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Third-party candidate Tom Tancredo has now moved past Republican nominee Dan Maes, but Democrat John Hickenlooper still remains well ahead in the race to be Colorado’s next governor. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Colorado finds Hickenlooper earning 46% support, his best showing in the three-way race to date. Tancredo picks up 25% of the vote, while Maes runs third with 21%. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

No one could have imagined that within five years, Lebanon’s young PM would become a slave of his father’s murderers. No one, that is, aside from his father’s murderers. Lebanon is a sad and desperate place. And its disastrous fate is personified today by its prime minister. All who claim to love freedom, democracy, human rights and dignity should take note of Sa'ad Hariri’s fate. They should recognize that his predicament is a testament to their failure to stand up for the ideals they say they champion. All those who say they seek a Middle East that is friendly to...

Hannity - Monday, Sep 13, 2010 - mReplay Livedash TV Transcript: Judith Miller: 00:29:05 >> With the small minority are the extremists. Ilario Pantano 00:29:09 >> Islam minority has been responsible for 500,000 deaths since nine 11 -- since 9/11. 00:29:17 Egypt, spain, bali to baghdad, radical islamists have been blowing themselves.http://www.livedash.com/transcript/hannity/51/FNC/Monday_September_13_2010/297258/

(CNN) - The Delaware Republican party has launched a new robocall the same day voters head to the polls - attacking one of their own. It features a woman identifying herself as former campaign manager for Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's and saying, "O'Donnell is no conservative" rather she "just wanted to make a buck." In the call, a woman introduces herself as Kristin Murray, saying she managed O'Donnell's 2008 Senate bid and alleges: "I found out she was living on campaign donations – using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands...

I’ve written before about the fact that both mothers and fathers experience the same hormonal bonding to their children both before and after birth. Now, Lisa Belkin at the New York Times brings to our attention a new study of the nonapeptide oxytocin that seems to play a role in both mother-child and father-child bonding post-partum. Read about it here (New York Times, 9/2/10). A little background. Mammals, as we know, are born immature. They therefore require long periods of care by their parents (or someone), in order to grow to adulthood. Without that nurturing and protection they’d die very...

ATLANTA — That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am a Man” signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of Emmett Till, and he was there in Room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel, Dr. King’s room, on the night he was assassinated. But now an unsettling asterisk must be added to the legacy of Ernest C. Withers, one of the most celebrated photographers of the...

Throughout this recession Obama was busy creating jobs — website storefronts, mall shops and street vendors eagerly peddled Obama memorabilia allowing the general public to actually touch the 'birth of hope' and capture his moment in history. Alas, this once seemingly recession-proof industry is now struggling to survive. The Washington Post reports, “Sales peaked at the height of Obamamania, between the election and the inauguration.” “In Union Station, the souvenir shop once dubbed the Obama Store because of its mostly Obama-related selection has closed. [...] That moment in history is gone," said Molly Andolina, a professor of political science at DePaul...

A loss for the religion of multiculturalism. A win for Western Civilization. The French Senate has voted overwhelmingly for a bill banning the burka-style Islamic veil everywhere from post offices to streets, in a final step toward a making it law. The Senate voted 246 to 1 Tuesday in favor of the bill, which has already passed in the lower chamber, the National Assembly.

ST. LOUIS — Ten years ago, if pest control companies treated one home a year for bedbugs, it was unusual. But Joe Wells, a heat specialist and bedbug supervisor with Rottler Pest & Lawn Solutions in St. Louis, said he'll treat eight residences this week and next for the pesky blood suckers. He uses blasts of heat hot enough to warm an Easter ham. A resurgence of the bedbugs nationwide in recent months has become a bane and a boon. A bane for those who must live with the uninvited guests; a boon for those trained to get rid of...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A federal judge says he likely will let go to trial portions of a lawsuit by Florida and 19 other states challenging the president's health care overhaul as unconstitutional. But U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson said at a Tuesday hearing in Pensacola that he expects to dismiss other parts.

PHOENIX – The Justice Department has asked a federal judge in Arizona to force Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office to provide full and immediate access to records and facilities for a civil-rights investigation without going to trial. The motion for summary judgment filed Monday also asks the court to force the sheriff's office to comply with all future requests involving the probe. Earlier this month, the Justice Department filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Arpaio's office for refusing to turn over documents or allow federal officials to evaluate jails and interview staff.

Republican Rob Portman now earns his highest level of support to date against Democrat Lee Fisher in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio.

In August 2009 a nutrition-advocacy group put up posters in Washington DC featuring a photo of a young girl with the caption, "President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I?" The group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, soon got a call from the White House with the word: the posters must go. "They called and said, 'Please take those down, you can't mention the kids' and so forth," the group's president told the Washington Post. "They felt that mentioning the president's children was off-limits. They said [they're] not going to allow the use of their daughters as...

If Republicans sweep the House and win key Senate seats in November, it’s not just elected Democrats who will be unemployed — more than 1,500 Democratic staffers could lose their jobs, with layoffs stretching from low-wage staff assistants to six-figure committee aides. While turnover and job loss is a fact of life for those who serve in Congress, a change in party control can be dramatic as committee funding is slashed for the party falling out of power and hundreds of high-salary jobs switch hands. The layoffs start with election losers. Each House office employs about 18 people, and each...

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A drug developed at the University of Kansas has the potential to stop a debilitating condition of diabetes that often leads to pain in the extremities and even amputations, KU researchers have found.

This election season's RINO hunt has been FANTASTIC! RINO # 6, Lisa Murkowski is down for the count, while the rascally RINO McCain got away.

The Senate's Republican leader said Tuesday he would support Christine O'Donnell if she wins Delaware's GOP primary. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would support who ever wins the Republican Tuesday between O'Donnell and Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.). "The voters of Delaware are going to decide this very day as we are speaking who they want to represent them in the Senate," McConnell said during an appearance on MSNBC. "I'm going to support the nominee." Castle is facing a last-minute conservative surge from O'Donnell, the Tea Party candidate who's been backed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R)...

Anjem Choudary, former spokesman for the radical Muslim group Islam4UK, and his followers burned the U.S. and British flags outside the U.S. embassy in London on September 11. The group was banned this past year on January 12 by the British government under counter-terrorism laws. However, the then British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said: “It is already proscribed under two other names – Al Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect”. According to the group, this was done as a counter-protest to the planned Quran burning in the United States– that never actually happened. (Jump below video to read more on the...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- President Barack Obama, in a message Tuesday to America's students, urged them to ignore bullies and treat each other with kindness and respect, saying part of the beauty of life "lies in its diversity." Obama acknowledged that school is tough and that it can be made even tougher by the presence of classroom bullies who make fun of students and try to make those who are different from them feel bad.