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LUCASVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- An Ohio man sentenced for a 1984 killing got another week of life Tuesday after the execution team failed to find a vein to inject lethal drugs. Executions spent almost two hours trying to find a vein to inject the drugs into Romell Broom, said Tim Sweeney, one of his lawyers, CNN reported.

InspectorSmith Im sorry everyone but, I cannot work with Orly Taitz any longer. She wants me to lie under oath. (4 hours ago) InspectorSmith (1 hour ago) Orly Taitz does not feel it is important to investigate further into any documents that backup Obama's claim to Hawaiian birth. She says that she does not have the money to do so However, her legal team is free to pay their own way. Her whole legal team works for free and pays their own expenses. She had the nerve to tell me to get a job when I requested that she send...

Yukio Hatoyama, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, has caused alarm in Washington after publishing an article blaming the US for the ills of capitalism, the global economy and "the destruction of human dignity". He also intends to examine an agreement that permits US warships to dock at Japanese ports, in violation of the nation's non-nuclear principles. Mr Hatoyama says he will also look again at the $6 billion cost faced by Japan to transfer thousands of US troops from their base in Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam amid a wide-ranging review of the American military...

The U.S. Tax Court ruled Monday that Brooklyn, N.Y. tax lawyer William G. Halby, 78, had no legal basis to deduct prostitutes and pornography as medical expenses on his federal tax returns. Judge Joseph Robert Goeke upheld the Internal Revenue Service's determination that Halby owed $21,000 in back taxes plus $4,000 in accuracy-related penalties for his disallowed write-off of $120,000 of what the court delicately (and in quotations) called "service providers" as well as pornographic materials. According to the opinion, Halby did maintain careful records as is generally required for deductions. He "kept track of these visits in a journal,"...

Oahu's Tea Party movement has an official web site, http://oahuteaparty.wordpress.com. We are looking to set up a protest on the 5th of November at the State Capital in Honolulu at a time TBD. If anyone would like to lend a hand in putting this together, as it is going to take alot of work and planning, please let us know at oahuteaparty@gmail.com.

ACORN calls itself the nation's largest grassroots community organization, with more than 400,000 members. It helps low-income Americans find affordable housing and it receives tens of millions in government funding. But, as CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers reports, that may be coming to an end, thanks to undercover videos that have sparked a huge scandal. The videos reportedly recorded late July and early August appear to show ACORN employees in several big cities including Baltimore, Washington and New York, advising a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute. The employees are heard telling the couple how to avoid paying taxes...

As health-care legislation advances through Congress, the young adults who were so vital to President Obama's election are emerging as a significant beneficiary of his top domestic priority, but they are also likely to play a major role in funding any reform. In a campaign-style rally Thursday at the University of Maryland at College Park, Obama will aim to tap his richest vein of support -- voters younger than 30 -- to help sell his reform plan to a more skeptical general public. "We're at an important turning point in our push for real reform," read the e-mailed invitation, "and...

Bill it is obvious that you will defend this President at any cost how Glen Beck still calls you friend is amazing to me. Bill O doesn't see a connection between Obama and Acorn? He looked awefully dejected today speaking on the subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&feature=player_embedded He is a Joke and people that look to this guy for the truth about this radical overthrow of this nation is going to be waiting a long time. He always has this Obama mouthpiece race baiter Doctor Lamont Hill on who pre Obama election was a Temple University professor wow all of a sudden in...

One of few dissidents in the crowd, Fightin Words's Walter Hudson attended President Obama's September 12th rally for health care reform at the Minneapolis Target Center. Impressions from the event and a breakdown of the president's arguments in this week's podcast.

Even if you're not a resident of Utah, you've surely heard of companies like "Clean Flicks" before. Like, for example, in the virtual pages of this very blog. It's a prickly subject among movie fans, and that's probably an understatement. Basically, several companies in Utah have taken it upon themselves to edit all the "objectionable" material out of Hollywood's hottest films, and many in the Mormon community are more than happy to throw those discs into their DVD players, secure in the knowledge that Braveheart will be less bloody, that Forrest Gump never felt a female embrace, and that...

CAIRO — For Mohamed-Ali Bouharb, the soul-searching journey of hajj he plans to embark on this year will be exceptional, since the Muslim soldier will be traveling all the way to the holy sites on a special trip provided by the army of the secular European country. "The army is always in advance of society," a jubilant Captain Bouharb told the Globe & Mail on Tuesday, September 15. For this year’s hajj, Muslims in the French army who will go on the journey to Saudi Arabia will not have to travel on private commercial flights with ordinary civilians. In a...

September 15, 2009 The E. F. Hutton of Prostitution When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen. Rich Lowry The radical activist group ACORN is the E. F. Hutton of prostitution. It stands ready to provide discreet advice on setting up a brothel and engaging in other, associated acts of criminality. When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen. This has been established by an audacious video sting operation undertaken by guerrilla conservative documentarian James O’Keefe, 25, and his sidekick Hannah Giles, 20. O’Keefe posed as a pimp and Giles as a prostitute seeking help getting a mortgage for a brothel. In...

(IsraelNN.com) A new organization dedicated to fighting what it sees as an encroaching Islamic takeover of the U.S. is set to launch later this month with a gathering in Washington, D.C. - on the same day as a massive Muslim prayer rally in the U.S. capital. A massive Muslim prayer gathering is planned for for the same day in front of the Capitol building. Spearheaded by the Elizabeth, New Jersey Dar-ul-Islam Mosque, organizers are expecting 50,000 people to attend the first-of-its-kind national event. The gathering will be limited to prayer, according to Hassen Abdullah, president of Dar-ul-Islam.

When he ran for president, George W. Bush promised to be a modest reformer at home & a humble representative of the United States on the world stage. The Al Qaeda-organized-&-funded terrorist attacks of 8 years ago changed all that. During his presidency, Bush created massive new government bureaucracies, sent troops into two wars & threatened more as part of America’s war on terror. Barack Obama’s initial approach to the office of the presidency has been as grandiose as Bush’s was restrained. It’s not hard to recall that he ran as a transformative candidate, promising sweeping, though somewhat fuzzy, “change”...

September 16, 2009                        Memorial of Saint Cornelius, pope and martyr,                         and Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Tm 3:14-16 Beloved:I am writing you,although I hope to visit you soon.But if I should be delayed,you should know how to behave in the household of God,which is the Church of the living God,the pillar and foundation of truth.Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion, Who was manifested in the flesh,vindicated in the spirit,seen by angels,proclaimed to the Gentiles,believed in throughout the world,taken up in glory. Responsorial PsalmPs 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6...

Perhaps one of the most frightening terrorist-attack scenarios is one wherein a nuclear-tipped missile is launched by terrorists from a seemingly harmless cargo ship somewhere off the coast of the United States. In such an attack, the missile could be hurtling skyward almost before our current missile-defense system had time to blink. The missile’s warhead could then be remotely detonated somewhere 20 to 60-plus miles above the visual horizon, and -- in addition to killing everyone in the blast and radiation radius -- trigger an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which would basically fry every single electrical circuit in the blast’s line-of-sight...

The Huffington Post, 13-09-09NBC has replaced this woman's comment about Muslims with a less inflammatory comment: "I'm scared to death for my country. I believe Obama is running this country into the ground." This appears to be the only edit made to this online video. Footage of her previous comment does not appear to be posted. The original video was broadcast Saturday evening, Sept. 12, 2009, on NBC Nightly News. -------------------------------A protester at Saturday's Tea Party on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. made clear that she was afraid, saying "We are losing our country, we think the Muslims are...

A Colorado man reported to be under investigation in a multi-state anti-terror probe said Tuesday he is no terrorist and expressed shock over the sudden scrutiny. Quoting an unnamed law enforcement source, the Associated Press reported Tuesday evening that Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old airport shuttle driver from Aurora, is under surveillance in connection with a possible plot to make homemade bombs. Federal agents raided three homes in New York City early Monday as part of the investigation. But Zazi, who spoke at length to The Denver Post Tuesday from the doorway of his southeast Aurora apartment, said he is not...

Part of an interview with Phil Donahue...classic, short and sweet.LINK HERE

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday the worst recession since the 1930s is probably over, although he cautioned that pain — especially for the nearly 15 million unemployed Americans — will persist. Bernanke said the economy likely is growing now, but he warned that won't be sufficient to prevent the unemployment rate, now at a 26-year high of 9.7 percent, from rising. "From a technical perspective, the recession is very likely over at this point," Bernanke said in responding to questions at the Brookings Institution. "It's still going to feel like a very weak economy for some time because...