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Vanity Post - I have a question about automobile liability for the state of Texas. I have a step daughter who had her license suspended for a month for a probation violation. But, she also got a speeding ticket that she has not yet gone to court for. She was driving 70mph in a 45. I do not want her driving any of my vehicles ever again. The auto insurance company tells me I can sign a waiver that absolves them from all liability if she were to ever get behind the wheel of any of my cars. My question...

President Obama could have sent an exciting message to the business community last week by choosing, as his top economic guru, someone with a deep understanding of how the private sector works. Instead, Obama looked no further than his own inner circle to select Austan Goolsbee to chair the Council of Economic Advisers.[...]Rather than opening the president’s mind to new ideas and alternative approaches, or even just presenting contrasting opinions in terms the president can readily understand, Goolsbee can be counted upon to reinforce the chief executive’s existing beliefs and biases.

Following a rumour that the Quran had been desecrated in the US, violent mob burnt a Christian Christian missionary school in north Kashmir's Tangmarg town on Sep 13. In the Valley, where curfew was imposed for the second consecutive day in major towns on Sep 13, 14 people were killed in the fallout of the protests and several people were injured. Violence also spreaded in Punjab's Muslim majority Malerkotla town where the property of a church was set on fire by a mob following the same rumours that the Quran has been burnt in US. State Chief Secretary S S...

Maria 'Chata' Leon, mother of 13 kids, ruled over a criminal empire with connections to a human smuggling ring...Leon, the then-44-year-old mother of 13 children, and the much-feared head of a drug-dealing dynasty, was stuck in the border town of Mexicali. It was one of her children, Danny "Clever" Leon, who, wielding an AK-47, had died in the 2008 shoot-out with police, and now she wanted to attend his funeral in the United States. Eventually, she would get her way right in front of LAPD gang officers. As politicians on all sides of the political spectrum argue about illegal immigration,...

As America closes in on the six-month anniversary of the passage of Obamacare and prepares for the November elections, liberal health groups are revving up to defend the unpopular new health care law. But the platitudes offered to justify the massive overhaul of the health care sector haven’t held up—as Heritage’s new online feature, Obamacare in Pictures, shows in graphic detail.

I need to replace the pump in my well. Who makes the best submersilbe water well pump? I am pumping from 140ft free flowing into a1500 gallon tank. The old pump is a 1970 Jaquizzi that is frozen. Any one know what brands are best and which one not to buy. Thanks

A prophet, who now goes by the name “Rael,” once encountered space aliens who told him the secret of life. Later, his followers, “the Raelians,” set up an advocacy group to expose pedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church. But the group’s work was frustrated when Pope Benedict XVI (a.k.a. Joe Ratzinger) covered up the crimes of Catholic priests, in an effort to discredit the Raelians and suppress their message.

Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration’s selective enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section office of DOJ. Big news. Good news. Fine is a veteran IG whose meticulous work I cited in-depth in Invasion. You know how the Obama bully boys have treated IGs. Prayers for Fine would be most appropriate.

While he has only one term under his belt, Sen. Jim DeMint has come to be considered by many to be a kingmaker and a force for the Republican Party nationally and in his home state of South Carolina. A Greenville native, DeMint, 58, was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1998 to represent South Carolina's 4th Congressional District. He won re-election in 2000 and 2002. In 2005, DeMint was elected to the U.S. Senate and since then has become one of its most conservative members. His stance on decreasing spending by the federal government has helped...

You’ve got to be kidding?… Barack Obama hailed the opening of a Michigan battery plant today that produces car batteries that cost $33,000 each and go up to 100 miles before needing a charge. This is Barack Obama’s stimulus success story. He obviously didn’t learn much about the free market system from his socialist mentors during his community organizing days. This is supposed to be a Stimulus Bill success story. A $33,000 battery. (A123 Systems) The AP reported: President Barack Obama celebrated the opening of an advanced battery plant in Michigan on Monday as a critical boost for hybrid and...

...In Orange County, two churches also are planning events. Irvine mega-church Marines will conduct an all-day "Bridges" seminar. Organizers said the events is designed to replace fear and misunderstanding of Muslims. "Our goal at Mariners is to provide a contrast to the growing polarity and conflicts and tear down some of the walls of misunderstanding that lead to fear between communities," Sophia Marsh, a Laguna Beach resident and three-year member of the Christian church, told the OC Register. Irvine United Congregational Church will conduct a "Quran blessing."

Iowa City, Iowa -- Since the new federal health care law was enacted in March, some 21 states have joined or filed legal challenges. Everyday Americans have, too. I’m one of them. I filed a federal lawsuit at the end of July. Depending on how the briefing is scheduled, oral argument could take place in the first quarter of 2011. I’m a 29-year-old veteran and small business owner, with no political involvement or ambitions. So, why would I take this dramatic step? The answer starts with explaining what exactly I’m challenging: the constitutionality of the health care law’s “individual mandate.”

After John Boehner reiterated his call to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts expiring at the end of the year, the White House once again tried hammering him as an extremist looking to protect the rich at the expense of the middle class. House Democrats will undercut that messaging with their own call to put off tax hikes for the next couple of years. In a letter circulating on Capitol Hill and reviewed by Politico, Blue Dogs and other Democrats tell Nancy Pelosi that this is no time to raise taxes or to extend the uncertainty: POLITICO has obtained...

PETA targets Biden over hot dogs By: Patrick Gavin September 13, 2010 04:02 PM EST Updated: September 13, 2010 04:45 PM EST Remember when Vice President Joe Biden pretended to be a hot dog vendor on Comedy Central's "Colbert Report"? PETA — well-known for dogging politicians with various protests — didn't see the humor in that. The animal rights group has sent a letter to Biden "urging him to stop feeding returning U.S. troops fat- and cholesterol-laden hot dogs and to give them lean, nutritious veggie dogs or other vegan food instead," according to a release. The case is thus:...

-- Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called an article by Forbes' Dinesh D'Souza the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama." Gingrich summarized, "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior." The racially charged comment and D'Souza's similarly provocative article are generating controversy and criticism. Here's what people are saying. Anti-Colonial Obama: D'Souza writes, "Barack Obama is the most anti-business president in a generation,...

Last November, right after she supported the health care bill in committee, we found that 59% of Maine Republicans wanted to replace Olympia Snowe with someone more conservative while only 31% said they would support her again in 2012. The passage of 10 months hasn't done much to soften the ill will toward Snowe with members of her own party. Now 63% of them say they would support a more conservative alternative with only 29% saying they're committed to Snowe. Moderate Republicans love Snowe. They give her a 70% approval rating and a strong majority say they'd vote to nominate...

Noted Catholic scholar and Notre Dame Law School professor emeritus Charles Rice is not happy about a Labor Day e-statement issued by his niece, Kathleen Rice, the Nassau County district attorney and a candidate for New York attorney general. Sadly, Kathleen Rice is pro-abortion. When asked by Paul Likoudis, news editor of The Wanderer, for comment on the candidate's e-statement, Charles Rice responded as follows: Dear Mr. Likoudis: You asked my opinion about Kathleen Rice's e-mail statement for Labor Day. Kathleen, as you know, is my niece. She is the district attorney of Nassau County and is running for New...

As the National Institutes of Health fights in court for permission to resume long-term funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells, some members of Congress are coming to the agency’s defense with a proposal to make President Obama’s stem-cell funding policy the law of the land. Monday in Washington, D.C., Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) spoke in favor of the Stem Cell Research Advancement Act. This bill would make clear Congress' intent to allow federal funds to be used on the promising research, which is controversial because the cells themselves are derived from days-old human embryos, which are destroyed in...

Washington, DC –Nevada Senator Harry Reid made the following remarks on the Senate floor this afternoon to begin the fall Senate work period.  Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: “I welcome back all of my colleagues from all corners of the country.  I’m sure every Senator enjoyed spending time with constituents as much as I did.  And I’m sure we’re all eager to get back to the business of legislating. “The work period we begin today is an important one.  Like every work period, it represents a new opportunity to move past the partisan stalemates of recent months...

'US actor Kevin McCarthy, best-known for his role in the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, has died aged 96. The veteran character actor died of pneumonia at Cape Cod Hospital in Massachusetts, the Washington Post reported. McCarthy appeared in more than 50 films and received an Oscar nomination for his role in 1951's Death of a Salesman. But he is best remembered as the doctor trying to save his friends from alien "pod people" in the sci-fi classic.'