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WILMINGTON, Del. — A senior aide to Rep. Mike Castle told POLITICO the nine-term congressman will not be endorsing newly minted GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell. "She is a con artist who won by lying about Castle's positions and her own life," said Kate Dickens, a Castle aide. "Out of state support was enough to pull her through yesterday so she can rely on it through November." Castle's decision to withhold his endorsement came after a sharp-elbowed campaign that culminated in O'Donnell's stunning upset victory Tuesday. The win is widely viewed by the GOP establishment in Washington and Wilmington as...

Former President Bill Clinton had a very simple - and personal - reason Tuesday to forgive and endorse his longtime Democratic adversary Jerry Brown. It was in both their interests. According to interviews with Democratic insiders, when the video of gubernatorial candidate Brown's jab at Clinton's lying about Monica Lewinsky went viral, cable news shows besieged Democratic officeholders from here to Washington, D.C., fishing for comment on what looked like the best food fight of the season. One CNN memo framed the story this way: "Jerry Brown vs. Bill Clinton ... Meg Whitman reignites the decades-old battle between Bill Clinton...

Democrats will “absolutely” retain the House this fall, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday. Pelosi struck the upbeat tone before the first meeting of her Democratic caucus in the House since before a brutal August recess for Pelosi’s party. New polls released over the break suggest Democrats could lose this House this fall. But Pelosi said Democrats would draw a clear contrast with Republicans and hold on to the House. She criticized the GOP as wanting to take the country back to the “failed” economy of the Bush years.

"A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham." "The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a "hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned. The incident will fuel fears that "no-go areas" for Christians are emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year."

California's governor's race has turned into a multimillion-dollar advertising game of "I know you are, but what am I?"On Tuesday, Democrat Jerry Brown released two 15-second statewide TV ads lambasting his GOP opponent Meg Whitman as a "Pinocchio" for lying in her political advertising.His move came in response to Whitman's new ad featuring former President Bill Clinton who, in his 1992 presidential primary debate with Brown, accused the former California governor of raising taxes. Whitman's team has refused to pull the ad despite requests from Brown after a nonpartisan fact-checking group, along with the state Department of Finance, found that...

George Michael wept yesterday as a judge told him he was a drug addict - and jailed him for crashing his range rover into a shop. The singer was sentenced to eight weeks for driving after taking a 'dangerous and unpredictable' cocktail of cannabis and anti-anxiety prescription medication - but may be out of jail in a month.

A commercial contracts lawyer at Queensland University of Technology is likely to be fired after posting a video of himself burning a Koran on the YouTube video sharing website last Friday. Australian attorney Alex Stewart is on a leave of absence while his employer conducts an investigation into the privately-made 12-minute video, according to the Brisbane Times. The self-declared atheist appears to be smoking marijuana rolled in pages from the Koran, which he then rates according to which ones “burn better.”

Senator John Cornyn is the current Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). Please help the Senator learn to be more careful and respectful. The NRSC announcing they would not support O'Donnell was a PR disaster. Conservatives cannot afford to have leaders who are completely out of touch with reality.

Greece is struggling to reform its spending practices and stimulate future economic growth because it has a large and growing debt burden to deal with. The nation has been hit by the double-whammy of rising debt and a contracting economy, which means there is more and more debt which needs to be supported by less and less tax revenue and economic output. But here's another threat -- What if there are fewer and fewer Greeks responsible for the nation's debt burden in the future? Essentially, if you are young and you see that your country is burdening you with a...

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama criticized the Bush administration for its excessive secrecy, noting that it had "invoked a legal tool known as the 'state secrets' privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court." Obama also promised to end "extraordinary rendition," a practice through which "we outsource our torture to other countries." But last week the Obama administration used the state secrets privilege to block a lawsuit by five former captives who say they were tortured as a result of extraordinary rendition. Although candidate Obama surely would have been outraged, President Obama...

I don't think this is what our Narcissist-in-Chief would expect in this situation. Obama and the Virginians When Obama died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, “How dare you try to destroy the Nation I helped conceive!” Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, “You wanted to end our liberties but you failed.” James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, “This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!” Thomas Jefferson was next, beat Obama with a long cane and...

LIFE STORY A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. and Chicago. When his keeper dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine liberal, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, an unlikely political insider, and the next President. MEMORABLE QUOTES Doctor Allenby: This won't hurt a bit[Sticks Chance with a needle]...

And I have a few questions: * Who put up the $500,000 bail money to get Shourd out of Iran? Was it George Soros or one of his shell companies or organizations? * How long until Shourd starts spouting her anti-American, anti-Israel, pan-Islamic garbage in books, on Oprah and other TV interviews, etc? 3-2-1 . . . Instead of the gushing over this undeserving woman, let’s hear some answers to these questions. Let’s just even hear the questions being asked. But no mainstream media news outlet–including Prince AlWaleed’s FOX News–is bothering to ask them. Too busy drooling for no reason...

Grand Rapids Public School Superintendent Bernard Taylor wants to use money pitched by the Obama administration to halt teacher layoffs. But Taylor plans to use the cash to pay for health care costs for existing district employees. In August, the U.S. House of Representatives had a special session to approve a $26 billion jobs bill that the politicians said would save teachers from being laid off. At the time, some Republicans said it was a "giveaway to teachers' unions." Taylor said at a recent school board meeting that he would like to use the $3.5 million his district will receive...

Northwestern University professor, Kristian Hammond, received more than $700,000 in federal stimulus money to develop software that tells jokes. Hammond says it’s serious work. “Understanding what makes humor, what makes irony, what makes interesting juxtapositions, to understand what that means [then] actually create it," said Hammond. WLS-TV reports, “The material generated so far is not exactly killer standup material, and Hammond's critics certainly aren't laughing. Senator John McCain singled out Hammond's project, calling it a ‘joke machine’ — one of many examples of wasteful spending.”Hammond received the funding after he applied to the National Science Foundation, beating out dozens of...

Probably the surest sign that Christine O’Donnell was the right choice is the vitriol generated by her nomination. The Daily Beast’s Matthew Yglesias personifies that vitriol with his unveiled attack on the Tea Party, The GOP, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint and O’donnel. His post-mortem assessment of Mike Castles’s failed nomination bid and Delaware’s primary leaves little doubt as to his bias. What is unclear is why he is so concerned with the “destruction” of the GOP. One would assume that such a cataclysmic event would rank high on his “bucket list”. Alas Yglesias does protest a little too much and...

Much to the chagrin of the entertainment industry, the encryption that protects most high-definition video content may have just been cracked. Intel Corp. officials confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com an investigation into a security breach, possibly a fundamental compromise of High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) -- the digital rights management software that governs every device that plays high-def content.

Tea Party upstarts rock Delaware and New Hampshire. Mark McKinnon on a GOP establishment on the run, what voters want—and the coming Republican identity crisis. Voters grabbed their pitchforks Tuesday night and came over the ramparts. The revolution has arrived. Republican primary voters Tuesday night in key contests in Delaware and New Hampshire and New York sent a clear message, in case anyone had missed it up until now: If you are part of the establishment, you better grab your goodies and get out of the castle while you can. Tea Party upstart Christine O’Donnell upset Mike Castle in the...

Officials in Contra Costa County, California are using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to track some 240 preschoolers as part of a new Head Start program to keep the children safe and to make better use of its teachers.

She blames his attitude on sour grapes. Enjoy.