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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Deputies chased a man in a car Tuesday just feet from where children were standing waiting for their school bus, eyewitnesses told WFTV. The driver ended up crashing into a light pole, knocking out power to several homes in Zellwood for a period of time. Tuesday afternoon, deputies said the driver is George Bush and he is either 47 or 48 years old. Deputies also said Bush only has one leg. Investigators said the car he was driving had been loaned to him by an associate in Lake County. [...] The sheriff's office and one witness...

Greater LOVE has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 So now the commie tyrants see the value of Tax Cuts but only as a wedge issue to make more hate of the private sector in America. If we can’t afford Tax Cuts for the successful how can we afford Cuts for the middle class? Why is one Tax Cut a good idea to stimulate the economy yet not a good idea for the people who have the means to hire? They claim that these tax cuts will drive up the deficit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 15, 2010) — The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending September 10, 2010. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 8.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. This week's results include an adjustment to account for the Labor Day holiday. On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 27.4 percent compared with the previous week.

Sock it to the rich to solve the state's financial woes? Won't be enough. By a long shot. In figures that underscore the challenge facing candidates for governor, state calculations released Tuesday show that Democrat Mark Dayton's highest considered tax-the-rich budget-balancing plan would fall well below what's needed. His income-tax-hike plan would raise close to $1.9 billion over two years. The state's projected budget hole: $5.8 billion, according to figures supplied by the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Those figures apply to taxes on married couples earning a minimum of between $180,000 and $190,000 in gross, or pre-tax, income, and individuals...

First of a three-part series, excerpted from "Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is fundamentally remaking our two-party system" The Tea Party movement has become one of the most powerful and extraordinary movements in recent American political history. It is as popular as both the Democratic and Republican parties. It is potentially strong enough to elect senators, governors and congressmen. It may even be strong enough to elect the next president of the United States -- time will tell. But the Tea Party movement has been one of the most derided and minimized and, frankly, most disrespected movements...

This exists: Chris Matthews seems to have more confidence in an O'Donnell victory than Karl Rove and the NRSC.It's towards the end of the clip but it's a short clip.

"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings." - Psalm 112:7 Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved his faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: but you profess to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now,...

The struggle for Turkey's political soul continues -- and Turkey's self-proclaimed moderate Islamists are winning. The struggle has major implications for the global war on militant Islamist terror groups like al-Qaida. This past Sunday, a constitutional referendum provided the latest battleground for the ongoing political war between Turkish Islamists and secularists. The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), a political movement openly favoring Islamist policies, advocated the constitutional changes, and it won in a landslide. Fifty-eight percent of the country supported the AKP. The most critical changes affect the Turkish judiciary. The AKP promotes itself as a "moderate" Islamist political...

GOP to kick off 'Fire Pelosi' tourBy the CNN Wire Staff September 15, 2010 -- Updated 0545 GMT (1345 HKT) Washington (CNN) -- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele kicks off a 117-city bus tour in Washington on Wednesday morning as part of the party's effort to retake the House of Representatives. The tour is called "Fire Pelosi" after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who would lose her job if Democrats lose control of the House. Republicans need to win 39 seats during midterm elections in November The "Fire Pelosi" campaign began in March after the House voted to pass a...

Third-party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo on Tuesday survived a legal maneuver to remove him from the ballot, setting up a potentially brutal political brawl within the GOP as members continue to pick sides between him and Republican Dan Maes. Denver District Judge William Hood's decision in Tancredo's favor also may create more headaches for Maes. Tancredo on Tuesday released a stinging television ad impugning Maes' character, and a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Maes for the first time trailing the former GOP congressman. "It's lucky for conservatives that I'm here, because they wouldn't have any options if I wasn't," Tancredo said....

With regards to Terry Jones—pastor of the Dove Outreach ministry and not the bloke from Monty Python—it was certainly interesting to watch the media that created the monster attempting to condemn the monster for being monstrous... Is it not deeply offensive that we are being told that if we speak, write and act in certain ways some Muslims worldwide will go on murderous rampages? Is this what we are to think of Muslims? This means that terrorism wins. Besides, what is the big deal about threats of Muslim violence? We are constantly told that only an extreme minority of Muslims...

Outsiders like Barack Obama rarely master the art of writing Children's books, says Philip Womack. Do you hear a loud thumping noise emanating from all over the country? It's the sound of thousands of children's authors – myself included – banging their heads on their desks in despair. Yes, another celebrity has "written" a children's book. Who is it this time? Has Wayne Rooney penned a morality tale for the under-eights? Maybe Kerry Katona has chipped in with a multi-million-pound, nine-book series about a little girl whose nose falls off? No, it's the biggest celebrity of all, Barack Obama. Following...

AMMAN, Jordan — The U.S. Embassy in Jordan has warned Americans of a "possible imminent threat" in the country's Red Sea port of Aqaba and has recommended avoiding the city for the next 48 hours. The embassy said Wednesday it has received "credible information" of a potential terrorist attack in the Gulf of Aqaba region. It provided no details and embassy officials declined comment.

Banks and bankers are now potential targets for the Real IRA, leaders of the dissident republican terror group have warned in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. Despite having only 100 activists they also said that targets in England remained a high priority.

WATERBURY — Former Gov. John G. Rowland, the city's economic development coordinator, has negotiated a one-year contract to host a radio show on WTIC-AM (1080). He plans to make the announcement at 7:20 a.m. today on the Ray Dunaway Morning Show. Rowland will co-host the "evening drive" slot from 3 to 6 p.m. on weekdays. His co-host will be the Rev. Will Marotti, senior pastor of the New Life Church in Meriden. Their first show will be Thursday. snip Rowland's radio show will be called "Church and State." He said it will be a call-in talk show, with guests including...

Joseph Chirico, a reputed Gambino crime family soldier and Brooklyn restaurateur who was convicted in 2008 of money laundering for serving as a conduit on a mob tribute payment, is seeking permission from a federal judge Jack Weinstein to go bow-and-arrow hunting as reported by John Marzulli for the Daily News. The owner of the famed Marco Polo eatery in Carroll Gardens was spared prison time for his crime after Brooklyn politicians Marty Markowitz and Howard Golden pleaded to Judge Weinstein for leniency on Chirico as then reported by John Marzulli for the Daily News. It's always good to have...

Will Barack Obama feel the temptation to enhance his claim to presidential greatness by transforming himself into an aggressive war leader? Could this desire lead to an “October Surprise”- like a military strike on Iran- that could radically alter the dynamics of the upcoming Congressional elections? These questions connect to the recent publication of Tony Blair’s fascinating memoir, A Journey, which places special emphasis on his controversial role as Britain’s leader in the Iraq War. This ferociously formidable politician served as Prime Minister for ten full years (only the last four of which overlapped with military operations in Iraq), permanently...

<p>MINNEAPOLIS – Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the Republican Party is embracing "ideology over evidence" and pushing out pragmatic voices that would make even his White House successor seem like a liberal.</p> <p>Clinton, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis, said there was no mistaking that Republicans have tacked hard right and questioned whether former President George W. Bush would fit in among the party's candidates this year.</p>

Casey Brezik, Raytown, wearing a bullet-resistant vest, slashed the throat of Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley'S Dean. About an hour before the stabbing, Brezik posted on Facebook: “Pharaoh let my people go! We have but two options.” In earlier postings, he referred to himself as a radical and challenged people to take a stand, including being willing to “lay your life on the line.” Brezik wrote: “This is now a Holy war. Scriptures have been desecrated. War U can’t handle.

An ice cream company banned from using an advert showing a pregnant nun has vowed to defy regulators by placing similar posters along the route of the Pope's London visit. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) announced today it had banned the ad for the Antonio Federici brand for "making a mockery" of the beliefs of Roman Catholics. The advert, which appeared in The Lady and Grazia magazines earlier this year, showed the heavily pregnant nun standing in a church holding a tub of ice cream and a spoon, with text stating "Immaculately conceived" and "Ice cream is our religion". Ten...