and electric shocks while in custody. He added that he believed there were many who would like to see him...

SNIPPET: "The Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) name has come up before in connection with terrorism plots, including the October 2002 Portland Seven and the September 2002 Lackawanna Six cases in the United States, as well as the August 2006 plot to bomb airliners en route from London to the United States, the July 7, 2005, London Underground bombings and the July 2007 attempted bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland. Over the past several years we also have received several queries about TJ from U.S. law enforcement officials who are concerned about the group’s presence and activities in the United States. U.S....

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Hello to all, Thursday, Sept. 17, the MassLPA will be hosting a celebration of the constitution and all of our liberties at Nurse's hall on Beacon hill. The event will start with a flag raising ceremony and the "Pledge of Allegience"at 9:00AM. Starting at 10:00AM there will be speakers, most are members of the LPA, some will be semi-celebrity (politicians). There will be members of the Western Mass 912 project in attendance and some will be speaking. After the speaking event we will have a coffee hour and then move on to lobbying efforts. This should be a wonderful celebration...

The song remains the same. We heard it from North Korea; we heard it from Iran. Now another dictatorship with no love for the United States embarks on a path that leads to nuclear-armed missiles. Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chavez has announced that he has agreed to purchase some "little rockets" from Russia and also will begin work on a nuclear program, which he insists is for peaceful purposes. Yeah, right. "We're not going to make an atomic bomb," Mr. Chavez declared in his folksy way, "so don't bother us like with Iran." We would be surprised if Mr. Chavez announced...

Throughout the Arab, and most of the Muslim world, the territory between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea is called Palestine while the name, Israel, is blotted out. The so-called moderate wing of the Palestinian Authority displays a wall map behind the desk of its Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, showing the State of Israel in its entirety but named Palestine. Indeed, the PA too often refuses to use the name, Israel, preferring to call it "the Zionist entity." In doing so, it should remove from the minds of objective observers any faith in the Arabs' interest in making a true...

Here's the deal...I was up early channel-surfing and watched these idiots for a few minutes. At 4:54 a.m. PST, I stumbled upon a discussion between Willie Geitz (sp?) and Nora O'Donnell (of the constantly batting eyelashes) all wee-weed up over the ACORN controversy when I heard Nora make the above assertion. She was really pushing the "guilt by association" angle, and implied this was just being stoked up to damage The One. Willie, of course, just sadly nodded his head. Just thought I'd share. Carry on.

Here is video of Dick Morris on with Sean Hannity last night where he slapped down Obama Chief adviser David Axelrod. Morris said over the weekend, Axelrod was asked about Dick Morris's contention that if you add 47 million people (or 30 million or whatever the White House number is today) to the Health Care system all at once, you will have a shortage of doctors. Axelrod responded, "What Medical School did Morris go to?" Dick Morris said he wanted to respond to his "former employee" David Axelrod. He said: "David, it's not a matter of Med School - it's...

Word For The Day, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". camarilla [kam-uh-ril-uh; Sp. kah-mah-ree-lyah, -yah] -n a group of unofficial or private advisers to a person of authority, esp. a group much given to intrigues and secret plots; cabal; clique. [1830–40; < Sp, equiv. to camar(a) room (< L camera; see chamber ) + -illa dim. suffix < L]

First, I checked. Nobody uses “stat” in emergency rooms anymore. A chief told me that he couldn’t remember the last time he said it in a non-joking manner. And nobody claims that there is such a thing called “global warming sickness.” But doctors Jeremy Hess, Katherine Heilpern, and colleagues come close in their “Climate Change and Emergency Medicine: Impacts and Opportunities,” just published in Academic Emergency Medicine, a top journal. We can understand that Hess and his pals are worried that a vengeful Global Warming is on its way (ever coming, not yet arrived), because the media and many journals...

With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press. Sitting cheek by jowl with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Brokaw joined him to riff on the Internet and the state of journalism today, an opportunity occasioned by the resignation of Van Jones, he of the Truther brigades (and much more) and the Obama White House. Mr. Jones' resignation was prompted by...

New York City’s workplace smoking ban six years ago drove cigarette and cigar puffers outdoors. But soon some of the outdoors may be off limits, too: The city’s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said Monday that he would seek to ban smoking at city parks and beaches. Dr. Farley said the ban — which officials said may require the approval of the City Council, but could possibly be done through administrative rule-making by the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation — was part of a broader strategy to further curb smoking rates, which have fallen in recent years. The...

Mitch McConnell, the taciturn Kentuckian who leads Senate Republicans, usually resembles Samuel Beckett's character Watt, who "had never smiled, but thought he knew how it was done." Last week, however, careful observers detected a trace of a hint of a shadow of a smile. Congressional Democrats were still at daggers drawn with one another, and the president's rhetoric was becoming CPR for the Republican Party.