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Prime Minister Donald Tusk has embarked on a five-day journey to India and Vietnam to promote Poland to Asian investors. The first leg of his trip takes place in India, marking the first time that a Polish head of state has visited the country in seven years. During Tusk’s stay, leaders will continue high-level talks on mutual economic cooperation that began when the president of India visited Poland in 2009. PM Tusk took part in a Polish-Indian Investment Forum in Bangalore yesterday, where he presented investment opportunities to Indian business firms, specifically offers in the Małopolska region and Łódź. Before...

Listen Live: Sound Off Connecticut with Jim Vicevich 9 a.m. to noon ET (Daily Thread)Sound Off Connecticut is a popular conservative/libertarian call in talk show hosted by Jim Vicevich weekday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon ET. Although based in Connecticut, the show welcomes callers from all over the United States! This is your chance to sound off America! Call into the show toll free (800) 966-9842! Listen to the LIVE AUDIO STREAM at http://wtic.com - it's free and NO registration is required! If you're in southern New England listen over the air to WTIC 1080 AM, the 50,000 watt...

"Surely the Lord sent Jimmy Carter," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father proclaimed at the 1976 Democratic convention, "to come on out and bring America back where she belongs." Carter campaigned on his personal religiosity far more than any other president since World War II. In an interview with Pat Robertson on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Carter explained that "secular law is compatible with God's laws," but if the two were in conflict, "we should honor God's law." Robertson endorsed Carter. So did Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, who said, "God has his hand upon Jimmy Carter...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- FBI agents arrested county Commissioner Jimmy Dimora early this morning. Witnesses at his home reported he was led out in handcuffs and chains. He arrived at the FBI building on Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland at 7:20 a.m. in a black Dodge Caravan. The arrest comes after a years-long investigation that most recently led to charges against former county auditor Frank Russo.

This is a disgusting fit of pique by the same crowd that handed super majorities to the Democrats in the first place. Foxnews is reporting that the NRSC is refusing to back Christine O'Donnell in the general election even though she is the clear choice of Delaware Republicans. Party fractures on full display, Republican aides told Fox News Tuesday that O'Donnell would not be getting national fundraising support. State party leaders had warned that O'Donnell cannot compete against Democrat Chris Coons and vigorously backed Castle, a nine-term congressman and former governor. This, more than a reflection on the O'Donnell campaign,...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently claimed: "Districts around the country have literally been cutting for five, six, seven years in a row. And, many of them, you know, are through, you know, fat, through flesh and into bone ... ." Really? They cut spending five to seven consecutive years? Give me a break! Andrew Coulson, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, writes that out of 14,000 school districts in the United States, just seven have cut their budgets seven years in a row. How about five years in a row? Just 87. That's a fraction of...

In the midst of his campaign for governor, Nathan Deal faces such dire financial troubles that he must sell his home to avert foreclosure or bankruptcy. Even if Deal liquidates all his assets, however, he still might be unable to repay a nearly $2.3 million business loan, documents reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution indicate. The loan comes due in full Feb. 1 — less than one month after Deal hopes to take office. Deal’s troubles center on a failed business venture by his daughter and son-in-law. Deal and his wife, Sandra, invested about $2 million, but lost their entire stake...

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is just the latest creepy keeper of the Obamacare enemies list. The White House has been keeping tabs on individual and corporate critics of the federal health care takeover for more than a year. It started with the health czar's Internet Snitch Brigade. Remember? Last August, the White House Office of Health Reform called on its ground troops to report on fellow citizens who talked smack about the Democratic plan. Team Obama issued an all-points bulletin on the taxpayer-funded White House website soliciting informant e-mails: "There is a lot of disinformation about health...

Tea Party-endorsed Christine O'Donnell clobbered heavily favored, establishment-endorsed Congressman Mike Castle 53-47 percent in yesterday's primary to win the Republican Party's nomination in the race to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate. She now faces heavily favored Democrat Chris Coons in the seat formerly held by Vice President Joe Biden. National Republicans say she will not get their support. Former Bush 43 guru Karl Rove, visibly upset, told O'Donnell supporter Sean Hannity on his Fox News program, that he had met her and was "not impressed" and practically ruled out any hope for a GOP victory in the Diamond State...

(AoftheAP)An animal-rights activist from southern California has demanded that the Catholic Church force the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to give up their steeds, charging the Quartet of Quietus with animal abuse.Reggie Tarrion, a 28-year old Long Beach resident and the PETA member (and former Catholic altar boy) who came up with the protest, describes the thrust of this latest demonstration."Like, these guys at the end of the world, you know? They're like, being mean to the horses and stuff. Have you ever seen pictures of those horses? They're like, scared and kinda scrawny, and there's one that looks...

Charles Krauthammer, in his Washington Post column (8/27/10), said, "Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," pointing out that overwhelming majorities of Americans have repudiated liberal agenda items such as: Obamacare, Obama's stimulus, building an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, redefinition of marriage to include same-sex marriage, lax immigration law enforcement and vast expansion of federal power that includes unprecedented debt and deficits. The nation's elite and the news media see being against the Obama-led agenda as being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, mean-spirited and insensitive. Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times, has a different twist...

I know there are many tea party groups, is there an official tea party donation site or are we better of sending monies to specific candidates?

Well, it's taken a while for our own home-grown, corn-fed Ohioan, John Boehner to get some Lamestream Media coverage, but President Obama has catapulted "our" John to the stage of national attention, mentioning him by name at least eight times in a Cleveland speech last week. Representative and Republican Minority Whip (And, I do mean "whip") Boehner was also diginified in that POTUS was only making a spontaneous speech at a Cleveland University, where local students had to be begged to attend, reportedly, because John Boehner had recently been in Ohio whipping up the masses against Obama's Recovery Summer...

One of the stranger passages in the Old Testament is a command Moses received from God. The people had grumbled against God and Moses for the “wretched” manna they had to consume (Numbers 21:5). They were sick of its bland quality though it was the miracle food, the bread from heaven that had sustained them in the desert. (Pay attention Catholics who treat lightly or find  the Eucharist boring!) God grew angry and sent venomous snakes among them which caused many to die (Nm 21:6). The people then repented and, in order to bring healing to them, God command a...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemGraphic by LTOS The Book of PsalmsPsalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph. 1. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.[a] 2.How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah 3. Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4. Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked. 5. They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable. 6. I said, “You are gods,[b]...

Dinesh D'Souza has long been one of America's shrewdest and bravest political observers. His much discussed Forbes article, "How Obama Thinks," a prelude to his forthcoming book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, burnishes that reputation. Indeed, Newt Gingrich describes D'Souza's thesis as the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama." In the article, D'Souza argues that President Obama has absorbed much of his governing philosophy from his socialist, "anticolonial" father, Barack Obama Sr. "According to Obama," writes D'Souza, "his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not Dreams of My...

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Civic-minded New Yorkers yesterday came face to face for the first time with the future of voting, but glitches and gaffes -- and a shocking lack of privacy that left many ballots not so secret -- had many mourning the loss of the lever. The debut of the city's optical-scan voting machines -- the first change in the system in 80 years -- featured long lines, delays in opening polling places, clueless election workers and some brand-new machines on the fritz. "What are they going to do for a presidential election?" groused one Manhattan voter after casting her ballot at...

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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - Complete County Corruption Investigation Four FBI agents have entered the house of County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora Wednesday morning and took him away in handcuffs. NewsChannel5 saw the agents enter his Independence home and drive him away in handcuffs. The agents arrived in two vehicles and knocked on the door for a few minutes before someone eventually answered. The agents then entered the home, and left with Dimora in handcuffs. FBI spokesman Scott Wilson confirmed that they are making arrests this morning, but did not confirm if Dimora was arrested. Dimora is considered to be the top target...