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There are so many faces of the radical Democratic Party. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Dean, Hillary Clinton. So many targets for the Republicans. But the GOP is faceless. Palin is a target, but nobody thinks she runs the party. Either Bush will do, but they are increasingly subjects for archaeologists, not politicians. Cheney? Not when he’s in the hospital. So Obama and his allies have to create a villain, and none fits the bill so well as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). By appearing in the Ohioan’s district and attacking him directly, President Obama is hoping to turn the prospective...

CHULA VISTA — It can be a tough place for a cop to find a drunken driver. Traffic checkpoints in Chula Vista funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the federal government are netting an average of four arrests each, according to police, and many have yielded no drunken drivers. Police aren’t complaining. They say the main thrust of a checkpoint is to serve as a deterrent. “People are just getting use to the idea that if you drive drunk, you’re going to get caught,” said Chula Vista police Agent Rusty Rea. The numbers Rea really cares about...

The trouble with many of the "indicators" we report is that some are pretty current and others are severely lagging. Home sales are generally the former and home prices the latter. That's why, given the combination of the expiration of the home buyer tax credit and the increasing number of loans moving to final foreclosure, we knew that home prices overall would take a hit, but it would take a while. Well we're here. Two new reports out today prove the consequences of oversupply of organic inventory (12.5 months on existing homes in July according to the National Association of...

OK, O'Donnell's won the Delaware primary..and the MSM, and many on the conservative side as well, have all but conceded the race. It'll be hard, but it's doable.. We should probably have several polls out byFri-Sat. So, all you amateur political junkies, put on your tin-foil caps and guess what the spread is for the first polls?

It appears that Christine O’Donnell has no intention of allowing attacks from either the Right or Left go unanswered. She appeared this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America to answer potshots taken at her last night in the wake of her convincing victory over Mike Castle from Karl Rove, the NRSC, and others. O’Donnell looked poised and focused in this five minute clip, telling George Stephanopoulos that some in the GOP have had their pride bruised and need to get past it:

Karl Rove on 'Happening Now' with Jon Scott, FNC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-LN1GIzME

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As fast as Jimmy Dimora built a political machine to rule Cuyahoga County, his machine's collapse came even faster. When federal agents raided Dimora's house and office in July 2008, citizens got their first glimpse at a corruption probe that over the next 26 months would tear apart county government.

Pelosi: Tea Party primary victories 'very positive' for Democrats By Russell Berman and Jay Heflin - 09/15/10 11:51 AM ET House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) cheered the Tea Party victories in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, saying the results were “very positive” for Democrats. “What happened for Democrats last night was very positive,” Pelosi told reporters after addressing the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation at the Capitol Wednesday morning. “We were very pleased with the candidates that we drew, and they offer a great contrast in the election as to the clarity of the choice.” Pelosi’s comments are in line with the Democratic...

JERUSALEM – Militants launched mortar shells into Israel and Israeli jets bombed targets in Gaza on Wednesday, just as Israeli and Palestinian leaders held peace talks in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gaza militants opposed to peace with Israel have threatened to derail the fledgling negotiations, and the Israeli military said eight mortars and one rocket hit Israel by mid-afternoon on the day of the talks — the highest daily total since March 2009. There were no injuries. Police said two of the mortar shells had phosphorous warheads, which can set fires or severely burn people....

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act is supposed to shield consumers from problems in the financial services sector that many believe led to the financial meltdown. But Section 342 of the act introduces a brash example of social engineering that masquerades as consumer protection and financial reform. This section imposes gender and racial employment quotas on the financial services industry, which accounts for one-tenth of our economy. The quota provisions will affect over 50,000 financial services firms and other businesses, and the consequences will be enormous. Dodd-Frank requires at least 29 federal bureaus to open Offices of...

On the heels of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement that he wants to put up an immigration reform measure up for a vote next week, his Republican opponent Sharron Angle is out with a new ad calling Reid "the best friend an illegal alien ever had." The harsh ad says Reid's policies are "putting Americans' safety and jobs at risk," highlighting the unique confluence of economic and immigration problems in Nevada. The state is struggling with the nation's highest unemployment rate, which stands at 14.3 percent, as well as the highest share of undocumented workers in the nation, according...

nfluential Republicans pledged Wednesday to support Christine O'Donnell's general election campaign after party leaders initially turned their backs on the Tea Party candidate following her upset win in the Delaware Senate primary. O'Donnell's rise from obscurity to victory over longtime Rep. Mike Castle had sent Republican honchos in Delaware and Washington into a state of political shock. Aides for the top fundraising arm for Senate Republicans said Tuesday she would not be getting help from them -- a reaction that raised concern the party would torpedo its chances at a congressional takeover out of spite. But National Republican Senatorial Committee...

I wanted to ask this considering all of the primaries this year. Do we consider the Tea Party to be more of a pure conservative movement, a nascent libertarian movement, or something else?

Given the increased importance of biofuels and the new linkages between agricultural and energy markets, increased cereal yields, if achieved, may not necessarily continue to lead to lower cereal prices. Because the world energy market is so much larger than the world grain market, grain prices may be determined by oil prices in the energy market as opposed to being determined by grain supply.Thus, higher priced energy means more hungry people. Yes, it really is that simple. But not so simple, unfortunately, that people like celebrity lion-impersonator Jeremy Irons can understand it. Up above, you’ll see a video he made...

..Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any...

America as we know it is perhaps on the brink of ruin. We are borrowing to pay for programs we cannot afford, printing money to pay for our ever increasing debt, devaluing the dollar and with that individual’s life savings, and have become a debtor nation. Our manufacturing industry continues to die a slow painful death and unemployment is widespread. No developing new industry can be seen that would employ a significant number of people. We are paying an enormous financial and human price fighting terrorism, which is funded primarily by oil exporting nations who thrive off our dependence on...

Mitt Romney has so much bold leadership....after all the major battles have been fought, Mitt comes in as the late calvary to saved the day to endorse Christine....btw Mitt just endorsed the Saints to beat the Colts in this last Super Bowl!! ha!

Ernest Withers raised his camera. This wasn't just a murder. This was history. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood here a few hours earlier chatting with aides when a sniper squeezed off a shot from a hunting rifle. Now, as night set over Memphis, Withers was on the story. A veteran freelancer for America's black press, Withers was known as "the original civil rights photographer," an insider who'd covered it all, from the Emmett Till murder that jump-started the movement in 1955 to the Little Rock school crisis, the integration of Ole Miss and, now, the 1968 sanitation strike that...

In this epsiode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program I interview New York Times Bestselling author Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson about his new book, "Conduct Unbecoming." Next we have a "moment of truth" with Andrew Klaven with Klaven on the Culture. In the second half of the show I talk with Evan Sayet about his new cable show "Evan Sayet's Right to Laugh." It is a very fun show and we invite you to listen and comment.

This Changes Everything' By Robert Stacy McCain on 9.15.10 @ 6:10AM DOVER, Delaware -- Christine O'Donnell did not merely defeat Mike Castle in Tuesday's Senate primary. She beat the Republican establishment, both nationally and in Delaware, and she beat a veritable army of naysayers who said she couldn't do it. O'Donnell also beat a vicious negative attack campaign into which her Republican opponents dumped every bit of trash they could find. Yet this had no apparent effect on the Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed candidate, who won with 53 percent of the vote to Castle's 47 percent. Her little-known Democratic opponent,...