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In light of the heated debate over voting for RINO's like Mike Castle, it is important to illustrate in real time why these frauds are more dangerous than the Democrats. The RINO's score more points for the other side than the Democrats. Florida (Crist appointed) Senator LeMiux joined Senator George Voinovich (Rino-OH) in voting for cloture on the latest unconstitutional bailout for Democrat special interest groups. (H.R. 5297) Even Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted against cloture! Yet, we are now about to pass another budget busting, economic retardation bill with the help of a Senator who was appointed by...

Watch as the Little Rock city council rams Agenda 21 down the peoples throats, despite their obvious objections.... This is going on every day in communities nationwide.

A disgruntled employee canned from a Domino's Pizza shop in the Bronx helped himself to a slice of payback, torching two of the chain's storefronts, authorities said Monday. "Revenge was the motive," a Fire Department source said. "Clearly, he's not a guy who cares a lot about life." Domino's estimated the damages and lost business at the two locations totaled more than $1 million. Jamal Thomas, 24, of the Bronx, was hit with a raft of charges. He was training to become assistant manager after two years of working for Domino's when he was fired this summer , fire officials...

Verizon will not be distributing its white pages directory to local residents for at least the next two years, the company said Tuesday. Instead, residents will be able to find the directory online at www.verizon.com/whitepages . A printed and CD-ROM copy will also be available for free upon request. Verizon subscribers will still receive printed directories for business yellow pages and government white pages, according to the company. Florida's Public Service Commission granted Verizon Florida LLC the right to not hand out the directories to every customer for two years. Verizon had been looking for a permanent waiver because they...

One of the major reasons people come to San Francisco is to eat. However, members of the Board of Supervisors seem intent on killing this advantage. Today at their 2 p.m. meeting at City Hall they will vote whether or not to impose a “fee” that will increase the cost of any alcohol sold in the city. The reason for the fee, according to the bill’s sponsor, John Avalos, is to defray the cost of treating alcohol-related disease. The city spends an estimated $17 million a year for health costs related to alcohol abuse; this fee will raise about $16...

CLEAR LAKE, IOWA — The congregation of Zion Lutheran Church voted Sunday to associate with the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. The church will maintain its affiliation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America but will reduce funding to the ELCA to no more than $1 a month, according to Mark Schumacher, congregation member. The LCMC, a more conservative association, has 33 churches in Iowa and about 500 nationally. The congregation voted on four resolutions and all passed by wide margins: • To reject and disassociate “from the actions, policies, procedures and teachings of the ELCA. We do not...

On the House Floor: Castle: "It is clear to me that an increase in American forces alone cannot resolve this conflict, therefore I will support this resolution because I believe the surge will be unsuccessful without a comprehensive diplomatic strategy"...(Video)

MISSION - A preliminary investigation reveals Border Patrol agents may have hit one of the gunmen who fired at them this weekend. The shooting happened Saturday morning. Border Patrol agents chased a vehicle to an area south of Mission. They say it was loaded with drugs. We’re told armed men in Mexico shot at Border Patrol agents traveling on a boat. Agents returned fire. The Border Patrol agents were not injured. But FBI agents suspect one of the gunmen in Mexico was hit and possibly killed. This is based on preliminary information, which FBI agents will continue to follow up...

Cuba is to lay off huge numbers of state employees, in the biggest shift to the private sector since the revolution in 1959. But this is not the end of communism in the country, writes Stephen Wilkinson of the Centre for Caribbean and Latin American Research and Consultancy.The media frenzy that has followed the announcement that Cuba is to reduce its state workforce by 500,000 by the middle of 2011, is similar to that which followed Fidel Castro's throwaway remark last week that the Cuban model isn't working - it has largely missed the point. This is not the end...

Attention, smartphone addicts: Now you can get treatment for that addiction through the very device that enslaves you. Josh Dzieza on psychology’s new technological frontier. Plenty of people joke about their addictions to their “CrackBerries,” and there’s likely more than a bit of truth to that. (Indeed, the new DSM, the mental health bible for psychologists, may include “Internet addiction” among its many pathologies.) But while smartphones can certainly enable compulsive behavior, surprisingly psychologists are increasingly seeing them as a tool with potential mental health benefits. Capitalizing on the ubiquity of the increasingly powerful mobile devices nearly everyone carries around...

U.S. President Barack Obama greets school children following his second annual back-to-school speech at Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia, September 14, 2010. A live image of U.S. President Barack Obama is projected onto a classroom wall for students in a room adjacent to the hall where Obama made his second annual back-to-school speech at Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia, September 14, 2010.… Read more »

Mexican authorities have confirmed several shootouts through the streets of Matamoros, while U.S. authorities confirmed the temporary closing of two international bridges. The shootouts took place late Monday night and early this morning for approximately two hours between the Mexican Military and various groups of armed gunmen from both the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, said a Mexican law enforcement official who asked that his name not be released citing security reasons. The shootouts were reported in various areas as the gunmen fought and moved spraying the streets with gunfire and multiple grenades. The areas where the shootouts took place...

Don't forget to get out there and vote!! I just came back and I FEEL GREAT MARKING MY BALLOT FOR PALADINO! WOOOHOOO!!! Sorry for the vanity, but I just wanted to share my enthusiasm. I think I'm still floating on air from DC on 9/12!!! God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Terry Jones, the Florida “minister” who threatened to burn the Koran on the anniversary of September 11, is as much a distraction from the real challenge facing America as was Sen. Joseph McCarthy when it came to communism. Communism was (and remains in its Chinese incarnation) a real threat. But radical Islam—rabid, advancing, intolerant, subjugating—is potentially a bigger one and must be conquered. Various apologists for the Nazis and communists in the media, academia, and religion are now mostly forgotten, and that’s the problem. Forgetting what happens when evil is accommodated leads to terrible consequences and more evil.

Today is a case of being careful what you wish for – the Fed has pulled out all the stops in an attempt to avoid a deflationary trap tied to the inception of the credit crisis that broke loose in the summer of 2008. Since then they have flooded the system with liquidity through a process dubiously referred to as Quantitative Easing. They have also loaded their balance sheet with worthless loan paper and shoved interest rates practically to zero. Not to be outdone, our illustrious administration has saddled us with enough debt at the federal level to last three...

A federal judge in Pensacola, Fla., hints he will allow a Florida to challenge federal health care reform laws, a Pensacola News outlet reports!

As she opens her 25th and final season on her very successful talk show career, I can't help but wonder if Oprah feels "used" or "duped" by Barack Obama. Since we are witnesses to the most disastrous administration in the United States since Jimmy Carter, I wonder what Oprah thinks about Barack Obama and Michelle and whether or not she should've still endorsed him back in 2008.

(Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is fighting for his political life against a Republican "Tea Party" candidate in Nevada in one of the most closely watched U.S. elections this year, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Tuesday. Among America's most powerful politicians, Reid finds himself locked in a close contest at home, leading 46 percent to 44 percent among likely voters over Sharron Angle, a former substitute schoolteacher who was almost unknown until several months ago. Tea Party-backed candidates like Angle have done well in Republican primaries this year with calls for lower taxes and smaller government. The Tea...

I have heard assemble & reassemble firearms. But these guys takes the idea to another level.

International regulators are making progress on tackling too-big-to-fail banks TALK is cheap when it comes to solving the problem of too-big-to-fail banks. From the luxury of even today’s stuttering economic recovery it is easy to vow that next time lenders’ losses will be pushed onto their creditors, not onto taxpayers. But cast your mind back to late 2008. Then, the share prices of the world’s biggest banks could halve in minutes. Reasonable people thought that many firms were hiding severe losses. Anyone exposed to them, from speculators to churchgoing custodians of widows’ pensions, tried to yank their cash out, causing...