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Has this photo been 'shopped?? Look at the faces in the back row....especially the women in the middle and to the right...or are the Romney boys going after women with some serious cheekage and eyebrows? Appears they placed Mitt's eyes and forehead on the other family members. Or am I just imagining things?

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I'll tell you what else is gonna happen. There is still going to be private sector health care for the rich. It will still exist. It exists in Great Britain. It exists in Cuba. You think Fidel uses what his citizens use? Ha! Doctors from Spain flew over to try to fix his colon, which came detached 'cause he didn't want to wear a bag. That's when he got sick. He got really infected in there. But in this country, it's gonna be the same. If you don't want to pay insurance because you're a rich guy,...

Have you ever heard of the Rule of Threes? It’s a guideline used widely in writing and communicating that dictates that your message is clearer and more effective when you can convey it in three parts. For example, in the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that every American had an inalienable right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Drop any one of those, and the sentence is somehow less effective. You know who else was a big fan of the Rule of Threes? Steve Jobs. Over at Forbes, Carmine Gallo writes: Steve Jobs applied the Rule of...

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare Thursday offered an immediate financial boost to Republican candidates at all levels, GOP operatives and fundraisers told BuzzFeed. While both the Romney and Obama campaign boasted that the decision had juiced their small contributions, the spillover to candidates for the Senate and House appears, by the early anecdotal evidence, to have been more pronounced for Republicans. Many Democrats, after all, continue to avoid talking about the unpopular legislation, while Republican candidates have now sharpened their mission: To repeal ObamaCare. South Carolina-based Republican consultant Wesley Donehue said it was the best week of fundraising...

'I deserved it' Shocking it is that millions of handout-junkies could be so shameless, even contemptuous while sponging off you their whole sad life... alas, it seems they learned it from their 'progressive' masters- such as with Michelle Obama and her permanent vacation... Both then go to great lengths to defend each other's privilege and benefits while vilifying those who are forced to underwrite it all, perfect example being the recent case of disgraced Washington DC City Councilman Harry Thomas Jr., forced to resign in January when faced with federal charges for theft and filing of false tax returns- the first such resignation in DC Council...

It is sometimes fascinating how certain purposeful intentions and actions can align themselves to the point of convergence. Case in point. I had come to the personal conclusion that Google has and is becoming much too large, too diffuse, too intrusive and much too much part of the problem of loss of privacy on the internet. As a consequence, I decided to move my internet research activities over to Yahoo. I have used Yahoo in the past – in fact Yahoo was the go to search engine back when I first started using the internet in around 1997. Yahoo, in...

The following is part of a memo sent by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on June 27.We became aware on June 7, that news media received a memo from John Gehring, casting aspersions on the Catholic bishops and their educational project on religious liberty, the Fortnight for Freedom. Mr. Gehring is Catholic Program Director of “Faith in Public Life. . . ,” a group founded with help from a pro-abortion group long directed by John Podesta called the Center for American Progress. . . (CAP); like the CAP it has received funding. . . from billionaire atheist George...

National Procurement, a branch of the NHS National Services Division, arranged for staff who are deemed to be "regular users" of cars for business to get the cars through a taxpayer-backed vehicle-leasing scheme. The role of National Procurement, which is funded by the Scottish Government, is to buy medical supplies for the NHS, and to "increase savings" for the health service. Figures provided by National Procurement in response to a Freedom of Information request showed that 40 employees, or one in eight members of staff, had used the 4x4s and convertibles to drive to work. Much of the

Schiff nails it again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCyEC9r_mk

ROME, ITALY, July 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life has not been suspended, said the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy in May, but his bishop has the right to assign him duties outside his pro-life ministry, according to the Diocese of Amarillo. Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life. Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life. Amarillo Bishop Patrick Zurek reported that the Vatican body granted at least a partial victory for the Priests for Life leader, who had petitioned Rome for clarification after Zurek announced that he had “suspended” Fr. Pavone last September. According to...

Republicans can repeal Obamacare with a 51-vote majority in the U.S. Senate through budget reconciliation, according to an architect of the health care law, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who also made a death panel-style indictment of the Republican budget. “I think they could do it,” Waxman told Newsmakers when asked about reconciliation. “I think the American people have to understand that if they vote for Romney and they vote for Republicans to have control of the house and the senate, there’s a good chance that the health care bill will be wiped out and all these benefits will be wiped...

SHELBY, N.C. — The day after a newspaper in the small town of Shelby, N.C., reported that the Te Deum Foundation had acquired nearby land for a new Catholic seminary and monastery, a group of nuns in habits stopped at a local service station. Fifty years ago — 10 years ago and, to some extent, even today — many Southerners regarded Catholics as unsaved and Catholicism as a non-Christian mystery religion. But that day, everyone at the station greeted and welcomed the sisters. One woman even asked the nuns to pray for her injured nephew. This acceptance marks a sea...

A secret business deal between the government of Guinea and a multinational firm with a U.S. partner aided by the Obama administration’s wrongheaded foreign policy could cost American businesses billions. Congress ought to investigate to protect American investors, expose any political shenanigans and prosecute the guilty. The London Sunday Times first cracked the story June 3 of the secret $25 million loan between an offshore company, Palladino Capital 2, and the cash-strapped West African country. The funds, according to the loan agreement, were to finance the start-up of Guinea’s state mining company, Heritage, but the cash allegedly disappeared and the...

This series of commentaries will examine President Barack Obama through the lens of constitutional defiance. It will illustrate that conduct which most breeches his oath of office, which most damages the government of which he himself is a part, and which most harms the very people who live under his stewardship.

Justice Kennedy votes to strike down portions of the Arizona immigration law. Roberts upholds the constitutionally of Obamacare. Ginsburg, joining with conservative justices, rules affirmative action unconstitutional. Obviously, that last one never happened.

Sinister web diary 'of British 7/7 bomb widow': Jihad is an obligation we must accept, says blog By Rebecca Evans PUBLISHED: 22:09 GMT, 1 July 2012 | UPDATED: 22:11 GMT, 1 July 2012 The 'white widow' of a 7/7 London bomber is believed to be the author of a sinister online blog detailing her dedication to jihad and the 'supremacy of Islam'. British Muslim convert Samantha Lewthwaite, 28, has been on the run in East Africa for six months since police foiled a plot to blow up Western tourist targets in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. The Mail has revealed...

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Woo hoo!! July is here and it's time for another FReepathon!! We're hoping the 2010 tea party sweeps continue in 2012 and beyond!! We need to increase the conservative majority in the House, take the majority in the senate and continue sweeping conservatives into as many state and local offices as we can all across this great land!! No matter who wins the presidency, we're going to need the states and the people and FR to hold their feet to the fire!! It's way past time to vote or impeach the corrupt bastards OUT!! If you enjoy reading and participating...

BOISE — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Denver, Colorado Springs and Idaho’s capital on Monday and Tuesday. While in Boise they will visit the National Interagency Fire Center and answer questions from local media. The details of their trip have not been finalized.

...the New York Philharmonic said on Monday that it had received a gift of $1 million from Mr. Baldwin