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Yes! Those screams coming from Church Drive in San Jose's Cambrian neighborhood were for real on Halloween night. You would scream too if you entered the "Temple of Doom". "It was a lot of fun," Yelena Rey said after she survived into the "Temple" - a creation based on the Indiana Jones movie in 1984 - complete with the rolling stone triggered when the golden statue is stolen. "It was so scary!" She and her family joined as many as 5,000 trick-or-treaters Thursday night in a line that stretched around the block. The "Temple of Doom" is the creation of...

On Drudge this morning CBS News reported a breaking story of 6 enrollees the first day of ObamaCare signups. CBS sites it's sources as the govt. itself. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57610328/obamacare-enrollments-got-off-to-very-slow-start-documents-show/ Now NBC reports the White House blames the report on "Republicans"... http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/01/21278870-white-house-obamacare-enrollment-numbers-a-dog-bites-man-story?lite

Health and Human Services has set up a new website under the url healthyyoungamerica.org. On that site, they host dozens of videos of teens and young adults parroting the lies they have been told by the Obama Administration about the Affordable Care Act. The videos are, for the most part, surreally terrible. That is, if you are able to watch them. A quick visit to that site brought numerous crashes for me. Why? Because when I went to adjust the volume on some of the obnoxiously loud videos, the site crashed. Just to check out the site, I went to...

The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries. This symbol of America’s naval ferocity has spanned our country’s entire existence, flying from the masts of the Continental Navy during the war of independence, to today’s War on Terror. In fact, an amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 clearly states that as of 31 May 2002 all ships are to fly the flag throughout the duration of the War on Terror....

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham turns 95 next week, and Sarah Palin and real estate mogul Donald Trump are among the 800 people planning to attend his celebration.---snip---Graham spokesman Jeremy Blume says there are ties between the Graham family and Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican presidential candidate. Relief aid headed to Russia provided by Samaritan's Purse, the international charity run by Franklin Graham, is staged in Alaska....

Just when you thought you've seen everything, along comes what's called a "Healthy Ho's Party."

FULL TITLE: Mother 'tried to sell daughter, FOUR, for sex to a man she had met through online prostitution ad' A Michigan mother has been charged with offering her 4-year-old daughter for sex to a man she had met on a classifieds website. Jennifer Brys, 25, and Edward Reardon, 26, were arraigned Wednesday on charges of child sexually abusive activity and using a computer to commit a crime. According to investigators, Miss Brys, of Warren, placed an ad on Backpage.com last month offering her services as a prostitute. Scroll down for video

A new survey suggests that marriage is actually more important to men than it is to women. In fact, just since last year, the number of women who say their definition of success is not linked to marriage (or relationships at all) has nearly doubled. According to the third “Professional Women Report” (h/t the Atlantic), a survey of over 1,000 male and female professionals released yesterday by LinkedIn and Citi, 9 percent of women say that marriage and relationships do not factor into their consideration of success, compared to 5 percent last year. It turns out that men are more...

Obamacare is about power not coverage. The IRS is now the government.

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Is Ken Cuccinelli closing in on Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race? The latest poll from Emerson College shows McAuliffe, the Democrat, with 42 percent support and Cuccinelli, the Republican, with 40 percent. Libertarian Robert Sarvis has 13 percent in the poll of 874 likely voters. The two-point lead for McAuliffe is the smallest he's had in any poll since September.

MONTREAL - A Roman Catholic priest says his attempt to raise the issue of sexual abuse with colleagues resulted in him being ostracized and eventually fired from a famous Montreal church. The story told by Rev. Andre Samson suggests that the Vatican's promises of a new, more open approach to dealing with sexual crimes has not necessarily translated through the church rank-and-file.

The current furor over President Obama’s broken “keep your plan” promise confusingly melds together two very different claims. The first is a simple question of accuracy and honesty: Obama made a promise about his legislation, the promise has not come true, and a certain level of abuse is deserved. (Karl Rove huffs, “This is a serious breach of trust with the American people.” And you know that Karl Rove takes breaches of presidential trust with the utmost seriousness.) The justifiable scrutiny of Obama’s veracity has melded seamlessly into a second and very different claim: That Obama’s broken promise is not...

Amardeep Kaleka produced and directed a documentary that claims September 11 was an inside job designed to distract the public from ET revelations.Proof of alien lifeScreenshot from Sirius trailer When 35-year-old Amardeep Kaleka recently declared his intention to run for the Democratic nomination to challenge Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in 2014, most news coverage focused on one facet of his story: His father was one of the murder victims of the 2012 massacre at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. That murder convinced Kaleka to run as a Democrat and advocate for enhanced gun control. But during a recent...

President Francois Hollande wants to balance the French deficit by taxing the rich, taxing the poor, taxing trucks, raising the VAT, and increasing the tax on corporations. That policy blew sky high this week in a storm of riots by Brittany farmers. Please consider French Gov't Backs down on Truck Tax After Riots French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Tuesday indefinitely suspended the introduction of a green tax on trucks following riots at the weekend in the Brittany region. The move comes three days after a protest by hundreds of food producers, artisans and distributors in the western Brittany region...

The friendly fire directed at Sen. Ted Cruz from establishment Republicans is giving the Texan first-in-line status among Tea Party supporters and building a base for him to run for president, according to a new analysis from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.“To the establishment, Cruz is the embodiment of all the forces conspiring to threaten the GOP's long-term viability. And, on a personal level, they also just can't stand Cruz: He drives them crazy,” wrote Kyle Kondik in Center Director Larry Sabato's popular Crystal Ball.But, added Kondik, the “venom” directed at Cruz, whose effort to defund Obamacare...

Insurers are canceling the medical policies of about 100,000 New Yorkers enrolled in individual health plans because of ObamaCare, state health officials said. But the figure is actually much higher because it doesn’t take into account hundreds of thousands covered under small business group policies that are being scrapped or rewritten to conform to the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. In New Jersey, the policies of 800,000 residents are affected by the insurance overhaul, officials in the Garden State said. “Approximately 100,000 individuals will be required to change insurance because current plans are not compliant with ACA [Affordable Care...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. This thread is non-political, although you will find that most here are conservative folks. No matter what, you won’t be flamed and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack the Weekly Gardening Thread. There is no telling where it will go and... that...

Masked avengers, sexy temptresses, pirates and superheroes — Aren’t all Halloween costumes a chance to act out a fantasy? In one suburban Detroit incident, the fantasy reportedly came too close to reality. Police say a Sterling Heights woman who was dressed as an abusive wife for a Halloween pub crawl she joined with her boyfriend — dressed as the victim — actually attacked him during a drunken rage and now faces domestic violence charges. Clawson police Lt. Scott Sarvello called it “ironic.” The Daily Tribune reported Cristina Crespo, 26, was arraigned Monday before Troy 52-4 District Magistrate Donald Chisholm on...

Dear Dave, I have an opportunity to buy a small business. What should I look for and what things should I check on before I make my decision? Al Dear Al, The first thing you have to be absolutely certain of is that you’re going to wake up every morning and be excited you get to go to work again. Business owners must be passionate about their line of work because they’re going to be involved in each aspect of it every single day. Your vocation needs to be a vacation. Otherwise, it becomes a constant grind, and when that...