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According to Bloomberg, for the week ended September 10, corporate insiders bought $0.5MM in shares in 4 different companies. This was offset by sales of $332MM in 72 different companies, a ratio of 651 of sellers to buyers. At least companies are making their opinions known on the viability of the latest bear market rally. The suckers? All those who are still not involved in the rigged casino but actually buying.

Tomorrow is GOP primary day in Delaware where longtime Congressman Mike Castle is vying for his party's nomination against upstart candiate Christine O'Donnell, a tea partier with the support of Sarah Palin. According to WaPo, the state party is freaking out about fringey O'Donnell, who has run for Senate multiple times in the past and failed. But this time she's running a shockingly good campaign on a shoestring budget. Obviously the Palin endorsement helps. But maybe a lot of voters can relate to her " The reason, state GOP officials argue, is that O'Donnell is simply unqualified to hold office....

Lifetime's “The 19th Wife” will satisfy those who love stories about "Big Love" style crazy plural marriages, and cloistered compounds where women wear prairie dresses and have the same hairstyle, braided buns coralling long hair. These women are hoodwinked that the only way they get through the afterlife's "pearly gates" is as some man's plus one, or in their case, part of a harem of sister wives. The Lifetime film is an adaptation of the 2008 David Ebershoff novel about a murder mystery inside a Utah polygamist compound, and premieres Monday, Sept. 13 at 9/8c p.m. Mormons today say this...

It’s a darned good thing that Austan Goolsbee is “young, energetic, and looks good on TV,” because otherwise this would look a lot like Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” speech. Chris Wallace tries to get Goolsbee to discuss what kind of changes have been made to White House economic forecasts in 2010, while Goolsbee wants to talk about how difficult it was … in 2007, in Europe, or anywhere else than the US after almost two years of the Obama administration policies. The big takeaway is that Goolsbee and the White House expect no appreciable decline in the unemployment rate for the...

Has President Obama and his White House P.R. team created a monster in Minority Leader John Boehner? Just consider this: Boehner is now the fourth most likely GOP presidential candidate behind Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee to win the 2012 Republican nomination, according to Ireland's biggest betting site. Up until about a month ago, Boehner was not a household political name, but that was before the president started to single the Ohio congressman out as the White House struggled to put a face on the Republicans going into the fall elections. That effort has recently reached its height,...

Karen B., a Los Angeles writer in her 40s, found a sperm donor on Craigslist after she and her lesbian partner decided to have a baby. "I tried every male friend, gay, straight, married and single, but it was really difficult to find somebody," said Karen. "I was running out of options and my biological clock was ticking." After connecting on the Internet, she and the donor, Daniel C., signed a layman's agreement that the child would live with Karen and she would make all parenting decisions. He would have some visitation rights. "I always wanted the baby to know...

Obama crushed in abortion debate by 12 year-old girl. Watch the video HERE.

Last May, Defense Secretary Robert Gates traveled to the Eisenhower library in Abilene, Kans., and praised the 34th president for keeping the lid on defense spending during the 1950s. Eisenhower himself, Gates noted, “was a low-maintenance leader of simple tastes, modest demands, and small entourages—in stark contrast to what often happens at the upper levels of power in Washington and in other elite settings.” Abilene is a long way from America’s centers of power, and Gates’s speeches shun headline-grabbing rhetoric, so what the defense secretary said did not get a lot of notice. But back in Washington, and at military...

...consider how it hurts morale when we have “bipartisan” cap and trade, “bipartisan” gun bans, “bipartisan” tax hikes, card check, sanctuary cities, pork bills, light-bulb bans, 10-commandment bans, drilling bans; “bipartisan” auto takeovers, cash for clunkers, de-funding of missile defense, granting of drivers licenses to illegals (are we getting demoralized yet), “bipartisan” Bush impeachment investigations, in-state tuition for illegals, votes of no confidence in the surge (hardly a morale-boosting stance), “bipartisan” campaign-finance reform, TARP legislation, a “bipartisan” Disclose Act, extension of McCain/Feingold to the Internet, doubling of S-CHIP, a “bipartisan” tax-dollar giveaway to Planned Parenthood…and believe it or not, we’ve...

A national Islamic group has called for an FBI investigation after a burned Quran, its pages allegedly covered in feces, was found Saturday at an East Lansing mosque frequented by the Michigan State University community. link: http://detnews.com/article/20100913/METRO/9130336/Quran-burned-in-East-Lansing

Pew is out with their annual look at how news consumers get their information, with several interesting breakdowns across various forms of media. But one category that sticks out is which cable news network plays a “significant role in people’s news habits” – not surprisingly, FNC grew year-to-year but CNN and MSNBC were down, even among Democrats.From the study... " Overall, cable news continues to play a significant role in peoples’ news habits – 39% say they regularly get news from a cable channel. But the proportions saying they regularly watch CNN, MSNBC and CNBC have slipped substantially from two...

While the administration of Barack Obama attempts to portray the Tea Party as a “fringe” movement that doesn’t share America’s “mainstream” values, it is working concurrently to erase many of these values from our society. Lurking beneath the unconstitutional mandates of “ObamaCare,” the reckless deficit spending and the draconian new regulations and taxes being imposed on our free-market economy, Obama and his radical allies are moving in numerous, more subtle ways to erase America’s identity. Take the U.S. Department of Justice Web site, which according to the American Spectator recently shed its red, white and blue banner in favor of...

Originally published September 13, 2010 @ American Thinker.   What do you call a person that tells you one thing, but knows that isn’t true? For instance, in March the President said “My proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions — families, businesses and the federal government.” On Friday our President seemed to get a small dose of reality when he said “As a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs—we knew that.” . . . .

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.” Fig trees, broccoli and cabbages are among the many greens that line the soil on Steve Miller’s more than two acres in Clarkston, who said he has spent fifteen years growing crops to give away and sell at local farmers markets

Peter Johnson Jr. evaluates the lie of the decade.

Inflaming an already heated debate, the imam behind the proposed Ground Zero Mosque claimed in a CNN interview Wednesday that moving the site of his project would be a victory for "the radicals." Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's statement was steeped in irony, though, as the dangerous narrative he predicts would result from moving the mosque - that "Islam is under attack" from the U.S. - is precisely the story line he has put forth himself multiple times since Sept. 11, 2001. What should trouble all Americans is that those comments echo the most powerful motivation for young Muslims who embrace...

I am a doctor specializing in the Emergency Departments of the only two military Level One-Trauma Centers, both in San Antonio, TX and they care for civilian Emergencies as well as military personnel. San Antonio has the largest military retiree population in the world living here. (snip)

White House: Biden's 'Summer of Recovery' Meant Construction, Not Jobs Published September 13, 2010 | FoxNews.com Vice President Biden wasn't talking about jobs when called this the "summer of recovery." He was talking about construction projects. That's the explanation top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee gave when asked about the more than 280,000 jobs lost over the past three months. "The vice president was talking about the summer of recovery in reference to the Recovery Act, that you would see the creation of a series of infrastructure and other projects ramping up over the summer," Goolsbee said on "Fox...

It was, of course, inevitable that a gubernatorial race featuring Tom Tancredo would reinvigorate the debate over illegal immigration in Colorado. But the former-congressman- turned-minor-party-candidate is wrong to suggest that Mayor John Hickenlooper has presided over a so-called sanctuary city. Last week, Tancredo told The Denver Post's Christopher N. Osher that the mayor was so lacking when it came to dealing with illegal immigration enforcement that Hickenlooper was unfit for office. The Republicans' hapless Dan Maes chimed in that he also thought Hickenlooper's immigration policies disqualified him for office — although Maes began his campaign supporting citizenship for illegals and...

Brietbart: "I love Allen West, I'd march across the country for Allen West, I honestly think he is Presidential material, I think Colonel Allen West is exactly what the doctor ordered in this country"...(Video)