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President Obama Speaks - And Lies (Again) President Obama stood in New York at "high noon" and talked about how we must have "change", and that we have "helped homeowners avoid foreclosures", how "we must put in place reforms" and that "we have helped come back from the brink" and "an irresponsible period of crisis." In fact, in his speech he said: So I want to urge you to demonstrate that you take this obligation to heart. To put greater effort into helping families who need their mortgages modified under my administration's homeownership plan. To help small business owners who...

The media divided By: Michael Calderone and Mike Allen September 15, 2009 04:29 PM EST The right-wing media’s single-minded focus on a handful of targets over the past months and its success in pushing those stories into the mainstream have underscored the sharp divide between traditional news organizations and the bloggers and talk show hosts aggressively pursuing an ideological agenda on-line and on TV and radio. From birthers to tea parties to town halls and ACORN, the scandal-plaged anti-poverty group — not to mention President Obama’s speech last week to school children and the background of former White House aide...

Krauthammer on what he thinks of this rebuke of Joe Wilson by the same Democrats that called Bush every D*mn name in the book....

James S. McDonald, head of investment-management firm Rockefeller & Co. and a board member of NYSE Euronext, died on Sunday in Massachusetts, according to people familiar with the matter. He was 56 years old. In a statement Monday night, Barclay McFadden III, who identified himself as a friend of Mr. McDonald's family, said he "took his own life." The family has "no further comments beyond this," the statement added. " Jim McDonald was an exceptional individual who provided strong leadership of Rockefeller & Co. for over eight years," Colin Campbell, Rockefeller & Co. chairman, said in a statement on Monday....

We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here are the results. Karen Armstrong says we need God to grasp the wonder of our existence CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK TO READ WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY... Richard Dawkins argues that evolution leaves God with nothing to do CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO READ WHAT HE HAS TO SAY...

Vascular Designs, a medical device company, today announced that its IsoFlow™ infusion catheter has secured 510(k) marketing clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the direct delivery of medications into highly targeted areas. An important application of IsoFlow may be in the treatment of cancer. The IsoFlow Infusion catheter enables sideways perfusion, which allows physicians to precisely target and isolate areas within the body where the infused drugs are delivered. With IsoFlow’s unique design, medications can be delivered into areas that could not previously be treated directly, for instance, a cancerous tumor. According to numerous studies, this...

Bill Clinton Supports Gavin Newsom For California Governor September 15, 2009 Seventeen years after Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed in the 1992 race for the White House, the former president made clear today that bygones will not be bygones in the 2010 campaign for California governor: Clinton signed on to support Brown rival Gavin Newsom in the Democratic primary. It is highly unusual – perhaps unprecedented, according to the San Francisco mayor’s campaign – for a former president to take sides in a California gubernatorial primary. But the bad blood between Clinton and Brown, now state attorney general, runs...

Hey, look, folks, the white kid on that bus in Belleville, Illinois, he deserved to be beat up. Of course the white student on the bus deserved the beating. He was born a racist. That's what Newsweek magazine told us in its most recent cover.We can redistribute students while we redistribute their parents' wealth. We can redistribute everything. Just return the white students to their rightful place, their own bus with bars on the windows and armed guards. They're racists. They get what they deserve. Newsweek magazine told us this, post-racial America. I wonder if Obama is going to come...

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m9d15-ACORN--Exposed-in-San-Bernadino If it is not yet apparent that ACORN is a corrupt organization that encourages a culture of corruption within its ranks, here is further video evidence; this time from San Bernadino California. In this expose, an ACORN employee admits to murder of her husband, threatens another individual also in the video. She also admits to having run an “escort” service, and gave advice on how to educate (or not) the underage girls that “Eden” was going to be housing and using in the brothel she was attempting to get ACORN’s assistance in financing. Between the corporate practice of using...

In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former President Jimmy Carter said he has been extremely bothered by the heightened climate of racial and other hate speech since the election of President Barack Obama.

Las Vegas, NV (AHN) - A resort hotel in Las Vegas' CityCenter development project has become the world's largest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold Certified building. CityCenter, which is being developed by MGM Mirage and Infinity World Development Corp, a subsidiary of Dubai World, said Monday the ARIA's resort hotel tower, convention center and theater as well as the Vdara Hotel received the LEED@ certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council.The 4,004-room ARIA resort hotel, the core of the 18-million-square-foot development, will open in December. The LEED Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for...

CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received an economic lifeline from the International Monetary Fund, a global financial institution that he usually demonizes as a capitalist weapon at the service of the United States.

The field is set and Race #1 of 10 in the Chase for the Cup is set for this Sunday at Loudon.

If President Obama and Democrats in Washington continue to dismiss the genuine anger over their health care reform proposals, they will set themselves up for electoral disaster. Americans came to town hall meetings in July and August to yell at their congressmen, and they marched on Washington on Saturday, because they resent being treated so disrespectfully. They resent being fed obviously untrue statements about what health care reform would do. They resent having undetailed legislation rushed through without anyone -- even members of Congress -- having read it. (This is at least the second time this year that's happened.) They...

NEW DELHI: Is a repeat of the 1962 Sino-India war looming large? Though played down by the Indian government for diplomatic reasons, 30,000 additional troops – with weaponry and artillery support – are being rushed to the country’s northeast region bordering China. Indian troops deployed on the disputed border with China are also being reinforced, following the second incursion in the Ladakh region in the last eight months. More worrisome for India is the Chinese claim on Arunachal Pradesh and repeated incursions into border villages and reports of a Chinese military exercise involving 50,000 troops in Tibet. A highway built...

Fear not, followers of the Antares. ABC has not canceled "Defying Gravity." Not yet, anyway. That news may not be as comforting as it was intended to be, though, as the summer science-fiction series has vanished from the ABC schedules after only eight episodes, leaving its viewers dangling by a thread at the prospect of discovering the truth about the Antares mission and the mysterious "Beta." Set in the near future, "Defying Gravity" is considered a "Grey's Anatomy" in space with complex character backstories and intermingled relationships thrown into a life-or-death scenario. And, since its premiere on ABC, the show...

FOUR would-be petrol thieves were out of luck when busted by army reservists - two of whom were off-duty cops. ...... Three of the men managed to get to their car but one tried his luck at out-running the group of reservists. The fleet-footed fiend didn’t anticipate a barb wire obstacle course the reservists had been using nearby, however, and was cornered when he ran into it.

WICHITA — A man and woman decided to give the phrase "dumpster diving" a new twist over the weekend, crawling inside one on North Waco so they could be alone. But while they were engaged in what Wichita police described as "an intimate moment," they were robbed by a man armed with a pocket knife. It all unfolded shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of North Waco, police said, when the man and woman, both 44, crawled into a dumpster for privacy. A short time later, a 59-year-old man and his 64-year-old companion interrupted the couple inside...

WASHINGTON — A group of parents who oppose President Barack Obama's plan for revamping health care said Tuesday it would lead to rationing for children with life-threatening disabilities. National advocates for the disabled immediately rejected the claim that echoed this summer's dispute over "death panels." The parents voiced their concerns at a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol that was hosted by two Republican lawmakers. However, officials at Easter Seals and the Autism Society said the legislation would improve services for disabled children. About 40 groups that advocate for disabled people signed a letter in support of the...

It’s very easy to be outraged by the way our "objective" media greeted the massive September 12 rally against Big Government in Washington and across the country. They treated it as a menacing surge of white anger, meanness, and racism. But all the media bias against this rally clearly illustrates one nagging truth for media liberals: they really don’t think conservatives should be allowed to protest. It’s somehow like a copyright violation. On Monday night’s "Countdown," MSNBC’s David Shuster found the protest united "in apparent hatred of the current president, Barack Obama." It was undemocratic, a sign of people not...