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CNN's efforts to smear Obama critics as racist gained visibility on Monday's Situation Room when the usually more sensible Wolf Blitzer, with “RACIAL TINGE TO TEA MOVEMENT” as the on-screen heading, set up a story on how, “most disturbing,” within the tea party crowds there's “a very small but vocal minority, they're targeting President Obama's race.” Though reporter Elaine Quijano said “we have to emphasize by far most tea party protesters are not casting their arguments in what could be seen as a racial light,” she nonetheless proceeded to treat as newsworthy how “a small but passionate minority is also...

During the regular Board of Education meeting Rose, president of the Valdosta/Lowndes County Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, spoke to the board about the superintendent’s decision not to air President Barack Obama’s speech on education during school hours. Rose and hundreds of others converged on the BOE office demanding answers for why the speech was not shown in a school system that is predominately black. On the day the speech was scheduled to air, Rose and others met with Cason and discussed why the speech would not be shown. Cason, Rose said, had plenty of time between the...

MIDI - DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING (click the MIDI and open in your player)We are marching in the street...Obama can you hear us now We want our country back and we are gonna find a way somehow As more people are aware of all the things you want to do We gain more power and we vow to be stopping you It's been true in history that freedom never has been free The brave among us light the torch and fight for liberty The light is now shining and we'll fight with all of our might We...

The House of Representatives, on the heels of an impassioned and lively debate, voted Tuesday to formally admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for accusing the president of lying during a joint session of Congress a week ago. The vote was 240-179. Five lawmakers voted "present."

who screwed America...Bush was clueless and intimidated by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, according to a GW speechwriter. Here they come, the Bush year tell alls. A GW speechwriter, Matt Latimer, is the first one out of the gate spilling the dirt, and does he have dirt: The secretary of the treasury, Hank Paulson, had sketched out a dire scenario... we’d have to write a speech for the president announcing his “bold” plan to deal with the crisis. (The president loved the word bold.) We had to reassure the American people that everything was going to be okay. As it turned...

In a rare action, the House rebuked one of its members Tuesday for shouting "you lie" at President Obama last Wednesday, ending a week-long standoff during which Democrats demanded a public apology that the lawmaker refused to give. On a largely party-line vote, the House voted 240 to 179 to ratify a "resolution of disapproval" against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for interrupting Obama's speech last week before a joint session of Congress. Just 12 Democrats opposed the resolution against Wilson, while seven Republicans supported the disapproval motion. Five Democrats voted "present," rather than cast a yes or no vote. During...

Don: Okay, here’s my news question. A Senate bill yesterday passes, cutting off funds to this group called ACORN. Now, we got that bill passed and we have the embarrassing video of ACORN staffers giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel with 13-year-old hookers. It has everything you could want – corruption and sleazy action at tax-funded organizations and it’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story. Why? Gibson: HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s got...

By Jeremy Pelofsky Jeremy Pelofsky – 2 hrs 8 mins ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Congress to extend three surveillance techniques for intelligence agencies tracking suspected militants that expire this year, according to a letter to lawmakers. Approved after the September 11 attacks in 2001 at the request of the Bush administration, techniques such as roving wiretaps and accessing all kinds of personal records drew criticism from civil liberties groups and some lawmakers who said they were unconstitutional and violated privacy rights...

On Today's Show... September 15, 2009   Radio Equalizer: Rush Who? State-Run Media Sidestep Rush Limbaugh Ratings Victory   From Kids on Bus to Kanye West: Race Rules All in Obama's America Oprah's ratings are down? Well, that's racism, too. Everything is. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Fox News: Bus Beating Caught on Tape » Politico: Obama Calls Kanye a "Jackass"   ABC's Charlie Gibson Claims He Hasn't Heard About the ACORN Scandal And Gibbs didn't know about the weekend rally. Of course, 'cause they only read the NY Times. » Malkin's ACORN Watch: Charlie Gibson and the Ostrich Media   "If...

Rush said he hoped this would happen. Then Joe would receive an absolute windfall. Well, I'm in. How about you?

UPDATE: The resolution has been adopted by a vote on 240-179. See below for more detailed vote information. Original post: The House is preparing to vote this afternoon on a symbolic resolution to condemn Rep. Addision “Joe” Wilson [R, SC-2] for shouting “You lie!” at President Obama during his healthcare speech to a joint session of Congress last week. See video of the incident here.

For better or worse, we have new Washington leadership and a new direction for America. It's a softer and relational Washington, with whom international bonds are more important than national borders and boundaries. It's a more secular Washington, which says that the country is no longer a "Christian nation." It's a more liberal Washington; it has enacted more left-leaning legislation in its first year than any previous administration. It's a more generous Washington, from whom handouts, bailouts and borrowing are granted and given at record-breaking political speed. But my greatest concern, I must confess, is that it's a kinder and...

Following up on his This Week appearance where he promised to fight on for the public option, Sen. Jay Rockefeller blasted the draft bill produced by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus: “there is no way in its present form that I vote for it unless it changes in the amendment process by vast amounts.” He’s not alone. Fellow Finance Committee member Ron Wyden is livid too. Expect a rocky mark-up next week. As one top Democrat told me, the fundamental problem is that Democrats “are being asked to support a bipartisan bill that doesn’t have bipartisan support.” The compromise without...

The great lengths to which the “mainstream” media have gone in order to downplay (or ignore altogether) last weekend's massive Washington, DC protest against President Barack Obama's hard-left agendas, should surprise no one. Nor should it be a surprise that the extreme-far-left media, as personified by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, have largely followed suit. Where the far-leftists differ from their center-left colleagues, however, is in their portrayal of the people in attendance, in terms of both number and make-up. In a vitriolic piece titled “Right-Wing Activists Gather in Washington Against Obama,” Goodman delivered a negative portrayal of a small...

The United States is on the path of civil unrest and a culture war not seen since the Civil War. It doesn't have to be because “facts are largely absent, or buried under mountains of fiction” as Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer put it. I think Bill Maher hit the nail on the head on the head, Friday night ,when he said "the media is dumb, our representatives are dumb, and the American people are dumb" as a reason all the conspiracy theories are starting to get traction. How else can you explain the reason the conspiracy theories, rumors,...

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In a nod to the Year of the Priest's goal -- well, one of 'em -- "to advance [the clergy] along the path of Christian perfection," the leadership of India's 4-million member Syro-Malybar church released a set of protocols yesterday encouraging simplicity among the ordained: "It is time for introspection," says Auxiliary Bishop Sebastian Adayanthrath of Ernakulam-Angamaly who issued the guidelines on Sept. 13 as part of the archdiocese's observation of the Year for Priests. The Syro-Malabar prelate told UCA News he prepared the code after consulting priests and lay people. "It's an attempt to remind priests what is...

WASHINGTON — The House has voted to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson over his "You lie" outburst to President Barack Obama during the president's health care speech to Congress last week..... Wilson himself would not back down on his position that he owed the House no apology. Surrounded by Republican supporters, Wilson said Obama had "graciously accepted my apology and the issue is over."

Rich Lowry and Will Cain explain in 13 easy steps how make a speech like Obama.

We have entered what columnist Kathleen Parker calls "a political era of uninhibited belligerence," that is finding expression in sermons, at town hall meetings, on radio talk shows, even on the floor of Congress -- especially when we differ. Why are people so angry and belligerent, and so willing to express their anger publicly? Why has our civil discourse become some uncivil? What does this public anger say about our private faith? What should we do about it? Incivility is much too mild a word for what has been going on in our country for the past few months. What...