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Nancy Pelosi was responsible for vetting Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President of the United States of America. That’s what I said, if Barry Soetoro (Obama) isn’t properly vetted it is primarily the fault of Nancy Pelosi. Instead of making sure that a constitutionally eligible candidate was presented to the American people from the Democrats, Pelosi the DNC and the Democrat Party set in motion a conspiracy to steal the Presidency and deceive the American people. This is a remarkable claim; allow me to lay out the details ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that Indiana's voter identification law is unconstitutional. 6News is looking through the 29-page ruling now and will provide details from it as soon as possible. The decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state's voter ID law in 2008, a week before the presidential primary, in a splintered 6-3 ruling. Backers of the law, which requires a voter to present a photo identification to cast a ballot, said it curbs voter fraud. Those against the law contend that it keeps poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. The...

Jimmy Carter is a fool. That may not be the most civil of descriptions, but it is the most fitting one. Sometimes it’s more important to be factually correct than to be politically so. Carter’s statement that Rep. Wilson is a “racist” for calling out Barack Obama on a mistruth is as troubling as the needless and petty resolution passed by his party, if not more so. And in making that statement, Jimmy Carter brings hypocrisy to a new art form. Carter’s tactic is as dangerous as it is shameful. Those who use the smear of “racism” lightly only increase...

WASHINGTON – House Republicans railed Wednesday against President Barack Obama's appointment of "czars," questioning their legality and calling on the administration to provide greater accountability and personal information on the appointees. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, along with Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to Obama requesting information on the background, authority and appointment process for the dozens of czars. Czars, who represent a broad group of presidential advisers and appointees, have been around since President Richard Nixon and theoretically can transcend Washington bureaucracy, particularly across agencies. But recently, Republicans have...

ALTHOUGH Barack Obama alarmed free traders last year with protectionist-sounding pronouncements on the campaign trail, such as one about the need to renegotiate NAFTA, optimists among them dismissed this as mere posturing designed to placate restive trade unions. Yet a decision by the White House to impose punitive tariffs (35% for the first year, falling by five percentage points a year, to 25% in the third year) on Chinese-made pneumatic tyres now raises serious doubts about Mr Obama’s commitment to free trade. The duties are to be imposed on September 26th under a part of American trade law known as...

Washington, 17 September (WashingtonTV)—An Israeli lawmaker said in remarks published on Thursday that the delivery of Russia’s advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran would accelerate a possible Israeli decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. “I hope Moscow understands that the deliveries will at least speed up such events, if not trigger them,” Zeev Elkin told the Russian daily, Kommersant, according to the Interfax news agency. Israel and the United States have pressed Russia to forgo delivering the advanced missile system to Tehran, which would greatly increase Iran’s defense capabilities against a possible airstrike on its nuclear sites. Elkin said...

In what is becoming the modus operandi for the “all-the-news-we-can-make-up-all-the-time” Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh’s, they had gotten one of their buddies, some fellow named John Osterlink from Massachusetts who is a talkie host on a New Orleans radio station to try to organize a charade “protest” across from the ACORN headquarters in New Orleans. So, the protest had a radio promo by Beck himself it seems, and the call to arms was the following:

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A 16-year-old girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp. In the middle of the night. With a crossbow. The State newspaper in Columbia reported that Cammie Colin won one of 1,000 lottery slots for the state's annual public alligator harvest. Hunters are required to use a crossbow or a harpoon.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. should answer one key question -- Will the Justice Department fight against civil rights violations of white people as avidly as those against people of color? This is the subtext of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's investigation into why the Justice Department dropped an already-won voter-intimidation case against agents of the New Black Panther Party. Credit for cogently connecting the dots on this goes to Jennifer Rubin, a labor lawyer and D.C. editor of Pajamas Media, in a column published on Tuesday. Ms. Rubin, whose reporting record has proven that her sources are good,...

* The Daily Mail first reported 2 million, then scaled it back to 1.2 million. * Barbara Espinosa reported that actual traffic counters from the march organizers reported about 450,000 crossing Pennsylvania at 11th after about an hour of the march, and nearly 1.5 million total. * There was also the time-lapse photoset from the traffic camera over the Freedom Plaza, which is where 14th St NW crosses Pennsylvania Avenue at E street. * Our own estimate of more than 850,000. * The Noble and Ancient Order of the Gormogons, with an estimate of about 1 million. * Another estimate...

Six soldiers dedicated to the preservation of a cross erected atop a hill in the Mojave Desert as a war memorial passed through Sierra Vista on Tuesday on their way to visit the controversial site. The soldiers, all of whom returned from a tour of duty in Iraq two weeks ago, left Fort Polk, La., on Monday and will arrive Thursday at the Mojave Desert Memorial. There, according to Sgt. Zachary Thomson, they will meet up with an estimated 500 veterans, their families and friends to commemorate the lives of slain soldiers by reading off their names, holding a moment...

The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama’s promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet. …without notifying or asking the consent of site users. Please, don’t worry gentle reader, surely there’ll be no attempt to re-educate those critical of the White House. The White House is merely collecting the info because like the Russia’s KGB they are lovingly concerned as...

LONDON (Reuters) – British men are becoming increasingly interested in having their eyebrows professionally groomed, according to Debenhams department store which plans to hold men-only "guybrow" nights. Men, it said, now make up 40 percent of the visitors to its brow bars, double the proportion of a year ago. They are going for a treatment called "threading," an ancient method of hair removal which originated in India in which a thin twine of cotton thread is rolled over the offending area, plucking the hair from the follicle level.

Let me start by saying I got this in an email and as soon as I read it, I just HAD to share it with you. I don't know how old it is, or how widely circulated, but it is absolutely worth getting in front of as many people as possible, especially all these clowns who have recently surfaced saying that the reason we right-thinkers hate Obamoron is because he is black. ANNE WORTHAM Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the...

A new study is suggesting a “strong” link between the religiosity of a state’s residents and the teen birth rate there. Though only half of the states listed among the ten most conservatively religious also appear in the list of ten states with the highest teen birth rates, researchers behind the latest study say increased religiosity in residents of states in the U.S. strongly predicted a higher teen birth rate. “With data aggregated at the state level, conservative religious beliefs strongly predict U.S. teen birth rates, in a relationship that does not appear to be the result of confounding by...

No one should believe that the liberal mainstream media "missed" the most recent ACORN scandal. They did not "miss it." When I broke the news on March 30 about the New York Times spiking the information they had about ACORN working with the Obama campaign (http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/03/30/top_stories/doc49d0a73c7f98e547489394.txt), it went national, like the current scandal, only because of the Fox News Channel and talk radio. I was working as a journalist for the Philadelphia Bulletin* at the time. An ACORN whistleblower said that the NY Times reporter to whom she had been feeding information to about ACORN told her the editors...

The announcement that President Obama has caved in to Soviet demands to scrap the missile defense plans in Europe serves not just to appease the Russians but also clears the way for the Iranians to have a clear shot at European cities once they have their own nukes. This is the convenience of seeing everything having to do with defense as an expense and waste of money that could be better suited to other purposes such as spending money on programs that actually can buy and bribe the voters.....

(AP) An advocacy group under fire after employees were caught on camera appearing to advise a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the woman's profession to get housing help said Wednesday it is ordering an independent investigation. **snip** In the film, O'Keefe and Giles enter an ACORN office in Brooklyn and O'Keefe can be heard stating that "we have a unique life situation" and asking if the pair qualify for housing help. The ACORN housing coordinator and office administrator apparently urge the couple to lie about the woman's profession, with the housing coordinator suggesting that the...

Researchers have figured out a way to plug into the power generated by trees. Scientists have known for some time that plants can conduct electricity. In fact, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that plants can pack up to 200 millivolts of electrical power. A millivolt is one-thousandth of a volt. And although the popular potato or lemon battery experiments have shown that an electrical current can be generated by creating a reaction between the food and two different metals, power is harvested from trees through a different mechanism. "We specifically didn't want to confuse this effect with...

Here is video of Fox News' Griff Jenkins confronting two more of the seven U.S. Senators who voted to protect ACORN and preserve their funding. This time he found Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders as well as Democrat Sen. Pat Leahy. Both of them defended their votes for ACORN. Yesterday, Jenkins confronted Illinois Democrat Sen. Roland Burris. The Senate vote was 83-7 to block additional funding from the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. . . . (VIDEO)